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Collecting and building LEGO sets

LEGO is kinda cool still

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I love doing that, I wouldn't say it's a hobby for me since I don't do it regularly, or even semi regularly, but it's still fun

LEGOs are tight. I used to be a Bionicle nerd. My very first forum experience was the Bionicle fansite BZPower. I havent bought a set in over a decade, and have no intention to (but was very nearly tempted by that Boba Fett Bionicle-like set a few years ago), but Ive got respect for the hobby.

Legos are cool, even though I never played with them much. But it's neat to see what people build with them.

I'm looking at the upcoming Doctor Strange NY Sanctum Sanctorum, going to cost about $300 and come with lots of minifigs.

https://brickset.com/sets/76218-1/Sanctum-Sanctorum

There is a good chance that I am going to have to move in the coming months, so the money I had saved towards this is going to keeping myself alive instead and I am extremely irate.

way too pricy

a similar thing I'm interested in is model making but idk where I'd store all that

4/10

Too expensive mostly.

It's a solid 10 when you're a kid, and tapers off dramatically with age.

Always been too expensive for me

I had some Lego robot kit when I was a kid that I thought was cool though

Not sure how to rate, as its not something I was ever into for the act of building lego sets. I had lego blocks as a kid, but I mostly just used them to build forts and structures for my action figures to fight in when I was a kid.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/1/1/AAZslrAADi27.jpg

something I adore is when people make Warhammer models out of Lego

I used to love them, but don't like them at all. The fact the have limited runs puts me off. Theres a few sets I would love to have but I am not buying 8 times their MSRP because I didn't know they existed two years ago.

Gundams, granted don't have the portfolio as big as Lego, still turns out kits from 40 years ago so the secondary market isn't too bad unless you want a hot ticket kit that gets bought out as soon as a new run is released.

To give it anything else than a 10 to me is making a judgment. If it makes you happy, that's fine with me. Besides, I can relate to legos. I used them a lot as a kid. I don't even know what happened to all my lego menz. I think my parents threw all that shit away when I moved away for college.

Would rate it higher than 10 if I could

F***in love LEGOs.

Pretty cool, but too expensive for me to enjoy much of it on my budget.

People keep saying expensive. I'd be more about space. Lego boxes and sets take up lots of space.

If we're going expensive, I'd go Magic The Gathering. I always liked the game. Never played it. Just like collecting cards and art. I never have bought any packs though. Only for friends back in the 90s for their birthday. Had I known people would have valuing them for hundreds of thousands of dollars, I would've bought lots of packs.

I used to have a giant baseball card collection worth over $50,000. I gave it to my brother and he sold it to some shop for 10k. My Dad likes to take shots at me because of it, but I don't regret it. They were just the same with Beanie Babies.

Unfortunately all the sets that are cool for adults are like $200+

I used to be really into Bionicle

It's like a hundred dollars for a set that takes maybe three hours to build.

I don't mind Lego but I'm not sure if its a hobby as much as a collection, unless youre designing original sets.

Blightzkrieg posted...

It's like a hundred dollars for a set that takes maybe three hours to build.

A set that costs hundreds is going to take more than three hours to build, the millennium falcon takes about 24 working hours to assemble. I bought a couple of small sets a couple weeks back and together it took me three hours to build them both.

KodyKeir posted...

the millennium falcon takes about 24 working hours to assemble.

That seems really high unless the assembly is extremely complex or you're really bad at finding pieces, but regardless that's literally 1000 dollars.

The cost per time ratio of Lego as a hobby is very poor, and the actual appearance of the finished product isn't great unless you're specifically into the Lego appearance rather than a more accurate look.

I enjoy the time I spend with Lego sets, but buying even a Lego set a month is going to be expensive while not being very time consuming. I get a Lego set maybe every couple years, and it's fun while it lasts, but I couldn't see doing it regularly. I'd rather either spend more money on something that looks nicer or spend money on something that I'm going to get more time value out of.

Blightzkrieg posted...

That seems really high unless the assembly is extremely complex or you're really bad at finding pieces, but regardless that's literally 1000 dollars.

It was a $400 set when it was released, it's only a grand now because Lego rarely does reprints and scalpers bought a large portion of the original run.

Adam Savage put one together in about 18 hours but he had three other guys helping with sorting and assembly and they had assembled one previously so knew what they were going to do ahead of time.

5/10

I'm not big into Legos, but I can definitely understand the appeal.

I have 6 or 7 sets in my closet waiting to be built.

I just ordered the $400 castle set >_>

Zareth posted...

I just ordered the $400 castle set >_>

https://brickset.com/sets/10305-1/Lion-Knights-Castle

That one?

Worth it, looks like 26 minifigs (depending on your definition) a couple of horses and a dog and cat in there.

Folds open and closed too.

KodyKeir posted...

https://brickset.com/sets/10305-1/Lion-Knights-Castle

That one?

Worth it, looks like 26 minifigs (depending on your definition) a couple of horses and a dog and cat in there.

Folds open and closed too.

I wish minifigs were cheaper.

4/10. Can't say I bother with it despite the sets looking cool.