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Huffy1968

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Hi Everyone!

If you recognise the name, then you might know me from the FBTB forums. In the real world I'm called Shaun, I'm 37 and I live in Staffordshire in the West Midlands of Merrie Olde Englande. My first Lego set was the 605 Taxi set from 1971. Of course my love affair with Lego has never really gone away, despite getting rid of several suitcases full the stuff in my teens... But I came back at Christmas 2003, when my girlfriend (now my wife *wub* ) bought me the 4489 MINI AT-AT set as a "joke" present. Little did she realise the monster that she unleashed... I bought all the Star Wars MINIs, then made a start on the System sets... But recently things have changed. I now have a son, Callum, a delightful little boy of nearly nine months. With childcare costs etc, I've had to scale down my Lego habit a bit, and in fact had to get rid of several of my larger sets - my Sandcrawler, 4504 Falcon, and, probably to my eternal regret, my 4483 AT-AT - which at least made a profit on, but that's not the point... Anyway, my remit now is any set of 40 GBP or under - and as a result I am finding there's lots more to buy and enjoy than just SW Lego. I have the 4884 Wild Hunters Creator set (the lion is fantastic), which UK S@H has at half price, and a couple of Exo Force sets (7700 & 7701) - I only intend to collect the human mechs though, I find the robot ones a bit ugly. But there is a lot to collect, a lot to talk about, so I thought I would say hello, and sorry for rambling! *sweet*

xwingyoda Grand Master

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Welcome to our friendly board Huffy1968 ;-)

I'm sorry for your "loss" of bigger SW sets (especially the Falcon and AT-AT), but that is nothing at all compared to the joy of a son :'-)

I'm sure you will rnjoy your time with us ;-)

See you soon aboard !!

*yoda*

Huffy1968 Rookie

Huffy1968

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I'm sorry for your "loss" of bigger SW sets (especially the Falcon and AT-AT), but that is nothing at all compared to the joy of a son :'-)

Thank you for the welcome. Aye, if there is one greater joy than building with Lego, it will building it with my son - I can't wait... *sweet* But I'm going to make sure he has plenty of Duplo in the meantime of course... :-D

eNiGMa Collaborator

eNiGMa

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Welcome aboard! Sorry to hear about your larger sets, but xwingyoda is right in saying that your son is a greater joy. Hope you enjoy it here!

snefroe Grand Master

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welcome! ok... you may had to sell your large sw sets, however, you have a major advantage to all of us you can always blame your wife for getting more and more lego! After all, she started it! :-P

anyway hope you have a great time here...

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