I've realized that during my dark ages I missed out on quite a few really nice themes and subthemes. I really regret missing the vikings, western, the initial Harry Potter, and even Knights Kingdom 2 (all except the minifigs that is). But more than anything I regret missing all the adventurers themes.

What about you guys? Any particular themes or even just sets that you regret missing out on?

I missed (and regret all of) pirates, western, harry potter and adventurer themes, but thanx to ebay and bricklink, I have been able to put my hands on most of the misb sets I wanted except for the pirates... still far too expensive!

have a nice lego day

mrBlue

I missed Harry Potter and a lot Star Wars, and am unwilling to pay what people are asking for the sets that I would want... I was sort of in a mini dark ages. Luckily, TLG has released both enough Harry Potter and Star Wars sets to have made me happy...

I mostly regret missing out on the Western Theme. It has a lot of stuff that not like anything that I have. I did regret the Harry Potter sets but have made up for it with the newer sets. And I regret that I got into the modulars just a little too late because the Cafe Corner was discontinued before I could get together the money to buy it. Since I'll never be able to afford the price now, my modular collection won't ever be complete.

Like others mentioned, the Western theme is the one I most regret not purchasing any of, though I kinda wish I'd picked up Pirates, Samurai/Ninja, and some of the Adventurers sets as well.

I regret missing out on the studios sets and all but 2 of the Batman sets. That's what I get for sticking strickly to 1 theme. Fortunately now that is no longer the case.

I regret missing out on the Corner Café and Market Street of the Modular theme!

The two themes I regret missing are Batman and some Creator Sets, otherwise I'm fine with the themes around now. I only regret that Star Wars sets are really expensive, because now I need another source to get bley and dark bley bricks^^

EDIT: Oh, and of course Collectible Minifigures Series 1! Zombie, d*mmit!

Edited May 24, 201113 yr by Zyniker

I regret a few specific sets but not a theme as such.

Ninja's, several of the Adventurers (I was collecting them but my parents never bought me the big ones )The old Harry Potter sets, and of course Batman!!!

I regret missing the Western theme and the Market Street and Café Corner sets. I'd like to have tha Batmobile UCS too.

Sets that I didn't have also when I was a KFoL were the Pirates one, some of Town, Space and Castle lines, the #8880, a lot of Model Team ones, and during my "almost-dark-age" (I never fully lost interest on LEGO products) the #8480. During my "lurking age" (from 2003 to late 2009) the #8455 and the two modulars mentioned above.

Edited May 23, 201113 yr by Plastic Nurak

Somewhat off topic...I regret selling my Lego when I was a kid. I had all but Fort Legorado of the Western theme, which I want oh so bad. It also would've saved me money rebuying the Forestmen and Ninja sets over again.

I regret missing out on Batman and some Exo-Force sets.

My dark age was from the mid-90s, all the way up to 2010, so I had no knowledge of any of the themes from that period... I guess I missed those ones.

None actually. Well not now. Until I found Bricklink in 2008 I had lots of regrets about not having minifigs or pieces and parts, I missed an awful lot of sets throughout my life but now I simply buy the bits I need to supplement my existing collection of stuff. Hoorah! throw in a few downloaded instructions and voila! almost instant vintage classic brand new old collection. simples.

I too went into modualr buildings a bit too late and missed out on cafe corner and market street.

As far as themes I missed out on, my biggest regret is Pirates (1st serie) as I did not collect those as a kid, i was more into city back then.

During my drak ages I feel I missed out on all adventurers lines and western.

If only I could be rich and go for all the MISB sets I want!!!!

Pirate

Edited May 26, 201113 yr by Piratedave84

The 2 big series I missed that are really expensive to re-acquire MISB nowadays are the early Star Wars sets [i like the iconic TIE/Rebel ships], the amazing UCS models [damn you Star Destroyer] and the Space Mars Mission sets. I've gained almost half of the Mars Mission sets, but the big ones are still either elusive or very costly to obtain.

I miss Orient Expedition & Knight's Kingdom

I regret missing out on every castle theme ever. I have only a handful of the 2007-2009 sets. Wish I had a time machine and tons of money to buy me hordes of the cheap sets to get armies of every faction ever!

I regret not purchasing any of the NBA sets. I have most of the basketball sets but I never bought the licensed minifig collections or the big basketball court. I need me a Lego Kobe Bryant!

I regret missing the first few series of the LEGO Collectible Minifigs.

I picked up a couple of Series 4 while at GAME the other day, and I think they're pretty sweet for £2.

That reminds me; I need to get the Musketeer before Series 5 come out...

Bluebeard, out-

I fear I will always regret not picking up the UCS Millenium Falcon.

Batman!!! This theme came along during my dark ages and it's only now ive realised just how cool the minifigs are! The vehicles and buildings I have no love for but having bought the main character minifigs this week, my wallet would have preferred I bought them a few years back

Edited June 12, 201113 yr by charlieboy

My biggest regrets were passing on a system scale imperial star destroyer that my dad got me, because I had just built it at my friends house and I didn't want to build it again , big mistake!

Another regret I have is switching my Bat-wing for a batmobile, I would have loved that Joker!!! But two-face is okay. Also wish I bought more batman stuff, especially the cheap sets.

I miss, and regret either, Rock Raiders, Aquazone, Exo-Force, Slizers/Throwbots and Space Police 2.

I've managed to collect a huge spread of themes covering 21 years, and looking back I'm shocked to see that the only major theme that I missed picking up even a single set from was Batman! 2006 and 2007 were about the closest I ever came to a dark age (low single digit acquisitions for those two years) but I still can't say how I managed to not grab a single Batman set. I certainly saw the sets on store shelves, but I just never got around to purchasing any, and then before I knew it they were not longer in production. I think there were a lot of great sets to come out of the Batman theme, and I particularly like the minifigures (I'm not normally a huge minifig fanatic). While I'd still love to acquire some sets, I can't justify the prices on Bricklink.

While I don't go out of my way to collect a set from every theme just for the sake of it, I always seem to find that there is at least one set per theme that I want. This will allow me to never repeat what happened with Batman.

Particularly with large sets now, I often find myself picking them up under the mentality of "you'll regret it later if you don't buy it". While this means I spend large amounts of money on Lego now, I know that I'll be happy about my choices in the future.