jnscoelho

Two things brought me back from my dark ages: DUPLO and the Saturn V. I was a big LEGO enthusiast when I was a kid, but as a teenager I stopped playing with LEGO and eventually stopped looking at sets at stores. Without hesitation I even left all my sets at my parents' house when I got my own place (I was such a fool!!!), and now I really regret that because my mom seems to want to take those sets to the grave (and some were pretty cool, including a Castle, a train, the Formula 1 starting grid, Fire Department, etc. etc.). Then my first daughter was born and someone got her a DUPLO set on her first birthday. We were already planning to introduce LEGO at some point, but that did it. Then I started buying some more DUPLO, either new or used, and as she grew we started buying Classic sets. Then Friends. And then the Saturn V was released, I just had to have it. And that was when I started buying sets for myself. That was followed by DC Superheroes sets (just those based on the recent movies) and BrickHeadz, but I had one rule: stay out of Star Wars. Rule which, of course, I had to break. I bought the 75105 Millennium Falcon and since then some other small SW sets, and I’m saving for the Death Star. Friends is expanding for both my daughters, BH is just awesome and even TLNM sets have been purchased because the older daughter loved the movie and asked for the Water Strider (and I had to have the Green Dragon, needed Loyd and Garmadon). But that’s not all… I’ve very recently bought the Palace Cinema and suddenly many of the other modular building, which were not attractive at all (except for the Dinner which is just beautiful), became so glamorous. It helps to have a wife which is also an AFOL, but she is even less restrained when it comes to buying more sets than me, so that may become a problem, ahahah

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I have two cats, and one of them likes to go around my back and chew on some LEGO... Two days ago I realized that he had been chewing on one of the main rotor blades of the 76046 helicopter... And then I imagined myself just like Homer Simpson, but instead of choaking Bart I was choaking my cat... :D And some days ago he must have been thirsty, because he decided to chew on a golden cup... He never had any attraction for DUPLO parts, but regular LEGO seem like cat magnets.

Hello fellow "brickers"! I'm João, from Portugal. I'm 34 and I've recently come out from my dark ages, thanks to the precious help of my older daughter and her Duplo sets. I've "been away" from LEGO for almost two decades and so I'm here to learn more from other LEGO enthusiasts, namely new building techniques, and to share my interest in LEGO. 'Cya soon.