Wish(s) for a 7-year-old to make, and how to awaken an ancient purple dragon stauette with lego's???

If you really want to wish away mass production, I'm thinking you'd have to wipe away all the factories, therefore, the child must wish for a solution to the pollution problem on the earth. She could say, "I wish there was no pollution." Therefore, everything that has ever cause pollution, such as the Industrial Revolution, will be wiped away from history.

Her father could work in a factory. And either he spends too much time at the factory, so the little girl must wish away factories so that she could spend more time with her father, or her father could get in a work related accident, crippling him for life, thus making the girl very angry at the factories and wishes them away because of that.

As for the dragon, I have no idea. Perhaps they're magic legos. Or the dragon sees the legos and wants to play with them, and thus awakens from his nap to play with them.

I actually came up with a great idea for waking up the dragon just now. Perhaps the only way to awake the dragon was to create some sort of pattern in the ground with stones, place the statuette in the middle, and wait for the stars to align just right. However, it turns out that the pattern doesn't have to be made with stones. It could be designed by legos. The only thing that's important is that the pattern is made and that the stars align. This could even be done accidentally. Somebody could've dropped the legos on the ground, forming the specific pattern around the dragon, at just the moment the stars would align. And Poof! You have a dragon!

Thanks! That last one actually fits. I can have her look into a magazine or something and make her try to do magic(k) and do a pattern with lego's.

Or, she can just do a pattern with lego's. xD.

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She can also try to wish away all those icky boys.

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She could wish to be a princess, get bored, and wish a dragon to life so her 'prince' can rescue her.
or...
someone.... (a 'icky boy' or something) could destroy a doll or a lego statue that she liked, so she wished her dragon would attack him... and it turns out that her only dragon is a lego one... but luckily it was there anyway....

XD

I know this is overly used, by I really think she would wish for a pony. Really. She could wish for every pony in the world and cause a strange chain reaction that would cause major mass-production failure.

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she could wish for a pet while playing with her little dragon lego thing. she would be thinking about a puppy or something, but the wish is vague enough to transfer to the dragon...

as to the destruction of all mass production, that is a bit more complex

if i did something like it, i would probably have her dad work at a factory and he gets laid off. so she wishs for something like "i wish that daddy wasn't the only one to lose his job." in little, 7 year old vengeance

poof, no more industry

hope that helps

i like the idea of awakening the dragon with a wish, and maybe that dragon could go crazy and destroy stuff. ;)

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You could totally bring the lego dragon to life and have him run around in living lego form and periodically bits and pieces fall off of him and she has to constantly put him back together. Then he learns to breath fire. BIG MISTAKE. He melts off the lower jaw and she has to find a replacement for it.

Oh wait. You said it is a statue and you want to use the legos to bring it to life. Sorry. I guess I lost track of where this was going.

Well my brother is pretty nifty w/ the Legos. He made a dragon like thing even. Just wasn't purple :P
And if it was robotic I think that could be counted as "awakened" (because they make remote-controlled lego robots btw)

hmm...

purple legozilla???

:)

i see a youtube stop motion video in this somewhere...

Okay, I'm thinking you meant mass DESTRUCTION so I guess that's out. Crud. Well, Anne McCaffrey wrote a wonderful series set in the magical world of Pern that deals with helpful dragons. So not all dragons have to be fire-breathing, virgin-eating, village-destroying beasties.

Made out of Legos...that's a twist.

I like the post about having the Legos falling off. If you take that idea further, you know that Legos are one of those toys that always go missing (until you accidentally step on one in your bare feet in which case you tell the kid that the Legos are history!). So the child might try replacing the Legos with other things like bent forks, thimbles, yarn, etc., which would result in a disgruntled piecemeal dragon who would long to be a real dragon with real dragon parts. Then the dragon could go on a Quest! To find someone to give him a real heart, brain and...oh, wait, that's been done.

Well, you get the idea. Fake thing wanting to be made into a real thing--it's a classic. Pinocchio, The Velveteen Rabbit, etc. Get to work.

she should wish to be a princess. that should be catastrophic enough..

and as for the dragon, she should sprinkle "fairy dust" on it, which would be something like some glitter..

Your plot hole here, however, depends on whether you obliterate "mass production" before it began (e.g. Industrial Revolution) or from that moment on. Because if you change your timeline, you will not have ANY Legos at all. Ever. And the world would be a very, very sad place. :( Please don't wish away my Legos.

I'd go with the "solution to pollution" wish, and leave alternate timelines out of it. Incidentally, that may create a run on Lego, and she'd have her regrets and a lovely challenge trying to get enough Legos together to make a purple dragon... Which she already has, you know, because there ARE NO PURPLE LEGO BRICKS (except in the LegoBatman kits, I think, because of the Joker). So you'll have to make sure your scenario, as set forth in your subject header, is interpreted strictly as: "The dragon is purple, the Lego used to awaken it is not." :-)

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A wish for world peace would bring the military industrial complex tumbling down and with it the collapse of most of the world's economy, which includes mass production of course.

She should recite the magic spell for waking dragons

Belinda lived in a little white house,
With a little black kitten and a little gray mouse,
And a little yellow dog and a little red wagon,
And a realio, trulio, little pet dragon.

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I'm thinking you're looking for an innocent, semi-selfish wish that accidentally removes all mass production? Well one of the suggestions someone else made could be twisted a little: Her father is always at work in the factory, and so she never sees him, so she wishes he could spend more time with her. In order to bring her father to her, the magic closes down all mass production, making her father out of a job. Voila!

As for the Legos awakening the statue, it sounds somewhat like something out of my stories. XD I'd make it that the dragon was sealed into the statue by a wizard who never thought anyone would think to use Legos to release it, so he sealed the key into a lego block? And to release the dragon, you just have to attach a lego block to a lego-ish spot on the dragon's back or something?

Re there being no purple Lego, there are purple Mega Bloks. I think chances are good that a kid who likes Lego will have both.

She could form the legos into a fairy wand and wish it actually worked. Then she would wish for a pet, which would bring the dragon to life.

She would try to ride the dragon, but since the dragon is young and only learning how to fly, it crash lands into a string of factories. Or, there could be a "factory city" where all the factories in the world are located, and the dragon crash land there!

Yes, then a sequence of events that are consequential to the landing occur and destroy the world's factories. Even the factory factory, so they can't make new ones.

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I think she should wish for mad lego skillz, but when her wish comes true, her mad lego skillz are SO awesome that she can't undo the shapes she puts them in. Each thing she makes out of legos stays that way, unable to be un-stuck.

Thus, gifted with crazy good lego skillz, she is not gifted with great imagination, so she doesn't know what to make. She glances over at a shelf, or wherever, and sees the dragon statuette. So, for lack of a better idea, she makes a dragon out of legos. This is her first project with her new lego powers, so she doesn't know what she can do (and can't undo) yet!

So she makes a dragon out of legos, and then when night falls or during sunset or some other magical time, the dragon living in the statuette gazes out and sees the lego-dragon, and mistakes it for a real one. Then the dragon has a typical reaction of mating urge, or of territorial defense, as you wish, and bursts forth in emotional liveliness and drama, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Ah, and as for mass production, well, perhaps society sees her abiities and how permanent they are, and gets freaked out, and stops making legos. That's stopping the mass production of legos, which is really the only mass production that matters, isn't it? :^D

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Well, in Nethack (a game you've probably never heard of), you can turn statues of things alive by casting a spell called Stone ot Flesh. Perhaps he can use Plastic to Flesh? Legos to Flesh? Gotta be something good there!

Wait, first of all, does she get this wish-granted thing before or after the dragon is awakened?

And second, is it a dragon statue that is brought to life by legos OR
A lego dragon that is brought to life by legos OR
just a lego dragon that is brought to life?

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Well, if you want to wake up a dragon, first I suggest getting a really loud alarm clock. :D

Anyway. It sounds like the dragon is somehow encased inside legos? I'm picturing a dragon about the size of a gecko now, if it fits inside a lego statuette of a dragon... Probably not what you're going for. Hmm. Perhaps it's one of those magical things that is only activated when every piece is properly aligned, and the statuette is missing a single lego from the head or something. Someone comes along and puts the lego in place, the spell's activated, and you've got an ancient dragon on your hands.

As for destroying mass production, maybe the girl lives in a smoggy place and wishes that the air doesn't smell so bad. Or maybe there's a nice woodsy place or meadow her family likes to visit that was recently purchased by some big company that wants to put a factory there, so she wishes there weren't anymore factories so that her meadow would be safe. Or maybe it's already there, and she wishes simply that she had the meadow back, which causes all factories to pop out of existence.

Maybe she lives in a place where there are power deficits that cause rolling blackouts, someone tells her it's because too many places are trying to use too much electricity at the same time (or anything else could happen that could tell her that there's too much demand for too little electricity) and she wishes that there weren't too many places using electricity--which is such a general question that it causes all of the huge power-guzzling facilities that need electricity to promptly cease to exist. This will also probably take out some power plants, and less power plants means less electricity, which means more electricity-consuming things need to disappear for there to not be too little electricity... And it chain reactions on down until electric toothbrushes vanish for daring to need a battery to run.

Just a few ideas.

yep, the world has decided that everything that needs to be made has been made before. the world is so polluted with items and waste, that they don't need new things and stuff. the only jobs out there are recycling jobs of which dad can't get. nothing new has been made for ages... except for children that play with toys. dad and kid go to the bazaar to find lego pieces because her favorite color is purple and she doesn't have enough pieces to make something big. she needs to make something big because she wants her dad to help. he's been pretty depressed and down right boring since he got laid off. as much as she loves having her father off of work, she preferred it better when he actually had a job (because now they don't have much food or money etc). (some wishes do misfire) she believes if she had something like a dragon, that would destroy things (cause young dragons like puppies do that)... they would need people to build NEW stuff again and her dad would have a job. of course she has to keep the dragon a secret so hides it in a cave... where she meets a new friend (i agree she should meet an icky boy) that helps her sabatoge her world.

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The main way to awaken the purple dragon is to stop calling it Lego's and call it LEGO!

There is no 's'! You wouldn't call two sheep two sheeps now would you?

Perhaps it's annoyed at poor pronounciation?

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