Joey Lock Posted January 27, 2008 Posted January 27, 2008 I didnt know whether to post this in the Community Forum, I chose here instead. So, what got you by the..well got you by the balls :-D and lured you back into lego? I havent passed the "Dark ages" yet so I just wanted to know incase I steer to the Dark side! (Also correct me if im wrong, the "Dark ages" are your teenage years?) Quote
General Zen Posted January 27, 2008 Posted January 27, 2008 Dark ages are mostly in your teenage years because so much is going on in your life at this point so you either lose interest or drift away. Ithink my dark ages will begin in high school when there is too much for me to handle that lego becomes less vital to my life...horrors! 8-| It is a very depressing time, but if lego ever fades, i hope to be smacked across the face and brought back into sense! X-D Quote
trooperdavinfelth Posted January 27, 2008 Posted January 27, 2008 It's nice to read other people's stories, but I'm still proud to say nothing's ever brought me away and nothing will! Except, maybe, doomsday when Star Wars and Castle both end forever. :'-( :-P But we all know that won't happen. Well, all of it, at least. Quote
yoda601 Posted January 27, 2008 Posted January 27, 2008 Were I to win the lottery, I'd surely get back into LEGO. Quote
Joey Lock Posted January 27, 2008 Author Posted January 27, 2008 Dark ages are mostly in your teenage years because so much is going on in your life at this point so you either lose interest or drift away. I am 13 and going through my Teenage years and I have exams coming up and I have to revise but I still have time for creations, just today I finished a Steam powered tank and Steam powered Walker but my camera isnt that good. Quote
Paradosis Posted January 27, 2008 Posted January 27, 2008 I went into my first dark ages when I was about thirteen, and came out of them about ten years later. As to what rescued me from the darkness, there were probably a lot of different factors involved. My entering into the dark ages was not my choice (my mom said I was too old for Lego), so in part turning back to Lego was about exercizing the freedom to do whatever I wanted. Another factor was just plain old nostalgia... I have lots of great memories of playing with Lego when I was younger. Another factor is just that I wanted a new hobby at the time, and when I thought back over things I'd enjoyed in the past, Lego was near the top of the list. Unfortunately I have lapsed a couple times and entered short dark ages over the past few years... but I always come back to the brick within a few months. Quote
mutley777 Posted January 27, 2008 Posted January 27, 2008 My dark age started when i was 12 and deceided to sell my lego ( :'-( a sad day) to fund my other toy phase of star wars figures (the old kenner ones). It took me 13 years to come out of when the star wars lego line started back in 1999. Now closing in rapidly on the ripe old age of 34 i have more lego than i ever dreamed of as a kid so things have worked out ok. I do however regret selling some of the wonderfull sets that i owned as a kid. Loads of classic space and the now legendary yellow castle. So if you are a young member here and you do have a dark age, i can offer you this little bit of advice. DO NOT SELL YOUR LEGO!!! You will regret it if you do. Quote
trooperdavinfelth Posted January 27, 2008 Posted January 27, 2008 My dark age started when i was 12 and deceided to sell my lego ( :'-( a sad day) to fund my other toy phase of star wars figures (the old kenner ones). It took me 13 years to come out of when the star wars lego line started back in 1999.Now closing in rapidly on the ripe old age of 34 i have more lego than i ever dreamed of as a kid so things have worked out ok. I do however regret selling some of the wonderfull sets that i owned as a kid. Loads of classic space and the now legendary yellow castle. So if you are a young member here and you do have a dark age, i can offer you this little bit of advice. DO NOT SELL YOUR LEGO!!! You will regret it if you do. That's... That's so sad... :'-( And it was done for the OLD KENNER ONES?!?!?!? *gasps* Oh well, it's just what they say: It's all about timing. At the time, that was what was awesome! As for now, I haven't sold one Lego set, except for one which I accidentally got for Christmas but already had and I returned it and my brother and I got two Bionicles, Gali and Kopaka! I still remember that day... :'-) Quote
Order66 Posted January 27, 2008 Posted January 27, 2008 Im still in high school and i unno i just cant afford legos anymore...im gonna sell a few of my sets that i dont like just to finish of my collection by getin the at-ap this year then republic gunship at-te and MAYBE the fighter tank later this year and yea i think ill probably be done...unless if some goody small sets come out like really freakin good lookin bps ill definatly give that a shot and il sell some of what i have that i dont need and just keep it for display and own pleasure...or maybe if im in debt one day...like really in debt ill porbably have to sell...but ya im almost done i dont have enough money for it and i still need to get a job so we will see how it turns out Quote
ExoBuilder Posted January 27, 2008 Posted January 27, 2008 Well, like most people here, I collected Lego when I was a kid. It all started with Exo Force, hence the name ;-) I wasn't too interested then, then the 07 ones came out, that's when it all come back to me. *wub* Since then, I've been an avid collector, Lego definitely is the way to go! *y* ( Cheap commercial anyone? ) I LOVE LEGO!!!!!! *sing* *wub* *wub* Ahem... *sweet* Quote
Quarryman Posted January 28, 2008 Posted January 28, 2008 To be very exact, what got me back into LEGO after my Dark Ages was this: Not quite sure when I first saw it, some time in spring 2004. It was a Sunday though, a very exciting Sunday where I found LUGnet, Brickshelf and Eric Harshbarger's portfolio (to mention a few important ones). This was during some pretty nasty flame wars over the colour change, a weird time to return. ;-) Quote
Widdi Posted January 28, 2008 Posted January 28, 2008 Well I didn't really have a Dark age, Im into lego for over 15 years now. The first set, which hooked me was the 1990 Airport, which was my first big set for christmas 1992. Then I kept on going on, but made a break in 2003, where I almost didn't buy LEGO sets for a while. In 2004 I was hooked again, because of the Blacksmith shop, whcih was originally a custom set. Amazingly, a castle set, whcih got me back, altough I'm a townie. Now I'm a bit less active due to my job and other interests, as seen from various winter reports made here and in the german weather forum, where I went cross country or Alpine skiing with my camera, of course mFg Widdi Quote
hollisbrick Posted January 28, 2008 Posted January 28, 2008 EB did!!! after I saw all those great pics I thought i get back ino lego and join! Quote
highlandcattle Posted January 28, 2008 Posted January 28, 2008 In the summer of 2006 I read an article about LEGO in the financial newsaper about how good they were doing. And then laid my eyes on a picture of the BNSF. and immediatly fell in love. My dar age started around 1995 when I started to go to highschool. Girls, booze and ciggarets were things of interest back then. Quote
captaintau Posted January 28, 2008 Posted January 28, 2008 I was browsing through Forbidden Planet and saw Jedi Duel. I was captivated. It was cheap. It only takes one sample to start an addiction and this is just what happened. Quote
simonjedi Posted January 28, 2008 Posted January 28, 2008 Playing lego star wars the video game. Brought anakins jedi starfighter and vulture droid 2 days later Quote
Looking for a display name Posted January 28, 2008 Posted January 28, 2008 (edited) i owe every thing to this man http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=48588 once in my dark ages i was looking for half life 2 and i saw this i closed the frame and saw this http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=107984 i was like OH MY GOSH I CANT BELIEVE IT I HAVE TO GET THIS i emailed him he said 300 euros i couldn't afford that so i decided to make my own Gordon freeman http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tomm/halflife/gordon.bmp which then i made the rest; Barny g man grunts metro cops etc which lead me to my first vig http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/tomm/halflife/door2.bmp from hl 1 before you went in the test chamber then i made a half life 2 level which was the first proper model i made when i came out my dark ages and I've been in love with lego ever since :'-) Edited January 28, 2008 by Looking for a display name Quote
Batbrick Posted January 28, 2008 Posted January 28, 2008 I got into stop-motion animating, which is always fun to do with lego. When the time came to make a set I didn't have enough bricks for, I bought some. Then I became addicted...... X-D Batbrick Something! *wacko* Quote
TheFrisian Posted January 28, 2008 Posted January 28, 2008 For me, LEGO kinda faded to the background somewhere in the mid 90s. The quality of set designs dropped rather dramatically in those days, and themes became less and less appealing to me. There was a brief revival of my interest in LEGO when the first wave of Bionicle came out in 2001, but in the following years set designs became rather repetitive (six good guys vs six bad guys over and over again) and LEGO faded to the background once more. It wasn't until 2007 that I was very pleasantly surprised by the drastically improved quality of both themes and sets. Especially the new Castle line surpassed all my expectations. LEGO was back with a vengeance, and so was my passion for this great brand. Quote
Athos Posted January 28, 2008 Posted January 28, 2008 Nothing. As I never entered the dark ages. X-D Steve Quote
astoriabluelegos Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 Nothing. As I never entered the dark ages. X-D I'm 18 and have NEVER had a dark ages EITHER!!!!! X-D Quote
Mr Hobbles Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 Cafe Corner. When it came out, it was posted on Digg.com (A "social" news site). I saw it and I had to have it. It was literally all I ever wanted from a LEGO set since I was a kid. Now we have Market Street, Town Plan and Green Grocer. Thank you LEGO! PS: I definitely prefer Market Street to Cafe Corner, but Green Grocery may just surpass it! I also plan on getting Town Plan at some point. Must...have...money... Quote
Hewman Posted February 1, 2008 Posted February 1, 2008 (edited) It was actually a pretty ordinary theme that got me out of my dark ages, around 13-24 years old, this theme was Life on Mars. I was really into classic space as a kid but missed all the futuron, blacktron, M-tron,space police, unitron, ice planet themes which is a pity as some of them were pretty nice. I bought a few small discounted LoM sets, then pulled out my old classic space lego that was stored at my parents' place and wanted more space ships and then Star Wars first came out so I got a 7134 A-Wing. I found a few Space Port sets which I bought and then late 2002 I discovered bricklink and tried to complete my classic space collection, wow! sets I'd never seen before as classic space continued after I stopped collecting. Then I noticed a few nice star wars sets and I was hooked. Edited February 1, 2008 by hewman Quote
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