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In lugnet.general, Jake McKee writes:
> What is your coolest LEGO Experience? [...]
I'm not sure how I'd define "cool" or "coolest" experience, but I think the
most fun I've had would have to be the evening spent at Mark Sandlin's house
during NWBrickCon and a couple nights before that tipping back pints of Guinness
at an Irish pub with four space legends Sandlin, Palmer, Hafner, and Kuester.
I also couldn't believe I was in the same room with both Sproat and Lambrecht
at Sandlin's house. Plus Palmer, busy turning Mathis's train into a microfig-
scale heavy cruiser. That blew my mind. It was awesome finally meeting
Sproat and Barbara, too, after several years of enjoying their creations.
I think the most emotional experience I've had was seeing Suzanne Green's
(then Rich) minifig chess set[1] and her Legopolis layout in person in 1996
after just having seen it on the web. It was like, hey, it's *real*! And
*you're* real! Cool!
Seeing Eric Kingsley's shelf railway[2] in person recently was also very
emotional for me. It almost felt like a religious experience. Being a die-
hard space-head, I'm not a particularly big fan of LEGO trains, but I was
totally mesmerized by this one, and watched it go around the room at least
20 times. I got dizzy. It was awesome.
--Todd
[1] http://www.baseplate.com/ideas/human-scale/chess/
[2] http://www.thekingsleys.net/nursery/zgr/
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| (...) Wait. I got it! It would _definitely_ have to be spending eight hours photographing Lindsay Braun's 13-foot Japanese war cruiser this past August. That was more fun than I usually get to have in a whole month. --Todd (21 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) Wow, I'm flattered. I remember meeting Todd at Mindfest99 at MIT. Made a fool of myself :) It was fun playing around with the 2 wheeled wire control car later that weekend... Still waiting for that monorail/asteroid... --Bram Bram Lambrecht (...) (21 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| Inspired by John's post ((URL) I would love to throw out a question! What is your coolest LEGO Experience? Maybe you built an amazing castle when you were eight years old. Or perhaps you've had a more recent experience like watching an FLL robotics (...) (21 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people) !!
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