How did you find Brickset?

skeet318

Now that you have introduced yourself, stated your occupation, and elaborated on the origins of your screen name and pretty avatar pic, do you remember exactly how you got here to the Brickset Forums? Well I do!

Toysnbricks.com was down. I was curious as to why and wondered if it had happened before. I Google'd toysnbricks down and one of the matches was a link to a thread on this very forum. After reading that thread, I went to the home menu and was very impressed with what I saw. Very lively bunch here. I had registered in Jan but never really used the account until TnB went down.
That's it...now you!

rancorbait

That is a good question, how the heck did I get here?

skeet318

Hey....I put this in

The forum

The place for asking questions! I need an adult...mod

skeet318

Yea Rancor?

I actually wanted to do a thread called..."What was the last movie you saw?" but figured, "Better not!"

CurvedRoadPlate

Last movie I saw in the theater was World War Z. It was better than I expected.

rancorbait

Ok ok, I think I was looking for images for the new summer sets last year and stumbled across Brickset.

AFFOL_Shellz_Bellz

Recommendation from another afol.

mcvitie

Stumbled upon brickset whilst looking for info on a childhood set I was selling on ebay. Up until that point I was totally oblivious to LEGO's power on anyone over 11 years old

Thanos75

I was using the restroom at Toys R Us and scribbled on the stall door was...." For a good time check out Brickset.com"...how could I resist.

TheOneVeyronian

Searching for more info on release dates for this year's summer sets, stumbled across Brickset via Brickipedia, then became addicted. Don't ask me how, and to think it all began with a simple comment on a news article about brand store calendars. I want to stop, I need to stop, but I can't stop! :-P

I think once the rest of the sets I want are released, I'll finally be quiet. Until next year! :-P

llanowarsoldier

Came across this site looking at EuroBricks

BoiseState

Cant remember, but for a long time I thought the only Lego message board was from Lego itself. Full of 8 year olds and threads like "who would win, Yoda or Dumbledore?".

BrickDancer

Was sharing first set out of the dark ages with my gf when she had the brilliant idea to pull up instructions online. Which lead to this wonderful forum.

skeet318

BoiseState said:

Cant remember, but for a long time I thought the only Lego message board was from Lego itself. Full of 8 year olds and threads like "who would win, Yoda or Dumbledore?".

There are threads like that???

Sounds like a brillant new subforum theme!

91stlegotrooper

I was looking on ebay for some deals on lego Star Wars and I saw someone selling Republic Troopers. I had no idea what they were and went on the internet to find out. I really liked the site and created an account. Several months later and I have finally started using the forum.

Legoboy

rancorbait said:

That is a good question, how the heck did I get here?

It's how I get out I want to know!

collect_that

@Legoboy

You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave! ;-)

Oldfan

I registered years ago, probably during a random search of the 'net for LEGO information. I forgot all about it until maybe late 2011 when I rediscovered the bookmark in my browser. I started tracking my want/have sets, then signed up for the forum, and now I can't stay away...

klatu003

@collect_that
"Brick Hotel?" or "Hotel Lego?" I stumbled in here by noodling on the net and found out that I was an AFOL, not an weirdo with a strange, overwhelming attraction to a toy for children.

Legoboy

collect_that said:

@Legoboy

You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave! ;-)

Chilling.

jockosjungle

Someone linked the Amazon price checker on HUKD on a deal about Tower Bridge at Amazon.sp I think

chakino

I was going to buy the deathstar in 2011 but itgot cancelled iI was just going to leave it a bit but heard it was getting discontinued soon(lol still strong) so i went on the internet and found this site and the amount of money I have saved since joining is amazing . The only problem is it bring back memories of buying full price Lego at toys r us (shame)

91stlegotrooper

collect_that said:

@Legoboy

You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave! ;-)

Welcome to the Brickset Lego Forum
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Brickset Lego Forum
Any time of year (Any time of year)
You can find it here

khmellymel

^ Now I have the Eagles in my head...

I honestly can't remember how I got here. I think I was trying to find a way to track my "haves" and came across the site... but I don't know if I made that up or not!

[EDIT] Oooo, wait, I think that's right... it was exam revision time and I think I was too hungover to concentrate, so I started organising instead (my go-to procrastination activity). I wanted to know what kind of information I should keep track of in my Lego inventory, and found Brickset.

SirBen

I believe I found it through a reference in The Cult of LEGO. Just out of my Dark Ages, I received a copy of Lego a Love Story by Jonathan Bender (Is he part of the AFOL community anywhere or was he just passing through?) which lead me to all sorts of wonderful LEGO sites, including Joe Meno, BrickJournal and the The Cult of LEGO, which in turn brought me to Brickset and the Brickset Forum.

aimlesspursuits

I was also just out of my Dark Ages and looking for various set information and found BrickSet via Google. Been returning daily ever since. :)

plasmodium

Looking for info on upcoming sets as a kid (not THAT long ago...I think I was procrastinating on homework too.:P). Discovered it was not only a great source of news, but a great place to catalogue my collection. Been with the forum more-or-less since it started up.

backbencher

I sent someone on the Toys & Bricks forum a LEGO design for a legal ($200 tax stamp) hand grenade, & he steered me here as a more 2nd Amendment friendly LEGO forum.

MorkMan

Years ago I was just starting out buying old LEGO sets on eBay and was frustrated with the prices. So I searched for "Best Price On LEGO" and Brickset.com was one of the top hits. Ta-daa.

applejuice

When i sold a lot of my son's 10-14 mixed Duplo sets on craigslist, the lady asked me if i have any instructions for them or how should she get inspired to build them for her 2 yo. I didn't have any boxes or instructions, i googled Duplo sets between 2005 -2011 and found them all here, i sent her the links by email and got busy reading the forum since.

spanky

Lego did not have the instructions that I needed so they said to go to Brickset.com...
I did and I loved the set and became a member

TheBigGuy

You know, I honestly cannot remember.

paul_merton

I believe I ended up on here after googling for #8294 Excavator a few years ago. I had never reaslised such a resource existed before, so I thought it was pretty cool.

When I realised the database contained pretty much every set I had when I was little, I was sucked in even further. First I found #6080 King's Castle (I never knew that was its name!) and I then spent a few more hours reminiscing over all of the other sets I recognised from that era - not just ones I owned, but also ones that I remembered from poring over LEGO catalogues in the 80s, dreaming to own many of the sets that I never ever did.

I wish I'd kept all my LEGO catalogues from the 80s. I'd love to re-experience that peculiar feeling of desire that they lorded over me! :)

mrfuture

I do not remember how I ended up here on Brickset but I think it ether by searching for something Lego or just followed a link from another Lego page. But it was before the latest complete update of the site. But find it a nice place for reading Lego news.

Legoboy

Had been living my life without meaning. Something was missing. Then without warning, woke one morning to find Hairy Fairy in custom pants waving his wand in my face. From that moment on, I knew what road I had to follow. Kev's bitch.

snowhitie

I came here by using the price comparison feature for Amazon, my husband found that link actually. I started reading the articles and found myself coming back every day for more. Now I've discovered the nice atmosphere on site and the forum here I am so gratefull to my hubby for finding brickset :)

rdflego

The owner of my local toy shop who I affectionately call my 'dealer' told me where he got his Lego news from. One look and I was hooked on both the site and the forums.

Galactus

The fall of 2009 was when I came out of my Dark Ages. #10030 ISD was the one that did it, sort of. It was out of production at that time and while looking for cheap versions I stumbled upon Brickset.com (I don't remember the exact details) and Peeron. It wasn't until May 2010 that I signed up at Brickset however. The forum didn't exist back then, so I got introduced to it when it opened up for the public.

LEGOBOBA99

I was searching for a picture for one of my sets online. I found one clicked on it and it led me to Brickset. I saw that you could list all your sets and i thought that was a great idea. I had found a few sets which i wasn't sure were sets so i saw that you had to ask these type of questions on the Forum. And that's when it started...

TarDomo

I was just trying to get some random information about some lego set and google threw me here

SuperTramp

Google - Lego Forum - Second on search results - Clicked On it

Hi all.....

Huw

What was first?

plasmodium

If I google "Lego forum", Eurobricks accounts for the first two (the 'Town' sub-forum, then the main site) and Brickset is third.

SuperTramp

Not 100% but either the official Lego forum or Eurobricks

Im sure i clicked on Brickset has i was already a member of the database side so thought why not.

SuperTramp

Just tried it and Brickset still comes second for me with Eurobricks first and lego message board third.

Legoboy

Interesting. BS is second on my list of results.

plasmodium

Interesting. But Google is supposed to change what you see depending on what else you have searched for in the past. They do say that two different people can see completely different search results for the same search.

electrobovine

^It all depends if you're logged in to Google or not. If you are, it serves up results based upon your previous searches, which means it is more likely to feature sites where you've already visited, further up the organic search listings - because they're relevant to you. Sometimes though, you can be connected to different Google servers when requesting the same search, and they'll be a one or two places difference in some results. Your location also plays a factor in the results weighting. The latter two will influence the results even if you don't have a Google account. Hope this is helpful! If not, please by all means report me to the crashing bore police :)

snowhitie

For the purpose of research (and because I was curious), if I type in lego forum in Google, while being logged in, I get: eurobricks/bricklink/brickset/BeLUG/lowlug in that order. I've only visited eurobricks once but have not created an acount yet, I've been on bricklink a couple of times and bought some things, been having a brickset daily fix for a while now.