Anyone know Darren Smith from Exeter?

[chris_austin]

There was a small 5 line story in The Sun newspaper (UK) yesterday. It may describe several EBer's/AFOLS but his collection is particularly big:

DAZ CAN'T LEGO

Lego nut Darren Smith, 32, is building on his £50,000 collection despite filling his garage and loft with 2 million toy bricks in Exeter.

I just wondered if anyone knows him, has any pictures or knows what he does with his LEGO, i.e. MOCing.

[meschepers]

Here is the full article about him. It's quite a collection he has, almost to the point of having marital issues.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...ks-of-Lego.html

[Shoc]

Whoah, that's a really badly written article!

Besides that, it's a massive collection - I have a lot of Lego and it ends up in different parts of the house - but not that much! Hmm, someone might know him seeing as he is a member of the Brickish Association, and...

now he chats all day to other Lego fans on internet forums.

:skull:

[Zorro]

if I had that much Lego, i would have to hire a security guard... With all those darn kids in da block

[Ralph_S]

I do know him and have met him a few times, because he is indeed a fellow member of the Brickish Association. Obviously this is being discussed in the forums on the brickish website as well and he has been giving his take on it all there 'talking on lego websites all the time'. You shouldn't believe what sewer journalists write. I'd hardly consider the Sun and the Telegraph reliable news sources. They're making it up as they go along, 'quoting' his wife saying things she never said.

He's on flickr as gizmocom

In Brickish we're pretty sure he doesn't actually have the largest collection and he actually never said he did. Another thing they made up. It is among the largest, though.

Cheers,

Ralph

[chris_austin]

Thanks for the replies.

I was just talking to my mum and she saw him on GMTV this morning with some of his MOCs. I was watching the BBC and totally missed it!

[meschepers]

Just so you guys know I am aware that the article is trash. I just posted it because I saw it a few days back on another website.