This is what my bathtub looked like just a few weeks ago.
What you’re looking at is approximately 4000€ worth of Legos; 30 kg, give or take a kilogram. For a few hundred euros we got them off a lady whose teenaged son stopped playing with his Lego collection a couple of years ago, therefore she saw no point in keeping them. All these brics came furnished with most of the original instructions.
In case you were wondering – no, these are most definitely not the only Legos we have in the house. Considering Marko could be diagnosed as a Lego addict – having spent a good part of his childhood collecting Lego sets, getting one for his birthday and another one as his New Year’s gift (let me get into this in a future post) for over a decade – you can rest assured we had plenty even before this last splurge. To these, sets bought for our children should be added.
Although most of Marko’s childhood bricks are still trapped at his parents’, there’s constant talk of bringing the little guys over to the cold north. Sometimes ˝a room just for Legos˝ in a future apartment of ours is mentioned.
Also, we’re no strangers to Lego shops. Lille was our first and since then we have not missed an occasion to pay a visit to the wonder store.
Frankfurt:
Paris:
Ljubljana:
And even when in London you cannot escape the colourful bricks at Hamley’s
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and John Lewis.
It goes without saying that we are frequent visitors at the local toy shops’ Lego isle as well as at the Lego section at our super-market. Fortunatelly, at this point there’s mostly window shopping and playing with the displayed sets, with a very rare buy.
But I deflect; after a few days, all the newly-bought second-hand Lego bricks got moved to the basement and brought back up in smaller batches to be washed, dried and, eventually, assembled. We are finally nearing the end but in the meantime, my bedroom and living room floor is cluttered with big boxes which bottoms are thinly layered with the Danish building blocks. They are drying, I was told.
The plan, you ask? Well, our plan is to host ˝Lego parties˝ as soon as all the bricks become operational. We’ll invite friends over, offer copious amounts of pizza and beer/wine in exchange for a chat and some good old Lego fun. Some of them have already expressed great excitement at future prospects.
I’ll keep you posted.