Zorbas Posted December 17, 2008 Posted December 17, 2008 Greetings Eurobricks! I was lurking (this is the second most popular word after "bricks" in this forum ) here for over two months and i finally decided to give it a try. I’m from Greece, i'm 30 years old and since i were a child i was a Lego fanatic. City (mostly) and Pirates were and still are my two favourite themes and i have a great number of sets from the Classic era (90% City - 10% Pirates , one small Castle and one small Space set.) My first Lego set was a Basic set with the armless blue and red figures and my first Legoland set was this (analog camera- o tempora o mores..) Unfortunately, the dark clouds of Mordor Dark Ages made their presence around 1993-94 and not until this year's fall, almost no Lego experience occured. Studies, career in the work field and later family were the priorities. So, 2 1/2 months ago, i was surfing through internet, can't really remember how i ended up in here and BAM! the fever returned. I started observing the new sets (all the last 15 year's sets were like brand new to me), searching for pictures, reading articles and opinions from other AFOLs ("AFOL"?) *looks up in the dictionary* and finally made the first step. I brought the 2 large suitcases i had my Lego collection in, from my grandparents house and the journey to the past begun. All the pieces and all the sets were there. Nothing was lost. Not having a "contact" with the Lego world doesn't mean i didn't care for the collection. I had stored them very carefully. The only set i didn't "unbuilt" back then and is still intact ( the first-1990- was the only built) is the Black Seas Barracuda and that was because i had lost the instructions so I treated it like gold. I even had covered it with a plastic bag and there is, until now, hardly any dust on it. Anyway, the last two months i have bought 27 sets (from the impulse sets and the police bike to the City Harbour the Creator houses and Police HQ - i overdid it, i know, but i don't care, I can buy my Lego now ). Some things about those really excited me (new brilliant colours, new building techniques -my oh my! ), some were a little dissapointing ( too many stickers, no car doors(!), too many "service - duty"sets, many big "<insert that tiresome argument>" pieces, almost one wheel type for all vehicles) but i guess maybe some innovations are part of what we call evolution (like the 6-wide cars, still trying to get used to those). I have also rebuilt the majority of my Classic Town collection and luckily only some not crucial bricks are missing. My City collection continues after a 15-year break. The only thing that i must find is enough space for it. The MOCing experience I had was a hovercraft-catamaran like ship, an ancient greek temple with a roof and a statue inside and of course zillion of cars and no-identity buildings (if you can call the last two MOCing). Perhaps i 'll try to get into the sport again in a more "advanced" way. I could write for hours now, hope i didn't become tiring so i better pull the handbrake. Very happy to be here, greetings again! Quote
Zorro Posted December 17, 2008 Posted December 17, 2008 Another 'lurker' Hi there Zorbas, welcome to Eurobricks, I hope you will have a lot of fun here! Quote
Buttons Posted December 17, 2008 Posted December 17, 2008 At least your dark ages were short Welcolm Quote
matanui911 Posted December 18, 2008 Posted December 18, 2008 welcome! No doubt, this is a great site!! LOL Quote
Zorbas Posted December 18, 2008 Author Posted December 18, 2008 Thanks for the good word of welcome guys. I know that i i'll have a good time in here . At least your dark ages were short Welcolm Judging from the change i have seen in the Lego sets, bricks and parts, i feel that is almost a century! Quote
Asuka Posted December 22, 2008 Posted December 22, 2008 Hello and welcome, Zorbas! For the lack of car doors, right now I start to think that TLC invented a new technology for their MFs to get into their cars, something like a mini-transporter (instead of an electronic car key) that beams their a**es on the seat in the twinkling of an eye... hmm, but wait... why would they still need cars then anyways..? Ouch, my head hurts... Quote
Zorbas Posted December 22, 2008 Author Posted December 22, 2008 Hello and welcome, Zorbas! For the lack of car doors, right now I start to think that TLC invented a new technology for their MFs to get into their cars, something like a mini-transporter (instead of an electronic car key) that beams their a**es on the seat in the twinkling of an eye... hmm, but wait... why would they still need cars then anyways..? Ouch, my head hurts... If we take into consideration that during the past years, no house that TLC had released had toilets, that means that they didn't even have a**es! Quote
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