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What is it about the brick that has us hooked?
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Wed, 5 Apr 2000 01:10:08 GMT
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I don't know if everyone else went through this, but when I came out of my
dark-ages and started buying mass quantities of plastic bits marked for ages
5-12...I kinda felt like a misfit. I couldn't help but feel somewhat childish
or immature, I mean, here I am a married man with kids of my own and I'm
playing with a children's toy! When I found other AFOL's on the internet I was
so relieved that I wasn't alone in the universe.
Yet, what is it about these little ABS blocks that renews the infatuation with
them after years of forgetting about them? What is it that makes them so
addictive to us as adults? I speculated once that there might be some
trans-dermal absorbtion of ABS that gets into our bloodstreams that keeps us
hooked. If I'm not mistaken though, it seems that there are more male AFOLs
than female, correct? I commented in .castle the other day that I think they
are attractive to us as adults because the constant acquisition of "more" is
kind of goal oriented, providing a level of purpose outside of our professional
lives; also the competitive nature of trying to build the biggest, bestest MOC
(or even most creative/unique) ever is appealing.
These are just a few things I came up with. So what is it? Why is the brick so
appealing to you? What's got you hooked?
"I'm NOT PLAYING, I'm CREATING!!"
Bill
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Message has 7 Replies:
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| When I was younger, I dreamed of building big things. I always ran out of bricks. Now, as an adult who brings home a paycheck, I can just go get some more. That's at least part of why I am hooked: The ability to realise my dreams! Build On! John (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Tell me about it. At fourteen it was even more embarrassing, "What, you haven't grown out of legos [sic] yet?!"... now at sixteen I can at least say it's a hobby, not an overgrown toy! (...) Tell me about it... for me it all really started (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Maybe some tings are better left unexplained. Maybe some questions don't have an answer. I was siting here trying to come uo with a reply and to tell you the truth i don't realy know why im hooked. Could it be because i started at early age. Is it (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: What is it about the brick that has us hooked?
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| (...) Bill, your words sound all to familiar for many of us AFOLs. I came out of the dark ages in 1979, so I had a head start in getting all the good '70s and '80s sets on clearance. We've all gone through that guilty feeling of perhaps being (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: What is it about the brick that has us hooked?
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| (...) (great question!) I'm not sure. I think that Lego is one of a number of semi-addictive activities that adults do, like stamp collecting, or model trains, or any number of other hobbies. All kinds of hobbies have different "strengths" that (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| you are sooo right, I too felt and still feel like an idiot by loving Lego at 31 years old!!! Admittedly I started buying it initially for my son, but on reflection it was mainly because I wanted him to take it up because it used to be my favourite (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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| Bill Farkas wrote in message ... (...) so (...) I could go on forever about why our family loves the brick, however many of these have already been stated. I do find that building is very therapeutic and I do a lot of reflecting when I build. In (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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