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Big Lego Christmas
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 31 Dec 1999 06:18:09 GMT
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Christmas this year was pretty amazing, Lego-wise. I had to share this
with someone, and no one else around here would quite appreciate it...
so, why not LUGNET?
Here's the Lego that I was given for Christmas this year:
Technic
8248 Forklift
8252 Beach Buster
8504 Jet
Train
4515 Straight Tracks
4533 Train Track Snow Remover
4553 Train Wash
4556 Train Station
4557 Freight Loading Station
4563 Load N' Haul Railroad
4565 Freight & Crane Railway
Adventurer
5925 Pontoon Plane
5986 Amazon Ancient Ruins
Basic
818 Wheel-wind motor - MIB!
39x 1555 Santa Claus - all 39 still in polybags!
3033 {Unnamed 1200-piece brick tub}
Radio Control
5600 Radio Control Racer
Town
6453 Com-Link Cruiser
6462 Aerial Recovery
6463 Lunar Rover
3438 McDonalds Drive Thru
3438 McDonalds Drive Thru
Star Wars
7101 Lightsaber Duel
7110 Landspeeder
7111 Droid Fighter
7128 Speeder Bikes
7171 Mos Espa Podrace
7150 TIE Fighter & Y-wing
Books
Knudsen - The Uofficial Guide to LEGO Mindstorms
DK - Build Amazing Animals
DK - Build Amazing Figures
I took a picture. It's at:
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~evard/lego/pictures/christmas_1999.jpg
That's 26 sets, not including the 39 santas. 65 total, plus apparently
there are a few more on the way. Needless to say, I didn't get much
else this year. Which is fine.
This year, in September, I gave my wife a list of sets that I promised
not to buy. Everyone who couldn't figure out what to get me asked her
what to get, and she coordinated a few S@H orders as well (hence the
McDs sets.) It helps that my wife believes that Lego is a good thing
for me...
The 39 1555 Santas are the most amazing thing. She apparently found them
at a garage sale this summer, from some teacher who was retiring and
liquidating an inventory of stuff that she gave to students. So I now have
39 of them, sealed. I'm not sure quite what to do with them, but I'm
thinking I'll keep at least 30 sealed for when my son is a few years older,
then we'll open them all and use them as christmas ornaments on the tree.
The DK books are surprisingly good. One of my relatives found them
somewhere obscure, although I see that they're also at S@H.
So, the strategy of making a "i wont buy it" list worked really well. The
only problem with this is that if I want to do it next year, I have to make
a list of things I won't buy that other folks can find, which means
swearing off a bunch of the Year 2000 Lego sets for another 12 months. Hm.
-r'm
Remy Evard, Argonne National Laboratory
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~evard - Sorry, no Lego pages up yet
Supercomputing and systems administration by day, AFOL by late night
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| (...) DANG! So, buddy ol pal, when you having me over? :) Its not more than a 20-30 minute drive for me... Congratulations!! (...) Heh, well nice strategy. I only made off with the Mindstorms RIS and the SW Snowspeeder (which I already have). Ah (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Big Lego Christmas
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| (...) Oh man you are one lucky dude... Considering the fact that I only have around 90 unique sets (over 20 years!), you received nearly a third of that in one shot... Nobody bought me any Lego so I had to do it the hard the way: Buy it myself! I (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Big Lego Christmas
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| Remy Evard wrote in message <8EAD248evardmcsanlg...et.com>... (...) What a load!!! Well every member of our family received an ample supply of Lego, however we also got a new KABOB* for Christmas. I finally had my baby (a boy) and he was kind (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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