Dear Classic Castle Forum...

LEGOFREAK · Post by **LEGOFREAK** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 7:45 pm

I never thought it would happen to me....

My wife called me up from a garage sale last night...

Mrs. Freak: "honey this lady is selling a bin of lego for forty bucks. Do you want it?"

Freak: "lemmethinkaboutityes!!!"

so far my son and I have done a little digging into this bin (which weighed about fifty to seventy pounds) and have found the following neat things:
Two monkeys! a complete BSB, a technic droideka complete with instructions, a ton of women minifigs (my men minifigs are overjoyed), a lot of foliage, a lot of pirate stuff, minifigs, imperials, etc., a bunch of old baseplates.
I have even found a few lego that are really really really really old.

SO why post? Am I just bragging?

No.

I intend to get the parts out that I really want, but there is going to be a lot that I won't use. So when I get a better inventory I will post in the buy/sell/trade thread.
I had wanted to get some of the new KK2 sets this weekend, but I guess I will be sorting. Fortunately I have a great helper.

LF

Post by **Formendacil** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:06 pm

And to think that your signature had me thinking you were a lazy man.

This is an awesome haul.

Please excuse me while I go weep and mourn.

Lord_Of_The_LEGO · Post by **Lord_Of_The_LEGO** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:31 pm

That is not fair. I hate you!

j/k

Dang, why can't I ever get deals like this?? Why??

Anyway, congrats on your find!

jamitjames · Post by **jamitjames** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 1:46 am

You know what, I am going to go looking for deals like this. I had better find some!

wlister · Post by **wlister** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 1:48 am

Nice wife!

That was a lucky find and you are a luck man.

Will

Post by **Robin Hood** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 4:56 am

Why do all the people older than 15 get the goood deals, why, why why?

Dada · Post by **Dada** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:08 am

There are lucky people and the others...

I am one of the others...

Why I never find lego rare to sell ???

Why I didn't buy the Royal Knights castle of my friend when it was possible ???

WHY ???

WHY ???

Troy T. Moore · Post by **Troy T. Moore** » Sat Jul 17, 2004 12:39 pm

Great.... I expect in a couple of days, after you have sorted more to have you post, "I also found 11 dk grey euro armour, 35 scale mail torso's, 6 dk grey pointed visors..."

Cool find, good for you. Helps when the spouse appreciates your addiction, er, I mean, hobby. Last fall my wife came home from the city (I asked her to keep an eye out for deals) and said there was nothing, except this dragon fortress for 50% off, but she didn't think I would want that, because it's not castle

I explained to her that the orient expidition was very useful for parts, especially that set at that price. Went back a few days later, ALL gone...... No, I'm not bitter

I never thought it would happen to me....

It won't happen to me for the same reason I will not win the lottery.... I don't buy lotto tickets and i don't go garage saling.

I am happy for you though.

Loneranger · Post by **Loneranger** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 5:51 pm

three words. i HATE YOU!
:p
Nice find LF's wife

LR

wlister · Post by **wlister** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 5:57 pm

Robin Hood wrote:Why do all the people older than 15 get the goood deals, why, why why?

I don't think it is just people over the age of 15, being twice that age, I have to say that in all my years of collecting, I have never found a decent deal at a garage sale. I think we can just say that some people are luckier than others.

Will

Sir Terrance · Post by **Sir Terrance** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 6:01 pm

Robin Hood wrote:Why do all the people older than 15 get the goood deals, why, why why?

That means I won't find any good deals for 1 1/2 years!!!

Congrats on the find though, and what kind of old parts, or do I want to know?

LEGOFREAK · Post by **LEGOFREAK** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 7:15 pm

Really - I was lucky. I can't tell you guys how often I went to a garage sale, and asked about lego only to hear "oh I just sold a box about ten minutes/an hour/this morning to... "

and so far I am three quarters of the way sorted, and the only castle in it is one lone wolfpack figure, and one extra black hood. Everything else is town, belville, and that paradisa stuff.

Still, there are LOTS of useful pieces, and I intend to sell off bulk packs of yellow, white, and red brick.

will post more later.

Dire Avenger · Post by **Dire Avenger** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:29 am

Lord_Of_The_LEGO wrote: That is not fair. I hate you!

j/k

Dang, why can't I ever get deals like this?? Why??

Anyway, congrats on your find!

Bah, same here!!!

ANyway, congrats. Expect me to be visiting your trade topic! Im still trying to make a good pirate collection to put on display...

-DA

Commander Redbeard · Post by **Commander Redbeard** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:52 pm

I would KILL for a deal like that... the only legos I ever saw for sale cheep were at a flea market, just bricks, and mixed in with like 10,000 different kinds of Megablocks. I wouldn't have bought it if you paid me.

A family friend gave my sisters a small bucket of paradisa stuff, and it's actually pretty useful. (Don't tell 'em, I already pinched all their light gray bricks and horses.)

Post by **Formendacil** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:30 pm

Commander Redbeard wrote:A family friend gave my sisters a small bucket of paradisa stuff, and it's actually pretty useful. (Don't tell 'em, I already pinched all their light gray bricks and horses.)

Pretty useful?

Paridisa may be for girls (and thus anathema to us macho brickheads), but it was pretty well-designed and fun line, and even from a Castle perspective, it has great uses:

Horses, horse accessories, grey pieces, more baseplates (I'm thinking the island in particular), female heads, lots of hairs, even some of their house accessories.

And if you ever wanted to impress a girl with Lego, I think a fairy-land pink-and-white castle would be the way to go.