What brought you back to Lego?

[Blackjack]

Sorry if there is already a topic for this, but I coouldn't find one. I have never had a dark age, but I should probably have a Lego will to part out my collection among the Lego faithful in the event of one. ;)

[dakotahorn]

9676 Thought it would look great on my desk. It does.

[Diabolos80]

79003, an unexpected gathering. I saw the video on the old legoclub youtube channel where they built a 'lifesize' version and had to have it. But the set that cemented my rekindled love is the haunted house.

[Blackjack]

You people are pretty recent!

[terrymc4677]

literally was the birth of my own kids. my son was about 4 months old when i did an ebay search to start acquiring some of the sets that i always wanted when i was a kid but were too expensive back then. after acquiring some of the older vintage sets, i started buying a lot of the current sets as well, and the next thing i knew i had a basement full of vintage and MISB sets. i haven't looked back and have enjoyed every minute of it since. i guess it has given this 36 year old adult a chance to be a kid again.

[comicblast]

What Dark Ages? Oh, to be young and carefree! Just kidding. Worry about my MISB and NISB boxes all the time. Carefree...funny!

[jaisonline]

the Indiana Jones Fighter Plane Attack (set 7198). it was the 1st set i ever purchase for my son. he was only 20 months at the time. ok, so i bought it for myself but did leave the set in his room (still on display there). this set was also my first lego purchase ever. my first 3 sets were from my childhood (still own them w/ boxes and instructions). 6041: Armor Shop 6080 : King's Castle 6074 : Black Falcon's Fortress

[TheOrcKing]

I wonder if i should even bother replying to this thread. I mean, I never had a "Dark Ages".

....But then I took an arrow to the knee.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXmPrYEOvM8

(Sorry, I couldn't resist doing that last bit! Ha ha!)

[jaisonline]

I wonder if i should even bother replying to this thread. I mean, I never had a "Dark Ages".

....But then I took an arrow to the knee.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist doing that last bit! Ha ha!)

"It's in the bone...it's in the bone...it's in the bone.

"you are like sissy girl"

great scene.

[Rich B]

When I saw the Eiffel Tower on display back in 2008, I knew it was a set I had to have! I've been back into collecting ever since.

[dunkers97]

Wasn't really a set for me, just a friend I met who was really into Legos and we started trading, I got hooked... again ;)

[steakyboy]

Man oh man, if my wife knew how much coming out of the dark ages is costing me/us she would wish i was back to taking arrows in the knee, sucking down dragon souls and hanging with graybeards learning shouts till 2am every morning. My dark age ended when my son fell in love with the Harry Potter movies and I started buying the sets so we could relive the movies. As for investing, never did it until i spotted (2) 10212 at TRU one night back in January. Didn't buy them cause I didn't know what they were, then hit the web that night and prayed they were there at 10am when the store opened the next morning. Been a wild ride since, skulking in the shadows on BrickPicker forums.

[srm_520]

Definitely Lego 21005 Falling Water. I love Frank Lloyd Wright, so seeing the architecture series and seeing it aimed towards adults - it sucked me right back in. It truly was almost the USC Falcon though - I remember when it came out I desperately wanted one, but $500 was soooo much money at the time. I laid Lego to rest at that point, and architecture brought me back. That and I thought I could make some money off the Tower Bridge. Still waiting.... :)

[Darth_Raichu]

Money ;)

[Anakinisvader]

The release of the first Star Wars sets back in 1999 . Landspeeder, X Wing, and Snowspeeder. I still have them and my kids play with them now.

[Rich B]

Money

Haha yep money definitely helps, wish I had more of it lol

[TheOrcKing]

Money

Yeah that helps a bit, doesn't it? ^_^

[rcdb1984]

Poverty With Time, plus since I told my GF i need to save up for a wedding ring she lays off, haah

[sschmotz]

After buying a few City sets for my 5 year old and enjoying building them with him I decided to go all out and get the 10179 and I enjoyed it so much that I don't know if any other set can come close to matching it.

[gefmayhem]

My wife was pregnant with my oldest and Weetabix had an offer on for set 1484. When it arrived I decided that my children would never suffer the kind of childhood that I did - not enough Lego. Fast forward. My daughter is 24 has all the LOTR, Hobbit, Avengers stuff, some Paradisa and the Medieval Village. My son is 22 and last year asked for 'a bucket of random Lego' for his birthday. They take it to the pub and build things. I just kept buying, and opening, and building.

[Huskers1236]

My son got Plo Koon's Starfighter for Christmas '10 and I couldn't believe how much cooler Lego was from when I was a kid. I had quit playing with mine when I was 13ish, you know, when you get more into sports and women, not necessarily in that order:) I had tons of town, classic space, and castle stuff. Once he got that set we bought a few more Star Wars sets for him and brought out all my old stuff. He didn't like it, so we sold it for fresh cash to buy new sets and now we're swimming in it. Just got to the point of investing about a year ago though, before that, everything was built.

[nolanfan34]

literally was the birth of my own kids. my son was about 4 months old when i did an ebay search to start acquiring some of the sets that i always wanted when i was a kid but were too expensive back then. after acquiring some of the older vintage sets, i started buying a lot of the current sets as well, and the next thing i knew i had a basement full of vintage and MISB sets. i haven't looked back and have enjoyed every minute of it since. i guess it has given this 36 year old adult a chance to be a kid again.

This exactly for me. Yay for kids.

[Guest ph4tb0i]

I was debating what scale I wanted to make my model train set in.. HO, O, ******, etc... Then I saw the Emerald Night, then Red Cargo, then the Maersk, now Horizon Express, and that's how it started for me. Suffice to say it's worked out quite well for my wife and I as well. I got her into Lego with Grand Emporium (she still has Green Grocer, Town Hall, and Tower Bridge lined up) and now she's oogling the Friends sets to relive a childhood she didn't have.... I might need to set up a security camera so she doesn't open my Heartlake Stables/Vet while I'm not home haha...

[kingcars]

Money

Same here. Never really lost interest, just had to focus my income on other things for several years.

[ZombieToyChest]

10144 Sandcrawler. I fell in love with the box art.