jFox Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 Hello everyone! I've been lurking around since I discovered the site a few months ago; I figure now is as good a time as any to jump in and join the party. I recently came out of my dark ages and found there's a whole set of vocabulary for AFOLs--including AFOL and dark ages! And I figured what's the best way to start slow, gradually getting back into the LEGO hobby? By parting out a UCS Millennium Falcon, of course! It's been a long, fun trip accumulating those pieces from Bricklink and LEGO directly, and it's almost completed--then the building begins! Along the way I've discovered all kinds of sets and themes I never knew existed, and my poor wallet is crying out in agony. He'll get over that eventually though. My LEGO interests: Star Wars - My love of Star Wars goes far beyond LEGO, so that's a no-brainer (although many Clone Wars sets are kind of "meh" for me). Castle / Kingdoms - Loved the castle theme as a kid, and man-oh-man are there so many castle sets to choose from now. I especially like the troll sets, will have to get some of those some day. Ninjago -This theme was not very interesting to me at first. Ninja and monster trucks? Um... okay? Then I saw the Destiny's Bounty ship and the Fire Temple. I love old, Japanese art and architecture and these sets really impressed me. Saw a few episodes of the cartoon online, was fairly entertained by it. Oh, and the dragons. Love the dragons. Minifigures! Interesting minifigs from any set, theme, or collectible series. MOCs - I haven't made any of these yet, but seeing all the interesting things out there now I have a strong desire to get into this. A huge thread here on building a medieval landscape (http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=53197) inspires me to no end. Dark red pieces! For some reason any time I see dark red in a set it makes me drool a little. The Robie House, for example, from the Architecture series... Other interests: Art - I especially love concept art from movies/games etc. Storytelling with still images. Video games - I teach a course in computer graphics for video games at a local university. Playing games just means research for work! Kendo - Had to take a break for a while, but getting back into it. So that's me in a nutshell. Thanks for letting me introduce myself; I'm excited to be jumping back into this! Love these little plastic pieces... Quote
BrickBox Posted March 10, 2012 Posted March 10, 2012 Welcome jFox! I'm sure you'll have a fun time here at Eurobricks, and as you'd expect, there is a large Star Wars crowd here as well (larger than any other crowd on EB I think). Props to you for starting out by bricklinking a UCS Falcon, no surprise that your wallet didn't appreciate it (and for that reason I don't think I will ever dare it). And I too had to look up some words when I came out of my dark ages (AFOL, FFOL, TFOL, KFOL? ) I found it fascinating to see that so many people share the same pattern of entering and eventually leaving their so called 'dark ages'. I teach a course in computer graphics for video games at a local university. Playing games just means research for work! Sounds like a nice job you have there . Quote
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