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(...) A fine question! For me, two MOC's really knocked my socks off during my early days in the online AFOL world. Back in 96 and 97 I didn't realize how widespread the community was nor the scope of the projects that could be undertaken. The first (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-07, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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Hey, Great question. As with many castle guys, I would have to say it was set (URL) 3739, the Dan Siskind Blacksmith Shop>. This is just such a well-designed set, and building it was a lesson in putting together a building (particularly the roof). (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-07, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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Lots of great sets mentioned here. Like many here, I remember pouring over an idea book with equal parts wonder and frustration at my limited LEGO supply. As a PAB addict, I agree with many of you for whom something other than a "set" (PAB, (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-07, to lugnet.build)
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In lugnet.build, Karl Paulsen wrote: I'm ignoring here things like Mindstorms that *are* the reason I build, and focusing on offical sets that shifted my POV. (...) I'd have to say the one that sticks out the most is the redesigned Technic Front End (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-07, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Okay: Baah! (...) And for that I will curse the day that that set designer's mother was born:-) (...) Yes, but they also pre-dated TLG's cursed foray into juniorization as well. I mean, look at those feet! If that isn't Galidor foreshadowing, (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-07, to lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) I'm sure there were many that influenced me as a kid, but as an adult I think I would have to peg the Yoda sculpture ((URL) as one that probably inspired me the most. I liked it because it kept to a straight-ahead studs-up format while (...) (18 years ago, 30-May-07, to lugnet.build)
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Insert the appropriate description for each scene from the movie 300, replacing Leonidas with JarJar Binks, Spartans with Gungans, Thermopylae with Theed, etc... (4 URLs) Gungans can also dream, don't they? AC (18 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.castle, lugnet.build, lugnet.announce.moc, FTX) !
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(...) No doubt about it- it was the 950 fork lift in 1979 (URL) (...) Again, the 950 fork lift gets the honor (...) As John Neal has posted, it was finding BrickLink and how it made it easier to get the parts I need thats allowed my models to be (...) (18 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) [LEGOSet 10020] was quite a Eureka moment for me. SNOT construction and realism all at a scale (:P 8-widers) that made me thing I could do something like that. For a long time I used it as my ultimate goal... to make a toy that looked like a (...) (18 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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(...) -Snip- (...) Ditto! I used to stare at that book and wish I could build all the stuff in there. Wow. The memories. Thank you for bring that up. There was another book that didn't have any Mini figures in it too. I don't remember what it was (...) (18 years ago, 29-May-07, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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