The Lego stadium that might be saving lives - ESPN

HE REACHES IN and palms 1 feline by the caput and cautiously lowers him into a seat. Then helium grabs different feline by his torso and dilatory helps him find a home, too.

Dr. Paul Janssen's method looks an atrocious batch similar either a surgeon doing a analyzable country oregon a precise aggravated crippled of Operation. His limb goes consecutive out, past consecutive down, cautious not to disturb thing nearby.

As helium works wrong this ample solid enclosure successful the mediate of the Ohio State library, helium doesn't adjacent announcement that 3 funny radical -- presumably, an Ohio State student, with her ma and dada -- are gathered extracurricular staring successful astatine his cautious craftsmanship. For 5 minutes, helium repeats this question 42 times. As Janssen winds down, the 3 observers leave. Janssen is near conscionable holding a tiny rectangular integrative baggie, present devoid of 42 tiny people.

Every week oregon two, Janssen comes implicit to the schoolhouse library, hikes up 1 acceptable of stairs and walks into a Buckeye football grounds wherever his large 11-year-old Lego kid is the prima of the show. It's a 200-pound "miniature" replica of Ohio Stadium, built by Janssen implicit the people of 4 years, utilizing astir 700,000 Legos that person a worth of astir $100,000. The existent stadium lurks connected the horizon, possibly a five-minute locomotion away, and yet someway the ceramic mentation seems to gully much oohs and aahs.

Janssen talks astir his ceramic babe portion lasting beside it. He is simply a humble antheral and objective with his words. But it's intolerable for him to wholly motion disconnected his accomplishments arsenic some a Lego mastermind and a renowned bosom researcher astatine Ohio State. He tries to telephone himself a "geek" and disregard what has been a beingness of toiling each time to find the adjacent tiny breakthrough successful bosom health, past evenings successful his basement putting unneurotic the adjacent tiny elephantine Lego build. If Paul Janssen is simply a geek, past the satellite needs much geeks.

Most of Janssen's bosom probe happens softly successful a lab, archetypal hunched implicit microscopes and past cautiously laid retired successful published probe papers and assistance applications. So this Lego A-lister happening tin beryllium overwhelming astatine times. Around the aforesaid infinitesimal helium says this, helium takes a measurement backmost due to the fact that abruptly 3 acquainted faces person sidled up beside him. It's Mom, Dad and Student again -- they've travel wrong the glass-encased grounds and are present taking photos and not-so-subtly eavesdropping. They're not purposely boxing retired Janssen ... but he's been Ben Wallaced retired of the mode astatine this point.

He's saying that helium archetypal finished the stadium a decennary ago, and it got tons of headlines backmost then. In the years since, he's made respective renovations to the stadium to support up with real-life changes. But the stadium's 15 minutes of fame seemed to person travel and gone, and Janssen thought possibly it would unrecorded retired its days successful his basement. Then the schoolhouse called with a proposal: How astir putting it connected show successful 2022 to observe the 100th day of Ohio Stadium?

The reply was yes. Janssen isn't looking to get affluent and celebrated disconnected his Lego creations, but helium is an artist, and each creator wants to spot their creation connected display. So the stadium is successful the mediate of its 2nd 15 minutes close now.

Mom, Dad and Student are inactive meandering astir the stadium arsenic Janssen begins to speech astir getting it from his location to the 2nd level of the library. It took 2 assemblage workers respective hours to battalion up and transport the stadium. Janssen nonchalantly says they had lone a fewer pieces that came escaped getting it into the glassed-in room, wherever helium patched it up.

"Legos don't break," helium says. "They conscionable travel apart."

"That's what helium says," assemblage archivist Tamar Chute chimes in. "The 2 guys who did it said it was the astir nerve-racking happening they'd ever moved."

Everybody laughs, including Mom, Dad and Student.

That leaves 1 large question, though: What's the value of the 42 radical who arrived today? As Janssen describes what those 42 tiny Lego figures represent, everybody successful the country -- including the 3 randos -- devotes their afloat attention.

Turns out, those 42 Lego figures mightiness each beryllium playing a tiny portion successful solving 1 of the large still-unsolved mysteries of the quality body: How does a bosom really work?

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, contempt being 1 of the astir studied areas of nationalist wellness for decades, our knowing of what precisely causes a bosom to pump -- oregon halt pumping -- is inactive not complete.

That invigorates radical similar Paul Janssen. When helium went to aesculapian schoolhouse successful the Netherlands, helium knew helium didn't privation to beryllium a aesculapian doctor. He liked studying the assemblage much than trying to repair it. So helium chose to prosecute a vocation arsenic a researcher and yet settled connected the bosom due to the fact that helium couldn't judge it inactive held truthful galore secrets.

"We truly lone cognize the extremity of the iceberg," helium says.

Janssen graduated from aesculapian schoolhouse and came to the U.S., archetypal astatine Wake Forest for his master's, past astatine Johns Hopkins for postgraduate work, yet taking a occupation astatine Ohio State arsenic a hybrid teacher-researcher.

For a little tally successful his aboriginal Ohio State days, Janssen and a young workfellow from the engineering department, Benjamin Coifman, adjacent taught a people for freshmen called The Art and Science of Lego Bricks. The textbook was conscionable a large tub of Legos. "Perhaps the happening I similar champion astir Paul is, you enactment maine successful a country afloat of mean people, I'm the Lego weirdo," Coifman says. "You enactment maine adjacent to Paul and I look normal."

As their teaching portfolios grew, though, some Coifman and Janssen had to determine what to specialize successful ... portion letting spell of the freshman Lego class. "It was a precise amusive people portion it lasted," Coifman says.

Coifman got hyperfocused connected possibly his favourite civilian engineering taxable -- wide transportation, specifically the riddle of however and wherefore postulation jams hap -- and has go 1 of the nation's foremost experts connected postulation travel and operator tendencies. Janssen's bosom has ever been successful the heart. More specifically, the mode the bosom rests successful betwixt its 100,000 beats per day. He says erstwhile helium started, successful the mid-1990s, astir 90% of his colleagues were focused connected however to forestall bosom nonaccomplishment by making the bosom stronger.

Janssen became enamored with a tiny subset of researchers who made the lawsuit that much resources should beryllium devoted to a counterintuitive conception -- that the relaxation of the bosom is arsenic important arsenic however hard it pumps.

As Janssen explains it, the bosom is the quality body's astir important muscle. It beats an mean of 35 cardinal times per year, which means it has to clench, relax, past clench again astir 72 times a infinitesimal for astir adults. If thing is haywire with the mode a bosom rests and regroups, Janssen says, past axenic spot doesn't substance arsenic much. Janssen's enactment is not sexy. He believes we present recognize astir 80% of what makes the bosom tick, truthful discoveries are incremental and announced successful obscure journals and aesculapian conferences.

His proudest nonrecreational accomplishment is establishing a first-of-its-kind bosom donation programme astatine Ohio State. He created an intricate strategy for respective Ohio hospitals to donate defective hearts from transplant recipients to his lab, and besides steadfast hearts from organ donors. Since the programme began 10 years ago, Janssen's laboratory has gotten astir 110 of each (220 hearts total) that are studied by module and students. As Janssen walks done his lab, helium toggles seamlessly betwixt talking astir the intricacies of the quality bosom and besides however loaded Harry Potter Hogwarts Lego castle sets are. In the inheritance lurk 2 elephantine metallic freezers that accidental connected the extracurricular that they are acceptable to minus 80 degrees Celsius (minus 112 Fahrenheit). That's wherever they support the hearts that Janssen and his unit person secured.

He moves into different portion of his lab, wherever helium houses each of their high-tech, $5,000-plus microscopes utilized for their research. Funding for the laboratory comes chiefly from grants that Janssen and his squad continuously use for, and Janssen has a beauteous bully batting mean connected knowing however to onshore a multimillion-dollar grant.

But helium besides has figured retired a mode that Legos tin supply a fewer bucks for his research. That's wherever those 42 Lego figures travel into the representation again.

A fewer years ago, idiosyncratic successful the selling section had an idea: What if they started selling seats successful the stadium? Maybe complaint $25 truthful Bob and Barb Bucknut could enactment Lego versions of themselves successful Janssen's creation?

The answer, again, was a large thumbs up. The enactment helium does astatine his laboratory doesn't make elephantine breakthroughs that halt the aesculapian satellite cold. So Janssen and his unit walk a batch of clip and wealth publishing papers, past traveling to conferences to denote their findings. Another $250,000 from selling 10,000 Lego figures could bash a batch of bully successful helping get the connection retired connected his latest research, usually 1 $950 roadworthy travel astatine a time.

Orders came successful dilatory and dependable astatine first. Every week oregon two, he'd cheque an online spreadsheet and spot that different 9 oregon 14 radical wanted a spot, and he'd assemble that fig of tiny small people, usually with a reddish Ohio State-looking garment on. The room has added a QR codification beside the grounds truthful radical tin motion up connected the spot arsenic they marvel astatine it. Janssen believes helium inactive has country for astir astir 9,000 much seats.

One antheral reached retired to acquisition a spot for him, his woman and kids, and helium asked if helium could wage much than the $25 per person. He'd gotten a bosom transplant from Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center and wanted to springiness backmost ... by donating $50,000 for 4 seats. That's been a immense chunk of the $90,000 the stadium's seating has pulled successful truthful far.

But the 3 seats helium gave retired for free, astir 10 years ago, mode earlier the laboratory donation idea, mightiness beryllium his favorites. He'd gotten a telephone 1 time from a antheral who said his grandfather, Howard Dwight Smith, had been the designer of the existent Ohio Stadium. The antheral said helium was calling for his sister, who work astir his Lego replica and wanted to cognize if she could spot it herself. They figured retired a bully clip for her and her kids to sojourn his house. The woman's name? Beverly D'Angelo.

A fewer weeks later, the doorbell rang and determination was Beverly D'Angelo and her 2 kids. They climbed down the stairs into the basement astatine Janssen's aged house, and helium gave them the tour. They couldn't judge the size of his collection, and Janssen didn't adjacent archer them that helium was renting a retention shed for $300 a period for the different fractional of his Legos.

When helium unveiled the stadium, D'Angelo and her kids loved it. They asked if they could instrumentality immoderate photos with it, and Janssen volunteered to beryllium their photographer. He took a few, past handed backmost their phones.

After a fractional hr oregon so, D'Angelo thanked him profusely for his time. She felt honored connected behalf of her grandfather, and erstwhile they got to his beforehand door, D'Angelo said, "Thank you truthful overmuch for your generosity. If you're ever successful California, delight halt by."

As they walked to the car, the past happening Janssen heard was 1 of the kids say, "Man, that feline truly loves Legos."

IN THE LATE 1930s, a Danish carpenter with a knack for making toys created The Lego Group, with the connection "Lego" being a riff connected the Danish operation for "play well." And erstwhile Ole Kirk Kristiansen launched the company, helium insisted that Lego would chopped nary corners, adjacent if it outgo much to nutrient his colored bricks. "Only the champion is bully enough," helium said.

Over the years, Lego has remained family-run and stuck to that elemental premise that possibly their bricks volition necessitate an other week of allowance much than different toys, but they volition not beryllium chintzy. Janssen cites 1 caller survey that had a instrumentality propulsion isolated Legos and past reassemble them 10,000 times and recovered virtually zero diminishments successful what's known arsenic "clutch power." Almost each genitor volition vouch for the sturdiness of Legos with a communicative of stepping connected 1 successful the mediate of the nighttime and screaming thing resembling "Clutch power!"

But by the mid-1990s, Lego was limping on with indebtedness determination successful the scope of $800 million, with an expired patent that allowed different ceramic builders to surge into the market. The institution was stalling out.

The artifact manufacture has ever been oddly faddish and fickle, with technological advances and eras rendering toys obsolete from procreation to generation, sometimes adjacent from 1 Christmas to the next. Furbys, Teddy Ruxpin, POGs, Zhu Zhu Pets ... the graveyard of items that were fall's hottest toys and adjacent summer's apical gait merchantability giveaways is agelong and sad. Throw successful the emergence of video games and gadgets starting successful the mid-1980s done now, and Lego was facing an uphill conflict successful surviving a precise hard business.

Then the institution made a game-changing decision. In the run-up to Lucasfilm releasing Episodes I, II and III from 1999 to 2005, Lego reached an statement to nutrient "Star Wars" sets. Say what you volition astir those 3 movies, but they made $2.5 cardinal astatine the container bureau and brought retired millions of nostalgic parents with their kids. That generational span saved the company.

About 20 years later, Lego is astir apt the astir palmy modern artifact ever invented, with licenses to nutrient sets for Star Wars, Marvel, Disney Princesses, Jurassic Park, Ninjago, Super Mario, Minecraft and others. There person been 4 deed Lego movies that someway pulled disconnected being some a small edgy and 100-minute merchandise placements. By 2021, Lego had $8.06 cardinal successful artifact sales, the highest successful the world, conscionable up of No. 2 Hasbro ($6.42 billion) and No. 3 Mattel ($5.48 billion), according to artifact historiographer Richard Gottlieb.

Gottlieb, the laminitis of Global Toy Experts, adds an important caveat astir Lego's dominance. Hasbro includes income of Transformers, G.I. Joe, Peppa Pig, Nerf and a twelve different properties; Mattel is Barbie, Hot Wheels, American Girl, Fisher-Price and more. Lego is conscionable Legos.

"Lego is the No. 1 artifact successful the world, and astir apt the No. 1 artifact produced successful the past 100 years," Gottlieb says. "And I'm not definite that volition alteration immoderate clip soon. It doesn't substance however aged you are, radical inherently similar to physique things."

The 1 sound connected Legos is the terms point. It's not an casual hobby for a kid to get into for $5 oregon $10. Janssen and different Lego enthusiasts don't disagree, but wonderment what kids' hobbies -- Legos, Barbies, distant power cars, video games, shot cards, immoderate -- tin beryllium done for little than $100 anymore?

The cardinal to Janssen's occurrence is that helium was an aboriginal adopter successful what has go a booming secondary marketplace for Legos. He buys plentifulness of Legos similar everybody else, astatine stores oregon connected the institution website. But Janssen's concealed is that helium is an online Lego wizard.

Hitting secondary marketplace sites similar BrickLink and eBay, Janssen spots sets that helium wants, past carves them up and sells disconnected idiosyncratic pieces helium doesn't request -- particularly the small figures successful galore sets -- to not lone retrieve what helium spent but to marque money. He particularly makes a sidesplitting by buying Harry Potter sets, keeping the pieces and bundling the Potterverse characters to merchantability to collectors. He'll sometimes wide retired full post-holiday inventories of stores, past hold a twelvemonth (or 2 oregon three) earlier selling them online. It's the equivalent of buying each of Walgreens' clearance Valentine's Day worldly astatine 90% off, eating fractional of it, past selling the remainder astatine afloat terms adjacent February.

"Paul figured retired however to bargain and merchantability patiently," Coifman says. "Before you knew it, helium was gathering skyscrapers that were $5,000 worthy of bricks. He was a rags to riches Lego buyer."

In fact, for astir of the past 20 years, Janssen has had to record an yearly taxation instrumentality for the wealth helium brings in, which has ranged from a fewer 1000 dollars arsenic precocious arsenic mid-five figures. He is stockpiling a Lego warehouse portion making money.

For the stadium, Janssen utilized each of his Lego economist skills. He drew up a monolithic diagram of what helium would request utilizing photos -- immoderate from aerial images, immoderate helium took himself astatine location games. He needed monolithic amounts of basal blocks, which helium mostly could propulsion from his already existing inventory.

But past helium ran into a communal occupation for Lego "purists," the word helium and different builders usage for those who garbage to cut, glue oregon overgarment blocks. Everything helium builds indispensable people beryllium successful a set, with nary adaptations allowed. For Ohio Stadium, helium needed 60 to 70 curved arches for the apical of the stadium, the benignant that isn't produced often by Lego.

He yet discovered a acceptable sold lone successful Europe successful the precocious 1970s and aboriginal 1980s. Each acceptable included 2 arches that looked cleanable for his stadium project, truthful helium methodically began placing orders from sellers each implicit the world. He'd bargain 1 oregon 2 astatine a time, chipping distant astatine the 30 to 35 sets helium needed. After months of hunting and gathering, Janssen yet had each arch helium needed. Then helium bundled up the different bricks and sold them online, fundamentally breaking adjacent by the clip helium was done.

At the extremity of a circuit of the stadium astatine the library, past a halt astatine his bosom lab, Janssen considers a petition to travel to his location and spot his collection. He doesn't respond astatine first. Instead, helium pulls retired his telephone and plays a video.

"Take a look astatine this and archer maine if you're inactive interested," helium says.

He'd taken a 30-second video of his basement and astir 1.3 seconds in, aft conscionable seeing the vastness of colored blocks covering 2,000 quadrate feet, level to ceiling ... the reply is yes. If it's bully capable for Ellen Griswold, it's bully capable for ESPN.

JANSSEN OPENS HIS FRONT DOOR and points toward the basement steps. He is thin and energetic. At 54, helium doesn't tally marathons anymore, but helium inactive looks 4 weeks of grooming distant from a caller idiosyncratic record.

He speaks 4 languages, and you tin observe the slightest Dutch undercurrent successful his dependable sometimes. He has 3 kids from his archetypal marriage, 22, 20 and 15 years old, and a 5-year-old lad with his 2nd wife, Nona.

He met her online, and connected their archetypal fewer dates, helium went retired of his mode to casually notation his affection for Legos. Eventually, helium invited her to his house, wherever helium cautiously waited for her absorption erstwhile helium showed her his Legos.

"This is cool," she said. "It's, uh, decidedly thing I haven't seen before."

He has a sheepish grin connected his look arsenic helium tells that story. They got joined soon after, and helium present has a 5-year-old Lego buddy helium has to prime up from preschool successful a fewer hours. As helium heads down to his Lego sanctuary, helium has a gleam successful his eye, similar helium knows he's astir to boggle the mind.

Mission accomplished. His basement is unbelievable. It's colorful and joyous and messy successful immoderate spots, incredibly organized successful others. The quality of Legos is that adjacent successful a massive, disjointed mound, there's bid and serenity and imaginable to beryllium discovered within.

The main abstraction features each sorts of large builds, positive a tiny country wherever his lad tin build. Janssen entered 2 nationalist Lego gathering contests, successful 2005, and helium won them both, archetypal with a elephantine South Carolina location helium chose from the nationalist registry of humanities homes, past with a New Orleans skyscraper the adjacent year. Both reside here. There is 1 four-foot-long Titanic and 3 antithetic two-foot-high Statues of Liberty, each requiring astir $1,000 worthy of pieces. He has plans to teardrop them apart, bargain much pieces and Voltron them into 1 giant, human-sized Lady Liberty. On the wall, helium has stationed each bid acceptable that Lego has ever produced (about 50).

And the Lego unit is beardown successful this 1 basement. Janssen has astatine slightest 4 completed Millennium Falcons spaced retired crossed the rooms, and his fig crippled is disconnected the charts. He has tiny bleacher-like setups for hundreds and hundreds of small Lego Storm Troopers and Chewbaccas. He has 2 Yoda figures successful "I Love NY" shirts that were handed retired astatine New York Comic Con a fewer years ago, truthful determination are lone astir 1,000 successful existence. He believes helium could get $2,000 a portion for them close now.

Janssen turns the corner, into the retention country of his Lego lab. He has a backmost country that has ceiling-high shelves packed in, with conscionable capable country for 1 idiosyncratic to maneuver, and the aged sets and pieces he's acquired spell 8 feet high. There's a bully accidental that his backmost country is bigger and amended than immoderate Lego stores.

And close determination successful the middle, connected a table, sits Janssen's adjacent summation to the Lego stadium. It's a cleanable model into however helium works his Lego magic.

He's putting unneurotic a caller tract for the stadium, implicit with a re-creation of the Ohio State set dotting the "i." The Best Damn Band successful the Land has 225-plus quality members, but Janssen believes he'll lone person abstraction for 90 mini trumpet, trombone, sousaphone and snare drum players.

But helium realized aboriginal connected that the sousaphones were going to beryllium a problem. He needed immoderate benignant of bendable pieces to beryllium the main conduit coming retired of the instrument, and the champion acceptable happened to beryllium an obscure large rig sold lone successful Europe successful the 1980s. The motortruck has an exhaust tube that looks similar the extremity of a sousaphone.

So helium ordered 4 sets from Germany and 1 from Denmark. He pulled the makeshift sousaphone conduit pieces, past started selling disconnected the remainder of the set. He ended up successful the green, somehow. Now he's grinding distant successful 1 of 2 store areas successful the basement. He wants to adhd the set by the clip Ohio State welcomes Michigan connected Nov. 26. In mid-October, Janssen was inactive a small disquieted astir getting the past shipment from Denmark successful time.

The stadium is connected show done February, past the library's solid country changes to different exhibit. Janssen plans connected taking the stadium location aft that, but his eventual extremity is that it doesn't unrecorded with him. "I'd similar for radical to beryllium capable to spot the stadium and bask it," helium says.

He's optimistic that someplace volition privation to showcase it, possibly adjacent a 2nd showing astatine the Columbus Museum of Art, which paid him years agone to marque an nonstop replica of the Columbus Museum of Art to show astatine the Columbus Museum of Art. Maybe the Mini Museum would beryllium funny successful a Lego buddy.

As Janssen winds his mode done his basement, helium pauses for a afloat 5 seconds to contemplate a question helium has nary bully reply for. Where does his emotion of Legos travel from? What's astatine the basal of his passion?

After a agelong silence, helium considers a suggestion. Perhaps his psyche needs the precision of gathering with blocks aft spending each time successful a lab, a drawstring of 9-to-5s wherever he's trying to ace the codification of the quality heart. Down present successful his basement, possibly there's a quality to the rigidity of smashing unneurotic 1 Lego to the next, with a circumstantial finished merchandise successful mind.

He believes determination mightiness beryllium immoderate information to that. As the speech moves connected to finishing the band, though, a clearer reply emerges. He says helium needs 2 oregon 3 much weekends to finish, and helium casually mentions that could beryllium tricky due to the fact that he's going overseas for an 11-day astronomy travel astatine the extremity of October.

Wait, an 11-day overseas astronomy trip?

He smiles. He says his dad, Leo, has been an amateur stargazer his full life, and helium had approached him and his sisters a portion agone with a chaotic idea. Janssen's ma had died years ago, and Janssen had moved to the U.S. arsenic a young adult. So the full Janssen pack hadn't gone connected immoderate benignant of travel unneurotic successful decades. He wanted to cognize if Janssen and his sisters would assistance him spell connected an escapade he'd waited his full beingness for: A travel to Cape Verde, an land federation disconnected the seashore of Senegal known for its unthinkable show lines into the heavens.

"My dada knows if we don't bash it now, it's astir apt not going to happen," Janssen says. "Realistically, I'm lone ever going to spot him a fewer much times."

It would beryllium a precise Griswoldian travel for Janssen: He would person to alert 2 hours to Detroit, past 7 hours to the Netherlands, conscionable up with his family, past six hours to Cape Verde disconnected the African coast, past a 15-minute puddle jumper to different island.

But Janssen said yes, and helium did truthful enthusiastically. As pugnacious arsenic it was going to beryllium to permission his laboratory and his unfinished Lego Ohio State band, Janssen credits his dada with encouraging him to effort Legos astir 50 years ago. He got Janssen his archetypal bid acceptable and stared up into the entity astatine nighttime arsenic the small feline built with bricks connected the level beside him. He'd archer his lad to travel instrumentality a look astatine a constellation oregon prima helium discovered, and Janssen would amusement disconnected each caller bid helium completed.

Neither 1 of them ever fell successful emotion with the other's hobby, but they loved that each of them loved thing and that they were capable to emotion their somethings together. Imagining that scene, a dad's caput successful the heavens and a kid connected the level gathering large trains, it's not hard to recognize wherefore the roots of a beingness passionateness formed successful Janssen.

On the mode to Cape Verde, Leo's cervix and backmost symptom was flaring up, truthful helium needed a batch of assistance from the Janssen kids getting astir with his telescopes and books. But helium saw Jupiter and respective moons helium had ne'er seen before, and he'd backmost distant from the scope truthful Paul and his sisters could each get a look. "He was truthful happy," Paul says.

"It was a bully trip. A truly bully trip."

At the extremity of the 11 days, Janssen made his mode backmost to Columbus and recovered a pleasant surprise: The past motortruck parts to marque the sousaphones had arrived. He went down into his basement and enactment the finishing touches connected the caller tract and the 90-figure band.

The set looks fantastic. The instruments are metallic and shiny and much existent looking than should beryllium imaginable considering they're made of Hogwarts castles and 40-year-old German motortruck parts. He'll instrumentality the caller tract and the set implicit to the room sometime this week arsenic the stadium enters its last 2 months connected display.

He's arrogant of the mode it looks, and helium hopes possibly helium tin spark different question of donations from fans. No substance what, though, helium knows small Lego Beverly D'Angelo is going to emotion it.