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I was looking around on the Lego site and found this (sorry if it has already been reported) Lego has been named toy of the century! Check it out! (URL) <>< (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Sorry, that was Fortune, not Forbes magazine. Chris <>< (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) A brief quote: "During the past five decades, more than 203 billion LEGO bricks have been sold world-wide (more than 33 for every person on the planet)." Hmmm... I think a lot of us here on LUGNET are skewing that 'per person' number UP just a (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Only 33? Hmmm... maybe enough for a Town Junior skyscraper. :) I am sure between Gary Istok, Larry P, the train groups, and Tom Stangl, etc. we have definitely bumped that number up! Good selection, however, and adults were mentioned in the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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Wow! I'm amazed that this thread isn't longer... Our favorite little toy is named the Toy of the Century. Kind of brings a little tear of joy to the eye, doesn't it. :-) Naji (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, jeez. I only have 44,000 bricks. And yet every person who sees my collection has said "That's a lot of lego!" It makes me wonder, idly, who has the largest collection on lugnet. Adrian -- (URL) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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Well, I know Gary Istok has at least 500,000+ pieces, there are a few more that he knows of, one person has over 2,000,000! :) Gary? Scott S. (...) ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn CAD Operator Affiliated Engineers, Inc. Work Page: (URL) Page: (URL) LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yeah, if you take me, Lar, Tom, Conan and the train groups out of the picture it would be more like 12 bricks per person ......... heh-heh-heh ......just kidding. To paraphrase the famous statesman Everett McKinley Dirksen, "a billion here, a (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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That would be Conan (don't know his last name, but Larry P. does). He has 2.3 million. He is a member of GMLTC, but doesn't participate in LUGNET. But his collection is of rather recent vintage, if memory serves me correctly. In the number 2 spot (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) The 2.3 million number is an estimate, but the people who did the estimating are several current and former LEGO 'Model Shop' employees - the people that work on the big creations you see at LEGOLAND parks, Imagination Centers, etc... So, they (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, and I'm coming to Minneapolis next week and I WANT MINE BACK. (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) i caught the follow-up to that show... a few people complained and wrote letters/emails about Lego not being included (i looked for LUGNET monikers, but none looked familiar)... people thought it was a travesty to have not included Lego in the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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This thread brings up a question I have mulling over for some time: How does one get a fairly estimate pieces-in-collection count? I am currently going through my boxes-and-instructions closet making a list of what I have for insurance purposes, in (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) purchased. (...) think I have somewhere *around* 50,000 split between my old stuff at mom + dads house and here at home. The problem for me is what are the proper names of all the bricks? How do I inventory them so other people know what I (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Naaahhh - I probably only have 200-250,000 bricks or so. Though I don't even want to TRY to add it up. 30+ 5571s is a good sized chunk of my boxed sets, along with 5 8880s (and to think, I owned NO 8880s a year ago!), 12+ 1252-1256 Shell sets, (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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Whoops! Forgot the tower case I built (even when staring right at it), that has at least 1000 pieces in it all by itself ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Whenever I add a new bucket to my "master bin," I tend to measure how full it is. That's how I get my ballpark figure; I assume that my "sorted special pieces" probably number about 3,000. The total is probably close to yours, Aaron--I (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) names (...) mean? (...) is. (...) I've (...) out of (...) I (...) to (...) to 1990 (...) tomorrow. My (...) at (...) Ah, the basement. Those of us whose bricks out-number ants in the yard seem to dwell in basements of ABS hysteria. We are dark (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I have an Excel spreadsheet, with all the sets I have verified, and the ones I don't, I usually make a pretty good guess on what I do have. Scott S. ___...___ Scott E. Sanburn CAD Operator Affiliated Engineers, Inc. Work Page: (URL) Page: (...) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I "only" have about that many too...any more and my LEGO room is going to burst! (...) I wonder who's sold the most pieces? <duck ;-> --Todd (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Parts Reference (Was: Toy of the Century)
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(...) here's how those of us in the Lego CAD communicate with one another about the parts to which we're referring (and it's newly added to LUGNET!) (URL) (25 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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