Vintage Lego's... Worth anything?

[Silencio]

Wow. Can I just move in to your basement, Grateful?

[Grateful11]

Sure, why not. You know the sad thing was that the guy that had all these Legos had all the loose ones
built into a huge Lego town, he's sitting in a Federal prison right now, and no one with auction
company took a picture of it before dismantling it. I asked around the auction if anyone know
of a picture of it but no one could produce one. It took 2 pickup loads and 1 Tahoe load to get
it all home.

I hope he doesn't come searching for his Legos when he gets out ;-)

[the_poochies]

MacArtist wrote:
The Legos I had were old school. I had some specialized pieces like doors and windows. Green angled blocks and green cap blocks for making roofs. Otherwise, it was good old square and rectangular shaped blocks.

No themes, no Lego people. Just Legos and lots of imagination.

I think the vacuum cleaner got some of my Legos. I'm sure the trash got the rest. Parents get upset when the step on the bigger pieces.

I had thousands of Legos from the 1970s that I gave to a neighbor when I entered high school. They were much less complex than the specialized stuff that passes for Legos today and encouraged more imagination & creativity than the current line of products that seem more geared towards collectors than kids.

When Little Poochie was born in 2003, my neighbor returned my old Legos to me with a thank you note. This week Little Poochie and I are building an Egyptian temple with traps and pitfalls to ensnare his Indiana Jones Lego characters.

Like fiddling with iTunes playlists, a "brief" dig through Little Poochie's Lego box turns into an addictive 4 hour adventure finding just the "right" piece for the project.

eBay is generally a seller's market, and I'm amazed how much $$$$ loose piles of used Legos command.