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In lugnet.general, Jake McKee writes:
> Inspired by John's post (http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=39785), I would
> love to throw out a question!
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> What is your coolest LEGO Experience? Maybe you built an amazing castle when
> you were eight years old. Or perhaps you've had a more recent experience
> like watching an FLL robotics competition where you saw kids participating
> in the most thrilling event of their lives. Or maybe you finished the
> perfect train car and posted it online.
>
> I would love to hear!
>
> Jake
> ---
> Jake McKee
> Sr. Producer
> LEGO Direct
How to begin; there are so many Coolest LEGO Experiences in my life. I will
try to choose just one:
Christmas shopping in a local mall in late 1998, I happened into one of
those upscale science/learning toys for parents of precocious children kinda
shops to browse around. Way up on the top shelf of their software section
was a row of large blue boxes that said LEGO Mindstorms on them. I knew
right away that I would soon own one of these. What I didn't know then was
just how much other LEGO I would also soon own...
My wife of course thought I was just being an overgrown kid yet again. I
know better, though. I never truly became an adult in the first place!
Uncoolest LEGO Experience: asking the clerk to get a Mindstorms set down
from the top shelf for me that day and being told that these were empty
display boxes and that they couldn't get enough of them to keep in stock.
It was four or five months before I actually got my hands on one, and the
rest is history.
I consider my discovery of Mindstorms to be my Coolest LEGO Experience
because that was the catalyst that (a) brought me out of my Dark Age, (b)
caused me to seek out LUGNET, and (c) introduced me to so many unbelievably
cool people all around the world.
- Chris.
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