1 Year on Flickr

I really cannot believe that I've been here for a whole year. I can't believe how far we've come in this year. I can't believe that I've been up your butts for a whole year, with my sometimes immature comments and posts. And the self-promotion. But I do know that you guys support me in everything I've done on here, and I am super thankful for that. I was always into Tiny Turbos, ever since I got my first ones at age 4 (from my 2 brothers' Lego collection) in 2006-ish. I always built with Lego, since I was probably 2 1/2, with a box of Lego that my big brothers had. My favorite thing to build was hot rods and crazy looking 3-wheeler-spaceship-boats. I was 3 when my brother got a Lego Racers set, a blue pullback racing rig. I used that pullback motor for everything, including my signature 3-wheeler-spaceship-boat. At age 4, my brother gave me (once again) another Lego set, Cool Cars. It was a yellow supercar with Gullwing doors and a mid-mounted V6. It was love at first sight. I remember the very first Lego set that was ever given to me directly, out of the box, was the Exo-Force Fire Vulture. I had lots of fun with that. On Christmas 2008, I was given a big bulk pack of Lego City sets, thus boosting my love for Lego cars tenfold. In 2010, we were moving to Arkansas, and I was helping my mom in the attic of my Grandpa's house, getting some stuff from her childhood. I came across a bucket of Lego, and a large Boy Scout Popcorn tin full of minifigures. My mom said they were my uncle's when he was little, and I asked him about them. He said I could have them. A whole box of Lego, untouched since probably the mid-90s. It had lots of old Technic parts. There was a train motor, a small round motor, a rectangular motor, and two battery box/remote control bricks. That began my love for mechanical contraptions. Later, my uncle came over to my house for my birthday, and showed me how the motors worked. Then we moved to Arkansas on July 6, 2010. Later that year, I started playing basketball, and met my best friend in the whole world. His little brother had the same name as me. His mom and my mom noticed how well we got along, and they started talking to each other. His mom invited us to their small group bible study, and I got to see them every week. To my pleasant surprise, he had a huge Lego collection. We went to their small group every week until 2013, when a lot of young families with fussy babies and messy toddlers started to attend. I still see my friend every once in a while, but not each week like we used to. Fast forward to December 2014. I found Flickr while browsing around on the web, looking for inspiration for Lego. I found the small Lego Community on Flickr. I had tried MOCPages before, but it just wasn't for me. And the low-quality takeover was happening to MOCPages lol... So after a month of browsing around on Flickr, I decided to create an account. I chose the name UndercoverWookiee for no reason at all, just the two words that popped into my head at the time. I then realized that the name actually had a meaning that made sense. We call my dad Chewbacca sometimes because he has a lot of hair. and since I didn't have a lot of body hair then, I was Undercover, because I always thought I would be as hairy as him one day haha. So I started to post just random things, and then I posted a few TTs. I got really good feedback, so I made more. And more. And more. I was really starting to grow, and I reached 50 followers in early July. In September, I grew to 100, and by December, I had 200. That kind of exponential growth kept me going, and here I am now. Thank you guys so much for all the support and feedback you've given me over the past year, and I hope to have another successful year ahead!

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