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Started reading this at the beginning and now am caught up. I'm a female and I loved the Paradisa set and hated the Belleville set. I only bought one Paradisa set while it was around, but that was because that was all I could afford to buy. There weren't enough cheap sets in the line, especially if your allowance was only ten bucks a month! Do you know how many pirates and castle sets I could get? Or at the time lots of race car impulse sets. During the time I was really into Lego, I was all about the Forestmen. I loved the little green guys with their trees and pointy hats. They were super cool too me. I also had a lot of pirates, but that was a price factor. If I was to build a Girls theme now, I would make two aimed at different ages. I would go with what they are putting out for an early age group and then about age 8 or so go with a minifig scale series. Now on the minifig scale series, I would want to see the following themes: Amusement park, Zoo, Vet CLinic, Open air mall with different stackable shops to build up mall, Concert Stage with band, singers, fans, public swimming pool, beach resort/houses, Internet Cafe, Duck Pond/park, a molded chicken, a pregnant lego minifig, a baby, baby animals, and College theme -fountain -library -football game w/cheerleaders -dorms I also would like to see a city subset of camping, maybe even with a boyscout and girlscout camp/troop. I also think a lot of food places would be good like Sushi/Teppenyaki Grill, Burger Joint, Taco Stand, Farmers Market, etc. And more recreation themes like Golf Course, Baseball stadium, and Football Stadium. A Rodeo set could be fun! For the Golf set, could have Golf Cart, Club House, Club Pool and Spa, and some real fancy Country Club houses and dances. The most important thing to get girls interested in sets is to have female minifigs in the set. Girls can be cops, construction workers, bad guys, military, fishing, store clerks, pilots, baggage handlers, etc. I mean, c'mon, Girls do it ALL! ;) I will buy one set over another if there is a girl minifig in it.

Thanks, MetroiD!

Toy R Us is offering buy 1 get 1 50% off at their on-line site on City/Town sets. Just passing along the info. I found it looking at the Advent Calendar Set. That one is interesting with the toys.

I'm at New Mexico State. Thanks for the suggestion!

Hello! I just dug out my old legos and loved putting them together again. I've decided to re-start my childhood hobby/obsession. I loved Legos as a kid and bought about every polybag/mid-price set I could get. I have quite a mix. I have early '90s Pirates, Castle, Space, and even the Cabana Beach Paridisa set. I also have some sets from the 80s and I think I have a space set from 1979 or 1980. I have chosen to focus on the town sets and I would like to put together a huge MOC of a University/College. I think at first I will make it a generic campus and then later pick a well known school to copy. I know it will be a long time project, but that is what makes it fun right? Well, if there is anyone from the El Paso/Las Cruces area give a shout out! I would love to hear about your collecting in the area. I'm still trying to decide if I want to sell some of my childhood sets. Some seem quite popular. Well, good hunting to everyone!

Hi everyone. My friends thought I was crazy when I dug my old Legos out a few months back and started putting them together in the evenings. They were impressed by my scenes and how a lego set up could tell a story. They still think I'm a little off, but I haven't convinced them to log on here and see I'm perfectly normal, they are not. ;) It has been an awesome adventure learning how big the Lego enthusiast community is. I've started looking at newer sets and trying to decide a direction for my collection. The sets I have from the '80s and early '90s run the gamut from town, pirates, castle, and even Cabana Beach from Paridisa. In deciding on a direction, I decided that I really liked the details of the town sets and the stories I could tell with them. I also really like my job as a University Administrator and think that doing a MOC of a University/College could be awesome and fit really well with sets I already have. I'm asking for help in determining what sets would be the best in helping me accomplish the following builds. I appreciate everyone's help! Items I plan on building: Classroom/Academic Hall (At least 2 different ones) Residence Hall/Dorm Administration Building Cafeteria Student Union w/bookstore, cafe, and convience store Apartments Theatre Library Fountain Stadium for soccer/football (have purchased the soccer challenge II for this set up. I'm trying to amass a collection of cheerleaders) Basketball arena Parking lots I think I can do some really great scenes of pep rallies, tailgating, sports games, and regular days. If you have a thought for another building to include or anything, please let me know. Thanks! TL

In 1990 I was at the flea market around Aloha Stadium in Hawai'i. I found a seller who had a box full of Legos for $10.00. Turned out they were out of space sets from around the late '70s and '80s. Included four base plates, the crater, mountain range, landing pad and straight-away, all gray. When I moved, I think I left some at my parents house as I can't find the crater plate. A few years back, I bought a bag of Legos and mixed toys and found a nearly complete set of the Chief's Tepee (6746), Bandit's Wheel Gun (6790), and (6799) from the Western Themed set. I paid $3.00 for that bag. I still have many of my sets from my childhood and have had a lot of fun putting them together. Now I am back into collecting again and trying to see how I can make an awesome display/panorama scene. Oh, this is my first posting and I just joined this site today. Thanks!