Posted February 16, 201312 yr G'day my name is CJ, I am an Australian living in England and I have found that I am addicted to LEGO. Phew, glad I got that off my chest. As a lot of you can probably tell due to the lack of posts, I am newbie on here. One could say I of late I have had a strange idea, urge, or whatever you would like call it, to invest my hard earned cash in copious amounts of LEGO. I don't just mean one or two sets. It all started about 8 months ago whilst wandering aimlessly around the Liverpool One LEGO store, when my little boy (3 1/2 year old) decided to say that he was too old for Duplo. I am not sure how he came up with the idea he was too old for Duplo, however he wanted big boy LEGO. Naturally I said fair enough and started him off on the City range and we donated his DUPLO to a hospice where children visit their parents. As I started helping him build I found a strange enjoyment, excitement maybe or fixation, and decided to invest in some sets for myself that I would just build and create to keep on display. I started with the LOTR series and before I knew it, the whole set had been bought and built. I then moved onto the most recent of the Harry Potter sets after finding a guy in Belguim willing to ship me the majority of them on a good deal. I have since moved onto the Modular series and the Winter Village themes. I decided then to start on the Mini Figures with my little guy and we started with Series 7, then 6, and so on. Now I have the majority of the series and am just missing a handful from both Series 1 and Series 2. I dread to think how much they have cost me. I guess like most people who collect LEGO I am have to have a complete set of something. The Minifigure sets are pretty easy and relatively cheap but when you start as late as I did in the Modular Buildings or see something like the Creator Carousel you have a heart attack at the price. Anyway that is me, and G'day once again. CJ.
February 16, 201312 yr Hi CJ, Welcome back into active duty as it were :) Where abouts in Aus are you from originally? I'm from Victoria, but in QLD now. I've also seen a bit of ACT, TAS and WA.... Glad to hear your little guy is taking up his own torch. My 2yr old likes his duplo for now, but with everything I guess his time will come too :)
February 17, 201312 yr Author @OneMoreBrick Thanks very much. I grew up in Perth and spent the first 17 years of my life over there. I got an opportunity to move to the UK in 1997 and haven't looked back since. Where in WA did you live? The little guy loves his LEGO sets. Monster fighters seem his favourite along with the fire plane from the City range. @Leo Crimson Thanks very much :)
February 18, 201312 yr Never actualy lived in Perth as such. I'm wearing a path between Perth airport and Karratha or Paraburdoo at the moment :) Haven't seen a lot of the city (maybe half a dozen walks around the city) aside from developing a dear love for the Hippo Creek bar and grill. They really need one on the east coast
February 18, 201312 yr Welcome CJ, I know what you mean about the older sets $ $ !! Anyway, ....welcome (back?) to a fun and rewarding hobby !!! Glad to hear your little bloke enjoys the bricks too. Cheers, LLL
February 18, 201312 yr Author @Esurient and @DanilaBob - thanks very much. @OneMoreBrick - I used to spend a lot of time at the Hamburger joint in town called Fast Eddy. @LLL - yeah definitely. Very heavy in price so decided to bricklink build cafe corner so lets see how much it costs and how long it takes.
February 23, 201312 yr Nice one, One thing I try to do, if I'm getting old sets back to full inventory...and the same would work for building from scratch.....is to try to think ahead to what sets you would complete next.....so you've got at least two or three wanted lists on the go. That way... you're not saying "...okay, I just finished Cafè Corner and spent $100 on postage across seven suppliers.....now I'll do Market St....and....Arrgh !%#^%....I'm going to have to fork out for postage again!!" Cheers, LLL
February 23, 201312 yr Author Very true. I placed my first order. 100 odd bricks for £6 including postage. Lets see how much this set costs haha
February 27, 201312 yr Welcome to Eurobricks, 'indigobox'! I agree, the urge to collect entire lines is hard to resist. Good luck getting those last few Series 1 and Series 2 'figs--they're a real pain to find these days.
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