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The cold, hard reality of Lego Renaissance
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Fri, 16 Mar 2001 05:54:53 GMT
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I now have a new appreciation for the volume of bricks you guys/gals all
have. Not that I didn't have appreciation before, but now I have a new
one. Throughout my whole childhood, I'd always prided myself in having
"a ton of legos." I have never met anyone in real life with more. I can
easily come to grips with the fact that I didn't have enough to build a
big castle the size of most I've seen around here, and that compared to
most of you my collection is laughable. That's understandable.
Very recently I decided to start playing with my legos again. More
specifically, the Castle stuff because we all know Castle is by far the
coolest. I'd been lingering around here a bit, checking out auctions,
etc.. but today, I spent a while working on a few ideas I had floating
around for my "dream castle." It was upsetting to realize that I didn't
really have enough grey bricks to complete just the *gatehouse* of my
main castle wall. Yikes. This I have a little more trouble coping with.
I may have to rethink this whole getting-back-into-LEGO thing.
I find a few things running through my mind concerning this:
1) I have to buy my own bricks this time around. I can NOT put "10,000
assorted grey legos" on my Christmas list for Grandma anymore.
2) LEGO is still not cheap.
3) I'm not what most people would call "in the money"
4) Why the hell did I get so into Technic for the last 10 years of my
LEGO upbringing when Castle is where it's really at?
My conclusions:
1) I can try microfig castles for a while...
2) I could build a decent-sized black, red, and yellow Technic castle
;) ... blech!
Anyway, just a few rants. But it's true that I have a LOT more
appreciation and respect for the scale of everyone's castles around
here. I guess you must make this a pretty serious hobby, eh? ;)
You guys/gals rock! Thanks for listening ;)
Mike "send me all your grey bricks" Rosulek
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Message has 6 Replies:
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| (...) Don't be so sure! I felt the same way, but as I came more and more into my return to LEGO (I never had a complete "Dark Ages" as some people define it) I began mentioning it to my parents more and more... and now we've reached a point where I (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Re: The cold, hard reality of Lego Renaissance
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| (...) I was that way, and still am. However I've learned to deal with what I have, and besides, if I had more LEGOs, I'd have to find a bigger place :). (...) I was in your shoes a while back, when I was in the building stages for my Halcyon Castle (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Re: The cold, hard reality of Lego Renaissance
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| (...) Hehe.. I understand completely. I was the same way as a kid - only two friends of mine that were brothers had more LEGO than I did. I tend to think of myself as having a "small" collection in the case of comparing to some around here, though (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Re: The cold, hard reality of Lego Renaissance
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| (...) I dunno, I think this latter might work. Technic beams would be great in places where people can't see to shore up other components. And there are a lot of castles running around these days that use lots of colors that are not grey. I would (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Re: The cold, hard reality of Lego Renaissance
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| Hi, Mike, Welcome to Lugnet. (...) Think of it as analogous to graduating from high school and going to college. In high school, you were one of the top students, a big fish in a small pond. In college, you become just one face in the crowd. It's (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Re: The cold, hard reality of Lego Renaissance
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| On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 05:54:53 GMT, Mike Rosulek <mjr@powersurge.net.nospam> wrote: Welcome to .castle (...) Hmm, have you checked out the Lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands group? (think Battleship and Aircraft Carrier). /me keeps a wary eye out for (...) (24 years ago, 16-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle)
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