[CP5670]

I have around $4000 in Lego Technic sets; I am a total Lego nut. Although I can't imagine how much some of those guys who build these huge 2m models must have spent to get all those pieces...

[Corhellion]

uh...you won't believe me if I told you, but there is a guy who bought....I think 80 sets of the Mos Espa Pod Race (3 racer set, about $120 each) , I'm trying to find it in Brickshelf.com....

Yep, found it, this is the racer sets he bought...and it's 48 not 80

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3148

and here is his other purchases:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=3145

that might give you an idea to how much money these guys make and spend (no I don't spend that much, don't got the money)


Cya

Cor

[CP5670]

LOL, I wonder why he bought all of those, unless he is planning to make something big using all the pieces...

There was one guy I talked to on eBay who was selling some 8880 Super Car sets; as soon as one ended, I saw him putting up another, so after a while I asked him how many he had just out of curiosity. He said that he had bought some 30 or so of them when the set originally came out in 1994. (the original price was $140, but sealed set prices on eBay can go as high as $250 these days) I got one of my two copies from this guy.

[mikhael]

Aldo, why would you need to be 12 to play with legos? I'm just shy of 30 and I play with legos.

I have no idea how much I've spent on legos over the years, but I could tell you the weight from the last time I shipped them. Its just a little under 450lb.

Whomever asked why you would want to model legos in 3d? First of all, Legos are mathematically precise. That makes them easy to model in 3d if you have half a brain. Second, because no matter how hard you try, no matter how hard you search, you might not every really run across an original Lego Space Galaxy Commander (the sexiest lego spaceship EVAR). Third, and finally, when I started with 3d stuff, MLCad, LegoCAD, etc didn't exist. The best you could get were parts libraries for POVRAY. Sorry, pass. Truespace, whilst heavily denigrated on this site, rocks solid for building 3d legos and it certainly beats the pants off of POVRAY for making renders (perhaps not render wise, but easy of use wise).

[CP5670]

I'm 15.71 so I am not too old just yet, but I will probably be playing with these things for the rest of my life.