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Re: HELP!
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lugnet.build
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Sat, 15 Jul 2000 05:38:10 GMT
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In lugnet.build, Sam Wiley writes:
> Every week I spend a good hour or two picking all of the loose
> Legos up off the floor, and sorting them all back into their colors;
Only an hour or two? Either a) you have no kids, or b) they're not interested
in Lego (what?!?), or c) they're much older than my kid (age 4 1/2). I spend
thirty minutes a week just reloading the minifig box (soon to be two boxes). My
son can't enough of minifigs.
> it's
> amazing how quickly the little odds and ends of stuff you find useful and
> can't bear to stick back in the box crops up all over the place. ;-)
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> My first piece of advice to you would be to sort your Legos. No need to get
> really fancy or complicated, but sorting by color, with a few additional
> categories such as people, trees, technic, and others is really helpful if
> you going to build anything, especially nifty little models of this or that.
> Mostly, it's important just to sort by color. But really, you'd find this
> most helpful for building.
Don't just sort by color. Spend a few bucks on a plastic organizer box with
dividers down at the hardware store. Plan on putting all of your *small* parts
in it, regardless of their color. It's never fun to have to hunt for a 1 X 1
plate or tile, or a Technic half-peg. Buy two if needed. Or three, or...
--
John J. Ladasky Jr., Ph.D.
Department of Structural Biology
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, CA 94305
Secretary, Californians for Renewable Energy <http://www.calfree.com>
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| Hey, Sam, welcome to the world of half-crazy Lego builders. We're all half-crazy; it comes with the territory: that of spending long hours staring at legos until finally, around 2 AM, a brilliant idea comes to you. ;-) (...) Hear, Hear. Every week I (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jul-00, to lugnet.build)
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