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Lego pet peeve —Kenneth A. Drumm, Ph.D.

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 (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Larry Pieniazek

(...) 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)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Richard Marchetti

(...) Yeah, I could whine about a lot of things (as y'all well know...) -- but dropping elements is absolutely bad juju! I tend to prefer hardwood floors, and the bricks -- if they land on a corner or edge -- will become damaged if dropped from (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Thomas Main

(...) I guess I am a lot less particular about the condition of my Lego. I would never notice the difference between a brick dropped from a table onto a hardwood floor or one fresh out of the polybag. But some pet peeves: 1) DUST!!! Actually, I am (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Thomas Garrison

(...) Hear, hear! "legos" really grates on the ears, and think we can draw conclusions about people whose first language is English yet find themselves incabable of capitalizing a varient of a proper noun. But "legos" isn't the sort of thing to get (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.general)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Ross Crawford

(...) Except if you pronounce it leg-oss, and you're referring to the alternative RCX firmware legos.sourceforge.net 8?) ROSCO (23 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Kenneth A. Drumm, Ph.D.

I enjoy my Lego hobby too. Like all things there's a "down" aspect(s) that we all wish were nonexistent. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "Thomas Main" <main@appstate.edu> wrote in message news:3AD75C4D.6F1164...ate.edu... <snip> (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Bryan Beckwith

"Thomas Main" <main@appstate.edu> wrote in message news:3AD75C4D.6F1164...ate.edu... SNIP (...) I absolutely hate this. I got suckered into buying a "big box of LEGO" only to find out that less than 1/4 of the box was actually LEGO. Plus, not only (...) (23 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Pet hair (Was Re: Lego pet peeve) —Mark Sandlin

(...) Pet hair is rather insidious stuff. I have two dogs, and I don't let them near my LEGO, but somehow I have little bits of dog hair in the bottoms of my sorting bins. :^P ~1st Lieutenant, Fleebnork Division Muffin Head (23 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Pet hair (Was Re: Lego pet peeve) —Kenneth A. Drumm, Ph.D.

How's the appeal coming along? :) -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "Mark Sandlin" <sandlin@nwlink.com> wrote in message news:B6FF043F.10208%...ink.com... (...) only (...) only (...) incredible (...) have (...) (23 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

This happens to me ALL the time! —David Simmons

(...) I'm fortunate enough to have two toy consignment shops where I live. They both yield fantastic deals now and then, but I really get annoyed when I find non-Lego stuff like pennies, misc. action figure props, pet hair, pen caps, and other crud. (...) (23 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Kenneth A. Drumm, Ph.D.

I didn't mean this as a way to garner sympathy for my condition. I just used it as an explanation to the obvious "why is bending and picking it up a peeve for you?" question. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Aaron West

(...) As an aside, I did not assume anything except use of an example. I also doubt that Lar is expressing sympathy, but rather a deep seated fear that some of us folk may harbor of the loss of an ability. It is a personal fear of mine that some (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Kenneth A. Drumm, Ph.D.

I understood I just wanted to clarify in general. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "Aaron West" <maniac@netwebb.com> wrote in message news:GBrL2t.Lnw@lugnet.com... (...) <snip> (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Larry Pieniazek

(...) Not to worry, I didn't take it that way. But it did, to me, reinforce the old maxim about walking a mile in the other guy's shoes before complaining. Where I am going is: These are all valid pet peeves, and it's good to surface them, and it's (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Steve Chapple

(...) Amen. You read my mind with your initial reply post Larry - Thanx. " I used to complain about not having any shoes; Until I met a man without any feet. " SRC StRuCtures L#765 (23 years ago, 21-Apr-01, to lugnet.general)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Robert Graff

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)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Scott Edward Sanburn

To All, (...) often (...) Biggest Lego pet peeve? I have a few, let's see here: 1) Knowing you have a part, and not knowing where it is: (Sorted, unsorted box, set perhaps?!?!) 2) Buying sets in a store, getting all those weird looks, explaining for (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.general)

Re: Lego pet peeve —James Powell

(...) Scott, You should have seen how mashed the stuff I took to Seattle got. Imagine a kit bag (green army duffle bag) full of lego bits. That's about all that was left after lugging it downtown, then onto Kenmore air (hey, there are advantages to (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.general)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Adrian Egli

"Scott E. Sanburn" <ssanburn@cleanweb.net> wrote in message news:002101c0c44d$cb...default... (...) That's got to be my absolute biggest pet peeve!!!!!! (...) the (...) I'd like to add one more to the list: when your white bricks change over to (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.general)

Re: Lego pet peeve —James Simpson

(...) 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)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Kenneth A. Drumm, Ph.D.

I actually like Throwbots except the throwing arms. I cant wait for Bionicle to get to the states. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "James Simpson" <jsimpson@rice.edu> wrote in message news:GBqvnF.32I@lugnet.com... <snip> (...) <snip> (23 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Jonathan Wilson

(...) I like throwbots, I have all 8 of them, the parts are usefull. But I HATE bionicle, the parts are nowhere as usefull as throwbots (from the looks of them anyway) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Selçuk Göre

(...) Including some of these, my biggest one is seeing the featured model is not that good as in the picture, after building it, and looking at the totally avoidable design errors on models either esthetically or structural (wings of TIE fighter, (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Bob Parker

(...) ...snip snip... (...) ...that no really good space ships/ground vehicles/stations have been released since Futuron and Classic Space :-( - Bob (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Kyle Keppler

(...) Exactly! Although there have been some good ones sprinkled throughout(like 6991 and the big Spyrius robot), but no themes where all the sets were awesome like Futuron! --Kyle (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Adam Murtha

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)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Aaron West

(...) 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)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Rick Hallman

All those helmets jammed into the Trash cans. RIck (23 years ago, 13-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Duane Hess

(...) 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)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Tom Heverly

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)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Kenneth A. Drumm, Ph.D.

I'll have to try that, thanks. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "Tom Heverly" <theverly@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message news:3ad7dec2.257655...net.com... (...) <snip> (23 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Robert Spinks

(...) 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)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Eric Sophie

Ok, here's my pet peeve: I really hate it when somebody sees my Robots for the first time and they compare them or liken them to somthing else. As in, oh look it looks like Transformers or look it looks like an Alien from the movies or Predator or (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —David Simmons

(...) Um. . . WOW! That giant red robot is simply amazing! I have to ask you how long it took you to figure out the engineering for something that massive. How?! Dave (these are the kinds of pictures that sometimes make me want to put my Lego away (...) (23 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Eric Sophie

hey, right on the Red Robot is a favorite. I worked on the Red Robot for about a year and a half, just to get all the pieces and get the stance correct. I started work on the Robot in 1993 and finished in 1994. I went thru several different hand and (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —David Arnon

(...) That's an amazing piece of work! How tall is it? What are it's functions? How many pieces do you estimate it has? Thanks, David (23 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Eric Sophie

Oh thank-you, the Red Robot is 3 feet tall, it took a year and a half to build it. from 93' to 94', I belive it contains on the order of 10K+ pieces based on other creations that I took apart and accually counted. The Robot has no motors but all the (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Benjamin Medinets

(...) I see Robert doesn't play well..... :-) (23 years ago, 15-Apr-01, to lugnet.general)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Ronan Webb

(...) <snip> My peeve is having first my mum, and now my wife and kids, putting plastic (...) </snip> Today my daughter spotted and identified (I'd no idea what it was) a Knex piece in a used set I'd bought recently. A prize 8042 too - sacrilege or (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Joel Jacobsen

(...) 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)

Re: Stuck in a wheelchair (was Re: Lego pet peeve) —Kevin Salm

(...) Is your mobility status permanent or is there improvement in sight? I ask because I, too, am currently stuck in a wheelchair. Due to a major motor vehicle crash in December I have temporarily lost the use of my left Leg and right Hand. My (...) (23 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.loc.us.ny.uti)

Re: Stuck in a wheelchair (was Re: Lego pet peeve) —Kenneth A. Drumm, Ph.D.

Kevin I am making a response to this post. Its just taking me some time. Don't worry I'm not ignoring you. -- Kenneth A. Drumm Ph.D. "Kevin Salm" <kdsalm@dreamscape.com> wrote in message news:GBsoE6.BK3@lugnet.com... <snipped all> __Kevin Salm__ (...) (23 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.people)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Eric Sophie

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)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Richard Noeckel

Eric, I too am experiencing the same dilemma as you. I assure you that you are not alone. Except, it's not the ‘Black Technic beams’ that I need it’s the ‘Horse & Saddles’ pack! I have a standing army of well over 1200 troops, and I require about (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Aaron West

(...) You did say "standing army", didn't you? Fate has played it's hand. King Leo (ya know, the $4.99 one) has a white horse, and an extremely useful shiney crown and POOP tower. I just want the Castle minifigure pack and Accessory pack from 1991, (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Lego pet peeve —Eric Sophie

Thanks, you feel my pain!, your right I forgot about those shrubbery packs, yep there gone too. Yes I'll round up the posse too, we'll storm the gates, and demand what's ours!, I can just see your 1200 strong Army right behind us! Instead of (...) (23 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin, lugnet.dear-lego)

Re: Stuck in a wheelchair (was Re: Lego pet peeve) —Kenneth A. Drumm, Ph.D.

In 1992 in my second year at MIT I fell 50 feet. breaking my pelvis in half and in four other places. Both my femurs ball joints were broken off and the rest of the bone was broken in at least 6 places. Both my knees were broke as was my ankles and (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.us.ny.bin)