Your First LEGO Set

[charlieboy]

This is the first set I remember getting as a present, my uncle helped me build it on christmas day-

[TheRedGuy]

I'm sure it was a DUPLO set. I barely remember any of it but I'm sure it was a ridiculous turtle wagon with random DUPLO bricks inside. If anyone knows what set it is, I'd be happy to know.

EDIT: I found it.

I also found out that it isn't even DUPLO.

Edited May 11, 2012 by TheRedGuy

[LRDark]

I believe my first was 6237 Pirates' Plunder sometime around 1993. I think it's an excellent small set, and it was what launched me into my hobby! I always used to call Rummy "Mr. Brown" and the guard "Mr. Black."

[quidditys_shore]

i'd had buckets of lego since an early age but never any sets, that was until the 8865 technic test car. i got it for my 12 birthday in 1989.

i used to love building it & changing gears, watching the engine working & then dismantle to build the other kit you could make with the set!

however i sold it 2 years later to get a sega megadrive!

though i loved lego & building things (usually with imagination & not sticking to instructions) i never bought another set. that was until 2008 on our first trip to disneyworld & i entered the lego shop at downtown disney!

that was the first time i'd ever seen lego star wars! i fell in love! they had the 10179 millennium falcon for $400 (£200 back then!) which i drooled over but knew it wouldnt fit in our suitcases!

i got a few star wars small kits after that & after returning to disneyworld in 2009 to get married, i still had £300 of spending money left so when we got back i got the 10179 off ebay! :)

[Garyn Dakari]

First set I played with, or first set that was actually mine? I've got so many older siblings that Lego has been in the house longer than I can remember, but the first set that was actually given to me to own was 4478: Geonosian Fighter:

Before that though, other sets had been bought as "group gifts", so they belonged to everyone. That was my first personal set :)

[Wrinkledog]

My first Lego Set was set 722. I still remember getting it for christmas and all the amazing times I had.

[MsRowdyRedhead]

My first set was the 1236 Garage with opening door..

[OzBen]

I can only remember 1 set that i owned as a kid and thats probably only because i won it at a fun little competition for kids at the Birkenhead Point Lego store in Sydney.

It was 6697 Rescue Helicopter

My twin brother was so jealous LOL

[harmacy]

My first set (for me, not a joint family effort) was the 6381 Motor Speedway in 1988 on clearance from my local toyshop. Really wanted the 6395 Victory Raceway that was sitting next to it though:) - which I finally purchased late last year as MISB.

Edited June 4, 2012 by harmacy

[vriverajr3]

i cant remember what set i got 1st but i do remember it was from the Star wars theme. wish i still had all my older sets from when i was a kid.

[Callwork]

Got this fire fighter boat 1979 model as hand me down from my cousin. My first bought set was the street sweeper 1985. Still here with building instructions

[avbprincess]

My first set was a Robin Hood looking set. No picture to post because I'm honestly not sure which one it was; it was so long ago!

[Bilbo Baggins]

A pirates set when I was 5

[TheSwampCreature]

373 Ambulance was my first, but my first real set was a BIONICLE set in 2001.

[SheepEater]

I am not as old as the image suggests, though. Although it came out in 1976, my parents bought it in 1980.

[HawkLord]

The first set I can remember from when I was younger was the Space Set 6802 Space Probe Vehicle. It wasn't much, but I'm positive I built nearly every possible combination with those bricks. That little rover was great and the bot was perfectly simplistic.

Definitely a 5/5.

[Canticleer blues]

My first sets, received at roughly the same time on the same day, were 6589 Radical Racer and 6326 Town Folks. To this day I still have most of the pieces to both, although all are broken to some degree. I also feel it's worth mentioning that some of my first exposures to Lego in general were the Lego Island video game and a mailed catalog featuring the Adventurers theme.

[jedi1984]

6688 Ambulance. I don't remember the year I got it but I think it was around 1988

[Lightning Dragon]

I believe it was some car

[Combee]

I'm pretty sure it was this:

Still have that "minifig" sitting around

[Trijntje]

My first set:

and my second:

[Tilly]

I'm pretty sure it was this:

Still have that "minifig" sitting around

Ha! I just spent several minutes on Brickipedia trying to ID this set! I think this was my first (non-Duplo) lego too! My first build-with-instructions set was probably 6592 Vacation Hideaway. It's been built and dismantled many times over the years...

[spirogero]

My first set as a child, was "386 Air Ambulance".

But the set that made me see LEGOs seriously, was the 10030.

Edited February 7, 2016 by spirogero

[rdflego]

Set 1796 'Freestyle Bucket' was my first. I must have received it when I was 3 or 4 one Christmas and I have a few candid photographs from the day. Unlike most I never had a 'dark-age' and now, 16 years on, the very same Freestyle Bucket is currently sitting in my Brickcave next to my desk.

[Severus A]

My first set was 371-3, Seaplane, in 1977. It was one year before I've started the school. I still have two inverted blue slopes from that set.

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