Hello World! Hello Community!

[fitzi]

Hello everybody!

My name is Pascal, I´m 30 years old and I´m out of my Lego Dark Ages since two month now.

I started with Lego as a child, I had many Lego City Sets, my first Lego set ever was the 6684 Police Patrol Squad. I don´t know at which age I got my first Lego Technic set, but it was the 8832 Roadster.

After that, I really was into Lego Technic, I got Technic Sets at Christmas, at my birtday and I couldn´t stop. At the age of about 16, I fell into my Lego dark ages. But I kept all the sets, I luckily never sold a piece of it.

Much later, in 2005, I got some sort of Lego-flashback and bought all of the Lego Technic Sets coming out in 2005. But this flashback was over after I build the sets and I fell into my Lego dark ages again, ´till now!!!

After moving to a new apartment, I found all the old Lego stuff and something inside me was on fire again! So I found myself searching ebay for some sets I always wanted to own but never did. Sad thing about that is that as a child, I had plenty of time, but not enough money, now, I have the money to buy all the nice things, but I don´t have enough time to build all the stuff together.

Whatever, I still search the web and especially ebay for everything I always wanted to have. But there is one problem: My wife!!!!

Since we are expecting our baby to be born around Christmas, she is only able to think about the baby and the things we have to buy for it. She didn´t understand that I just have to spend some money on Lego.

After having many discussions about that, I found a solution for the problem.

One day, when I had nightshift, I placed a set of Lego Technic on the kitchen table. And I was a little bit surprised that she really build that thing, it was fully working standing on the kitchen table when I came back home in the morning.

Problem solved!!! She is now also addicted, it´s just great!!!!

And now I´m here, ready for more Lego stuff, and I can´t wait until Christmas, not only because my little daughter will be born, but also because the 8110 Unimog will have it´s place under the christmas tree!!! Woohoo!!

Thank you for reading this pretty long "Hello! My name is..." thread, I hope it´s worth it! And I hope that as a German, I didn´t make too many mistakes!!

Pascal aka. fitzi

[LEGO Guy Bri]

Welcome 'fitzi'! First congrats on becoming a father and coming back into Lego, especially accompanied by your wife! Hope you enjoy these forums and don't fall prey to the darkness again! It's great you kept all your original sets, I too kept mine. BTW you hardly have any mistakes in your post

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Welcome aboard fitzi!

Amazing intro

[Only Sinner]

Hi, there. I think being a family man and AFOL at the same time is great. You're going to love being a dad and building LEGOs with your family. I know I do. Nice to meet you! Later.

[fitzi]

Yeah, I think beeing a dad and a AFOL at the same time isn´t that bad. I hope that my little daughter will play with Lego rather than with Barbie stuff......