AFOL (Adult Fans Of LEGO), show us your LEGO collection/display

[Oaklimus Prime]

I got that tie fighter because its the only Lego set that looks like a Royal Guard Interceptor, which was my favorite ship to fly in Star Wars Galaxies. My 7 year old loves to build Legos...then he doesn't want anything to do with them after they are done. For some reason he likes looking only and doesn't want to play with them. Recently we finished the Saturn V, Hogwarts, and are working on the smaller Millennium Falcon (i.e. not the $800 one my wife won't let me get ).

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That’s awesome!!! Playing with them after is the most fun though!!!! I do think they look awesome in a display case though.

Major Vonregs tie fighter is awesome. That red is just too cool.

 

[beau1890]

That’s awesome!!! Playing with them after is the most fun though!!!! I do think they look awesome in a display case though.

Major Vonregs tie fighter is awesome. That red is just too cool.

Agreed. It is almost exactly how it looked in the Galaxies MMO too.

And yes playing afterwards is the most fun. When he was little he would work really hard to put a set together then he would break it apart and make random things out of them. Then he would lose pieces and get upset he couldn't find anything for them again. So I think he still fears he won't be able to put them together again if it breaks apart now. I'm trying to get him over that. Still have a Y Wing and that sick af AT-ST set from the Mandalorian to put together.

 

[Oaklimus Prime]

Agreed. It is almost exactly how it looked in the Galaxies MMO too.

And yes playing afterwards is the most fun. When he was little he would work really hard to put a set together then he would break it apart and make random things out of them. Then he would lose pieces and get upset he couldn't find anything for them again. So I think he still fears he won't be able to put them together again if it breaks apart now. I'm trying to get him over that. Still have a Y Wing and that sick af AT-ST set from the Mandalorian to put together.

The Y wing detail is really sick. I love my XWing fighter but think the Ywing has more going on with it.

I could only imagine what the Ywing UCS that came out a couple years ago looks like. All those pieces!!!!!!

That AT-ST will be badass too!!!!!

 

[beau1890]

The Y wing detail is really sick. I love my XWing fighter but think the Ywing has more going on with it.

I could only imagine what the Ywing UCS that came out a couple years ago looks like. All those pieces!!!!!!

That AT-ST will be badass too!!!!!

I snaked the Poe Damaron black X Wing a few years back. It's really nice. But yes I wanted that Y wing so bad. I'm trying to save up for the Falcon though.

Also, the Saturn V really surprised me. It's 3.5' tall and separates into all 3 stages. The LM and Command Module are housed in the nose and you can recreate the separation and docking retrieval of the LM. And the astronauts are miniature to show the proper scale of how big the rocket was. That was some good learning me and the kiddo did of the Apollo missions.

I need to go to the parents house and fish out my old sets. I have the original monorail space set that actually ran around the track. As well as a few of the original pirate ships when they came out with those.

 

[beau1890]

This is the monorail. If I remember correctly I still have the box too.

 

[Oaklimus Prime]

I am debating getting both the Orange and Black Poe Damerons but haven’t pulled the trigger yet. I’ll look into that Saturn V kit. That looks awesome and the detail is amazing as well. It seems they do more with specialized pieces now than they did in the 90’s and there is way more detail in the sets than ever before. My sets from the 90’s are far simpler than these new ones. Also piece counts are much higher than my old sets.

 

[Oaklimus Prime]

This is the monorail. If I remember correctly I still have the box too.

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Baller!!!

 

[beau1890]

I am debating getting both the Orange and Black Poe Damerons but haven’t pulled the trigger yet. I’ll look into that Saturn V kit. That looks awesome and the detail is amazing as well. It seems they do more with specialized pieces now than they did in the 90’s and there is way more detail in the sets than ever before. My sets from the 90’s are far simpler than these new ones. Also piece counts are much higher than my old sets.

Most of my old sets are from the 80s. The 90s they started doing the high end sets vs the everyday sets it seemed. I had a lot of the Technics sets from the 90s. This is one of the pirate ships, again I believe I still have the box.

And the cannons worked on this. Before they made them not work cause of eye poking concerns!

 

[Oaklimus Prime]

Most of my old sets are from the 80s. The 90s they started doing the high end sets vs the everyday sets it seemed. I had a lot of the Technics sets from the 90s. This is one of the pirate ships, again I believe I still have the box.

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Were you guys rich? Lol. The biggest one I ever saved my money for was my LEGO hospital. I think it was $30 in 1991.
Lots of vacuuming and chores to get that one.

My buddy had a bunch of the Treefort sets. Can’t remember what the collection was called but always loved playing with all the green leaf pieces and tree trunk pieces!!!

 

[TheDukeOfIce]

So cool - awesome to see some of these old school LEGO sets.

My Dad recently got motivated to 100% rebuild the several dozen 80’s & 90’s LEGO sets from growing up. Took him several months, but he completed - even hand rebuilding boxes and speciality ordering pieces around the globe.

Now I can’t bring myself to play with them, after he spent so long putting it back to complete. So I get him the 1,000 packs and he goes nuts.