it depends which country you are at. for me its much too expensive to buy 2 sets

The first set I bough my kids two years back, the set that got us back into LEGO, the MMV. I just ordered 5 to throw in the attic.

I hope your attic is air conditioned and sealed. In most places, the temperature changes in an attic will accelerate the "brittleizing" process (Temp. changes can cause LEGO to crack easily), and if you get mice or rats or any other animals up there, they will chew through the box very quickly.

Busy collecting for my baby so when he grows up he can build these Lego sets, do people buy 1 or 2 sets to play and collect them also?

I buy legos for the special pieces I need.One viking set I liked so much that I bought 11 of the same thing(that was all the store had left).It was the one that had the big wolf,I think it was called 'Fenrir wolf' or something similar.It came with alot of black battle droid arms, white tail tips, and pneumatic t-joints.I found the single piece wolf head to be a useless piece though,tried to make minifigure body armor where the wolf heads were the shoulder armor but it would`nt work the way I wanted.

I buy one of each of the sets that I like to build. But for the star wars sets, it is more about the box art than the set in many cases. I really like the box art. So I buy one to build and take out the minifigures and I buy one to stor in pristine condition that I do not open. Someday my kids are going to have a mess trying to get rid of all of these. :)

I will buy multiple sets. New or used (used, discontinued so long as they are only a few bucks over retail). I keep any new set in its box as I am out of space but, when I can expand I will more than likely open both, three or however many I purchase unless I have predetermined that at least one will be resold. i.e. I bought one used Fire Brigade for personal use and 5 for resale. On the other hand I have purchased four Wind Turbines with no intention on resale.

Interesting topic.

I buy at least two of every set and sometimes three or more if it's an army builder type set. My general rule of thumb is I buy one to open and one to keep sealed. As of right now I don't have any specific reason for doing this other than my OCD. What I mean is I don't necessarily plan on selling off the extra of every set, but I don't plan on opening it either for any specific occasion or at any specific time. I have the extra sealed "just in case" (whatever that may be for ).

Of course with some sets, mostly army builders, I will go crazy and buy ten or more. I will open all of these but one. Keep in mind that as of right now I have exclusively bought only the LotR sets and I intend to keep it that way (except for a few wave 7 CMF and unless the Dino sets get heavily discounted). So while this may seem super expensive and silly, it's not too bad when you stick to only one or two themes like I plan on doing.

Uhm... that seems weird to me. When I decide to buy a LEGO set, I go home, open it, and pour myself over it for a few hours. Then, depending on how enamored I am, I either display it with my collection or break it down for parts. That's my LEGO life cycle. I would only buy an extra, sealed copy of a set if I intended to sell it later.

Any sets I buy for myself, I open and don't keep for later. Some sets I do buy for re-sale, but when I buy them, it's in my mind that I'm going to keep these for re-sale and not to open.

I do, however, buy duplicates a lot of the figures that I like, but that's always separate from buying the sets again themselves.

Busy collecting for my baby so when he grows up he can build these Lego sets, do people buy 1 or 2 sets to play and collect them also?

If you are only gathering sets to pass down when your child gets old enough to enjoy them I wouldn't worry about getting an extra to keep sealed. I'm sure he/she would love to play with them even if they are not brand new. If you plan to sell them later as an investment, then I would keep 1 extra that remains sealed.

i always buy at least 2, but sometimes get 3 or 4 depending on price.

For example, i have 3 death stars. 1 for me, 1 for my son when he's a bit older and one for collection/resale later on. I have a hell of alot of lego still sealed up but it's only because i'm collecting for a city/train layout and cannot set it up at my current residence. I'll be building down the track and will be making plans for a man cave to have my layout in!

Interesting thread..

I tend to buy one of each set that I collect (depending on the set), then multiples of 2 of sets that I buy for parts.

I think the most I own of any one set would have to be 7929 Battle of Naboo, When they went half price locally, I somehow ended up with 12

They have some good parts for MOCing, the Model isn't too bad (and can be easily MODed into a decent troop carrier) and the figs alone in the set make it a bargain at half price.

But sets like the death star I'm not sure I could justify ever buying multiples of

I rarely buy multiples of sets, except battle packs. I would rather spend my money on stuff I don't have than repeats. Even if I could afford to, I still don't think I would. I would buy more of the same set, like the Creator houses, I'd love to buy 3 so I can have one of each model.

I have a horrible problem with this. I always buy at least two. One to build and sometimes use for Mocs if I ever get tired of it.

The other I keep sealed as an investment which has worked quite well for me over the past years.

Then if I really love the set, I will go crazy and buy multiples which is usually a couple for Mocing, one for Display, one in sealed in box for display, and another as an investment. This only happens when I absolutely love the set or think its a great parts package. The funny thing is I never buy battle packs and those are the sets you're supposed to buy multiples of.

I sometimes question my addiction to Lego.

Certain sets I keep sealed just so I have a back-up. If anything happens to the first one or I lose a valueable piece, I can always crack open my second set. Granted, I only keep extras of maybe 10% of what I buy. Now with LOTR, I'll be buying duplicates and triplicates, if I can...

Nope. With 260 different sets, can't afford to do that.

Edited July 10, 201212 yr by SheepEater

With all the sets I currently own and with all the great themes coming out, there is no way I could afford multiples of any but a few select sets. I will buy multiples of some army building sets like Uruk Hai Army. If I only collected a few themes I would buy multiples of some larger sets when they are discounted, but at the moment I can't afford that. I already can't get all the themes I want now, so I need to be more selective.

I wouldn't mind the idea of keeping one set sealed for resale value, but since so many people are doing that now I can't imagine it will get too much money back compared to typical "inflation" pricing. Unless I had my original sets from the early 90s still sealed.

I only buy one, as that's all I can afford. I did keep one set sealed for about three month until I finally cracked. I would probably do that with anyone unopened sets in my house.

I wouldn't mind the idea of keeping one set sealed for resale value, but since so many people are doing that now I can't imagine it will get too much money back compared to typical "inflation" pricing.

Indeed, plus you need to pick the right sets to do this with, as not all sets apply. I recently checked Bricklink to see what it would cost me to get some select Fantasy Castle and Knights Kingdom II sets and discovered that some sets had tripled in price while some others had barely increased... and a few would actually be cheaper for me to get now than had I bought it ad MSRP (Denmark prices) when they came out.

Nothing stays sealed with me - I don't ever buy to resell, so the only reason that I still have a whole ton of sets still sealed is because I haven't had the time to get them all out yet!

I have to say that I don't think I could save sets sealed for any children who might like them later on - ultimately, you might as well just keep to resell and you'll then be able to get the stuff that they're interested in and want when they're old enough, rather than stuff that they might see as a bit passe!

It depends on the set, and what's in it. If it's quite a good set, and not too expensive, I buy it. I don't actually "play with" sets, but I might buy an extra to keep and maybe sell on Ebay after a while But, if it's a huge expensive set, then I doubt anyone will buy two (too much money!) I also sometimes more than one if the set has useful parts for MOCs. I've actually bought extras of only about 5 or 6 sets.

Edited July 11, 201212 yr by Lightning Dragon

I probably would buy a second set to keep sealed if I could afford doing that, but even buying one set is expensive enough for my financial situation

I usually buy lego to build and play with it, not to look at the box or sell it, cause i would be collecting action figures then. Otherwise i started collecting promosets that come in those polybags, cause they are cheap (some times for free), small and somewhat exclusive or at least something special, as they are not sold in every retailstore.

Now to my "problem": I'm going to get a 40049 sopwith mini camel with my next S@H order. I tend to keep it sealed as it is a exclusive promioset, on the other hand i think it looks really good and i want to build it.

So my question is, considering i only have one copy: Should i keep it sealed like the other polybag-sets, or should i open it and build it?

Only if I had a very big set, (Eg Death Star) or Rare Collectable Minifigs, (Team GB figs!(Lucky Me!)) Then I would MAYBE buy another but apart from those then I would never!

No. Everything I buy gets opened, built, rebuilt then taken apart and sorted into components for storage in drawers.

More or less the same here. I always imagined that that's the way Lego is supposed to be used (although it's of course down to the individual), too. And it's too expensive and too demanding on domestic space to keep a second, sealed set for any offspring.