When I was a kid, the only thing you could build with Legos...

 
...was a really crappy-looking house. These kids today have no idea how good they've got it! Cell-phones with text-messaging and Internet browsing; high-end, ultra-thin laptops; Halo on X-boxes; and even their Legos are infinitely cooler than the ones we had in the seventies.

Back in the day, the only way to make Legos look like this would have been to use a blow-torch and my little brother's hands to shape the burning plastic.