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Re: Ahhhh...to be surrounded once more by Pirates...
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Wed, 6 Jun 2001 05:30:18 GMT
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Ooooh. I'm home.
Sweet! Welcome back!
> The delirium tremens have (has? deliria tremorum?) finally
> begun to subside now that I'm back in New Jersey, and as you'd
> no doubt guess, my first order of business today (after parking
> permits, digging for money from my Department, and paying my
> rent of course) was to get all of my LEGO out of storage. With
> the exception of my two mega-giant bins of colored bricks,
> that's now complete--no serious shifts or collapses happened
> in the ten and a half months I was away, and both _Queen_ and
> _Gloire_ were in much the shape I left them. My two "children"
> are, of course, now happily sitting on the kitchen floor, albeit
> not yet reassembled and remasted. It took three dedicated
> carloads to get it all back here! As if to underscore the
> return of the LEGOholic mentality, my first thought was "I
> need a bigger car."
Oh yeah. You've got the bug alright.
> So here's the big question: What to build? I have one major
> project planned for Brickfest, but I'd love ideas as to what
> kinds of boats or ships someone who has been away for so long
> ought to start with. Alternately, I got four island baseplates
> sent to me while I was away, so I can also produce some islands
> or archipelagoes. With limited time and virtually unlimited
> LEGO, what sort of Piratia would you create?
Well I really am a big Pirate fan. I only had the oldest sets so I'd love to
see a ship on the scale of the BSB. Also, I think it would make for an
awesome layout to build a bunch of little islands and place them to scale
around each other. Like make your own chain of islands. Cool.
> Yeah, I know, that's really broad. I'm just really happy to
> be back. REALLY happy. Now back to building!
Again, welcome back! (this post has actually inspired me a great deal, guess
I'm imagining being away from my lego....course I am away from most of it
but thats another story.)
-Jon
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