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Re: Largest Lego collection in Canada
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Sat, 6 Mar 2004 18:45:43 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.ca, Andrew Keeping wrote:
> Well it's been more than 2 1/2 years since my original posting but I've
> finally got a good idea of just how large my collection of Lego sets just
> is. It ended up taking one full room in my house with a bit of overflow
> into a second room.
> I actually haven't finished doing my complete inventory as I've only
> catalogued the complete sets and didn't count several rubbermaid tubs of
> loose pieces. I also have missed about 30 or more sets that I forgot to
> count and now they're located at the bottom of the pile where they'll
> have to stay for a while.
>
> It turns out that my original guesstimate was off by quite a bit so here
> are the numbers so far.
> Total Lego pieces 215,000
> Total sets 1800 (includes doubles, triples and up to 87 copies of one
> set!!)
> Total unique sets 848
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> It's taken me close to 30 years to accumulate this stash but I'd think
> the vast majority of it has been aquired over the past 8 years. I'll
> likely be thinning out some of my extra sets in the next few months to
> make room (and money) for new additions to the collection. ;-)
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> AJ
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> PS. I thought it'd be easy to do this task during a move, but with
> everything else going on and the challenges of setting up a new house
> it's turned into a much longer challenge than I expected. :-p
Well, you got me beat by a long shot.
What I've managed to keep track of on LUGNET shows:
Total LEGO pieces - 104,479
Total sets - 723
Unique sets - 401
Similarly, my collection also is entirely from the last 8 years.
I've got a rubbermaid container of the good parts from my childhood
collection, but nothing enventoried, since they aren't complete.
Due to unemployment though, it hasn't grown much in the last 2 years. :-(
So, the question is, what have you done, or what are you doing with that
massive collection? ;-)
Here's what I've done with mine (October Train Show in Ottawa):
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tstrutt/Train-Shows/Oct-03/
Tunnel took most of my green, grey, and dark grey collection, as well as
the majority of my 2x4's in other colours underneath. :-)
Play well.
Tim Strutt
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 | | Re: Largest Lego collection in Canada
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| G'day folks, Well, I'm holding at just over 75 000 pieces in about 450 sets right now. That's only about 50% larger than it was for Andrew's original post 2.5 years ago. I haven't really bought or sold anything since summer 2001 due to a bunch of (...) (23 years ago, 7-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.ca)
| | | Re: Largest Lego collection in Canada
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| Well here is my count. I have kept a fairly detailed spreadsheet since I came out of my dark ages about 4 years ago. It has everything except bricklink/ebay loose parts purchases/trades, so it is fairly accurate: Total LEGO pieces: 162860 Total (...) (23 years ago, 10-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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| Well it's been more than 2 1/2 years since my original posting but I've finally got a good idea of just how large my collection of Lego sets just is. It ended up taking one full room in my house with a bit of overflow into a second room. I actually (...) (23 years ago, 6-Mar-04, to lugnet.loc.ca)
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