Does any thing in the world sound more exciting than LEGO pieces in an unwrapped package?
For me the ultimate pleasure was receiving a LEGO set as a gift. It was 1979 or early 1980 that my mom bought my first LEGO set, the Police headquarters from the LEGOLAND town.
That night, My dad started building it (apparently it was impossible for me, a 3-4 years old kid, to do it by myself) and later it was completed by one of the relatives who was , I guess, around 12 years old.
The LEGO mini-figures with their eternal happy faces were my lovely friends. They could change their pants, shirts and even their hair and live in my childhood utopia!
Although by Iraqi invasion of Iran in 1980 the LEGO store in Ahwaz was destroyed, it was not the end of my LEGO fantasy. In Tehran, my aunts and uncle supplied me with other 1979-1980 sets.
By 1981 LEGO was gone forever from revolutionized Iran; however fortunately I had a large stock of different bricks to follow my dreams, building my designed submarines, ships, aircrafts, racing cars, and of course houses (even I got some calls for building construction from my grandparents' friends!)- A true fantasizing era for a pre/elementary school kid.
I received the last LEGO set in 1982, a gift form one of my mom's colleagues. It was a part of 1981 LEGOLAND, a propeller rescue airplane. It was more than 20 years ago, but still the sound of shaking an unwrapped LEGO package is something special for me....
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Posted by: Dogboffabsece | Oct 29, 2008 at 11:20 AM