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Rec.Toys.Lego Roll Call/ De-lurking Form (Version 3.1) [updated/edited May 2000]

Name: Tim "Teem" Lasko
Gender: male
Year of Birth: 1961
Mental Age/Status of Inner Child: 9 (But I've got credit cards!)
Location: Nashua, New Hampshire
E-mail Address: legoteem on AOL, Yahoo!® Geocities and elsewhere
Marital Status: Single, but still taken.
Children: None that I'm aware of, but I'm a deep sleeper. I'm sure my sweetie would have told me...
Occupation: Overstressed Software Engineer/Project Leader

# of Sets in LEGO Collection: GAH! I lost track three [six] years ago. I said 600 then. [In 1997, I had] about 60 sitting on the living room floor right being demolished and sorted into the existing collection. [In 2000, most of the collection moved recently and it filled a 10 foot U-haul truck up to about 2/3 high. I still haven't found out if everything made it in good condition.]
# of Unopened Sets in Collection:[In 2000, a few hundred. No, I'm not kidding but that does include a *lot* of plastic bags.]
# of LEGO Pieces: Oh, please.
# of LEGO Theme Parks Visited: sigh, none

First LEGO Set: Basic Set 105...I still have the box and probably all of the pieces, although last year I found out my kid sister was holding out on me! Many years ago when my brother and I vacated the house to go to college, she crawled through the basement and collected every stray piece of LEGO she could find. (She was eleven then.) I got to see the good-sized box she has been hoarding all these years. Lots of classic 70's pieces. Grrrr.... [2000 update: She went and got married (Grrrr...) and *still* has the old LEGO! GRRRRRR!!!]

Favorite Theme(s): Town Town Town Town [ninja] Town (castle) Town (wild west) Town (anything that I can take apart and use for Town) Town (did I say Town?)

Favorite Set(s): I love any of the Town sets from the early 70s--before minifigs had faces and even before minifigs. Basic set 730; the classic "trees and flowers" accessory set; Basic Set 725 (I still have about six unopened right now); oh, and Pizza to Go (forgot the number), a very fun set with those shallow corner pieces. My favorite sets are those that generate good parts. For instance, the [1997] Metro PD Station has those GORGEOUS black windows that I want to incorporate into my own designs.

Favorite Piece(s)/Minifigure(s): my two orange bricks (c. 1970); the minifig of the ever-tolerant nikin based on the "Joe Cool" head w/blue sunglasses, black body, long brown hair, and the black, um, vine; any bevelled brick is great and I especially like black and blue ones; the big grey castle arches; I've become especially fond of thin wall pieces and the extreme slope 6x8x1 roof bricks.

Current LEGO Project: [As of this writing, getting this page up and running.]

Other (Non-LEGO) Interests: As before, that's still an open question. My main interest is the ever-tolerant nikin, the SO, my love, my life, my joy, my muse, my passion and my heart. My sweetie still has the power of finding, which helped me in several clearance sales [in 1996 and 1997] and even helped me spot a few old Blacktron sets at Zellers during [a 1997] Canada trip that I picked up on reflex. Her count is now up to [eleven] states, two provinces, and [three] other countries. I love her tremendously. Even more than my LEGO, although she may not think so. Other than LEGO and my sweetie, our interests include live-action role-playing and costumery (No, we do NOT dress up as minifigs; she wouldn't for one and she'd kill me if I did!). We play train games, build Wattersonian snowmen, enjoy lapidary, science fiction, and good food. We also travel, shock the locals, and enjoy the childhoods that we missed out on for one reason or another. I enjoy a few other things that my sweetie does not, and vice versa. This is goodness. There are other things as well but I will not share them here. Do not let one interest consume you.