Hello from NY State, USA

[spacefan6901]

I'd just like to say hi now that I have decided to stop lurking and join the site.

I live about an hour north of New York City in the USA. I got my first LEGO set when I was 6 years old back in... 1975?

I had quite a bit of "Classic Space" back in the 1980's (it is hopefully safe, I must search my grandmother's house!) and had some castle and town, but what I remember most was just sorting through thousands of parts in a big box or spread on a blanket and finding "Just The Right One" to use in what I was building.

I returned from my "Dark Age" in 2009 and joined BrickLink to do a bit of buying and selling (a shout out to "superkalle" who was my first sale to Europe; it was the little architecture sets like the Empire State Building); but I have decided I finally must start building again.

I have started working on a castle, just for "practice" for a BIGGER one exists only in my head at present, and I have posted some Work-In-Progress photos on flickr:

Please feel free to make comments on my building techniques, as I am almost having to "relearn" how to build with LEGO, and even though I have thousands of parts again I still need more variety of different elements to make things look better.

I found much inspiration looking at the creations of those on this site, and found the reviews of sets very useful in deciding what to consider buying.

So here I am after a year of lurking!

-spacefan6901

Edited May 28, 2011 by spacefan6901

[RoryoCox]

Hello and Welcome to Eurobricks. Please enjoy the site and get involved in the many discussions taking place.

[Brickdoctor]

Welcome to EB, spacefan6901! Always great to see fans back from the Dark Ages. Hopefully we can help you with MOCs, and you'll enjoy the site.

[Blackknight112]

Welcome to the eurobricks forum. I cant wait to see your finished castle!

see you around

[buddy]

Welcome to Eurobicks spacefan6901, I hope that you enjoy the forums!

~buddy~

[dr_spock]

Welcome aboard.

[Fugazi]

Welcome to Eurobricks, spacefan6901!

I just wanted to share that back when I joined EB my original username was space6901, seeing that 6901 Mobile Lab was my first Lego set ever. I gather that this Classic Space set may also have been your source of inspiration?

[spacefan6901]

Actually the numbers are just a variation of the digits in my date of birth.

I do believe I had set 6901, along with pretty much all of the 1979 and 1980 space sets. Had a few more after that over the years, up to having I think one Futuron set and one Blacktron set. I had a "moonbase area" of about 10 or 12 crater and landing plates. Gradually the dark age came as Dungeons & Dragons and comic books displaced LEGO, except for one time in the early 1990s I tried to built a space shuttle orbiter to minifig scale based on actual shuttle deck plans... had to shrink it as ran out of the right parts. I tried making a few space station modules as well (they were kind of squarish, but I did OK on the interior details I suppose). Then I put the bricks down except for giving a little help to my nephew in the early 2000s as he started to get his own LEGO (now he's in HIS dark age, but I have given a few sets to his little sister and I think there is still hope for her).

I HAVE to get my hands on the new Alien Conquest Earth Defense HQ because all the BLUE reminds me of the old space. Maybe I would be inspired to make some vehicles in the old blue and gray color scheme.

Welcome to Eurobricks, spacefan6901!

I just wanted to share that back when I joined EB my original username was space6901, seeing that 6901 Mobile Lab was my first Lego set ever. I gather that this Classic Space set may also have been your source of inspiration?