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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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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>
> "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 (...) (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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