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Subject: 
Re: Building habits
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build
Date: 
Mon, 2 Apr 2001 16:00:30 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Joel Jacobsen writes:
> After looking once more at Dan Jassim's latest minifig carrier, a question
> came to mind I wanted to ask him but it could also be posed to everyone.
> Just to satisfy my curiousity, of course. :)
> 
> (To Dan) Did you have to tear down your original carrier to start this one?
> 
> (To everyone) Do you keep models built until you have no choice but to tear
> them down for parts, or do you treat them like models - they're built and
> stay built and work around that to make new creations?
> 
> Build, photograph and tear down to build anew.
> 
> - or -
> 
> Build, photograph and keep it built till the parts are needed?
> 
> 
> 
> And if you do tear it down to build new, do you tear it ALL down or just
> snitch the parts needed and leave the rest built till the next part is needed?
> 
> --
> 
> I have found myself building till I run out of bricks and then trying to
> scrounge up something else that works rather than cannibalize currently
> built MOC's.
> 
> I think I tend to do this because I remember how much time was put into them.
> 
> And usually I find that I tend to try and keep them together as long as
> possible, even when stealing bits off of them - if it's not a key piece that
> would destroy the whole thing just to get to.
> 
> Jus' wonderin'... :)

I've come to the conclusion that I'm really a tinkerer.  I've also come to the
conclusion that having too many Lego is burdensome for me because I want the
experience to be relaxing, but it definitely is not when I have to unpack and
lug around all of those boxes and drawers and make a mess of the living room and
create this big ordeal of just getting prepared to build.  I've decided that I
really just enjoy puttering around with my Lego, but not starting massive
months-long projects.  This may explain my great affinity for the grand old
Universal sets.  I've always relished a really good, well-rounded, complementary
selection of pieces that is just large and diverse enough to allow me to create
well, but small enough to pose a challenge.  This may sound silly, but I've
always wanted to create my own personal Perfect Universal Building Set: just a
box of, oh, 1,000 or so pieces that I can easily carry with me on trips and
spread out with ease on the coffee table while watching TV.  The Perfect Set
with the Perfect Pieces: My lifelong quest.

james



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  Building habits
 
After looking once more at Dan Jassim's latest minifig carrier, a question came to mind I wanted to ask him but it could also be posed to everyone. Just to satisfy my curiousity, of course. :) (To Dan) Did you have to tear down your original carrier (...) (25 years ago, 28-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.build)

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