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The following is a small part of the responses to the rec.toys.lego Roll Call. Refer to the Table of Contents or the Alphabetical Index for other parts of the Roll Call.
From: oremb@skydivskylit.dseg.ti.com () Reply-To: oremb@lobby.ti.com Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 15:05:46 GMT Name: Bonnie Orem & Bobby Orem Age: 32 3 M.S.: Married Kids: See Name Employment: Software Design Engineer Number of Sets in Collection: 8 (we just started 12/25/94) Number of Pieces: Unknown Oldest Set: 1990 Black Monarch's Ghost (P.S. TRU in Plano, TX still has most of the ones on Jeff's list that are marked as not in the 1995 catalog) Favorite Themes: Castle Favorite Set in Collection: Wolf Pack Renegades (the hidden treasure cache is way cool!)
From: 23253mgr@ibm.msu.edu (Kevin Forsyth)
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1995 11:58 EDT
Name: Kevin S. Forsyth
Age: 25
M.S.: Single
Kids: 0 humans, 3 cats
Employment: Systems Analyst in College of Social Sci., Michigan State U.
Number of Sets in Collection: ~60
Number of Pieces: Unknown
Oldest Sets: 1973 (#420 Police Car, #570 Fire House, #710 Wrecker w/ Car,
#221 Idea Book)
Favorite Themes: Pirates (except Islanders), Technic
Favorite Set in Collection: not a set, it's a blue Futuron spaceman, standing
on a crater plate, reaching out to touch a black 1x4x9 monolith.
Also, #8868 (ATCR) in garbage truck form.
From: marpi0591@aol.com (MarPi0591) Date: 6 Jan 1995 12:57:18 -0500 Reply-To: marpi0591@aol.com (MarPi0591) Name: Mario Valdes-Lora Age: 30 M.S.: Married Kids: 1 2/9 Employment: Attorney Number of sets in collection: 50~60 Number of pieces: No idea Oldest Set: 6010 (Supply Wagon) ca. 1984 Favorite Themes: Castle, Pirates Favorite Sets: 6085 (Black Monarch's Castle); Load'n Haul Railroad
From: gt5471a@prism.gatech.edu (Matthew David Cowley) Date: 6 Jan 1995 15:51:12 -0500 Name: Matthew D. Cowley Age: 18 M.S.: Single Kids: What? I am a kid Employment: College Student, Georgia Tech Number of Sets in Collection: 20+ Number of Pieces: Never added 'em up Oldest Set: No idea! (I'm not the collector type, I just love to play) Favorite Themes: Space and Technic Favorite Set in Collection: All of 'em!!!! Just wanted to tell everybody that even at age 18, the cashiers look at me funny. You're not alone...! Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Internet: gt5471a@prism.gatech.edu
From: scotto@spasm.cica.indiana.edu (Scott Ostrander) Date: 6 Jan 1995 16:16:10 -0500 Reply-To: scotto@cica.indiana.edu 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
From: vrparent@mailbox.syr.edu (Victor)
Date: 6 Jan 1995 19:40:49 GMT
Name: Victor Parente
Age: 24
Employment: Computer Engineer, Grad. student in Education, Teacher
Number of sets: about 50
Number of pieces: ? (Almost 50 Lego people in space suits!)
Oldest Sets: I think it is called the "Universal Building Set" - It was
the first motorized set every sold in the US back in the
mid-70's
Favorite Themes: Technic / Dacta Technic
Favorite Sets: all of the helicopter sets.
From: ivanlan@bones.et.byu.edu (Ivan Van Laningham) Date: 6 Jan 95 17:00:09 Name: Ivan Van Laningham Age: 48 M.S.: Married Kids: 3 cats Employment: GUI Programmer (X-Motif-Windows-OS/2...) Number of Sets in Collection: hundreds Number of Pieces: thousands Oldest Set: ~1963--one of the early samsonite kits, #760 (???) Favorite Themes: Trains, Town Favorite Set in Collection: 4564, the brand-new yellow-engined train set. Been collecting since: 1989 (and they didn't have lego when i was a kid) I Live in Salt Lake City, not Provo....BYU is only where i have my internet access.
From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 01:34:02 GMT 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 -- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924098 home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; e-mail: dik@cwi.nl
From: Michon@ix.netcom.com (Ted Michon) Date: 6 Jan 1995 22:01:27 GMT 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 circa 1976 (pneumatic), all others since 1990 Favorite Themes: Trains (according to Thomas and David) Favorite Set in Collection: Spyrius Monorail (according to Thomas) Biggest project: 3500 brick house on display at national headquarters of Homedco (Fountain Valley, CA) -- Ted Michon Imagination Technology Corporation michon@ix.netcom.com Irvine, CA
From: Jami Stewart <ivars@u.washington.edu> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 18:41:11 -0800 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).
From: scott.dawson@canrem.com (Scott Dawson) Date: Fri, 6 Jan 95 21:01:00 -0500 Name: Scott Robert Dawson AGE: 31 LOCATION: Greater Metropolitan Toronto OCCUPATION AND HOBBIES: Programmer, ATE technologist, PC board repair, animation (computer and classical), drawing, architecture and science fiction (clearly a candidate for Legomania) NUMBER OF SETS: Unknown. Bulk of Lego collection dates from before 1980, with recent additions after 1990 NUMBER OF PIECES: Unknown... (I suppose I could weigh them) GENERAL OUTLOOK: I am not so much drawn by the desire to build the pre-defined models, so my collection is not broken out into its original sets. Rather, everything joins together for new and greater creations.
From: jharms@interserv.com Date: 7 Jan 1995 02:53:24 GMT Name: John Harms Age: 29 M.S.: Single Kids: Nope Employment: DTP/PC whiz kid at US State Dept. Number of Sets in Collection: 100+ Number of Pieces: Unknown (fill 6 big Rubbermaid tubs) Oldest Set: Universal set from late 60s-early 70s: also have a pre-Duplo set of BIG (2"x5") 2x4 bricks===Mom throws nothing out Favorite Themes: Space, Model Team, & Technic Favorite Set in Collection: Any set with lots of wing sections Claim to LEGO fame (according to my girlfriend): Had a piece stuck in my ear for three days. A doctor had to get it out. I was 26 at the time.
From: brianste@gpu2.srv.ualberta.ca (Brian Sterenberg) Date: 7 Jan 1995 02:45:27 GMT Name: Brian Sterenberg Age: 25 M.S.: Single Kids: I hope not Employment: Graduate Student Number of Sets in Colection: about 20 Number of Pieces: Good question Oldest Set: A small very basic set of unknown vintage (1974?) Favourite Theme: Technic! Technic! (Model Team is nice too) Favourite Set in Collection: 856 Technic Bulldozer (This is Canadian #, American # is different) What I desperately Want But Can't Afford (especially if I'm going to get that 4 more MB ram): AirTech Claw Rig!
From: tonyw@erinet.com (Tony Worthington)
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 22:37:16 EST
Name: Tony Worthington
Age: 19
M.S.: Single
Kids: Not for a while.
Employment: Network Admin.
Number of Sets in Collection: 42
Number of Pieces: Haven't added it up yet...
Oldest Set: My loving mother sold my old LEGOS while I was on vacation.
<argh>
Favorite Themes: Trains/TownFavorite Set in Collection: Any
trains...
From: unar2@sfa.ope.ed.gov (Andy Rosulek)
Date: 6 Jan 1995 21:53:40 -0600
Name: Mike James Rosulek
Age: 13
M.S.: Single, yet eligible!!
Kids: 1 pet cat.
Employment: Full-time genius, Full-time babe-magnet!! (life is tough,
ain't it?)
Number of Sets in Collection: 50 - 70 (at least 50, I counted!)
Number of Pieces: between 2,000 and 384,036
Oldest Set: 1982-3?? Probably a Basic set: just bricks, maybe Duplo
Favorite Themes: Technic, Model Team, Space
Favorite Set in Collection: Super Car (8880), SR-71, F-16, S.S. Rosulek
(last 3 are designed by me)
From: merritt@u.washington.edu (Ethan A Merritt) Date: 7 Jan 1995 05:53:04 GMT Reply-To: merritt@u.washington.edu (Ethan A Merritt) Name: Ethan Merritt Age: 42 Married?: yep, and my wife's Lego collection is even older than mine (she'll check in separately) Kids: Loren (9) - was head-over-heels into Lego until Magic card mania hit this summer. Employment: Research Faculty (Biological Structure) Number of Sets in Collection: who counts? It's not a collection, it's a toy, er.. tool, er... inspiration Number of Pieces: see above Oldest Set: circa 1962, dunno the set number - large town set with lots of matchbox-sized VW bugs, ESSO trucks, big emphasis on working garage doors. circa 1963, big gears (maybe set #002???). Mostly bought 'em by the bag in those days, not by the set. Claim to Fame: Recent public lecture entitled "Lego block toxins" (no, it wasn't about toxic Lego! It was about how some bacterial toxins seem to mix-and-match pieces as if they were made up of molecular Lego blocks.)
From: etb@netcom.com (Elam Birnbaum) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 06:14:01 GMT Name: Elam Birnbaum Age: 23 M.S.: Single Kids: Not yet, but eventually. Employment: Manufacturing Engineer Number of Sets in Collection: Hundreds Number of Pieces in Collection: Around 26,000 (I have the exact number somewhere... My Mom and I counted all my LEGO, even itemized each into type and color!) Oldest Set: Don't remember, I was 2 at the time! Probably some basic set my Dad got me when we visited Holland. Favorite Themes: Castle and Space Favorite Set: There was a space set of a white and blue spaceship with many laser cannons in front and two detachable pods. Really cool! Best LEGO project: I built a castle, the surrounding charred badlands, and an entire mountainous region (where the robin hood people lived) and a sea shore (where the pirates landed). Also built a detailed castle, complete with escape route for the king and queen, several secret treasure rooms with booby traps, two gladiator arenas, and a pair of portcullis' (sp?) and a thick sliding wall that all together, NO army could possible penetrate! Its all in pieces now, though. :'( My cousin the architect and I are planning an incredible project some time in the near future!
From: dsmall@media.mit.edu (David Small) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 15:17:05 GMT Name: David Small Age: 29 M.S.: boyfriend Kids: I wish Employment: PhD student (MIT Media Lab) Number of Sets in Collection: 100? Number of Pieces: unkown, but I've got a 4'x8' table completely covered - town, two levels of trains and a two-foot mountain with waterfall, plus Neptune Discovery Lab and some Aquanauts under the table Oldest Set: plain bricks from the 70's. Never saved those boxes or instructions (stupid me) Favorite Themes: trains and town Favorite Set in Collection: Super Car URL: http://dsmall.www.media.mit.edu/people/dsmall/ David Small work:617/253-4406 MIT Media Lab email:dsmall@media.mit.edu Cambridge, Mass "please to enjoy"
From: ben@ins.infonet.net (Ben Sinclair) Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 11:37:24 UNDEFINED Name: Ben Sinclair Age: 16 M.S.: I don't think so. :) Kids: Yeah, right Employment: Student Number of Sets in Collection: zillions Number of Pieces: zillions^2 Oldest Set: Maybe that old Exxon gas station? Favorite Themes: Town and Space..Aquazone! :) Favorite Set in Collection: Hmm...
From: jlanders@phakt.usc.edu (Jami Lynn Anderson) Date: 7 Jan 1995 11:22:09 -0800 Name: Jami Anderson Age: 27 M.S.: Married Kids: 4 cats Employment: graduate student (for not much longer!), teaching instructor Number of Sets in Collection: dozens Number of Pieces: probably more than I would like to admit to my husband Oldest Set: Camouflaged Outpost Favorite Themes: Castle (Forest People specifically), trains (Metroliner) Favorite Set in Collection: Guarded Inn
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