My Introduction + How Farmville brought me back to LEGO

[Wardancer]

Hi,

I have just signed up to the forum, so I should introduce myself.

I am from Germany, 31 years old, so nothing special I guess.

Currently I am building an Elven army and some bigger Elven equipment (top secret!), I managed to get about 30 elves from the shops in my home city and I feel I need different types of them, so I have started modding and equipping them. I have played Warhammer High Elves and Wood Elves for a few years, so I try to import some of their ideas into LEGO. Also I am building an army of crown knights, who doesn't?

I regard LEGO as one on the biggest influences of my childhood. I see my current job, writing a book of about 300-400 pages as builing with words instead of bricks. In a way, I never stopped building.

Ironically, it was Farmville, that idiotic parasite of the facebook age, which brought me back to lego after 15 years of abstinence.

After playing Farmville excessively for 3 months, I asked myself "Why on earth am I playing this?". I looked at my "farm" and saw: I had build a castle! High walls, horses with barding, penguins in lack of knights. So I realised that by playing Farmville I had tried to fill the void that quitting LEGO 15 years before had left. Apparantly, there seems so be a genetic disposition in some men to buid small worlds with knights, and if that's true, who am I to go against it?!

There were 3 aspects that I liked about farmville: Building, collecting and searching for news and upcoming event. I browsed the the web and realised that LEGO in its current form would enable me to enjoy these three things to the maximum. Building with bricks, of course, is way better than playing with (rotatable! wow!) Farmville graphics. Collecting bricks and minifigs is now possible globally due to Bricklink, Ebay etc.. Forums, such as this one, satisfy my curiosity for new stuff.

So I abandoned my level 70 farm, repented, fetched my old LEGO boxes down from the attic and kneeled down humbly in every toy store in my city to extract the Elves by identifying the dot codes.

[fred67]

Wow... great story; hope to see a lot of MOCs in the future, but as someone who only this week started using LEGO in conjunction with roll playing games (I started a thread here), I'm interested to see what you've done for Warhammer.

[Brickdoctor]

Welcome to EB, Wardancer! Interesting story. Hope to see your elven army soon, and I hope you enjoy the site!

[Nightshroud99]

Welcome! Funny story you have, but great that your out of your Dark ages

[buddy]

Welcome to Eurobricks Wardancer, I hope that you have a nice time on the forums!

~buddy~

[ManitobaMoe]

I myself know the joy of feeling up mini figs in plastic bags. Always glad the store owners are so understanding. Welcome back

[Blackknight112]

Welcome to EB and welcome back from your dark ages. It's a nice story how you came back to Lego. I can't wait to see your elven army aswell.

[Wardancer]

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! I hope to upload some first pictures soon.

[Rufus]

Ah haha!! As a Farmville repenter myself, I really appreciated your story! Welcome to EB, Wardancer; I know you'll have a good time here! EB isn't a 'flash in the pan' like FV

[Artanis I]

Great introduction & awesome story Wardancer, but just watch that bank balance... Farmville is a much cheaper hobby than Lego!