Guess this is where I should post first.
Greetings from a newborn AFOL. Oddly enough, I never owned a Lego brick until the ripe old age of 40. Cliché as I imagine it is, The Lego Movie brought me in. I loved the movie and initially thought I could get away with only purchasing one or two little sets for my desk, but I'm sure you all know how that went. Once I found out that there was a Shakespeare minifigure, (I am a writer, so I definitely needed him...) I ended up getting sucked into the CMF black hole as well.
Fast forward a few weeks and here I sit with several City sets, a couple superhero sets, a couple Star Wars sets, and a bunch of minifigures in my collection with my first modular building (cinema) on the way from Lego shop at home. I think it's fair to say I'm addicted.