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Hi, everyone! Just joined Brickpicker last night, but have been a fan of Lego since I was a kid. Just got back into it last month and have been buying minifigs to play with on ebay haha. I've been doing a lot of reading and I am very intrigued about investing in Lego so I thought I'd give it a go. It's really hard to find great prices in Canada though, and I can't help but be jealous at all the finds our US friends get! I figure if the sets I buy don't go up in price in a few years, I can just open them and play with them myself, so it's a win-win situation, hahah!

Hi all! I'm from the Sacramento area and have been following this site for a few weeks now. I really appreciate all of the great info I have found. I started building a collection for my son and hope that the investing part of this hobby can help fund that. I have enjoyed hunting down deals although my local Target/Walmart seem to be pretty stingy with the clearance items. Hopefully that changes over the next few weeks!

Hi everyone, I'm Adam, I'm from the Cleveland area and like the rest of you am a huge fan of Lego. I loved lego as a kid, though my mom threw all of our Lego in the garbage because my brothers and I were a bunch of knuckle heads and let her step on them one too many times. First she hid them in the basement, we found them, left them dumped out on the floor again and she had enough and they disappeared for good. After that tragedy I have fond memories of playing with 6054 Forestmen's Hideout at my neighbors house.along with other sets of the era. Then I had a long dark age until the Star Wars sets, got a few of those but never really had any money to spend in those days. D…

Hi everyone, my name is Henry. from Indonesia, Jakarta, really looking forward to join and participate in this forum

Hi everyone. My name is Daniel. I don't consider myself a LEGO collector; however, I started buying LEGO sets again two years back since I had a son and was thinking of being able to spend time playing LEGO with my son. Just joined BrickPicker to learn more to pick the next set to buy so I can buy it before the set's price increases (and cost me more money to buy). As far as making money off LEGO sets, not really my goal, but if it can be done, then that's even better Anyway, just want to say hi to everyone. Hope to learn from you guys.

Greetings from a recently new born lego fan ( 48 yr old male ) in New Zealand ... I am working my way through the modular series, Pet Shop , Fire Station etc, I am up to date now but have seen some people selling plans to build extra buildings, but they are ONLY the plans , you have to buy the parts yourself...I have no problem in doing this but just wondered who has gone ahead and bought plans, were they easy to follow, and the cost of buying the bits separately ? Thought and comments gratefully received. Thanks Brian NZ

HI everyone, just want to introduce myself, I've just recently taken a trip back home, and started playing with my old LEGO collection from when I was a kid. After selling a few random GI Joes to a local comic/toy shop, I inquired about selling my LEGO. He offered me some prices, but I'm sure glad I did some research online, now I'm selling all my old sets, and newer ones I've acquired, on Ebay. Going to make more money, and I get to play with LEGO!! talk about win-win! This is a great site, and really helping me a lot. Thanks everybody!

Hey folks. When I said on Eurobricks a couple of years ago that I was investing in Lego, the replies I got suggested that I was kidding myself ... but I continued buying and holding stuff MISB anyway ... and then I finally found this site the other day - quite the revelation! I'm not sure if it's healthy for me being here, since this site encourages me to spend even more on Lego, under the assumption I will make money from it in the future. I don't know if I'm deluding myself, but the stuff I bought three years ago has indeed gone up in value, so I guess I'll carry on spending and this site will help me pick winners, right? Other stuff: I'm 33, married…

A couple of days ago, I had started a thread which was meant to be a friendly notice for all female members about the optional "Ms. Brick" award (or tag) specially designed for the fairer gender as a way of standing out in a crowd of 'just a bunch of guys'. As I stated, it was not mandatory and no one is trying to discriminate or make anybody feel uncomfortable in any way, shape, or form. The thread was simply meant to be a way of raising your hand and graciously asking for the designated award if you had wanted to. We would never force such a thing on anyone so that was why I took Eurobricks example by starting the thread to begin with. Unfortunately, it had not taken lo…

Hello my name is Eduardo Fonseca, a System Engineer, I live in Costa Rica. I'm also in the process of growing my Software and videogame development company. PTI is the name of it. http://http://pti.azurewebsites.net/ I recently started a lego project which consists on creating a city mixed with engineering, and I'm here in order to learn abou lego investments, in order to make some profit from my hobby. Nice to meet you all.

I just wanted to introduce myself. I'm lurking mostly reading all the great info found on this forum. Just getting back into collecting again and really appreciate the useful tips you all provide! I personally love the minifigs especially Star Wars and the Super Heros. But I have picked up various sets to put back and a few to personally build with my two sons. Look forward to learning alot here about investing in sets. Kris

Hi, Actually I should have introduced myself before posting in other topics but here I am! It's Deniz from Istanbul, Turkey. My favourite theme is surely Star Wars. Brickpicker is a great website for investment ideas and a great database, so I wanted to join the forum to communicate with other people in the LEGO world Thanks, Deniz

Hi Everyone, I'm a long-time LEGO fan - it all started with the LEGO Space Star Defender model for me ! You can also find me on Bricklink where my store - Brick Dreams - offers some exclusive Star Wars minifigures. Hope to hear from you soon ! Sebastien

Greetings All, I'm located in Alaska, USA but will be moving to Utah in a couple of months. I started getting back into Lego about two years ago, inspired by the coming birth of my first child. I started following sets on e-bay and realized that many of them were priced much higher than retail value back when I was a kid. This led me to discover this site and I have decided to invest in sets on sale and retiring sets in order to turn a profit for funding the hobby. It's a realistic objective to sell Lego in order to fund buying new Lego. Right now my portfolio of New and (mostly) used sets has almost reached break even in total asset value - which is pretty cool.…

What's up guys! My names Nick, I've always been into Legos ever since I was a kid. My biggest mistake was selling my cafe corner and my green grocer for 1000 together. But live and learn haha. Anyways I was wondering what Legos to invest in so in the future I can hopefully make some cash! Usually I go for the small sets with good minifigs, I was thinking like the super hero sets with minifigs like venom and doc oct from spider man. I sell on ebay and usually from what I have experienced... the money comes from either big sets like the ultimate collectors Star Wars and lego exclusives like cafe corner and then minifigs. I am really considering the minecraft set? Any sugges…

I've been collecting LEGO now for about two years. I invest a little just to support my habit. Mostly stuff i can find at clearance such as the Black Pearl. I have collected Star Wars stuff in general for the last thirty years. Finally got burned out on action figures. I had friends that collected Star Wars LEGO but i never really thought much of it. Once i bought a set for myself though, i was hooked. Putting them together is very therapeutic and calming. I still collect some other Star Wars stuff like Gentle Giant busts and statues. I also collect Hot Wheels as well. With all this stuff, I am running out of room though. LOL I'm disabled with a heart condition so that's …

Hi, my name is Joe, I have always looked at Legos but never really got into it until six months ago. I have been a diecast collector for 20 years and it just got boring. So,far in my collecting BP here values my collection at over 10,000.00 , I was amazed, and I still have stuff that I can't log into my brickfolio like the NYC Yodas. I have already learned a lot here and I hope to learn much more. Thanks for the read.

i just want to know collector from Malaysia and South East Asian region collector and to know how to become collector as i really enjoy collecting lego

Encouraged by Comicblast's recent introduction despite being an (awesome) long-ish time site member, I am going to finally put myself out into the Brickpicker society. Per my username, my real name is Brian. I am a teenage (15) Lego fan from Alberta, Canada. No, we do not ride polar bears, live in igloos (mostly), or integrate maple syrup heavily into our diet. We do however, have a decent supply of Lego, which lead to my lifelong love of the brick starting with my first set,8561 Nuhvok, which was a gift from my brother. I came across the site after seeing a link to it on some of Ed's comments on Brickset or Eurobricks (can't remember which) and quickly fell in love with …

Hi my Name is Chris Wedge from halifax ******.s. Started collecting lego when i was 6yrs. then in 1999 when after many years of want star wars lego to be produced i started collecting them till 2004 and a few sets here and there afterwards. looking to eventually sell off my sets due to personal issues, ill post a list with prices in the general buy and sell forum if anyone interested just give me a shout. thanks all

Hi, Curious of the value and if any one is interested? 20" high, 28 1/4"Wide, 14 1/4" deep

Hi all, 39 year-old lego fan - been reselling in my spare time for 4-5 years, got into it even more 2 years ago when I registered as a business on ebay uk. Been browsing the forum for a while so hopefully now I can contribute a bit as well Mainly flip new sets quite quickly and then regret it when they keep climbing (Xmas 2012 sold a lot of POTC ships, Diagon Alleys and HP Castles. ) Current stock is mainly 8038, 8097, 10220, 7868, 7877, 7869, 10212, 7937, 9468,10219 + a couple each of current modulars - and I got a bit of a thing about SW battlepacks don't know why but they seem a no-brainer. Wait long enough in uk and they can be got for around

Hi all, I'm Dan, a Brit living in France with my family. My young son has recently gotten into Lego which has also prompted my return to building and collecting after many years - 25 to be exact. One of the main reasons for venturing in here was confusion over one particular set... but I'll post elsewhere on that! Since picking my son a set up on vacation in Florida last year, the collection has grown enormously... but the trick is keeping his sticky mitts off of the collection as opposed to the ones he can play with! Still, back at my gparents' house there is a chest full of the stuff I had in my childhood... and next time I'm there I'm going to have to figure out …

Hello, I have visited before but decided to become a member.. I have been collecting and playing with Lego for quite some time (30+ years) Some of my builds are on the Internet under different pages including Instagram and Flickr, here is my latest one

Ciao a tutti, mi chiamo Stefano ed ho recentemente scoperto quanto mi piaccia il tema Star Wars Ci si legge, ciao ciao Hi to everybody, I'm Stefano and I come from Italy. Recently I begin to like very much the Star Wars theme See you, bye bye