Is there nothing you can’t find on the Internet?

My son received a pretty cool Lego set for his birthday. He also received about 15 other gifts, including a couple more Lego sets, which made it difficult to keep track of them all.

As any good 7 year old would do, my son managed to lose the building instructions to his new Lego set. Well, at least that's the story I'm sticking with. There's actually about a 20% chance that I or my wife threw them away when cleaning up after his birthday party.

So there my son sat with a pile of Legos, the box they came in with the finished picture on it and no building instructions. When I started to see the tears forming in my son's eyes I knew I had to take action quick.

One "lego manuals" Google search later I found the Lego.com Customer Service : Building Instructions page. Too easy.

All I had to do was punch in the model number of my son's Lego set and within a few seconds I was staring at the missing building instructions in PDF format.

All I had left to do was to print the building instructions. Since the building instructions were 40 pages, I decided to act green and configured the printout to print 4 pages to each side of the 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper (8 virtual pages to 1 printed page) to reduce the entire building instructions to just 5 total pages.

My son continues to think I am a superhero.