[Poll] Random Lego related questions

[SpacePolice89]

I created these questions just for fun. It'll be interesting to see the results.

[DonQuixote]

[danth]

Wow, an actually well done survey? Short, with easy to answer Yes/No questions? How is this possible? 

Usually the offsite surveys we're asked to do here are terrible; impossibly long with vague unanswerable questions. 

[Slegengr]

I voted, but some were hard to answer only "Yes" or "No" without a "Sometimes" or "Maybe" type of choice; not that you should have changed the poll options, as simplicity is a benefit.

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1. Buy a set just for a few pieces? 

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Not specifically, but I do like to review new sets for new and useful pieces.  My go-to place for MOC parts or missing parts for sets is BrickLink.

2. Buy used sets?  Absolutely!  I have a large collection of sets from the late 1980's through early 2000's mostly acquired in secondhand bulk lots and sorted back into original sets.  It is my way of

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treasure-hunting, and this is one of my favorite aspects of the hobby due to nostalgia and sharing my childhood experience with my nephews today.

3. Yellow or Flesh? 

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Yellow all the way, as I am a classic LEGO enthusiast, not a licensed-theme collector.  Though skin tones add diversity, I prefer the simplicity of the original yellow skin, maybe due to nostalgia.  I can also acknowledge that this could be a harder preference to hold if my skin were darker, though.

4. EuroBricks at work? 

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Yes, mostly due to not having internet at home since it would be too much a distraction for me (maybe it still is at work, though...); I do try to limit it to break times and do not spend very long each day these days viewing EuroBricks.

5. Find LEGO pieces outdoors? 

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Not really, only on a few occasions where I lost pieces as a child by taking them outside and finally found them after searching.  It was considered a very bad idea in my household to take our LEGO sets outside, so this rarely happened.  One notable time was in January of 2002 after my brothers and I got the entire Arctic subtheme collection over several Christmas gifts and we wanted to try them on real snow... we lost a few accessories that were never found to this day.

6. Dream about LEGO? 

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Most definitely, quite often as a child and still common today as an adult.  Many times related to the imaginative adventures and storytelling; often also about finding the dream haul of old sets from a garage sale or eBay lot.  I even developed a somewhat-lucid-dream tactic of always making sure to put the extra special minifigures in my pocket in my dream as that was the way to get them for real after waking up; of course, it never actually worked, but I tried many times!

 7. Visited LEGOLAND? 

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Yes, once as an adult in 2015 in Orlando, Florida with some of my family including my youngest siblings (~10-12 years old at the time).  They enjoyed the rides; I enjoyed the Miniland builds.  I still prefer building and playing with 90's LEGO sets way more than LEGOLAND...

8. Keep $ spent a secret? 

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Not specifically, no, but I do not disclose the full amount spent as it would just be unnecessarily misunderstood.  I will often talk about some expenditures as well as secondary market values and do not shy from admitting that I have spent a lot, but it just does not seem productive or needed for me to fully disclose for justification or something like that; many people would not understand.  My siblings have had their own childhood collections, so they know it costs money to acquire a collection.  They are just glad that I was and still am way more into it than them and am willing to spend my money to share the sets with their children so they do not have to spend the money themselves.  It is really a win-win situation since they save money and I get to do one of my favorite things in sharing the nostalgia for my favorite pastime.

9. Build sets above my age level? 

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Yes, probably in part due to having 2 older brothers.  I never found the sets too challenging to build, even from a young age, though most of my interest was and still is on the System sets targeted around ages 4-14.  I just got (and still get) the sets I wanted regardless of age recommendation.  This is also true for my nephews: I share the sets I like and am willing to help when needed, but like to challenge them with sets above their age level and am not surprised that they already have developed abilities beyond those recommendations.  My then-6-year-old nephew built a surprising amount of the 10497 Galaxy Explorer (even most of the Technic structure portions) without needing my help.  18+? Whatever...

10. Sets without minifigures? 

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My strongest connection is to the 90's System sets with minifigures for roleplay adventures, so I love my minifigures, but there are plenty of more-recent sets I have bought without minifigures, particularly sets from the Botanical line.  For my miniature models, though, I always prefer them to be minifigure-scale with plenty of minifigures.

 

This was a fun and simply direct poll!

Edited 9 hours ago by Slegengr

[SpacePolice89]

Nice that you like this poll. It was just an impulse thing I did. I had planned for a couple of more questions but I reached the maximum number of questions allowed.

[Siroco]

10 minutes ago, SpacePolice89 said:

I had planned for a couple of more questions but I reached the maximum number of questions allowed.

Random Lego Related questions Part II ? 

[SpacePolice89]

Just now, Siroco said:

Random Lego Related questions Part II ? 

I guess I'll have to do that in the future

[danth]

As for the work question, very interesting...over half of Eurobricks users are liars. 

Kidding!

[Toastie]

1 hour ago, danth said:

Kidding!