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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: tpepper@harp.aix.calpoly.edu (Timothy Charles Pepper (Wintermute))
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 1995 21:23:22 GMT
Name: Tim Pepper
Age: 19
M.S.: Single
Kids: none
"Occupation": computer engineering student
# Sets: about 50(normally all mixed in a big box, but I put them all
together over Christmas and took pictures..any suggestions where to
post theseonce digitized?)
# Pieces: good question...any suggestions for a way to sort/count them?
First Sets: 5th birthday I got the Alpha-1 Rocket Base #483 (1979) and
the expert builder helicopter #8840 (1981)
Oldest Sets: #483 above, old knights procession, and a little blue garage
w/ tow truck
Favorite Set: hmmm tough choice..probably one I never got..like a yellow
Technic plane in the late 80's
Favorite Theme: I mainly have older town, castle and space..none of the
newer ones really. I liked the forest men, and like the pirates,
but castle and space are probably my fav.'s
From: guido@megamed.com Date: 7 Jan 1995 22:26:26 GMT Reply-To: pcguido@megamed.com Name: Tim Cava Age: 12 M.S.: Single Kids: None (I do have a cat though) Employment: Student at Sunnyvale Middle School Number of Sets in Collection: 40 Number of Pieces: Unknown Oldest Set: Not sure, I do have some castle stuff from the mid 80's Favorite Themes: Technic Favorite Set in Collection: Super Car
From: blalock@aol.com (Blalock) Date: 7 Jan 1995 17:30:55 -0500 Reply-To: blalock@aol.com (Blalock) Name: Sherri Blalock Age: 29 again (OK 31) M.S.: Married Kids: 1 Cat Employment: Electrical Engineer Number of Sets in Colection: 150 + Number of Pieces: Have no idea Oldest Set: basic building set circa early '70s Favourite Theme: Technic Favourite Set in Collection: Control Lab
From: coulter@fas.harvard.edu (Shelly Coulter) Date: 8 Jan 1995 02:08:30 GMT Name: Shelly Coulter Age: 30ish Long-time lurker, occasional poster: M.S.: Single Kids: None but a couple of god-children Employment: Researcher/Financial Analyst Number of sets in collection: embarassing low Number of pieces: No idea; embarassing low Favorite Themes: Space, pirates Favorite Sets: love those crocodiles
From: wijsman@max.u.washington.edu
Date: 7 Jan 95 18:44:50 PST
Name: Ellen Wijsman
Age: 40
M.S.: Married
Kids: Loren age 9 (already accounted for elsewhere in survey)
Employment: Research Associate Professor, Medical Genetics and
Biostatistics, Univ. of Washington
Number of Sets in Collection: Who knows? The early collections didn't
come in "sets" - just boxes of blocks
Number of Pieces: Unknown
Oldest Set: 1957 - basic blocks (yes, that is right - last survey I think
I had the record for the oldest lego! I got my first at age 3)
Favorite Themes: Space lego, architecture (not that there is much),
castles
Favorite Set in Collection: Hard to say. I don't keep track of sets.
From: chiner@quark.gmi.edu (Chris Hiner) Date: 8 Jan 1995 03:18:27 GMT Name: Chris Hiner Age: 22 M.S.: engaged, to be married in august Kids: Hopefully not (then I'd hafta share my Lego!) Employment: Programming Voice Response/Fax systems Number of Sets in Collection: I have no idea... Number of Pieces: Lesse... 2 milk crates, 2 xerox paper cases Oldest Set: Not sure of the year or #, but I seem to remember a double decker bus, with something like a "Read The Legoland Times" sticker on it. Favorite Theme: Technic Favorite Set in Collection: Auto Chassis... (and anything in the new pnumatics) How do you get rid of cat fur in your Lego collection?
From: RIDLONCA98%CS13%usafa@cadetmail2.usafa.af.mil (Chris "Airwolf" Ridlon) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 03:41:08 GMT Name: Chris Ridlon Age: 18 M.S.: Single Kids: At this age? ;) Employment: Cadet at US Air Force Academy Number of Sets in Collection: 300+ Number of Pieces: Too many to count. . . Oldest Set: 1977? Police Command Van with the older mini-figs- they had no arms and a leg that was all one piece, and no faces. Favorite Themes: Town (Flight) and Space Favorite Set in Collection: The Airport Monorail or maybe one of the really old spaceships- the ones that were all grey with lots of rocket engine pieces. ;) Also, every hook-n-ladder Lego has put out.
From: maguirer@HERCULES.CS.UREGINA.CA (Rob Maguire) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 03:27:52 GMT Name: Bob Maguire Age: 18 M.S.: Divorced...just kidding! Single Kids: Not that I know of...No Employment: University Student (UofR, Sask., Canada) Number of Sets in Collection: 40-50 (haven't counted...rough guess) Number of Pieces: hmmm...good question Oldest Set: That really small cop car (smaller than the fig!) Favorite Themes: Castle!!! Space in my earlier days... Favorite Set in Collection: Fully Complete: 6086 Black Knight's Castle Various pieces missing: 6980 Space Command Ship Only a few pieces remaing: 6075 Yellow Castle (Destroyed it as a kid, who said innocence is bliss?!?)
From: George Lawrence <glawrence@symantec.com>
Date: 8 Jan 1995 05:52:45 GMT
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
From: carol@alaska.net (Carol)
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 1995 00:11:54 -0800
Name: Andrew Carol
Age: 31
M.S.: Single
Kids: Virtual cat (That's a cat I don't own, yet)
Employment: Computer programmer/Analyst for DoD in Alaska
Number of Sets in Collection: 25+
Number of Pieces: 5,000+
Oldest Set: Parts of sets from early 70's (Mailed from home)
Favorite Themes: Technic/Dacta Technic
Favorite Set in Collection: Homebuilt robots running on Dacta
Lego Control Lab via my Macintosh.
carol@alaska.net carol@ctis.af.mil 71350.3646@compuserve.com
From: wombat@noc.tor.hookup.net (Mark Hornblower)
Date: 8 Jan 1995 10:03:12 -0600
Name: Mark Hornblower
Age: 28
M.S.: Single
Kids: None
Employment: Student (again), production manager of weekly newspaper,
freelance programming and graphics guy ...
Number of Sets in Collection: ~50
Number of Pieces: depends on how many the cats have eaten today ...
Oldest Set: Basic Set #911 (1975) - geared towards making factories and
construction sites and stuff - cool!
Favorite Themes: Town, Technic
Favorite Set in Collection: Air Tech Claw Rig
BTW, in case no one else thought of it, I'm saving all the replies so we
can have this valuable reference information for all time ...
| Mark Hornblower
| wombat@hookup.net
From: hunter@indy.net (Chad L. Miller)
Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 19:06:27 GMT
Name: Chad L. Miller
Age: 27
M.S.: Married
Kids: Joy 2.5, Haley 1
Employment: Sr. Systems Analyst
Number of Sets in Collection: >70
Number of Pieces: lots
Oldest Set: All the older ones are kept as parts.
Favorite Themes: Space, Space, and Space (maybe Aquazone)
Favorite Set in Collection: Older Space Police light & sound ship
(the name escapes me)
email: hunter@indy.net
(http://hunter.indy.net/ coming soon...)
From: jenoel@icaen.uiowa.edu (James Edward Noel) Date: 8 Jan 1995 19:14:36 GMT Name: Jim Noel Age: 23 M.S.: Married Kids: Zachary, age 3 Employment: Student Number of sets in collection: 100+ Number of pieces: not enough Oldest Set: The Moon Lander from mid 70's Favorite Themes: Town, Castle, Pirate, Technic Favorite set in collection: 6075 Yellow Castle
From: Steve Dettmann <Steve.Dettmann@mixcom.com> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 20:47:45 GMT 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 Steve.Dettmann@mixcom.com [The following was added later. --DAK] Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 05:50:28 GMT High School Graduate Waukesha County Tech Inst. Graduate (welding) No College sorry I suppose from what I've read here I'm the only blue collar person here. Oh well.
From: acsrds@myhost.subdomain.domain (Robert Schulz) Date: 8 Jan 1995 23:12:05 GMT Name: Robert Schulz Age: 27 M.S.: Single Kids: 1 cat Employment: Supervisor/Govt. Cable TV Channel Number of Sets in Collection: 100+ I can find instructions too... Number of Pieces: +/- 6 cubic ft. Oldest Sets: early 70's Favorite Themes: Technic/Space/Town Favorite Set in Collection: 455 Learjet (amazing what you can do with a bunch of plates...) - - - - Robert Schulz KC6UDS rdschulz@ucdavis.edu
From: 94226@figmnt.tayloru.edu (STEPHEN OLSON) Date: 8 Jan 95 18:26:07 -0500 Name: Stephen Olson Age: 18 M.S.: Single Kids: None, but I have 9 brothers and sisters... Employment: Freshman at Taylor University Number of Sets: 50+ Number of Pieces: 5000+ Oldest Set: A police van with motorcycle from early 80's; it was a "paddywagon" or something like that... Favorite Theme: TOWN Favorite Set: #6389, Fire Control Center from 1991, I think that it was a European set because I never saw it in the stores...(subject to change because I've ordered the metrostation from S@H.)
From: John Reynolds <torgo@u.washington.edu> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 1995 16:09:55 -0800 Name: Christopher Ayers Age: 23 M.S.: Unattatched Kids: None yet Employment: Junior, Psychology, Univ. of Washington No. of Sets: 100+ No. of Pieces: I don't know (they're stored in at least five locations) Oldest Set: Police Car, circa 1974 Favorite Themes: Technic, original Space, Aquazone, Trains Favorite Sets: Whirlwind Rescue, Galaxy Explorer, Seaplane (circa 1980)
From: dot130@duke.usask.ca (Don Tse) Date: 9 Jan 1995 00:47:43 GMT Name: Don Tse Age: 23 M.S.: Single Kids: none Employment: Student with 3 months, 6 days, 18 hours to go Number of sets in collection: 70+ Number of pieces: uh... Oldest set: #377 Shell Station (circa 1978) Favorite themes: Model Team, Dragon Masters, Black Knights Favorite set in collection: Whirl N' Wheel Super Truck, Mach II Red Bird Rig
From: gt5367a@prism.gatech.edu (Anthony Michael Zayas)
Date: 8 Jan 1995 21:25:19 -0500
Name: Anthony Zayas
Age: 18
M.S.: Single
Kids: Not yet
Employment: Student (Georgia Tech)
Number of Sets in Collection: 50+
Number of Pieces: Many
Oldest Set: early 80's (Starfleet Voyager space set (I think that's what
it's called))
Favorite Theme(s): Space
Favorite Set(s) in Collection: Big Huge Ice Planet ship (forget the name)
The one mentioned above
Alienator (Blacktron series 1)
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
From: math1ji@menudo.uh.edu (Julie Walker) Date: 9 Jan 1995 00:39:43 -0600 Name: Julie Walker Age: 29 M.S.: Married Kids: 2 cats Employment: Ph.D. student in math and occasional teacher Number of Sets in Collection: 200+ Number of Pieces: Unknown Oldest Set: Basic set from 1979 Favorite Themes: Technic & Model Team Favorite Set in Collection: Super Car
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