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Post by Boomer on Dec 4, 2023 3:20:17 GMT
With the return of quite a few users after all these years (LMBE Revival?! ), it would be nice to have everyone do a proper explanation of how things have been going since we all dropped off, So I figured we could have a topic to post life updates.
Additionally, with how small the group is now, not everyone may have known each other, so this will also double as an official introduction to anyone you don't really know yet. With that being said, here's a list of some potential questions to answer. Feel free to answer whichever ones you wish. Also this is by no means a comprehensive list, just some ideas to start conversation.
LMB History
- How long you've been on the LMBs (either the original if you were there or LMBE).
- How long it's been since you were last active.
- Which boards you frequented.
- Any groups you were a part of.
- How you got into the original LMBs if you remember.
- Any fun facts like inspiration behind your username, favorite LMB memory, etc...
- Anything else you wish to add for context, like particular topics, stories, or events you were known for.
About yourself
- Basic stuff like age, current profession/education status, place of origin, etc. to the extent that you feel comfortable.
- Favorite Lego theme and why.
- Favorite things to do/activities you enjoy (besides post here of course ).
- Particular interests/hobbies.
- Anything else you can think of to tell us more about yourself.
Life updates (what's changed since you were last here)
- What have you been up to over the past few years?
- What are the biggest changes in your life?
- Do you still collect/build Lego?
- Have you kept in contact with any LMB friends?
- Anything else relevant to what's been happening in your life.
If anyone has any suggestions for more questions, feel free to comment them!
I guess I'll jump in on this. LMB History - Apparently, I joined the LMBs in 2011, although I don't recall making many posts until 2013.
- I never stopped being active . . . although until recently I hadn't made a post since last August.
- Number 1 is definitely Castle, especially Castle RP. For a long time, I would read every post made on those boards (hence my self-ascribed nickname the King of Castle). I also spent a lot of time on the Kingdoms RP before it ended and various other RPs. I probably joined almost every RP that was vaguely medieval fantasy themed, which was a lot, and most of them died almost immediately.
- As I said, I was big in the Castle RP (perhaps too big). There was a Castle Gallery group that I was in, I think. I also spent some time in Sweets Cafe towards the end.
- I don't know how I got to the LMBs, probably just by browsing the site.
- I did write a couple stories, although I don't think they're particularly well-known (particularly as a majority of them happened here, not on the original LMBs). I also ran at various points a few different GM-style RPs, which I doubt anyone really remembers either.
About Myself
- I'm 23, and I just finished my Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering in May and started working as a Process Engineer at a greenfield EV battery plant.
- It's got to be Castle or Heroica, even though I never owned a Castle set and only have one Heroica set. I really just have a lot of nostalgia for them from the LMBs.
- I read a lot, mainly in the fantasy genre, and I like to walk/hike and sometimes bike (though I don't do those as much as I think I should). For the past couple years, my biggest hobby has been Dungeons & Dragons. I also started writing again recently, very short pieces that I exchange with a friend of mine on a weekly basis.
- That's all I've got.
Life Updates - Well, I've graduated and I have a full-time job, so that's the main thing. I don't really have any other interesting updates.
- See above.
- A little bit. I probably get around 1-2 sets a year at this point, and I still have all my old collection.
- No, but I have been here.
- I got a poinsettia yesterday at a corporate holiday party.
That's all from me.
Rule! Good to see you man.
Congrats on the degree and the job!
You were actually the person who inspired me to try D&D btw.
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Post by Boomer on Dec 4, 2023 3:23:24 GMT
Boomer!!! Good to see you man!!!
You working for an axe-throwing venue is so on-brand. CON!!! good to see you too!
That's what everybody else has told me since I started working there.
What's this I hear about a tiny Con running around btw?
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LEGO Message Boards Username: Shamrock7203
Favorite LEGO theme: Castle Fantasy Era
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Post by Shamrock on Dec 4, 2023 12:44:45 GMT
One of my green sheep has attained physicial form??? Potentially, if it's still sitting in the bottom of my lego bin somewhere. I might've also made a leprechaun at one point as well... I demand you drop everything you're doing and go look for them right this moment.
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Post by Shamrock on Dec 4, 2023 12:45:16 GMT
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LEGO Message Boards Username: Shamrock7203
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Post by Shamrock on Dec 4, 2023 12:50:19 GMT
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Qui
Conquistador
Posts: 5,644
LEGO Message Boards Username: Qui
Favorite LEGO theme: Lord of the Rings
Previously on the LMBs?: Yes
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Post by Qui on Dec 4, 2023 17:30:18 GMT
Potentially, if it's still sitting in the bottom of my lego bin somewhere. I might've also made a leprechaun at one point as well... I demand you drop everything you're doing and go look for them right this moment. Finding them at this very moment would involve leaving college early and missing all my exams.
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Posts: 5,644
LEGO Message Boards Username: Qui
Favorite LEGO theme: Lord of the Rings
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Post by Qui on Dec 4, 2023 17:38:01 GMT
Many of us are progressing in life, building families and becoming ever busier, however, perhaps the next generation of LMB kids may find the same joy in friendship through LEGO as we did? I certainly hope to keep it open as an option, perhaps even with my own kids I hope to have in the future. Regardless, I'll be doing what I can to keep this site going, hopefully with the help of the other amazing members of my moderation and admin teams (as they have done so much for all of us, please applaud them for their hard work), and I will look to become a little more active on here as well. Though, as my LMB history has clearly taught me, I shouldn't make any promises.
A big part of the reason why I wanted to come back and sort of maintain some kind of presence is this right here. MB's gave me a safe and also really wholesome outlet as a kid, kind of a rare and yet necessary thing on the internet nowadays, and if there is gonna be some passing of the torch from the older generation to a hopeful younger generation, then I want to try and at least help keep activity going for now. Big ups to all the mods and admins who are still going This is a legitimately good point though. Back in our day there was a direct market of "Internet places for kids". LMB of course, but you also had stuff like Club Penguin, Poptropica, and things such as. Nowadays that's not a thing anymore. Instead of moderated message boards you got kids on TikTok, and instead of those kid-friendly and relatively safe games the kids are now on Roblox which is a dangerous platform for a myriad of reasons. As the internet becomes more corporatized and centralized, kids these days don't have those same online experiences that we did.
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Post by Qui on Dec 4, 2023 17:42:31 GMT
To be fair though someone with family from Nebraska would say the same thing, so you can see how it's a reasonable assumption. Just never ran into each other?
I've been through Nebraska on the way home from Wyoming. (and technically another time on the way there) Something like that. Even my brother interacted with him more, so when I met him on the other platform I was like, hey my brother built that car for you that one time! Nah it's just an empty patch of land that the government gave a name to. If you happened to see any people you were actually in Kansas or Iowa.
That's pretty cool actually
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Waffle Dee of Revelation
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LEGO Message Boards Username: usually just Waffle or Waffles
Favorite LEGO theme: LOTR and the Hobbit
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Post by Waffle Dee of Revelation on Dec 4, 2023 17:52:30 GMT
It's so wonderful to see so many new users! I'm always happy to talk about (what I remember of) my history on the LMBs, if anyone cares to listen.
LMB History
I first joined the LEGO Message Boards in early November of 2015, introducing myself with an out-of-place topic in the Minecraft forum, as I have recreated as my first topic here, on the LMBE. I quickly joined the Minecraft roleplay, and it was there that I met Starwar4848, who would remain my friend throughout my time on the LMBs. I branched out into the Community Chat forum when I came up with an idea for an LMB-based video game, and wanted to receive the opinions of other users.
From there, I went to the MB Stories forum to post the plot of my game in the form of a story, which inadvertently led to me writing and posting a number of other stories. These stories received moderate appreciation, and fairly consistently starred the user DarkClaw39.
By the time of December of 2015, a christmas party topic was posted in the Jurassic World forum, which I joined, and was where I met several influential users like TheGreatCon and SweetCrazy6 for the first time. I would end up staying in the Jurassic World forum long after the party was over, and if I recall, I became a part of the Sombrero Club back when it was just the Sombrero Trio / Sombrero Four-o =P I had many conversations with exceptionally cool users, including teaching Brian how to use fonts and font colors while on mobile. I also, perhaps most notably participated in the Jurassic World roleplay, which would later prove to be hugely important.
I was also somewhat active in the Ninjago forum, where I met Unikittyswag and wrote fanfiction together =P
I met both glubby (also known as metaknightfan4 ) on a quiz topic he made in the Ninjago forum, and attackpuppy at the aforementioned christmas party, and the three of us became friends in the Jurassic World roleplay after they picked up on a Legend of Zelda reference I made. This led to the creation of the LEGO and Nintendo Fanclub, uploaded in March of 2016 by Glubby after two unsuccessful attempts. I spent most of my time at the LEGO and Nintendo Fanclub, and it very soon began to attract members, including Ciblast , lego1999boyathome, Spiderboy614, Henny4315 , JimiFurno (also known as JimiFurno RedXD001 ), and Sogel Van Rome (also known as Sogel van Rome), among many others. Attackpuppy had to leave on March 16th, shortly after its creation, but the Fanclub persisted in his absence, and spawned at least one sub-topic, the LEGO and Nintendo Roleplay, created by Ciblast I believe.
The LEGO and Nintendo Fanclub and its associated roleplay also survived the LMBs closing down in March of 2017 by moving onto the LEGO General Galleries (and was even succeeded by the Super LEGO and Nintendo Fanclub), and survived the Galleries closing down in turn by moving here!
(out of space, I'll add the other sections as replies to this one. I may enjoy discussing LMB history too much =P ) Waffleboy! Good to see you man! The name's aged a bit poorly, but it's me =P Yes, I'm delighted to see you again! =D It's been, like four years to my memory? =P
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LordTigress
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Posts: 26,757
LEGO Message Boards Username: lordtigress
Favorite LEGO theme: Ninjago
Previously on the LMBs?: Yes
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Post by LordTigress on Dec 4, 2023 18:10:10 GMT
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Posts: 5,644
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Favorite LEGO theme: Lord of the Rings
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Post by Qui on Dec 4, 2023 18:10:51 GMT
I suppose we’re doing introductions once more, let me see how much I can remember ! I started on the LEGO galleries posting, editing and creating short stories about my Lego friends and Lego friends in general. As time went on, and hours of scrolling through Lego.com, I discovered the MBs. I lurked around and read posts and posted a few of my own! I can’t remember how I managed to get so many friends and people to talk to daily. It seemed like one day I was a nobody, and the next I had made so many friends and had so much fun talking to them everyday and messaging them! I can’t remember when or how, but i started Sweets cafe talk, and I remember lots of fond times there! During my time on the MBs, i wrote a lot of short stories about adventures we all had, TheGreatCon , @brian, @king, @zwales, @qui, and many more ! When the MBs shut down, i was still very active on this board site! I’m not sure why i lost interest or why i stopped posting, i think a bunch of users migrated over to a text service, and it was more convenient to talk over there Life got in the way and i started focusing on other hobbies, games and interests, making irls and such. I got through the rest of highschool and then got accepted into university. What comes next? I’m not sure! Glad to see you back! Cafe Talk was one of the biggest topics in CC back in the day! You had some great stories, I gotta reread them sometime.
I think for most of us it was a combination of getting busy with life, and also other people leaving creating a snowball effect of the rest of us dropping off. Looking forward to hearing about whatever's next!
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Post by LordTigress on Dec 4, 2023 18:14:24 GMT
2/2
I think I was fourteen, if not fifteen when I first began posting on the original LMB. I was drawing cartoons and trying to learn how to write stories in between my school assignments in Germany. Now I am twenty-two years old, working on my Bachelor's degree at college in Tennessee, having won awards in literary contests and having my artwork featured in the school magazine, as well as having my first paid commission recently. This summer I'm going to try for an animation internship in order to complete the requirements for my Communications major.
My most recent works that I'm exceedingly proud of (the last two are part of animations I did): ~I remember being a huge fan of Journal of a Creeper. I really need to reread some of the old stories on here.
You art is really good! I have so much respect for animators, I know it's an insane amount of work and practice
Oh cool, someone else remembers it! I remember writing some fairly cringe stuff, but it was a lot of fun and I remember that it was like basically a dozen or so middle schoolers and young teenagers somehow managing to make cohesive plots and character development with absolutely no planning beforehand whatsoever. Kinda impressive in hindsight.
Thank you!! It is... it's a huge pain and really agonizing tbh. (=~=') But I really appreciate hearing that For some reason when I try to tell most people about traditional animation they're just like "oh that sounds like a cute hobby " ... and it drives me INSANE
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Post by LordTigress on Dec 4, 2023 18:17:22 GMT
2/2
I think I was fourteen, if not fifteen when I first began posting on the original LMB. I was drawing cartoons and trying to learn how to write stories in between my school assignments in Germany. Now I am twenty-two years old, working on my Bachelor's degree at college in Tennessee, having won awards in literary contests and having my artwork featured in the school magazine, as well as having my first paid commission recently. This summer I'm going to try for an animation internship in order to complete the requirements for my Communications major.
~School in Germany... were you an MK? Not a missionary kid, but a military kid. My dad had various assignments in Europe for years, along with other countries, so we were already moving every three years.
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Post by Qui on Dec 4, 2023 18:17:47 GMT
The second story is the sequel to Half-Breed. Thank you! Your story was one of the most professionally written MB stories I ever read. If only this second one was in audiobook format, that' the only way I get to book nowadays. I wanna know what happens though. This is probably a pipe dream but it would be really cool to get people on a group voice call at some point and have them read out their old LMB stories.
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Post by LordTigress on Dec 4, 2023 18:20:06 GMT
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It is a bit of a tossup but I really do love Ninjago. For all the faults the show had it feels like the best example of Legos native storytelling with an original IP, with overarching plots and characters, some surprisingly deep themes from time to time, and really cool aesthetics within the sets with the feudal Japanese/modern city mashups! You can tell s series or theme is good/well loved when the creators sort of... run it into the ground *stares at John Flannagan and Rick Riordan with vengeful intent* ~ I know exactly what you mean, it's been such a frustrating, bitter-sweet experience throughout the past 4-5 years. For all it's faults I'm still incredibly fond of Ninjago
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