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Re: A LEGO Collection
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:15:44 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Mark Sandlin writes:
> To me, a good collection is one that has a variety of parts so that you can
> build things you enjoy.
I agree completely.
> I never got into the whole "(theme) Complete" idea.
Hmm. I get it on a visceral level- I have, at various times in my life,
collected other things, so I know that having a complete set of something has a
certain satisfaction to it.
What I've never understood is collecting for the sake of collecting. Buying
action figures and not removing them from the card, buying a LEGO set and never
removing it from the shrink-wrap, that kind of nonsense[1]. If I find myself
going after an old set, it's usually to get pieces I couldn't get elsewhere
(boat hulls, Shakoes, pieces printed with unusual designs, pieces not currently
produced in a particular color, etc). But I can imagine realising at a certain
point that I only needed a given couple of sets to be, say, Pirate complete,
and hunting them down. I'm having a hard time currently not buying Watto's
Junk Shop simply because it's the only System Star Wars set I don't have.
> It's about the building.
Ayuh, that's true.
> Word to your minifig.
Oh, yeah, and some sets have certain minifigs you can't get elsewhere. That's
a big one for me. Pirate and forest wenches, the Pirate with the brown vest,
etc. All important.
eric
[1]I have to cop to buying extra copies of some promo sets to save for later
trade fodder- those I don't open, although it's hard not to sometimes.
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| (...) To me, a good collection is one that has a variety of parts so that you can build things you enjoy. I never got into the whole "(theme) Complete" idea. It's about the building. Word to your minifig. ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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