{"id":471,"date":"2006-02-21T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/21\/before-the-dark-ages\/"},"modified":"2017-04-23T21:31:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T02:31:51","slug":"before-the-dark-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/21\/before-the-dark-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the Dark Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OfUwGJqKi-8\/SUliVFlCpJI\/AAAAAAAAASM\/Zmtrj1W6yAY\/s1600-h\/display_cgi.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OfUwGJqKi-8\/SUliVFlCpJI\/AAAAAAAAASM\/Zmtrj1W6yAY\/s320\/display_cgi.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I started into Lego around the age of 6-7 years old. I remember having something similar to #<a href=\"http:\/\/guide.lugnet.com\/set\/460_1\">460<\/a> (Rescue Units), maybe the #<a href=\"http:\/\/guide.lugnet.com\/set\/455_1\">455<\/a> (Learjet), and some generic universal building set from the 70&#8217;s. And that was it &#8212; Lego was expensive and my parents couldn&#8217;t afford much more.<\/p>\n<p>I had acquired a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mike-sells.com\/\">Mike Sells<\/a> potato chip box from my uncle and kept my Lego bricks there, along with some American Plastic Bricks, Tinker Toys, green army guys, dice, jacks, pennies&#8230; and kept other hand-me-down toys in it.<\/p>\n<p>The building set had this green 10&#215;20 base brick (there were no row of tubs on the underside, so you could only connect bricks to the top of the base brick). I remember trying to build a house with it, but never seemed to have enough bricks to build it completely.<\/p>\n<p>I remember being frustrated with building: I never seem to have enough bricks to build what I wanted to and I never seem to have enough bricks in the same color I wanted to build in; because the stupid American Bricks would never connect to Lego (but that wasn&#8217;t Lego&#8217;s fault), I was frustrated with not having enough windows or doors; and I had lost the instructions and boxes, so I could never figure out how to rebuild the helicopter, ambulance, or jet.<\/p>\n<p>By Christmas a few years later, Star Wars had come out and I became hooked on Star Wars action figures&#8230; My Lego affinity was short lived&#8230;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=brickbuildr\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started into Lego around the age of 6-7 years old. 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