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It's great to see a forum that is this dedicated to collecting Lego. Im impressed to see that there is a guide to investing in Lego. I am more of a minifigure collector than buying full sets. I f I do buy full sets, it's mainly to get the minifigures. I own just over 130 minifigures atm and hoping to double that within the next year. Looking forward to being part of the Lego community

Hey everyone. Discovered this site about a week ago but have been hoarding lego sets for about a year now. Doing it wrong in many ways as I am learning heh. I've never been a guy who shopped online much other than buying things on ebay which of course no sales tax. Ordering from LEGO Shop at Home and the lego store of course I get charged sales tax (and it stings as I live in a 9% tax area). Today I ordered the rancor pit from yoyo.com and used a code (thanks to the awesome daily deal thread). I thought well cool 15% off and that will kill tax and a bit more but much to my surprise I did not get taxed? Why is that exactly? Some sites charge you sales tax and …

Hi I have been reading a bit on this site for a while, now i finally registered. I mostly have old (1980-1990) Lego sets, from when i was young, but also a few new Technic sets. I have instructions for all my sets, almost no boxes (They were taking up too much space, my mum said) - so most boxes were cut up, and glued to a piece of paper - put in a plastic-pocket with the instructions on the backside. Noticed that most of my sets says ******/A at instructions - can i scan and upload them to this site somewhere? Michael

Hi everyone. Despite having been on this site for over a year I hadn't actually posted reviews or visited the forums much until about a month ago but now I'd just like to say hello and get to know some of my fellow Brickpickers. I have a very small portfolio, mostly of sets bought for under 40% of MSRP, but I'd still like to hear any advice or stories from fellow investors. Best of luck on your brickpicking endeavours.

Hello everyone. Thanks to this site and its contributor's its made the decision to get back into Lego collecting/investing very easy. I recently had the chance to buy a small collection I couldn't resist. So I've officially relapsed, im addicted again lol. Looking forward to being part of the community. Cheers

Hello everyone! New member here from the Southeast USA. Just wanted to introduce myself and say thank you for all the information I have found here! I hope I can find a way to contribute to this site/members other than just using affiliate links. And if you can't tell from my name, I like running =)

Been lurking for the past 3 months ever since I found the site. Got rebooked after watching the movie and haven't been able to stop buying sets for my kids and myself. I find building the sets oddly therapeutic and watching the kids play relaxing. But why am I wasting time here! I should be over in the daily deals forum hunting down the next great buy!

Hey Guys, and maybe girls. My name is Bastian, i live in Germany and i try since 3 years to get some extra money through LEGO investment. It

Just wanted to say hello and thanks. I have been a regular visitor to the site but never posted. I have loved Lego since childhood. I got curious about making money selling Lego and stumbled upon this site. I haven't pulled the trigger on the investing in new sets like most people do here but I am going to open a bricklink store soon. I will try out the investing but I am not sure if I am ready to do that yet. I know the longer I wait the worse off I'll be but that is quite the bullet to bite. SSD aren't cheap haha. Thanks again for all that everyone here does!

Hey Everyone So I recently discovered this site after trying to find a proper management tool for my sets. I've been collecting Lego since I was a kid, but recently, after earning my first paycheck, my collections seem to have doubled. This was also due to me discovering that Lego actually has some investment value, if collected properly. Now my entire living room is full of sets, old and new. So South Africa doesn't really have a huge market for Lego (we don't even have any official Lego stores here) but I just wanted to hear if any other South African managed to stumble across this site in their desperate Google search for anything Lego. Give me a shou…

Hi, I am a long time lego fan who has started building again with his 7 year old. It was through looking at lego for him that I noted the investment potential. This site is excellent for info. I have started to build a small brick folio as a hobby initially and to see how I go. I will be looking at longer term lego investments. I have just bought my first set, the vw Volkswagen campervan. Excited already.

Hello everyone, im 25 from france. I always was a lego player and fan in my childhood. Sadly, growing up i stoped caring about those beautiful bricks until recently when i discovered the minifigures serie in a shop, i was very intrested by those minifigures. I started collecting them and the addiction came back. So now my main goal is to collect every minifigures series, star wars, and super heroes. This seems to be a great place to know the market and invest in order to buy those minifigs. Cheers guys Envoy

Greetings fellow Pickers! I'm new to the site. Not new to lego. New to collecting/investing. I'm nurpey on BrickLink should any of you had purchases from me. I haven't opened a store yet as I'm still sorting through the many of lots I've purchased. My lego experience began when I was 10 and got the Black Monarch castle. It was stored away for decades (ok, maybe one decade). My nephew recently had my parents dig it out of the attic last year, and the fever began. I'll go into more detail in some other forums because I have some questions and would like to get some feedback, but for now, I'm here and I hope to contribute a little here and there. …

Hello everyone.... Took my sons to see the Lego Movie almost 2 months ago.....and they loved it....and so did mommy and daddy. My wife and I had legos growing up but never actually had sets to put together. Just used our imaginations. So we went out a week later and bought my son a set of legos and the whole family had a blast building it together. So much that we made a trip to Indianapolis, Indiana to the Brickworld show at the state fairgrounds. a couple weeks later. Lets just say my wife and I are hooked once again on Legos and my sons are loving it. We now have a whole weekend trip planned to go to the Lego kidsfest in Novi. Michigan next week !! Just wanted to…

Hello all, firstly I'd like to say that I've always thought LEGOs were cool. Just never got big into them. As I spend the majority of my time deeply in the football card community. However tonight I stumbled across quite a few sets that were 75% off, which came to roughly $3.00 per box. Those being the Iron Man 3 (76008), Man of Steel (76002), Star Wars (75000, and 75001), and last but not least Lord of the Rings (79005). So considering they were so cheap I purchased 34 total. Opinions?? Please, and thank you! I look forward getting into the LEGO community!

hi guys, firstly great forum, I am long time lego lover but looking into getting into small time retailer, looking for a distributor in the usa

Hi, I am very happy to be a part of this:-) Hoping to find some other investment interested lego fans or just Lego addicted people like me! Best greetings Kai

Hello everyone, Just got into Lego based on two events, my son turning 5 and the movie. Basically in the past two months my son has built majority of the current City sets. Don't know if that's a good or bad thing. Happy building everyone.

Hi all! I wanted to stop in and say hello. =) I'm a mom of three small boys (5, 4 and 20 months) with a 4th on the way. All of my kids love legos! The older two have discovered what they call "Baby Legos", or the regular sized sets. My husband and I were never big into Legos so I'm looking for a good community to help me gain a bit of knowledge on their new (and now favorite) hobby. We're going to be attending our first Toys R Us "Lego Event" this Saturday and I'm really excited! Not quite sure what to expect, but hoping we're able to get in. (Does anyone know - does it fill up fast? Is there normally a line to get in??? Am a bit worried we might no…

Hi guys. Looking forward to learning more about LEGO. Thanks.

Hi! My name is Diego. I recently got into Lego again when I bought my daugther some Lego Movie sets. Now we don't eat on the dining table because that's where we build sets Absolutely love this site, Nice to be here!

Hey everybody. This website is fantastic. I love it. Im 35y young. Im Polish but Im in UK right now. All the best guys. Sent from my GT-I9100 using Brickpicker mobile app

Hi I am new to the site I am from the UK and collect Technic, Harry Potter, Hobbit/LOTR and anything else I can find!! This site is great and very helpful Stuart

Hello Evereyone, I'm from Canada, 39, and started to collect and play with lego just over 2 years ago.. a bit late but picking up! I very much like the modular buildings, now starting to collect more limited sets and SW sets too! I find this site is very helpful in learning and investing Lego!

I'm from South Australia and I've just recently started up collecting Lego for the first time since I was a kid. I've got 4 kids of my own and was tempted back to Lego while shopping for some new toys for them. Well this is going to be interesting (hiding it from the wife and kids lol) and most likely very expensive over time. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Brickpicker mobile app