Back into Legos...

[Jdurg]

Hello there. I wanted to introduce myself and give everyone a sense of my background with Legos. I was born over three decades ago and grew up in the 1980's with a plethora of Legos around me. They were sold in every store out there and were very easy to find. Even better, my grandmother was born and raised in Germany and when she would fly over to Germany each year she would come back with a great deal of Legos. I absolutely loved them. My favorite was the city theme and I had a great friend (lucky only child, lol) who had an entire bedroom in his house devoted to city themed Legos. I mean, he had EVERYTHING. It was really impressive seeing all the road and grass plates and the different buildings scattered around. Made my collection seem sad and pathetic. Heh. My parents would also buy me Legos, but for some reason they thought I liked the Castle Theme more. I really didn't care for the Castle Theme, but since they were buying me Legos I didn't complain and happily built them. Still, I always wanted an airport or police station more than I did the latest castle. I was still able to have fun though and fondly remember opening up the boxes, dumping out the massive bag of parts, then sorting them out and putting them together great times.

When I got older and started into middle and high school, however, my tastes changed and the Legos ceased to be a part of my life. Eventually, when my mother got sick of stepping on loose parts, she threw them all away and until recently my Lego building had ended. Currently, I have a three year old nephew who is HUGE into Legos. He loves opening up the boxes, putting them together with the instructions (a really smart kid to be doing this at 3), and playing with the completed builds. My brother-in-law has begun to go and superglue the parts together once built since my nephew loves playing with the completed builds like toys but gets upset when he breaks them and they fall apart. This past Christmas, he was asking for Legos from Santa, so being a good Uncle I went out to Wal-Mart and bought him some sets. Just like I was as a kid, he loves Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Star Wars, so I got him a set from each line. When buying them, something inside of me turned on and I started thinking about getting some sets of my own.

Late last year, while reading articles on Kotaku, I saw that the Simpsons House was being released early in 2014. I work from home and my home office has plenty of free space, so I figured, might as well start getting back into them! I bought the Simpsons House and was SHOCKED at how big the box was and how many parts were in it. I had a blast spending a good 8 hours putting it together. A search on Google brought me to this site, and I've been sneakily lurking for the past few months reading up on reviews of other sets and looking forward to more Simpsons sets, especially the CMF set. I'm a little bummed that the CMFs are sold in Blind Bags which means I'll probably end up spending a LOT of money on them in order to get the full set, and also will need to buy them online only since I can't find any local stores that actually have a large collection of Lego stuff around me. I also want to avoid E-Bay as the scams and price gouging that goes on there is disgusting.

I'm based on the East Coast of the USA, and thanks to mother nature dumping all over us, I'll have plenty of time stuck at home to build some Legos. I have shoulder surgery coming up on my left shoulder in the next few weeks (was trying to put on muscle and lose weight, but lifted to heavy a weight in the wrong form and tore my labrum, strained a bunch of other stuff, and basically need to have my shoulder reconstructed), so when I'm recovering from surgery I'll have plenty of time away from work and house chores and be able to one-handed build some sets. (Thank god I'm right handed). I look forward to my adventures back in Lego Building and will be looking through all the reviews on here to find more sets that I'd enjoy building.

[Milan]

Welcome!

I too had shoulder injury working out in the gym, in the past, luckily did not have to visit doctors. But I had great time resting from my work, building with LEGO, of course! :)

Hope you will back in shape fast!

[Jdurg]

Many thanks! Yeah, I should be fine to play with Legos. :) I built my Simpsons House prior to my doctor prescribing something to help the pain. So I'm used to building with one arm. Still deciding my next purchase at the moment. So many great options. :D