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Re: How do you view your LEGO collection?
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Sat, 9 Dec 2000 15:20:32 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Eric Kingsley writes:
> Do you view your LEGO collection as an investment in your...
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> A. Mental Well-being. (Its just something you have fun with).
> B. A financial investment that should increase in value over time.
> C. A tool for financial gain (you sell your creations and/or parts)
> D. Other
> E. Some combination of the above.
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> I realize many of you would answer E but I have been wondering about this
> because of some of the recent threads that I have seen involving people being
> Upset about bulk ordering decreasing the value of their collection or other
> people seem to think they hold some copyright on a certain combination of
> bricks and how they are assembled and expect to make money on this.
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> Truthfully I have been supprised by much of this. I can trully say I fall into
> the "A" catagory. Yes I sell parts on Brickbay but that is just because I
> don't want/need those parts and it defrays the cost of my collection. For me
> my collection is there for one reason and that is my personal enjoyment. I
> could care less about the value of some set I own that is now sorted into my
> collective or even the value of a single part.
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> In my mind Bulk Ordering is nothing but good news no matter how extensive or
> limited it may end up being. Sure it might be expensive in some cases but if I
> can get 20 of part A for $.20 a part instead of buying 20 sets at $20 a set and
> having to sort each set then I am happy because all I wanted in the first place
> were the 20 parts. I don't care if my 75 blue 1x2x2 classic windows suddenly
> decrease in value because you can get them in bulk, I wasn't going to sell them
> anyway.
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> Now I can see where some people consider it enjoyable to be able to sell sets
> that they designed, created directions for, and collected the parts for. Thats
> great for them but to claim some kind of right to their assemblage of parts to
> an extent that they would be upset with me if I reverse engineered it for my
> own personal enjoyment is just plain crazy IMO. If I own the parts I can
> assemble them as I please and no one has a right to get upset with me for
> borrowing an idea that they posted publicly for all to see (unless I try to
> sell it but even then it would have to be either an exact copy or so close a
> match that there is no doubt where the model origionated from).
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> I guess what I am asking is that if your collection is for something other than
> or in addition to your personal enjoyment then I would like to know what that
> is and why.
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> In addition to that is there anyone out there that is able to support
> themselves selling LEGO (either as parts, sets, or your personalized sets)? If
> not does anyone plan to try? I guess I just don't see the market being that
> big but heck if I could make a living selling something I created then I would
> have to consider it. I just don't think we are there yet (and probably never
> will be).
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> Anyone have any thoughts or am I just crazy and most everyone just uses their
> LEGO for the same reasons I do?
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> Eric Kingsley
>
> The New England LEGO Users Group
> http://www.nelug.org/
I have been mulling this question over ever since I first saw it. Not
because the of trying to figure out whether it was a, b, c, d, or e, but
because some how I never have called my Lego a collection in my mind.
Denial. This whole Lego thing has kind of snuck up on me. A few little
cute figures here and there, a car or two for them to drive, an airplane, a
house or two , a train, yep I guess it is a collection. Started buying for
mainly for my younger daughter, but now it's a a 60/40 split. (with me the
60!) We build side by side at times, but each on our own creation.
What is my Lego for? Gee, a sanctuary or sorts- an activity that becomes so
totally absorbing that I loose track of time whether it is building,
researching or washing and sorting a newly acquired lot of Lego elements.
It is a means of creative expression that has no practical value. By this I
mean, it's not like cooking where one's creations can be eaten, it's not
like sewing where one's creations can be wore or used as home furnishing,
it's not like gardening or .... It has no useful, practical value. For
me I think this is a big part of the appeal. My Lego is just for me. It
is a way I nurture myself. Definitely A.
sheree
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