Isavarg

I would love to see it come back as it was my favourite theme as a child. I remember many birthdays and Christmas' were made because of those sets. I would probably buy them too, just for old times sake.

Lego do a missing/broken pieces service on their website so you can ask them to replace them. It doesn't stop thieves from taking pieces out of the box and returning them, but you should be able to get the figures replaced, and even if a piece is missing from a box it could be that the piece wasn't put in there at the factory. I've had a couple of large sets where this has happened.

I started collecting Lego again because of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit sets and have for some time now, wanted to create buildings from the films and books which Lego didn't make sets for. I was just wondering what is the best way of collecting the pieces I need to do this (I'd like to keep my favourite sets intact if I can, and not reuse them in something else.) I have collected some of the Classic freestyle sets, but I find that they don't have enough bricks of the right size and colours for me, so I was wondering how people collected the bricks they use for fantasy and historical themes. (It would be a lot easier if we still had the Castle and Viking themes but they sadly, aren't an option right now.)

I started collecting Lego because of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings themes and now because they are discontinued, I seem to have the same problem. (I'd show more interest in the Star Wars themes if there were more sets out there which were related to the Classic Era but most of the ones out now are related to the new films (which I'm not interested in) and the Classic sets which are around are too expensive, so maybe.) I'd like there to be more fantasy/historical themed sets which aren't eye popping in their colours because these would be good additions to my Hobbit/LOTR themed sets. But I think the main problem of why sets don't appeal to me is the small number of pieces in them and leaning towards smaller models, but the prices remaining high. I did notice in the later Hobbit sets in particular that the buildings got smaller (mainly because the pieces were smaller...), but the prices were higher. If you compare Barrel Escape to the Mirkwood and Lake Town, BOFA sets, Barrel Escape is quite a large model and wasn't that expensive, but the models in the other sets were tiny. (They were still fun to build, but they would have been better had they been bigger.) When the Simpsons theme came out, I was excited for that as I'm a fan of them and looked forward to collecting them, but I don't understand why lego stopped releasing the buildings and figures for them. (I like the Simpsons not only because I'm a fan of the cartoon, but also because I like how the colour scheme has been incorporated - sometimes I don't like the CIty and Creator sets because the colour schemes are a bit dull, but sometimes the way the Elves and Friends sets are put together, the colours are a bit eye popping.) There is a good range, but I'd like to see the return of the themes which I missed or enjoyed building (or if not returned, at least have something similar to them.)