afosl

I started collecting Lego at a very early age in the late 1970's. By the mid 80's I had amassed a good collection of Town Lego. Unfortunately I sold it all for a very low sum. A day I now regret.

Anyway, skip forward 15 plus years to 2000, and I began collecting Lego again. This time it was Star Wars Lego, and my first kit was the Millennium Falcon 7190. Since then I have been buying more and more Star wars Lego, and often use Ebay to pick up sets that are no longer in production.

I'm not a moccer or a modder. I treat my Lego kits like plastic model kits. They get built and then put on display. I used to do this as a kid too. Once I'd built the police station, or the truck, or the garage, it would stay as such. I never really dismantled a set to use it's parts in a MOC, and I never added more to the set. If I did ever get the desire to dismantle a set, it was normally for the joy of rebuilding it again. And likewise today.

Like many AFOL's, no one outside of a Lego forum really understands my love of Lego, or why I collect it(to them I'm a grown man and to them, Lego's a toy).

But like any other personal hobby, or pastime, there is more to it than what a casual observer sees. And if you take the time and interest to scratch away at the loose dirt on top, you will find yourself tumbling down the rabbit hole and into a whole new world!