I can't remember if I've talked about Dan's Lego habit before, but I finally got around to taking some pictures of it.
Dan was very much into Lego when he was a kid, helped by having the Lego Centre at Birkenhead Point shopping centre within walking distance of his house (but it was shut down a long time ago). He won competitions and built fantastic models. But he grew up, as boys do, and the hobby went by the wayside. Until the mid-late 1990s when the company brought out Star Wars Lego. Oh my god. Two of his biggest childhood collecting habits combined into one! How could he resist? And so began The Lego Collection (Adult edition).
It just started with a few of the coolest sets, then a few more, until he had to have them ALL! Then came the searching through the secondhand markets at Glebe and Rozelle for bulk stuff. The pickings were great for a while, but I think the whole Star Wars Lego revival didn't affect just my husband. The entire world seemed to become Lego collectors. And the markets dried up. For us, at least. Either because people realised that they could get way more money for it on ebay, or we bought it all.
After that, he got sets for every birthday and Christmas (and still does). He prefers the Star Wars stuff but also likes the Knights and Vikings, amd some of the Harry Potter pieces. He went to the UK in 2003 and had a great day at Legoland. Came back with a big cup of "Pick 'n' Mix" swords and wolf heads. His latest ambition is to build a goblin army using the heads of "Dobby" from the Harry Potter series.
When we living in our terrace house in the inner city, things got pretty tight. We have a lot of stuff, and a lot of that is lego. It was everywhere! Every shelf had a model on it, and even my piano was crowded with them (which made it hard to play). When we moved to our current house, with its seven bedrooms, we decided that it would be best to dedicate one of the rooms to his collection. There are still some pieces in discreet areas of the house, but the majority of the collection is the room. You can see some more pictures at my flickr account.
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Well, it's an investment in education - Dante is already spending more time in my lego room than I am - he loves getting all the Star Wars gear off the shelves and playing with it. And breaking it. And not putting it back. Now I've just got to get him into building his own space ships.
-- Dan
Feh, wheres the fun in building space ships. Space-Pirate ships is wheres its at!
Feh, wheres the fun in building space ships. Space-Pirate ships is wheres its at!
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