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Re: What is it about the brick that has us hooked?
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Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:46:05 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Bill Farkas writes:
> 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,
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!
> 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.
Tell me about it... for me it all really started when I was in this boring
computer class... I searched for "lego" on yahoo and came up
with "fibblesnork". Wow, that's gone a long way since! (And it was only 2.5
years ago, for me!)
> 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.
That must be it!
> If I'm not mistaken though, it seems that there are more male AFOLs
> than female, correct?
Lego as a whole seems to attract more boys than girls - kids AND adults. For
kids, I understand, but for adults - beats me.
> 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.
Yeah, but sometimes it's just having fun! Don't you think?
> 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 have no idea... but it has!
-Shiri
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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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| 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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