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Re: Lego: Toy of the Century! (according to Fortune)
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Thu, 2 Dec 1999 23:17:41 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> Aaron West wrote:
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> > You know, I am trying to do the same thing, inventory. It takes forever! I
> > 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 • mean?
> > Is there a general guide that tells you what to call an item so that other
> > people can recognize it, or do I have to create a decoder key? Can anybody
> > suggest something, please?
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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
> estimate 35,000-40,000 as a conservative figure, possibly as many as 55,000. • I've
> definitely taken over a corner of the basement, and I know I have about 5,000
> bricks in unbuilt sets and unparsed buckets on top of that figure.
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> The workshop is hiding on my page at:
> http://www.msu.edu/user/braunli1/ships.html (bottom of index page).
> It's been cleaned up a lot since that photo was taken, naturally. ;)
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> As for piece nomenclature, I tend to use the AucZILLA designations 995 times • out of
> 1000, if only because Todd is "Apropo-Acronym Friendly". Life without BURP? • I
> don't want to think about it.
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> > Can you believe that I have ZERO trains?
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> Sure! I have the same number, and this after collecting since 1977 (with a
> five-year "dark age" that unfortunately hit at Blacktron-I and Imperial Guards
> time--you know you're in too deep, or not deep enough, when your first answer • to
> the question "what would you do with a time machine" is "set the clock back • to 1990
> and buy a whole scad of Lego.").
> In Other News, my first Belville set ever arrives from the LIC in VA • tomorrow. My
> collection is already cringing at the prospect of its first pink bricks...but • at
> least they're not Timmies.
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> best,
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> Lindsay
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> ---
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> Lindsay Frederick Braun (Mr)
> Department of History
> Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
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 little sorcerors, are we
not? With two small children, I've been banished to the garage. But I
occasionally creep out and spill thousands of bricks out on the basement
carpet. THAT feels good.
Happy conjuring!
Aaron
maniac@vol.com
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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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