Yet Another AFOL... ;-)

JudgeChuck

Hi, 

Like many people here, I played with LEGO as a child, but grew up and discovered other pursuits. However, now that I have twin five year old daughters, who have discovered the delights of building mad towers of bricks, I've sort-of caught the bug that a lot of people on here seem to have!
It all started when we all went to visit my parents last Christmas and she had dug out all my brother's and my old toys, which included a large selection of LEGO, so I idly started putting together some of the old sets, so that my daughters and their cousins could play with them.
I found myself at 2am digging through a huge pile of LEGO, trying to find the last couple of pieces to put back together my old #6970, #6821, #6801 and a load of even older LEGO. After all that, I ended up bringing it home and I have been replacing missing pieces from, and adding to, my classic LEGO Space collection since then and now have all the following proudly displayed in my study:

885 Space Scooter

886 Space Buggy

889 Radar Truck

891 Two Seater Space Scooter

894 Mobile Ground Tracking Station

897 Mobile Rocket Launcher

918 One Man Space Ship

920 Rocket Launch Pad

928 Space Cruiser And Moonbase

6801 Moon Buggy

6821 Shovel Buggy

6822 Space Digger

6841 Mineral Detector

6970 Beta I Command Base

Only a few to go! :-)

The trouble is that I thought that would be the limit of my personal involvement, but I've managed to get interested in a couple of other themes, so now have all the Minecraft sets (I just love building landscape dioramas), about 10 The LEGO Movie ones (that all started with Benny's Spaceship, of course) and, finally, Ninjago, which I never liked previously, but fell in love with the Temple of Airjitsu and just had to get a couple of dragons (Master Wu and Titanium) and Enter The Serpent.
Oh, my daughters love Friends, Disney Princess and generally building strange, amorphous creations made up from all their sets jumbled into one, which is great!
So, there you have it in a nutshell. I'm in trouble! Thank heavens I haven't seriously looked at the Technic sets but, having said that, being a huge 24 Heures du Mans fan, I'm eyeing up the 24 Hour Race Car... And that Mobile Crane looks rather nice as well... Oh dear... ;-)

Anyway, well done, if you made it this far!

Regards,

JC

Bumblepants

Welcome fellow addict!

Salamalex

That was some intro - like it! Welcome aboard.

TheBigLegoski

Hi! and welcome.
I still have that Beta Command Base too from back when I was a little kid, epic space set!
Thanks for sharing some of your Lego interests, see you around on the forum.

crazycarl

" being a huge 24 Heures du Mans fan"

As well am I and all FIA World Endurance Challenge races and IMSA Tudor United SportsCar Championship racing.  If your a fan of this check out the Speed Champions line by Lego!!  There are 7 sets this year and more to come in 2016 including an Audi LMP car (my favorite class)!!!  Ive also built some MOCs of these series cars.

crazycarl

Set #75912 is a must buy!!!   Welcome to the addiction!!!!

JudgeChuck

Those are rather nice, I have to say! Oh please, not another theme to collect! ;-)

crazycarl

Those pics above are my MOCs.

JudgeChuck

@crazycarl yes, I understand that. I was referring to your suggestion to check out the Speed Champions theme.