My car collections have changed over time...I sold a lot of them to fund legos and make more room for legos! Jay Leno would be so proud of my cars, it's just that my cars aren't real!
Here are the car collection I've had and sold for legos
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My favorite thing in the 80s was to leave my parents and look at the toy aisles....it was customary to look at each box of the same set to see if they made a mistake with the price tag...usually the ones in the back that had been put out earlier
My major find was a dollar off the spaceman set at gold circle...mom had to get me that!
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Flash forward to 2 years ago at a big box store 12/26. The price for set was 20$ or so off. The compassionate highly focused cashier rang up the set and said it wasn't on sale "because that's not what the computer said" I went and got the tag on the shelf and brought it back to her...she said "I cannot believe you took that off the shelf" to which I said" well it's not doing anybody any good!". I thought the big box store security was going To get me booted out but they were arguing at the register about getting their employee discount on legos!
25$ vs 45$ ..I'm just lucky the computer didn't say $70 because thats what the wheel said
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Ha ha I thought the price is right ended with the showcase showdown, the price was right for me, but it ended in the cashier/register showdown
It seems like now days anyone who talks about legos has a certain style or theme of legos that they like and reference in their mind. But I think there's a generation of builders that trace their lego memories back to one piece that wS the center and foundation of legos and that is the green baseplate.
It could be the foundation of a house, an uneven terrain for lego cars to manage, a massive car or wagon when 4 wheels were attached, or the balcony of a huge tower. It was like kindergarten or a rite of passage where any lego collection started
Any model from lego or moc starts with pieces coming together in perfect order and sequence, the key is the solid foundation for all other blocks to build upon .
In this day and age it's so hard to think of having to wait for mail deliveries but thats how lego used to be even into the late 80s. There were always service packs to order and here is examples of this...in reality I only ordered 1 time
I touched on 493 set being the first open set in a prior post, but found some pics that really show this.
I remember paying with the above sets, but the play was limited to bringing cars in and out of the bays for parking. Then came the open bud concept started with set 493
The sets below really show how far this building concept has come
This weekend i finally confronted an issue I knew needed managed. I have a huge collection of lego manuals that take up so much space in my already filled to the max lego room. So I finally decided to let go. Why we hold on to things thinking they'll triple in value the minute they're thrown out ill never know. But I pared down 2/4 sterilite containers that can be used to store legos for better building I found some manuals that I intend to give to someone at work so their kids can hopefully have fun building more of the generic models. Here are some of the highlights of this weekend...
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| Gray 2x2 1 stud tiles (pic from ebay) |
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| Loved the star wars mini sets! |
