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| | | Inspired by John's post ((URL) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people) !!
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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —James Trobaugh
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —David Koudys
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —John P. Henderson
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| | | | | | | (...) One hesitates to ask, if that was your second worst, what was your first worst Lego experience? I hope it didn't involve a pair of rollerskates, a cat, and a bowling ball... -Hendo (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —David Koudys
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| | | | | | | | (...) Nope--it has something to do with a canning pot, boiling water, and my entire LEGO collection (at the time)... See: (URL) to the bottom of the page. The trauma! The horror!! Yeah, not a good thing. Dave K. (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —John P. Henderson
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| | | | | | | | | (...) OUCH! That's brutal. Especially that it was the *entire* collection at the time. I'm glad it didn't turn you off to the hobby as a result. -H. (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Sonnich Jensen
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| | | | | | | | David Koudys <dkoudys@redeemer.on.ca> wrote in message news:H6pt1L.KAM@lugnet.com... (...) experience, (...) a (...) and it gives a "time-out" leaving half of the pictures unloaded, espcially the last ones. (...) (22 years ago, 8-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —David Koudys
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| | | | | | | | (...) <snip> (...) Fixed! Thanks for the 'heads-up'! (URL) K (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Ted Michon
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| | | | | | (...) I've been wondering when they would letters to all the people who bought LEGO movie maker sets?! -Ted SCLTC (22 years ago, 8-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Jeremy Scott
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| | | | | Jake (and all), Here is my fav Lego experience: (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Christopher Tracey
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Ed Jones
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Steve Hassenplug
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | (...) that article, it doesn't word wrap, so each paragraph comes out as one really long line. Has something gone wacky with the way Lugnet generates the HTML? Frank (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) I think it's something about how Steve posts.... His posts all do that, and they break threading too. I suspect maybe he's posting via email and using a damaged mail client. I think if you look at it in raw mode it will wrap though. Todd (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Shaun Sullivan
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| | | | | (...) Three days living in a sorority house, without a wink of sleep the whole time, surrounded by LEGO: (URL) beget reality beget dreams .... ;) -s (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Ronald Vallenduuk
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —John P. Henderson
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Jonathan Lopes
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —David Eaton
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Richard Noeckel
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| | | | | | More…I need more! ¯¯¯...¯¯¯ ~I crave these stories… There’s just such a level of sincerity in the sharing of personal stories involving our hobby. So far I've read every post (some of them twice) and even all of Hendo’s touching thread which (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? Animation!! —David Simmons
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Kevin Wilson
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Jeffrey M. Szklennik
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Johannes Koehler
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? — Jake McKee
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Benjamin Ellermann
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Frank Filz
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Yaron Dori
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Allan Bedford
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Benjamin Medinets
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —David Koudys
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| | | | | | In lugnet.general, Benjamin Medinets writes: <snip> (...) Yeah, and you hung out in the *castle* room the entire weekend. I saw you on the webcam! ;p Dave k (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Ross Crawford
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Tim Courtney
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Øyvind Steinnes
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Mark Neumann
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Matthew Wightwick
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Ted Welsh
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| | | | | | In lugnet.general, Matthew Wightwick writes: <snip> (...) <snip> What happened to number 8? (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Matthew Wightwick
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| | | | | | (...) Ooops... 8. Having Ted Walsh point out that, despite the fact I majored in Maths at Uni, I still can't count! (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Matthew Wightwick
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| | | | | | (...) Double oops! That's actually 'Welsh', isn't it? Sorry mate. (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Jeremiah VanderMark
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Tobbe Arnesson
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | | | | "Tobbe Arnesson" <StPnAtM@lotek.nu> skrev i meddelandet news:H6uHuw.GBp@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) ?? Are the 10,000 SEK notes discontinued ?? Now what shall I do with a shoe box full of them? <g> -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (22 years ago, 9-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Tobbe Arnesson
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| | | | | | | | (...) AFAIK, yes! (...) Perhaps use them as wall paper? /Tobbe (22 years ago, 11-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Tobbe Arnesson
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| | | | | | (can't believe I forgot this one since it was the coolest) #6 2002 Back then, when I was a kid, a relative that had emigrated to US (from Sweden) used to send us kids dollar bills for every christmas. In this manner I had collected two $1 and one $5 (...) (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Holger Matthes
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —William R. Ward
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| | | | | | (...) time, and Holger's hospitality was excellent. It was the first time, as an adult, that I had built in LEGO in combination with others, and it was odd to me to be building with someone else's collection. (I was an only child, and there were no (...) (22 years ago, 24-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Ted Welsh
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Margaret Scheers
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Tobbe Arnesson
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| | | | | | <<snip>> (...) LOL! Best regards, /Tobbe (URL) SPAM when e-mailing) (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Eric Sophie
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Ted Michon
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| | | | | | | (...) Eric- LEGOMaster honors us with his mention <g>! I was laughing so hard when I came across your post that the whole family had to come ask why. (Of course, we were honored to have you visit us.) -Ted Michon (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Eric Sophie
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| | | | | | | | Ted, you and your family were so very kind, telling us stories about the wonderful Lego Items you have in your home. I also thought it especially cool that you and your wife are so supportive of your Sons. Everytime I set up my Sorting bins I think (...) (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Tobbe Arnesson
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| | | | | | | (...) ROFL! (...) Hehe! (...) Now _that's_ insane! :) (...) As I've said before and will say again: You ARE the Legomaster! You've had a real cool LEGO life this far Eric, I wounder what life has in store for you... Best regards, /Tobbe (URL) SPAM (...) (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —David Koudys
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Bryan Wong
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| | | | | | | | (...) Haha I think so too! I can easily pick out the "red square with white lettering" among a shelf full of various toys. One time I found a yellow 1x2 brick on the side of a heavily travelled path at university. The Lego-yellow caught my attention (...) (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Daniel Jassim
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| | | | | | (...) <snipped> (...) Hey, the honor was mine, buddy! Always looking forward to seeing you the next time, too! :) Peace, Dan (22 years ago, 29-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Tom Reed
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Todd Lehman
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Todd Lehman
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| | | | | | | (...) Wait. I got it! It would _definitely_ have to be spending eight hours photographing Lindsay Braun's 13-foot Japanese war cruiser this past August. That was more fun than I usually get to have in a whole month. --Todd (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Bram Lambrecht
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| | | | | | (...) Wow, I'm flattered. I remember meeting Todd at Mindfest99 at MIT. Made a fool of myself :) It was fun playing around with the 2 wheeled wire control car later that weekend... Still waiting for that monorail/asteroid... --Bram Bram Lambrecht (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Chris Giddens
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Jason Maxwell
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| | | | | | | (...) I have fond memories of that set as well. Much like you I used every surface in the house as an area to explore. It's one of the few space sets I remember as a set, as opposed to MOCs. That and the 6390 Space Supply Station. Now that I'm a (...) (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Gil Shaw
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| | | | | | 100% behind you on that Chris. When I was wee, I went on a late summer excursion to the mall of our suburb on the outskirts of Toronto, Canada with my Mom, Aunt and my older cousin. As per usual, my older cousin was in line to scoop up one of those (...) (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Chris Giddens
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| | | | | | (...) I guess the thing that was always fun about classic space (and all classic lego themes for that matter) is the blank slate of adventure it created. Yes we had seen Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica and some reruns of Star Trek back in those (...) (22 years ago, 11-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Gil Shaw
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| | | | | | (...) Hear, hear. Those smiling yellow faces were just reflections. This thread is what Lego and Lugnet are all about. Cheers, -G (22 years ago, 11-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Thomas Avery
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | (...) Hmm, I should add one here: Walking into the baggage claim area in DC and spotting someone taking my big box of LEGO off the conveyor and realizing he must be Thomas Avery... Then moments after we got both my bags and Thomas had time to (...) (22 years ago, 10-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —John Gerlach
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Scott Lyttle
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Chris Maddison
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | (...) I'm not fond of me-toos normally, but I think I'll second that. :-) I think if I said something else I'd have a very angry boyfriend in my hands. ;-) -Shiri (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Jonathan Wilson
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Rick Kujawa
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Andy Lynch
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Chris Phillips
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Bob Parker
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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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| | | | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —David Koudys
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| | | | | | (...) 6985? Now I feel bad--mine's sitting in my fish tank for the little fishies to swim thru. (URL) K (22 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Melody Brown
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Tony Alexander
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Frank Filz
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Bram Lambrecht
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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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| | | | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience? —Brian Davis
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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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