Just wanted to start a thread here to see who's playing...
Name: Lou Zucaro
Age: 27
M.S.: Married
Kids: Not yet
Employment: Director of Development for a multimedia company
Number of Sets in Collection: 60+
Number of Pieces: Unknown
Oldest Set: 1975 (Two yellow construction trucks, set # & piece count
unknown)
Favorite Themes: Town & Model Team
Favorite Set in Collection: Whirl N' Wheel Super Truck
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I hate paranoid people, they're everywhere!
Name: Bo Williams
Age: 23
M.S.: Single/girlfriend
Kids: None
Employment: Technical writer for a graphics software company
Number of sets in collection: 100+
Number of pieces: No idea; at least 25,000
Oldest Sets: Two Universal Expert Builder Sets ca. 1980
Favorite Themes: Model Team, Technic
Favorite Sets: Whirl N' Wheel Super Truck, Whirlwind Rescue
Name: Dale Chapman
Age: 28
M.S : engaged... to be married in July.
Kids: None
Employment: Software Design and Programming
Number of Sets: 30 or so (a large number of smaller sets)
Number of Pieces: Don't Know... I never thought of it :)
Oldest Set: A fairly large basic set from 1970 (or was it 71??)
Favorite Themes: Town, Technics (just got into technics)
Favorite Set: Original Rocket Launch Base - circa 1973 or so (gotta love
those quarter rounds... 40 of them)
Biggest Regret: stopped collecting for about 10 years. I just got back into it
in the past couple of years.
Biggest Set: The Airport Shuttle Monorail (size wise)
Biggest Set: A 600+ piece basic set from the mid 70's (piece wise)
Dale Chapman
dcha...@vnet.ibm.com
Does somebody save this?
Play well,
Jacob Sparre Andersen.
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"We need a plan to diverge from", Fesser
Just wanted to tell everybody that even at age 18, the cashiers look at me
funny. You're not alone...!
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Matthew David Cowley
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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-- David A. Karr (ka...@cs.cornell.edu)
-- LEGO site: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/karr/lego/index.html
Name: Scott Ostrander
Age: 29
M.S.: Single
Kids: No thank you
Employment: Systems Administration
Number of Sets in Collection: Unknown, who keeps track of that anyway?
Number of Pieces: Unknown
Oldest Set: 1993 - Gave older bricks to 2nd-cousin three years ago
Favorite Themes: Castle
Favorite Set in Collection: None
> I forgot to add that I also really love the Imperial Trading Post
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I Live in Salt Lake City, not Provo....BYU is only where i have my
internet access.
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Oh well, let me follow this example:
Name: Dik T. Winter
Age: 49 (nearly 50)
M.S.: Married
Kids: two, 14 and 11.
Employment: Scientific research, programmer, system maintenance.
Number of Sets in Collection: unknown
Number of Pieces: unknown
Oldest Set: about 1976; train sets, London double decker bus. alas, my
brother has the 1960 VW dealer.
Favorite Themes: town
Favorite Set in Collection: not applicable
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home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; e-mail: d...@cwi.nl
Name: Ted Michon
Age: 42
M.S.: Married
Kids:
Thomas age 7 (US national LEGO champion; 1992 LEGO World Cup winner)
David age 4
Both are full time LEGO builders
Employment: President, Imagination Technology Corporation (electrical
engineer)
Number of Sets in Collection: 300+
Number of Pieces: 50,000+
Oldest Set: one 1976 (pneumatic), all others since 1990
Favorite Themes: Trains/Ice Planet/Spyrius (according to Thomas)
Favorite Set in Collection: Spyrius Monorail (according to Thomas)
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Ted Michon Imagination Technology Corporation
mic...@ix.netcom.com 4 Redonda
714 731-6060/voice 714 731-6100/fax Irvine, California 92720-1954
Favorite Set in Collection: It is a tie between the Load'N'Haul railroad and
the large Pirate Ship.
Name: Jami Stewart
Age: 26
M.S.: Single, but a parent :)
Kid: Chris, 6.
Employment: Student @ U WA
Number of Sets: 20+
Number of Pieces: (Aargh, why did you ask? Now I want to count them) ?
Oldest: ?
Favorite: No specific set, but I like Castle, *Aquatron*. My son
likes space space space. We fight over the pieces, he even wants to use
Castle pieces for space (blasphamy). (No flames, I can't spell blasphamy
right, the dictionary is holding up a bed).
Name: Jason S. Mantor
Age: 22
M.S. : engaged... to be married in June.
Kids: None
Employment: Mechanical Engineering Student
Number of Sets: Unknown. I'm guessing 25, I started builing and have 21 so far.
Number of Pieces: 3,000 @ last inventory
Oldest Set: Ancient Red Firetruck (197?) Mini-figs w/non-movable legs !
Favorite Themes: Technics, Expert Builder (Ancient!), and Pirate
Favorite Set: 8880 Super Car
Largest Regret: I need a $70 I/O board to control my technics w/my 286!
2nd Largest Regret: I haven't had time to mold my own lego-clones.
Biggest Set: 8880 Super Car or 8860 Auto chassis, they're both pretty big.
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How do you get rid of cat fur in your Lego collection?
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I don't think so. I spotted a motorized train set in November 1968
in New York. Unfortunately I received the non-motorized version.
But since you weren't yet born, of course you couldn't have noticed
that earlier motorized set. (Sorry to pull age on you; Dik Winter can
do the same to me.)
-- David A. Karr (ka...@cs.cornell.edu)
-- http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/karr/home.html
Name: George Lawrence
Age: 28
M.S.: Married
Kids: 1 (Ashley, 1.5 years old)
Employ: Software Engineer (Norton Utilities)
Number of Sets/Pieces in Collection:
No possible clue, but my collection fills a 30 gallon trash can
and weighs about 50 pounds.
Oldest Set:
Some kind of wheels and gears set from the late 60's
Favorite Themes/Sets:
Lego monorails, Lego trains, Duplo trains
-- George
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Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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>Name: Steve Dettmann
>Age: 36
>M.S.: Single
>Kids: No
>Employment: CNC turret punch press operator
>Number of Sets in Collection: 75+
>Number of Pieces: Unknown
>Oldest Set: unknown off hand
>Favorite Themes: Technic and Space
>Favorite Set in Collection: Airtech Claw Rig
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curr...@carleton.edu
Brought to you by: Devious Minds Inc.
Derek
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Anthony Michael Zayas
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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Internet: gt5...@prism.gatech.edu
>Oldest Set: That really small cop car (smaller than the fig!)
I still have that one!! It came with a few decals and a cop. I have no
idea where they wanted us to put the cop (oh well).
If there is a fourth class cadet (is 4th class right?) there named Alex
Ackerman, tell him I said hey.
Sorry folks...I could never privately send mail through this newsgroup
program I use.
Name: Bruce Tharp
Age: 38
M.S.: Married
Kids: 2 - boy 2.5 yrs, girl 15 months
Employment: Owner, Association Management Company
Number of Sets in Collection: None - Starting on trains this month
Number of Pieces: None
Oldest Set: NA
Favorite Themes: Trains
Favorite Set in Collection: NA
Andy (now got a posting site again :)
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The one with 2*3 bricks labeled 'POLICE'? I've got three of them. There
seemed to be two different versions of this set. I'll check it out when
I get home.
Play well,
Jacob
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p.s. I hope someone archives these responses so we don't have to
do this more than once a year or so.
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Think thats it for now.
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>Hey...
>Just wanted to start a thread here to see who's playing...
Name: Clare Douglas
Age: 24
M.S.: single
Kids: none (except me)
Employment: Psychology student, and p/t swim instructor
Number of Sets: about 40
Number of Pieces: 5,000
Oldest Set: I just started collecting last year
Favourite Themes: Town
Favorite Set in Collection: Pirate ship
Best accomplishment is a 1 1/2 foot unicorn
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mcki...@eleceng.ee.queensu.ca Queens University
Kingston, Ont., CANADA
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Me !
Name: David Cook
Age: 24
M.S.: Single (recently, <sigh>)
Kids: Distant future maybe
Employment: Assistant Computer Manager in Maths dept., also studying Arts
Number of Sets in Collection: 57 sets of instructions, some others lost.
Number of Pieces: about 11,500
Oldest Set: 394 and/or 396 ('76 or '77 ... not sure exactly)
Favourite Themes: Space, Castle
Favourite Set in Collection: Supercar (8880)
Been to Legoland: Yes ! In July last year. Great fun :)
PS: I have this crazy idea of sitting down one day and building _all_ of the
sets I have instructions for. If someone out there has 394 (a Harley Davidson
motorcycle) or 396 (a steam train) instructions, I'd like to hear from you :-)
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Assistant Computer Manager, Stats, Pure and Applied Maths, Adelaide Uni.
"Behind the lines, a face that glimmers. Still looking for a face that shines."
- Heartland, The Sisters of Mercy
Name: Kevin Whitney
Age: 29
MS: married
Kids: 4 cats, they like to chew on LEGO anntenae and chase LEGO trains
Job: mechanical engineer, automotive exhuast emissions research
# of Sets: 50+
# of Pieces: unknown
Old Sets: gears from early '70s, red tow truck I got for my 5th
birthday (1970)
Favorite Themes: space, trains, seaports
Favorite Sets: These are usually things I make from scratch. After
returning from a fishing trip off the coast, I constructed an oil
rig like the one we tied up at. This was probably one of the most
inspired things I've built in a long time.
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This is Julian's first post. I think he did quite well. There seem to be
very few women on the net who are into legos..... interesting.
-janet
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Name: Tom Boyd
Age: 30
M.S.: Married
Kids: Due June
Employment: Grad student, mechanical engineering
Number of Sets in Collection: 200+
Number of Pieces: If I only knew...
Oldest Set: 005 (big colorful gears and lots of blocks - thanks gram)
Favorite Themes: lotsa bricks cheap
Favorite Set in Collection: There are no individual sets, they belong to
the BORG now
Phil ~Phlash~ Ashby.
Felixstowe, Suffolk, England.
I still have 34 of these letter bricks. Sadly, many of the letters show
heavy wear. But it's pretty clear that none of the vowels ever carried
an umlaut. On the other hand, these were from a set sold in the US,
not Germany, so I suppose the selection was changed accordingly.
-- David A. Karr (ka...@cs.cornell.edu)
-- LEGO site: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/karr/lego/index.html
Perfer (can only afford) small but elegant designs. Has swing-wing
bird glider, horseshoe crab land vehicle, Star Wars inspired ships etc.
-- Bill (wch...@cshl.org)
p.s. to David Karr: Hi!
Anthony,
I've been thinking about getting this set, but I can't tell from the
catalog if it has any special parts or features. Would you mind posting
a review of this or maybe a mini-review listing the special parts?
Happy building.
H.
Location : San Francisco Bay Area
Other: My wife and I are saving up for one of the train sets.
At one time we were thinking of getting LGB, but decided
on Lego trains instead.
1) Technic front-end loader
2) Car of my design with limites slip differential
Both on to of one of my computers
So far have been able to convert several coneheads to the world of LEGOS!!
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I apologise for missing the original posting, so am following up down the
chain somewhere..
Name: Keith M. Lucas
Age: 22
M.S.: Single
Kids: None but several computers.
Employment: Software Engineer of a sort.
Number of Sets in Collection: many
Number of Pieces: More than my wife thinks is necessary, but she still
Oldest Set: A little bungalow with a one peice car with metal wheels. Also
set numbered '3'.
Favorite Themes: Pirate
Favorite Set in Collection: Dunno really. The big fort maybe.
Favorite Thing I have built: 6 foot long "BattleStar Galactica" ( Roadplates
for the bottoms of the landing decks, 50x50s for the bottom of the ship folks
!! :)
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Name: Raymond S. Flournoy
Age: 28
M.S.: Single
Kids: None
Employment: Graduate student, Instructor
Number of Sets in Collection: maybe around 50?
Number of Pieces: ?
Oldest Set: some flat trees and joined-2x2 vehicle hitches from
wa-a-ay back
Favorite Themes: Castle
Favorite Piece in Collection: the ghost!
--Raymond Flournoy
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flou...@cs.stanford.edu "For reasons I cannot explain
Computer Science Dept. There's some part of me wants to see
Stanford University, CA Graceland" -- P. Simon
Since I can't keep track of what my son has, I made a list of what instruction
books he has. It came in VERY handy at birthday/Chistmas time. I also kept
track of prices for comparison shopping. It is a nice way of seeing what
we have, but is no longer being made. Or what sets we should have bought
but didn't! (I went thru shop at home this summer and entered every item
in the catalog).
By the way, I called Dacta and ordered their catalog. The voice message
system said it would be shipped in 48 hrs. We'll see how long it takes to get
here (now that my son has spent his Christmas money!)