Got this set for my 6th birthday.
to this day still use a lot of the pieces I got in this.
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I started reading the bionicle comics when I was in 1st grade (2013-2014), and then in 2nd grade I got my first lego set:
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I was introduced to LEGO when my younger brother got a small City set for his birthday. I was amazed by it, and my parents later got me and him some small Creator parts buckets. Then we expanded into Atlantis and Ninjago, as well as Hero Factory. I then found the Bionicle collection that a friend from church had. He didn’t use it much, since he was in college, so my siblings and I got to play with it. I had much fun with it, but when I inevitably asked for some Bionicle for Christmas, I was told that it was dumb. So, I instead got Hero Factory and City and Ninjago for years. Then 2015 rolled around and I was hyped. I got the Protector of Fire, as well as Eva’s first vehicle from Invasion From Below. Sadly, I never acquired any of the 2015-16 Toa, but I did finally get my friend’s Bionicle collection last year, as well as a bucketload of Star Wars sets including the UCS Slave I. Strangely, there is only one thing that I know is missing from that collection: the Piraka Reidak, who I had reassembled years ago, from pictures in The LEGO Book. So, that’s my story.
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Recently looked through some childhood photo albums and Lego has always been there! I obviously had Duplo in the beginning, and normal System bricks came along when I was around three years old (Duplo still stuck around for some more years, I liked playing with both). Some of my favorite things at the time were the Family/Homemaker figures, and gear walls (literally just walls with Technic gears on them, I liked the way they spin). We also had a hull from a 1980s pirate ship, I often used it as a car transporter.
I recall being shown and occasionally playing with my brother’s big Technic models around that time, and I got my first own Technic sets for my fifth birthday.
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foreshadowing Bioman’s affinity for motorized contraptions
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I think for my fourth birthday my parents bought me a big tub of system bricks (set 6166 to be exact) and from there it kinda snowballed. If I recall correctly that same birthday I got some John Deere toy tractors and those overshadowed the Lego stuff for a while, but eventually I started putting stuff together. Somewhere there’s a picture of me with a car I built by putting every single piece on the baseplate.
My brothers got some Lego stuff eventually, which ultimately led us to assembling a collection that (according to the estimates of me and my parents) is worth several thousand dollars.
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I was introduced to lego at age five when I got the 4288 bucket. I dumped the pieces on the table and proceeded to build all of the models featured in the booklet it came with.
On the back cover you could build a harbor.
First page you could build a race.
Second page you could build a park.
Third page you could build a car dealership.
Fourth page you could build a farm.
Fifth page you could build an air show.
They don’t make beginner sets like this any more. I really love the variety here. It’s all done using studs up construction, no fancy brackets or elaborate shaping bricks. No additional shades of color or metallic pieces. Just simple 90s lego.
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is that Dr. Worm like in that They Might Be Giants song
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It absolutely is
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I’ve always played with Lego from a young age due to my mom giving me her old sets (lots of System, Castle, Town)
When I was 4 and ended up in a hospital my actual first set I remember getting so I wouldn’t be bored was a blue Creator bucket 4028 World of Bricks, the kids in the hospital were jealous of me lol
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dang I always liked getting Lego in the hospital… I got a Ninjago spinner once from a laser surgery.
Did you keep the bucket from that set? For some reason people throw away containers like those ones.
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I kept it
it’s still stored somewhere in the attic
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