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Re: Do you build every set you buy?
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Date: 
Thu, 29 Mar 2001 03:28:29 GMT
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For me it depends on the set.  For sets I really like, I'll build them for a
while, but I usually can't wait to cannibalize them for parts.

A lot of times, I dislike the set and am just buying it (often many copies)
for parts.

For example, I have 12 droid escapes, but have never built the main model.
I love this set for parts, but the actual model is pretty cheesy.

William R. Ward <hermit@bayview.com> wrote in message
news:m2lmpp9y1a.fsf@komodo.bayview.com...
> 
> Ever since my little-kid days I have always felt a need to build the
> set using the instructions at least once, even if it's a really dumb
> one that I just bought for the parts.  But lately I've started buying
> more than one of some sets, and am finding that to be kind of silly,
> though I haven't yet stopped doing it.  When I'd buy a pair of sets
> (which I did at the recent Kmart BOGO50% sale), I'd sit down with my
> wife next to me and we'd each build one of them.  That was kind of
> fun, since it's usually hard to share Lego with someone.
> 
> Am I the only one who feels this odd compulsion?  Sometimes I'll tear
> it apart very soon after building it, but it just doesn't feel right
> to not build the set that Lego designed.  It's kind of like paying
> tribute or something...
> 
> --Bill.
> 
> --
> William R Ward        hermit@bayview.com • http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- • ---
> "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."-Groucho
Marx



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  Do you build every set you buy?
 
Ever since my little-kid days I have always felt a need to build the set using the instructions at least once, even if it's a really dumb one that I just bought for the parts. But lately I've started buying more than one of some sets, and am (...) (25 years ago, 29-Mar-01, to lugnet.build)

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