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From: flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy) Date: 16 Jan 1995 21:12:48 GMT 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! flournoy@cs.stanford.edu Computer Science Dept. Stanford University, CA
From: Jordan Maynard <maynard@ucssun1.sdsu.edu> Date: 17 Jan 1995 06:57:32 GMT Name: Jordan D. Maynard Age: 19.8 Occupation: Student SDSU/ Product Analyst: Electronic Arts Married: Not! Kids: See above. Number of sets in collection: 90+ Number of pieces: 5000+ Oldest Set: Ok, it is a Space Truck with a rocket on it and two pure yellow Space Mini-figs without visors. Early 80s. Favorite Themes: Castle, Space, AQUAZONE! Favorite Set: right now I think its the Big Dragon Masters castle. 6082 Favorite thing I've built: A fantasy D&D style town that took most of the floor space in my room. We used it for a role-playing campaign in which all the characters were mini-figs (or dragons!). I wrote all the rules for the combat before I ever heard of LEGOwars.
From: sally@Violet.CCIT.Arizona.EDU (Sally_Garnaat)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 17:37:57 GMT
Reply-To: sally@Violet.CCIT.Arizona.EDU
Name: Sally Garnaat Ben Lynn
Age: 43 10 6
M.S.: married nope nope
Kids: yes nope nope
Occupation: Comp App Spec student student
# Sets: 10 hundreds 25-30?
# Pieces: Hundreds Thousands and thousands hundreds
First Sets: Majesto wkshop Duplo misc Lego 3+ plastic box
('handed down Duplos')
(but they weren't )
(ever really mine )
Oldest Sets: " Lego (mom sold the Duplo) Lego 3+ box
(shame on Mom)
Favorite Set: Imperial Trading Last one bought
Post
Favorite Theme: Town Space/Castle/ Belville
Aquazone
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!)
From: "Rev. Doktor Drew" <drewt@rain.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 11:07:33 -0800
Name: Andrew "Dr. Drew" Tuttle
Age: 31
M.S.: double (un-hitched yet very attached)
Kids: Igby (an iguana puppet), Zilla (a plush Godzilla), Tiger Bear (a
large brown teddy bear given to me by my sweetheart), etc.
Employment: None (see location)
Number of sets in collection: more than 20
Number of pieces: more than 20 to the 3rd power
Oldest set: A yellow trailer truck from about 1970
Favorite theme: Islander (currently) also fond of Space
Favorite set in collection: My motorized Technic set
Location: Santa Barbara, California
Andrew Tuttle
Rev. Doktor Drew
drewt@rain.org
drewt@io.com
From: donnac@myhost.subdomain.domain (Donna Coumarianos) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 09:17:43 GMT Name: Donna Coumarianos Age: 25 Marital Status: Nearly married Kids: 4 cats Employment: Admin Officer Number of Sets in collection: 6 sets, plus a number of smaller kits (you dont really count them as sets do you?) and childhood lego bricks. Number of pieces: unknown Oldest set: the lego set I was given when i was about five, would have been in 1974 or 19755. I have no memory of the box it came in, so I do not know what it was supposed to make. Lots of pieces and red roof tiles. Also a family with figures about 6cm high, much larger than minifigures. I still have the little girl from the family intact. Favorite theme: technic, town Location: Brisbane, Australia I am very new to this newsgroup and to lego collecting. My boyfriend and I have only been seriously into lego since about christmas last year. It all started about 6 months ago when we helped some people clean up their house and came away with a small amount of someones lego collection in a tuperware container large enough to fit a cake inside. It sat in a cupboard for six months, then one day just before xmas I walked passed it and decided it was time I washed it. That was it - we were hooked. We both had lego as children, Peters had long since died, but I went over to my mothers and got mine. We got a catalogue, bought six technics kits, got a friend of ours to lend us his childhood lego (he is only ninteen or so, so he had 6080 a cool castle, a train station, and heaps of space stuff), and here we are.
From: hoffinemc@alpha.hendrix.edu (MC SUCKA FOO)
Date: 17 Jan 95 11:53:26 -0600
Name: Matt Hoffine
Age: 21
M.S.: Single
Kids: yes, we are
Employment: Student...Hendrix College
Major: Double major Philosophy and psychology...not smart enough to be
An engineer like most of you...sigh
# of sets: um...100's?
# of pieces: Don't ask
oldest set: All I remeber about it is the person had bendy arms, and a very
large head
Favorite theme: Old space freak...recent Castle convert
Fav. set: Yellow caste...because of the face guards
Favorite thing i have build: A Monkey juicer....it squeezes the juice out
of the monkeys, parrots, and islanders so the
Wizards have something to drink.
Location: School is in Conway, Arkansas....20 min. N of Little Rock
Home is Houston, Tx
I thought my obsession with LEGO's was some sort of childhood trauma...now I'm
at least glad that is isn't unique.
From: s900883@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU (George Georgiou) Date: 16 Jan 1995 07:26:16 GMT Name: George Georgiou Age: 23 M.S.: Single Kids: Nope Employment: Uni Student. (Aerospace Engineering) Number of sets in collection: about 13 Number of pieces: about 5000 Oldest set: LL914 spaceship, (I can remember getting the old floating police boat, which had mini-figs with non-moveable limbs.) but I only have a headless minifig remaining. Favorite theme: Space, Castle Favorite set in collection: Not too sure (I love my mini-figs) Location: Melbourne, Australia.
From: hollis@jacobs.mn.org (Holly Kilheffer)
Date: 17 Jan 1995 21:23:24 GMT
Name: Holly Kilheffer
Age: 25
Occupation: Freelance Artist/Writer
Married: Almost, but not quite (Aug. '95)
Kids: Bleck! Ick! Yuck! Then I'd have to share! :)
Number of sets in collection: 30
Number of pieces: haven't gotten around to counting them yet -- too busy
using them!
Oldest Set: First set I remember getting was a tow rig (#1572 -- 1985?)
Favorite Themes: Castle, Trains
Favorite Set: Train! (I've got the Load 'n' Haul, haven't peruaded the guy
to get me the new one yet :)
Favorite Thing I've Built: Caboose for Load 'n' Haul
General Comments: I've been wanting to collect LEGO since I was very little
(the neighbors had it and I didn't *waah* :) -- I finally
started while I was in high school. Since then I've been
able to persuade almost everyone who is a relative/friend
that "buying Holly LEGOs is a GOOD thing" But I've
made it difficult because 1) I don't like the space themes
2) I don't like anything that has the 3D molded bases and
3) I won't allow anyone (accept my fiancee) to buy me the
large ($75+) sets.
holly k/hollis@abu.mn.org/hollis@winternet.com
don't "r" to the header -- that address doesn't exist! :)
From: drake@wam.umd.edu (daedalus) Date: 18 Jan 1995 05:41:03 GMT Name: Paul D. Samuel Age: 21 M.S.: Nope Kids: None Employment: Student, undergaduate aeronautical engineer, Univ. of MD College Park Number of Sets in Collection: ~100, more or less Number of Pieces: No Idea Oldest Set: Spirit of St. Louis, circa 1975, 76? Set number unknown Favorite Themes: Space, but I think I'm going to really like Aquazone as well (It's sort of space like...) Favorite Set in Collection: I can't narrow it down any further than these 4 sets, so here goes: Blacktron Renegade 6954 Space Police Spy-Trak 1 6895 Inter-Galactic Command Base 6971 X-1 Patrol Craft 6861
From: char@sunburn.racal.com (Charlotte Noll) Reply-To: char@sunburn.racal.com Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 13:58:59 GMT Name: Charlotte Noll char@sunburn.racal.com Age: 36 M.S.: Married Kids: 5YO son Justin Employment: Programmer Number of Sets in Collection: about 30-40 Number of Pieces: 2 big Plano tackle boxes full and overflowing Oldest Set: Just started collecting when Justin was 2-3YO. Favorite Themes: Space, Technic and New Aquazone Favorite Set in Collection: The 2 new Aquazone submarines are great. My son and I checked out all the toy stores in the area over the last few weeks and bought all the new Aquazone sets except the big one. That will have to wait until our birthdays later this year. Location: South Florida, USA Bragging: My 5YO son put together his first set from the instructions all by himself the other day. It was the new small Apollo space set and boy was he proud of himself. He's always built stuff made up on his own which is great but he always thought the instructions were too hard. Can't stop him now - he's off and building.
From: mdoar@amaryllis (Matthew Doar) Date: 18 Jan 1995 16:18:27 GMT Reply-To: mdoar@net.com Name: Matthew Doar Age: 28 M.S. To be married in April Kids: None Employment: Software Engineer, Networking Number of sets in collection: 100 in lifetime Number of pieces: no idea Oldest set: Basic set from 1971 Favorite Themes: technic, absolutely Favorite set: Supercar Matthew B. Doar Ascom Nexion, Inc. mdoar@nexen.com 289 Great Road, +1 508 266 3468 Acton, MA 01720, USA
From: dan@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Dan Allard) Date: 18 Jan 1995 10:03:05 -0800 Name: Dan Allard Age: 25 M.S.: Single, living with SO Kids: None (well, 1 Iguana) Employment: Programmer/Engineer Number of Sets in Collection: 20-30 Number of Pieces: Unknown (see notes) Oldest Set: Also unknown Favorite Themes: Castle (Forestmen, Black Knight), Pirates Favorite Set in Collection: Forestman's Fortress Education: BS in Engineering Physics, Tufts U. in Boston MA Notes: Some years ago I bought a large box of lego from a friend for 20$, including a lot of the old space sets (the ones with blue and grey pieces, plain spacemen), which is unfortunately still in Boston at my parents house. I can't even guess how many pieces there are in it. I am sure that my oldest set is somewhere here.
From: talbot@vangelis.sandiegoca.attgis.com (Steve Talbot) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 04:09:15 GMT Name: Eric Talbot Age: 11 Emploment: 5th grade Number of sets: 2 (that are still built) Number of pieces: 1000? Favorite Themes: Space, Technic Favorite Set: Recon Robot Oldest Set: Dragsters from 1990 -- Steve.Talbot@SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM NCR Corporation, LCPD-San Diego 16550 West Bernardo Dr. San Diego, CA 92127
From: gcs@dsto.defence.gov.au (Gary Speechley)
Date: 19 Jan 1995 05:49:05 GMT
Reply-To: gcs@dsto.defence.gov.au
Name: Gary Speechley
Age: 38
Location: Hurstville, NSW Australia
Occupation: Researcher, submarine sonars
Married: Yes, 11 years
Kids: 1 upstart miniature Schnauzer
Number of sets: 40+
Number of pieces: who knows?
Oldest Set: The one I got when I was MUCH, MUCH younger, still with
the original boxes and fold-out town plan.
Favorite Themes: Technic
Favorite Set: The large Technic helicopter
Favorite Construction: I used to make submarines, four feet long.
My first job was with Lego. Their distribution centre was located
where my father worked as part of the Taubmans paint factory at
Villawood. (I think there was a link between Coultalds/Taubmans/Lego
here in Australia in the early days). My job was to complete demo
models received from Denmark if they were damaged in transit. I
recall receiving a half-completed model ship and asked to do the
superstructure. To achieve this, a stack of water-damaged boxes were
delivered to me with the offer that I could keep anything I didn't
need for the ship. Needless to say, I was in to minimalist structures
long before engineers discovered finite-element analysis! My father
eventually became a storeman for Lego, and in my early teens, I'd have
a job during school holidays and some weekends filling orders on the
warehouse, or helping to unload the latest container shipment.
It was my first paying job!
---
D E P A R T M E N T O F D E F E N C E
Defence Science & Technology Organisation
Contact Details: Gary.Speechley@dsto.defence.gov.au
Gary C Speechley CIS: [100236,2246]
DSTO Australia Wk: +61 2 6921432 ph
PO Box 44 +61 2 6600019 fx
PYRMONT NSW 2009 Hm: +61 2 5703870 ph/fx
From: bowerm@hfsi.hfsi.com (Michael Bower) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 13:47:20 GMT Name: Michael F. Bower Age: 48 M.S.: Married Kids: 2 girls, 2 boys (11, 8.5, 6.5, 5) Employment: data comm engineering, project manager Number of Sets in Collection: Unknown Number of Pieces: Unknown Oldest Set: Basic set from early 80's Favorite Themes: Space -- Michael Bower HFS Inc. bowerm@hfsi.com 7900 Westpark Dr. (703) 827-3559 (w) MS-804
From: jwrasse@ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu (john d wrasse) Date: 27 Jan 1995 19:35:42 GMT Name: John Wrasse AGE: 27 M.S.: Married KIDS: Not human; 2 cats and 1 dog EMPLOYMENT: Indiana University Bookstore NUMBER OF SETS: 10+ NUMBER OF PIECES: 2500+ FAVORITE THEME: Technic FAVORITE SET: First Technic set - Go Kart OLDEST SET: Part of the Lego Town CURRENT PROJECT: Lego Cuckoo Clock (this is not a set - yet)
From: jasonha@bgnet.bgsu.edu (Jason Haislet) Date: 28 Jan 1995 17:31:52 GMT Reply-To: jasonha@bgnet.bgsu.edu (Jason Haislet) I just found this Lego newsgroup and i am so excited :) :) :) I have had lego since i was about 5, every year for Christmas I got at least one set of Legos, usually more. I most Have the Town system. I do have a few Questions. 1) where do i find the FAQ for r.t.l? 2) are there any ftp sites? 3) are there any Lego stores? 4) does the Lego company pay poeple for new ideas? 5) is anybody planning a trip to LegoLand? I have created some awesome vechiles and buildings in my Lego years Just some general info. about me Name: Jason Haislet Age: 20 School: Bowling Green State Univeristy City: Bowling Green State: Ohio Major: Theatre I hope to be a regular poster on this newsgroup.
From: deroo@sproing.ultranet.com (John DeRoo) Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 19:38:16 LOCAL Name: John DeRoo M.S.: Divorced Physical Age: 29 Mental Age: 16 Children: 2 Employment: Electrical Engineer (digital chip design for disk drives) Number of Sets: Several of my own, plus several more I "share" with my kids Number of pieces: Many Oldest Set: ~6 yrs - All of my childhood sets "somehow disappeared" while I was a teeneager and I didn't notice until I was about 23 :-( Favorite Themes: Technics, Lego-Logo (conceptually) Favorite Set in Collection: Oh, yeah, all the pieces *did* come from individual sets, didn't they? I particularly like playing with the pneumatic pieces and with the other power-transmission pieces. Location: Marlborough, Mass. Sets I Most Desire: 1) The Technic set with the electric pneumatic pump. 2) A Lego-Logo RS232ish interface Most Memorable Building Accomplishments: A hanging monorail I built when I was 10 after going to Disney Land and an implementation of a vehicle suspension system that I found in Nasa Tech Briefs (mine was simpler and the working model was a *lot* cheaper!) Current Project(s): None :-( John DeRoo, Marlborough, MA. E-Mail: deroo@sproing.ultranet.com
From: iridian@netcom.com (Rebecca Glenn) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 14:23:56 GMT Name: Becky Glenn (iridiank@netcom.com) Age: 27 M.S: Single Kids: No Employment: Desktop Publishing for a major Defense Contractor Number of Sets in Collection: lots Number of Pieces: lots more Oldest Set: Universal Building Set from 70s Favorite Themes: Space, Castle, Pirate Favorite Set: Difficult to say, but it's a draw between my Galaxy Explorer (one of the first space sets) and the King's Castle (the grey one that came out just after the yellow one) Extra Tidbit: I remember this old old set I used to have, and I know I still have the pieces but somehow the instructions went astray. It was one of those London buses, with two levels. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, I'd appreciate knowing that it's not just an acid flashback. -- rlg the reaper iridian@netcom.com and rebecca_glenn@fmc.com
From: mohonk94@aol.com (Mohonk94) Date: 1 Feb 1995 00:20:23 -0500 Reply-To: mohonk94@aol.com (Mohonk94) Name: Chris Stoffel Age: 31 Married: no Kids: no Occupation: Group Billing Administrator at Mohonk Mountain House Career goal: Lego Robotics Programmer Number of Sets:15+ Number of Pieces: not enough + Oldest Set: Air Tech Claw Rig - starting over again, somewhere in my parents attic the really old pieces are waiting to be rediscovered. Favorite Themes: Technic Favorite Set: Air Tech Claw Rig Favorite Things: wheels, motors and pneumatics General Comments: with an interest in computers and robots, I think the Technic sets will let me explore more and have fun at the same time. I'm looking forward to integrating my computers with my Lego sets. Time for fun now and get serious later.
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