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I came out of my dark ages because I bought a house that had an extra room I wasn't using. Previous to this, I had a small, 1 bedroom condo. All my childhood LEGO was packaged up at my parents house. At Christmas, I would get out my pre-dark-ages (...) (26 years ago, 26-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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(...) My exit from my Lego Dark Ages was prompted by fatherhood. My son, Spencer, was born in 1996. I bought him some Duplo when he was two. He enjoyed it well enough, but preferred his Matchbox cars. Last year, my folks instructed me to clear the (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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David!! Your story is so similar to mine!!... I don't remember a moment in my childhood when I didn't have my LEGO out and ready to build. In 87 we moved from Calgary, Alberta to Denmark, and two years later moved back to Canada, but to Vancouver. (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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(...) I have always loved building blocks, Lincoln Logs, etc. but I didn't discover Legos until 3 years ago!!! Absolutely fell in love with them even though I am almost 40 now and mother of 3 boys! Surprised everyone when I insisted all I wanted for (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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(...) <nod, nod> I never had a true dark age, but I had a few years of "dim ages" in which I only went up to the attic (the "lego" room) once in a few months... it went off and on. I had more weird looks from my family than from my friends; my older (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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heh, I almost didn't have a choice... I stopped playing with lego, gradually, sometime around '87... Just tapered off. But when I came over to the US, to visit Jennifer, I saw all her lego collection assembled, and that really brought back (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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(...) My dark ages started sometime around '88. I was 12, and as I recall, some of my friends were telling me I was a little immature to have bunches of Lego still lying around. Of course I always told them I never played with them, being the brave (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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Well, my dark ages began early 80s (81? not sure) The last set I bought was the 8860 car chassis. It ended when I saw a Mindstorms. Just had to have it. My childhood Lego had been left packed up at my step-dad's house, and luckily hadn't been (...) (26 years ago, 25-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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(...) Well I've never truly been in or out of a dark age that I can pinpoint. In some ways I am currently in a dark age in that about a year and a half ago I left for college and left LEGO with my youngest brother at home. Despite the fact that I (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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(...) It was early 1998. I had a nice collection of LEGO models assembled, including Adventueres, Extreme Team, Aquaraiders, and my beautiful <set:4554 Metro Station> I'm not sure what happened. I was eleven, and perhaps I took the box too literally (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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My Dark Age started about the time I got my drivers license. It ended 8 years later when I picked up the X-Wing fighter. Thank goodness for the Star Wars sets, otherwise my Dark Age may not have ended. Since picking up the X-Wing I've easily doubled (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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In lugnet.people, James Powell writes: <Snip> (...) You're right. I guess my memory is faulty. But hey, it inspired me ;-). I recommend highly it. It great for the whole family. (...) <Snip> (...) I think alot of Town and Train fans are beating (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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(...) Cullen Gardens is _not_ at the border between PQ and Ontario...It's about 5 hrs away from the border! (Trust me-we went from Pickering (about 30 min west of Cullen Gardens) to just west of of Montreal this past summer (at 120K...my dad's truck (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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My dark ages lasted about 10 years, from age 16 to 26. I was in a Toys R' Us about two years ago, just looking around, and decided to check out the Lego section to see what the sets were looking like these days. A few town sets caught my eye and (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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(...) My case is very particular; I have always loved Lego since I was very small. The thing is that I live in Venezuela, and Lego doesnt have offices here, so basically Lego sets are imported goods, and VERY expensive. I am talking about 300% US (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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I came out of my dark ages about 4 years ago. I'm 38 now.... I had given my old LEGO (including blue train track and the old SHELL garage) to my twin boys and was shopping around for some Chrsitmas gifts. The Launch Command lowboy tractor with (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Well this one is simple for me. My Dark Ages started about 1986/87 and lasted until the Star Wars sets came out. Star Wars is what got me back into LEGO but ever since I have been branching into other themes as well. Eric Kingsley The New (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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(...) My dark ages were rather short. They began in late 1996 when Town Jr. started to come out. Town sets have lost their touch since the late 80's and early 90's. By 1999 Star Wars had come out, and I started to become a train fan. Not a fanatic, (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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Hello, I was wondering if any of you had any interesting stories about what prompted your exit from your Dark Ages. Was there a specific set? Did you visit someone with a layout? Did you immediatety go on a shopping spree? I'll get the ball rolling. (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) On recent (quite random) excursions to Brickshelf, I pretty much proved myself wrong. There are quite a few sets who had the same windmill designs. I had to excercise my mind a bit further, and found out that my first set is more likely to be (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.people)
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