Accidental Sale

[turboswimbz]

Are we collectarding that shit now too?

It already is.  (Sets in the lego world generally mean the different models/all models in a given play world.)

The general although not always correct rule followed in that world is that legos are worth at minimum what they cost to buy new in store, so they never really lose value.

https://www.brickpicker.com/  <- for your viewing pleasure

[ClodBuster]

I'm a Lego hoarder.

Just kidding, it was more like ten years ago when I got my hands mainly on late 80s / early 90s Space and Technic stuff, at a time when prices were lower. Good thing I'm not into Lego Star Wars, it would drive me mad.
Also, my better half is into swooshing spaceships and making laser guns go 'pew pew' just like me, those old space sets are too much fun play value than just for sitting on a shelf collecting dust.
At the moment, I'm trying to rebuild that big ol Blacktron R/C buggy lookalike into a big heavy armored attack spaceship.

Shameless plug:
https://brickset.com/sets/ownedby-Bricktron

[bob]

to me, lego were always just blocks.  i didnt have any connection to specific sets.  i do remember the Fabuland line as those were the ones i loved as a kid. 

[Necromancer]

That lego site is neato.  I enjoyed browsing through old sets, seeing which ones I think I had as a kid.

I still have 'em all stored away, as well as some more recent ones sitting on the dvd shelf - namely some tiny Star Wars ships, a dozen or so Simpsons mini-figs, and the TARDIS set.

[HuMan]

Lego has been collectarded for decades. Have you been living under a rock this whole time?

[SignOfZeta]

Aparently. Since birth, to me, Lego sets, or any building block sets, were sold that way to give you something nice to build, to show you some ideas of how to use the blocks, etc. Then you pull it all apart and then bricks into the mass heap. I keep the books but rarely ever build the same thing twice. Sometimes I leave it built (Technic F1 or Creator VW Bus) but I always chose my sets based on the idea that I want some of the bricks in this set to add to the overall heap so I can make crazy 8 passenger helicopters and mad max dune buggies and shit.

I'm so glad I didn't have the internet to tell one how to think back then. Set Collecting sounds like a hobby for chubby mouth breather kids with above average income and below average IQ. The Gen Xers that collect mint boxed Tamiya RCs (never scale, too challaging) and hella expensive vintage west coast BMX. It's not my thing, never was. It's a shame that something as legit and universal as Lego is now stuck in the same dumb mentality as so many other things.

[gex]

Some Lego collectibles are insane.

My neighbour approached me and asked if I had Lego from my younger days, said he was looking for the Star Wars characters. At work I googled what they were selling online for, and some of them were selling well over $100. For a single lego person! So it probably gets way more expensive from there for like sets n stuff

[MrBroadway]

Not Legos, but the Competition Pro is a very nice Atari Joystick. For the 7800, I chiefly use this.

[Gypsy]

I almost always just built my own stuff and had fun with it. Lego was like, the best damn thing ever when I was 7-12.

[TDIRunner]

How the hell does a person keep track of their Legos by set? Are we collectarding that shit now too?

I was referring to a "set" as the box and everything that came with it when it was new.  I never mixed up my Legos as a kid.  I would build all of my sets at once and play with them for a week or so, and take them apart and put them back in the box until the next time I wanted to play with them.  It payed off too because most of my sets sold for 4 or 5 times what they cost new (and I didn't pay for them anyway because I was a damn kid). 

[TDIRunner]

Are we collectarding that shit now too?

It already is.  (Sets in the lego world generally mean the different models/all models in a given play world.)

The general although not always correct rule followed in that world is that legos are worth at minimum what they cost to buy new in store, so they never really lose value.

https://www.brickpicker.com/  <- for your viewing pleasure

That's a pretty cool site.  I might have to look through that later and see what I remember.

[SignOfZeta]

f*ck yeah it was. I was always working on planes, helicopters, cars, snowmobile kinda things, hovercraft, VF, etc. I loved GI Joe and anime and whatever and was always trying to do kickass shit like that. I had a "swamp skier" phase, actually. This was of course...maybe 1982-1987. I still remember building the things to the size of Lego dudes and the balancing act that requires. You learn why everything in Legoland is a single seater really quick, and while it seems trivial to make your truck interior one brick longer or wider it comes with all sorts of ramifications that eventually send you back to the usual style unless you have something really important gimmick-wise to pull off. When you do "sets" you miss a lot of this.

Recently I've started buying big sets and building them with my girlfriend as a thing to do on the weekends. My kid is only 2 so doesn't have much use for real Lego just yet but when he does he's getting a huge mountain of shit day one. When I break all these f*ckers down the pile will not be small. I'd wager probably...maybe 16 cubic liters of Legos? Something like that. I can't even remember exactly because these have been piling up for years. I actually have a second one of those NYC brownstone apartment block things since it went on sale after I got the first. We got that treehouse, the corner deli, the lighthouse with the grampus, a big VTOL jet, a ferry, a race team with transport semi, lots more. It's going to be awesome.

I'm still keeping the Technic F1 and the VW bus of course.

I need to get that overpriced Ferrari set with the wind tunnel. It seem to include an engine on a stand hooked to a dyno, which provides the totally unexpected and unlikely opportunity for me to buy a Lego set that depicts what I do for a living. That's probably not going to happen again.

[SignOfZeta]

How the hell does a person keep track of their Legos by set? Are we collectarding that shit now too?

I was referring to a "set" as the box and everything that came with it when it was new.  I never mixed up my Legos as a kid.  I would build all of my sets at once and play with them for a week or so, and take them apart and put them back in the box until the next time I wanted to play with them.  It payed off too because most of my sets sold for 4 or 5 times what they cost new (and I didn't pay for them anyway because I was a damn kid). 

That's...so f*cking depressing. I'm surprised you told that to anyone outside of maybe group therapy for collectards.

"No, I never learned how to do anything except follow instructions. I did this all the way to the point of selling them for profit decades later. I'm a good boy" [vapes own piss]

[Gypsy]

f*ck yeah it was. I was always working on planes, helicopters, cars, snowmobile kinda things, hovercraft, VF, etc. I loved GI Joe and anime and whatever and was always trying to do kickass shit like that. I had a "swamp skier" phase, actually. This was of course...maybe 1982-1987. I still remember building the things to the size of Lego dudes and the balancing act that requires. You learn why everything in Legoland is a single seater really quick, and while it seems trivial to make your truck interior one brick longer or wider it comes with all sorts of ramifications that eventually send you back to the usual style unless you have something really important gimmick-wise to pull off. When you do "sets" you miss a lot of this.

Recently I've started buying big sets and building them with my girlfriend as a thing to do on the weekends. My kid is only 2 so doesn't have much use for real Lego just yet but when he does he's getting a huge mountain of shit day one. When I break all these f*ckers down the pile will not be small. I'd wager probably...maybe 16 cubic liters of Legos? Something like that. I can't even remember exactly because these have been piling up for years. I actually have a second one of those NYC brownstone apartment block things since it went on sale after I got the first. We got that treehouse, the corner deli, the lighthouse with the grampus, a big VTOL jet, a ferry, a race team with transport semi, lots more. It's going to be awesome.

I'm still keeping the Technic F1 and the VW bus of course.

I need to get that overpriced Ferrari set with the wind tunnel. It seem to include an engine on a stand hooked to a dyno, which provides the totally unexpected and unlikely opportunity for me to buy a Lego set that depicts what I do for a living. That's probably not going to happen again.

Just doing the sets is like paint by numbers/doing a coloring book instead of making your own painting. Sure it will probably look nice and be easy but...what's the point?

I remember making spaceships and shit, and having my own intergalactic war. Good times.

Oh and my 7-12 comment, I don't think anyone would take it poorly but I didn't mean to imply that legos are only for children. That's just when I really got into them a long ass time ago. Sadly, I don't have many anymore. I gave most of them away to nieces and nephews though, so they saw a lot more use again, which is great.

[bartre]

Yeah, I never held on to the boxes, I might still have my old LEGO magazines somewhere.

I probably had the most fun with the late 90s sets, but maybe that's just cuz it was what was new when i was a kid.
I remember getting a couple 50 gallon buckets of legos courtesy of my grandparents as a kid because they were my uncle's when he was a kid, that was a good day
Even as a kid though, I hated having to sort through EVERYTHING any time i wanted a specific piece.
so my mom bought a bunch of these little rubbermaid containers meant for shoes, I'm pretty sure my legos are still color sorted at her place......

for me though, lego started to fade around the time i started high school, which is just as well because that's around the time they started with this monstrosity of a bad decision: