I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while now but I have a question for the readers: what made you get interested in LEGO? For me, I had LEGO when I was a kid with a basic building set plus a couple of random themed sets but then video games came into my life and I sort of abandoned it for about two decades or so. Then a few years, my friend was interested in the last wave of LEGO Harry Potter sets as a Christmas gift and just out of curiosity, I purchased the LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon (7965) for myself. After I built the set, I was instantly hooked again which took me out of the “Dark Ages” and the rest is history.
So my question for you my fellow readers is: what made you get into LEGO? To further extend the question, what is your favorite LEGO themes? I would love to hear your guys’ stories whether it be in the comments section below or or my social media pages (Facebook, Twitter, Google+).
Note: The image above was from a few months ago when I hear a loud crash in my room. The sets have since relocated to a different location.
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my mum bought my first set when I was under four years old, I think it was obi’s jedi fighter but I was so young I presume since I have the pieces for it and I know I didn’t buy it second hand and so 13 years later I’ve never stopped.
Being born in the 70s lol
I played with Lego a LOT when I was a child, but grew out of it as a teen. In 1999 (I was 20 years old then) I saw Star Wars Lego sets at a Toys’R’Us and casually mentioned to my girlfriend (we’d only been dating for a few weeks, we’re now married) that I thought it was cool.
The next day my girlfriend/wife showed up at my job with a huge Toys’R’Us bag filled with every Star Wars Lego set that was out at the time, which was only a few. I turned my bedroom into a Star Wars space battle by hanging up X Wings and TIE Fighters from the ceiling with fishing wire.
Soon after I found myself buying every Star Wars set that they released and that eventually bled into other themes to the point where I buy a LOT of Lego every year. A LOT. Too much some would say. I’m obsessed and I’d love to work for the Lego Group!
I re-found LEGOS with my kids, and am also in the category of buying more LEGOs than most think is reasonable. Working for TLG would be a dream job for me too.
Good luck with your LEGO collection and the future LEGO builds!
When I was a kid, I played with legos but fell out of it eventually. What got me back into legos was partly my cousin, who always brought a container full of his legos from home. Playing with legos again sorta got me back into lego, but what really got me back into it was purchasing a few of the first ninjago sets when they came out. I fell in love with legos again and I eventually got the whole first ninjago wave and have been collecting lego sets ever since.
I of course played with Lego as a kid. Loved the castle and space sets. The last set I remember getting was when I was in high school and it was a pirate set (a ship actually). I took it with me to college (unfortunately the ship fell a part but it is now pieces that my children use to build with. I’ve always collected toys and while i moved on from regular Lego sets I did start collecting Bionicle sets when they came out (never really thought about the fact that I never really left Lego collecting behind until recently). I have been a teacher now for 17 years. I would say about the time the CMF, students starting buying me history related minifigures. This led to me starting to collect these on my own as well. Actually, my classroom now has a timeline made up of minifigures. I soon started buying castle and Harry Potter sets. When Lord of the Rings and the Superhero sets started coming out I was hooked. It was everything I liked in one toy line. I’ve also found that Lego is great family bonding time.
I first started at age six when my mom got me a set from a clone comany. i had only played back then,and never really built. It was not until 1 year later that I was given my first real lego set (General Grevious’ Starfighter 7656) , and my brother wouldn’t build it for me, so I had to. I was frustrated at first, but then gave in and built. Little did I know how that changed my life.The great feeling of completion that I had upon building it made me feel empowered. I still just built sets for a few years until I stumbled upon the magic of building Lego to one’s own whim. With that, I built my first bases for my droids and clones that I had gotten in battle packs. During that time I watched Lego YouTube videos, and was puzzled to how the people move.But thanks to Google search, I got the concept and made some low quality videos, and continue to build and play at age 14. Also, my favorite theme is adventure orient, because Johnny Thunder rules!
I stopped playing with legos in middle school, but as a toy designer myself it got more and more difficult to ignore lego when they start buying all the licenses from your childhood. I finally cracked and bought Mt first set again when ninja turtles came out. now I’m hooked lol
We have never really been into LEGO as early as most fans have. It was only about a little less than four years ago that we started buying LEGO. It all started with a Series 5 Royal Guard minifigure. After that, I bought my first sets, the 2011 LEGO City Space Buggy and the Alien Conquest Striker. Ever since then, my brother and I saved up most money we got from our parents and bought LEGO. Early on, it was hard to build original stuff from the scant amount of pieces we had, but within a few years, we had been able to fill a large tub halfway full of LEGO, and many sets still intact, both official and original creations. Even as teenagers, we still love the product, despite the fact that many people our age who were into LEGO turned their attention to videogames and spending every cent on inflated shoes, which is sad, since LEGO stimulates our creativity that helps make our days less bland. LEGO really did give us something important, and will keep on giving: creativity
for me, i got into lego 3 times. the first was when i was a little kid with the castle sets in the 80’s. the second was with the first star wars sets in the 90’s. and then, most recently, about 3 years ago, some friends and i started playing pen & paper roleplaying games again. i decided to start using my old legos as miniatures for the game. that reignited a long lost passion, and i haven’t been able to stop since. my favorite themes are castle, pirate & lotr/hobbit, but i love ’em all. i recently got metalbeard’s sea cow and… just.. wow. loved it.
just lots and lots of building as a kid, back in 2010 Prince of persia came out the small set looked cool so i bought it, used it with my Lego i got as kid and so on, bought more sets then Pirates of the Caribbean came bought 3 of those sets as well
And then… AVENGERS! guy at school recommended it so i saw there where Lego sets coming out for that movie, instant love. been a fan of the Licensed themes ever since
Later the Hobbit came and more Marvel etc… Lovely community!
I never had Legos as a kid, but was always envious of the friends of mine that had them. Fast forward to 2012 and my son got his first Lego set (the Lego Catwoman Catcycle set 6858) and he was hooked and so was I. 3 years later and a few thousand dollars later and myself, my son, and my five year old daughter have sets coming out of our years. My wife also enjoys putting them together and we have now become a Lego family.
When i was 6 years old, my dad bought me some Bionicles, then a big red tub at ToysRus. Ever since that i was hooked.
Our family was in a state of financial need for a while, so we were part of the local food pantry. One christmas, they were taking in toys, so our mom said that she would like to get us some legos. that christmas, we got a TON of Mars Mission sets (we ended up giving most of them to our friends for their birthdays), and we have been fans ever since.
I am a little late to Lego. 32 yrs old now and never had played Lego except once when mu uncle got me a technic motorcycle frim UK. This Jan I got my daughter Disney Legos and I don’t know what happend but in the next few weeks bought all Lotr sets and then more than 20 Star Wars sets and then all modulars and then all Lego friends…I think I am going crazy over these I don’t have a spot to put them so I have to break them down. If only I could get the millenium falcon now…
I had a lot of Lego sets as a kid. Eventually, they were passed to my younger cousins (over my objections), and he wound up throwing them all away a couple years later. I got back into Lego sets about three years ago. Christmas 2012, I was in the mall with friends, passed a Lego store with the R2-D2 model on display, and decided that I needed that as a gift to myself. And, that restarted a very expensive but fun hobby.
Loved it as a kid, had many tubs and literally hundreds of pounds’ worth, mostly from Castle, Wild West, City, and other cool ’90s themes (screw space Legos!)… but I found girls right around the time Star Wars and Harry Potter themes started coming out, and I ignored Legos for years. I bought a set for a date night with a girlfriend once, which we promptly sold on eBay after building, but I always walked into the toy aisles in stores and stared enviously at the Legos, watching as they released more and more aesthetically pleasing sets and more and more interesting themes.
A few years ago, when my wife and I wanted a date night, I thought back to years before and decided we should do some Legos, so I got 4738 Hagrid’s Hut (she’s a huge HP fan) and we had fun building it. A year later we repeated with 79007 Battle at the Black Gate, and then again last year with the same set as you, 7965 Millennium Falcon. That finally got us hooked, and I dreamed up an idea for a Lego business, which I’m now happily running — I get free sets and loose Legos out of it, make money, AND get to spend all day with Legos. Currently have well over 200 pounds of Legos, not counting sets!
In the 80s, my brother and I first fell in love with the Castle sets, then the Classic Space sets, then the Pirates sets of the late 80s and early 90s. My dark ages were pretty lengthy: from age 12 so until age 30. What got me back into it were the licensed sets, particularly the late-stage Harry Potter sets and the announcement that Lord of the Rings and Hobbit sets would be made. All I collect are licensed sets, and I’m hooked on minifig collecting in particular. Currently a huge fan of Marvel/DC Super Heroes, Jurassic World, OT Star Wars and can’t wait to get my hands on Scooby Doo.
I was never into Lego as a kid. A few years ago though, the Lord of the Rings sets came out and I purchased the Shelab Spider set from a Wal Mart randomly because I just wanted a cool Lord of the Rings set. At that time I thought Lego was so expensive too so I just got that small set. I have a ton of fun building it and then soon after that, the Ninja Turtles sets came out! So I had to get those too. Pretty soon, I was collecting a bunch of sets and now even have Lego tattoos. So my gateway Lego was Lord of the Rings and now I see $400 sets and don’t even blink on the price. It all just makes sense now.
Because i love the figure designs in lego
I never played with it as a kid (70’s & 80’s) but when we were packing up to move house in 2013, I saw that I had bought a Castle set from the 90’s! I think Lego was on my radar, even as a kid, but never got into them. I built those plastic model kits you need to model glue for and paint and had all those great Star Wars actions figures and ships from the late 70’s/early 80’s (and have no idea where they are now!). Then, in 2012, for my daughter’s birthday, I got her two Lego Star Wars sets – Luke’s Landspeeder and the Desert Skiff, plus a Lego Star Wars storage case. I was introducing her to the classic, original Star Wars movies, so these classic sets fit right in. Since then, the hobby as steadily grown each year and she now makes her own creations out of extra pieces and classic tubs that I get her along with sets. We are big into the Winter Village sets each year and all the holiday themed stuff, Castle, Lego City (almost any sub-theme), Creator, Pirates, some fo the Lego Ideas sets, and she has a few Friends sets. We both build MOC’s out of our sets and she’s just started building sets from the instructions (she never cared to do that – always wanted ME to build the sets and she would create unique stuff). Lego is truly AMAZING for creativity and kids’ minds! It will foster a lifetime of learning and “engineering” for her and all fans of Lego!
I loved Lego as a child. Loved building things from my imagination, thinking about how they should work, designing them. I’ve always loved systems and expandable themes but of all the toy systems Lego seemed to offer the best look, build speed and options and it also had figures to add to scenes, and parts stayed stuck together. Plastic model kit making was too difficult for me and I wanted to play with the finished product and change it again and again.
Space was my favourite theme due to my love of Sci-Fi spaceships. Town was good too. I loved making custom vehicles but wanted really to make big space ships like the ones from Star Wars, Macross, Space Battleship Yamato (StarBlazers) and Gatchaman (G-Force – Battle of the Planets). The concept of micro-scale building didn’t occur to me and I wanted to put minifig crew in the ships so I had the constant frustration of not having enough parts.
I got into Technic in my teens but once I left home for college I didn’t think much about Lego. I was heavily into multi-player PC games and basketball/sneakers and had no money for a third hobby.
When Star Wars Lego first appeared I bought a lot of the first two waves. I wanted to MOC so pulled them apart after a while, bought some tackle boxes and sorted my parts. I bought a handful of second hand sets to get more pieces. It still seemed hard to get enough parts for decent projects. I used to Google pictures and enjoyed checking out some MOCs over the years. I built two micro-scale spaceships in 2008 but quickly used up a lot of my parts.
It wasn’t until January 2013 that I stumbled across two things. Firstly pictures from BrickVention 2013 in Melbourne, Australia. That was when I realised that there was a good AFOL community in Australia and that AFOLs were doing the kind of builds I had previously only seen from big toy stores and Lego themselves. Secondly I discovered BrickLink and realised the possibilities it opened up. I enquired about local shows and found out that Sydney Brick Show 2013 was coming up soon. I decided to buy some more Lego and get building. From that point I was hooked.
It’s great now to see all the different themes, really high quality sets (compared to a lot of crap in the late 90s and early 2000s) and a much improved range of colours and elements.
I can’t state enough how important BrickLink, more colours and more elements is. The combination of those things has really opened up Lego as a tool and artistic medium for building models and expressing your imagination. With third-party products now like Brick Warriors, Alt-Bricks, various LED lights, S-Brick, and modern phones and tablets to control things the opportunities are only getting better. It’s an exciting time to be into Lego!
I had a few sets as a kid, but when I was 11 the Harry Potter sets were released and through a combinationof Christmas gifts and selling my Pokemon figures for cash I bought almost all of them. After a while, my parents decided I had enough Lego and banned me from buying more. Over the next ten years I started collecting the Marvel Mega Blox instead, and convinced myself that Lego was for children. When they announced that Legobhad aquired the license for Marvel, I was horrified. I remember complaining about them. And then I got a Thor polybag with a newspaper and fell in love again. Now I have most of the Marvel sets and a bunch of various others. And my parents definitely think I have too much Lego now.
Pretty common theme here… I played with Lego in the 70’s/80’s with my Dad. It was one thing that we really bonded over. Grew up and grew out of it. Fast forward 30-ish years and I have 12 year old daughter that is as geeky as I am. We built a bit of Lego when she was younger (6 yrs) and she wanted to give it another go recently. She bugged me for a few months to buy a big set so for Easter I bought us The Lonely Mountain. For 3-4 hours my daughter, my WIFE and I sat around the kitchen table and built this set. Little did I know that my wife enjoyed this too! So.. here I am… a full blown AFOL! 🙂
It’s a great family activity and I find it very relaxing (like raking sand…). And then there’s the collect-ability… I’m an avid collector of geekery.
I became a fan as an adult through an ex. He was building the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and I thought of getting him the Space Shuttle as his next Lego project. He never got around to it, trying to get him to do, I started it and I was hooked. Since then, I’ve gotten modulars, other Creator sets, minifigs, and UCS sets. Meanwhile, six years later, he is still has not finished that plane! :/
I’ve been interested in LEGO since I was about seven. I never really went through a dark ages (I’m 17 now), though there were some years when I didn’t buy many new sets. I used to mainly collect City when I was younger, but recently I’ve been really interested in Castle and LotR. I also like Space, though I don’t have many sets from that theme, except for Star Wars.
You buy a lot Lego sets
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You lucky collection there Lego sets
Go by myself too buy the Lego sets too collection that.