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RE: Problem with integration
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I can understand your confusion, I've gone through it myself in the past,
and still do somewhat now. All my old sets that I got when I was younger
are still in their original boxes, they've never been (as I call it...)
'assimilated into the collective' I like to be able to build those sets ever
I feel like it, and not have to worry that some of their rarer parts are
built into a MOC sitting on the shelf that I don't want to take apart, or
heaven forbid, lost or accidently traded... so those sets will also hold a
special place in my heart and will never be mixed. Yes it's sad because
there's some good parts in those sets I could use in my MOC's... I still
won't do it!
That said, here's what I've done recently to overcome this a bit... Buy
multiples of the sets I like, keep one in the box if I really want to,
(usually it ends up in a ziplock and stored in a big rubbermaid tub) though
the rest are assimilated. I don't feel so guilty about not having the set
persay... because I do, and I'm not as afraid of losing the main parts to a
set. Granted, I'm lucky enough to have the disposable income to do this for
the most part (Only smaller sets $30-40 or less)... You might not.
Having said this, brings to mind one other assimilation problem I'm having.
I've gotten a bunch of the creator sets, the wild things collection(x5) and
the Little creations sets(x7), and I've dumped them all together, though I
won't sort them into my other building collective. So now I have 2
collections going, one to make Castles and other things and one to make cool
animals :) Which I'm not really pleased with, though I can't bring myself
to sort them otherwise.
I know this probably doesn't help you much, though I just wanted you to know
you're not alone in this!
Hi, my name is Tamyra and I'm a legoaholic with a sorting problem!
:)
-----Original Message-----
From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway@lugnet.com]On Behalf
Of Orion Pobursky
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 12:47 PM
To: lugnet.general@lugnet.com
Subject: Problem with integration
I love LEGO but I have a problem that's hampering my creativity. I have a
large general collection made up of several lots that, over the years, I won
on eBay. In addition to this, I own just about every Star Wars set and a
good number of recent Technic and Adveturers sets. My problem is I'm having
trouble resolving myself to part out these set and mix these sets in with my
general collection. One side me of says that the pieces will still be there
once they're mixed in and I still have the instruction booklets if I want to
make a model again. The other side can't stand to see these model be taken
apart since doing so will destroy the uniqueness of my collection. I'm
curious if anyone else has had this problem and, if so, how it was overcome.
-Orion
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| (...) Actually, I forgot to address my childhood collection in my reply to Orion's original posting. I'm one who keeps these sets completely separate from my 'adult collection'. In fact every piece in my current collection, used to build original (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
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| I love LEGO but I have a problem that's hampering my creativity. I have a large general collection made up of several lots that, over the years, I won on eBay. In addition to this, I own just about every Star Wars set and a good number of recent (...) (21 years ago, 24-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
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