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Re: Confessions of a LEGO Maniac
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 19 Dec 2000 20:37:33 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Tom Boucher writes:
> 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.
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> For the record, I'm 29.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Tom
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 friend who goes one step further and whenever she gets
a new minifig, her other minifigs react differently to the new member of
their population- some are shy and hide, some are curious and go introduce
themselves, they all have names and personalities. Whatever you choose to
do with your LEGO is up to you, you can either buy it to keep it in the box
hoping to turn a profit later on or you can have a whole civilization with
interaction among the populous and have a lot more creative fun with it. =)
If you're going to play, *PLAY!* =)
~Nathan
www.castle-world.org
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