My kids play with Lego and I started asking for sets of my own last summer! I’m 39!
In the past year or so, I’ve built(not my pics, I’m not taking pics of mine right now):
The Black Pearl - best set I’ve ever built.
Tie Fighter First Order - A really neat set my son can play with( it isn’t fragile)
Lego Millennium Falcon - no, neither of the HUGE ones
And countless other normal sets with my kids.
Another adult here who plays with Legos when the opportunity presents itself (and it does frequently and regularly). I refuse to be ashamed.
My parents, mainly my mother, are the great enablers of my Lego habit. It started when me and my siblings were kids. For several years, there were 3 or 4 general sets under the tree each Christmas. Over the years, my mother would pick up odds and ends of Legos at yard and estate sales, or where ever she saw them being sold cheaply, as Legos new are not inexpensive. When I was in my early twenties, my parents purchased a house with enough rooms to dedicate one to toys for the first generation of Grandkids. 1 hide-a-bed sofa, a 10 cuft box of toys, and 30+ gallons of Legos. We are now well into the Great Grandkid generation and the Lego play is still ongoing in the family today.
I want this Millennium Falcon™ 75192 | Star Wars™ but can’t convince the wife.
I designed my nephews well 
The older ones have received Legos and Playmobils; the littlest one’s requests for last Christmas included several Duplo boxes. He explained to me very seriously that you must place the pieces in the correct order, while placing the heads of the sunflowers directly on the soil and the stems over them: points for intent but we need to improve execution.
Best thing about being the Crazy Aunt is that I get to play with all their stuff without needing to leave space for it in my house 
When we were children, my brothers would call me to “build a landscape”. They (mainly Ed, the older of the two) would ask for urban spaces, or mountains, or deserts, maybe a canyon… and I’d build it out of shoe boxes, a few pieces of old cloth in shades of green and brown, Exin castillos (mine) and Legos (theirs).
As they started to play, Ed would be in charge. Eventually Jay would exclaim “that makes no sense!” and take over.
Nowadays I set up computer systems for business management. Ed is a design engineer. Jay is costing. We still have the same roles as when we were kids, but now we get paid for it.
I have quite large collections of both Lego and K’Nex - both acquired ostensibly for my children as they were growing up, but actually for me.
It’s been a while since I tipped out the Lego (and the K’Nex 6 foot ferris wheel kit is still sitting there in the original box, waiting to be started) I need more spare time.
Hmm. My name is Richard and I build Lego models (not “Legos” you bunch of illiterates! ;), a losing battle I know.)
Although I used to enjoy free building as a boy, I much prefer to just buy and build official sets now.
I find it hard to justify the expense so I don’t have a lot of models but the ones I do have are pretty cool.
https://shop.lego.com/en-AU/Fairground-Mixer-10244
https://shop.lego.com/en-AU/Sopwith-Camel-10226
https://shop.lego.com/en-AU/Yellow-Submarine-21306
I’d like to get into the modular building sets at some point, but I don’t have any display room. I imagine when I’m retired, having a basement set up as a giant Lego city ala The Lego Movie.
Edit: I also have my eye on this: The Disney Castle 71040 | Disney™ | Buy
My little boy saves up his pocket money in order to buy whacking great lego technic sets. Who am I to stop him? and if he needs a little help…of course I’m going to be right there for him, it is my duty as a father.
His favourite so far is the big crawler crane. . We managed to get it for a lot less than that but I confess we sunk a lot of fun hours togethergetting it built.
I second the point that there are a lot of engineering principles to be learned. The gearbox alone is a work of art with idling shafts and collars that engage various functions off a single powered input. It moves, it turns, it raises and lowers the boom and the claw and it is bloody massive.
I’m eager to see what we, sorry, he, picks next
A friend of ours collects the sets/special editions and often buys two; one to build and one just for posterity. She also buys a lot of the loose bricks and builds original things on her own. She never got into the “one off” stuff other people produce but its not from lack of enjoying it; more space and financial considerations. It isn’t my thing but in a way I really appreciate the way Leggo has changed with the times and kept itself going when a lot of other companies/toys have just faded away.
I am an adult, I have no children, there are no children in the family living within a few hundred miles. I have two large buckets of Lego.
I’d like to branch out into the Technics, but my bank balance disagrees. At some point we’ll come to an arrangement, I figure it’s a lot cheaper than having kids to generate an excuse.
Thank you! It is LEGO or LEGO blocks/sets, no such thing as Legos 
I too am a 40 something that still builds LEGO sets. I have the LEGO Saturn V sitting on my desk at work.
I’ve got the plans for a 5 speed gearbox with reverse if you need it - you’ll reuse most of the parts you got from that kit.
Another AFOL here.
We have so many sets, the last time we moved the movers asked if we SOLD lego.
The last set I made was the Saturn V. That is one amazing set. And fairly economical - for Lego anyway.
I’m about halfway through the 60’s Bat cave.
My mother gave me a Women of NASA Lego set for Christmas. I’m 39. I haven’t put it together yet but I have this whole week off. I should send her a picture of it when I’m done.
Now that sounds like fun, is it an electronic copy? I don’t think he’s ready to break it down just yet but it’d be an educational project for the future.
Having formed a support group for my needs, I have to ask the question: do they sell boxes of random stuff? I mean, I could pull a sidearm on a 6-year old and hijack their Legos, but that would leave me in jail and the kiddo out of a bunch of Legos. . . and I don’t wanna do that.
I’ve heard anecdotes that “Lego Stores” have awe-inspiring diplays and bins of whatever you’re looking for. I just want a bunch ‘o’ bricks. Do they sell ‘random packs’?
Tripler
I’m jonesing.
When I quit drinking a few years ago, using Legos kept me occupied and not so bored. They are fantastic. A little pricier than I remember when I was younger but fun nonetheless. I would definitely continue on with them, I too would love some random ‘sets’ of lego’s but I have never seen them, and I’ve been to many different stores over the past few years (toy shopping for my niece).
Imagine the possibilities.
Tripler and the** anomalous1** Here ya go buddy, a general set. There are several different what I call general sets (they’re actually called classic creative builder box) available or at least listed on amazon, price is indicative of the piece count.
Ok, the emergency intervention type stuff out of the way, what was your favorite/best/most impressive Lego free build from a general set?
My brothers and I would play “Buck Rogers” and we would build pretty good (for a bunch of under 10 year olds) Draconian Marauders.
I used to love Legos as a kid. My son has a couple Lightning McQueen from Cars Duplo sets, but Legos are a bit problematic now because of the baby.
But yeah, if I had the room I might be compelled to get my old bag of blocks from my Dad’s and start building massive city scapes for him top play in.
I just checked out the Lego web site and some of these sets are awesome! This one come with a bear, a Police Chinook helicopter and what I think are a couple SWAT guys about to arrest some shirtless hillbilly and his skanky girlfriend in their survivalist cabin after they just committed a heist!
WOW. But yeah, $799 is a lot.
