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Lego Mentor/Inspiration
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 10 Feb 2003 06:09:08 GMT
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I was just thinking about when I first discovered the internet Lego phenomena &
fan sites. I realized that my main inspirational builder would be Karim
Nassar, as his was the first site that made me totally wowed by what I saw.
Now, don't get me wrong, I had seen several fantastic creations, but there was
something about Karim's stuff that really stopped me in my internet tracks. I
had never seen such use of innovative building techniques with official Lego
sets. Lego had done some cool S.N.O.T. stuff & other techniques, but not on
such a grand scale! This was, for me, BETTER than Lego Co. ever did! Better
than official Lego!- impossible, but there it was! What is now obvious &
familiar 'no-studs-showing' & S.N.O.T. building, redefined Lego for me in a way
that I had never imagined &, once I had seen it, couldn't imagine Lego without.
Also the 'total package' site concept of Pallas Spaceworks blew me away; all
those ships & mecha designed with a revolutionary & consistent design ethic,
just for an imaginary company? Such determination, such passion...for Lego!
There was the ultimate expression for me of the fun obsession that was and is
Lego; There were others out there like me (but boy, can they build better!)
Anyways, I thought I'd jot down my feelings, and if any of you had a similar
experience in your early internet Lego days I thought it would be cool for all
of us to read each other's stories, maybe as extra insight as to what brings us
here. Incidentally, for the curious I belive my first few other lego fan
creations that drew me online were: Ed boxer's LEGO® Castle (WOW!-white, red,
BIG!), Eric Kingsly's LDraw B-Wings (dang, you can DO that on computer?), &
Mark Sandlin's Grand Admiral Muffinhead (woohoo! spiffcraft!). I soon after
learned of Pat Justison's animated rotating Lego cad creations (Neato! moving
super detail!) , Mladen Pejic's mecha (Wow! techie super detail), and Jeremy
Sproat's micro mecha (Wow! small super detail!). Once I really got into the
Lugnet community, I found LOTS mor great creators out there. Anyway I just
thought I'd go down my early formative online memory Legolane...
Jeff
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| Hi there, Jeff! I'd like to add to this convo by pointing out some of my first LUGNET-based infulences: Karin Nassar-his dragon mecha pretty much started this whole thing for me. Brad Hamilton-I'd never seen building quite like his before-complete (...) (22 years ago, 10-Feb-03, to lugnet.general)
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