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February 2006: Due to lack of space (and time), we have filled about 20 tubs full with LEGO and will move them to relatives for storage. Once our kids are older and we have more space and time again, we will pick up our hobby again. Enter the LEGO Dark Ages.

October 2004: The LEGO Dark Ages have slowly settled. Everything 's packed up in tubs with the exception of some buildings. 

August 2003: We are having a bit of a LEGO dry spell: no building activity and no new sets to get excited about. It is 95F outside and even hotter in the attic.

February 2003: Phase 1 and 2 of the attic layout have been completed (a Christmas shipment of bulk pieces did help out here, especially to build the inclines and bridge supports). The last building to be finished was the barn. Click here to go to the picture section.

June 2002: Yeah, the LEGO attic is a reality! We bought wood over the weekend and have created an O-shaped set-up that will allow for a train bridge. Let the building begin (now I can finally start using this web site again). Oh, we visited Legoland Billund! I hadn't been there in at least 20 years!

June 2001: Finally, after a long LEGO dry spell, there is hope once again. The bi-plane release by LEGO is a real winner. The Legend series sounds very promising as well. I am still waiting for more bulk bricks to be added to the list (tan bricks, especially). Our upcoming project will be to recreate part of uptown Oxford, OH. We took tons of digital pictures and we hope to start building as soon as we have some time off (or move). We also finished our McDonalds version (including interior) and will post pictures soon.

November 2000: Kudos to Arne Lykke Nielsen. The 2001 line-up is unspectacular to say the least. At least, I'll be ordering some train door and windows.  

July 2000: We are just lurking until the new 2001 line-up is made public. We picked up our Club Car. Things are pretty slow on lugnet these days.

May 21, 2000: Our LEGO collection has been relocated from the US to Europe and it has merged with its family there. The LEGO group is not doing much to make an AFOL (Adult Fan Of Lego) happy. Of course, the April fool's sets were too good to be true. I am still waiting for LEGO to finally release the new train sets with remote points and the like (yes, they -do- exist!). It may be a little while, though. Other than that, we washed a huge batch of used LEGO (pictures to follow). It is drying in the attic and sets are waiting to be assembled: one big problem: we have no computer in the attic so assembling the sets from the scans that we have on the computer won't be possible. The study is too small to haul all the LEGO down to. In other news: we acquired a used 4547 Club Car on-line for a reasonable price (still way too much for some plastic toy bricks, of course).

September 28: There is hope yet: the new McDonalds sets are not to shabby looking, nor are the Netherlands-only Shell sets. 

July 12, 1999: I got rid off the nice, but excessively used, background created by ChaotX. Replaced it with an image I created myself.

June 17, 1999: Some for sale/trade items have been auctioned off.

May 21, 1999: The long awaited "Bedroom City" pictures, with, among other things, a hospital, lake, and museum were uploaded. The city never was finished to the originally intended proportions but this was a successful experiment nevertheless. 

April 11, 1999: We will hold an auction for old LEGO sets in June 1999. Until then, auction-worthy offers (or trades) will be accepted for LEGO on our for sale/for trade page. Pictures of our town were taken and developed and are awaiting scanning and posting. The city has been taken down and the beginning of a second LEGO-dark ages is starting to kick in (yes, I am amazed too).

February 11, 1999: Pictures of a 12V lay-out with 7 trains and 1980s LEGO town houses were added. Our own city is progressing slowly. We have been postponing to take pictures because we want the set up to be done first. This wouldn't be as much of an issue if we had a digital camera. Maybe some day soon... :-) All unidentified pieces are now...identified! The last tip came from Robert Kreisinger. Thanks!

January 21, 1999: The unidentified LEGO bricks page has been updated. Just a pair of big yellow doors left now. Our town lay-out has been complemented with an art-museum and a post-office. Pictures will be taken on Sunday!

December 31, 1998: We only have a few unidentified LEGO bricks left thanks to several tips! We picked up some stands in IKEA ^* and are now sleeping underneath our LEGO set-up :-). Märklin used to take up so much less space than LEGO does! Where do you put an airport, several space launch thingies, race tracks, and soccer fields? They take up way too much base plate space! Luckily (?), the soccer stadium is still in Europe. We also built the Gas 'N Wash Express which may almost be nicer (certainly more realistic) than the Service Park and Metro Tower. We figured that our current depression about the 1999 LEGO line-up would be slightly reduced by the new service packs but they won't be available until February 1999 (as I just read on rtl :-( ). Picture taking day is getting closer!

December 17, 1998: Well, the pages are actually getting quite some hits (for my standards, at least) so it is time to add some information to our pages again! I will finally have some time around Christmas, so these pages will be revamped.

The hospital is built! It will be part of the city that will be set up starting December 23, 1998. It will have to be in our bedroom for lack of space in the rest of our apartment (and we are not about to sacrifice the computer room!). In fact, the lay-out will need to go over the bed in part :-). Anyway, we will have to go buy some wood (get it cramped into our little car somehow) and some nice stands in IKEA. The set-up will need to be quite large because the airport, the space shuttle stuff, and soccer fields by themselves already take up tons of space. In addition, it would be nice if at least three trains can run at the same time so it will also need quite some rails!  

We finally got our Service Park and Metro Tower (best Town set ever!) sent to us from Europe but quite a few older sets are still in Europe :-(. Anyway, we will be building with what we have here (which is still quite a bit!).

Now we just still have to figure out how to take nice pictures (really, we need to find out what lens to buy). James Mathis (link no longer works) has some great looking close-ups of his mono-rail station that he took with a special lens! 

^{* Very poor selection by the way: everything was sold out in Chicago!}

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