Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board The TEN YEAR ANNIVESARY thread

<span style="font-size: 20px;"> Happy Anniversary LMBP! </span>

Thanks for all the memories LMBP.

I've been around in some form since the first week of it's inception and have made some great friends through this board.

Looking forward to making new friends as we continue forward!

So many memories...and I've only been here for half the LMBP's existence!

I've also only been around for half that time, but I can't imagine not having this community around! In August 2005 I stumbled across a Legion fan site and never dreamed that the people I met there virtually would truly become friends. Ten thousand one hundred fifty-two inane and non-inane posts, an incredible trip to San Diego and countless memorable moments later, here I am and remain.

Thank you all!

Thank you, Rocky, for helping make this one of the most pleasant places on the web, and for helping keep the great comic strip Peanuts alive in our collective consciousness. I'm very proud to be part of the same Class of 2005 as you, Caliente, and Tamper Lad.

Congratulations, everyone (especially Nighty!). Who would have thought that this would last that long...

I don't necessarily post all that much, but I've been around since the beginning and read a lot of what is here. Always a pleasure hearing about old friends.

Hear Hear!

A special thanks to Nighty for keeping this forum and the dream going from month to month.

Yes. Thank you, Nightcrawler, without whom...?

Happy Anniversary Legion Worlders!! You all make this a very pleasant home.

A very heartfelt thank you to Nightcrawler!

Happy Anniversary, LMBP!

I've only been around for about two years but, in that time, this place has become my favorite online spot. The passion and creativity of the members makes it easy to see why a decade after it's humble beginnings the LMBP is still going strong.

Here's to another 10!

Happy Anniversary LW & Thanks Nightcrawler.

Back when I was a kid who was hooked on the Legion of Superheroes, I never imagined that I'd be part of a thriving community that actually "got it".

That's one of the things I love about LW, the diversity of opinion. I honestly believe that I didn't really "get it" until I joined LW. Before that, I was a casual fan and my real passions were L.E.G.I.O.N. and the Marvel Universe. I'm very grateful that you've all helped me gain a greater appreciation of LSH and the DC Universe.

Well, well, well.

Ten years later.

Ten freaking years later

I was there on Day One and though I was missing for a few brief spells in the earliest years, I’ve basically been around ever since. I really can’t express what the LMB means to me after all these years—I know I’ve tried on past anniversaries. I’m not much of a computer person, and certainly not an online social-networking person. But I’ve continually loved coming online to interact with the LMB steadily for a long time. Its become a part of my lifestyle—it’s a hobby in addition to my comic book collecting hobby (and at times, infinitely more enjoyable). My brother, my Dad, my wife…they all know that I come on to “…that website you always visit”.

When I first joined/co-founded the LMB, I was 18 years old. I was a freshman in college with no idea what I was going to do in life. I had never been on an airplane, I had barely ever spent any time online, I lived in my parents house when I wasn’t at school and I had never been in love. Now its 10 years later and the LMB has seen my grow up, graduate, struggle in relationships, fall in love, get married, get ready to have a baby, get a dog, buy a condo, get a job and now stay at it for several years so I’ve been promoted as a young executive, travel all over the country and so much more.

I’ve literally known Lash, Lardy, Cru, Far, Dev and so many others for 10 whole years. Stu & Pov for 9. EDE for 7. Kent for 7. Stealth and Rocky for 5. And many others in between and since. When you know someone that long you can recall conversations from years earlier. Friendship is an ambiguous indefinable thing that is unique for every two people and I’m thrilled I’ve got some great friendships through the LMB.

A huge amount of love has to go to for creating Legion World and giving this group a home and really holding us together ever since. Also, gets as much love as possible for always being the “spiritual leader” of the LMB since just about its earliest days.

There’s been a lot of laughs and a lot of great friendships. Some real intellectual conversations and some really light-hearted fun. Even the weird, awkward and annoying things we dealt with are kind of funny years later.

And I can’t wait for 10 more years of it.

Bravo, Cobie. Well said.

Glad you mentioned Spellbinder. I miss him and his wonderfully flamboyant Princess persona. He does turn up now and again in the oddest places (the Snuggies thread??) but I'm sure I'm speaking for a lot of people when I say I'd like to see him a lot more.

I was just thinking that 10 years ago at this point I was Married, about to turn 30, and had just found out we were going to have a baby.

10 years later...I'm about to turn 40, still married, and we have two beautiful kids, who share my love for comics characters. My daughter (soon to be 10 herself) has read through all my Legion Archives and said that she cannot wait to join this group someday. My son is 2, and loves Spiderman, jumps up and down when daddy puts on his Flash t-shirt...of which he has the same one. Pictures as soon as possible on that one.

I cannot wait to see whee we all go from here.

Happy Anniversary LMBP and Legionworld.

Some of you I have known since before there was a Legionworld...
Others I have met in the almost 6 years I've been a member here.
All of you I consider friends.
I'd like to thak you now for being there for me during some difficult times, and for celebrating my happiness during some good ones.
And a special thanks goes out to Nightie who has provided this wonderful place for Legion fans, old and new to come together.
Looking forward to the next 10!

Gosh has it really been 10 years?

I think Des said it best with “And I can’t wait for 10 more years of it” . I was there at the start and i fully intend to be here until the end.

When I first came to the LMBP i was gobsmacked. Here was a group of people who knew of and loved the legion. (the fact that you were, in the main, colonials could be forgiven for that one thing alone ) Now at last I could speak to mature sensible adults about a comic book that most of “real life” friends and family just saw it as strange and weird.

Then of course the friendships grew and grew and became stronger and stronger.

When I first came to the LMBP I was married my kids were growing up. The LMBP saw me through the subsequent divorce, the bad times and then the good times as I met, fell in love with and moved in with Jen. Saturnday night Sunday morning conversations with Lardy.

I remember the feeling of trepidation as I boarded that plane and headed across the pond to meet up with Stu and Pov and Cobie and Quis for the first time. And how soon that passed and I knew I had found a bunch of friends. Well, I say “found” but only after I had figured out which end of the subway stairs to stand at.

I smiled as that visit seemed to act as the catalyst and various road trips were organized to Cons around the States. Memories of subsequent visits include certain LMBP’ers being called “Bad Bostonians” Pov being chatted up after losing his driving licence. A very short side trip to Niagara Falls and just stopping myself from shouting across a crowded hotel lobby to Bill, “Hey Loser.....” Cramer bringing mint sauce for Cobies new Girl. Kent driving miles to pick us up from the airport. Then there was the walking tour of New York hosted by Stu. A trip to the DC offices to see the editors of the Legion comic. Then the big one and flying to San Diego for the 50th anniversary. Hearing Abins voice on the terrace of the hotel and that big friendly bear hug that said so much without saying anything. Cali sharing beers with me, CJ’s love of chocolate and pizza and beer on the roof in SD. finally meeting Nighty, after all the grief I gave him on the boards.

Miner, Monkey, Rrockhopper and so many others i may not have named but think so much of, So many memories, so many people to thank.

To those I have met, thank you for being a special part of my life. I hope you stay part of that life for a lot longer.

To those of you I have not yet met “Be afraid, be very afraid”

Yay Faraway Lad!

I'll drink to that!

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*choke* Thank you, everybody, for being here, whether it's been 10 years or 10 days. You're one of the best parts of any day.

And Gary, for all your relentless hard work and all the hours devoted to keeping this place up and running - there isn't a thank you big enough!

I know one highlight for me was actually getting to meet Quis in Boston. Even though it was only an hour or two, it was like seeing an old friend. Conversation was easy, and I felt good that he took me to the same place to eat that you guys made the tables into an L at.

I've talked to several of the LMBP on line, through the miracle of mics and speakers. Beagz southern accent sticks in my mind. Talked to Suddenly Seymour on the phone a couple times, and he even got myself and both kids mentioned in an article he did about Free Comic Book Day.

One-Tenth Lass says, "Thanks, LMB."

That is all.

Love you guys, really I do. Screw Folgers, The LMB is the best part of waking up!

Coming in here always feels like coming home in a way! Happy Anniversary!

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