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How many sets do you own?
TheMaker37
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I am coming up on my one-year anniversary of collecting legos and I was curious to know how many sets other people in the forum have? It has been a very interesting year and still consider to be a novice....but that is part of the fun, learning. Today I received set #41, the Fairgrounds Mixer to go along with the Ferris Wheel.
Is this a good start? How have you learned to become a savvy collector? Are their any mistakes you have made and how can I avoid them?
Looking forward to anything you have to say.
Link to my collection:
http://brickset.com/sets/mycollection-owned/page-1
Is this a good start? How have you learned to become a savvy collector? Are their any mistakes you have made and how can I avoid them?
Looking forward to anything you have to say.
Link to my collection:
http://brickset.com/sets/mycollection-owned/page-1
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Also, the link to your collection you posted will link to anyones personal collection if they're logged on to brickset...
Resellers can, and often are, blamed for anything.
;)
I have... too many sealed sets. I think I'm waiting for winter break to crack some seals. I most have sealed Mixels. I buy them and then save them to be opened one at a time on the most stressful and disheartening of workdays. Of course, this time of year, those kinds of days ramp up, so... yaaay Mixels.
Don't let the number of sets define a collection. You can purchase 1000 poly bags on sale for .98 cents each and add to your brickset collection and your total will state you have 1000 sets. Then again, it also state only one unique set.
It's not about the number of sets one owns, but the actual set numbers. What's better..... owning 10 sets of #10179 or 10 sets of #30303?
I find interesting is knowing the sets one has to what the total piece counts are for the sets owned - for an average - plus what the retail value is listed.
As far as the average number of pieces go there are variables that will skew the numbers a bit. A box of 9V track only has eight pieces with a relatively high price per piece. My collection says I own 4087 sets but only 1683 different with a piece count of 539145 and a retail value of $64123. So by the numbers the average piece count of each set is 132 pieces and an average value of $15.68 per set which is pretty low for a Lego set. But I still have many larger piece count sets. It all boils down to how you want to skew the figures around to make it look like want you want it to.
As long time collector (started in 1988 with no gaps) it's about collecting what I like and what interests me. Trying to collect everything is difficult and nearly impossible. I've rarely bought stuff I dislike. The biggest mistake you can make is to buy stuff out of habit. There should be a justifiable reason each new addition.
and I've only been back in the game since May.
And probably only about 70-80 sealed and stored for resale. But I don't consider them mine or part of my collection. They are stock.
The total number of sets is probably much larger. E.g. I have about 300 x Z95 Headhunter polybags alone because they were ridiculously cheap on eBay and I thought the 3x3 plates would come in handy :)
I've been a LEGO fan since I was a kid (late 70's), and got back into the collecting game when Star Wars sets first appeared in 1999. Classic Space and Star Wars naturally comprise a goodly % of the collection. Modulars and UCS contribute to the large part counts, too.
While most of the newer sets are still sealed, now that I have my new finished basement with lots of built-in shelving, I can start building and displaying with a vengeance. I'll have to remember to share some pics when I'm done in a few years...
I'm well over 1000 sets, not including multiples of the CMFs.
A truly complete CMF set should have Mr. Gold, the Toy Soldier, the CMF VIP Top 5, and Team GB. (And that upcoming Germany CMF thing.)
Kinda like how Market Street is a modular, even though there is a healthy hostility towards the set. Even if someone handed me a used Market Street, it would not appear in my Lego Modular City.
Also, kinda like that stupid limited edition, completely non-verifiable white Boba Fett keychain, for those of you that collect keychains...
Btw do accessories count? That would add more than a dozen to the total.
Mainly Classic Space, Ninjago, Minecraft, The LEGO Movie, Seasonals, Modulars, Old LEGOLand, Creator, Friends and Disney Princess (the last two my daughters' sets) with a smattering of Ideas, The Hobbit, CMFs and other sets.
I've been an AFOL since Christmas 2014, when I bought my daughters a large Creative Tower box of LEGO and a couple of Disney Princess sets and started reassembling my old Space sets at my parents' house with them, but I've been actively purchasing for myself since about November 2014, I think.
The breakdown of the numbers:
I was born in 1976 & my family started buy sets for me before I was a year old, kept getting sets up until some time around 1991-92 (only recently reclaimed these). I still have to finish cleaning/sorting/re-assembling all of my Lego from this period, so the number may decrease a little. I suspect my little brother may have sold off a small amount stuff, I have noticed a lack of Futuron/Blacktron/Space Police minifigures (99% of the sets ticked have had instruction books sighted when I reclaimed them).
Part two of my collection came about around 2000-01, I was planing to collect Bionicle stuff & grabbed the first batch of Bionicles & Boh Rok, but after that they were blink & you missed it in stores locally, so I gave up.
The current era additions started late 2013, when I decided to collect the MARVEL Superheroes stuff & the collection rapidly expanded from there... Duplo & City sets for our boys, all the Elves sets for my wife, etc, etc (all of which is recorded on my account). Most of the Lego, including my old stuff from 1976-2002 is deemed the family collection, my personal stash is the MARVEL/Ultra Agents/Star Wars stuff.
Of the 512 different, 84 are CMFs, 37 count as polybags & 17 are books/key chains/video games etc.
Of the 709, there are 15 sets we have extras for resale (around 60 sets all up), not looking to get rich at this point, just negate the cost of our purchases at least somewhat. There's also another 15 sets I have doubles of from my childhood (relatives occasionally screwed up on what sets I had), but I wouldn't look to sell any of them, as mum used to smoke inside back then. We have 6 polybags that we have more than one of (about 15 all up), most are part of our emergency gift stash, #30162 being the exception. Of those 'extra' Quinjets, there's one for each of our two boys, for the day many years away when they leave home, plus a couple of back-ups in case when/if we try for bub number three it turns out to be twins (fingers crossed that won't be the case). I was hoping to do the same with the MARVEL polys, but deals like I got on those Quinjets just have not happened since (Australia sucks for SH & SW polys, we always seem to miss out on them). As for the CMFs, there 28 we have more than one of (about 66 all up), most are extras for MOC use, a few have been accidentals, we put those aside for potential trades.
Figuring out all that info has made me realise how huge our Lego collection has expanded in the short time I've been back, just glad I've gotten my wife addicted, otherwise there could have been trouble down the road...
Roughly a quarter of these are from my childhood up to my mid-teens, mostly old City, Classic Space and Technic sets from about 1979 to 1995.
My "dark ages" were roughly between 1995 and 2013, when our older daughter turned five and became interested in Friends sets, while our younger one took over the older sister's Duplo range.
I have very few sets from between 1995 and 2013, but managed to track some of those that I missed down via ebay and other private sellers before the resale prices went through the roof in the last two years.
2015 was by far the most "productive" year when it comes to buying Lego. I was amazed when I saw the "introducing Jangbricks" video for the first time. How anyone not interested in reselling could buy so many sets in such a short time. Well, by the end of this year I am no different, having bought around 30 sets in the last three months alone. Will have to cut that down a little in future. Fortunately we do have a house, but space for Lego is limited nonetheless ;-)
Anyone within the sound of my voice - I am already looking for those sodding sets!