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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: robertsk@tamu.edu Date: 10 Jan 1995 14:55:31 GMT Name: Katherine Roberts Age: 25 M.S.: Married Kids: WHAT?!? And have to share my LEGO! Employment: Expediter for TAMU Number of Sets in Collection: 20 Number of Pieces: Not nearly enough Oldest Set: 1974 (guy in a little truck) Mom hid it for us kids for Christmas years ago, and just found it again. Favorite Themes: Castle! Castle! Castle! (know where I can get any Forestmen?) Favorite Set in Collection: King's Mountain Fortress Claim to LEGO Fame: Took pictures of my real live "dragons" (lovebirds) in and about my castles, then used the vegetable sprayer in the sink to clean off any bird poo. LEGO Goal: Strike it rich at a garage sale and get lots of bricks to build a properly defensable castle.
From: Phil ~Phlash~ Ashby <paa@mround.bt.co.uk>
Date: 10 Jan 1995 17:53:08 GMT
Name: Philip Ashby
Age: 28
M.S.: Married
Kids: Martin 6, Robert 4, Joseph 1
Employment: Professional Software Engineer (paid hacker)
Qual: M.Eng (hons), York University, England
AMIEE.
Number of Sets in Collection: unknown
Number of Pieces: Approx. 5000
Oldest Set: 1975 Police Station (I think, I was only 8-))
Favorite Themes: none (I prefer new design challenges)
Favorite Set in Collection: The newest one (currently the Technics
helicopter / jeep set [8820?])
Phil ~Phlash~ Ashby.
Felixstowe, Suffolk, England.
From: bdelph@pcnet.com (Bill Delphenich) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 95 18:22:06 GMT Name: Bill Delphenich Age: 43 M.S. Married Kids: 1 son (Lego-maniac Jr.) Employment: Architect Number of sets: ? (more than 30) Number of pieces: ? (about 6 red buckets) Favorite theme: Buildings and trains, also Technics _________________________________ William C. Delphenich, Architect bdelph@pcnet.com New Haven, CT USA
From: coverstone@hpl.hp.com (Randy Coverstone) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 17:29:39 GMT Name: Randy Coverstone Age: 40 M.S.: Single Kids: 10,11, & 10year old cat Employment: Engineering Manager Number of Sets in Collection: well over 1000 Number of Pieces: (est) > 200,000 Oldest Set: 1980? universal set Favorite Themes: Technic, Train, Dacta control lab Favorite Set in Collection: All of 'em
From: schmchrj@rtsg.mot.com (Joseph R. Schumacher) Date: 10 Jan 95 23:01:19 GMT Name: Joe Schumacher Age: 33 M.S.: married Kids: Timmy (4, chief legomaniac) and Emily (9 mo) Employment: Engineer Number of Sets in Collection: Number of Pieces: Oldest Set: Favorite Themes: Space, & castle Favorite Sets: Been collecting since: 1973
From: art6@cornell.edu (Alan Turner) Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 20:30:33 Name: Alan Turner Landscape architect. Currently does not own any lego Introduced to Lego in Berlin, 1963. Why can't I buy a bunch of 2x8 bricks in a single color anymore? Most missed lego parts: 1x1 bricks printed with letters of the alphabet, including vowels with unlauts.
From: Thomas Boyd <ez048001@peseta.ucdavis.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 09:48:03 -0800 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
From: hdrake@artax.webo.dg.com (Howard Drake )
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 95 12:57:34 GMT
Name: Howard Drake
Age: 47
M.S.: Married
Kids: Twin girls, 16.
Employment: Software Engineer
Number of Sets in Collection: many
Number of Pieces: More than my wife thinks is necessary, but she still
gave me two new sets for Christmas; one a Paradisa set,
she likes the men waiting on the women.
Oldest Set: Early '70s, automatic opening garage doors.
Favorite Themes: Castle
Favorite Set in Collection: The yellow castle, 6075?
Favorite Thing I have built: Large yellow castle from Bill & Mary book, #6000.
From: wchang@phage.cshl.org (William Chang in Marr Lab) Date: 11 Jan 1995 07:15:17 -0500 Reply-To: wchang@cshl.org Name: William Chang Age: 31 M.S.: Married (soon 10 years) Kids: Arthur, 2 (legoholic) and Sofia, 6 months Employment: Computational biologist (CS PhD) Number of Sets in Collection: Few (not a collector) Number of Pieces: Not enough (but lots of dreaded Tyco for fillers) Oldest Set: Back around 1970... Favorite Themes: Space Favorite Set in Collection: Whichever has unusual pieces Perfer (can only afford) small but elegant designs. Has swing-wing bird glider, horseshoe crab land vehicle, Star Wars inspired ships etc.
From: anw@ssm (Andy Watkins) Date: 11 Jan 1995 13:49:41 GMT Reply-To: awatkins@bt-sys.bt.co.uk Name: Andy Watkins Age: err... 23 M.S.: Engaged (and she got LEGO for Christmas!) Kids: None Employment: Visualisation Programmer for BT Number of Sets in Collection: between 5 and 15 Number of Pieces: Dunno - I timeshare with my brother Oldest Set: Dunno - got first sets in aobut 1975ish Favorite Themes: CASTLE Favorite Set in Collection: (currently) Haunted tower (*) (*) I think the glow-in-the dark ghost is Incredible. I'm a grown man, about to get married, and here I am shining a torch and turning the lights out! (I must be nuts!) _________________ | _ _ _ _ | Andy Watkins LEGO | (_) (_) (_) (_) | awatkins@bt-sys.bt.co.uk It's a | _ _ _ _ | New Toy | (_) (_) (_) (_) | Every |_________________| Left: The Classic 2x4 LEGO Brick (Plan view) Day.
From: peter.gruhn@delta.com (Peter Gruhn) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 05:59:00 -0500 Name: Peter Gruhn Age: 28 M.S.: Single Kids: none "Occupation": programmer # Sets: dunno. 20 # Pieces: some First Sets: Some basic set c 1975 Oldest Sets: ibid. Favorite Set: dunno I'm really keen on my front loader. The newmatic crane just might be a favourite when I get it. I like my Technic n handy lessons for your students set. Favorite Theme:technic town (depending)
From: mike@cs.umd.edu (Mike Steele) Date: 11 Jan 1995 14:07:35 -0500 Name: Mike Steele Age: 20 M.S.: Single Kids: none Employment: Student, part time Unix system administration Number of sets in collection: lost count long ago Number of pieces: billions and billions? :) Oldest set: I have no idea what it was called or what the number was, but it was this set with three of the old-style people with the flexible arms: a mother, daughter, and little boy in a baby carriage. (1977 or '78, I think) Favorite themes: Castle, Space Favorite set in collection: M-Tron Huge Vehicle Thingy, Black Monarch's Castle, Aerial Acrobats -- Mike Steele INET: mike@cs.umd.edu voice: (301)405-2720 Univ. of Maryland Dept. of Comp. Sci. http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/mike
From: altenbur@plains.NoDak.edu (Karl Altenburg) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 18:48:16 GMT Name: Karl Altenburg Age: 28 M.S.: Married Kids: Two Employment: Grad student/computer consultant Number of Sets in Collection: 100+/ plus hundreds of spare parts kits Number of Pieces: Several Thousands Oldest Set: Technic Motor Set from early 80's Favorite Themes: Technic and Duplo Favorite Set: Technic Yellow Front End Loader -- Karl R Altenburg altenbur@plains.NoDak.edu North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105
From: akwong@gundam.Eng.Sun.COM (Anthony Wong)
Date: 11 Jan 1995 19:39:30 GMT
Name: Anthony Wong
Age: 32
M.S.: Married (7.5 yrs)
Kids: Just me
Employment: Electrical Engineer (microprocessors)
Number of Sets in Collection: 30+
Number of Pieces: just the sets
Oldest Set: started collecting 3 years ago
Favorite Themes: Space, Technic
Favorite Set in Collection: Multi Core Magnetizer, any Technic
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.
From: amy_stoklas-oakes@atk.com (First Last) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 18:11:01 GMT Name: Amy Stoklas-Oakes Age: 26 (in 2 weeks) M.S.: Married (to another LEGO maniac) Kids: 1 cat, 1 dog, 1 27 yr old housemate son (Myles) Employment: Process/Manufacturing Engineer # sets in Collection: Ack!!! (to quote others) ?? # of pieces: ACKKKKK!!! (I may have to actually count them) Oldest Set: 6020 Castle Knights Tournament (1986?) Favorite Themes: Castle Favorite Set: 6074 Knights castle
From: dcaudle@lib.auburn.edu (DANA CAUDLE) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 14:28:50 GMT Name: Dana Caudle Age: 28 M.S.: single Kids: None Employment: Librarian No. of sets: I lost count after 50 No. of pieces: enough to fill two 3-cubic meter boxes Oldest set: Town hospital from the 70's Favorite theme: Castle!! Favorite set: Forestman's River Fortress Best accomplishment: I built a two-story gatehouse for one of my castles that had a drawbridge, portcullis, and gates flanked by two towers.
From: jofickli@nmsu.edu (Joey J. Ficklin) Date: 11 Jan 1995 23:36:48 GMT Name: Jordan Ficklin E-mail address:jofickli@nmsu.edu Age:15 Education:Sophomore at Las Cruces High School Occupation: Yeah right! Number of Sets: ?50+? Number of Pieces: 7 cubic feet Favorite Themes: Town and Technic Oldest Set: A fire station no instructions or set number probably 15 yrs old Favorite Set: Technic 9v motor
From: plusch@harlequin.com (Mike Plusch) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 16:56:39 GMT Name: Mike Plusch Age: 26 M.S.: Engaged Kids: 0 Employment: Product manager for computer languages at Harlequin Number of Sets in Collection: 500 Number of Pieces: about 82,000 Oldest Set: '76/'77 Favourite Themes: Technic, (Paradisa and Bellville because of wierd colors) Favourite Set in Collection: Supercar (8880) Been to Legoland: nope. Things that I build: Robots, moving (walking/rolling/climbing) Lego vehicles, and things with lots of motors. Like to Lego-ize non-Lego components such as sensors, computers, replacement metal parts, powerful motors, gearboxes, remote control, etc.
From: ms3079@ARK.SHIP.EDU Date: 12 Jan 1995 02:21:42 GMT Reply-To: ms3079@ARK.SHIP.EDU Name: Matt Sober Age: 20 Location: Shippensburg Pennsylvania M.S.: Single Kids: none Employment: Student (soon to be 2nd Lt. is US Army) Number of Sets: 35+ Number of Pieces: 20,000+ Oldest Sets: Some of the first Universal Building Sets and the Red Tractor Favorite Theme: Technic and just recently Town and Train Favorite Set: Super Car Favorite Thing I've Built: 4WD truck with steering and the 4wd is engaged and disengaged by pneumatics, its comparable in size to Super Car but does have the fancy peices used in that set for AWD.
From: rarz@access3.digex.net (Rod Arz) Date: 11 Jan 1995 22:13:10 -0500 Name: Rod Arz Age: 16 M.S.: Single Kids: None(thank god) Employment: High School Student Number Of Sets in collection: ~30 Number Of Pieces: about 12 sq. feet Oldest Set: Town set from 1984 Favorite Themes: Technics, Space Favorite Set: 6973: Large Ice Planet 2000 Space Ship -- | Rod Arz rarz@access.digex.net : Nemo rarz@sub-zero.mit.edu
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