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Re: take a piece, leave a piece -- traveling box of LEGO
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Mon, 5 Jul 1999 04:26:58 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:
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> Here's an idea I've been itching to try out for about 4 years... I've got a
> box of several hundred (or maybe 1000 or more, I haven't counted) LEGO
> elements that I know I'll never use. These come from buying up large
> collections at garage sales or on the net, in order to get a few sets I
> wanted for my Space collection, but there was always stuff left over.
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> I always kind of figured I'd find the time someday to sell or trade them,
> but because this particular bunch of stuff is such a mish-mash of various
> elements, I don't think it's really worth all the hassle.
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> So what if I sent this box of LEGO on a long, long, worldwide journey?
> (I don't ever care if it comes back to me, I just want it to find a better
> home.)
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> Let's say I mail it to someone a couple states away, and they pick out some
> pieces they like, and replace them with some pieces they don't need. Then
> they, in turn, send the box on to a new person. The process could repeat
> itself over and over, and, eventually, the box could probably tour the
> entire world. :)
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> I'm thinkin' a couple restrictions might be wise:
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> 1. You'd have to pitch in at least as many pieces as you took out, and
> you'd have to put in pieces that were in at least as good quality as
> those you took out. (In other words, this helps prevent the quality of
> the pieces in the box from slowly going downhill overall.)
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> 2. You'd have to work quickly -- grabbing out what you wanted and repacking
> the box and sending it on to the next person within a couple or three
> days, so that the overall person-to-person turnaround cycle would
> average approximately one week (even less would be better).
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> 3. Putting in a little more than you took out would be encouraged --
> because this way, after the box reaches a certain size, it won't fit
> in a reasonable size anymore -- and that's good -- because it could then
> fork into two boxes, each of which goes happily on its way independently
> of the other. Over time, the forks might even fork, and there might
> then be three or four boxes merrily going around.
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> Obviously there's a bit of a gamble in that when a box arrives to you, there
> may not be anything you like, but the more boxes that get going around, the
> more chances that you might have to get something interesting. I guess in
> the best of all possible worlds, it could be like Christmas several times a
> year for those participating. :-)
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> If everyone sent the pieces on to the next person via USPS Priority mail,
> sealed in a 2-gallon ZipLoc bag, it ought to be fairly inexpensive (about $5
> per person), at least within the U.S., which would be a good place to give
> it a try.
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> Does this sound like a fun idea?
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> --Todd
Oh sure, come up with this right after I mailed a box of wheels away. :')
Sounds like a great idea.
Here's another - the route of the box(es) could be arranged so that the next
recipient would have a different LEGO interest: castle would send to space
who would send to town who would send to technic.... That way the castle
people could dump their space and town, the town could dump their castle and
technic .... That would help insure that the next recipient would find
something of interest.
The danger is of course that after a few months, it could end up as nothing
more than a box of blue 1x1 bricks. :')
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| (...) Hey, maybe that's not a danger but a feature... :-) If it ever wound up that way, then it probably served its purpose, assuming that no one person abused it by taking all the good stuff and plunking down blue 1x1's in place. Anyhow, it sure (...) (25 years ago, 5-Jul-99, to lugnet.general)
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