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Re: Lego Childhood Memories...
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Mon, 3 Jun 2002 14:02:36 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes:
> Hey folks,
> 
> Well, I was thinking about Lego today and dug up some old photos:
> 
> http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/lego-memories-index.html
> 
> These were from age 4 to about 10, and unfortunately most of my more
> creative stuff was done from age 9 to about...12.  From 12 onwards I went to
> an ew school and kids there didn't play with Lego, they spouted
> pseudointellectual liberal arts dissent, so I gave up on Lego after Grade 6.
> 
> Anyways, enjoy them, they're quite funny.  As an adult, you tend to
> romanticize about things in your past-I recently watched some episode of
> Robotech and other similar cartoons and realized just how BAD they were,
> though every memory of them made them so much cooler than they actually in
> reality were.  Well, I didn't realize just how badly I built Lego back then.
> 
> There's also a photo of me in front of an LRC engine which is pretty neat-it
> was taken on the public inspection day of the new LRC system.
> 
> Calum

Very nice pics Calum...

You were 4 in '81... now I feel a little old...

The town layouts are really good.  Just looking at them makes me want
another train show--soon!

Take care and thanks for sharing.

Dave



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  Re: Lego Childhood Memories...
 
(...) Me Too! Me Too! I want a reason to spend some money (to Buy the hardware) and build 3 - 4 new modules, and the straight track that I will have to get :{ Cool pics Calum... I don't thin that I have any pictures of me with Lego as a kid. Jeff VW (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  Re: Lego Childhood Memories...
 
(...) I may have been about 8 months old in '81 ~Iain probably was an ovum! ;) Kinda weird… How ‘i’ as an individual have certain ‘unique’ experiences. Yet, the more Calum writes the more parallels develop… For I too enjoyed Consumers Distributing (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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Hey folks, Well, I was thinking about Lego today and dug up some old photos: (URL) were from age 4 to about 10, and unfortunately most of my more creative stuff was done from age 9 to about...12. From 12 onwards I went to an ew school and kids there (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jun-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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