Yucca Patrol Posted September 27, 2011 Posted September 27, 2011 Hello everyone. I'm from Birmingham, Alabama and just got back into LEGO after a 25 year dark age. Right now I am building alternates from Creator kits because I love anything and everything with wheels or wings, but my wife is now getting into it too and she is playing with minifigs, building houses, and working on learning how to make realistic landscaping as she enjoys gardening in real life. I estimate that I played with LEGO for at least 10,000 hours as a child, and it feels great to put bricks together again. One of my goals is to recreate Christmas 1979 when I received the 497 Galaxy Explorer Classic Space set. I recently bought a huge box of vintage LEGO and discovering pieces specific to that set and other Classic Space sets almost brought a tear to my eye. Of course, there are a lot of missing pieces, but over time I hope to gather them and get the Galaxy Explorer flying once again. I've set up a home page at MOCpages to show off some of my creations that you can see here Anyway, before I ramble on too much, I just want to say that I have really enjoyed reading the forums here and finding this great and supportive community of AFOL's. Quote
buddy Posted September 27, 2011 Posted September 27, 2011 Welcome to Eurobricks Yucca Patrol, I hope that you have a good time on the forums! ~buddy~ Quote
K-Nut Posted September 27, 2011 Posted September 27, 2011 Welcome to EB! And by the way, nice car. Quote
Mr. Elijah Timms Posted September 29, 2011 Posted September 29, 2011 Haha! I had the Explorer too, and that was some epic stuff. Good times! Welcome to EB and don't be a stranger! Quote
Yucca Patrol Posted September 30, 2011 Author Posted September 30, 2011 Haha! I had the Explorer too, and that was some epic stuff. Good times! Welcome to EB and don't be a stranger! Thanks for the warm welcome everyone! It's so nice to be among people who don't think I am nuts for playing with LEGO as an adult! Quote
Big Cam Posted September 30, 2011 Posted September 30, 2011 Welcome to the forum, it's great that your wife is getting into it too. My wife helped me build the new Millennium Falcon one evening, she's not crazy about LEGO's like me but she likes to be involved with the builds. Quote
Yucca Patrol Posted October 2, 2011 Author Posted October 2, 2011 I just built my first landscape scene: a waterfall and bridge at a botanical garden. I built all of the "hard" structure and then gave it to my wife so that she could decorate it with plants and minifigs. She even found a way to vastly improve my stone bridge too. It is nice for us to have a hobby that we are both enjoying. . . You can see my garden scene here: http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/289661 and here's a little thumbnail teaser. . . . :) Quote
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