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    What is it about the brick that has us hooked? —Bill Farkas
   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 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general) ! 
   
        Re: What is it about the brick that has us hooked? —John Matthews
     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 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)  
   
        Re: What is it about the brick that has us hooked? —Shiri Dori
     (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)  
    
         Re: What is it about the brick that has us hooked? —Mark A. Herzberg
     (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)  
    
         Re: What is it about the brick that has us hooked? —Shiri Dori
     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 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)  
   
        Re: What is it about the brick that has us hooked? —Cale Leiphart
      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 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: What is it about the brick that has us hooked? —Gary R. Istok
      (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)  
   
        Re: What is it about the brick that has us hooked? —James Brown
     (...) (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 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)  
   
        Re: What is it about the brick that has us hooked? —Carl Greatrix
     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 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)  
    
         Re: What is it about the brick that has us hooked? —John D. Forinash
     (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)  
   
        Re: What is it about the brick that has us hooked? —Rose Regner
    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 (...) (24 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.general)  
 

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