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(...) Highly agreed-- as a kid I built models, then played with them acting out stories, etc.... now I mainly just build and display. But people still think of it as playing... Notice that nobody has a second thought about adults who build models (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.castle)
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(...) And even if other folks do frown upon it, you can always point them to the thousands of us that make up the LUGNET/RTL AFOL community. Back in 1986 when I "came out of the LEGO closet", it was a different matter. I percieved myself to be (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.castle)
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(...) you will be surprised with the possitive response (unless you happen to be an 18 year old male, who's cool buddies think more about cars, sports and girls - 18 is a difficult age for LEGO). (...) No Gary, 18 is a difficult age. :) I went (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.people)
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(...) (I'll be 18 on Saturday) Most of the people I know who know about my LEGO obsession don't make a big deal about it, but then again, they already think I'm strange (I'm not a US citizen, and I don't have a TV. Actually, most people find it (...) (25 years ago, 28-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.castle)
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(...) Well -- I'm 18 and open about my Lego addiction. And yes, I think about all of the above mentioned topics as well :) I get a mixed response, some think its weird, some think its kinda cool I'm so involved in an international community like (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.castle)
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(...) I tell people its modelmaking without the glue or paint. Allan J Smith -- My LEGO creations site "Allanton NZ" is at (URL) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.castle)
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Gary Istok wrote: <snip> (...) Actually it's still a little bit different for me. All of the parents, relatives and in-laws amaze when they see nice official models and MOCs but they still think Lego is a toy, and I'm just a strange 29 years old (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.castle)
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(...) I hope I didn't offend any 18 year olds with this, it was just a generalization. When I was 18 LEGO wasn't even on my mind. I didn't start into it again until my 20's. I'm 46 now, and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up! Gary (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.castle)
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(...) I've known since I was about 12 what I wanted to be when I grew up; a Lego piece and set desinger. I've been working on getting that position continuously for the past 25 years. I'm still working on it. Rich-- Have Fun! C-Ya! Legoman34 ***** (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.castle)
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(...) No offense taken. What you said is (at least partially) true, but 18 year olds can still enjoy LEGO :) (I don't find inspiration or time to build as much as I'd like to, though...) --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.castle)
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Bram, (...) Well, I took my loose bricks down to Columbus, Ohio, when I went to college when I was 17/18. It was one of my only joys of going to college and working full time. I bought a lot of the sets back in 1993 / 1994 when I was down there, (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) How much LEGO did you take to college? I have about 35000 pieces, which might be a bit much...(Tim, what are you going to do about LEGO and college?) --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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Bram, (...) Well, I was living with my dad, I had my own room, it was bigger than my room at my mom's, but still, I'll say I took about maybe 15,000 parts? Mine fit underneath my bed, so you might want to aim for storage more than amount of parts. (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Okay, I've got to ask. Where did you two come up with these numbers? Just a wild guess? Did you dig through pause or something to find all of your sets and kept a running total? Am I just being annoying and asking stupid questions? (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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Kya, (...) Well, I have an excel sheet with all of my sets with the set #, description, parts, minifigs, etc. I kept almost all of my instruction booklets, so I have a good source to see what I have. I have to add some for all of the collections I (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) No, you don't..:-) Actually I know how much of a piece I have excatly(1), since I always make inventories of the sets that I have (using an excel sheet, and know many others doing similar..:-) I never combine any set that I bought with the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) ___...___ (...) website. I don't know how it compare with his, but it's got basic set numbers, copies of the sets, piece totals, minifig totals, etc. Since I've been collecting LEGO, (and others, who shall remain nameless,) I've kept most of (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Unfortuanately I still need to answer "who the heck knows" despite having a spread sheet. This is because I add more sets faster than I can get them into my spreadsheet (just take a look at my web site pictures at (URL) to get a feel, of (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) It took me awhile to get it all done, but I think it's worth it now that it is. You could, um, borrow, the work and just addapt it to your needs. I've, um borrowed other things in my time, and made them my own, with unique changes. I wouldn't (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I've kept track of all the sets I've bought myself since I began getting an allowance about 7 years ago. I got all the other set numbers from saved instruction booklets. After getting a list of all the set numbers I own, I wrote a little (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Mine collection is sorted by pieces and takes up quite a bit of room :) I'm gonna have trouble picking what to take...A fe handfuls from each bin? --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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I don't have a spreadsheet, and passed the point LONG ago where I should have started one, so I'm never going to ;-) I bought too many multiples, tossed most of the instructions/boxes, and parted them out into my parts. I've also probably traded (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) pieces (...) sending (...) few (...) feel (...) Wow, do you have a mess. I guess it's been a good thing to be finacially challenged most of my life, so that I wouldn't be in your position. (Hhhmm.... how many 8480's?) Just kidding, you have a (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I keep mine in a big table in an HTML file: (URL) got too annoying to count up the totals all the time, though, and I didn't want to have to copy everything into a spreadsheet, so I wrote a CGI to count my part and set totals for me: (URL) Tim (...) (25 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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