{"id":8061,"date":"2012-03-02T21:31:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T02:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=8061"},"modified":"2012-03-02T21:32:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T02:32:13","slug":"who-owns-the-worlds-most-legos-a-us-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/03\/who-owns-the-worlds-most-legos-a-us-marine\/","title":{"rendered":"Who owns the world's most Legos? A US Marine."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2092750\/Marine-Corp-Captain-Kyle-Ugone-sets-Lego-collection-world-record-1-091-completed-sets.html\" target=\"_blank\">this article in <i>The Daily Mail<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One ardent Marine has been collecting Lego sets from the age of five and has now accrued - and built - a staggering 1,091 Lego sets, which are proudly displayed in his home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GWRLego1.jpg\" title=\"his own private Legoland\" width=\"450\" height=\"295\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The meticulous hobby has earned Captain Kyle Ugone the title of world champion for the most completed Lego sets in a private collection.<\/p>\n<p><!--But now that Capt. Ugone has the Guinness world record, he says he'll slowly begin taking down the sets, which are eating up a large area in his Yuma, Arizona home.\n\n\"I got my first set as a gift when I was 5 years old,\" Capt. Ugone told the American Foreign Press Service. \"It's a windmill and I still have it today. From there,\" he said, \"I kept getting more and more sets.\"\n\nThe Guinness record states he has 1,091 sets, but according to the press service, it's 1,251 sets.\n\nAnd they're not simply starter kits. One contains more than 5,000 individual blocks.-->[...]<\/p>\n<p>Rooms in Capt. Ugone's house are full to the brim of Lego sets, which are separated by genre. There are sections devoted to space, others to trains, castles, architecture, and Star Wars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GWRLego2.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 Jared Dort\/Yuma Sun\" width=\"450\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>The Lego enthusiast first got the idea to go for the world record in 2009, after talking to other collectors online.<\/p>\n<p>\"I was talking to a guy who said he wanted to build every set Lego has ever made,\" Capt. Ugone said. However, some sets are incredibly rare. Others are available only in certain parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>After contacting Guinness, he discovered that no record yet existed for the most privately-owned Lego sets, but they required at least 500 for a record to be declared.<\/p>\n<p><!--He said he had around 600 to 700 sets at the time. \"I spent a lot of time scouring the internet to purchase more sets and built them,\" he said.--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GWRLego3.jpg\" title=\"Captain Ugone with his Guinness certificate, the Millennium Falcon, and his first set\" width=\"375\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ugone's latest hobby, he tells the American Forces Press Service, will most likely be restoring an old muscle car. In the meantime, he will slowly disassemble the thousand-plus sets to reclaim some of his space at home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He's taking them apart? <a href=\"http:\/\/nooooooooooooooo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Noooo!<\/a> Face it, building 1200 Lego sets is a <b>ton<\/b> cooler than restoring a car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least, according to this article in The Daily Mail: One ardent Marine has been collecting Lego sets from the age of five and has now accrued - and built - a staggering 1,091 Lego sets, which are proudly displayed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/03\/who-owns-the-worlds-most-legos-a-us-marine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lego","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8061"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8073,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8061\/revisions\/8073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}