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Hi everyone - long time LEGO fan, but I'm new to Brickpicker and Lego investing "for profit." I was wise enough in my youth to save all my old Lego sets from the 80s and 90s, but just because I loved them so much - I never really thought about selling them! :-). I have many classic castle, forestmen, pirates, and space sets. Now my son is 6 and loves Lego and I have rediscovered my love for them as well - man are the sets and themes cooler now...there's just so many! We have bought quite a few Star Wars, Super Heroes, and Monster Fighter sets for ourselves in the last year! Now I am beginning to buy sets on sale that I hope to resell for profit. My firs…

Hi, I came across brickpicker when I was searching something on google. I love brickfoilo. :-) I am a stay at home mom with 2 young kids. What made me start realizing the value of lego is when I saw how much the duplo dino sets my sons own worth (if new in box), and I bought them 50% off clearance from the lego store. I wonder why I did not buy more then? one of my kids is autistic, and has low muscle tone, who could not even cut play-doh, had trouble writing that his teachers gave up on him when he was in kindergarten, and taught him how to use keyboard instead. Then he got his first set of Hero Factory, a stormer 3.0. It was very hard for him to put t…

So I just realized that my son's savings account with @$375 was earning a measly $0.03 per year and I just knew I could find something better to invest his little bit of money in. I thought i would look for a stock that he would enjoy owning and immediately thought of LEGO since he and I are both big fans. Well as most of you already know, LEGO is privately held and you can't buy their stock, but in my search I came across the brickpicker info and now I believe I have a fun way for my son to learn about investing, buying low and selling high, factoring in overhead fees and all those things that he would do in the stock market one day. Any easy tips you all feel like…

This is an awesome website. Thanks to the genius' who came up with the idea! I have not paid any attention to lego's since I was a kid. I was on a weeklong vacation in NYC last week and happened to stumble into the Lego store in Rockefeller Center where I saw the Architecture series and fell in love right away. Toy's R Us in Times Square was running a special on Lego's priced at over $75 last week. In the last 5 days I've bought- Fallingwater (x2) Imperial Hotel (x2) Robie House and the VW Camper and I'm already eyeing the Modulars pretty hard. I think all of them would make a terrific display. I'm hooked pretty badly already. Just wanted to say hi.

Hi everybody, I'm new here and I would like to introduce myself. I am from Jakarta, Indonesia. I've been on and off on collecting Lego. My favorites themes for now are Castle/Kingdoms, Super Heroes, and Modular buildings. One of my friends from AFOL group here recommended me to join Brickpicker. Hope I can be a good member here. I will browse the forums and try to contribute as much as I can. Thanks for reading this.

Hello from Kansas City. I have bought too many Legos lately and have built some pretty amazing sets, but I have had to slow down on my habitual buying. as I try and curb the addiction I've been surfin around the net for anything related to deals and others speculation on good sets to buy. And now I'm hooked on this site. Should there be a Legomaniacs annonymous? I made it through the dark days with most of my childhood sets close to intact, but seriously dusty. I really got into the technic genre when they started making panels and flexible tubes. I thought 1,000 pieces was a big set, and then, yep, you know the set I'm talking bout. Anyways I've be…

Hello everyone! I am new to Brickpicker and I would just like to introduce myself! I am somewhat of a professional Lego builder and my favorite two themes are hobbit and lord of the rings. I am just starting to get into investing. a lot of my friends also like lego and they invest so I figured that I would try it! I hope I will do well! Thank you for taking your time to read this! reply if you want!

Hi, obviously I'm new to this site. I have some complete, used, sets that I am considering selling and I was wondering if I would be better off selling them assembled or disassembled. The sets are very clean and showing them assembled really highlights it. Thanks in advance for your help.

Good day all, from beautiful Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada! I have to admit that I own exactly one Lego set. Yesterday I bought a Uruk-Hai Army set for my son. As he is just over three weeks old, suffice to say, we won't share the joys of building that I remember from childhood for quite sometime. But this leads me to my query. I'd love to spend the coming years building a collection of sets for him to enjoy as he gets older. LOTR spoke to me as both my spouse and I love the books and movies and I thought he would enjoy the sets as he ages. Can anyone give me any suggestions on sets to collect? I, frankly, know little about the hobby but understand t…

Hello everybody ! My name is Joe and I have been collecting lego for about 4 years now. Like many of you, I had lego growing up as a kid. As I got older I lost more interest and then my box mysteriously disappeared. It wasn't until I became a single father of 3 that lego became a excuse to buy. I searched cl on the daily and yes hourly....we know we all do it, looking for a lego collection. Bought a few mix boxes and collections. I learned to sell online, then kept what I liked and sold what I didn't. Helped generate more funds for new sets and even occasional fun money. With my boys helping out with sorting/building we now have an entire room dedicated to lego. I have en…

Hi guys like welcome myself to the forum my name Pete and i am from the UK.

I was actually quite surprised when I heard about Brickpicker not too long ago. The tips for investing and collecting here are unfathomably useful so I'm glad to know that I can start saving a bit of money to fund my old favorite hobby. Like most, I've had a LEGO background since my toddler years - similar to my older and younger brother. Since all three of us work together collecting what we can before they get off store shelves, I suppose you can say that my bros. and I share a lot. However, only these past few years have I really been purchasing LEGO sets and parts off Bricklink. So Brickpicker shall be the guide just for that!

I've always enjoyed Lego, and I have some great memories playing with them as a kid. However, as so many others have said, you grow out of them... at least for a while. I have a daughter now, and she really loves Lego Friends. On a recent trip, I thought it'd be fun to pick up one of the Star Wars kits. Well, to make a long story short, that was the start of the slippery slope. I've now built up a collection of 19 Star Wars sets, both to collect and as investments. I've involved my wife as well. She loves Minifigs, and has already complete sets of two series. This has become a family hobby; and isn't that the best way to go about this? As investments go, I'm very ne…

Hi, my name is Sean and as a kid as many of you Lego was my main toy from the ages of about 3-14, I started off with space lego and each Christmas / birthday or treat I would always opt for lego. I had a break from it when I was about 8 - 10 and played with some technic for a while but then got back into space when the M tron sets and also the space police sets came onto the market. Alas it all went into the loft in a box at my parents with the view of handing it down to my kids at some point but that never happened as there was a lack of kids! They recently bought it round to me and I have steadily built around 56 space lego sets over the last few weeks with …

Hey everyone! I recently rekindled my long lost love for Lego now that I have 3 young kids. Actually, I've gone a little Lego nuts.... It started with the discovery of an old, dusty box of legos, capsela, and construx in my parents garage about 4 months ago. I started going through it, sorting the legos out from the rest with the intention of finding enough for my kids to play with. The more I pulled out, the more I was reminded of the awesomeness that is Lego. Pretty much my whole collection (much smaller than I remember it being) was made up of (I think) the King's Castle (6080), Galaxy Explorer (497), Cosmic Cruiser (6890), Space Supply Station (6930), Star…

Hi, I'm new to Brickpicker. Obviously as a kid I really enjoyed Lego and have recently rediscovered the joy of Lego! I've been buying sets to both building and as future investments. I'm currently building the Lego Creator buildings - so far I've bought/built the Cinema, Fire Station and I'm currently on the Grand Emporium. Any tips on investing? I noticed the Cafe Creator Building is currently going for

Hi, my name is Michelle, 41 female from Ohio, and this is my first post on any forum ever. I've loved Lego as long as I can remember. I have been on here since Sept. reading everything and really enjoying it, I'm on here everyday. Jeff, Ed thank you for doing this for all of us this site is so great and helpful. My love of Lego started with my brothers who were over a decade older than me, the old red and white Lego they had from the 60s became mine in the 70s. My Mom started buying me Lego sets in 1980, one of the first one's being 6390 Main Street one of my all time favorites. I played with Lego till I was probably fifteen, I never wanted to give up Lego it just happen…

Hi everyone, I'm really happy to be part of this great site & forum. Great reviews and useful advice here from fellow LEGO lovers. I hope to learn and share in my journey of LEGO collection & investment. Thank you to all of you.

Hi I'm from Guernsey in the Channel Islands and have got a lot of Lego from when I was younger. I'm 25 now and have just bought a flat with a nice sized loft and wanted to start collecting something that might be worth something in a few years. I'm going to start by looking for a Lego Technic Unimog 8110 and go from there. I'm going to look in local shops for one in very good condition. After that I'll see what else I can get

I have some lego sets, mainly from when I was a kid. I collect a bunch of different types of toys, like Star Wars, Plastic Toy Soldiers and Playmobil. I would like to start collecting the Viking themed lego sets.

Sup... I'm one of the younger people on this site (11!) and I have recently entered my "dark age" early and just emerged from it when I decided to walk into a LEGO store for the heck of it. I got a Star Wars Rebel Trooper and Imperial Trooper battle pack. It followed by the purchase of more LEGO sets. And more. I just recently purchase the 10188 Death Star myself after recieving enough birthday money. Now I own a small but still nice collection of LEGOs mostly consisting of Star Wars and some Creator, Technic, and Galaxy Squad sets are intended to join the mix eventually.

Been collecting for over 25 years love lego, it relaxes me and I enjoy the build ! I hopefully this site might open new doors on how else to look at Legos but one thing is for sure, its the greatest pass time creation ever built! :-)

Hi my name is Titus, I left my dark ages about 12 month ago and became an AFOL - Lego collector and builder. About a month ago I started to invest money in Lego sets

Hey Folks, I am 38, getting back into legos now that my son is 4. Used to play them when I was younger, but mom gave them all away when I grew out of them. Started getting a few small sets for my son, and he is in love with the super hero series, and monster fighters. I got into investing--sort of---while at the Burlington mall shopping where I live in MA. It was hard to track down a Jokers fun house set--had to go to 3 different lego stores. Guy in Burlington who had held one for me, told me they were flying off the shelves, and would go up in value when they weren't for sale any longer. Started talking to him about a few sets I wanted myself, but we…

and found this amazing board. I'm from MA/NH area and now an AFOL. Have not even got my old sets from when I was a child yet but am excited to explore those and see what I have left. That's this weekend. I am looking forward to building some great sets and displays and hopefully make a little money on the side. ( I already run a slow but steady growing ebay business.) Just browsing this forum I have noticed a lot of bright individuals here and am amazed at the overall knowledge.