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Re: Is it possible to have too much LEGO?
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 23 Feb 2000 21:40:06 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Markus Wolf writes:
> YOu know, I've kind of taken to finding the old directions on
> www.Brickshelf.com and building with what I have. You won't have all the
> minifigs or maybe an exact duplicate, but it's fun seeing how I can modify it
> to work for my own purposes. It's been a great learning exercise for me, as
> well as giving me "ownership" of sets I salivated for as a child that I never
> had. I recently built modied 6073. I still have to buy, borrow, or
> substitute pieces for this, but it give me more mileage on my money!
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> Chow,
> Markus
I'm doing that same thing myself. I find it neat to take an older set and
modify it to meet my needs. I swap out some of the older shapes and replace
them with newer style pieces. After that, you lengthen a stud here and shorten
a stud there, replace that canopy and add some computers, and soon you have
your very own model design.
If I may borrow on Star Trek, it's like taking the blueprints for the original
Enterprise and modifying them to make the Enterprise E. Same general concept,
but soooo much nicer.
-Duane
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 | | Re: Is it possible to have too much LEGO?
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| (...) It is interesting to see that others are also "improving" on some original LEGO concepts. I took an old LEGO blue castle (from 1961), and made it from a 2 tower castle into a 4 tower courtyarded castle. I am working on taking the old '57-'65 (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Is it possible to have too much LEGO?
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| Interesting subthread. I guess I'm from the "build it per directions" school. I tend to build stuff to learn what there is to learn, then I go off and build my own stuff from scratch. Only very rarely do I modify TLC sets into something improved... (...) (25 years ago, 24-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Is it possible to have too much LEGO?
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| YOu know, I've kind of taken to finding the old directions on www.Brickshelf.com and building with what I have. You won't have all the minifigs or maybe an exact duplicate, but it's fun seeing how I can modify it to work for my own purposes. It's (...) (25 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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