Connor received several Lego sets for his birthday on Saturday, yesterday we brought back Trevor's blue-ribbon award-winning castle from the fair, and we recently put a corner curio cabinet in our office/library. These events together brought about a desire to bring out my old Star Wars Lego sets from their storage in the basement.
It's been a while since these sets have seen daylight. I bought a bunch of them soon after they first came out and then slowly purchased a few more when I saw sets on clearance or other such sale. I haven't, however, purchased Lego kits for myself for over a decade.
I've always been impressed with the Lego marketing. The sets that they have tap some inner desire of mine. When dealing with sets based off of movies, these sets give a physicality to the events which I can otherwise only watch, yet in a cute block-like form. Something about building them, even though I'm following someone else's directions, also gives me a sense of accomplishment.
Trevor and Katrina helped me go through the sets, rebuilding them and looking for missing pieces and figures. While many of the sets were missing at least one piece, we managed to get most of them together and put a couple of them on display. While my legs went numb more than once while I was piecing the sets together on the floor, the experience certainly scratched an itch that I hadn't properly identified before.
It's been a while since these sets have seen daylight. I bought a bunch of them soon after they first came out and then slowly purchased a few more when I saw sets on clearance or other such sale. I haven't, however, purchased Lego kits for myself for over a decade.
I've always been impressed with the Lego marketing. The sets that they have tap some inner desire of mine. When dealing with sets based off of movies, these sets give a physicality to the events which I can otherwise only watch, yet in a cute block-like form. Something about building them, even though I'm following someone else's directions, also gives me a sense of accomplishment.
Trevor and Katrina helped me go through the sets, rebuilding them and looking for missing pieces and figures. While many of the sets were missing at least one piece, we managed to get most of them together and put a couple of them on display. While my legs went numb more than once while I was piecing the sets together on the floor, the experience certainly scratched an itch that I hadn't properly identified before.
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