Costas Posted July 3, 2012 Posted July 3, 2012 (edited) Well, another Aussie joins the ranks of Eurobricks. Currently an AFOL - My first real introduction to LEGO was back as a juvenile teenager when I was given the 856 dozer as a gift. I still have this great set and it does bring back a lot of memories for me as I had spent many hours playing with that set. A few years later after I graduated I had picked up 2x 8868 sets when they were first released here in Aus. I still own both of these sets and one of them is still unused. Pretty much forgot about LEGO for quite a few years since. However just the other day I took my 2 and half year old daughter into a local LEGO store so she could pick out a DUPLO set as I thought it would be a great introduction for her. I had also dragged out my fully constructed 856 and 8868 models which had been put away for a number of years. The 8868 just required some batteries and a quick manual cycle on the pneumatic cylinders for it to spark back into life after sitting in a cupboard all these years. Some of my other hobbies are Photography [Minolta/Sony A-Mount], N-Scale model railways [uS prototypes] and I am also heavily involved with RC helicopters. My daughter is also exposed to these hobbies pretty much every day in my study/hobby room and is more akin to picking up a hex key to 'help' out dad working on his helicopters rather than spending time playing with dolls... Imagine my surprise when in the LEGO store, she immediately went straight for a Police/Fire themed 'City' set rather than the cute DUPLO princess sets! Anyway we ended up walking out with a DUPLO 5609 train set and the 5681 police/heli themed set for her which she has been playing with and enjoying quite intensively. Obviously dad had to treat himself to a new Technic kit but I could not decide between the 8043 Excavator and 8110 Unimog, so I ended up with both. I have already reviewed Jurgen's MOCs on the 8043 and sent him some euro's his way. I would like to purchase a couple more kits to build up a reasonable amount of parts as it looks like I have become addicted this time around. Edited July 3, 2012 by Costas Quote
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