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Hey all. I'm from the Chicago area. just wanted to say hi! I've always loved legos and never had any. but now, I've just started collecting them. Some for fun, and some for an investment.

hi I am new, and live in PA.

Finally started a post after been lurking for a while. I've always been an LEGO fan and a co-worker of mine introduced me to someone he knows who is a full-time LEGO investor. I started researching this site and found out that I just opened (an unopened) the Naboo Swamp for my 4 year old son to play with about 3 months ago. Ohh well! Anyways today I made my first purchase into LEGO investing. A couple of Friends sets and Minecraft. I have my wife's thumbs up on the scheme.

I have delayed saying hello to everyone, but here it is. Hello to all Brickpicker members. My name is Martin. I joined the site in April and it is really run to be on. I am a avid Lego collector/investor in many themes. My favorite is the Star Wars UCS. I live in the USA and the Lego collecting/investing market here is great. If you all could, can you give me some investing tips and or ideas about investing in Lego Star Wars.

Hello everyone! I've been lurking around here for some months now, gaining huge amounts of information while getting my brickfolio off of the ground. I thought it was only fair that I show up and introduce myself. For the record, my name is Steven. I just thought Stuntman Mike was a cool character from "Death Proof." How did I end up here? It was a culmination of three things, or more importantly, three sets: 1) 497 - Galaxy Explorer: I was nine or ten when the Classic Space theme first rolled out. I had the old Coast Guard Station (575) but Space was the first time I'd seen minifigures with movable arms and legs! I had the Space Shuttle (442), M…

I know I have posted a few times in various topics...just finally decided that I need to introduce myself. Not much to say really. I am just an average 20 something American AFOL fresh out of his dark ages. I like collecting vintage Space sets (M:Tron, Blacktron etc etc). Found this great site and became more and more intrigued with the investing side of the LEGO addiction. So far my Brickfolio is very modest, about 10 new sets. I did manage to pick up a couple vintage lots off craigslist, with a ton of mostly complete sets (including a 6086 Black Knight's Castle ). Have been cleaning them up and hopefully will start selling in the next couple months. Pr…

Hai to all LEGO fans worldwide... Alcarin invited me to this beautiful community... I am from Slovenia (just like him) and am also a fan of LEGO. loving the display value of LEGO sets like MMV and similar... Also got 1 set for investing. And maybe I will do more... but i am more a hobby small time buyer... Hope to have nice constructive chats with you all!

Hi everyone. I joined this site about a month ago or so, and have been lurking ever since, but I thought it time to say hello. Seems like a very friendly group here. I've been collecting Legos for 5 or 6 years now, but only on a very small-scale basis. After reading some of the posts on here, it sounds like I'm still a pretty small scale player! LOL This site has a lot of great information. It's helped me make much better decisions on sets to buy. However, it's also made me realize that I've made some stupid purchases in the past (can you say "Atlantis"?) Oh well. Guess that's part of the learning process, right? Anyway, just wanted to say hi to all th…

Greetings from Ireland! My name is Mike i,m living in Dublin but i,m not Irish, so far i'm still polish and lets hope it will stay it way cos my nation is great and that is the proof:) Series 11 For sale in Poland... how is this possible ? ...in Poland everything is:)

Hi, I am from Virginia. I am new to investing. I like Lego, and am trying to invest to fund my hobby. This is a great website to receive information, so if anyone has a good idea which sets to invest, please tell me!

Hey everyone, my name is Max and Im a new investor. I am an avid motocross racer, but also collect Disney Cars from Mattel. I've always enjoyed doing a bit of investing, and this seems to be the place to learn a lot about it! Thanks

Just kidding I was born there. Now I'm in Utah. Hi LEGO lovers! Nice site and forum, I was surprised there are so many people collecting/investing in LEGO. I don't consider myself being either one, but rather looking for a small collection of really nice sets to enjoy later with my kids. I still have several years till we grow up enough But I don't want to be stuck with the sets available at the moment, so decided to start early. Too bad I missed several really cool sets by a year or two, but hopefully several more will come up this coming years. I wonder if there are people here who are kinda "old school" LEGO lovers. I mean people who would pr…

Hi. It seems like forever ago I was a child playing with LEGO and some 20 years later, I've finally come full circle back, probably due in some small (read: LARGE) part to us expecting our first child in early 2014. Well, it was either finding my old LEGO sets in my parents basement after all these years or deciding that I wanted to prematurely buy toys "for our kid". Either way, have been creeping the site for about a month and finally decided to make my presence know... although I love the dedication most show here, my LEGO investing thus far has been purely to maintain my hobby and to provide me with all the new (and old) sets that I've missed over the past…

Hello to all you Lego fans out there. I have almost all of the Bionicle sets, with some duplicates, from which I make MOCs. My favorite set that I have is 8732 Toa Inika Matoro. I also have a lot of Star Wars sets, like 7662 Trade Federation MTT and 8093 Plo Koon's Jedi starfighter.

Hello to all from sunny north wales in the uk have been collecting lego for some time and have about 400 sets up to now. mostly Star Wars and Batman and also Indiana jones but we have lots of other sets as well. great looking site and forum

Hello everyone! I just discovered BrickPicker today while browsing the internet, as I was looking to restart a hobby that I loved as a kid: Buying and selling Legos. I am 16 and used to make some solid cash on eBay selling my "old" Lego sets during my pre-teen years (they weren't old, they were mostly newer from 06 and 07...but I had just started to climb out of my "Dark Ages" at that time, so calling them that was my only way of moving on!) I mostly loved Star Wars, and had a large collection of some of today's highest valued SW sets, but sold them without knowing what their value would be right now (I still made a solid profit on them, though ) I have some of my …

Hi all, so glad to be here! My husband is a lifelong Lego fan(atic) and over time I've caught the bug from him until I love those sharp little foot-assaulting bricks almost as much as he does. Because I have the soul of a merchant I've been "encouraging" (husbands out there will know that means "nagging") him to do more of his own custom creations and, like all intelligent men, he's realized it's easier just to do what I want. So, he's been creating some fantastic designs, I have found myself in charge of the custom decals (as well as chief purchasing agent and assistant brick sorter) and our first design is about to roll off the table (and under the r…

Just discovered this site a few days ago but I'm a loooong time LEGO fan. Started playing with the original LEGO SPACE, TOWN, and Technic sets from the late 70s onwards. Collected the original Pirate sets fanatically but took a long break afterwards. That is until the first licensed Star Wars sets appeared 1999 and I was totally hooked again. Have been collecting (and building) Star Wars, Pirates/Carribean, Indiana Jones, Batman, DC/Marvel Heroes, Lord of the Rings, and even Sponge Bob. Needless to say, my collection has grown massive!

I'm Scissorino, I'm nearly 29 and I live in Yorkshire, UK. Recently got back into Lego... More of which to come!

Howdy, I am new to Brickpicker but have been around Brickset for awhile and selling Lego on and off again to sustain my addiction. I am from Texas but I work in Cameroon, Africa most of the time so I don't often get to do much building. Favorite themes include Castle, Star Wars, Superheros, and City although I often get sucked into at least one or two sets in just about every theme that gets released. Looking forward to meeting you all and joining the discussions.

Hey there everyone. I just joined the site and wanted to say hello to everyone. I am an AFOL from MPLS, MN, USA. I love to create small robots, vignettes, and cubedudes. I will post some pictures in the days to come of some of MOCs I have done.

Hi everyone, Just wanted to introduce myself. I currently live just outside of Chicago, but I was born and raised in Denmark. I have lived here in the US for 7 years now. I have loved LEGOs since I was a kid and luckily my parents still have all my old sets back in Denmark. They come visit every year and will start bringing my old sets over to me. First up is a LEGO castle from 1984. Looking forward to building that again. My 5 year old started getting into LEGO recently and now it's all he talks about. Good excuse for me to start buying sets again.I took him to Brickworld Chicago in June, and we both loved it. I discovered the worth of old sets w…

A quick Hello from Paris! I am, let's say, new in the lego investement world but I've been playing lego for 5/6 years when I was a kid. Then I came to playing video games (wihch I still do) and sold my lego, probably around 5 kilos, for nothing in order to buy some cheap games. At this time I had no idea of the value of our beloved bricks. Trust me, now I regret it ... Anyway, I am back in the lego world and now that I have a job I can buy and choose my sets I have to admit for now I don't really buy sets for investement but more for playing and MOCing. I buy essentially Technics set as I love all the enginieering involved in building them. I also seek good…

Hi, everyone! Just joined Brickpicker tonight, but have been a fan of Lego since I was a kid. But now tat im older i still have some of the sets from back then