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Re: Confessions of a LEGO Maniac
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:30:39 GMT
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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 hoot if everyone thinks you're nuts.
--
-TiM
NB, CA
http://echofx.itgo.com
t_c_c@yahoo.com
3ch0fx
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Tom Boucher wrote:
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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.
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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?
>
> Tom
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