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Confessions of a LEGO Maniac
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Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:30:20 GMT
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OK. This is rather odd but I'm just wondering if I'm doing OK in the head
here or I've just not grown up and don't know it.
For the record, I'm 29.
Currently, I have a large number of LEGO sets that I've gotten since I was
4. There were some from my childhood that I relied on Christmas and
Birthdays to provide, and then some when I got to be 26 and had disposable
income to actually purchase large amounts of sets. In the last oh three
years especially have I really gotten serious about picking up old sets I've
always wanted as well as purchasing anything LEGO system related.
I'm wondering, Am I the only one that walks by a set, for example, the
Explorian Starship is sitting downstairs, broken (meaning ship got a wing
knocked off, not the pieces) but I find myself wandering by in the afternoon
when no one is around and literally playing with it.
I don't mean picking it up and trying to fix it, I mean having the little
conversations of the men trying to figure out what happened to their ship
and trying to get it repaired (not outloud, just in my head). Opening up
the bay and exposing that Explorian Blue Core thing and acting like it's the
main power source trying to come online or something along those lines.
These are the kind of things I did as an 8 - 12 year old when the classic
space sets came about. I'm just wondering if anyone else around here
actually reverts to their child like minds and just 'plays' or does everyone
around here just think of these as stuff to design models with?
Tom
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| (...) Heck ya, I do that all the time. I'm 27 and I catch myself doing that too, having the minifigs carry on silly conversations and the like. I'm not really ashamed of it, but I can see how 'grown ups' would think that as a little odd. I have a (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| "Tom Boucher" <trekkie@spamyou.nom...stars.com> wrote in message news:G5ty6r.6pH@lugnet.com... (...) everyone (...) What is a model of a spaceship for if not for spinning it around in your lego room making 'rrrrrrrrnnnnn!' noises? Or, to put it (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Confessions of a LEGO Maniac
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| (...) Well… if your imbalanced, then I'm totally --==Insane!==-- I'm 21 years old and go to York University. (For the record) I collect Castle Lego; my troop force is around 560 men. I love Medieval BrickWars and have become quite enthralled with (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| You're only as crazy as the rest of us. Yes, many people may believe you to have some level of clinical insanity You haven't played until you've cried when a minifig breaks his legs or permanently loses his hand or the like. In short, who gives a (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I don't do that, but then again, I never really did, even when I was a kid. I'll fly stuff around, and land my planes at airports, and run trains around the track, and make all the neat Technic functions go, and put the minifigs in various (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Confessions of a LEGO Maniac
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| (...) <snip> I don't sit down and enact scenarios anymore, but I do take every opportunity to supply creations with the appropriate sound effects, as well as a whoosh or two (or three) around the room. :^) ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (23 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Confessions of a LEGO Maniac
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| (...) Your story sounds like mine. I'm 30. Last year I got an 8459 and that was it. Since then I've accumulated 90% of the Lego Technic collection and since I'm almost done with that theme I switched to 9v Trains and recently Pirates. Every other (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Confessions of a LEGO Maniac
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| In lugnet.general, Tom Boucher writes: <snip> (...) The 'saga' that happens surrounding my mini-fig collections is getting almost operatic (castle, obviously). This is considered normal behavior. If, however, you attempt to put different hats on, (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Confessions of a LEGO Maniac
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| Tom & All, (...) head (...) I've (...) afternoon (...) the (...) everyone (...) Well, I for one do as well. Actually, I have my whole minifig universe going on inside my head when I am bored at work or whatever. I do it a lot when I have my city / (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Confessions of a LEGO Maniac
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| Ok we all need some time to be kids again. Im sorry to say that everyone does it. when a 60 year old woman (my mom)gets hooked on spyro that she got for my son to play at her house that just goes to show my point. Or when parents take their kids to (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Confessions of a LEGO Maniac
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| (...) Um... I think we are sharing a brain. I did this last week after re-building my Explorien Starship. Must be them cool little holo-computers transmitting brain patterns from Starship to Starship. Right now I find myself playing my preliminary (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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