Comments on: Tail stolen from Berlin LEGO Giraffe [News]

By: nikau

nikau — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:11:30 +0000

Must have been one hell of a well endowed giraffe. And that Yahoo news thing had more bad puns than a dad-joke convention.

By: kunert

kunert — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:16:24 +0000

They might want to consider rebuilding it so that the tail meshes in with one of the legs.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:09:47 +0000

I think 30cm is a typo. Obviously the original reporter wasn’t paying that much attention. ;)

Seems to me that the actual tail is several feet long, but I have no idea how much was stolen. But 30cm worth of LEGO shouldn’t cost 4000 dollars to replace, no matter how many man-hours it takes to glue the thing back on. :D

By: Halfpenguinhalflego

Halfpenguinhalflego — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:45:08 +0000

Could just be 1×1 bricks.

By: Herman

Herman — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:14:21 +0000

How can a 30cm tail be 15.000 bricks?

I mean the Statue of liberty (3450) is 2882 bricks and it’s more than 60cm.

By: David4

David4 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:11:59 +0000

Children under 13 don’t have penises?*

Plus I’m sure they are laughing as much as we are. lol

*I’m guessing like 75% of children who visit here are males.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:37:00 +0000

I’m truly torn between reminding everybody about our non-commenting under-13 audience and falling out of my chair laughing…

*thump* ROTFL it is!

By: Creative Anarchy

Creative Anarchy — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:35:39 +0000

A 15,000 piece tail “Tail” made entirely of bright yellow bircks? I mean we all have our limits. Who amount you could say you wouldn’t be tempted to have that thing strapped on you when your wife came home. Let he who is without temptation cast the first brick!

By: legomason

legomason — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:34:27 +0000

That thing is MASSIVE!!

By: David4

David4 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:58:05 +0000

Does anyone really think LEGO would make a penis, even for an animal? Plus 15,000 pieces, that sure would be one huge… di…. Nevermind. lol

By: eti

eti — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:26:12 +0000

I just read about this on Lowlug, apparently a lot of Dutch and English media thought ‘Schwanz’ means penis (that’s the slang meaning of the word, but not the official one) and they must have thought the article would be a good laugh. And then they all copied each other.
But if you just read the original article saying that Legoland Discovery Centre is looking for children who want to help rebuild the (…) then it is so obvious they are NOT talking about a penis.

By: TooMuchCaffeine

TooMuchCaffeine — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:34:16 +0000

Yes Rocko, they are. And I think that would be a fair description of such a thief. ;¬)

By: Rocko

Rocko — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:52:30 +0000

You guys are talking about a penis, right?

By: Melfice

Melfice — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:58:11 +0000

- Melfice zegt:
So, Meister.
I understand some miscreant stole the tail of the big LEGO giraffe outside the Berlin LEGO Discovery Centre.
Now, I just happen to know you live in Potsdam, and have recently become interested in LEGO again.
Have anything to confess, Meister? If that IS your real name!
- M to the eister. What’s an eister? zegt:
I uh
*runs*
- Melfice zegt:
AHA!

And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen!

By: Melfice

Melfice — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:42:15 +0000

Schwanz does, indeed, mean both tail and… “tail”, if you know what I mean.

Also, there’s a certain person living in Potsdam (a city quite near Berlin) whom I know quite well and who I just recently got interested in LEGO again.

I shall ask him if he’s the culprit.

UPDATES AT 11, now for our feature film…