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Re: Is it possible to have too much LEGO?
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 24 Feb 2000 15:38:28 GMT
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Duane Hess wrote:
> 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!
> >
> > Chow,
> > Markus
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> 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.
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> 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
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
ESSO SERVICE set and improving on it, by making it larger, with more garages.
Ditto for the first '66 SHELL SERVICE set.
Gary Istok
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| (...) 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, (...) (27 years ago, 23-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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