MadMax1998 Posted January 27, 2013 Posted January 27, 2013 Hello everyone, I'm Max, 28 years old hailing from Berlin. Two passions of mine in my childhood were pinball machines and Lego; especially the Technic line when I turned 9 (or 10?) and received the 8034 Universal Building Set to get started. I built my way through to the 8068 Claw Rig in two to three years and also constructed some models of my own, mostly using parts I got from Lego's mail-order catalog. I have a few parts here that have been featured in models I never had (such as the micromotor). I guess you could say I was making MOCs even before I turned away from Lego at the age of 14 or 15. I never forgot what Lego was about, but eventually I gave my big box of mashed-up Lego pieces away to my best friend (I was in my early twenties and we had just rebuilt the 8868 set for kicks, but we were both pretty much done with Lego). Luckily he kept the box unopened in his basement all these years and now I got it back because none other than my girlfriend asked me for it. She never had a lot of Lego in her life and was curious to see what I had, and to build stuff with me (she's 19). I was pretty unimpressed when I got the box back, but roughly a month later here I am. As with pinball, I rediscovered something I used to be passionate about and never thought of again in a long time. I never thought even the "Lego for Men" ads would win me over when I saw them - Lego was just not interesting enough for me as an adult. Well, I was wrong. I started sorting the pieces with my GF and began an inventory of parts with Peeron's help for all the great Lego System sets I had in the early 90s. While some parts have inexplicably vanished, most of them are there and we've built a few cool small and medium models mostly from the Lego City line. It's fun to see your girl come to grips with scanned instructions on an iPad, grabbing parts and trying them on as if she had never done it before. The sorting and preparation of further sets to build with her led me to shopping online for missing parts and that in turn led me to the new lineup of today's Lego which is far from what I remember! After looking around toy stores and webshops plus this forum, I think I've made up my mind about my Lego journey from here on out: Technic is just too cool for words and while I like the System stuff, Technic is simply more interesting with all its functioning parts. I think I will specialize in that - there are a few old sets to sort out and rebuild, some sets to shoot off eBay that I never had in the past, and of course the new stuff from the studless era. Boy, studless Technic models are so weird - I don't know what to make of them. The first time my GF and I were in a store and walked by the sets, I said something like, "that's not Lego! Not how I know it!" I've since been too curious to hold back and have purchased the 9396 set to try out studless building. I guess I have a lot of catching up to do if I want to build more Lego from now on. Like I said before, I'm also a pinball enthusiast. Started collecting a few machines in 2004 and made that childhood dream come true, but then I had to sell most of the games for financial reasons. I now have one pretty fresh machine in our bedroom and an old electromechanical unit in the living room corner, but the glass is currently chock-full of bags with sorted Lego pieces. I guess priorities have switched a bit ;) I'm looking forward to reading everyone's stories, reviews and discussion here, and I will start with one of my own about my studless building experience so far... see the Technic forum. - Max Quote
Archa Posted January 29, 2013 Posted January 29, 2013 Welcome. You willl find a lot of intereting idee and people to share with on this amazing site Quote
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