TheLegGodt

Fantastic work - I really love that film and this is instantly recognisable!

Built mine too now. Looks good with haunted house. Not sure I think the minifigures are so special as others here make them out to be. It takes - for me - a lot of imagination to see the original cast in them. Doesn't bother me though, they're fine without being so instantly recognisable. Just not special.

Just got mine yesterday for about 65 euros. Buildings look great, car look rubbish. Why do they bother making such awful models? It's the case with every Creator house so far. I guess they think kids like to play with awful looking cars I reckon for say 5% more cost they could make them look really great. I much prefer to fill my layout up with the models you can buy separately or that come with other sets e.g. the Expert line. I will box and store the car that comes with this set up along with the others so that I still have the sets complete in case of resell.

I will be having nightmares tonight

You're right, on the receipt it shows the prices before VAT. Early Sunday morning... Still a good price though

Just ordered mine as well. Did not want to run the risk of it selling out and I can imagine this set will be very popular. Can't wait to build it but still have the Curiosity Rover to build first and stil only halfway through the Sea Cow. Luxury problems.

I bought it yesterday at A-Tembo in Delft/Breda for 54 euros. That's incredible value for money!

It looks like plastic to me. Sweet.

Great discussion this, I am really enjoying it! Just an additional observation: in Holland the reseller/second hand sets are sold usually through Marktplaats, a site where you can advertise your goods, set a price and let people make their own offer as well. So it's not like ebay where you have to bid and you have to sell once the bidding time is over. On Marktplaats some sets are for sale for a very long time. What I always see is the same people bidding and offering ludicrous prices, meaning that I think some of these sellers are purposely driving the prices up. As I stated earlier, I once sold some 41999 sets - see my other post in this thread for the reasoning. The point is, I was a charging under the normal, 'going' price (I think it was the going price) since I honestly wanted to get rid of them. I do not in principle resell lego. As soon as I put it on the site, some aggressive resellers immediately offered to pay ridiculous amounts like a 1000 euros, just to scare people away from my offer and/or raise the price as well. I have no problem in principle with resellers or the secondary market - we have deeply engrained capitalism in our society and that way of life and this it where capitalism can rear its ugly head - but I do have a problem with unregulated markets where this kind unfair behaviour can take place. Maybe we need a regulated Lego secondary market with transparent buy and sell prices and a market authority. I think anyone who sets that platform up will make some real money off Lego

I keep a trackrecord of all my sets: what I paid for them, what they are worth now and what they originally retailed for. I do this as a serious collector, not as an investor. So far I have paid roughly 2000 euros more than what I should have if i had bought them at retail prices. Thank goodness my wife is quite a nut as well. It is a hobby we enjoy as a whole family and when we got back into Lego we just had to get Cafe Corner, Green Grocer, Taj Mahal, Eiffel Tower, Carroussel, Ucs Falcon, etc. Fortunately now we have got all the older sets we wanted so now we just focus on new stuff at normal retail prices. I agree with the original poster: don't ruin your hobby trying to make a living out of it. I luckily earn much more money with other skills. However, i must admit to one sin: when the 41999 came out i was so desparate to get a copy that i drove to the Lego Store while on holiday and picked up 2 boxes right off the shelf. I sold them immediately for twice the price. I figured: it was the going rate and usually I pulled the short end of the string. Wouldn't do it again though: too much work, waste of my free time.

I 'tile' build roades 10 studs wide. I make them one-way roads. I don't aim for realism but for what is aesthetically pleasing. I see roads as a backdrop for viewing lego built vehicles. Road base plates just don't do it for me and are not stud-conomical.

For me 10xxx was synonymous for 'BUY'. Now some AFOL sets have different numbering like the Simpsons sets which makes it all a bit more fragmented.

Looking forward to seeing this one pull up to my MF Haunted House on the 1sy of June. Finally the ghosts around that house on the edge of my town will meet their match!

8457 so far. Usually I use my points to buy a 'free' winter village set. I would have more points but also buy at other shops and the secondary market. I think I must have financed LEGO's profit last year

Hi there! Sorry to hear about your illness and great that you have resparkled your inner child. I am sure it will help keep you young and (mentallly) healthy!

Very nice, looks like you used good materials. I question the use of the Lego logo in the background since it may distract from the minifigures themselves. That would be my concern anyhow, but looks very good all the same.

Haha I have heard members on this forum with a far larger collection but mine is also growing...

I have 100+ sets, maybe twice with a piece missing. Usually I substitute until replacement part is in. Lego has excellent service, I even once asked Lego, a year after it was discontinued, for 50 1x1 dark grey bricks for the Eiffel Tower. I had noticed some were starting to crack due to the shear weight of the thing and so I asked for a lot more to last me a lifetime. They did it and even apologised for the inconvenience. Last piece missing was with Simpsons House. Nougat coloured 1x2 brick. Was replaced within a week. It sucks when it happens, but hardly happens. One bad experience does not mean it will happen again. And when it comes to the Petshop, I can't recall any special pieces or colour that can't be replaced even in a few years time if necessary. No worries.

I have it separately listed as 'art & antiquities' (I think it was that) as part of my contents insurance and keep a list of all the sets I have. In that list I keep track anyhow of how valuable the very unique ones are. In case of a claim I need to be able to handover that list, which is why it is useful to keep in secure webmail (e.g. Apple me). They also advised to take pictures and keep them somewhere separate (e.g. Flickr). I overstated by 50% so that I still have some room to grow the collection. It's not very expensive and over-insuring does not cost that much therefore either. Better safe than sorry.

Hello to you AFOL's out there. I have been a member now for a couple of years but only recently started actively contributing to this community. I have been a happy consumer of all the excellent material found here ever since I rediscovered my love for LEGO in 2010. My story is similar to everyone else's. As a 6 year-old I would be clicking away with LEGO at 5am, waking the house up with the noise of piling bricks. I built MOCS of Battlestar Galactica, the Enterprise... all the nerdy stuff. But then I discovered girls and music and after that went to university and a career in Finance and Risk was born. But midlife struck and since 3 years I have steadily built-up a healthy collection of impressive LEGO sets. Which brings me to the topic title... my LEGO display room! I very quickly realised that I would need space for all the sets if I wanted to display them properly so I agreed with my wife that I could use the second-smallest room in the house as the LEGO room. I had a carpenter custom-make a table to my specification and install IKEA kitchen cabinets underneath it for storage. I had him hang-up - in a seemingly random manner - IKEA LACK shelves to hold smaller or stand-alone models. I had the walls plastered and painted a very soft yellow colour - a typical colour that in my opinion really compliments LEGO without being too clinical like the colour white would be. I had a blind installed in front of the window to strongly limit direct sunlight and an Air Purifier and Ioniser to keep the air from becoming stale (the window is air-tight and the door is always closed - I'll get to that) and attract dust. I soon discovered it sucked not being able to always see my LEGO collection but I knew that dust was the enemy. So I solved that by installing a clear glass door and had an electrician install an automatic light-switch on a timer so it would light up at dark moments of the day. And so was born the LEGO display room which essentially feels like a display cabinet. You can stand outside the room and enjoy it or open the door, enter the room, smell the plastic and get engrossed by all the beautiful sets that LEGO has produced. My collection is quite diverse and contains some real exclusives. I was lucky enough to be able to buy the Cafe Corner and Greece Grocer. And the Carrousel. Sets like that, that really make the city stand out. I mix modulars with Creator houses and I do not shy away from Emmet racing down the high-street. LEGO is a seriously fun hobby in my opinion. It's okay to mix sets and have an Arkum Asylum on the outskirts. I don't really MOC. Maybe one day I will, but for now I just love discovering new building techniques from the excellent sets available. I also find creativity in combining sets, creating scenes and adding/MOCing the scenery around them. My display is far from completed, I am in no rush and have to keep up appearances of really wanting my career so I can finance this expensive hobby. But secretly every day I check the internet for news and dream about my layout while talking business. Luckily I am a good talker. Anyhow, better go but please view the photos on my Flickr page if you have time. Interested to hear your comments and views and if you can share pictures of your LEGO display room or area. It's great to get inspired. Happy to be part of this community. https://www.flickr.c...57643931707834/ Cheers Paul (aka TheLegGodt)

Looking forward to seeing the final result!

Small bits are great for details and the great thing about the lego system is that all these small bricks can be used in so many different ways that its just astounding what you can MOC yourself but also what you learn each time you build a new set. The system is so perfectly thought out and logical. If I was a religious man I would almost call it a miracle. But at least a wonder of the world. OK so enough raving and fanboy stuff for now.

Just the regular track you can buy in the shops now. Usually its straights with flexible track which most AFOLs don't like. What you can also do is buy a (relatively) cheap City train set that contains a lot of track as well as a starter kit. You can often buy the yellow cargo train combined with a track, a station and other stuff. And you then get regular bends instead of flex track.

I dont think he was talking about his relationship... The first few big sets I built I had the same fear. It goes away (I have built many many big sets since 2010). Anyway, if a piece is missing usually it's a very insignicant part that I have spare pieces for so I can (temporarily) supplement with. But of the 100 sets it happened like 3 times... Brick happily ever after and trust in LEGO

I like the humour too. On top of my Modular Shop I have a Lex Luthor mech and super man battling it out. Meanwhile Indy is whizzing down the street just missing the Harry Potter triple-decker bus. Not to mention Chicken Suit Guy endlessly waiting for his train to come in (to take him to a surprise party I guess) and then there's a winter-dressed Han Solo walking over the beach (!) staring up at Princess Leia in her gold bikini on top of the balcony of her beach house. I say anything goes, collections and layouts are about your own personality and I don't live in boxes ;-) I will share photos of mine one day. I have similar amount of space I estimate but in a different setup. RE the roads. I really don't know what to advise. I guess the benefit of the prefab roads is that they are quite wide so you can indeed make more scenes and add more vehicles. Personally, I invested 200 euros in dark grey and light grey 1x2 smooth tiles and built roads similar to the Modular pavement layout. I live in Holland and often the pavement and roads tend to converge at the same level so it seemed to make sense. I also created a 'gothic' square based around HP, LOTR and the Arkam Asylum with very strong colours: tan, dark grey, light grey, orange and purple. It works nicely in a very strange way. That was another 100 euros. Damned expensive hobby this.