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> All AFOLs aren't created equal. I'm an AFOL who's trying to keep to a
> budget and manage my personal free time between my family and my bricks. If
> I have to buy three 10020s so I can build a proper B-unit (i.e. three gray
> port holes per side like Brad Justus described at BricksWest 2002) it means
> I probably can't afford some other set or sets in it's place.
Don't think that those of us with rather more substantal collections don't have
to prioritize as well. I have ~202K bricks _from sets_, and probably another
10K from brickbay/link & other trades. I still cannot build everything that I
have seen that I think is neat without resorting to bricklink for bricks. I
have to do so on a regular basis.
(for example, I have been building Settle & Carlisle buildings for my railway-
had to order in doors for them, and windows (more white 2x2's
> While many of the brilliant, creative, and inspiring AFOLs who
> post to LUGNET are the type who buy ten copies of every set in a theme and
> have 800,000 pieces in their Bricklink shops, some of us mere mortal AFOLs
> don't have the luxury of being able to real-build any MOC we can conceive. (snip)
> Believe me I've browsed Jake's BI portal (and James Mathis's brickshelf
> pages!)
I think I have a larger collection than James M does- not 100% on it, but IIRC,
he had somewhere like 150K. It isn't just how big it is, but how diverse it
is. And I _don't_ have anything like the biggest collection here, but have
more than enough to fill my basement!
James Powell
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