LEGO "only" as an adult

[Paul B Technic]

Most AFOLs seem to fall in to two groups:

- Those who had LEGO as a child, had a "dark age" and then got back in to it as some stage as an adult.

- Those who had LEGO as a child and never stopped building with it.

What I am interested in is a third group, those who didn't have LEGO as a child and got in to it only as an adult. What made you decide to pick it up?

To do something at one stage of your life and then return to it later on is much easier than to start off with something brand new which you have had no experiance with before. What was it that made you decide to do this?

[azog]

I am not a AFOL but my dad is one just like that, he never had Legos as a kid but when he had me he started to look into good toys, and he discovered Lego and he got some for me and a lot for himself

[Andy D]

My connection with LEGO started back in the early 1980's when we got some for my son, and then in the 1990's when my wife got me some for Christmas as a joke. But my interest in LEGO now actually started in 2008 with NXT, then more Technic, then Modular buildings and now back to Technic. I am a senior member of the Old Timers Club, so you do the math.

I do not think LEGO building blocks were around when I was a Kid, I had Erector sets, for those who don't know what Erector sets are... Google. Erector is a metal construction toy, kind of like Technic.

Andy D

Edited May 3, 2016 by Andy D

[Sarah]

My connection with LEGO started back in the early 1980's when we got some for my son, and then in the 1990's when my wife got me some for Christmas as a joke. But my interest in LEGO now actually started in 2008 with NXT, then more Technic, then Modular buildings and now back to Technic. I am a senior member of the Old Timers Club, so you do the math.

I do not think LEGO building blocks were around when I was a Kid, I had Erector sets, for those who don't know what Erector sets are... Google. Erector is a metal construction toy, kind of like Technic.

Andy D

I had an erector set as a kid! I much preferred my Legos.

I think my Dad saw the Lego set and loved it so much he wanted to have some around, so he got Lego for my sister and I (And played with it with us). He bought the St. Louis plane for himself (All growing up, I thought that was a Lego set he had kept from childhood. Nope. Its from the mid-70s, same era as our first sets.)

[L@go]

"Erector" sounds like the kind of thing one shouldn't google while at work...

[Andy D]

"Erector" sounds like the kind of thing one shouldn't google while at work...

You must be thinking of a different spelling, maybe something some men may need medication for.

I looked on the Wikipedia page and it appears that Gilbert Erector sets were only made until 1962. But in 2000 a French company acquired the nam and continues the Erectir set in some form.

Maybe since they were metal they were just too dangerous for kids. But like Sarah I much prefer LEGO, as they are much more versitile. With Technic you need pins, with Erecror you need screws and nuts to join the pieces.

Sorry for the off topic...

Andy D

Edited May 3, 2016 by Andy D

[legoguy1984]

I have gone back to Lego as an adult but my younger brothers both buy Lego now. I never allowed them to play with mine so their first real introduction to Lego came when they were already working and I asked them to get a few sets for me as the work closer to a toy store. After that they seem quite keen to collect. When I asked him why he said he is older now and can afford it and he has a daughter which just seemed more like a convenient excuse than an actual reason. I think it's because of what you can do with Lego and we can now all get together and discuss/build Lego now so it becomes almost social.

[whitswj]

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Edited December 3, 2021 by whitswj

[JGW3000]

I didn't have LEGO, but I did have Erector sets. Some of my friends had Samsonite LEGO, which made them very popular. What got me into LEGO for myself was my kid's getting sets for birthday presents, and "needing" help to assemble them. Clearly my kid's presents were a gate-way drug for me.

[retrotaco]

I am not a AFOL but my dad is one just like that, he never had Legos as a kid but when he had me he started to look into good toys, and he discovered Lego and he got some for me and a lot for himself

Love it!