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(...) OUCH! That's brutal. Especially that it was the *entire* collection at the time. I'm glad it didn't turn you off to the hobby as a result. -H. (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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(...) Some of my favorite Lego stories to tell: DaveE and the Music Center ===...=== Shortly after my introduction to Lugnet, a curious post popped up, requesting help in modelling a Music Center in Lego bricks: (URL) center ( (URL) ) was raising (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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Hello! (...) Better a brickoholic than an alcoholic. I think stories like yours absolutelly belong to a hobby and they are well worthwhile to be shared with the community. (...) Well, in my case... Since I collect and build with LEGO that exessively (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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(...) Oh. Drat. I had my heart set on a mental image of Jim sitting on the floor, happily amusing himself by hopping his little toy rabbit along. He might even have been speaking in Mr. McGregor's voice, as the rabbit bounded around. Fine, Jim can (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.people)
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(...) Congratulations on the marriage and good luck in the house hunt. Since Jim hasn't introduced himself to us (as far as I know, anyway), can you tell us what his toy habit is? The imagination reels at the possibilities... (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.people)
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Hard to choose between these two: When I was twelve, there was a building contest to celebrate 25 years of Lego (here in the Netherlands anyway). I won the local round in the Technic category. That got me (apart from the honour) a Lego jacket (that (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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(...) I have a few.....the first would be using all my bricks as a kid to make a town with an amusment park (using those old large, colored lego gears)...yeah, way back in the 70's.... Then there was the Star Wars licensing...growing up, my brother (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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(...) [groan] habit. (those darn perfectionists..) ;-) -Suz (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.people)
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(...) Well, actually, it is in part *because* of all my cool Lego experiences that I simply could not give up the hobby (as described in my post above). As far as which is my "coolest", that is very hard to say. I have documented quite a few cool (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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(...) Nope--it has something to do with a canning pot, boiling water, and my entire LEGO collection (at the time)... See: (URL) to the bottom of the page. The trauma! The horror!! Yeah, not a good thing. Dave K. (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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(...) Did you mean to say "Jim has a toy rabbit" ?? -s (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.people)
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(...) thank-you. :-) Actually, I'm not sure how this'll work out... Jim has a toy-habbit too and the house we're most interested in has twin spare bedrooms. Jim's immediate reaction upon seeing them was something like, "Ooo, look! There's *YOUR* (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.people)
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(...) Three days living in a sorority house, without a wink of sleep the whole time, surrounded by LEGO: (URL) beget reality beget dreams .... ;) -s (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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Here's a story I posted a couple weeks ago to the rtlToronto group: (URL) have another story in progress about one of my LEGO robots, ( (URL) ) entitled "me & my LegWay". In the next chapter, I'll be on TechTV. But that's been rescheduled (again) (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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(...) [snip] Fabulous story, thanks for sharing it! Hobbies are a Good Thing, aren't they? Kevin (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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(...) One hesitates to ask, if that was your second worst, what was your first worst Lego experience? I hope it didn't involve a pair of rollerskates, a cat, and a bowling ball... -Hendo (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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(...) I was thinking this morning about a similar question. I was going to wait a few days before I posted about it, but since it seems topical... I was thinking about the things I had built as a kid. You know, before many of us had tens of (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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Jake (and all), Here is my fav Lego experience: (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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Well, actually, there are two: First, after my Castle had been included in LegoMania Magazine in 1996, I was asked by Lego Enfield if they could use photos of my Castle in the Lego Creator Manual. I was thrilled. They then invited me to tour the (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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(...) My coolest LEGO moment (and there are so many...) is when, after I made a movie using LEGO bricks and forwarding a copy to the Canadian head office, I got a letter from Jack E. Chessman, the then Vice President of LEGO Marketing, Canada (this (...) (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
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