Hello from Brazil

[Preuss]

Hi, everyone,

My passion for LEGO started in the early 1980s, when my father brought the Classic Space #891 set from a trip abroad - LEGO wasn't sold in Brazil back then. He kept that amazingly attractive intergalactic spaceship on a very high shelf so that I couldn't reach it and swallow the small pieces. Of course he had no idea I could use the dresser drawers as a ladder to "outer space".

As I grew up, I inherited the set - actually just a small space plane - and started asking every family member who traveled out of the country to bring me LEGO - mostly Classic Space, but some City sets as well - as souvenirs. This went on until the dark age also known as puberty started and I had more pressing issues to deal with than playing with silly yellow men. :-)

Fast forward to 2012, when two life-altering events resurrected my interest in LEGO: I started getting some DUPLO sets for my 1 year old son and LEGO released the LOTR theme. I immediately decided "he" absolutely needed to have all of the LOTR sets, so I might as well start buying them before they were gone - even if the little one is still years away from reading Tolkien (which I want him to do before watching the movies).

Of course I couldn't keep the sets unopened, so I began putting them together, "just to see if there were any missing parts". Even before assembling all of them, I started down the slippery slope of buying multiples to boost my Middle Earthen population: first the Uruk-Hai Army, then Attack on Weathertop, Orc Forge and Mines of Moria. In the meantime, I also got in love with the modular buildings and bought GG, FB and GE, just to start.

LEGO is incredibly expensive in Brazil, so I bought all of this during business trips to the US. I also have the entire Hobbit first wave waiting for me at a relative's place in NY and an Amazon.com shopping cart full of 2nd wave sets to be ordered during my next trip. In between trips, I've been feeding the addiction with a couple of BL orders a week and bulk brick orders from a local eBay-like seller just for MOCing LOTR buildings - I'll soon post one in the Historic Themes Forum, which I've been following closely for months now.

Thank you for showing me that playing with little yellow men isn't silly after all (although I now prefer the fleshies)!

[eurotrash]

Welcome to Eurobricks Preuss!

We all look forward to your MOCs.

[Leo604]

Welcome to Eurobricks!

[TomLego]

Welcome! Exciting times ahead in your part of the world! World Cup, Olympics.....enjoy!

[Ragnar_Deerslayer]

LotR was what got me back into LEGO as well - I just kept staring at the Battle of Helm's Deep boxed set every time I went to Wal-Mart, until I asked my wife to throw me a LEGO-themed birthday party for my 36th birthday this past May. I still didn't get the Battle of Helm's Deep, so I ordered it myself afterwards.

Welcome!