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I really dislike my 60098 and I have not found reason to love that set at all, even after owning a copy. I usually enjoy a Lego set far more in person regardless of what's on the box. I did not care for this set and owning it in person just made me feel it's useful for extra track parts, wheels, baseplates, couplers, RC parts, etc. I kept it together for about 6 weeks. I'm a fan of 60052 and even more so, I purchased a second set of 60051 with no regrets as it will allow me to maake it with 2 locos (1 powered), and 4 passenger cars (I purchased 1 extra on amazon), and I think it's actually a very good looking train for Lego production. I decided to double my 60051 rather than purchase Horizon Express on eBay for because I think it's that attractive, it has good lines, good brick built, with the exception of it's attractie front section. I also like Lego Train Station 60050. I'm kind of impressed by how far Lego production trains sets have come since the previous generation. 60050 is not perfect, but it has a lot of nice neutral parts and colors that go well into a MOC.

I'm looking forward to purchasing some ME track. I love Lego, but I'm glad to be able to buy larger radius curves, i'm an RC man so this shouldn't be too difficult. Single piece tracks is appealing to me I have to say. I'm not a hardcore MOC/LUG train club guy at his point tho. Just a guy who enjoys having lego trains roll around the living room with better results than Lego 40s curves.

I remember walking by Lego stores in the mall and my eye catching the Maersk train and ship. I went on my way thinking that's cool, maybe some day I'll have kids. This year, in early January, I was in a Home Depot parking lot on a snowy day, and I thought to myself it would be a cool day to set up an old train set like I had as a kid. I thought, well, why not make it a Lego train set. I decided to buy a Lego train set, my girlfriend and I went to the Lego store and I was super embarrassed but it felt like a calling. We immediately grabbed the two train sets for sell 60051 and 60052 and it was wonderful. That was around January 8th I believe. Since then I spent between $3500 to $5000 on Lego both current and retired from eBay including some sets I always wanted as a kid. No regrets! Although I am slowing down now and focusing more on buying pieces from bricklink to create some interest train/seaport related MOCs someday. I find Lego to be therapeutic, there's something enjoyable about "collecting" and organizing said collection, I used to try to do it in video games but this is far more rewarding and I have not played a video game since. I'm driving home in a few months to visit and my mom has been waiting for 2 decades to give me my Lego sets from the 1980s and 1990s because she somehow knew this would happen.

I don't see it about as what we want, but what will likely happen. I understand that Lego is having a hard enough time fulfilling demand, which is likely due to AFOLs. Kids and their parents are not buying many multiples of one set, or buying sets to part out. I think Lego's concern is that the value of the Lego secondary market is actually threatening to their ability to appropriately price sets to children and their parents without AFOLs wiping out the stock too quickly. I figure at some point Lego will generate enough of a set to mitigate that and they will profit, but I understand they have a hard time meeting demand on bricks being created versus demand for bricks, at some point there will be an equilibrium, and generationally, possibly a crash. I think the common theme among AFOLs is that the late 1980s and early 1990s were a golden age for a Lego, and a lot of us kids from the 1970s-1990s are coming back to Lego whether we had a dark ages or not. Adult disposable income allows us to reach back at sets that eluded us as children, and heck, why not get multiples to make an uber custom version?

awesome tips. The set that makes me dread sticks is the beloved Maersk train. I bought my first one early into my AFOL lego addiction, stickers are okay. I bought one used off eBay, big regrets, would have been worth the money to apply them myself, that set came to me beat up. I have a 3rd Maersk, still in sealed box, and I want to put the stickers on like a champ. I love this train

Vedauwoo, I saw your awesome Workshed at the Rocky Mountain Train show Saturday. It was awesome and has stuck in my memory as the type of work I would love to be able to do someday. It was nice to meet you as well. Patrick

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I just came out of my Dark Ages so I just blew a couple thousand dollars on current Lego sets, recently retired sets (3x Maersk, 2x Horizon Express), and some classic sets on eBay to catch some "sets that got away" when I was a kid in the 1990s. In short having an adult income to apply to my childhood hobby has been very rewarding and almost embarrassing! (altho actually, I find it very spiritually calming, and it's surprising how many other AFOLs exist when your Fiancee thinks it'll be funny to call your hobby out to everyone) But, I think this is the initial expensive part and I'll probably slowdown to bricklink supplementing and occasional Lego released. The good thing is I keep my focus on few themes, I'm partial to City, Trains, Modulars, and Creators that mesh with those 3 interests. For the budget... right now I'm a bachelor with a good job and not much debt, so for the first time in my life, Lego has actually made me have to pay attention to my money, I used to have more money that I ever spent, and I would just toss that towards a Mortgage that is over half paid off in 3 years, or a vacation. I told my Fiancée that my Lego budget when we are married would be $200 a month, with the ability to roll over if I don't spend it all. She thought that was fair. I think so too, although I might try to get it to $300 :).

I recently bought some used sets from the 1990s from eBAY. Obviously, there's no affordable way to get sets that old without them being used. My thoughts... Unless there is a strong nostalgic connection to that set, probably best not to buy Legos this old, they don't even look or feel like the newer lego, which are a little glossier and seem to have better gripping power.

I absolutely suggest 60052, I think the engine looks great, I actually hate my 60098 and mostly just bought it for collector's OCD and to use the parts for other trains.