Ingmar

[Ingmar]

Hello, I don't know at which point European countries and more precisly France are represented in eurobricks, but I just aim at seeing what the imaginations and parts of all the AFOL are able to create with bricks, and why not inspirating me of everything I will found on this wonderful forum that I have been watching since I discovered some pics of the greatests scale models of ships I had ever seen in my life, on Brickshelf, but I don't know if I will be a very active member since on the one's hand I know I'm able to loose hours and hours watching the wonders you built, and on the other's hand that my collection is quite poor, my builded city neglected for some years, and that I cannot build all the things I dream about (fortunatly, if not I wouldn't do much other things).

I think you'll easily notice that I'm not english or american and that my way of writing is not very natural, but it is still a pleasure for me to enter a world such as eurobricks, because when I was a child, and then a teenager, and today a young adult that has ever grown up with a strange passion for the lego, I've been wondering for a long time if somewhere in the world a community could exist around the theme of the danish bricks not such as a game, but as an incredible passion for the building and model making ; let's don't forget that lego is unmistakably the best game in the world : 8 2x4 bricks are sufficient to make a number of combinations that allows the mankind to qualify it as close to the infinity !

Of course, my favorite themes for lego are the old collections of the 90's : Dragon and Lion castles, Blacktrons, Space explorers, Trains 9v, but, obviously, the Armada and the pirates : I won a Barracuda set in an official competition a very long time ago, and it was my first lego box, and the begginning point of an aventure that I still try to perpetuate today by making models from legos, but moreover, the subconscient reason of a passion for the thematic of the naval battles in the 19th century. If I spend much less time "playing" lego than in the past, it is because I got involved in an other creative activity that is the writing, and sometimes the drowing, but me pleasure when I get building something new is deeper and deeper insofar I grow up and realize the thin link that exist with artistic creation and the unleashment of imagination...

I thank all of you for giving life to the lego as a kind of art, and for achieving the child dream of persons like me, who realize that Adult Fans Of Lego do exist. And, lastly, I thank for having read me and whish you'll have a good day

Edited October 8, 2009 by Ingmar

[Rick]

Welcome aboard!

There are plenty of non-native English speakers around here. In fact, despite its name, I think Eurobricks has the best worldwide representation in the AFOL world.

[Big Cam]

Welcome, your signature is gigantic

[Karzon989]

Welcome. There are lots of non english speakers here. I am also from Austria, thats the funny thing about this forum.

[Wout]

Hello and welcome on Eurobricks.

Jipay, one of the creators of Eurobricks, is also French. And we have many members from both european and non european countries. (It's almost the UN )