I bought myself the ghostbusters Lego set – Ecto 1. My first ever Lego set. I get it now, very enjoyable and satisfying. It’s very hard walking past the Lego store now.
I have a StormTrooper, it was bought for my daughter (then 10 years old) and she was quite miffed to find out that I had finished the construction without her. She’s 25 and still hasn’t forgotten. I am gutted I didn’t get the 3CPO at the time as they are discontinued now.
I’m very pleased to say that Nemesis Jnr is a big fan of Lego 🙂
Sadly my parents seem to have disposed of most of my childhood Lego but we made up for it to some extent by finding a huge box of mainly Harry Potter Lego on gumtree for £35. I reckon there’s a few hundred quid’s worth of Lego there.
And now he loves the Star Wars themed ones which I have to admit I really like too…
My brother has been getting the archetecture series and they look great when you see a few together.
I did here that some of the big kits come for example with three bags of Lego inside and Argos had been scammed by people returning ‘unopened’ boxes but they did not know one bag had been removed. I presume people have bought and returned three boxes to get a free set.
We are clearing out our loft and found 4 big boxes of lego ,plus an army of Bionicles .
New rules state that nothing goes back up in the loft 🙂
I kept most of the instructions ,so we are going to try and build up some of the bigger themed sets ( Batman,StarWars,Spiderman ) then put them up on Gumtree before Xmass 🙂
Ebay if they’re sets that are hard to get hold of now and desirable (which the Starwars ones will be) as people will bid silly money for complete sets from what I’ve seen.
My dad (73 years old) has developed quite a Technic habit in the last few years. The big yellow crane that opened this thread was his main birthday present this year. 🙂 It’s not as huge as the Unimog, though.
Benny and his Spaceship Spaceship SPACESHIP were put into the Lego movie specifically to make people like me spend 80 quid on it as soon as it was in the shops and I can’t say I regret it at all!
I’ve had a similar early-mid-life crisis this year…
…plus buying my five year old son way more Lego than he needs as well.
The crane was great, but the build took just a little bit too long and I started to lose interest. Love the X-Wing though, it’s the Collectors Edition one and is a fantastic build.
I reckon it won’t be long before I give in to Benny’s Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP! as well, given my name…
Caught the bug again with the Beetle a few years ago, then the VW camper and the new Mini is waiting on a wet weekend. Asked for Unimog for Crimbo. Discontinued, but available via EBay. Sad, I know, but I honestly find it really therapeutic!