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What is your biggest Lego pet peeve?
It can be anything. Examples include but are not limited to:
quality, Lego name misuse, stepping on bricks, cost,
availability, not introducing sets all over at the same time(Bionicle)
or whatever else you can think of.
I'll start out with my Lego pet peeve: dropping an element:
I'm in a wheelchair, my legs don't work correctly and my back is
fused in three places so I can barely bend over to do my shoes
let alone pick up an element. I have to roll at least two feet away,
crawl over, pick it up, crawl back, haul myself back into the chair
and then roll back to where I was. Sure I have one of those
grabber things but it don't work well on plush carpeting when you
need to pick up a round 1x1 plate.
So that's my pet peeve. What's yours?
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Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D.
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| (...) Mine is dropping elements too. But somehow my having to bend down to scrabble around for an element when it skitters away... somehow it just doesn't seem all that bad any more. ++Lar (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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| My pet peeve is the fact that sometimes my hands are too big for LEGO. I often have to be careful that the strength of ny own grip doesn't squeeze and "implode" a model in progress. (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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| (...) 1) BURPs 2) POOPs 3) goofy minifig faces (and in particular most of the Alpha team ones) 4) Timmy 5) Finding a well-stocked clearance rack, but already owning all of the sets. 6) When my dog finds an element on the floor and proceeds to maul (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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| Mine? Not having enough. Seriously though, I don't really have any. My models are also victims of implosion while I work on them sometimes, but from that I learn to make them stronger. It also kinda bugs me when people put the minifig hands (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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| (...) I think that my pet peeve has to be the total discontinuation of good themes like Wild West, Pirates, Imperial Guards, Forrestmen and Black Knights. Those were some of my favorite themes and I REALLY loved it that characters did not change so (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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| (...) Just hope that you don't drop a clear or trans-yellow round 1 x 1 onto the carpet. There's nothing more annoying than trying to use my fat fingers to get a small piece out a shallow box only to have it squirt out and onto the floor. I have (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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| I can see where the pinchers wouldn't work too well in a plush carpet, but how abotu some duct tape on the end of a stick? something like an old golf club, put a loop of tape on the head, sticky side out. If you has 2 labrador retrievers and 3 cats (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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| (...) Let's make my first few postings non-contentious. My peeve is having first my mum, and now my wife and kids, putting plastic non-Lego in the Lego box. I mean, does a pen cap REALLY look like Lego? A domino? A plastic guard from a disposable (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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| (...) Yikes... My peeve is the same, though for different reasons. My LEGO area is in the unfinished portion of our basement - concrete floor, etc. There are some tables I have set up for work and then all of the storage shelves around that we keep (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)
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| My ultimate pet peeve is the discontinued Bulk packs of Technic Black Beams! Ahhh! Why o Why????!!!???? This really upsets me! I worked for 8 months to develop a rather great Mechanical Arm (Left Arm) It is comprised cheifly of Black Beams. After (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.dear-lego)
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