We’re huge LEGO fans in our house. Our basement, which is mostly all my husband’s domain, is filled with Lego sets. Some are quite small, but many are huge and intricate. If an item looks like a weapon, a transport of some kind, or a wheel, it works. The drawbridges work, the prisons work, it is all very intricate and a lot of fun to play with. What, play with? I don’t, you know, play with them. I’m an adult and I resent any notion that I might do any thing of the sort. (Yes I do.) My husband is the Lego Master in our house as he puts most of them together. There are a lot of pictures here and they aren’t even half of what we have and they don’t include the ones I have on my desk at work. We love our little fantasy lives in miniature. Do you collect things like we do?
The Market Village (My favorite set!)
A rogue, a wizard, and an elf ranger walk into an inn to fulfill their character trope...
Starting at the far left: a hermit, a blacksmith, a horse and a flag bearer. Fun fact! The horse's stable has Lego horse poop inside!
Yes, this is a black skelton riding a skeleton horse. All the other lego men tremble in fear!!
Our very first set, the castle. The dragon is very dusty. Keeping these sets dust free is a chore of Sisyphus proportions. I love the little jester holding his goblet and running away from the dragon as if to say, "F this nonsense!"
I like the faces on the knights. One is clearly the stalwart hero, the other one just messed his pants.
This set is a custom design, designed by my husband. Because a wizard must have a wizard tower!
This set is a pirate set with the soldiers coming up on to do battle. Not pictured well is the skeletal remains of a pirate ship. The little room inside the hideout is furnished.
Pirate hideout, complete with fish cooking over an open fire! Lego thinks of everything!
This is a neat set. Aside from the snake pit (left) and scorpion pit (right), the doors open to reveal a crazy tomb with Indiana Jonesesque traps and pitfalls. There is even a lever that will shoot a sarcophagus out the side of the tomb. Not pictured: A giant scorpion who sits on the back of the pyramid.
Minifigures! Dracula, the witch, and the Trojan (seen here) also live on my desk at work.
More minifigs! I like the zombie (of course) and in the second row next to the mime is a little safari guy. He also lives in my succulant plant on my desk at work.
HOLY SH*T!
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Sommer
My name is Sommer and I'm a writer from the Midwest. I am currently working on a YA novel about superheroes, reading as much as I can, blogging, and saving the world.
second post for L on legos that I have seen. Awesome.
I’m not even going to show this post to Hubs because he would be horribly jealous! We have a few different Lego vehicles and spaceships and such that he’s built over the past few years, but that’s about it. They sit in our office on the bookshelves. Y’alls Lego sets are absolutely amazing! Love it!
I collect books, antique katanas and fortunes from fortune cookies. (I know, I’m weird. I have them in a vase on my desk that is also filled with these flowers I made out of pantyhose, wire, and garden tape).
My brother would tell you that I collect cats, but I don’t have that many, I swear! I will not turn into a crazy cat lady. I will not turn into a crazy cat lady. I will not turn into a crazy cat lady.
Perhaps I can find the time this summer to put together the pirate ship, the other two castles, and the ominous Gateway of the Squid…
Awesome! My 8 year old son is obsessed with the Harry Potter Lego sets. He got Hogwarts Castle for Christmas and it took us eight hours to put it together. He doesn’t love putting them together but I do. What fun!
Have you seen the Diagon Alley set? It’s AMAZING.
Fantastic, fun photos
Fantastic fun photos.
Legos!
I loved legos as a kid. They annoyed my sister because she would try to do them like the box showed and could never quite get it. I would do it by the instructions and take them apart to do them over again in any way I could think about. It was great fun.
My boyfriend is 41 and has no children..but loves his Legos! He buys sets for himself all the time.
I had to give my legos and Barbies away because I am just too obsessive about collecting. I managed to break my comic book habit by 1) packing them away so I couldn’t remind myself how many limited edition covers I was going to be missing out on, and 2) leaving the country (literally). I fell better now that my obsession is digital – collecting out of print, out of copyright books on history/ mythology/ archaeology / anthropology for my Kindle.
I’m not a huge collector except for books and my husband is more the Lego collector but I often buy him the ones I really want to have
What do I collect? Books for my TBR pile. Journals. Pens. Without trying, I collect balls of dog hair in the corners of my house, but I don’t think that’s what you were going for.
I love Darth Vader killing the King. Feels about right.
Haha, he’s not actually Darth Vader, he’s the evil wizard. But then my husband stuck two “flame” pieces in his hands and now he’s casting a spell! But he does look like darth from this side.
I also collect books for my TBR pile and cat hair instead of dog hair. I used to be terrible about buying journals and notebooks and pens, but I eventually broke that habit.
How awesome! But I’m going to go with a ‘No” on that one. I detest LEGOs!!!!! I growl when someone buys them for my kids, usually over 200 piece sets. You know why? Because I HAVE TO PICK THEM UP!!! I step on them, they get in my bed (have you ever slept on a LEGO?), they get on the stairs (have you ever stepped on a lego going down the stairs?).
*takes deep breath*
Sorry, but no. we don’t do LEGOs.
Sommer, that’s adorable! I don’t really collect anything, unless you count my three microbes plush (I want more. I want them ALL), but I used to play with K-nex, Legos and other such things a lot. It helps that I had a twin my age to build complex storylines.
tee hee hee! too cute!