Hypothetical LEGO structures are much more fun for me now, as a grownup, than actual LEGOs. I learned this at LEGOLAND in San Diego a few years ago, as I stood impassively, or at least unimaginatively, in front of a quantity of LEGOs that, had I been 8-9 years old, might have inspired the early onset of puberty. (Don’t get me wrong: LEGOLAND was all kinds of awesome, but it just didn’t inspire youthful creativity in me the way it might have in the ’80s.)

LEGO technology has advanced considerably since the pinnacle of my LEGO constructions, which was around 1985-86. Back then, if you wanted a horse, you built a damn horse out of bricks. If you wanted a cave troll, you sure as shit didn’t have this:

© LEGO, via amazon.com

Anyway, in the realm of hypothetical LEGO models, I can’t think of anything cooler than my own house, built entirely out of LEGO bricks.

Okay, that’s not true. A full-scale LEGO model of the Star Destroyer Executor would be much, much cooler than my house.

Kraken optional (Ochre Jelly [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], on Flickr)

As it currently stands, though, I’m stuck with the hypothetical model of my house.

I don’t have access to 11,647,240 LEGO pieces, nor to the roughly $1,164,724 I’d need to procure that many pieces. I’m definitely never getting that Star Destroyer, alas.

Photo credit: Cave troll © LEGO, via amazon.com; Release the KR-KN! by Ochre Jelly [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0], on Flickr.