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Ben Medinets / rollcall

Roll Call Page....more juicey details about me... :)

		Re: Roll Call
<snip> (...) Nice set-up...I should have let a "kung-fu dude" master do the set-up by posting first.... (...) Name: Benjamin Medinets Age: 26 Gender: M Height: 5' 7 Mental Status / Age of inner Child: 14 Occupation: Bum....just kidding :) Actually (...) (23 years ago, 10-Jul-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

Update Year 2003

Name: Benjamin Medinets

Age: 28

Gender: M

Height: 5’ 7

Mental Status / Age of inner Child: 15

Occupation: Millitary / Security AND STILL a student (West Park Secondary School - Lincoln County Board of Education’s Adult Education - Desktop Publishing Program

Location (of both Work and School): Niagara Area

Merital Status: Single (and Still Available!!!)

Children: 0

Hobby: Lego, Lugnet, Bricklink, Brickshelf, E-bay (a lot less than before!)

Favorite Lego Theme: Train, Town, Pirate, Castle, and Paradisa, ...and Mindstorms.

Time on Lugnet: I joined Lugnet (#817) in January, this year (2001)....but seen some portions of the site in 2000 (Pause Magazine portion) ....don’t remember the exact month. Started posting on Lugnet in January 2001.

# of sets in my collection: ???? (don’t know the exact count); best guess is around 835

# of unopened sets in my collection: ??? (don’t know the exact count); best guess is between 85 to 90, at least 150 that are opened but still complete.

# of Lego Pieces: ???? most likely over 130,000 pieces

# of minifigs: ????; I have at least 50 (I have at least 50 from various train sets :) At one point I calculated at 100, this was from my “childhood” collection. Probably now close to 700 altogether, but don’t know exactly because I haven’t done a complete inventory.

# of LEGOfests Attended: 2!! Brickfest 2002, Brickfest 2003. Well, technically 8 Toronto ‘fests (4 Robotics events - rtl 8, 9, and 12; live1) and (4 Train events - Train 1,2,3 and 4), plus various monthly dinners. Also went to 1 LUCNY trainshow (Syracuse Train Fair 2003).

# of Lego Theme Parkes Visisted: 0

First Lego Set: 6385 Fire House I, one of the biggest reasons for my adult obsession with the brick!! :)

First Castle Set owned: 6103 Castle Mini-figures (had to look it up in Pause Magazine’s guide of Lego Castle sets)

Favorite Theme(s): Train, Town, Pirate, Castle, and Paradisa - see above!!

Favorite Set(s) Ownded: 6399 Airport Shuttle, 4558 (Multiple) Metroliner

Favorite Set(s) wanted: 4030 Cargo ship.

Favorite Stock Castle Minifigure: Chrome Knight’s Kingdom.

Favorite MOC Minifigure: Benny Brave.....looks cool with a Royal Knights legs and torso, and a blue racer guy face....real snazzy.

Lego Projects: Paradisaville 1, and 2 (Train1 and 2), Lego Extenda bus, Silver-liner, Church, Town Hall, Dairy Store, Cabin (townhouse), Inn, Microscale Castle

Other interests: is there anything more interesting than LEGO?

Update YEAR 2002

here is an update...

Name: Benjamin Medinets

Age: 27

Gender: M

Height: 5’ 7

Mental Status / Age of inner Child: 14

Occupation: BUM....feel like more and more as the school year winds down Still a student (Niagara University, 4th Year Business Administration (Accounting)

Location (of School): Lewiston, NY

Merital Status: Single (and Still Available!!!)

Children: 0

Hobby: Lego, Lugnet, E-bay, posting pics on-line, publishing sticker designs (well 1 so far!!)

Favorite Lego Theme: Train, Town, Pirate, Castle, and Paradisa, ...and Mindstorms.

Time on Lugnet: I joined Lugnet (#817) in January, this year (2001)....but seen some portions of the site in 2000 (Pause Magazine portion) ....don’t remember the exact month. Started posting on Lugnet in January 2001.

# of sets in my collection: ???? (don’t know the exact count); best guess is around 225 sets....sets have gone up to 532 estimated sets

# of unopened sets in my collection: ??? (don’t know the exact count); best guess is between 10 and 20 sets. Unopened sets have gone up to at least 50 unopened sets (sealed), at least 75 to 80 that are opened but still complete.

# of Lego Pieces: ???? most likely over 100,000 pieces

# of minifigs: ????; I have at least 50 (I have at least 50 from various train sets :) At one point I calculated at 100, this was from my “childhood” collection. Probably now close to 700 altogether, but don’t know exactly because I haven’t done a complete inventory.

# of LEGOfests Attended: 1!! Brickfest 2002. Well, technically 7 Toronto ‘fests (3 Robotics events - rtl 8, 9, and 12) (3 Train events - Train 1,2,3 and 4) plus various monthly dinners.

# of Lego Theme Parkes Visisted: 0

First Lego Set: 6385 Fire House I, one of the biggest reasons for my adult obsession with the brick!! :)

First Castle Set owned: 6103 Castle Mini-figures (had to look it up in Pause Magazine’s guide of Lego Castle sets)

Favorite Theme(s): Train, Town, Pirate, Castle, and Paradisa - see above!!

Favorite Set(s) Ownded: 6399 Airport Shuttle, 4558 (Multiple) Metroliner

Favorite Set(s) wanted: 4030 Cargo ship.

Favorite Stock Castle Minifigure: Chrome Knight’s Kingdom.

Favorite MOC Minifigure: Benny Brave.....looks cool with a Royal Knights legs and torso, and a blue racer guy face....real snazzy.

Lego Projects: Paradisaville 1, and 2 (Train1 and 2), Lego Extenda bus, Silver-liner, Church, Town Hall, Dairy Store, Cabin (townhouse), and Inn

Other interests: is there anything more interesting than LEGO?

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