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Re: Who has the most Lego?
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 7 Jan 2001 19:26:32 GMT
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Steve Demlow wrote:
> Larry Pieniazek <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote:
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> > There *are* limits to growth. Once you get above 250K it gets difficult to
> > manage your collection. At 500K it gets really really hard, beleive me, I
> > know. Conan's advantage is that much of his collection (was) built into the
> > GMLTC layout, making it easier to manage. But Conan is one of the few people
> > who sorts by size AND color and still consistently overflows the wall of
> > containers.
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> Half of Conan's basement is a room with the sorted containers, where stuff
> is built. The other half is largely overflow - large Rubbermaid containers
> with bulk stuff (not just bricks) that doesn't fit in the building room.
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> > The GMLTC layout got disassembled and is being reconstituted so for a while
> > it must have been a madhouse in Conan's basement with all the 2x2 and 2x3
> > and 2x4 and 1x4 bricks...
>
> We did a lot of the teardown in the garage, which helped. The basic bricks
> went into large Rubbermaid/Sterilite containers, with most of the 2x2s
> still assembled in the columns we use for the "honeycomb" interiors of the
> modules. Everything else went through a first-stage sort and then got
> hauled down to the basement to be sorted into the actual bins/overflow. I
> think we finished up this week (but I thought that a few weeks ago too. ;)
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> The teardown and sorting really wasn't too bad, many hands etc...
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> Anyway, on to building again! Once we finish haggling over at least some
> of the gross details of the layout, that is.
Hmm... maybe he could make a storage bin... out of legos.
--
I want my tombstone to say
"<-- I'm with stupid."
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