Your entire collection (sets only) when you were a kid

[Peppermint_M]

My collection turned from Duplo to System with a 1993 set, I was five. I do not know if it was still in shops a few years later or if I chose it and Mum hung onto it a while as I have clear memories of playing with it alongside two later sets, some Aquazone ones.

6536: Aero Hawk, 6115: Shark Scout and 1749: Paravane.

I also had a cool gift from my Nan, it had a motorcycle and two minifigures in one set! 6625: Speed Trackers

1858: Droid Scout and 6815: Hovertron were a nice foray into space.

6555: Sea Hunter gave me a boat and a shark. That was cool.

2847: Flyer and 3012: Space Hover (later as it was a 1998 release) added to my space collection.

2846: Indian Kayak turned up at some point.

1998 was a good year, I was ten and LEGO was my toy of choice for any pocket money or gift. (Though, we hadn't lots and lots of money). Adventurers came out, I was already a little Egyptology nut and it was a wonderful theme for me. 2996: Adventurers Tomb, 5918: Scorpion Tracker, 5928: Bi-Wing Baron and the biggest set I ever had until I was earning my own money; 5978: Sphinx Secret Surprise. I also had Insectoids with the 6817: Beta Buzzer and 6903: Bug Blaster. 6415: Res-Q Jet-Ski, 6567: Speed Splash and 6572: Wind Runners made my LEGO town more exciting.

1999 had 2884: Microlight free with a box of biscuits. A baddie for Sam Grant to match wits with in 5901: River Raft and 5906: Ruler of the Jungle to contend with in a new place. 4910: The Hover Scout provided me with one of my favourite minfigures ever.Mum was awesome and I wasn't jaded yet, 7111: Droid Fighter, 7131: Anakin's Podracer and 7121: Naboo Swamp meant I could play Phantom Menace. (My uncle also had a computer game of it, but I kept losing on the level where you have to escort Padme and got fed up...). 6458: Satellite with Astronaut, I had two. Mum got one and then Grandma got me one also, not knowing I had it already. It was awesome to have two of the same LEGO set, especially one with the cool solar panels. 6453: Com-Link Cruiser provided a mainstay character in my childhood games: Huston Texas, mission commander and scientist guy (my sister and I were weird kids okay?). 6437: Beach Buggy was neat, I know people hate <insert that tiresome argument> sets but I just was grateful for LEGO. 8506: Granite became my first Constraction figure (it was fun to fling discs at my brothers).

My collection of adventurers was added to with 5914: Sam Sanister and Baby T. 7104: Desert Skiff was and is still a great set. I also loved my 7134: A-wing Fighter. I got a 1293: Swamp Craft, it was cheap somewhere. In 2000 it was limited LEGO stuff, I had started secondary school and really wanted a CD player, so my money went on a Walkman and some CDs. I still have both, so y'know, a sound investment. (Get it? Sound investment? Gosh I am funny).

If we are stopping at 14, we have some more years to go! I have never stopped with LEGO.

1239: Subzero was free with a brand of frozen food. With four kids, my mum got lots of it anyway, so we had plenty of these guys to share around. Alpha Team hit the scene and I got a 6771: Ogel Command Striker and wished I could have more. For Bionicle, with two brothers I made my claim for Rock and they said it was fine because "Rock is lame" and had all the others. 8531: Pohatu and 8542: Onewa joined Granite for rock-ing adventures and I tried to play the Bionicle webgame on a dial-up connection, most impressed that my grandparents cable meant they had internet and two phone-lines. 7310: Mono Jet gave me another spaceman for my growing interest in spaceship MOCs.

I bought 1381: Vampire's Crypt in a TKMaxx at some point, so it may not have been in 2002. 8560: Pahrak battled 8568: Pohatu Nuva. We got Freeview and for a brief while Dad got well into BidTV. This resulted in a big ol' box of Star Wars LEGO arriving at our door when my brother's were all about the Playstation so I had the lot! 7103: Jedi Duel, 7113: Tusken Raider Encounter, 7119: Twin-Pod Cloud Car and 7200: Final Duel I. 'Twas an epic day.

Ah, 2003 is our final year. Adventurer's came back. 7413: Passage of Jun-Chi, 7423: Mountain Sleigh and 7424: Black Cruiser provided some nice new figures. I also had

4850: Spider-Man's first chase and 4851: Spider-Man and Green Goblin -- The origins.

I still bought LEGO, at least one or two sets a year and always building with what I had. Heck, the one moment it was possible I would stop for a new interest in manga and anime was just when Exo Force came out (LEGO Mecha? Sorted!) Sorry if this was a boring read, but eh, it is more fun than a contextless list right?

[LEGO Historian]

None of my sets survived my childhood in the 1960s.... but here's my rebuilt rare set collection around 2000....

However... I sold off all of these sets in the last 5 years.... so other's could enjoy owning them.... 30 years in my possession was long enough....

Now I concentrate on writing the story about LEGO sets and parts (with 20,000 image library)... in my Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide!

[bmorejared]

I'm just getting back into this at the age of 42 and don't remember the actual names of the sets, but I had a ton of the Classic Space from the late 70's-early 80's. I remember I had some big yellow castle. I had a lot of sets that came with those little red framed windows. There was never a shortage of those. I really wish I could remember the exact sets I had. I will say that I wish Lego was still packaged in boxes with the flip top lids. It was so cool to be able to open that flap and be able to see all of the pieces in those plastic trays.

[CrazyDalton777]

When I was young (5-7) I remember having the original racers Ferrari theme. I had them all, Big truck, Pit stop, F1 car, it was great. Then a year later, part of my house got burned down with my LEGO in. I was devastated but then my mother give me the only thing that survived - A LEGO F1 Ferrari with Michael Schumacher minifig. After that I bought some star wars, basic brick buckets etc. When I hit 12 I had access to the internet. This gave me access to much more LEGO than before. I bought loads of licensed sets. Fast forward to now, I have some modular buildings, superheroes, creator, city, name them I have it. I am a little younger than most EB members.

[talos]

I wish I could remember which earliest sets I had, they were all of the Universal Building Set variety (late '60's). Everything was in a big cardboard box, the original boxes long gone. I had a lot nearly all red or white, along with one large green baseplate. Later, I got a few sets (early '70's), which I still have in their original boxes, they are the brick yard (580) and fire house (570) and one more Universal set (400). I also remember my grandmother got me a truck set. It was blue with a tractor and trailer. That ended up mixed in the big box. By the time I got the later sets though, I was less and less interested, and I guess entering my 'dark ages' which lasted up until about 2012, when I saw and bought a Robie House...and then, in 2014 uh oh... ;-)

[GI_Jack]

When I was around 5-6 years old my brother got 744. He wasn't interested, so I started playing with it. It was my only set for good couple of years. Still have most pieces.

[Count Bricktooth]

To the best of my memory, I had the following:

FABULAND

3642 Fire Engine

3639 Paddy Wagon

3641 Car and Camper

3633 Motor Boat with Walter Walrus

3660 Fisherman's Wharf

3671 Airport

3706 Ernie Elephant

3709 Henry Horse the Carpenter

3710 Patrick Panda

3711 Tubby and Tuba

3713 Mike Monkey

3787 Hannah Hippopotamus the Public Gardener

3796 Patricia Piglet at her Bakery

SPACE

6928 Uranium Search Vehicle

6826 Crater Crawler

6872 Xenon X-Craft

6805 Astro Dasher

6701 Minifigure Pack

6894 Invader

6703 Minifigure Pack

6831 Message Decoder

TOWN

6302 Minifigure Pack

6652 Construction Truck

6603 Shovel Truck

6604 Formula 1 Racer

6613 Telephone Booth

6634 Stock Car

6655 Auto and Tire Repair

6385 Fire House

1496 Rally Car

6521 Emergency Repair Truck

6522 Highway Patrol

CASTLE

6010 Supply Wagon

6080 King's Castle

6073 Knight's Castle

6102 Castle Minifigures

6049 Viking Voyager

6054 Forestmen's Hideout

PIRATES

6235 Buried Treasure

6245 Harbor Sentry

6251 Pirate Minifigures

6257 Castaway's Raft

6265 Sabre Island

6270 Forbidden Island

6274 Caribbean Clipper

6285 Black Seas Barracuda

[DPrime]

Fun topic!

I'm sure I'm missing a few sets here, but here's what I remember having:

6880 Surface Explorer (I think my Grandma gave me this for a birthday...)

6882 Walking Astro Grappler (distinctly remember getting this in person at Consumers Distributing after looking through their amazing catalog!)

6951 Robot Command Center (my brother got this on the same trip mentioned above)

6970 Beta-1 Command Base (Christmas one year... can't remember which though!)

6971 Intergalactic Command Base

6980 Galaxy Commander (another Christmas!)

6073 Knight's Castle

6062 Battering Ram

I know we had a bunch of small town sets, as well as some of the Basic Building Sets from the late '70s/early '80s, and some of the "Building Set with People" ones thrown into the mix. I guess that stuff was less memorable than Space and Castle! :)