If you could go back in time (to when you were a child) what sets woul

[Dr. Steve]

As an AFOL I often find myself saying "I wish I had this set when I was a kid"

Have any of you ever thought the same thing?

List the 5 Lego sets you would bring back in time to give the 10 year old version of yourself as a gift from the future (No Sports Almanac)

I Will Start

1. 10210 Imperial Flag Ship

2. 10143 Deathstar

3. 8038 Battle for Endor

4. 6210 Jabbas Sail Barge

5. 10193 Medieval Market Village

[Big Cam]

1. Death Star Playset

2. Imperial Star Destroyer (minifig version)

3. Endor Playset

4. Whatever the biggest Castle set is at the time

5. UCS Millenium Falcon

[RileyC]

1 Death Star

2 USC Millennium Falcon

3 Rebel Blockade Runner

4 RGS

5 MMV

[brickzone]

Well, this isn't quite answering the hypothesis, but I'll start by saying these are sets I would have most wished for when I was a kid (80s/90s):

6399 Airport Shuttle

4558 Metroliner

6285 Black Seas Barracuda (I now own this :)

6086 Black Knight's Castle (also now own)

6277 Imperial Trading Post (ok, a cheat, as I did own it as a kid!)

As for new sets now that I would have killed for as a kid - I think most of them count. Even the ordinary city sets I think I would have loved as a kid (indeed it was the '05 vehicles which first got me back into Lego), and stuff I don't really go for as an AFOL still appeals to the child in me - Power Miners in particular I can see myself and my siblings having had great fun with. Agents is enough fun as a concept for me to have bought into even as an AFOL.

I couldn't have even imagined the modular buildings! I suppose if I had some sort of time machine, these in particular I might send back! The entire concept of a Star Wars theme would also have been beyond my wildest dreams!

[Tom Bricks]

Being not so far removed from childhood it wouldn't be as much of a stretch for me but all the Toy Story and then (older me) Harry Potter sets would have been great. I find myself wishing more often that the younger me had more money and didn't loose any of his Lego. There is still a black ninja lost in time that I still haven't forgiven myself for loosing.

[Dunjohn]

Pretty much any of the main mechs from Exo-Force. When that line debuted it was kinda cute, ooh, Lego doing Manga, spiffy, but when I was a kid in the eighties these things would have absolutely blown my skull open, with their extreme aesthetics and all-out action focus.

Sets I'd have spent hours looking at in the shops at the time? Any of the big ones. Especially the space-themed ones with their excitingly-coloured trans-parts. I had no big Lego sets as a kid. Too many siblings for Santa to spread the budget between....

[prateek]

I would want the 2007 Y-Wing set. That was the coolest set IMO, but I don't have it.

[posades]

Definitely all the Star Wars sets from the 90's, as I could resell them for a hefty profit nowadays. Truth be told even if I could go back in time, I would still be a poor child so I wouldn't be able to buy any of the sets anyways; I remember staring hopelessly at the pirate ship box with the flip cover in Toys R Us, dreaming of one day owning it.

I would probably get in on some of the original Harry Potter sets as well since those occurred during my dark age.

[desultor]

My answer to the OP is pretty much the sets that threw me bodily out of my recent pseudo-dark age (dim age? bley age?), namely:

Medieval Market Village

Brickbeard's Bounty

Indy Temple Escape

Power Miners Boulder Blaster

Technics Mini Bulldozer

And if I could justify $400 adult dollars on a set, I'd send back a Deathstar playset. Actually, I might keep that one for present-day me.

[the_green_avenger]

Imperial flagship

Brickbeards bounty

Millenium Falcon Ultimate Collectors Edition (I got the original mellinium falcon back when I was eight, its still pieced together)

MIndstorms NXT (have)

Emerald Night (along some tracks)

Those are most definately my top five most wanted, excluding mindstorms which I already have.

The total price tag... $1130

Edited February 6, 2010 by the_green_avenger

[Diamondback]

None. I would instead take back a complete catalog of every set released from '89-now, and set up a LEGO Trust Fund to bag all the really big sets I missed as a kid. (Through the entire Classic Pirates run, the biggest thing I ever got was the Renegade Runner, about the only really big-box sets I got were Space like the Galactic Mediator and that big Blacktron II base, and even then only one per year at Christmas.)

[Scorpion]

The 6933 Spectral Starguider, the 6957 Solar Snooper, and DEFINITIVELLY the 6989 Mega Core Magnetizer.