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Inspired by John's post (http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=39785), I would
love to throw out a question!
What is your coolest LEGO Experience? Maybe you built an amazing castle when
you were eight years old. Or perhaps you've had a more recent experience
like watching an FLL robotics competition where you saw kids participating
in the most thrilling event of their lives. Or maybe you finished the
perfect train car and posted it online.
I would love to hear!
Jake
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Jake McKee
Sr. Producer
LEGO Direct
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| Not sure if it's my "coolest" experience, but it was the start of me re-entering the world of LEGO. Back in 1996 I was at TRU to get some HO train track to try and fix up and old HO train set I had from my childhood, well this TRU kept their LEGO (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) My coolest LEGO moment (and there are so many...) is when, after I made a movie using LEGO bricks and forwarding a copy to the Canadian head office, I got a letter from Jack E. Chessman, the then Vice President of LEGO Marketing, Canada (this (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) I was thinking this morning about a similar question. I was going to wait a few days before I posted about it, but since it seems topical... I was thinking about the things I had built as a kid. You know, before many of us had tens of (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| Well, actually, there are two: First, after my Castle had been included in LegoMania Magazine in 1996, I was asked by Lego Enfield if they could use photos of my Castle in the Lego Creator Manual. I was thrilled. They then invited me to tour the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| Here's a story I posted a couple weeks ago to the rtlToronto group: (URL) have another story in progress about one of my LEGO robots, ( (URL) ) entitled "me & my LegWay". In the next chapter, I'll be on TechTV. But that's been rescheduled (again) (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| Hard to choose between these two: When I was twelve, there was a building contest to celebrate 25 years of Lego (here in the Netherlands anyway). I won the local round in the Technic category. That got me (apart from the honour) a Lego jacket (that (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) Well, actually, it is in part *because* of all my cool Lego experiences that I simply could not give up the hobby (as described in my post above). As far as which is my "coolest", that is very hard to say. I have documented quite a few cool (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) I have a few.....the first would be using all my bricks as a kid to make a town with an amusment park (using those old large, colored lego gears)...yeah, way back in the 70's.... Then there was the Star Wars licensing...growing up, my brother (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) Some of my favorite Lego stories to tell: DaveE and the Music Center ===...=== Shortly after my introduction to Lugnet, a curious post popped up, requesting help in modelling a Music Center in Lego bricks: (URL) center ( (URL) ) was raising (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| The Inspiration: I was majoring in Cinema at San Francisco State and had started my first Production class. We were all using Super 8 cameras. I had to buy mine due to the unfeasability of renting one from a place in SF since I live in the East Bay. (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| Jake McKee wrote in message ... (...) Well, this was my daughter's coolest Lego experience rather than mine. Dec 00/Jan 01, LEGO sponsored her to go on the Students on Ice expedition to Antarctica. You can see the results at (URL) still talks about (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) snip (...) A couple years ago I went to the house of the Religious Education Director at my church to talk about a church banner I was to make. As we were finishing talking about the banner, I started talking to her grandson, Hudsen (who was (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| Hello! (...) Yes I did: (URL) was about ten and wearing strange glasses... But that's not my coolest experience.) I'd like to tell two stories. I don't know if they count as "cool", but they are somewhat peculiar. 1. In 1983 I got the set 6374 as a (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) You know, I guess if I am going to ask a question like this, I had better be ready to answer it too! I have to say, every time I answer the question "So where do you work?", I have a "LEGO Moment". It is amazing to me how much positive emotion (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) My favorite Lego moment is waking up early one Christmas morning and finding a King's Castle under my bed. Building a giant medieval city with two castles, waterfall, caves, inns, shops, etc. when I was 10, I used almost all of my peices (over (...) (22 years ago, 8-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) I've been reading all of these and trying to decide what my coolest experience was. I don't have a single experience that really jumps out, but several are notable. One factor is that while I had LEGO as a kid, and even had a LEGO train, we (...) (22 years ago, 8-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) Well, I think my coolest LEGO experience is (I still can hardly believe it myself) when I had to made a final project for my university (in Electronics) and it was from LEGO. It was so fun making it and when I presented it, my prof. were in (...) (22 years ago, 8-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) I had trouble figuring out how I was going to respond to this question, though I knew for sure that I wanted to do so. My problem was that I don't have a blockbuster LEGO experience that would make other people say, "wow, that's cool." I've (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) 1. I remember going to the Ontario Science Center (in Toronto) when I was quite young (probably over 20 years ago) and there was a really cool Lego Space Display lighted up and made into a really awesome Space Diarama. You would think that (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) My favourite LEGO memory as a kid is going to the local newsagent (you remember when newsagents used to sell LEGO, right?) and just spending hours (well it probably wasn't hours but seemed like it) checking out the latest LEGO sets, and (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| Hey Jake - I don't know if I can talk about any one single coolest LEGO experience. Some are cooler in one area, and others in another. So, I'll list a few: 1) Recently I had the opportunity to see inside the LEGO factory when I was in Billund. I (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| "Jake McKee" <jacob.mckee@america.lego.com> wrote in message news:H6pMCC.26F@lugnet.com... (...) when (...) I can't think of any particular cool Lego Experience I've had in the past. The only one I've remember just now is when I've desided to buy a (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) I got a few that come to mind, in no particular order: Favorite moment #1: NWBrickCon 2002, Saturday afternoon, when doing a bit of running about and then going into the center hall of the con seeing people. My God, the people. It was easily (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) A number of experiences come to mind, having read through the amazing stories already presented. (In chronological order) 1. As a kid, my sister and I won a <6622> each as the prizes of a LEGO building comp. 2. The incredible LEGO Expos they (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) My coolest experience happens every August in my home town. Greenville, MI is the 'Danish Festival City', and has had LEGO building contests during the Festival for as long as I can remember. My brother and I entered and won for (IIRC) six (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) #1 1980ish Countless memories of me and a friend or two rumming through the big 'ol pile on the floor asking each other "Have you seen a xxx, I need one". #2 1986ish Back in school after the christmas holliday we asked each other what we'd got (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) Hi all, I will also add 3 cool LEGO experiences: (1) This is from my childhood: There was allways one most spectaculous day in the year: No, not X-Mas. No, not my birthday. Yes, the day the nearest toy store got the latest LEGO catalogue! (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| Mine can only be described as a religious experience(1). When I was a kid, I wanted a Galaxy Explorer. Badly. After what felt like years (and more than a few false hopes), my parents finally came through for me. I was ecstatic. I still remember (...) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) I just needed to chime in on this one... I am a fan of lego bricks from way back. My father was in the service and so I was introduced to legos around 1964. The boy upstairs had them. My parents (and their German friends) dutifully supported (...) (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| Wow everybody! These are some great stories! I have a few that I would like to contribute: 1. Meeting other Mecha Builders in California. 2. Being asked by the TLC to use some of my images for the story "The Art of Lego" on Lego.com in the Build (...) (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) Snip! (...) There seems to be a bunch of wonderful stories about people's Coolest Lego Experiences! My coolest Lego experience falls into a more retrospective moment! It was 1998 and I had only discovered the joy of building with Lego bricks. (...) (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) I'm not sure how I'd define "cool" or "coolest" experience, but I think the most fun I've had would have to be the evening spent at Mark Sandlin's house during NWBrickCon and a couple nights before that tipping back pints of Guinness at an (...) (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| As a child, I remember going to a little toy store called the Toy Box in Augusta Georgia. I would pick up every classic space Lego set box and pour over the pictures on the back. I remember dreaming of what crafts could be made and the imaginary (...) (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) My CLE's (Cool LEGO Experiences): Story 1 When I was 5, my mom bought me my first set as a surprize (a LEGOLAND police station). I didn't know what LEGO was, and I didn't have much experience with other construction toys at that point. Aside (...) (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) Since I've been playing with these silly plastic bricks for over 35 years (!), there have been a lot of 'cool' LEGO experiences. But, if you're asking me to pick just one, I'll pick the day that the movie "Jingle All the Way" was being filmed (...) (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| My coolest Lego experience? Hm..there have been so many... Story 1: My mom's best lego experience Christmas 1983, I can tell you my mother's best experience...in my usual poring over the Sears Wishbook (which, after I was done, always opened up to (...) (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) The Chris and Shiri show. For the folks who haven't been around that long: I came out of my dark ages with the Star Wars releases like so many others. But I wasn't back all the way - I bought them more for "Star Wars" than for "Lego". But the (...) (22 years ago, 11-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| My coolest lego experiances (in no particular order): (actually, these are probobly just my fondest lego memories but hey :) 1.Getting the 6973 Deep Freeze Defender as an xmas gift from santa (I still consider this the greatest space set & theme (...) (22 years ago, 11-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| The coolest experience for me would have to be buying whatever pieces I wanted in whatever color in bulk. Also getting 400 piece boxes or buckets and 1200 piece tubs....Huh, Oh I must have dozed off for a second. (22 years ago, 11-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| I have been reading this thread for the past week now, and I really couldn't think of any one experience that was my coolest, until it finally came to me. About two or three weeks ago, my wife, my 15 month old son and I were walking in a mall. I was (...) (22 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) How to begin; there are so many Coolest LEGO Experiences in my life. I will try to choose just one: Christmas shopping in a local mall in late 1998, I happened into one of those upscale science/learning toys for parents of precocious children (...) (22 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) Argh - just ONE ?!?!? ;-) I'd have to say it was when I bought an incomplete <set:6985> Cosmic Fleet Voyager and then bought the missing pieces a couple at a time until I was able to completely build the set. Hunting for the missing parts was (...) (22 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) Hmmmmm, Ummmmm, which age should I speak of here? Being a little more restricted to some of the far more interesting/exciting places to go and look at compared to overseas.... I would have to say... * Now is.... as I have my own Lego room (...) (22 years ago, 15-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) When I was an architecture student in college, I spent more time chatting in coffee houses and dorm television lounges than I did studying, and the same group of people always seemed to show up for the invariably long and interesting (...) (22 years ago, 25-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) Hmm, I may have a new coolest LEGO experience... This year I got several brick presents for Christmas. The first one I opened was a plastic case of used LEGO my mom had found in a yardsale. Insider were the instructions for 6391, and a bunch (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| I don't know that I can pick out a single "coolest" experience, but here's a sample. I've had tons of fun at various fests around the country. Meeting a bunch of people who thought I was in my 20's or 30's (when I was actually 17) at Mindfest in (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| (...) Two, recent moments: 1) Attending Celebration III (a Star Wars convention) as a member of an ISD speed-build team with my 7-yr-old son Ben. In under 24 hours we built three ISD (two on Saturday with only a couple of hours inbetween), with a (...) (19 years ago, 19-Sep-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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