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Here's mine Age: 30 Age you started building: 10 Country: Singapore Occupation: Sales Married:Yes Children:No Does your spouse or child/children build:Nil Do you have close friends who build:Yes Do you build together with your friends:No Do you regularly attend Lego conventions:Not available How much money do you spend on Lego product a year:$10k usd? How much time do you spend building/playing a day:1 hr Favored theme/themes:10xxx Do you primarily collect retail sets, build MOCs, or both? both Did you experience a "dark age":yes If yes, what age did you enter your "dark age": 12 What age did you exit your "dark age": 29 Other hobbies (other toy collecting, sports, drawing etc.):Video games In your own words what makes Lego bricks so special:chance to be creative May I PM you with a request for a personal interview: Don't think a trip to asia is worth an interview...

Hi, Interested in your cafe corner & city town house

This was mine!!! Coincidentally it was also my very 1st set. I had the good fortune of finding it again for $100sgd with a perfect box, instructions and bricks. Ah, brings back so much good memories.

Hey, from SG also. Tomorrow polling day, lol. Welcome.

Awesome idea! It would be fantastic if we could have minifigs that represent ourselves too.

From where I come from(Singapore), most of the people who buy from Lego speciality shops are adults. Never see kids or teenagers buy any. Adults buy for their kids, and AFOL wheel of carotns after cartons for themselves. So it's like a norm to buy Lego here as an adult. Hardly see kids buying them anyway.

Thought of building a clock tower to use as a real clock in my living room. Here's the LDD attempt. Left a small gap at the clock area so that I can purchase a clock mechanism to place it in. It can be separated into 3 pieces easily for easy transport. Total height should be 60cm when fully erected. Rests on a 32 x 32 base plate. The entire tower Ground floor where the streets are Might add in some traffic and minifigs when I do get around to building the real thing Mid portion Nothing special here The clocks A better look The roof Total: 1707 pc count Price: $455 from Lego design by me

Groups? No idea what's that. Seems like something I should go have a look see. Thanks for the tip!

Thanks thanks. Started with light and dark bley because felt that it's probably easier to buy and probably cheaper too. After completing it, doubt the price is friendly after all. Maybe in the next project I can include in more details, color and etc.

Hey guys! Showcasing my newbie attempt at LDD. An office building. Overview 1st-4th floor only The lobby Includes a fountain and an operating lift which brings them up all 4 stories and roof top. 2nd floor A big meeting room with a projector and pantry. Balcony area probably for smokers. A small couch and plant next to the lift for visitors. 3rd floor Cubicles and more cubicles. 4th floor Executives and management only. The roof Comes with a green house for eco-friendliness. Thanks for your time. Any C & C welcome. Btw, it costed USD$995 to buy from lego...

Think here in Singapore everywhere is warm. So it means that people who stay in tropical countries are doomed with creaky bricks for life? Or should i store my bricks in the fridge?

Really quiet and boring day... Look left and look right, saw nobody around, fired up LDD and did a little "work scene" (note, that is really my colleague's hairstyle behind) Yeah, it was really fun doing it

I just purchase an Imperial flagship 10210 back in September last year 2010. Built it once, and then broke it down to be kept in storage. It was displayed for a month or so on a table top indoors with curtains drawn daily. Last night I took it out wanting to built it again because it's simply awesome. However i found the bricks to be creaky already! It feels kinda hollow, creakys when i bend them and does not snap on as well. It seems to have expanded or some sort. Anyone can give advise on how to avoid such problems? Anyway to restore it back to it's original prestine condition?

If I buy a used set and it is still assembled. I MUST strip apart everything, sort them into stacks of 5s and painfully count each and every piece and make sure they are in place, refusing to build and buying all missing parts before starting. (Once i bought a used death star 10188, man the stripping and sorting took 6 hours!!!) I also insist to rebuild everything my wife did becuase i have to know how the construction was like.

Just came out of my dark ages roughly 4-5 months ago after a 18 years break! Swept up most Lego set themes in sight. (Kingdoms, some starwars, creator series, train sets, city sets, pirates, HP, modular buildings, POP, Toy story and spongebob etc)Towards the end of last year, alot of Atlantis sets were on sale, was never interested in Atlantis initially cause the box art looked kinda boring and a little kiddish, but bought some anyway cause they were so cheap. Upon opening and constructing the sets, it totally blew me away! Seriously Atlantis could top most of the themes i started collecting. Yeah so Atlantis just rose to the top suddenly just like this. Scooped up 10 out of 14 Atlantis sets in 2 weeks shortly after that.

Opportunist: Buying Habits: Buy whatever I fancy but refuse to open the MISB box waiting for someone to let go of their 2nd hand sets or discounted sets. This is when I swoop in and buy the cheaper used set and sell away the new one at retail once its out of production. Guess it's the fear of doing without or paying inflated prices for the sets I like. (Recently managed to score the Imperial Shuttle for $300 SGD!) Sorting Method: Buying lots of IKEA Smala(Clear IKEA plastic boxes) and sorting them out in zip lock bags in Smala boxes. Sorted by sets and not parts. Building Space: On my dining table. See below for a screen shot of the Imperial shuttle after sorting a used set. Philosophy: Always keep your eyes peeled for a better price.

The problem with watching Clone Wars is knowing the outcome of the story at the end of it. It's hard to root for Anakin knowing his going to be the biggest bad megablocks of the galaxy and slaughtering all the Jedi his working with right now. There isn't as much anticipation and shocker as we already know what is to come. Count Dooku isn't much of a baddie since we already know his got only like 5 mins of screen time in episode 3 where Anakin painlessly takes him out.

This is how we display our Lego in the Ikea Billy. Our Modular Buildings and Starwars. When the sets are "off season", they are stored in the Ikea Smala boxes.

How do you display big mega sets like the Taj Mahal and 10179 Millenium Falcon? Those are still in boxes because I can never seem to find space to display these monsters! I'm consider buying cheap ikea lack tables just to have a place to place them. Maybe customise an acrylic dom to protect from dust?

Not sure if you have access to medicated oil. The vet locally says to smear it over the toys and animals will run! Its very very spicy and minty at the same time. It actually lingers and burns.

Hi, How do you guys display your Lego sets? Theme specific? A huge moc monsterous set on a table? Or everything inside a neat display case? Personally I used the Ikea Billy book case with glass doors to display my sets. Cheap and efficient way I must say! But it lacks depth. No other choice as customising a display cabinet is wayyyy out of budget.

Never had that problem with my dogs(3 x maltese). They usually hang around the table that we build our lego sets. Whenever we drop a piece, they would just give it a sniff and walk off. Somehow the smell or taste of Lego plastics put them off. (BTW, they go nuts over tissue paper and would immediately chew it up and swallow. A good source of fiber I reckon?) Sometimes when I open the Lego display case, my boy would come over and nudge the display and attempt to play with it, but not shown much interest in ingesting it so far. I believe to discourage your cat from all lego pieces, you could soak a unwanted lego piece in some hot chilli seeds or sauce, making it tremendously spicy and attempt to bait your cat with it. It should scare him/her off lego for life.

If i recall, there is a limit of 5 of each item that he can buy... Unless he has 20 different accounts. Or did he rampage within the lego shops?

They say people with higher IQ tend to enjoy creativity more. Lego is brain medicine! Besides, being able to afford Lego is some sort of status symbol, it aient cheap to amass such a huge quantity.