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Re: What is it about the brick that has us hooked?
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Wed, 5 Apr 2000 17:28:37 GMT
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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 toy! All I have merely done recently is re-built all the
models I used to build as a kid but using all the pieces and colours I was
never able to afford before.I love going down to toys-r-us on a Lego blow
out!! :) I am like a kid in a sweet shop.
I think the main appeal of it is to creative people. IT IS a new toy every
day, with only your immagination as a limit. I am an artist by trade, I love
to create, this is just another realise in creativeness for me.
In my dark ages, I still stopped and looked when walking past the Lego stands
in shops, wishing I was young still, after finding so many people my age into
it on the net, was a great form of relief :).
Am I in my 2nd childhood....or did I ever leave the first??


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, 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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(...) 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)  

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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 (...) (24 years ago, 5-Apr-00, to lugnet.general) ! 

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