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Re: Confessions of a LEGO Maniac
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Wed, 20 Dec 2000 02:10:21 GMT
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Tom & All,
> OK. This is rather odd but I'm just wondering if I'm doing OK in the • head
> here or I've just not grown up and don't know it.
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> For the record, I'm 29.
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> Currently, I have a large number of LEGO sets that I've gotten since I was
> 4. There were some from my childhood that I relied on Christmas and
> Birthdays to provide, and then some when I got to be 26 and had disposable
> income to actually purchase large amounts of sets. In the last oh three
> years especially have I really gotten serious about picking up old sets • I've
> always wanted as well as purchasing anything LEGO system related.
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> I'm wondering, Am I the only one that walks by a set, for example, the
> Explorian Starship is sitting downstairs, broken (meaning ship got a wing
> knocked off, not the pieces) but I find myself wandering by in the • afternoon
> when no one is around and literally playing with it.
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> I don't mean picking it up and trying to fix it, I mean having the little
> conversations of the men trying to figure out what happened to their ship
> and trying to get it repaired (not outloud, just in my head). Opening up
> the bay and exposing that Explorian Blue Core thing and acting like it's • the
> main power source trying to come online or something along those lines.
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> These are the kind of things I did as an 8 - 12 year old when the classic
> space sets came about. I'm just wondering if anyone else around here
> actually reverts to their child like minds and just 'plays' or does • everyone
> around here just think of these as stuff to design models with?
Well, I for one do as well. Actually, I have my whole minifig universe going
on inside my head when I am bored at work or whatever. I do it a lot when I
have my city / spaceport as well. I play a lot with it, it's fun! : )
Scott S.
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> Tom
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