Older than you are?

[SirBlake]

Man, I feel like an old fat reading most of these posts...all this 'born in the nineties' stuff. The oldest set I have is a Forestmen one, 1987... I was born in 1981. Where did I leave my teeth?....

Hah, I don't want to hear it.

1975 here, and my oldest LEGO is this one:

http://www.brickset.com/detail/?set=6083-1

Which would put me at 6 years old or so at the time. I only have the king and two knights left (minus visors, unfortunately). Thankfully, by the time I really hit my stride (1984), I took great care of things and all my classic castles are 100% in tact.

[Sam892]

I have lots of the old fabuland figures in one of my boxes of Lego. When I was born all my sisters lego was passed on to me.

[Palathadric]

Almost all of my Lego pre-dates me, as I never got many sets myself, most of what I presently own is what was theres, so...yeah, it predates me for sure. The LEGO bricks also weren't as well cared for as they should have been due to a lot of traveling and the climate, and plenty of use so they look old too.

[Peppermint_M]

Well, I had a hand-me-down box off a family friend so I have a selection of mixed parts that pre-date me. Then my uncle gave me his old techic sets when he decided I was old enough (I still need to do a take-down and clean, sigh, no space right now...) so I have some sets that are about two or three years older than me. Sadly he sold most of his old system sets when I was still teething on duplo (I would have loved his Yellow Castle, sigh...)

[Aanchir]

I am another "90s kid" (born in 1991), and yes, I have a lot of parts and minifigures older than me, most of them bought either from yard sales or online. I've never put forth too much of an effort to keep minifigures and sets older than me together, though.

[LauraC]

I bought a big box of Lego off ebay that had some very old bits in that are older than me I think! As far as sets go, only ones I have that are older than me are a couple of the Fabuland sets I played with as a kid, and those aren't much older than me! All these people born in the 90's definitely make me feel old!!

[Haltiamieli]

I have most of the childhood collection of me and my brother, and as my brother is five years older than me, some parts in our collection predate me slightly. I should have a considerable amount of my father's bricks from the end of the 50s/start of the 60s, but in a tragic turn of events my grandparents gave most of them away when they moved in 2000. They thought that as we were already 15 and 20 by then we would have no interest in them - a sad misunderstanding. Not that those bricks were in any collectable shape considering that they had been played by two successive generation etc, but as memorabilia they were invaluable. All we have now is a few random bricks that somehow had wandered from the grandparents' place to our home before the move, like this "Esso huolto" ("Esso service") brick. But all the metal toy cars were lost, for example.

[Hrw-Amen]

That's interesting! Was it something you came up with, or were there any such 'microfigs' in official sets at the time? I don't remember seeing any, but my knowledge of pre-minifig sets is limited.

To be honest I do not know where that came from, but I did it for as long as I can remember, right up to when proper mini-figs were introduced. I think it was just because the scale by and large was so much smaller then. I expect my father tarted me on it as he got me into Lego in the first place teaching me to count with it.

[brickmack]

The Blacktron 2 Allied Avenger set, a Classic Space set, a blue CS minifig, some old Pirates minifigs, a bunch of parts (including most of my old grey) and a few Duplo parts that I think are older than me.

[SirBlake]

As I said earlier, not older than me, but I thought y'all might appreciate the minifigs that date back to my 6 year old self (1981).

[Lyichir]

I am another "90s kid" (born in 1991), and yes, I have a lot of parts and minifigures older than me, most of them bought either from yard sales or online. I've never put forth too much of an effort to keep minifigures and sets older than me together, though.

Same here, seeing as I'm his twin and the two of us mostly share our LEGO.

[Palathadric]

As I said earlier, not older than me, but I thought y'all might appreciate the minifigs that date back to my 6 year old self (1981).

-snip-

Wow! Those minifigs look in really good condition for being so old! How did you manage to keep them looking so good? Or were they just rarely used?

[KotZ]

I think this is cool to see some what people have that are older than them. Personally, I have one classic Pirates set, as well as a recoat torso from that time that was not included with the set. I have a minigifure head just like the ones SirBlake recently posted. I also have a few Castle figures from before I was born. Also I have been lucky enough to build and play with (when I was much younger) older sets and pieces that ranged from late 70s to early 90s, all in one bin!

[LEGO Historian]

Good lord... some of you youngsters worried about how old you are...

Only 2 items predate me... the 2x2 and 2x4 brick... nothing else....

Nice 1959-65 ESSO HUOLTO brick there... if it had full printing that Finnish brick would be worth $50+

FYI....

The first LEGO figures were the 270/271 Cyclists/Traffic Police in the tiny 1:87 scale... they were introduced in 1956.

The first LEGO movable figures were the "LEGO Sets With People" maxifigs introduced in 1973.

The first minifig sized figures were the minifig "stiffs" of 1975-83.

When the regular minfigs were introduced in 1978, these stiffs were only used afterwards in the 1592 Town Square Set (UK version 1980-82, Dutch version 1983-84) as the black statue in the square.

[MetroiD]

I've got some sets from before 1985, but my oldest LEGO stuff definitely has to be a 1:87 HO-scale Bedford Tanker Truck and a couple of LEGO wooden boxes complete with allegedly original contents (wafer plates, 1x1 windows, tiny pseudo-doors, weird tyres and the lot). Thought it'd be interesting to have such relics in one's collection. The wooden boxes are so old, there's hardly any proper info on them - Brickset, Bricklink, Peeron... every bit of information that's on there is either incomplete, or incosistent.

P.S.: Oh yeah, I'd almost forgotten - my recent Fabuland frenzy also filled me up with figures that are definitely from before my time... but sooo worth having!

[LEGO Historian]

I've got some sets from before 1985, but my oldest LEGO stuff definitely has to be a 1:87 HO-scale Bedford Tanker Truck and a couple of LEGO wooden boxes complete with allegedly original contents (wafer plates, 1x1 windows, tiny pseudo-doors, weird tyres and the lot). Thought it'd be interesting to have such relics in one's collection. The wooden boxes are so old, there's hardly any proper info on them - Brickset, Bricklink, Peeron... every bit of information that's on there is either incomplete, or incosistent.

P.S.: Oh yeah, I'd almost forgotten - my recent Fabuland frenzy also filled me up with figures that are definitely from before my time... but sooo worth having!

Sounds like you need my Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide on DVD (also available as a Download), with 2,800 pages and over 6,000 images.... my (37 page) Chapter 14 - "Wooden Box LEGO Sets 1950-80" has over 80 DIFFERENT wooden boxes listed or pictured. No online database lists more than 5... and even then the info is sketchy at best.

Here's an image of 17 of the wooden boxes from my EBAY store item of the DVD/Download...

http://cgi.ebay.com/...#ht_11144wt_934

Here's a sample chapter on old printed bricks....

http://www.1000stein...2048%20Vol2.pdf

The LEGO DVD chapter on Bedford and Mercedes trucks/cars has 60 pages and over a hundred images.... including 5 of the different (1955-64) Bedford Esso Tanker Trucks with these decals....

BENZIN ESSO SMOREOLIE (Danish)

BENSIN ESSO EXTRAMOTOR OIL (Swedish, variety 1)

MOTOR OIL BENSIN ESSO EXTRA (Swedish, variety 2)

ESSO (Norwegian)

ESSO EXTRA MOTOR OIL (English)

The LEGO DVD/Download is also available in my Bricklink store... with pictures of some items not even in the Billund Vault or Archives. I've worked on this for 6 years... (collecting since 1960).

Gary Istok

... and speaking of wooden boxes... here's the largest wooden box set TLG ever sold... a 3,250 piece Educational set of the mid 1960s.... this was the very first 4 digit LEGO set number... 7100.

http://www.flickr.co.../in/photostream

I have copies of all the instructions, paperwork and contents of this set listed in my LEGO wooden box chapter....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/istokg/5316586559/in/photostream

Edited May 29, 2012 by LEGO Historian

[Bilbo Baggins]

An original pirates minifigure head. Is my only piece of LEGO which is older than me.

[SirBlake]

Wow! Those minifigs look in really good condition for being so old! How did you manage to keep them looking so good? Or were they just rarely used?

I don't know, I played with them a lot, but I was always the kind of kid that kept his stuff in pretty good shape. I hadn't noticed until I took the picture, but it appears that my king has some 1980's Coca-Cola residue on his feet.

[splatman]

I hadn't noticed until I took the picture, but it appears that my king has some 1980's Coca-Cola residue on his feet.

Was he the Coke King?

[MetroiD]

Sounds like you need my Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide on DVD (also available as a Download), with 2,800 pages and over 6,000 images....

Thanks for the information, Gary - I had in fact come across some of your comments regarding these older sets at various places on the net and I'd already noticed that if there's someone who can provide comprehensive information regarding those, it would be you and your Guide. By the way, that picture in your store does depict one of the boxes I own, which is definitely a surprise, considering how hard it is to find any image of those.

I've been pondering for a while now whether I actually want to keep those sets or not - it was interesting to see "ancient" LEGO in the flesh, but I'm definitely not that type of collector. Besides, they're pretty large so storing them is a bit of an issue... We'll see.

Thanks for the info - I might just stop over and buy a copy of your great Guide later on, once I get back to actively being involved in the hobby with MOCcing, etc.

[Modulex Guy]

Here is something that I just acquired that is a little bit older than me...

Bam! LEGO wooden era fire truck 1951!

LEGO Wooden fire truck 1951 by ChrisR18t, on Flickr

LEGO Wooden fire truck 1951 by ChrisR18t, on Flickr

LEGO Wooden fire truck 1951 by ChrisR18t, on Flickr

[Captain Green Hair]

I love old parts and I often buy them to use in MOCs. I don't know how many bricks are older then me, but I have quite a few that are from before 1982.

It's especially the small old windows and printed bricks. I wish they would make the 1x2, 2x1 and 2x3 windows again in the flat form the windows come in today.

[Angeli]

:)

I am not a "younger" member (34:), but I have whole set, some kind of house, that I've inhereted from my father :)

[Churchill]

1968 here... I inherited from my brothers 335 Transport Truck from 1967. I'd like to reassemble this but I think alot of parts are missing. Plus, several of the old doors and windows- like Window 1 x 6 x 2 with Shutters (part 646 on bricklink), and Red Technic, Gear Samsonite 42 Tooth (744 on bricklink).

I have no idea what sets those were in.

Am I too old to play with Lego ?

[Modulex Guy]

Am I too old to play with Lego ?

Not at all. On set boxes the ages say 10+ 14+ etc. The plus just means you can play with LEGO forever. Thats how I justify buying LEGO for myself.

Someone: "Aren't you to old to still be buying LEGO?"

Me: "Do you see this age range on the box? It says 10+! I am that plus!"

Someone: