Hi, I'm Tripler. I'm an adult. . . and I play with Legos.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Hi. I’m Tripler, and you may remember me from a various bunch of threads over the past seventeen years (almost eighteen). I’m here today to admit that I have a [del]problem[/del] hobby; I’m an adult, and I play with Legos.

My addiction re-started back in 2015 when I went to visit some old friends, and be there for my now-Godson’s baptism. The older kids wanted to go down in the basement and “play Legos.” I thought to myself, “Self, you used to have fun with it. . . go down and bond with the kids. Go ahead. What could it hurt?”. That was the first step. . . the hook was set.

Fast forward to this past summer, when I went to a family reunion, and my niece and nephews had a goddamn bucket of random Legos. Watching those kids have fun putting things together, I fell victim to the brightly colored plastic stackable crack-cocaine that is Lego. Through the random pile of parts, I slowly started recognizing parts and pieces from my childhood–there were pirate hats, jet engines, little lasers, pirate cutlasses, sail masts, etc. These kids had inherited my Lego sets! Immediately I started concocting what I could, and built a meager semblance between what was left of the pile and the childhood imagination I had neglected. . . but it was so damn fun. When we were done, there were spaceships, time machines, monsters, a dollhouse, and a two-year-olds’ Picasso-esque cubist interpretation of. . . f*ck, whatever artistic talent a two year old has.

Hit FFWD again to Christmas this year, and to the fact that my parents came out to visit me here in NM. Grant the fact that I am 40 years old. What was under my little tree? TWO wrapped Lego packages of Star Wars models. The SIGO watched me gleefully giggling while looking through the book to build an Rebellion A-Wing and a Republic Assault Tank. Oh my Noodly-Appendaged One I have never felt so young and had so much fun on Christmas Day. Yes, I shamefully admit I pick up both models and make the “chew-chew-chew” sounds while they ‘attack’ each other. I go back to my childhood with these toys, and I don’t care.

Let’s go to yesterday, where I went to the Albuquerque ComiCon. There were two dealers there selling Lego figures: the first had the Lego Death Star and a Star Destroyer (I didn’t ask the price, but I’m sure it was high-four figures), and a second with some smaller items. I picked up three custom figures for $10. I have them; they are mine. I have a piece of my childhood all over again.

I realize I have an addiction, and I openly admit it. I am an adult, and I play with Legos.

Tripler
Legos are worse than heroin.

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I get a bit jealous when my nieces or nephews get legos for christmas. I am reminded of how much I enjoyed building whatever was in my imagination at the time. I don’t think I ever made the actual thing that you were supposed to build from the set.

Now that you’ve articulated the feeling, I don’t know that I won’t stop by the toy aisle when I go grocery shopping tomorrow.

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But you also get to play with high explosives. It balances out.

Have a waffle.

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I still buy HotWheel cars. But only the good ones.

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Finn Balor (Fergal Devitt) loves Lego too.

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I love Legos too! I have a ready cover story, though: I’m just playing with my son. See! I’m not building elaborate space ships with rotating radomes and defensive turrets and flying them around the room for my own enjoyment. I’m doing it solely to be a good dad! And I decorated my son’s room in an elaborate Lego theme (complete with giant Legos I made by hand and a vinyl decal proclaiming him to be a Master Builder) purely to make the room a nice place for him, and not at all because I want to encourage his interest in Legos as long as I can to give myself more time to play with him.

Legos are awesome.

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A good friend from high school is responsible for The Brick Bible and other associated books. You can turn your hobby into a paying job!!

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Ah, legos, worth having kids for. :slight_smile:

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Is it just me, or do they want an arm and a leg for pretty much any Lego “set”? I mean, $200 for the Lego Simpsons House, which can also pay for 8 buckets of “assorted” pieces?

Besides - I thought there was an “adult equivalent” of Lego; Minecraft.

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When my siblings asked what I wanted for Christmas this past year I pointed them in the direction of Lego sets on sale on Amazon. I got one. I am over 50.

I mostly build the architecture sets or buildings. They are so much fun and very relaxing. I also still have the space sets I bought back when I was in college. I claim I kept them for my nephews to play with but none of us really believe that.

Sure Lego are expensive but they last practically forever. One of my brothers has the blocks we played with as kids, still in great shape. I haven’t run into any other block building toy that is as well engineered as Lego either. I save a little by being a Lego VIP and earning awards points when I buy gifts for my Lego maniac nephew (or me).

I really, really am attracted to the new Diner set.

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Hi, everyone. My name is Capybara and I am also an adult who plays with Legos.

I mostly go for the architecture stuff-- I teach art history so I have this huge pile of regular bricks and a lot of arches and windows and make simplified replicas of, oh, St Bavo in Ghent, or Fontenay Abbey, or the Byodo-in, or whatever. I covet the microscale architecture series things like the Frank Lloyd Wright sets or the newer Taj Mahal and such but the cost is, yeah, no. My current next plan is Mont St Michel but I should really finish those articles instead…

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I am also an AFOL. I was probably in junior high when I got some Techics sets (farm tractor and bulldozer) I built according to directions, play with it a bit, but technically combine models (plus various pieces inherited form older siblings and other sets).
I git the older Mindstorms set, but really haven’t used it.
Kinda wish I got the mobile crane when it was available.

Brian

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President Business?

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I started to get back into technic kits - and then decided that the hobby would put me in the poorhouse pretty quickly as I started trying to pull together bits to build some of the ‘off shelf’ kits. Started looking into buying older kits and realized - yeah, I’m going to have a problem with this.

The best part of these kits is that they can do a great job teaching kids how to make things work.

I’ve got about 5k technic parts if someones interested - I won’t likely build them again.

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Do you have any of the Lego robot kits? What do you think?

PS: I’m a video gamer. No judging from my corner.

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What a timely thread. A while back Lego came out with a huge Saturn V model which KSP-playin’ SpaceX-watchin’ me wanted quite badly. The first run sold out instantly, however, and the Lego store in Canada won’t let you pre-order or even sign up for a back-in-stock notification. I checked back regularly for a while, but had forgotten of late, so when I saw this thread it reminded me to look. And, I now have a giant-ass Lego rocket on its way to me. :slight_smile:

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The adult equivalent are nanoblocks.

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Amazon is dangerous.

I’m 41 years old and I have a Star Wars LEGO Opportunity*. It started slowly: A modest little TIE Fighter model. Next joined by a Naboo Startfighter. I always wanted an X-Wing but the “Current” Red 5 model is a little steep (it being out of print). The Naboo Starfighter was joined by A B-Wing fighter and then the Shuttle Tiderium. Then The Force Awakens came out and Poe Damaron’s X-Wing was added to the collection, it’s not Red 5, but it will do. This summer a Millenium Falcon (TFA era, not classic) & Y-Wing fighter were added to the mix. Now there is an unassembled Collector’s Edition Snow Speeder model waiting for a free weekend to assemble. I started out justifying as I could pass them on to my honorary Nephews, but they already have the same sets (and my childhood treasure of old technic and space lego). I’m now honest with myself and acknowledge that I now have a hobby and I just need to budget appropriately for it for space and money.
*“There is no such thing as a problem, only opportunities in unfashionable clothing.”

-DF

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You need more books. :smiley:

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I attended a wedding recently. The couple’s vows included many of the usuals (love, honor), but also a few specific to them. Among them, “Groom, do you promise to pick up your Legos so Bride does not run the risk of stepping on them without shoes on and injuring her feet?” To which the answer was, fortunately, “I do!”