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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 (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general) !
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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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(...) I just turned fifteen and all my friends actually think it is the coolest thing that I still play with LEGOs. Whenever I have a party, second to people going a few houses down to knock on Enrique Igeslias (or however you spell it) house hoping (...) (25 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Mark A. Herzberg writes: <snip> Sounds like great fun! A few of my friends (in Israel) would sometimes join me with lego... Precious few, tho'. Right now I don't really have what you can call "friends" (except for my Israeli (...) (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)
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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)
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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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(...) On the other hand, I've not got enough artistic talent to fill a thimble-- but I can work around that in Lego. I can borrow from other peoples' ideas, but build my own structure behind them. I can use tools to generate exactly what I want, and (...) (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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