 | | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience?
|
|
Jake McKee wrote in message ... (...) Well, this was my daughter's coolest Lego experience rather than mine. Dec 00/Jan 01, LEGO sponsored her to go on the Students on Ice expedition to Antarctica. You can see the results at (URL) still talks about (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
|
| |
| | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience?
|
|
(...) I think it's something about how Steve posts.... His posts all do that, and they break threading too. I suspect maybe he's posting via email and using a damaged mail client. I think if you look at it in raw mode it will wrap though. Todd (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience?
|
|
More…I need more! ¯¯¯...¯¯¯ ~I crave these stories… There’s just such a level of sincerity in the sharing of personal stories involving our hobby. So far I've read every post (some of them twice) and even all of Hendo’s touching thread which (...) (22 years ago, 7-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people)
|
| |
| | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience?
|
|
(...) that article, it doesn't word wrap, so each paragraph comes out as one really long line. Has something gone wacky with the way Lugnet generates the HTML? Frank (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.general)
|
| |
| | Re: busy again
|
|
(...) I'm pretty sure she meant to say "toy hobbit" (1), but I could be wrong. 1 - some kind of Clone fan, I guess, since TLC did not license LoTR... ++Lar (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.people)
|
| |
| | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience?
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience?
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: How Lego Saved My Life (Long Post)
|
|
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)
|
| |
| | Re: busy again
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: busy again
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience?
|
|
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)
|
| |
| | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience?
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: busy again
|
|
(...) [groan] habit. (those darn perfectionists..) ;-) -Suz (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.people)
|
| |
| | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience?
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience?
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: busy again
|
|
(...) Did you mean to say "Jim has a toy rabbit" ?? -s (22 years ago, 6-Dec-02, to lugnet.people)
|
| |
| | Re: busy again
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience?
|
|
(...) 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)
|
| |
| | Re: Coolest LEGO Experience?
|
|
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)
|
| |
| | Re: How Lego Saved My Life (Long Post)
|
|
(...) [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)
|
