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joetiger 
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 Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 1:43 pm Post subject: My Daughter's Lego Vanagon |
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So I'm sitting here messing around on my computer, and my 6-year old walks up and hands me her Lego interpretation of a Vanagon.
I am overwhelmed with pride that my kids love the thing to the point of creating art in its image:
(My Pretty Pony in the background, of course.)
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'86 NAHT Vanagon GL Syncro/ supercharged ABA 2.0 "Pigpen"
'04 GTI 1.8T
'04 Golf R32
"get metaphysical with it. if it's simply a means to get to and from places, it will let you down. if it becomes your zen, it can't fail you." -dabaron
"Still, it's good to be afield."--VWagabond
Available Now! Vanagon to Louisiana--A Two-Lane Reckoning Through Past and Present
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guggenheim
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| Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 1:50 pm Post subject: Re: My Daughter's Lego Vanagon |
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| joetiger wrote: |
So I'm sitting here messing around on my computer, and my 6-year old walks up and hands me her Lego interpretation of a Vanagon.
I am overwhelmed with pride that my kids love the thing to the point of creating art in its image:
(My Pretty Pony in the background, of course.)
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cheeseisgood
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| ......only thing missing is a green Lego under the rear for the head gasket lesk! |
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dokarex
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| Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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Looks like what Vw used as a prototype 
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climberjohn
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Great!!!
Thanks for this post, I'm still smiling.
-CJ
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jetta jimmy
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That's awesome! Start 'em young!
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Santana
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Classic!
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pgurnee
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I am jealous. My 8th grader wont be caught dead in my van. The other three arent quite so, ummm, nasty about it. If I pick her up it's got to be in Mom's Sienna. Tsk Tsk Tsk.
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K58
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| Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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I am jealous. My 8th grader wont be caught dead in my van. The other three arent quite so, ummm, nasty about it. If I pick her up it's got to be in Mom's Sienna. Tsk Tsk Tsk.
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that is so cool!!!!
my stepson mad a Westy Lego too. I'll see if I can find it
yeah, my teen used to cry until she realized that sometimes it's the Westy or nothing..haha
the 2 boys love it and in the summer they camp out in the driveway, make jiffy pop and watch movies all night.
because they can..... |
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pgurnee
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Unfortunately I have only the one passenger seat in my van-the rest of the interior is tool boxes.
And coincidentely, tonite the oldest announced at dinner it was about time-this spring-that we started taking family trips to see what there is to see here in NoCa. Now I 'need' a Westy of my own 
Paul
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msinabottle
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| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:06 am Post subject: Good Start! |
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It's a lovely piece, and a good start! Have you told her that she made the Vanagon a little too aerodynamic, though?
BRICK? I WISH IT HAD THAT MUCH STREAMLINING!
Best!
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mikey9
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That is impressive - our three year old did his first and second tractor yesterday - I am so proud 
Dad is 35 years her senior but still enjoying playing with lego. This one lasted about a month before it became.....who knows (although I can still identify the hi-top in the box-o-bits)
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j8
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| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:38 am Post subject: |
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man joetiger, thanks for the smile. this is GREAT.
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joetiger
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Thanks!
I just showed her this thread. She looked at mikey9's Lego Westy and said, "I need more Legos."
Being the pushover that I am, it's off to Target in a few...
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Joe T.
'86 NAHT Vanagon GL Syncro/ supercharged ABA 2.0 "Pigpen"
'04 GTI 1.8T
'04 Golf R32
"get metaphysical with it. if it's simply a means to get to and from places, it will let you down. if it becomes your zen, it can't fail you." -dabaron
"Still, it's good to be afield."--VWagabond
Available Now! Vanagon to Louisiana--A Two-Lane Reckoning Through Past and Present
www.josephtrussell.com |
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Brian556
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Check the fuel lines!
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noganav
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| I was just thinking the other day that I had never seen a pink Vanagon. Now I have, and a nice one too. Thanks! |
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