littlerobin

Love the stories and the builds. You have great imagination. Will wait for more. Thank you.

I guess it all depends on what you would like to do with those sets. I have kids and so they play with City, Friends, Sponge Bob, Monster Fighters etc. Sometimes our Lego town will include all of them together. When I bought Creator Seaside House, I did not expect it to blend in so well with ... the Glove World from Sponge Bob. I do not like Sponge Bob theme, so I removed the characters, but left the Ferris Wheel and ticket stand/ ice-cream booth. The Creator Seaside House has the same color scheme and if you build a variation with the small house and the drink shack, combined with the Glove World it makes a nice little theme park. We added Friends Heartlake Vet set to our town too, but it was separated from the theme park by the road plate and it did not look too bad together. No, it was not seamless look of a street made entirely of Lego modulars, but for playing and not displaying it looke fine. I actually want to add Creator Lighthouse to our town now, I think it will still look fine.

I have to wait till Christmas to open mine. Does it work OK on Wii?

I am new to buying Lego for myself, used to buy it just for my kids. Never bought multiples till recently. I bought 2 Uruk-hai armies for the Helm Deep. I also bought 2 Mummy sets, 2 Werewolf sets and 3 Swamp Creature sets from Monster Fighter just for playability and arranging some cool scenes. Collectible Minifigures are great for building city population or armies. I bought 2 aliens from series 8 to go with our Alien Conquest sets. If I would have more money, I would buy 2 (I don't even own one for now :() of Escape from London sets, because of great vehicles, horses, soldiers and building. I but I like to play with my kids and home someday make some of those great Lego movies on Youtube. Hey a girl can dream, right?!

I will have to agree with Helm's Deep, since it brought me out of Dark Ages :)

Growing up in the Soviet Union, I didn't have any Lego. I remember having a house building set with white bricks and tiny blue tiles for the roof (those were supposed to be clipped to the rafters-rails one by one). I do not think it was Lego though. So I guess I can count it as extremely long Dark Age. After coming to US I started buying Lego sets when my kids were old enough to play with them. At the beginning I was extremely annoyed with all of the little pieces scattered around the house and my hopeless attempts to contain and organize the "mess" lol. Over the years I got used to Lego and even designated some special building and storage areas for the kids, but only this year when I saw LoTR sets, Lego "spoke to me"! I still didn't build any of those (they are in a closet, waiting for Christmas morning), but I did build a small Lego town with my kids and several small sets, from our old collection. I also discovered a joy of poly bag Lego and other, then LoTR, licensed sets. I bought a Medieval Market Village and going to try to use it for the scene from LoTR when hobbits meet Aragorn for the first time. Does it count as coming out of Dark Ages?