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Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :(
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Thu, 14 Dec 2000 13:40:50 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Sergio Guerra writes:
> Hi Lugnet users,
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> 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, I've been more interested in Nintendo lately. With this moving going
> on and decreased interest in Lego these days, I don't know if I should even
> put them back together. Maybe I will have renewed interest once I've
> reassembled the sets, but I don't know if I will even have the motivation to
> do that. Is this what's it's like to enter a <gasp> DARK AGE? I'm now also
> even starting to feel embarrassed to fool with Lego in front of my friends,
> who all still own Lego and liked Lego for as long as I have. Any thoughts on
> this?
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 lot of peer pressure and many, if not most, will succumb to the
pressure to some extent. Not all will though so if you still enjoy building I
would say do it on your own, nothing wrong with that.
If video games are your thing then I guess that is one of kids mosts popular
passtimes nowadays. (Old crotchety voice) "In my day, we had to go to the
arcade to play video games! And they cost a quarter, God damn it!". So who
knows if I had video games when I was your age maybe that would have been
important to me too.
> Any advice from you AFOLs? I would really appreciate it. Later.
Like some others have said "Don't sell your LEGO!". Fortunately for me my
parents kept my LEGO in their attic for 13 years figuring it would be good for
grandkids someday. Thanks to them I still have my Classic Space collection
along with some other cool bits and pieces. Funny thing was I used to think I
had a huge collection when I was a kid. Compared to my collection now its
nothing but even then many of the figs and parts are every important to me.
Any way I hope you stay but if you don't I hope you return some day.
Eric Kingsley
The New England LEGO Users Group
http://www.nelug.org/
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| (...) <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)
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