 | | Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Sergio Guerra
| | | | Hi Lugnet users, I am moving next week and like Lego fans always do, they pack up their Lego. I am 15 years old and I have been actively collecting Lego since December 1996 up to now. But, I haven't even looked inside my cabinet since this summer, (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.basic, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.underground, lugnet.western) !
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Shiri Dori
| | | | | | Hi Sergio, Maybe you're going through dark ages... maybe it's just a "dim" age, though. Or perhaps you have a builder's block. I personally slightly lost interest in lego for awhile (around 14-15), but sparked the interest again actually when we (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.basic, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.underground, lugnet.western)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Sergio Guerra
| | | | | | | (...) Hi, I agree with Shiri. I think it is a Dim Age. Not builders block, I can still build really cool things, because Lego has been my most favorite hobby for years. I just have no time right now and not too much interest. I don't want it to turn (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Aaron West
| | | | | | (...) Sure! Sell me your stuff cheap (it has no REAL value to you anyhow :o) and then in 5 to 10 years lament the loss of all that lost ABS. Seriously, I am now 27 and lost my LEGO interest at about age 15 (at least in public) and only built one (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.basic, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.underground, lugnet.western)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Jonathan Lopes
| | | | | | (...) I have two things to say: 1. hold on to all of your lego, you will regret it if you don't. You will hit an age when you don't feel 'embarrassed' about it. 2. best of luck Jonathan (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.basic, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.underground, lugnet.western)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Paul Baulch
| | | | | | | | jonathan Lopes wrote in message ... (...) Definitely. Also, try another creative medium. When I was in my teens I gave up building Lego spaceships, and I began drawing spaceships and making plastic models of spaceships, then later I was making (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.basic, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.underground, lugnet.western)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Larry Pieniazek
| | | | | | | | | Could we consider trimming ALL the theme groups out of followups and slimming down to just .general? While this is interesting and posting to lots of themes gets lots of attention, setting proper followups is only polite. Thanks. FUT .general ++Lar (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.basic, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.underground, lugnet.western)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Jeff Johnston
| | | | | | | (...) Johnathan and everybody else are absolutely right, Sergio. When I was young, my mom did a very wise thing: she made me promise never to get rid of my LEGO. Of course, *she* thought it was because I'd be passing it on to my kids someday. I (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.basic, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.underground, lugnet.western)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Ed T. Toton III
| | | | | | | (...) I have to agree with this whole-heartedly.. My entire lego collection from when I was a kid ended up being sold off as part of one of our yard sales for a measly $5.. That's right, the entire lot, hundreds of dollars worth of classic space (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.basic, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.underground, lugnet.western)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Frank Filz
| | | | | | As Shiri mentions, you may be entering a dark or dim ages. My suggestion would be to pack it all up neatly so as to present the least problem to yourself and your folks. Then hold on to it, resist the urge to sell it to get a few bucks, unless you (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.basic, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.underground, lugnet.western)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Trevor Pruden
| | | | | | (...) Hi Sergio! I guess I'll share my perspecive since I did go through a definate Dark Age. Although some AFOL's have never had a dark age, it does happen to a lot of us as we grow up that we start to get really busy in the hustle and bustle of (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.basic, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.underground, lugnet.western)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Tim Courtney
| | | | | | "Sergio Guerra" <Vetkidz@aol.com> wrote in message news:G5J8s1.3y3@lugnet.com... (...) One thing I have to say first is, AFOLs are the coolest people :) Look at the support thus far encouraging one's LEGO hobby. People think you're weird if you play (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Bill Farkas
| | | | | | (...) Sergio! Don't jump! Please, come back in through the window and get off that ledge! It doesn't have to end this way! Look, we all care about you! Don't do this thing! Things will get better, it's going to be OK, just come back inside!! :^) (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.basic, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.underground, lugnet.western)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Eric Joslin
| | | | | | (...) Well, of course, as with anything else, if it makes you uncomfortable, don't do it. If you feel ok building on your own, keep doing so- I built stuff for a long time with no one really to share it with (while my friends all know I collect (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.basic, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.underground, lugnet.western)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Tim Culberson
| | | | | | Hey man....for one thing you're getting way too serious about this. I'm currently 19 and I am IN the stage you talk about being worried of falling into. When I moved away from home to go to college last year Ieft ll my LEGO behind at home and (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Andy McKenney
| | | | | | | (...) From Andy (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Andrew Krug
| | | | | | Sergio You have hit a stage in your life that I think most of us can identify with. I know for me it happened when I was a junior in high school. Lego seemed to fade into the background while I took part in high school activities and prepared for (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.basic, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.underground, lugnet.western)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Andrew Krug
| | | | | | Sergio You have hit a stage in your life that I think most of us can identify with. I know for me it happened when I was a junior in high school. Lego seemed to fade into the background while I took part in high school activities and prepared for (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.basic, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.underground, lugnet.western)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Arnold Staniczek
| | | | | | Sergio, don't listen to the folks that try to persuade you to keep all your sets - sell them at once and buy a couple of computer games. Why? When you will be grown up, you will most probably rediscover Lego again and you will want to become a true (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Richard Marchetti
| | | | | | | | That's the worst advice ever, Arnold. You know mailing a whole Lego collection to Germany would be prohibitively expensive. Sergio needs someone closer to home... Sergio, listen to me -- you should sell all your lego sets to me instead! It's much (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( — Jake McKee
| | | | | | | Um...you were joking right?? Right?? (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Arnold Staniczek
| | | | | | | (...) Yes, I was. Your reply again reminded me that perception of humour is SO different in the U.S. and Europe. Of course it was a joke. I am also thinking of the 6067 story as a joke, where someone wrote on ebay that this set was discontinued (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Eric Kingsley
| | | | | | (...) Hey man it happens. What can I say I went through an approximately 13 year dark age (Nearly as long as you have been alive!). Admittedly most kids your age don't become AFOLs and most probably look down on those that still use LEGO. Thats a (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Jeff Johnston
| | | | | | | | (...) <snip> (...) <grabs Eric, wrestles his head off, sticks an enormous fake white beard on his neck, shoves the head back on, and hands him a 4L dark grey "lightsaber blade" rod for a cane.> There, much better. J (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 200,000? (was: Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( ) —Lindsay Frederick Braun
| | | | | | | (...) Likewise. Good short-list advice, the only better possibly being "Don't turn to the dark side! Don't do it!"...but if you must go to your Dark Ages, go knowing it'll be there for you when you come out (and so, of course, will LUGnet, the (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Gaurav Thakur
| | | | | | (...) I went through a brief "dark age" period from ages 10 to 12 and I'm not sure if I have completely come out of it yet (I am 14 now). I am absolutely crazy about the Technic and Mindstorms series, but have never really regained my interest in (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.basic, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.underground, lugnet.western)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Wayne McCaul
| | | | | | Well, here's my two-cents: As someone who's very recently come back, I wish that I had held on to more of my original Legos than I did. Much of what I gave away to my younger siblings - because I was so sure I wouldn't want them again - has been (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Tom Boucher
| | | | | | | I thank my mother on a regular basis that she kept the LEGOs for me. She instilled several beliefs about LEGO at an early age, the rules were as follows: 1) You do not loan LEGO out to anyone, no matter how nice they are (This relates back to an (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Jeff Boen
| | | | | | (...) DO NOT SELL! DO NOT SELL! I was in your *EXACT* situation when I was 15. I had collected for a few years (this was 1983, so I had a nice bit of classic space) but had stopped playing with them about a year before the move. I packed them up and (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.basic, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.underground, lugnet.western)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Bryan Hodges
| | | | | | (...) Sergio, take it from me, Nintendo gets old but Legos never do. Believe me, when I was in my mid teens I became obsessed with video games. I owned every system available at the time (NES, SNES, GB, Genesis (w/Sega CD,) TurboGRAFX, and Jaguar) (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( — Jake McKee
| | | | | | Sergio, Normally, I don't do "me too" posts, but hopefully this one will help the effectiveness of the point trying to be made here. I consider myself to be an active AFOL. I created bricksonthebrain.com, I have more parts than room in our (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Jeff Johnston
| | | | | | | (...) On the other hand, for you AFOLs and others who have become separated from your collections...*don't* kick yourself, because it doesn't do any good. Take it from someone who was very experienced at regretting things - it won't change the (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Craig Roberts
| | | | | | Hi Sergio, Mate when you are young things change very quick, you discover girls, cars, better games ect, but believe me in years to come you will remember the good times when you built things using your imagination or remember looking at some models (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.aquazone, lugnet.castle, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.space, lugnet.basic, lugnet.technic, lugnet.town, lugnet.underground, lugnet.western)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :( —Diana Franich
| | | | | Sergio, I just now read you post. I bought my Grand childern legos for Christmas 15 years ago. They are not really interested in legos right now. I am 57 years old and have been "keeping" the legos for them. I have spent hundreds of dollars adding (...) (24 years ago, 15-Dec-00, to lugnet.town)
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