Foxglove wrote: For me, it's phenomenal. I've only been collecting Lego since Christmas 2007 when I bought myself a King's Castle Seige out of nostalgia (On special for 20% off, plus a further 10% because it was the only one left and the box had been opened).
In the four months since this happened, I've gotten to a total of 88 Crownie figs. This is without buying any extra figs from Bricklink or Ebay, they're all purely from sets I've bought.
Foxglove wrote: I attribute it to going Lego-crazy. I think we all do when our Dark Age ends - I mean, I'm buying at least two of the larger sets, and three-to-five of the impulse sets. I've gone overboard, I don't really have the funds to live this way.
Hi Foxglove sorry I haven’t said hello before.
I was in an exclusive army building phase between 1997 – 2001; I actually threw away unwanted parts and all of set instructions I purchased? I don’t recommend this.
I have two very large KK1 armies; Bulls and knights, I still enjoy assembling the Lion knights army once in a while (All those white horses with blue barding and chrome knights) my kids are amazed. I was lucky that Lego used the designs again for the king’s castle siege to augment my armies with more serious armour.
Unfortunately the current range has such good Crown Knight mini figures, you could also buy the Viking chess set and use the min-figures for castle army building.
There is another feeling that you will experience as an AFOL and that is when you walk into a store and you can no longer buy a cheap for example Viking set or Crown Knight so if your interested keep a couple of those impulse sets unopened to look at/open in say 10 years time.
I notice in Sydney it’s getting more difficult to find the 2007 castle range now, they were such good sellers, my favourite stores are K-mart and Big W for these sets now.
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Foxglove wrote: My mum made me promise to stop buying Lego so impulsively, she doesn't think it's financially viable, and she thinks it's silly a girl of my age still 'plays with kids toys'.
I think its a good ideal not to be to impulsive near ebay etc, its good to know what your spending then you will realise how much money you can actually spend, and may make you take more time shopping/browsing to make your budget go further.
You can normally wait for items to go on sale before you purchase ie 15% of at target/K-mart etc and buy the best value for money sets.
Its totally normal to initially spend a lot of money on a new hobby.
Mario
) My mum made me promise to stop buying Lego so impulsively, she doesn't think it's financially viable, and she thinks it's silly a girl of my age still 'plays with kids toys'. 
