{"id":648,"date":"2008-07-07T01:02:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T08:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2008-07-07T01:02:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T08:02:17","slug":"the-lego-vault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/07\/the-lego-vault\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lego Vault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <em>love<\/em> Legos.  A lot of people <em>love<\/em> Legos.  One of my favorite blogs Gizmodo <em>loves<\/em> Legos.  Not only did they post about the <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/349929\/best-lego-sets-in-history\/\">best Lego sets in history<\/a> but they recently  <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/legotrip\">paid a visit to Denmark <\/a> and found out in the process that <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5018990\/lego-secret-vault-contains-all-sets-in-history\">Lego keeps a (sort of) secret corporate vault<\/a> that contains every Lego set ever made &#8211; 4,720 in total.  &#8220;Great Googly Moogly!&#8221; and&#8221;Holy Mary Mother of God!&#8221; immediately come to mind.<br \/>\nI could not wait to take a fun trip down memory lane and started to look at some of the photos.  Only a few pics into the stroll I immediately froze, like the proverbial deer in headlights, when I saw the set below:<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevensquared.com\/blog\/galaxyexplorer.jpg\" alt=\"galaxyexplorer.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"279\" \/><br \/>\nI had that one and still have it &#8211; the bricks and hopefully the blueprint are in my Mom&#8217;s attic somewhere.<br \/>\nIn terms of the various Legoland themes, I was always a Lego Space guy.  My grandfather and father instilled in me a love of the cosmos and in very &#8220;chicken and the egg&#8221; type situation, I&#8217;m not sure if my love of space is due to Legos or if my love of Legos is due to the space theme of the bricks I played with as a wee lad.  I never had any Legoland Castle or Town sets &#8211; only Space.  I had about half to three quarters of the sets in the <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/349929\/best-lego-sets-in-history\/\">Legoland Space part of Gizmodo&#8217;s &#8220;Best Lego Sets In History&#8221; photo collection<\/a> and loved every single one of them.<br \/>\nIn terms of time, I must have spent months &#8211; not days nor weeks but months &#8211; during my formative years stooped over hundreds of bricks that were spilled out on my carpet, hunting for the exact brick that I needed in order to either complete the Lego provided blueprint or the one that I dreamt up that day.  I remember my back hurting on many of an occasion due to the hours that I sat Indian style, hunched over looking for these specific bricks.  I remember when Don Mattingly first developed back problems, I thought to myself, &#8220;It must be like he&#8217;s looking for Legos&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m acutely aware of my own childhood now that I see another one unfolding right before my eyes.  I never want to force anything upon my daughter, I want all of her loves to be genuine, but I do hope that she enjoys playing with Legos as much as I did.  Then again, Mega Blocks seem pretty cool too these days&#8230;<br \/>\nVia Neu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Legos. A lot of people love Legos. One of my favorite blogs Gizmodo loves Legos. 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