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Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :(
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:53:23 GMT
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Um...you were joking right?? Right??
In lugnet.general, Arnold Staniczek writes:
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> Sergio,
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> 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 AFOL. However, to
> reach this advanced state of mind you have to suffer...... you can only become a true AFOL if you are going to buy all of your
> childhood sets again for horrendous sums on ebay. Only then you will appreciate the true value of Lego...... so sell it now (best
> would be to sell it ridiculously cheap, so you will suffer more later......), just reply to my e-mail address....
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> Arnold
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> Sergio Guerra <Vetkidz@aol.com> wrote
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> > 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? Any advice from you AFOLs? I would really appreciate it. Later.
> >
> > --==Sergio==--
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| (...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Moving away / Losing interest in Lego :(
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| 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 (...) (26 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.general)
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