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Adult Lego Mania, Technic Strain
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lugnet.technic
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Wed, 1 Mar 2000 03:29:44 GMT
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I've been afflicted with 'Legomania technicitis', the adult variant of the
Lego Mania virus, Technic strain.
Over the last couple of months I've purchased about a dozen Technic sets
including two large ones (8479 and 8480), and I just love building and
playing with them. I'm in my thirties and I rediscovered my love of Lego
when the first Star Wars sets came out. I thought they were neat and bought
a few of them, but now I just want to get my hands on every Technic set I
can.
I recently saw a sale on eBay in which the seller was auctioning all his
Technic sets. He stated that he had bought them in a "frenzy" the previous
year thinking they were really cool, but that now he had no time to play
with them. I immediately understood the "frenzy" aspect and felt bad for
three reasons:
1. That I couldn't afford the whole collection
2. That this poor dude lost his love of Lego
3. That my own affliction would be cured at some point!
So I beseech you all for advice and support. Is there a cure for Legomania
technicitis? Do I *want* to be cured? Should I worry about my obsession?
Your input and feedback would be most appreciated. Thanks,
Ari
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Message has 7 Replies:
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| If there is a cure, I don't want it. Years ago I was into the Legoland Space sets, but at some point Lego moved away from making so many small sets and started having lots and lots of big expensive sets. And they're all too cool, but a 14 year old (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| I am much like you Ari in that I'm 30 and have the caught the bug also. I've purchased many advanced Technic sets in the past few months (8000,8001,8002,8417...2,8480,DDK & RIS). I have enjoyed them very much as well. I've found that while Lego can (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| I am 36 and love to play with Technic. My recommendation: Buy MindStorms too! Build On! John Matthews Ari M. Weinstein <ariw@bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:Fqq4DK.MAn@lugnet.com... (...) bought (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Excellent! Welcome!!! (...) The good news is: no. :) And why would you want to be cured of it anyway? But seriously, Legomania IS the cure. The disease is anything not-Legomania. :) (...) Do you not want to be cured? (...) Join a local LEGO (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.people)
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| (...) Mad spouse. Don't push it too far. (...) No. Practice building skills moderately, ie, build no more than free time minus time for a well-rounded life. Do not sacrifice muscular exercise or your family's needs. Build instead of watching (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) [...] (...) No. No. Which obsession? The Technic one: no. The "I'm worried about my obsession" obsession: yes, stop it now! Rediscovered LEGO through hearing of Mindstorms late in '98, went into a feeding frenzy buying all I could find on (...) (25 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.technic)
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