Introduce Yourself & New Member FAQs

Hi everyone, After lurking for weeks, I decided to introduce myself over here. Nothing fancy about me tho, I went out of dark age like half a year ago when I recovered old sets I've had when I was younger. Now I'm 32, and I'm still wondering why I lost interest in Legos ... I'm not an "investor" yet, but that activity tickles me enough to make me wanna spend time around here. I don't plan to really make money off investing but rather help myself finance the sets I want to buy for myself. Anyway glad I discovered this community, there are many good reads over here. See you !

New member here from the Netherlands. I found this site by chance when I was looking up some information about selling Lego Looks Cool with a lot of info :-) Marco

Hi everyone, I'm an AFOL and learned about Brickpicker from google. I don't own many sets but I find sorting old bricks therapeutic after a long day.

Hey there fellow LEGO aficionados and investors. New to this site, but a fan of LEGO for 35+ years.

Hello! After browsing for a few weeks, being a huge Star Wars & LEGO fan since I was 5 or 6 (and now 26!), I have decided to make an account & hopefully be active & learn more & share! My name is James, live in the Florida panhandle (destin/pensacola/Panama city general area). I also have a quick question, was doing some browsing on the lego.com site. I noticed tthat they are including with my order - #5004388 nexo knights intro pack. What is this about & any collectible interest/value? Thanks in advance for your time & I look forward to being a part of the community! V/R, James

Hello, New to Lego collecting, loved Lego as a kid. Big Star Wars fan so going to start with those sets. Any advice greatly appreciated. thanks Neil

Hi everybody, this is my first. Im from Italy, 40 years old and im a brick fan since i was a kid. Keychains are my best!

Hi all I'm new to brick picker and new to Lego collecting. I was wondering which sets I should purchase for the Star Wars line

Hope I will learn lots about collecting Lego from here. I just bought a few sets for my kids and myself yesterday. I wish they had NFL Lego set with my favorite players.

Hi everyone! Just joined the site because I have some new, unopened sets that I'm looking to unload. Thanks so much for this website! It's invaluable!

Dropping a quick line to say 'Hi' and to extend to Ed Mack my best wishes for a successful fundraiser. I found out about your plight through TheBrickFan and it tugged on my heartstrings as I know how hard it is for the kiddos (and parents) when faced with such an ordeal (my daughter's former co-op lost their Fed funding last year). My daughers and I adore LEGOs and I consider building & collecting as my mental therapy a well as my personal indulgence (Louis Vuitton purses? Weekly Spa treatments? Nah! I'll just have some modulars, please!) Cheers!

Hey Brickpickers, I've just come out of the dark ages (a rather short one at that) and have rediscovered Lego, become interested in some investing, and also stumbled onto the best online Lego community. Unfortunately I missed out on a lot of recently retired models and all sales and clearances that come with Christmas.. Terrible timing I know.. So my brickfolio is looking sad but I know my direction and am eyeing May 4th for those great SW discounts

New member here from Baltimore. I found this site by chance when I was looking up some information for something else. Brian

Hi all. I am new to Brickpicker... And am a returning Lego fanatic since my childhood. recently got into the Star Wars Lego (big sets) big time and, in the last month have acquired and loved putting together and displaying the UCS Tie-fighter, sand crawler, slave I, star destroyer, millennium falcon, at-at, at-dp, prototype tie-fighter and have kept the ewok village boxed in the hopes the value increases... Can't wait for a new Death Star, especially if it is display and not a play set... Can someone please advise on how Lego announce new sets and what to check to know when new sets are going to be released? thanks in advance!

Hi all, New member here! Just thought I would say hi. I am just getting going with Lego, was crazy about it as a kid and always had a hidden desire as an adult to get back into it and now I have a son so I have the perfect excuse! He is only 2 so I am starting to build a collection so that when he gets to an age where he starts to get interested he will have plenty to play with but also from my point of view I can hopefully build a collection that has a bit of value to it as well. Keen to learn from all of you guys as I go along. Got to dig out my old box full of bricks from my folks place and work out what I still have from the 80's! Rich

Greetings all. I have been buying and selling Lego's since 2007. I have little inventory compared to most of you. I started when I was 12 or 13 when I decided to buy a 7654 Droid battle pack to sale rather than to keep. I am right now a college student and have amassed a collection of Legos that is near 70k, if I decide to sell all my parts on brick link, small time I know. I still keep the Lego set that started it all as a memento. I mainly like to builds sets and part out the one that I don’t like. I favor the clone war Legos for my battle builds because the clone wars is filled with a whole variety of land vehicles and space battles, to my op…

Hi! . I'm new here and new to Lego. I've gotten sets here and there before but just recently got really into it. I've been buying a lot with the after holiday sales going on and stores clearing out some older stock now. And I have a question to ask. How easy and common is it to find sets marked 50% of msrp throughout the year?? I've purchased a decent amount of sets around 45% and 50% off, plus some at 30% (sets that I wanted more and didn't think I would get with a higher discount). I definitely got more than I would for this short period of a few weeks, but my thoughts are that these deals won't be like this throughout the year. Everything I'm getting will be ope…

Hi everybody, After some casual encounters with Brickpicker I've recently become more interested in the deeper workings of the whole Lego world I must have been around 10 years old when my dad bought me two big piles of second hand Lego, all fitting in the chest he made for me. We spend many hours together trying to turn the big pile of bricks into anything we could imagine. During my teenage years my focus shifted to other interests like video games. And that is where I encountered Lego again with the Star Wars and Marvel Lego games in recent years. Now I'm 27, married and able to buy the sets I dreamed of as a child. Although I want to explore the idea of inve…

Hello, happy to be joining this community. i just visited the Lego store the other day to buy a gift for a friends child. They were sold out in the store and when I was looking online I found this website. then I started researching Legos and investing and I'm hooked on the idea. I lovvvvvvvvvvvved Legos as a kid, still do. I'm a 26 year prior military guy who has been learning all he can about saving and investing the last couple years. And this is such a fun and lucrative thing to be investing, and diversify my money. A lot of it is in safe territory right now, which isn't best for someone my age. Sooo, now I'm sitting here in the downtown Disn…

Hey guys, Extremely new to lego investing and planning on doing it on a very casual basis for a bit of fun in my downtime. Late last year I bought the UCS 10240 X wing and was planning on getting the Tumbler but didn't... Should have. This month I bought the Ewok Village and Pet store because those are the two sets I think will be EOL and have value. What do you guys think? Good idea/ bad idea. ? All my purchases were made at the lego store at a standard price. I think that waiting for specials based on what I've read isn't' the best idea. I see that there is a trend of sets being retired at the end of the year. Is there any other time of year …

Hello, everyone joined a few days ago decided to go ahead and post hello, I joined because I thought this was very interesting to see how my collection stacks up.

Hi everyone I just joined I am 35 and I love lego

Hi, I'm from Indonesia. nice to know y'all. Where should I start?

Hi ever one. I new to this site and was referred to it by a friend from Germany. I myself hail from the Chicago Suburbs. I am an extreme enthusiast and have collected Lego for years. I only ever realized the online aspect and communities 2 years ago while searching for a convention. I haven't been able to make Brickworld, I think it is called in the past years though. I have many unopened sets going back to 1977. I myself wasn't created from lego like cells until 1984. I buy a lot of lego, do a lot of customs or MOCs. Speaking of which, viewing others creations is one of my favorite things to do. I live within 5 minutes of a Lego Store, a Lego Discovery …

I'm new here, obviously. Long time Lego collector, first time "investor". I've been buying Star Wars Legos for my son for years. Only recently I was turned on to "investing" in them. Hope to gain a lot of info from you all in between doing work.