Accidental Sale

[esteban]

I can't believe that folks don't mix sets together into a huge bin of Legos. The entire point of Legos is to build bigger and better things.

My kids love them now (6 year old twins, 13 year old) and I love 'em.

The only thing I have from when I was a kid is a tiny red storage box...late 70's or early 80's.

Legos are $$$$ new, but hand-me-downs and parents dumping stuff at garage sales = affordable.

[ClodBuster]

I can't believe that folks don't mix sets together into a huge bin of Legos. The entire point of Legos is to build bigger and better things.

I did this as a child.

[SignOfZeta]

Yeah, well, he's in finance or something IIRC so aparently it can get worse than putting your Legos back into the little plastic baggies and selling them on eBay decades later.

Correction, I am of the hoarder variety that you spoke of earlier, I haven't sold anything in quite some time and I continue to hold on to everything from my childhood.

You may criticize that if you wish.

That would be me so I wouldn't criticize that. I'm not really criticizing anything exactly. I was just saying you might be so mechanically innept that Legos don't even appeal to you to have in the first place, let alone sell later.

I just wonder what kind of human sees Legos and doesn't instantly see two things: 1) one of the greatest examples of industrial design in human history and 2) a way to build some really cool things you've been dreaming about your whole life.

Serious question: on a scale of 1-10 how handy would you say you are? Can you replace a light switch? Do your own brakes? Use scissors? What I mean is, *do* you do anything like that, not can you theoretically pull it off? When your lawnmower doesn't start do you just throw it away, fix it, or pay someone to fix it? Can you solder a simple electronics kit together?

I'm trying to figure out if you're beyond Lego or beneath it, I guess. You're clearly on some other level.

Since buying my house two years ago, my lone attempt to do my own handy work was to change the light bulb in my ceiling fan.  I broke the ceiling fan that day, which needed to be replaced.

...when my father asked me to go to the store and pick up a set of allen wrenches a year ago and I came home with a regular wrench set, I have never seen such a look of disappointment.

Put me in front of a spreadsheet and give me some data you want analyzed and I will run circles around most anyone.  I always finish in the top 5 percentile on any standardized test.  Tell me to build something and I'm f*cked.  Serious answer, 2.

Great. Being this accurate just means I'm going to be an even more prejudice a$$hole in the future.

[gex]

[roflmao]

Giant bin of Legos FTW!

[blueraven]

HEY BOB

Do you need an atari stick. I has.

[bartre]

Giant bin of Legos FTW!

Agreed.
but as a child, my mother in her infinite wisdom insisted that I keep them color sorted, or at least some kind of organized.
that always made finding the specific piece I needed much easier.

I still remember my favorite sets being Aquazone, Adventurers, and oddly, the Bionicle series.

[bob]

HEY BOB

Do you need an atari stick. I has.

thanks blue, prob not worth shipping one.  i'm sure i can source one near me.  no rush right now.

[blueraven]

Rad