I'm toying with an idea. I suspect it's a very stupid one but I just can't shake it.
When I was a kid, my dad sometimes brought me home DC Comics. I'm not sure where he got them, but he got them just occasionally and that meant I have just a few non-sequential comics from that time. It was of course a really kind thing he did, and I'm not complaining.
But lately I've filled in a few gaps from that time. Those Bronze Age comics are pretty cheap and they were good fun to read, so I find myself wanting more. In fact, I'm thinking of getting every DC comic from that year, just for fun... and out of slightly-unhinged completism.
I keep reminding myself that I ditched tons of comics this year so buying more would be wrong. But I can't shake the idea...
Does anyone else have any very specific collecting habits? What are you hunting down?
- Trout
I'm glad to say I seem to have shaken most of mine. Okay so I still own ever comic which has Ka-Zar as the title character of the story (or one of in the case of anthologies) and some of them are stinkers, but I doubt that trend will continue for long... well except for the fact that I can't see him being the main feature in a title for a long time to come, after the sales of his last mini!
I've removed all the Metamorpho appearances I don't own off my want list (which is refreshingly short these days), again many of those I own suck big time.
I've even broken my habit of getting the Flash regardless of how little pleasure I get from reading it. I think once I did that I knew I was through with 'collecting' as such.
In fact in some ways I've got the opposite problem and I've found myself selling off things that have surprised me. Books I like but can't see myself reading again. Glorious coffee table art books I know I will not do justice with by spending the time looking at them the way I should. Oversized omnibus (omnibi? Help me out here?) that I like (even love in a couple of cases) but don't enjoy reading cos they are just to damned cumbersome. Books I've treasured over years but a new cheaper edition has come out so I've sold the expensive old thing, got the new cheaper one and pocketed the difference. Stuff like that. I've become quite brutal. One day soon I think my 1st print Bone issue 1 will be up for the crop.
I do wonder if I will regret this harsh phase in my now none collecting and spend a fortune getting stuff back again. We'll see. Hopefully though I'm kinda cured???
I feel the pain of a fellow collector. After years of not buying comics (aside from the prog et al) DC went and done their "new fifty-poo" and I got hooked all over again. Bringing boxes down from my attics revealed a tantalisingly-close-to-complete (or so I thought) Swamp Thing collection, which has led me to try to tick that one off... which has been both immense fun and crushingly expensive. With that now close to being done, sort of, I'm looking towards Hellblazer as my next wife-baiting obsession. I found issues #50-#150 in my attic, with a few missing, so I plan to either get #1-49 or #151-200 next, as well as working backwards from the current (and sadly last) issues.
Must just add that I don't consider the buying of trade collections as indicative of "collectormania"- as they are freely available and everyone buys (or should buy) books. There are a whole bunch of series I buy in trade format as a matter of course.
Other titles I've got on my list of things to get include the issues of Twisted Tales, Alien Worlds, and Tales of Terror I'm missing, as well as certain runs of Amazing Spider-Man that don't look as if they'll be reprinted anytime soon. The other day I received in the post #12 of the second NIGHT FORCE run, completing my collection of everything 'Forcey' from the original teaser comic in The New Teen Titans (and that's another series I may end up going for- the eighties New Teen Titans, as I loved them back in the day and sold them a decade ago, stupidly) right up to the closing issue of the recent mini-series.
I guess the sad truth is that I honestly prefer comics to trades. While collected versions are lovely and I'm very glad they are now so prevalent, having grown up with an industry that seemingly refused to even think about putting consecutive issues together in a 'permanent' edition, I much prefer having a box of bagged and boarded issues. Yes, it's annoying to have to pull out a run and yes, each time there's that moment of terror as you wonder if twenty year old sellotape is this time going to catch the cover of a priceless old comic and scrape the surface off... but I guess, first and foremost I love the format. I love the feel, the smell and the look of old comics more than I love the feel of new trades, however "definitive or absolut" they may be.
And while writing this, I've made up my mind to go straight over to eBay and pick up some Titans. Heh. Good luck Trouty!
SBT
Aaaand predictably, a short while later, i'm the proud owner of four old issues of the New Teen Titans... Damn you, Trout, damn you...
SBT
I dont know if ou can ever 'cure' yourself of the collecting bug, it just gets transfered to something else.
British comics are my thing, it did get transfered to American comics for a while when I followed some of ex 2000ad droids, after a while I realised I was buying the comic for the creator name rather than the comics itself. I still pick up american trades second hand though, but only stuff that comes recomended.
I love oddball stuff, condition doesent bother me, so long as the comics is complete and readable, but once I get it, its kept! I still have the first Beano I bought a long time ago,I know this because Brendan is devouring them at the minuite and I found it alongside my Beano club wallet, badges still inside! The flipside is that Im fortunate to have the space to keep them.
Id say go for it, as you say its not expencive, and if it passes a rainy winter evening and you get enjoyment out of it, its win-win.
That's the thing- im sitting here agonising over spending twenty-one notes on three old comics (hellblazer #1, new teen titans #1, new teen titans/ x-men crossover, since you dont ask)- but honestly, most people i know would spend that without thinking, down the pub or on filling up a petrol tank. While beer and cars are probably great :thumbsup: my particular vice is old comics. Is there really a right and wrong here? As david says, if it passes a rainy winter night, then go for it.
SBT
SBT
In the future we will all go into our lofts and lose hours of the day upon unexpectedly finding dozens of old cardboard boxes full to the brim with a comic-reading device. We will lovingly heave the yellowing kindle or tablet into the light, smooth out the creases and brush off the cobwebs. Every crinkle on the screen will spark some cherished memory; the newsagent's mark scribbled in pencil on the corner of the device will take us right back to shops that have long since closed down; we will wonder where the proprieter is now, or if they are even still alive. We will fondle the (digital) comics, drinking in the unique (digital) smell, perhaps marvelling as we read through the issues at how the (digital) page sizes and (digital) paper quality changed throughout a comic's run. A fond chortle will be elicited as we (digitally) turn to a page of a black-and-white comic that our little brothers or sisters tried to (digitally) colour in with their (digital) crayons. We will remember how angry we were at the time; now, the memory simply brings happiness. We will find (digital) sellotape marks on the (digital) covers where long-ago (digital) free gifts were (digitally) removed, and rack our brains trying to recall what they were.
We will find gaps in the collection and want to fill them. Pressing 'download all' and accquiring the entire run in seconds will exactly replicate the thrills and spills of having to do the legwork oneself, and we will in no way feel somehow oddly empty and definately not miss the fun of having to trawl through bargain boxes at comic shops or go hunting on Ebay, forever keeping one eye out for those last few elusive rare numbers. And if we decide to move our (digital) collection on, there is always the comfort of knowing that we can re-sell our (digital) pile of comics to other collectors and recoup most of the money, and this act will in no way be rendered pointless when other collectors can simply buy the lot and immediately have them all on their own device with a touch of a button.
'Thank God print media died,' we will say. 'Rediscovering digital comics years after the fact is in no way an empty and souless expierience utterly bereft of charm and nostalgia. I will derive exactly the same satisfaction from finding my son hidden under his covers staring blandly at a screen when he's supposed to be sleeping, as I would have done to find him with a pile of my yellowing old paper issues.' And we will walk to work next morning with a spring in our steps, past derelict bookshops and closed libraries and liquidated comic shops that are much preferable to that awful thriving print industry which was such a bloody eyesore to look at.
Quote from: maryanddavid on 18 November, 2012, 10:17:55 PM
I dont know if ou can ever 'cure' yourself of the collecting bug, it just gets transfered to something else.
Ah, was there ever a truer statement?
My collecting has certainly become more focused, and has also slowed down quite a bit, over the last couple of years, though summat will always pop up, that i just must have.
Un-used Star Wars Letraset sets from 1978, anybody?
Now that ive got 99% of the comic runs i want, its a case of fine tuning these, and trying to build a collection with the best condition copies as possible. For me, NM is king. This isnt anywhere near as expensive as it might sound. In fact, pleasingly so, its been down right cheap as chips of late.
Oooh, Letrasets! Lovely. I have to say that I am terrified something awful will happen after I discovered that old Panini football stickers are sold, in unopened packs, on eBay for very little money...
Thank you, gentlemen, for your support. I may well give in to my needs soon. SBT, Hellblazer is on my "must get around to completing that one day" list.
I quite like getting trades but you lads are right - sometimes there's no substitute for the original comics.
Perhaps there needs to be a dedicated thread started for our collective 'purchases'.
Summat like Stuff on e-bay that i couldnt live without.
Two good reasons, im nebby as to what people buy, and.. er... well, mmm - cant think of any other reasons, ;)
I've been collecting Quirks, so far I have Pauline.
Quote from: Judge Jack on 20 November, 2012, 04:43:06 PM
a dedicated thread started for our collective 'purchases'.
I reckon this one would do...
Since getting back into buying the prog about four years ago my initial burst of collectormania was based on that. Hence my collection going from about 60 progs to 600. Outside of that my attempt at collecting was limited to buying the run of The punisher that went from the 80s into the 90s. I haven't come close to finishing this yet as I've kept myself away from the internet and only getting what I can from comic shops in an attempt to keep some money in my pocket. It also saves me from moving onto another title and collecting that as well.
I've always found that the thrill was in the chase.
Took me years to get a complete run of "Creepy", "Eerie", "Vampirella", "Famous Monsters of Filmland" and "Mad". Finally did it about two years ago and they just sat there.
Sold them in the end for a tidy sum (although probably nowhere near what I paid for them). Just realised I would never take them out of the boxes again.
I am re-collecting the first three through the archives books though.
The only things I collect and keep now are complete collections of 2000 AD, Megazine, and Fangoria.
You all know my collecting (ahem) quirk. Which reminds me, I have to update my addiction thread soon.
V
I definitely think you should follow through with this ludicrous plan Trout. I bet it turns out there's one really obscure impossible to find issue which will drive you to distraction.
I don't have any really interesting collecting goals although I'm determined to obtain a physical copy of every 2000AD strip (Future Shocks aside) without buying the first 250 progs, which is maybe a bit silly. I used to buy at least one record on 4AD every year. Even if there wasn't one I really liked I'd get one just to keep the streak going, but I gave that up in 2008.
I actually have a question about comic collecting which I've been meaning to bring up for a while. What is the point of the bags? I do keep my back issues in boxes but that's more for practicality and space saving. Not only do I not put them in bags, when I buy back issues which are in bags I usually take them out before filing them away. Do libraries keep collections of newspapers and so forth in bags? If not, why not? Or does the climate control remove the need?
Listen carefully, simpleton: the bags are for keeping comics in.
sigh
Quote from: The Cosh on 23 November, 2012, 12:17:26 AM
I actually have a question about comic collecting which I've been meaning to bring up for a while. What is the point of the bags?
Good grief I'd have thought it was obvious, the bag is there to keep the backing board in place - Jez.
Cosh... don't say that you apply the sticky tape directly to the back page of your comic :o
Ha. Thanks for the tips.
Ah, the boards. Is the main use for these to keep the spacing regular? If so, I achieve the same effect by alternating ten issues facing forward then ten facing backwards.
The boards stop the curl
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Quote from: The Cosh on 23 November, 2012, 09:41:24 AM
Ah, the boards. Is the main use for these to keep the spacing regular? If so, I achieve the same effect by alternating ten issues facing forward then ten facing backwards.
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its not an over reaction!)
Quote from: Proudhuff on 23 November, 2012, 09:51:21 AM
The boards stop the curl
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So does alternating the side the spines are on.
(I can't see this picture at work. I only realised there was one there when I quoted you)
Saw this little fella on E-Bay the other day, and i think a new thing to collect has arrived, ;)
Had hours of fun with Lego Space, back in the late 70's/early 80's.
Seem cheap enough...
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I had one of those!
Oh, I like it. Lego collections can't cost too much. There's hardly any of that our there.
Er...
There's been four of those little Lego Space Buggy's on E-bay the last couple of days, and have all gone for only a couple of quid.
Gonna have to check what sites are out there, and see if they have a listing for what sets were released, and what i used to have, ;)
As a sucker for the original Star Wars Figures (especially those from ANH), this caught my eye. Pricey, but deffo WANT!
Take my money, E-bay. Take it all! (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Star-Wars-Vintage-Kenner-Jumbo-12-Stormtrooper-Action-Figure-BNIB-UK-Seller-/130787115546?_trksid=p5197.m1992&_trkparms=aid%3D111000%26algo%3DREC.CURRENT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D14%26meid%3D3834841595677375149%26pid%3D100015%26prg%3D1006%26rk%3D1%26sd%3D130787115546%26)
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The internet has killed collecting as a hobby stone dead. If you have the cash you can have anything you like, in days.
When I was a lad it was different. I bought my comics mail order from Steve Rock comics and he often didn't have what I wanted from his home made catalogue by the time he got my order. There was a real thrill when you got a roughly taped package with with no idea what it contained.
For my Prog collection I visited every comic shop I came accross often buying the odd random Prog for £1.30 from the tattered 'wants' list I kept in my wallet. With the dawn of the internet, or at least my understanding of it, I completed my gaps in a few weeks on Ebay. Job done, hobby gone.
Since I got my last Prog & Meg (Prog 121 and Meg Vol 3.75) I haven't collected anything, and frankly I miss the thrill.
"Since I got my last Prog & Meg (Prog 121 and Meg Vol 3.75) I haven't collected anything, and frankly I miss the thrill."
I'm a bit of a lurker...but the above struck a chord with me. I was lucky in some ways that I completed my prog collection prior to the internet springing up. I too, have fond memories of searching through dingy second-hand book shops and piles of old progs - and this was in New Zealand. The final prog I needed was (from memory) 524, or thereabouts. It was quite a momentous day when it finally went into 'the pile'. In those days, I stored my progs in a single vertical column, which was about 4 foot high (can't do that these days, of course). My cat used it as a scratching post from time-to-time, so each of those early progs has a minute 'knick' at the bottom of each page - nice way to remember the cat who is now long gone!
There were a couple of 2000AD-related items that I just couldn't acquire in NZ, so mail-order services from the UK were vital in filling the gaps. I can't remember the bloke, but I think he might have advertised in 2000AD at some point. I was able to get a typed/photocopied catalogue sent out, and then I could select what I wanted. I believe payment was made via an International Money Order or similar.
Someone above mentioned letraset. In addition to 2000AD, vintage Action Man and a number of other things, I also collect the old letraset activity books from the 70's - the following pictures might bring back some memories. Some of these would have been on the shelves next to 2000AD back in the day. Apologies for the back-drop in the photos - I'm in the middle of recarpeting my house. :)
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Ha! I remember these - you used to rub the transfers onto the cardboard back drop and inevitably half the soldier came away when you pulled back the sheet due to ineffectual rubbing. A talent I have since mastered, I may add.
Ah, good stuff!
I probably had some of those, but i cant bring forth any real recollection. There was similar WWII ones released in the mid-70's by 'Uncle Remus(?)' that i was totally hooked on.
I am no completist but my collecting quirk is that I have never got rid of any comic I ever bought.
The older the comic, the tattier, the better. I like the look of yellowed tatty newsprint comics.
In the past I wished I had the courage to get rid of my Marvel UK black and white comics but I haven't.
Having said all that, a few months ago I bought some old Batman comics from Oxfam which I have read, am not impressed with, so in this case I will break my lifetime habit and donate them back.
Saw 'em and pounced on 'em and now mine. A new collecting bug?
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tread carefully Judge Jack. It's an expensive path is Classic Space
Are you a collector of these James?
Ive been watching related bits and bobs on e-bay for a while, and these three came as one set, and was fairly cheap. Though some Lego Space bits are dear, im happy to play the long game and snag bargains.
Used to have no end of these back in the day - late70's/early80's, and i was instantly transported back to that time opening the package today.
I fear that Lego has me in its grip. My children got some for Christmas and we've had a great time building it together. Also, the minifigures available for £2 in the little bags keep drawing me back. So far, all the Lego is officially owned by the children, but I fear it is only a matter of time before I buy something for myself...
Just for you, Mr Trout
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I've always loved Lego but it really is expensive. I've got loads of stuff back at my parents house and I'm considering buying up some instructions for old sets I remember owning as a kid and transforming the massive bucket of mixed Lego into recognisable sets from the early to mid 1980s.
Like this beast! http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=6951-1
Judge Jack, Supermarine Troutfire.... you are both on a very slippy slope. It may start off as one set (purely for the nostalgic value.) or a gift for the kids (well I had to build it because.... ) But before you know it you're standing in Toys r Us feeling all the bags of the latest 'Collectable minifigures' series trying to find the 'Chicken Suit Guy' 71000, buying the Sun to get the free 'Frodo with cooking corner' 30210 polybag set or driving 20+ miles to spend £50 on Star Wars lego in order to claim a Darth Maul minifig 5000062. The joy you get when you finish building a set fades after a while and you're looking for your next 'fix', something bigger, more whooshable.
Heed my warning, I know this, for I was that man.
P.S. Those Classic Space sets look ace.
P.P.S. Just bought Twin-Pod Cloud Car & Bespin set 9678 and Republic Striker-class Starfighter 9497 for Christmas. Saving up for Jabba's Palace 9516 and Rancor Pit 75005 and Sith Fury-class Interceptor 9500 and...............
Stew.
I'm already on the slope. My girlfriend bought me a Lego X-Wing for Christmas and I've already been out and bought a republic star fighter and a desert skiff (they were on special offer).
I'm frightened.
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I love the simplicity of it all, is this how it starts?
And so it begins :'(
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Lego, gibber gibber! I've got all the Minifig sets except for a couple of the first series (the zombie and another one). Series 9 comes out later this month. As usual it has some excellent new stuff (a Judge (no, not that kind) in wig and robes, a bloke in a chicken suit, a zombie version of the space marine they put out in series 7) and a bunch of why-did-they-bother ones (another knight, a guy in a tux). Forbidden Planet has just sent me an newsletter showing a Lego Rancor Pit set and a Bane-Batman set. Brickarms keeps bringing out new weapons. How can you resist a Lego version of the pulse rifle from Aliens? And my son, he wants to pull it all apart and make things. That's not what it's for!!
Actually, he makes some very clever things but usually he does it less than 24 hours after we've finished putting a new kit together. Feelings of pride mixed with horror.
Man I love lego...
I think one of the only upsides of my current situation is that I physically have nowhere to put it!
Quote from: JamesC on 04 January, 2013, 05:22:26 PM
Like this beast! http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=6951-1
Nice! And thanks for that link,
JamesC. Id been meaning to track down a dedicated site to see if i could remember what sets i originally had. A couple of potential future purchases have caught my eye now.
Hopefully snag 'em as bargains..
Quote from: Dash Decent on 05 January, 2013, 10:27:09 AM
Lego, gibber gibber! I've got all the Minifig sets except for a couple of the first series (the zombie and another one). Series 9 comes out later this month.
I saw Series 9 packs in my local Tesco a few days ago. I'm resisting... for now.
Quote from: Judge Jack on 05 January, 2013, 04:23:41 PM
Quote from: JamesC on 04 January, 2013, 05:22:26 PM
Like this beast! http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=6951-1
Nice! And thanks for that link, JamesC. Id been meaning to track down a dedicated site to see if i could remember what sets i originally had. A couple of potential future purchases have caught my eye now.
Hopefully snag 'em as bargains..
There's another site called Let's Build It Again which has loads of scanned instructions free to view online.
Quote from: SmallBlueThing on 18 November, 2012, 08:26:28 PM
I guess the sad truth is that I honestly prefer comics to trades. While collected versions are lovely and I'm very glad they are now so prevalent, having grown up with an industry that seemingly refused to even think about putting consecutive issues together in a 'permanent' edition, I much prefer having a box of bagged and boarded issues. Yes, it's annoying to have to pull out a run and yes, each time there's that moment of terror as you wonder if twenty year old sellotape is this time going to catch the cover of a priceless old comic and scrape the surface off... but I guess, first and foremost I love the format. I love the feel, the smell and the look of old comics more than I love the feel of new trades, however "definitive or absolut" they may be.
There's something therapeutic about buying a stack of old comics, reading through them then bagging & boarding them up and filing them away into their longbox. Nothing better when a big lot of comics turn up in the post.
Argh! I have several boxes of LEGO stored in my GP attic! I'll want to give it a dig out now! Bugger!
Quote from: JamesC on 06 January, 2013, 11:00:27 AM
There's another site called Let's Build It Again which has loads of scanned instructions free to view online.
And site now saved!
Are you familar with this
site (http://www.toysperiod.com/lego-set-reference/space/classic-space/?page=1&sort=year_released)? Its pretty good as well.
Now ive had a good old looksee as to whats out there, im thinking of collecting the sets from '78 to '80/'81 - if i can, as these were the ones i had first time round. Ive no real recollection of those later sets. And the sets kinda changed around '82 as well, didnt they. Less basic, and a bit more fiddly looking, if you know what i mean.
Deffo prefer the more basic sets, but thats just my nostalgia at play.
SKD was right. This slope aint half slippery, ;)
Quote from: Judge Jack on 06 January, 2013, 06:20:25 PM
Now ive had a good old looksee as to whats out there, im thinking of collecting the sets from '78 to '80/'81 - if i can, as these were the ones i had first time round.
Deffo prefer the more basic sets, but thats just my nostalgia at play.
SKD was right. This slope aint half slippery, ;)
More slippery than sliding down a greased pole wearing a pair of banana slippers. :D
My recent collection started in 1999 with the Lego Landspeeder 7110. According to my Brickset account I now have 366 different sets, which includes 668 minifigs.
Brickset is one of the best Lego sites, containing a database of nearly every Lego set ever made, listing over 9500 sets.
The 'classic' space range can be found at http://www.brickset.com/browse/themes/?theme=space
Stew.
Quote from: Dash Decent on 05 January, 2013, 10:27:09 AM
a zombie version of the space marine they put out in series 7
I'm the proud owner of one of these as of this afternoon. My son got the mermaid and my daughter got what looks like Julius Caesar. I think they'll probably swap at some point. :D
There is something seriously wrong with you lot!
Quote from: Judge Jack on 04 January, 2013, 04:32:23 PM
Are you a collector of these James?
Ive been watching related bits and bobs on e-bay for a while, and these three came as one set, and was fairly cheap. Though some Lego Space bits are dear, im happy to play the long game and snag bargains.
Used to have no end of these back in the day - late70's/early80's, and i was instantly transported back to that time opening the package today.
Not of Classic Space, no. I have a complete collection of Castle up to about 5 years ago. I used to have a vast Lego collection and still have a collection much larger than it needs to be. I used to build a fair bit as well as collect but don't have the room any more. ( http://www.minifig.co.uk/ )
Santa brought my eldest some out-of-print WizKids Star Wars Pocketmodels as stocking-fillers, having (apparently) located them in a bargain shop for buttons (a starter set and 5 booster packs for under a tenner, that's about 50 models plus cards, the hairy old skinflint).
It seemed innocent enough.
Now however, after days of building gorgeously tiny plastic models and hurling them into battle, the whole household is hopelessly addicted to a collectible card game they don't even make anymore.
(http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1385/1190364177_e2bf525337_z.jpg?zz=1)
Bargain shops have now been scoured and stripped bare of their meagre 99c-a-pack holdings, and worse, in the process the wife has discovered the Pirates of the Carribbean Pocketmodel game at similarly daft clearance prices, so when my son has finished obliterating my lovingly-assembled Star Destroyer she is using Zombie Jack Sparrow to sink my four-master. If this family must fall prey to such ridiculous collecting addictions, can they at least be ones I'm any good at playing!
Curse you Santa, and the crack-filled sleigh you rode in on.
Now that weve established, and fully reconciled ourselves to, the slipperiness of the slope, a little treat arrived yesterday.
Look away now, Mr Trout..
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And @ JamesStacey: great to browse your site - good stuff!
Cool!
We bought so, so much Lego today. It's all for the kids, and none of it is Star Wars or anything like that, but it's still great fun. :D
Quote from: Judge Jack on 12 January, 2013, 09:02:45 PM
Now that weve established, and fully reconciled ourselves to, the slipperiness of the slope, a little treat arrived yesterday.
Ooh - nice... I used to have that one as a kid. My boys are starting with Lego now, but still a bit on the young side (at nearly four and just over two). Will start picking up more bits and bobs, though.
Ming, my son is just three and a bit and I reckon he's ready for Lego. The geekier stuff is too much for him - he keeps taking Batman apart, for example - but we bought him a general set just of bricks and he's absolutely loving it. It's marked ages 4+ on the box.
We kind of had to do something, though, because my daughter (6) is really enjoying her Lego sets and her poor wee brother wanted to join in. :'(
- Trout
Ah Lego Space..................
Nice one Judge Jack, that's a great little set.
As I was out shopping today I picked up for myself the Republic Trooper vs. Sith Trooper battle pack 75001. I had told myself that I was not going to start buying any of the expanded universe sets, but the minifigs looked sooooooo cool :D I had to have them.
To all the other 'brickheads' or AFOL's out there on the board, the Sun has another 'Free' Lego offer coming soon. No date or sets announced yet, but as soon as I find out I'll post it on here.
Stew.
I want the new A wing set that comes with an Admiral Ackbar minifigure!
I used to own EVERY Star Wars Lego set going up until 3 years ago ( aside from one ) - and I sold them all to a chap for peanuts. It's only now that I have better access to ebay that I realise that I may have made a mistake :(
My latest purchase.
(http://i.imgur.com/9nK4VIu.jpg)
Figure ill need some of those Lego 'moon crater' boards soon, but grud - they all seem to go for a pretty penny.