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suaveric

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I need some opinions on family-lego-etiquette.

Growing up my brother, sister and I had a pretty substantial lego collection, but once we hit high school we pretty much stopped playing with them. My rough estimate is 20-30k lego, maybe more. Eventually our parents gave the collection to some younger cousins of ours. Now those cousins are too old for their lego collection and they're all sitting around in boxes at my aunt's house. At a recent family reunion this came up and my aunt mentioned that they would gladly ship the boxes of lego to whoever wanted them. Now that I'm back in to lego and I was very interested. The thing is, my brother seemed kind of interested as well and he has a newborn. I don't have any kids of my own yet, and my brother's is still years away from being able to use them.

Am I a total dick to ask for them?

My wife thought I could take the hand me down lego for now and give them to my brother later but after sorting them there would be no way to pick them back out in a few years. I'm torn on what to do.
 
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suaveric said:
I need some opinions on family-lego-etiquette.

Growing up my brother, sister and I had a pretty substantial lego collection, but once we hit high school we pretty much stopped playing with them. My rough estimate is 20-30k lego, maybe more. Eventually our parents gave the collection to some younger cousins of ours. Now those cousins are too old for their lego collection and they're all sitting around in boxes at my aunt's house. At a recent family reunion this came up and my aunt mentioned that they would gladly ship the boxes of lego to whoever wanted them. Now that I'm back in to lego and I was very interested. The thing is, my brother seemed kind of interested as well and he has a newborn. I don't have any kids of my own yet, and my brother's is still years away from being able to use them.

Am I a total dick to ask for them?

My wife thought I could take the hand me down lego for now and give them to my brother later but after sorting them there would be no way to pick them back out in a few years. I'm torn on what to do.
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Why not offer to sort it, and then split the sets as evenly as possible, with you having first pick of which sets go to whom, since you made the effort to sort (since sorting out old buckets of LEGO is a lot of work - just ask moop).
 
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So after buying a shitload of sets two weeks ago (which I've already posted about here), buying the SSD, Fire Brigade, Pet Shop, and Grand Emporium (from the walmart sale) last week, AND buying the Seaside House and Lighthouse yesterday I MAY OR MAY NOT have just bought Anakin's Jedi Interceptor and The Malevolence at Target.
 
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SailorDaravon said:
So after buying a shitload of sets two weeks ago (which I've already posted about here), buying the SSD, Fire Brigade, Pet Shop, and Grand Emporium (from the walmart sale) last week, AND buying the Seaside House and Lighthouse yesterday I MAY OR MAY NOT have just bought Anakin's Jedi Interceptor and The Malevolence at Target.
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suaveric

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ghostmind said:
Why not offer to sort it, and then split the sets as evenly as possible, with you having first pick of which sets go to whom, since you made the effort to sort (since sorting out old buckets of LEGO is a lot of work - just ask moop).
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The sets are long gone for the most part. My aunt mentioned having some instructions still but I doubt there would be anywhere close enough to figure out how many sets there are. I guess I'll just have to do the adult thing and work something out with my brother. Maybe split it up by weight.
 
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Once it comes up on Walmart, there's a good chance I'm going to jump off my balcony. It's cool.

And yeah, there are a boat load of minifigs in this set. I could PROBABLY make back 1/4 of what I paid by just selling all dem minifigs if I wanted to, haha.

And no, none of the Spongebob sets. I should grab them because of the interesting assortment of colors, but the sets are a bunch of small scenes that take up a weird amount of space (vs one block of space like these big sets do).

The box came inside a box, fyi. It's in PRISTINE condition. A+

Oh also, now my SSD has a friend. :)
 
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nicoga3000

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PhoncipleBone said:
Even if you don't like playsets, this set will make you a fan. Just a huge nostalgia trip building it and so much fun. Congrats.
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I'm actually excited to relive the OG trilogy as I go through this. You won't ever see me buying one of the smaller Star Wars sets, but these UCS/mega sets have SO much nostalgia built into them...

I hate you, but I love you.
 
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Fuck I bought 4 sets today. No R2D2 this month. Hopefully it will go on sale soon.

Damage today:

Millenium Falcon - 109 (after tax)
X-wing mini - 7.99
Cloud City Ship Mini - 7.99
Tie Defender - 32.59
Droid Escape - 17.59 (after tax)
 
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mudkyp

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Just wrapped up building the new B-Wing set. Was my first UCS set and I'm incredibly impressed. Don't like the gaps too much, but the build was incredibly fun and it's huge.

Time to save up for the SSD.
 
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MrDaravon

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So I've never messed with Bricklink before, is it this much of a pain in the ass to use if you don't know what you're doing with it or what? I made an account and was just trying to ballpark how much it would cost to part out say Green Grocer, and it's a freaking nightmare. It seems like all of the info is good once you know what you're doing, but goddamn.
 
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SailorDaravon said:
So I've never messed with Bricklink before, is it this much of a pain in the ass to use if you don't know what you're doing with it or what? I made an account and was just trying to ballpark how much it would cost to part out say Green Grocer, and it's a freaking nightmare. It seems like all of the info is good once you know what you're doing, but goddamn.
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I haven't tried to part out GG or anything because of, simply put, my fear of not knowing what I am doing. I don't have the time to figure it all out at this point. I need a good long vacation and then I might be able to sit down and do it. I will probably just end up buying a GG off ebay or a full set from Brinklink by then though.
 
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ghostmind

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As someone who is interested, I do think that the Hobbit sets so far are suffering from playset syndrome.

Hopefully this will balance out in the long run.
 
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