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Re: Dark Ages story
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 27 Mar 1999 05:28:53 GMT
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In lugnet.general, jsproat@geocities.com (Sproaticus) writes:
> Todd Lehman wrote:
> > Blacktron I was what brought me out of my dark ages -- 10 years ago now,
> > almost to the day! Unfortunately, I spent a lot of 1989 playing "catch
> > up" on a lot of earlier Futuron and Blacktron I stuff. :)
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> You have much better timing than I do. I entered my Dark Ages *during*
> Blacktron I, and tried to play catch-up around 1993. :-(
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> I remember walking through Wal-Mart ca. 1992 and seeing every single BT II
> and most BT I sets, and thinking, "How childish. I'll never get into those
> again. ...Though these sets look pretty cool..." Slap me with a splintered
> ruler.
Hehheh -- (well, I shouldn't laugh, because it's not funny! but) -- I know
that feeling! That's how I felt when I saw BT1 sets in a TRU when they
first came out. I think it must've been 1987 because I bought a 6826
Crater Crawler (classic Space set) that day. I saw the BT1 stuff,
thought, "Blyecch, what've they done? -- That's not Space LEGO anymore,
that's a cheesy sci-fi movie."
But -- as you say -- "slap me with a splintered ruler" -- I guess it's
easy sometimes to overlook something incredible when it's so different
from the previous stuff. I certainly wasn't open-minded about LEGO in
those days...thank garsh I took a closer second look in 1989 before it was
totally too late. Ironically, I think it was, through a strange turn of
events, Tyco which caused me to re-examine LEGO Space more closely.
--Todd
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| (...) You have much better timing than I do. I entered my Dark Ages *during* Blacktron I, and tried to play catch-up around 1993. :-( I remember walking through Wal-Mart ca. 1992 and seeing every single BT II and most BT I sets, and thinking, "How (...) (25 years ago, 26-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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