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I just had another of my most common (and most tortuous) Lego dreams last
night.
I walked into my local consignment shop (which supplies me with around 80%
of all the Lego I purchase) and they had a huge selection of old sets that
I'd never seen before! Huge monorail layouts, pirate ships still in the
box, castles, all dusty but in great shape and at great prices! I'm so
obsessed with this darned hobby I can even dream up totally convincing
Golden Age box art! I hate waking up from these!
What's your most common Lego dream?
Dave
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In lugnet.general, David Simmons wrote:
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I just had another of my most common (and most tortuous) Lego dreams last
night.
I walked into my local consignment shop (which supplies me with around 80%
of all the Lego I purchase) and they had a huge selection of old sets that
I’d never seen before! Huge monorail layouts, pirate ships still in the
box, castles, all dusty but in great shape and at great prices! I’m so
obsessed with this darned hobby I can even dream up totally convincing
Golden Age box art! I hate waking up from these!
What’s your most common Lego dream?
Dave
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Weird - my recurring LEGO dream is very similar. I am in a Toys R Us (old-style
with long aisles), and I find a bunch of 80s-era sets (in the yellow boxes) that
never existed. Large Forestmen and Black Falcons sets are the most common
“finds”. Usually, there are also some small, non-existent Town sets as well.
Sometimes the sets are all at full retail, and sometimes they are marked down
with little orange stickers on them. I have never dreamt about an actual LEGO
set, only imagined ones.
Marc Nelson Jr.
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In lugnet.general, Marc Nelson, Jr. wrote:
> I have never dreamt about an actual LEGO set, only imagined ones.
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> Marc Nelson Jr.
Same here. I don't think I've ever even dreamt of an actual LEGO theme.
I'm invariably hunting around a store for the hard-to-find LEGO isle, or maybe
looking for LEGO placed on the wrong shelf. When I finally find it I discover
sets no one has ever seen or heard of. They're always amazingly cheap and have
an amazing selection of parts there has never been any way of obtaining before.
What my mind interprets to be 'an amazing selection of parts' I suppose depends
on what I'm doing with the hobby at the moment....
Now that I think about it, my LEGO dreams rarely, if ever, involve minifigs.
Which seems odd because I love collecting them.
Fun topic!
John
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> Weird - my recurring LEGO dream is very similar. I am in a Toys R Us • (old-style
> with long aisles), and I find a bunch of 80s-era sets (in the yellow • boxes) that
> never existed.
Exactly! That's what I meant by "Golden Age" box art. That big yellow box
with the simple but always beautifully uncluttered photograph of the set.
A few years ago I was lucky enough to come across a near mint condition box
(with the set of course) for #1682 Space Shuttle. I've had the box
displayed on my shelf ever since. I think it's fantastic that the Designer
sets have been packaged in this way. There's an immediate, totally warm and
fuzzy feeling of nostalgia I get when I see those big yellow boxes.
Sometimes when I see them I feel like I'm only fwee and a haff yeaws owd!
*sniff* Memmmoriesssss!
Dave
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In lugnet.general, David Simmons wrote:
> I just had another of my most common (and most tortuous) Lego dreams last
> night.
>
>
> What's your most common Lego dream?
>
> Dave
Often our unconscious minds deliver up to us the dreams to sate the hunger that
drives us through our days though we do not even know we are being driven. Our
hunger and the feast come from our deeper minds, implanted there by our
conscious minds like a secret in a safe.
I ran across your posts and must admit that I too have very, very similar
dreams. Except, that my dreams are of the future. I dream that there are whole
new castle sets that are classic 80's castle style -- as if these sets were done
in the "golden age" of castle. The boxes, however, are very close in style to
the modern Creator sets like which the Titan XP and Prehistoric Animals come in.
I am in a toy store/other store that I do not know, I stumble across them
without having known that they would be there, and immediately try to find out
more about them. They are not sets that have been produced before as one or two
include a twinge of fantasy via some form of Tolkein like fantasy.
Wishful thinking?
-Avery
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In lugnet.general, Marc Nelson, Jr. wrote:
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In lugnet.general, David Simmons wrote:
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Weird - my recurring LEGO dream is very similar. I am in a Toys R Us
(old-style with long aisles), and I find a bunch of 80s-era sets (in the
yellow boxes) that never existed. Large Forestmen and Black Falcons sets are
the most common “finds”. Usually, there are also some small, non-existent
Town sets as well.
Sometimes the sets are all at full retail, and sometimes they are marked down
with little orange stickers on them. I have never dreamt about an actual LEGO
set, only imagined ones.
Marc Nelson Jr.
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my dreams (i had one last week by the way): I’m usually in a store i’ve never
really been in, but in the dream my brothers & i go there all the time & we find
classic style sets, usually town. I had a dream of either an official set or
something i built in a dream & remembered it so well all these years, i mlcad-ed
it:
yep, the brown & yellow are the colors from the dream! this is the view i saw
in the dream (without furniture-i added that when i drew it in mlcad. also i
remember the second story was a bit fuzzy- it seemed to be both full width & not
full width at the same time in the dream, so when i mlcad-ed it, this “felt” the
most right when i saw it. I’ve also had dreams of police vehicles, but not
clear enuf to remember.
Jeff
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In lugnet.general, David Simmons wrote:
> I just had another of my most common (and most tortuous) Lego dreams last
> night.
>
> I walked into my local consignment shop (which supplies me with around 80%
> of all the Lego I purchase) and they had a huge selection of old sets that
> I'd never seen before! Huge monorail layouts, pirate ships still in the
> box, castles, all dusty but in great shape and at great prices! I'm so
> obsessed with this darned hobby I can even dream up totally convincing
> Golden Age box art! I hate waking up from these!
Yep, sounds identical to my LEGO dreams (or you could say, nightmares). Those
yellow LEGOLAND boxes... *sigh*
-Bryan
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In lugnet.general, John Radtke wrote:
> I'm invariably hunting around a store for the hard-to-find LEGO isle, or maybe
> looking for LEGO placed on the wrong shelf. When I finally find it I discover
> sets no one has ever seen or heard of. They're always amazingly cheap and have
> an amazing selection of parts there has never been any way of obtaining before.
> What my mind interprets to be 'an amazing selection of parts' I suppose depends
> on what I'm doing with the hobby at the moment....
Then you dream buying lots of those sets, storing them in your closet.
After waking up you find your closet to be emtpy ;-)
Niels
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In lugnet.general, David Simmons wrote:
> I just had another of my most common (and most tortuous) Lego dreams last
> night.
>
> I walked into my local consignment shop (which supplies me with around 80%
> of all the Lego I purchase) and they had a huge selection of old sets that
> I'd never seen before! Huge monorail layouts, pirate ships still in the
> box, castles, all dusty but in great shape and at great prices! I'm so
> obsessed with this darned hobby I can even dream up totally convincing
> Golden Age box art! I hate waking up from these!
>
> What's your most common Lego dream?
>
> Dave
I have also had those dreams of finding a treasure trove of parts. Especially when I was collecting red bricks for my huge red brick house. Numerous times, I would dream that I would go up to my attic and find a box of old Lego bricks left by the previous owner. I also have had dreams about building with other people, usually specific AFOL I have had the pleasure of meeting.
But, this past week I had the most unsettling Lego dream ever. I went to my
"Lego Room" (which used to be a dining room, but we haven't eaten a formal
dinner in there since I started building), and all of my projects were finished.
I was a bit shocked since normally I have a number of projects on the go,
waiting for orders to finish them up. But in this dream, every single project
was finished. All the rest of the blocks were put away and all organised and
extremely tidy (which never happens irl either).
I stood staring at my collection, and the finished products, and it came to
me...... like a rush of horror. I had no more ideas, nothing else I wanted to
build, no thoughts, no sketches or notes of future projects, in fact no projects
came to mind at all...... it was very weird and sort of unnerving.
I'm certain that this will never happen, but I think due to my very long dark
ages, I sometimes wonder, will I just put them away and forget about them for
another 20 years???
I hope not!
Janey "Red Brick"
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In lugnet.general, David Simmons wrote:
> I just had another of my most common (and most tortuous) Lego dreams last
> night.
>
> I walked into my local consignment shop (which supplies me with around 80%
> of all the Lego I purchase) and they had a huge selection of old sets that
> I'd never seen before! Huge monorail layouts, pirate ships still in the
> box, castles, all dusty but in great shape and at great prices! I'm so
> obsessed with this darned hobby I can even dream up totally convincing
> Golden Age box art!
>
> What's your most common Lego dream?
>
> Dave
I recently had a similar dream. I was in some store, and their LEGO aisle was
stuffed with sets that were 10 or more years old. Some of them were ones I'd
never seen before (obviously some figment of my unconscience mind). Plus they
were all on clearance. I tried to convince other shoppers that they were all
junk so that they wouldn't buy any before I could load them all up into a cart.
David "Fuzzy" Gregory
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In lugnet.general, Jeff Szklennik wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Marc Nelson, Jr. wrote:
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In lugnet.general, David Simmons wrote:
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i just had another dream: there were new Lego sets pre built on top of red &
blue small buckets. surprisingly, none of the sets had missing pieces. one
building in particular was a gray 2-story townhouse with white trim & flat roof
(on a red bucket). It looked like it was built on a 16x16 baseplate with an 8x8
or less open lawn section. the roof pieces were 4x4 white tiles with the center
2x2 white tiles as separate pieces (the 4x4 tile was like a square donut) i
took off a ‘donut’ tile to examine it(hey, new piece!), and realized it looked &
‘felt’ different; so i looked on the bottom & it said “made in China”! i then
was upset & didn’t want ANY of the (admittedly well designed) new sets & woke
up!
Jeff
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i just had another dream: there were new Lego sets pre built on top of red &
blue small buckets. surprisingly, none of the sets had missing pieces. one
building in particular was a gray 2-story townhouse with white trim & flat
roof (on a red bucket). It looked like it was built on a 16x16 baseplate
with an 8x8 or less open lawn section. the roof pieces were 4x4 white tiles
with the center 2x2 white tiles as separate pieces (the 4x4 tile was like a
square donut) i took off a ‘donut’ tile to examine it(hey, new piece!), and
realized it looked & ‘felt’ different; so i looked on the bottom & it said
“made in China”! i then was upset & didn’t want ANY of the (admittedly well
designed) new sets & woke up!
Jeff
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Hi Jeff,
A grim scenario :-)
I had a lego dream too, a few weeks ago. It was very strange. There’s this loco
I’d been working on, and I’ve taken a printout of a real world picture of it for
the build. Anyway, in the dream, I realised that the cab entry access ladders
looked HORRIBLE. (I’ve used 1 x 2 ladder plates) My dream somehow suggested that
I should use the plate 1 x 2 with handles, turned sideways, instead. This is
impossible, since then the motor would come in the way if I did this. It makes
me wonder whether I should try and rework those ladders somehow... But I know I
probably don’t have enough 1 x 2 handles for the job anyway. Wishful thinking,
perhaps? :-)
Samarth
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In lugnet.general, David Simmons wrote:
> I just had another of my most common (and most tortuous) Lego dreams last
> night.
>
> I walked into my local consignment shop (which supplies me with around 80%
> of all the Lego I purchase) and they had a huge selection of old sets that
> I'd never seen before! Huge monorail layouts, pirate ships still in the
> box, castles, all dusty but in great shape and at great prices! I'm so
> obsessed with this darned hobby I can even dream up totally convincing
> Golden Age box art! I hate waking up from these!
>
> What's your most common Lego dream?
>
> Dave
Hi Dave,
I dream about LEGO from time to time too, sometimes I wake up and hate it when I
realise it wasn't true :(
The most common LEGO dreams I have are 'I am somewhere in a place I have no idea
in the real world but seem to know in my dream... there is always a bunch of
LEGO that I have never seen before (yes LEGO and not some clone garbo),
sometimes I notice they are new sets and I just drool and freak out over them
(no, my pillow isn't wet when I wake up ;)). When I see the sets I am usually
thinking that LEGO isn't so bad and that they have some great stuff coming out,
always stuff I have never seen before (I'm quite surprised of how realistic some
dreams can be, everything is there to convince me it's a definate LEGO
product)'.
When I wake up I am so bummed out :(
Mel
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In lugnet.general, Melody Brown wrote:
> In lugnet.general, David Simmons wrote:
> > I just had another of my most common (and most tortuous) Lego dreams last
> > night.
> >
> > I walked into my local consignment shop (which supplies me with around 80%
> > of all the Lego I purchase) and they had a huge selection of old sets that
> > I'd never seen before! Huge monorail layouts, pirate ships still in the
> > box, castles, all dusty but in great shape and at great prices! I'm so
> > obsessed with this darned hobby I can even dream up totally convincing
> > Golden Age box art! I hate waking up from these!
> >
> > What's your most common Lego dream?
> >
> > Dave
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> I dream about LEGO from time to time too, sometimes I wake up and hate it when I
> realise it wasn't true :(
>
> The most common LEGO dreams I have are 'I am somewhere in a place I have no idea
> in the real world but seem to know in my dream... there is always a bunch of
> LEGO that I have never seen before (yes LEGO and not some clone garbo),
> sometimes I notice they are new sets and I just drool and freak out over them
> (no, my pillow isn't wet when I wake up ;)). When I see the sets I am usually
> thinking that LEGO isn't so bad and that they have some great stuff coming out,
> always stuff I have never seen before (I'm quite surprised of how realistic some
> dreams can be, everything is there to convince me it's a definate LEGO
> product)'.
>
> When I wake up I am so bummed out :(
>
> Mel
Hey! last night I had another LEGO dream! way cool too from what I do
remember... but sadly as the day rolls on, my dream is slipping away from my
memory... but what I do recall is that a team of us were here, in Australia, and
at some LEGO joint... almost like a Legoland but slightly different. This event
we went to was held in a cinema type place with this lady who was taking care of
us and I remember not liking her much as she kept a close eye on us who were
drooling over the goodie boxes we all had sneak peaks at (they were boxes of
rather cool LEGO parts sitting on our chairs), she told us we can only look at
them and not take them as each LEGO part was expensive and they'd lose money if
we took them (lol), the parts were, to me, awesome! the new two tone trees seen
in belville are cool, but we had autumn trees!!! in red, yellow/gold and orange!
and there were grill tiles that has glitter right through them and heaps thicker
than the current glitter seen in belville bricks today, the colours were awesome
too and there was light/medium trans pink stuff and the colour was amazing (and
probably not possible), it looked like candy!!! there was so much but sadly I
can't think of everything, some of the parts and stuff were for everyone, but
too many to recall from my dream :(
After we watched some film, we then had to put our boxes down and move to the
next room, and thankfully she didn't take too much notice of us moving to the
next room quietly filling our pockets! :O !!! I remember asking for some posters
for my sons room since they had some rather cool ones rolled up... and while she
went to search we showed each other what we scored! lol... ooops! I mean that
was bad!... ;)
Then I woke up! waaaaaaaaaaa!
Mel ;) 'I didn't do it!!!'
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> After we watched some film, we then had to put our boxes down and move to • the
> next room, and thankfully she didn't take too much notice of us moving to • the
> next room quietly filling our pockets! :O !!! I remember asking for some • posters
> for my sons room since they had some rather cool ones rolled up... and • while she
> went to search we showed each other what we scored! lol... ooops! I mean • that
> was bad!... ;)
>
> Then I woke up! waaaaaaaaaaa!
So, what you're really telling us is that we are going to have an awesome
Australian National meet and that these are some of your secret plans ;)
Can I have two of the goody boxes?
And a poster ;)
cheers
Sue Ann
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