Favorite childhood theme?

[InvincibleEagle]

What was your favorite Lego theme when you were a kid?

Mine was Aquazone by far. I was completely obsessed with it. I have so many good memories of getting the sets as gifts and playing with them all day, being astounded the first time I saw the sub's magnet arm in action, being irritated when the neighbor girl at my birthday party teased building "a man" out of my Crystal Crawler parts, and looking at the size of Neptune Discovery Lab in awe. Looking back, it was quite the unique theme; it was like a space theme under water. Most would think just to make a space theme and a generic diving them (which I also liked to a lesser extent), but Aquazone merged the two perfectly. The deep blue deep sea backgrounds that these sets were displayed against reflects the deep nostalgia I hold for this theme.

[robuko]

Classic space, no question. I barely owned any other sets. So much playability in even the smallest sets, much enhanced by the alternate builds on the box.

[lorax]

Forestmen

Growing up I didn't get many sets, I relied on my older brothers lego. But I got one Forestmen set and it was such a great memory.

[Alfadas]

The Vikings for sure. Such amazing sets, they are the reason I'm into castle stuff now. They really got me into Lego. Before that I owned a few city and duplo sets, but with the Vikings, the whole castle thing started. Now look at my Lego collection, almost entirely historical. Great sets, the Vikings.

[harmacy]

Classic town! Pretty much everything in the 1988 - 91 phase.

[PocasNuckie]

UFO. Because the first set with substancial size I got was from that theme.

[lightningtiger]

Classic Town 78-81.....the good old days !

[sithewok]

For whatever reason, I just wasn't interested in Lego as a kid - too heavily into gi joe and star wars, I suppose... That said, i was always a little jealous of my friend's classic space sets.

[naf]

Classic Space and Futuron.

[Ridge Montante]

I always loved the castle and pirates themes. Would look at them all the time in the stores. Yet when you look at my collection of old sets it's mostly comprised of space sets.

[Hrw-Amen]

Has to be classic space. I think prior to that most of my sets were early trains, other than that my parents just used to get the big boxes of bricks that were available and we built houses to go alongside the railway, or other railway trucks and things like that. Not so many sets though. The few I did get were at the old pre-minifigure scale so were quite tiny by comparision. Toward the end just prior to space I got a couple of police sets, a boat I think, that had those minifigures without arms that were just molded down the sides. So yes my best memories are of classic space and the space themes that followed.

[InvincibleEagle]

The Vikings for sure. Such amazing sets, they are the reason I'm into castle stuff now. They really got me into Lego. Before that I owned a few city and duplo sets, but with the Vikings, the whole castle thing started. Now look at my Lego collection, almost entirely historical. Great sets, the Vikings.

Looking back at those sets, I really wish I wasn't in my dark age during that line's run. Those sets had so many figures and monsters that would work great with any other medieval/fantasy theme. The monsters had actual Norse names too: Fafnir, Midgard Serpent, Fenris, etc.

[Blondie-Wan]

Classic Space! But I did have other sets of the era, including at least one of the old Universal Building Sets, at least one train from the "blue rails" era, some old Town sets with the "proto-minifigures," the Homemaker-scale Lunar Landing set, and two or three of the early Model Team sets. But Classic Space held my heart, and even though I have essentially none now, the theme holds my heart still, now and forever.

[AmperZand]

Classic space. When it came out, I was deciding whether to focus on it or classic castle. My older brother convinced me that classic castle would be discontinued. I can't recall why I believed him, but I did. So I went with classic space. I wound up getting most of the early sets. In retrospect, they seem unsophisticated but back then articulated minifigures in spaceships and moon bases was the best thing imaginable.

[Javert]

Harry Potter and King Leo's era of Castle were what captivated me!

[legolee35]

Mine was classic pirates from 89 to 92, I would spend hours having battles.

[Artifex]

Tie: Black Falcons/Crusaders. Anything Castle to be quite honest. Followed by Classic Town, then Classic Space. More often than not, I'd mix sets from every theme and have the most amazing adventures! My main character would live in a castle that was all medieval on the outside, but modern on the inside. The castle was just outside the town, where there were cars and motorbikes and the like. Forestmen lived in the outskirts. There was usually a mission to space for a reason or another, but the main reason was usually to find adventure. I used to play with my neighbours, and we would just bring our Lego and everybody sort of had this same storyline in theirs heads, where the town was for houses and motorvehicles, the outskirts for castles and forts and horses and the other rooms in the house were space, the final frontier. It was quite fun. Good times.

[Captain Nemo]

Being from the 90's (I'm so young compared to the other comments thus far!), mine was "classic" Star Wars--the old ones back when the minifigures were yellow. Great sets. I'm no longer in to Star Wars sets, or really Star Wars as a whole (It's cool but now it seems "meh" to me). Even so, I loved those really old Star Wars sets; now they seem so simple, but I think that's what I liked about them, and why I still like them.

[dr_spock]

What is this theme you speak of? We only had LEGOLAND, trains with blue tracks and basic building sets back then.

[Paul B Technic]

I started with classic city and then moved on to Technic by the time I was 8.

[CptPJs]

My first theme was Belville, and I still have a bit of a soft spot for it. I always wanted Paradisa but never had any. I loved Pirates and Egypt Adventurers as I got a bit older too.

[Alfadas]

Looking back at those sets, I really wish I wasn't in my dark age during that line's run. Those sets had so many figures and monsters that would work great with any other medieval/fantasy theme. The monsters had actual Norse names too: Fafnir, Midgard Serpent, Fenris, etc.

Indeed, I don't know how many hours I spend building a fortress for the Crownies and let the Vikings attack it, raid and plunder it. Then the MMV set came out, I was very happy. Just a village, ready to be raided. O, the memories. Wish I was 10 years old again, going to the store and gaze at the Vikings.

[october]

Classic Space.

[TheLegoDr]

Definitely classic castle and pirates. I had almost all of those sets from the crusaders up to dark forest. I really enjoyed blacktron II and m:tron, but my heart belongs to castle or pirates. Interesting that Harry potter and kingdoms is what brought me out of my box (my name for dark ages). Also interesting that most of my MOCs have been city related. Good thing I'm working on a castle and a pirate ship to make up for it.

[danth]

Space - from Classic through Futuron, Blacktron, Space Police, and M:Tron. Close behind was Castle, especially the Black Falcons.

Edited May 4, 2014 by danth