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Mike Clemens
("mclemens")
Favorite LEGO toys/themes: The original Space theme! Hours were spent building, crashing, then rescuing those hapless red & white astronauts.
My fascination with LEGO began... Aound age 4: my (older) cousin was starting to get obsessed by them, and I had to be just like him. :-) My first set was a learjet (#455) and I've been hooked ever since then.
I once built... A moon base/movie set: I borrowed my dad's movie camera to make a stop-motion lego movie with cars driving around, doors opening & closing, etc. A few hours of filming resulted in a 2-minute masterpiece. :-)
Someday I will build... A card-shuffler/fortune telling machine... or perhaps a cool train layout with my kids... or maybe...
LEGO is great because... I *still* get excited about new sets, the creativity of the designers and builders of TLC.
LEGO fans are great because... They know how to play well!
My favorite Non-LEGO Toys: There are non-Lego toys?
My favorite Hobbies & Interests: Composing music, photography, reading, programming, my kid.
My favorite Foods: Italian. Any form.
My favorite Movies & TV: Cohen bros. films, classic Sci-fi, humor. TV is mostly garbage.
My favorite Artists: Picasso, Lebbeus Woods (architect) and Frank Lloyd Wright.
My favorite Pets & Animals: One fish, two children.
Words which best describe me: Geeky. Goofy.
I love it when... My wife doesn't make a face when I slip clearance Lego in the shopping cart.
I hate it when... The box is marked "Clearance" because it's been opened/missing pieces.
I can't seem to get enough... sleep. Yes, I know "red slopes" or "black 2x4s" would be appropriate, but really, it boils down to sleep. Need more!
I always seem to have enough... piles of bricks to sort. *sigh*
I hope I always... Have a little more room in the house for Lego...
I wish I could... Have my *own* room in the house for Lego!
I could never... Cut, mutilate, modify, fold, or spindle a Lego piece. Well, except for those that gave their life in the name of a cool cable car. Note to self: string + friction = slice through ABS.
I hope I never... stop playing.
I wish I hadn't... stopped playing! I'm coming back into Lego after a long hiatus of Real Life (tm), and it's harder to do. Maybe I'm just older (and dumber :-) and some of the creative spark of childhood has ben transformed, but I wish I would have kept with it over the years. I've kind of forgotten the "language" of Lego.
In my craziest moments... I swore that I'd never repeat them, esp. in a public forum. ;-)
Believe it or not... I think Lego obsession is genetic.
If I were super-human... I'd be able to pull apart stuck plates without using my teeth.
More & Less:
- more bricks, less BURPs
- more playtime, less overtime
- more sunscreen, less sunburn
Rules I try to live by:
- Family matters most
- Never stop learning
- Be responsible, and be honest
Additional comments:
I've come to the conclusion that specialized pieces are not the pox on Lego society that old-timers (like myself, until recently) have made them out to be. Lego is a *system* of toys: toys that fit together with other toys in the same system. They are not all about blocks, but are about play, and whatever enhances the play is good.
When I was young, I would cherish the "special pieces", always pull them aside when I was sorting through the Lego, ready to use them if an opportunity arose. Some time later, I looked upon them with scorn -- only a "true" Lego builder uses bricks! (A one-piece car chassis!? How awful!) now I'm older, mellower, and willing to accept the non-bricks back into the fold (again.)
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Formal name:
Mr. Michael Paul Clemens
Age: 54
Member Since: 10-Jan-2000
Country:
United States of America (U.S.A.)
State:
California
My Collection:
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