Hi from USA

[Crazy Packers Fan]

I'm a long-time LEGO fan who has experienced several dark ages along the way to getting all-out back into LEGO building again.

Here's my Brickset collection for your perusal: http://brickset.com/sets/ownedby-Crazy-Packers-Fan

I was actually brought into LEGO by the knockoff TYCO blocks when I was very young, and thus I played with DUPLO as well. Finally I graduated to LEGO, with my first-ever set being the Blacktron II Tri-Wheeled Tyrax. This would be the start of my love for Space.

For Christmas in 1995, my grandfather bought me a ton of sets, including the Unitron Monorail Transport Base. This set remained the centerpiece to my LEGO collection until the beginning of my dark ages in 2003.

From 1996-2000, I collected nearly every single LEGO System set available. I had them all. (Except for sets with witches & ghosts, we as children weren't allowed to have those.) And living in a small house, my parents would often get angry when I'd bring home yet another set, because sets were just piling on top of each other.

I made the grievous error of supergluing pieces together. My sister and I would start building some sort of projects, and we'd tell each other, "we never want to build anything else besides this ever again." (Folly!) So as I've gone back through my pieces, I've had to throw out quite a few pieces which were damaged due to super glue.

While I collected every single Space set from Ice Planet (my favorite!) to Insectoids, having all sorts of Adventurers, Aquazone, Town, Pirates, Trains, etc. sets means that while I have probably around 75 grand pieces, very few of them work well with each other. My collection is just far too diverse! It makes it very difficult for trying to build something serious.

I came out of my dark ages in 2010 when I became aware of the Death Star. It was absolutely so amazing that I couldn't pass it up. Unfortunately, in a hurry to get a "good deal," I bought it off eBay for a reasonable price - but quite a few pieces were missing. Most of them I was able to fill in with my own collection, and some of them the seller sent to me later, but it unfortunately made the building experience a frustrating one.

I slipped back into dark ages after that, although it's true that even during both of my dark ages, my sister and I would build something from time to time. LEGO never truly went away in our house.

And now, it's 2014, and I'm back into LEGO - and it has nothing to do with the movie. In fact, I have not seen the movie, and the trailers for it have actually made me NOT want to see it (too kiddy, too obnoxious for me). Last month while watching the World Cup, I put back together my entire Ice Planet 2002 collection (only a little more to go on the base). I fixed up my Space Police II & Blacktron II sets as well. Then I decided to buy a couple of Space Police I sets off eBay, as well as nearly the entire M:Tron collection. (That Mega Core Magnetizer is one of the greatest sets of all time, no doubt.)

I'm not a reseller, although I have tons upon tons of pieces that I could sell if I wanted to. My goals in the near future are to collect more Star Wars sets - especially ones I never had older versions of - and to continue to check eBay and Bricklink for older Space sets, particularly Space Police I & Blacktron II.

Thanks for reading, I hope to spend some time here!

[samurai-turtle]

Welcome to the site, Crazy Packers Fan.

[grum64]

Welcome to Eurobricks Crazy Packers Fan

Superglue? Tut! Tut!

Edited August 5, 2014 by grum64

[Asphalt]

Hey another user from this side of the pond. Welcome aboard.