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Believe it or not, I went to Wright State, and Don taught one of my classes!
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> From: "Paul Sinasohn" <bearitone@my-deja.com>
> To: lugnet.general@lugnet.com, lugnet.loc.us.oh@lugnet.com, • lugnet.dear-lego@lugnet.com
> Subject: Big Lego article Miami/Dayton Daily News
> Date: Tue, Dec 14, 1999, 3:40 PM
> On December 1, 1999, there was an article on page 1B about Don David donating
> his large Lego project to the Boonshoft museum. Byline is Tom Hopkins, Dayton
> Daily News, and location is given as Centerville. The article continues inside
> the B section, there is a closeup on the front page of his carousel, and a
> picture of the entire layout (with the article continuation) inside on page • 4B.
>
> Does anyone have any contact with this Don David? I'd like to talk with him.
>
> s/
> Paul Sinasohn
> bearitone@my-deja.com
>
> Here is the text of the article (it was sent ot me by a friend who lives in
> Dayton):
>
> LEGOLAND TO BECOME A MUSEUM PIECE - Boonshoft to display man's toy theme park
>
> A lot of things are happening in Don David's world. Archeologists are
> excavating a mummy's tomb. Some kids are racing around a go-kart track,
> pretending to be Richard Petty. Other kids are standing by a fishing pond,
> dangling their lines into the water in hope of snagging a big one. There's a
> frontier town, a space shuttle, a police station, a gas station, and a pirate
> ship with a cannon that fires little plastic cannonballs.
>
> David picks up the cannon and lets 'er fly. Across the room, his wife, Kari,
> yelps. "That was a good shot -- you hit me right in the chest," she says with • a
> laugh. David, the self-styled King of legos, just grins. By day, he is a
> teacher and production stage manager in Wright State University's theater
> department, fashioning sets for such plays as Romeo and Juliet and A Streetcar
> Named Desire.
>
> By night, he toils in his Centerville home -- heck, this isn't toil, it's play
> -- fashioning imaginitive things out of molded plastic Lego blocks. He used
> 23,000 blocks for his make-believe theme park. The Boonshoft Museum of • Dicovery
> is so impressed with David's 4-by-8-foot Legoland, the museum is planning to
> put it on display next spring.
>
> "Kids just love this stuff" Boonshoft exhibits manager Tim Eisenhut said as he
> examined the Legoland in David's dining room. "I brought my little 5-year-old
> over, and he just doesn't stop talking about this."
>
> David, 45, has no children and thinks the Boonshoft display is a way for him
> to make a connection with kids. "I just love the idea that thousands of
> children can see it, because it turned into one adult's obsession," he said.
>
> Very few components of the display are the original kits. "I take them apart
> for their individual pieces and morph them with other kits," David said. • Moving
> parts in his Legoland include a battery-powered train, a monorail, a tower
> elevator and a hand-cranked merry-go-round and Ferris wheel.
>
> As Kari hand-cranks the merry-go-round, David picks up a castle about 24 • inches
> hich and 14 inches wide. "This castle has 1,500 to 1,800 pieces," he said.
> "There's no kit like this anywhere. There are rooms inside that you can't even
> see." As a child in upstate New York, David played with Legos and loved to
> build models of ships, race cars, and airplances.
>
> Ten years ago, he was browsing through a toy store when he spotted a Lego • train
> set. Something about it brought back all his childhood memories. He bought the
> train and put it under the tree.
>
> PICTURE CAPTIONS:
> First page:
> Don Davis (sic) holds up a moving carousel, which is one of the many Lego
> creations that he has built for his Lego city. The city, which consists of
> 23,000 Legos, is being donated to the Boonshoft Museum.
>
> Page Four:
> This Lego city, built by Don David, who sites in his dining room, consists of
> about 23,000 Legos. He is donating the make-believe theme park to the • Boonshoft
> Museum.
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