Captain Settle Posted July 14, 2013 I had a one year dark age when I was 10. I'm glad to say I've been building LEGO ever since. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gavinfuzzy Posted July 15, 2013 Got out in 2008. Did not stay "in" very long though. Started in 2005, when CITY started. 3 years, but I still managed to acquire most of the CITY sets from 2005-2008. Am not really back in, but currently eying the train sets... I'll probably be back in when I get around to buying the Constitution Train (which should be soon). My wallet cries. Got out of Lego to buy Transformers, which I still am... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
joerminer Posted July 16, 2013 I think I was probably pretty typical. I stopped colelcting and playing with Lego some time in my teens, don't remember exactly when. I gave all of them to my cousins' kids as a Christmas gift. Now I kinda wish I hadn't. Oh well, at least I got to help make some kids happy. I'm just barely starting to get into lego again now. I had reminisced about it with my wife a year or two ago, and she got me a couple sets as gifts that I really enjoyed putting together. Bought a couple more sets in the past few weeks. So I'm hooked again. Just wish I had more disposable income. So I guess I'd say my "dark ages" lasted probably 13-15 years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Retroshift Posted March 30, 2015 My story: born in 1985, started getting Lego in 1989, lasted until 1997, started again at regular intervals from 2006 until 2011 and from 2015 onwards. I did not like Lego from around 2000 - 2001 but the last couple of years Lego sets have become very beautiful, yet expensive. Internet also helped quite a lot in evolving my hunger for Lego. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Iria Posted March 31, 2015 It's difficult to determine when the dark age started. I grew up loving to play with my brother's sets and building mocs (mainly houses I think and a few space related vehicles). I don't think I built much during my teen years. I know I built some kind of box for my gameboy cartridges at around 17 years old, and then I didn't touch Lego until last year (age 26). So I guess the Dark Age lasted around 10-15 years. It was those Monster Fighter sets that piqued my interest when I was helping search for a gift for the son of a friend. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anothergol Posted March 31, 2015 (edited) I came back to Lego after 20 years. I had kept my old bricks for that long, thinking that one day I'll get back to it, and I did - and realized that my old bricks were so chewed up and dirty, that they were worthless :) I think it works that way: when you're a kid you wanna be an adult, at some point you stop with classic lego, maybe moving to Technics. As a programmer, I thought I'd go for using Lego for robotic stuff - but it was boring, felt like work, never made anything out of my Mindstorms set. Now I'm back to Lego and it's not at all for technic stuff, only design & the fun of it. Only (big) difference, instead of playing with a limited pile of bricks, I'm not doing it all in the LDD and then building it. I've checked what I missed during those 20 years, and IMHO - not much! I quite like the sets that came out after 2008, but frankly, what came out between 1990 and 2008 isn't very thrilling. I'm also glad I wasn't there for the "light grey change". Edited March 31, 2015 by anothergol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lady_Scarlett Posted March 31, 2015 About 30 years... I discovered LEGO as an adult with my own children. Never have some when I was little. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jreacher Posted April 4, 2015 My dark ages where 2002-2014, basically The last sets I bought in highschool where Star Wars sets. I then went off to the Air Force and when I got out and moved My mom sent me all my old stuff from home. And as I was going through my old Lego sets, i started building and forgot how fun it was haha. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
