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Subject: 
Re: Pods are good! (caution: longish)
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.space, lugnet.general
Date: 
Tue, 5 Nov 2002 20:57:15 GMT
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For me it was not a MOC or Lugnet that pulled me out from the "dark" ages,
but that I could hide behind the Minstorm set and say to my friends that I
was "programing" (most of my friends are computer-nerds :)
But when starting to make my own robots I saw the potential in other bricks,
not only for robots...
And here I go, building mostly with Techninc bricks, but starting on my
first "real" and "big" and "serious" project. I'm not clear about where it
would end, but probably it will be a vehicle with 6 or 8 wheels. Steering in
2 or 4 of them (probably) and drive on all wheels (the last is the only
thing I have decided).
And it will be a all-terrain vehicle, so suspension is a must...

This building frenzy has made me buy more bricks.... and more sorting...
more space to store the sorted bricks in... that gives me more ideas of what
the bricks can be used for and that again gives me the urge to buy more
bricks...

Lugnet made me clear about that I was not the only "old man" building with
Lego and having fun :)

So now I'm deep into buildng with Lego again :)

Thanx to Lugnet and all the ideas here.

Regards
Øyvind Steinnes
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?m=Phoenix

"James Wilson" <wilson_j_s@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:H54E16.A7u@lugnet.com...
Hey, Gil,
Glad to hear I'm not the only one doing more lurking than building.  Maybe
we should start a contest (or just a thread): which MOC pulled you out of
your dark/dim ages?!

James

In lugnet.space, Gil Shaw writes:
I think the events you've described pretty much mirror a lot of people • here
James....it does for me anyways.

I had lurked on the edges of the Lego on-line community for my dim ages,
perusing the Lego webring and Cool Sites of the Week etc for a few years • on
and off.  It was coming across LUGnet that really got me back into it, • and
in a big way. Inspired at first by the works for Messers Palmer, Sandlin,
Keppler, Justinson, Nassir, Jassim et al those years ago, I came to be
inspired by every builder on here, if only for their devotion to the • hobby
despite the trials and pressures of everyday life.  Be it Pod, • Neverwhere,
Alphabet, Nasal Avenger, or just a nifty captain's chair, anything that
brings people into this ABS oasis is a good thing.

Stump speech ended :)

Thanks for sharing your story,
-Gil




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Hey, Gil, Glad to hear I'm not the only one doing more lurking than building. Maybe we should start a contest (or just a thread): which MOC pulled you out of your dark/dim ages?! James (...) (22 years ago, 5-Nov-02, to lugnet.space, lugnet.general)

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