Lego Building Peas - Questions

I'm so glad you started this thread! I just got into building Legos after getting my nephew some sets! I'm officially obsessed! I would love to see pictures of how people store their sets or just pictures of your builds!

I got my kids hooked about 2+ years ago and then as soon as I saw the Detective's Office last January I was hooked. I like the Creator series but I will put together anything. We joke that I put it together and my kids take it away to get played with otherwise I would be the dad from the Lego Movie, lol. My DD7 loves to put them together as well, she got the Friends Grand Hotel for Christmas and spent days putting it together. My DS5 is getting better at building but he would still rather take them apart and build his own creations.
My normal building area is the dining room table and the kids got so many sets for Christmas they took over my building spot. They need to now move to the playroom though so I can build mine The playroom is now pretty much a LEGO room instead of a variety of toys. I finished the Doctor Who set(like the set was not fond of the directions and the bags didn't come numbered). I have the Creator Theater waiting until the table is cleaned.
We started a new tradition for Christmas last year, we get the new Christmas themed set every year and display them for Christmas. I enjoy those more than the fragile houses and the kids get to play with them and make up all sorts of stories.

First let me say that I'm not a Lego purist, meaning I buy Mega Bloks sets too because we like Hello Kitty and Minions and that's who has the license for those. We have a bunch of those. I mostly buy sets to build with my DD (5) although she has received a few sets from others as gifts. So with that in mind, we have several Disney Princess sets, one or two generic Lego princess sets, and a bunch of plain bricks that we bought at the MOA Lego Store from their brick wall. I LOVE the brick wall! So many possibilities! As much as I would like the things from the sets to stay built, sadly they rarely do. They reside in a big Rubbermaid tub half assembled. We usually build at the kitchen table, which explains why they end up in a Rubbermaid tub.

Personally, I would secretly love to get the Simpson's house with all the Simpson's mini fig characters and the Quickie Mart, but at $200 each it's probably not gonna happen. I'm tempted, VERY tempted, to buy just the Krusty the Clown mini fig from someone on eBay even though the prices on the individual ones are about double the blind bag price. I've got a Rapunzel's Creative Tower set still in the box that I snagged on clearance at Target for half off. I'm waiting for DD to forget about it so that I can pull it out some day when we have nothing to do and surprise her with it.

We have quite a few Mega Bloks sets too, Blizzard gave them the licence to make WOW sets and we have most of them and I have a Minion set. They're actually not bad, I expected them to be quite clumsy.

When DD started to get old enough for real Legos (as opposed to Duplos), my younger brother was just sick that instead of hanging onto his literally tens of THOUSANDS of bricks that his son didn't want anymore to give to my DD, he gave them to our other brother's GF's kid. The bricks filled a Rubbermaid tote that was about 2' x 3' x 1.5' in size, and the girl left them out on their deck in the rain where the bin got full of dirt and leaves.   Seriously, who lets their kid DO that? I don't even know if they saved them or threw them away after that. Just stupid.

Yes and yes

Someone with no clue of the resale value of Lego bricks!   

I hear ya. That brother isn't the sharpest tool in the shed though. His garage is packed full of bicycles that he picked up off the side of the road while his relatively new car sits outside in the snow in the driveway, so there's that. 

Legos were one of my favorite toys as a kid. DH loved his erector set & in fact still has it - all rusty .
Did some building with our DS , but he was more of a "ball" kid.
We went to Legoland a few years ago & Fell back in love & fascination with Legos. So many cool new pieces & projects.

DH & I have been doing the Lego Christmas village for about 4 years now. We also do the advent calendars. We are missing the set with the sleigh. ( I think it was the 1st of the series) & now it's crazy expensive.... I might break down & buy it though. He also did 2 of the trains. We carefully pack away the village every year but keep the trains out all year in his reloading room. Our 11 yr old DGS likes to help too. Such fun.

We also use the dining room Table to assemble. My job is sorting & handing him pieces. We have a our own code names for the pieces. I sort on a white serving tray I got at IKEA.

1) how long? I just started getting into them this year but I'm afraid this is like scrapbooking for me, so far I've bought a ton but not built much.
2) What is your favorite theme (Modulars, Friends, Star Wars, your own creations - "MOC", etc.)? I like the lego movie sets and scooby doo

3) Where do you build - a dedicated space/room or anywhere? On my bed, we have a baby who is crawling so ds who is 3 gets to build worn me on my bed while ds 2 naps or has gone to bed. I Co sleep in the nursery right now so my bed is unused right now for sleeping.

4) Do you display your models and if so where and how or do you build then disassemble? I haven't built anything completely, I only had one tiny set as a child so I kind of suck at building anything without instructions, since we have a bin of random bricks i bought and cleaned, stuff we make is pretty random, although I'm trying to do a scooby doo mansion mini build from a photo and other than it being a bunch of random colors, it's coming along a tiny bit at a time.

5) What are you working on now? That scooby doo mini build and trying to reassemble minifigures, apparently all of the used minifigures I've bought are all Frankensteins as in mixed up, and my son loves to take minifigures apart so I'm always trying to figure out who goes with which head. To be honest my favorite part is sorting through the minifigures. I also love minifigure trading at legoland, although what sucks is people trade fakes and my son always seems to go for those. ..hint if there's what appears to be an awesome figure look closely, it's probably fake, eg the pirate has regular legs and arms instead of peg leg and hook for a hand, and the printing is terrible, but ds likes pirates so he wants that one.

So i think I'd be an afol if i had the time to build things like the gingerbread house i had to have so bought $100 of lego on black Friday so i could get it. Right now I'm just in the collecting phase.

Argos and Amazon do the Minion sets

Thanks Lainey.....have now put that into the Amazon search and find Mega Bloks do a Build a Minion set....and a Scooter Escape set......and.....!      Going back now to order the Build a Minion set for him and have a proper look at what else they have!