The Bricks That Built My Childhood

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The reason I decided to do my zine about my love for Lego, is because I stepped on a piece when I was home for the weekend. It is a love hate relationship that I have with Lego now because I always step on them but I used to love then when I was growing up. When I was little, I didn’t have a lot of video games, so I spent a lot of time building random models with Legos. But now, as a college student, I barely have time to sleep let alone spending hours building with Legos, so I made this zine as a little dedication to my childhood. I designed this zine as a timeline that shows how my love for Lego started, how it followed me through the years, and where it is right now. First off is the title, I went with “The Bricks That Built My Childhood” because I grew up with Legos; it was my hobby as a child and still is one of my hobbies as a freshman in college. Opening to the first page, there is a picture of two very simple Lego cars that I received as a birthday present when I turned five, but that is what started my love for Lego. Moving on to the next pages, there is a picture of a boat made out of Legos that is a lot bigger than the two cars from the previous page. The picture represents the size of the sets that I received as birthday presents from when I was six to when I was ten. Every time I get a new set of Legos, I would build the model that it was designed for, then tear it all down and let my imagination do the building. I was able to build fancy cars and robots from pieces of different sets. After hitting the double digits, I moved from the normal Lego bricks that everyone knows and loves to the Technics sets, as shown in pages five and six of the zine. They are a lot harder to build, but a lot more fun because I always like to be challenged. By the time I got into junior high, I was an expert in building with Legos. As school started to get harder, and I

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