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We added over $1100 worth of sets to the collection for Christmas.

We have a $500 wish list of sets that we still have to find in stores because Lego is out of stock.

The 2008 catalog showed up with one of our shipments and there are more new Star Wars sets shown as well as the new Indiana Jones Collection - more new toys for 2008.

There's nothing new here, we still buy Lego sets every year, we still build things when it suits us.

We currently have over $20,000 invested in them and over 2000 sets - hundreds of them still unopened.

Miss Lego's castle is still assembled, as well as the Pirate's volcano island. Once we take some hi-res pictures they will get broken down and added to the collection.

Last month I was contacted by someone at Kellogg's Foods. They are looking for someone to build some Lego models of the various Kellogg's Cereal characters for a 2005 summer promotion.

Unfortunatly I had to decline - my basement is not tall enough and there is not enough room to construct all of the models they were looking for. It's a shame to, because it would have been a a lot of fun and they were going to foot the bill for all of the required materials.

Getting paid for building with Lego's - it was one the hardest no's I ever had to give someone.

Sorry that the pictures are not larger - this is the best our camera will do.

After working for over two weeks the castle is finally done. I am very happy with it, we did everything that we set out to do on this project.

We have just received our annual Christmas lego order - 34 more sets totaling over $700.

We purchased all of the Orient Expedition sets that are currently available, some Star Wars for me and a Lego turkey for Thanksgiving.

We currently have more than 1700 lego sets in our collection. I received my first Lego set around 1966. It was a "Master Builder" set which contained basic bricks, doors, windows and some wheels. At that time there were only about ten different sets available in the USA and were sold only through department stores.

Our collection consists of various Lego series including every Castle and Pirate set, as well as Starwars, Trains, Harry Potter and whatever else catches our eye.

My daughter "Miss Lego" owns the Harry Potter sets as well as some "Girls Only" sets from the Scala and Belville series. These sets never were promoted properly in the US and were not very well stocked. She also has over 700 Duplo blocks from her younger days.

In addition to the commercial sets, We also have over a thousand "Bricks Only" sets from the Lego mail order parts catalog.

Our Lego collection is in Rubbermaid bins and occupies a shelving area in our basement that is twelve feet long by six and a half feet high.

We typically spend about $500 a year on Lego including store closeouts, specials and mail order.

This page will have more content when I have time to scan some photos of past models.

This is a picture of my first Pirate ship, The "Black Seas Barracuda" I was fortunate to have purchased two of these with working cannons - they have a spring loaded plunger that fires a small round brick about six feet.

As far as I know this version never made it to the retail stores - they were probably deemed too dangerous for children. I purchased them with damaged packaging for half of the retail price thru the Lego employee store. When the set made it to the retail store shelves the cannons no longer worked.

This is a picture of my first Castle, The original castle color was yellow, in later years as Lego added more colors they changed over to grey and black. We own about ten of these and once bought four at a time as a closeout. We also purchased hundreds of yellow brick sets to build Our own castle creations - one of them was over five feet long.