But one of my old, bona fide hobbies reared its costly head this weekend: wheeling and dealing Legos on eBay. It all started with the six-year-old and his desire for a retired Power Miners set...did they have to put all those pictures of the other sets in the back of the instruction manual?
Lego really knows how to market.
So I did a few searches for sets & minifigs I used to own...holy jumping catfish Batman! I shouldn't have let that Greedo minifig go for five bucks.
Doing my best to maintain a reasonable control over my wallet. But when they're this cute/menacing, who can say no?
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I have only recently been caught by the Lego bug. It is a fun bug to have. Have a blast.
He is awesome, I'd love for him to keep me company as well... so I don't blame ya Aaron, :D
My son is just getting into Legos and being a girl who liked to torment her barbies as a child, I have to say I was missing out with the Lego's thing. I'm having a blast with it!
(Oops. Should I worry about my son having fun??? :D)
Lookie there. You have a new mascot.
I guess I just never got in to the whole Lego thing. And now everyone is going to tell me why I should...
I remember having tons of that around as a kid...I guess it was more affordable back then...
I don't remember a vampire figure. That probably wasn't manufactured recently. Conservative Right may deem that inappropriate for children and block distribution...I say 'bite me'.
I used to get a real kick out of Lego when I was little, though the tiny action figures never appealed to me. I usually wound up crafting vehicles for my other action figures to ride in.
I think Tyco had a brand of building blocks too--whatever they were, I got a bucket of them one year and loathed them for not being Lego. :)
I've always had a serious weakness for Lego sets. When I was a kid we were really into the M-Tron and Blacktron space sets, plus anything with castles.
Made for some weird combination. We were into crossover Lego fic, me and the kid brother.
I only had boring block lego with the occasional wheel or tree. :(
Jamie - Fun and potentially expensive...Legos ain't cheap.
Hinny - I'm sure he is (having fun).
Andrea - I think they just capture some folks' imaginations. Not for everybody, though.
Alan - Lego did a series called "Lego Studios" about ten years ago--a riff on Universal Studios. There's a vampire, a "Frankenstein's Monster", a vampire, mad scientist, werewolf, and mummy.
Gef - There were no Star Wars sets when I was a kid, so I modified my Lego Space minifigs to be Stormtroopers, etc. I even yanked a hand off one poor little guy to be Luke from ESB.
Katey - It's all storytelling, isn't it? In addition to "modifying" my Legos to go Star Wars, we created a whole race of transformers. That was a blast.
Cate - You need a little vampire buddy, then. I recently attending a reading (the book was about adult fans of Lego), and the author explained they didn't really take off in the U.S. until themes were introduced in the late 1970s.
Awesome... and it doesn't sparkle.
MY dad is an eBay whore for fishing stuff ; )
That lil vampire guy is adorable! We just had the regular old non-themed Lego sets when I was a kid, and we made spaceships with them. And houses for ants.
I used to have a collection of action figure bad guys. I sold them all on ebay and at the flea market finally, mostly because I didn't have room to display them and it seemed silly to have boxes and boxes of bad guys in the closet. I expected them to gang up on me one day.
I have fond memories of my brother and I playing with lego as kids.
That lego is awesome. I'd put him on the des for inspiration. :-D
Of all the childhood toys that I no longer have, the ones that I regret losing the most are all the Lego blocks I had. I'd love to have loads and loads of them now, but I've found that they're priced only slightly less per ounce than gold.
Jeremy - Hell no.
Natalie - We all have a tendancy to spend money like mad.
KC - There's a story in that, too...
Danielle - They're a worldwide phenomenon. And cute, too.
Tyhitia - He even has a reversible head for two varieties of vampire mood.
Jameson - Legos are very pricy, but seem to have the best bang for the buck (in my book). The boys will play for hours.
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