What do you do with your LEGO sets?

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What do you do with your LEGO sets?

Build and collect them.
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6%
Build and play with them.
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11%
Build them, play with them, then use them for spare parts.
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Use them for spare parts.
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9%
Sell all of their parts.
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What do you do with your LEGO sets?

Post by Lord Cohliani » Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:00 pm

I recently got some of the new LEGO Indiana Jones sets. I assembled them and played around with them, but I'm wondering if I should take them apart and build new stuff with them now, or keep the assembled?

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Post by james+burgundy » Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:39 pm

Take them apart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Been here longer then pretty much all of you or some shit.

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Post by Lord Cohliani » Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:03 pm

Yea, I guessed as much, that's what I normally do anyways... :D
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Post by pesgores » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:26 pm

I mostly build them and then i kinda collect/play with 'em.

The only time i took a set apart was to make a MOC to a school contest (who doesn't remember Metal Gear FOX?) that had prizes. I won the 2nd place.
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Post by Bonn-o-Tron » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:51 pm

I glue my LEGO sets together to keep them on perpetual display. I still have the first set I ever assembled.
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Post by OneEye589 » Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:52 pm

What I do isn't really up there. I build them first, look at them for a couple minutes and then take them apart.

I just said "Use them for spare parts" though.

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Post by Dr. X » Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:05 pm

All of the above. I build them, play with them, integrate them, sell rare parts/figs, smash them, bash them, and then scrap and sort them, or sometimes a bunch of other things. Why didn't you make an 'all of the above' option?
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Post by Natalya » Thu Oct 23, 2008 10:23 pm

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Post by Theblackdog » Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:02 am

My record shortest time for keeping a set together was about 5 minutes. It was a Naboo starfighter I asked for for Manly Santa Day specifically for parts.
The set I kept together for longest was the old Republic Gunship. By the end of its life it had been modified so much that only the basic framework was carried over from the original model.
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Post by RagnarokRose » Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:05 am

I usually put the set together, set it on the shelf, and ignore it until I need a part off it. Then I rip it apart and it ends up in the Lego box. (Unless it's a Star Wars set. Then it stays together for a bit longer.)
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Post by Lord Cohliani » Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:32 am

Well, all of my Indiana Jones sets have now been ripped apart, and I'm building an ultimate temple to use for BrikWars. :D
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Post by Jaye Tea » Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:10 pm

for me it denpends on the set if I really like it I keep it otgether, but almost always I end up using it for a moc or something. The really big sets are ussually first to go, cause of the volume of pieces.
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Post by Blitzen » Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:25 am

Bonn-o-Tron wrote:I glue my LEGO sets together to keep them on perpetual display. I still have the first set I ever assembled.
I think I just exploded.

After I buy a set, I keep it together until I buy another one. Then I take apart the first set and use it for parts. This way, I always have at least one set that's built. If I want to use it, I just go out and buy a new one.
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Post by Dr. X » Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:17 pm

People here are weird... :shock:
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Post by IVhorseman » Sat Oct 25, 2008 1:36 pm

Yeah, I always build whatever it is, and then tear it to pieces. Half the pieces or so from any set will go into the creation of a brand-spanking new unit for one of my armies, and the other half go into the bins where they get used later in creations.

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