I had that one. It was amazing.
I was gifted this by a family friend as a kid. It was super fun. My brothers had this and a castle. Now the parts are mixed in across 2 buckets of Lego that I’ve rescued from my parent’s storage room last year and kept for my kids.the cycle continues.
I hate keeping sets together.
All my sets get built, enjoyed, then completely disassembled and mixed into a big bin for all the fun of making our own creations.
I keep the build manuals. So I can rebuild them again if I ever wanted to. But the fun is in the building, not the having of completed sets.
We donated two big boxes of assorted lego accumulated throughout the 80s and 90s to an orphanage and young me was all feeling good and holy but old me is like fuck them kids I want my legos back.
Edit: they also got our Commodore 64 and there is no way those little freaks knew how to use it
Mine had blue sails. Still have it somewhere.
BrickLink ‘new’ average sold for the last 6 months is 340~ retail was 200. its a retired set of a beloved 80’s set updated, so deff not going to find a new set for less than that. i have one in my collection, yeah i’d prob let go for 340+you cover shipping, but I’d definitely cover shipping for 19k! lol
and yes you to can list anything on ebay for whatever absurd price you want. but even ebay has a sold filter/tracker you should be checking…
For $19k, I would personally hand deliver it within the US.
Counterpoint, Chinese brick manufacturers will sell you the appropriate bricks for less than $60
Wait, those few plastic bricks cost a whopping 110$?
You say “those few plastic bricks” but that set was 909 pieces, that’s about 12 cents per brick
And still looks like one with a 100 pieces?
You’re judging it based on a tiny, blurry image, here’s a clearer one
Ok, maybe 200 pieces.
Wow, I owned that exact set as a kid.
Stings a bit knowing I could have sold it for a down payment on a house 30 years later.
To be fair this is a random listing not an actual sale. Just looked it up and there are far cheaper listings
The trauma of having grown up getting pirates, castles, and OG space sets for Christmas and birthdays, then finding out your mom gave them to the bratty neighbor kids while you were in college is real. I’ve reacquired some as an adult, which cost me about the same as my college tuition.
The one from OP goes for about $70 on AliExpress
/r/Lepin
i still have all my old lego. not the instructions tho. or the ones my dog chewed up. damn dog.
bought that bundle of roses set, made it with the wife for valentimes. that was a great date.
I feel it’s strange to call an evening with your wife a “date”. A date is something you have with a presumtive partner. Once they’re a partner it’s like, it’s not a date anymore, it’s a relationship, hanging out all the time is the whole thing.
It’s not just an evening with my wife. It’s time I’ve set aside exclusively that unless there’s an emergency, she’s my only priority. Have you never been on a date before?
Have you never been on a date before?
💀
