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Re: Too much Lego?
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Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:20:11 GMT
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"Thomas Main" <thomasmain@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
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> The recent discussions about the color change and people's buying habits • got me
> thinking about how much we as individuals spend on Lego. In particular, • at
> least a couple of people in this thread
> (http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=46284) admitted to spending between
> $2,000-$5,000 or more per year on Lego. Frankly, this struck me as a HUGE
> amount of money to spend on Lego.
Since I have only been out of my dark age for a little over two years, I
would say my spending on Lego for that short time has been rather extreme.
On average I have spent around $15,000 anually. This included a large
number of set purchases, but also a significant number of purchases from
sites like BrickLink and Ebay.
> For myself, I currently have a collection totalling 53,171 parts. At • .10/part,
> my collection would be worth approximately $5,000. Taking into account • how much
> of my collection is bulk bricks, how much is sets, its condition, etc., I • would
> put the real value at around $3,500. I've been out of my dark ages, • actively
> buying and selling and collecting Lego since 1996. That works out to a • little
> less than $500/year if the net result is taken as the bottom line. Most • of the
> general public would agree that I have a MASSIVE Lego collection. Most • AFOLs
> would probably consider it an average collection. Is it average? How • much do
> you spend on Lego AND, more importantly, what's your bottom line - how • much Lego
> do you keep and what is the value of your collection? What's the real
average?
My collection is somewhere around 310,000 parts with about one third being
bulk bricks. At the .10/part you mentioned, that would be $31,000.
However, I would put the value a lot higher than that for two reasons.
First, there are a significant number of older sets I have purchased at much
higher than retail prices. Second, the prices for parts on BL tend to be
higher than that for the harder to find parts/colors.
> So, what is the minimum amount of money/parts required to really fully • enjoy
> this hobby? For me, I've decided that 50,000 parts is nice. But I could • make
> do with less, I'm sure. In fact, the parts that I've actually been using • to
> build with for the last few years total 35,000 (others are in sets - • yikes!
> that's a lot of parts in sets!!) and almost half that number is in basic • bricks.
> Is it easier to reduce the number of parts required if you concentrate on • one
> type of building? (say, eliminate Technic and trains if you build mainly • System
> stuff) In the end, how many parts could you comfortably build with? I'd • like
> to say 10,000. That seems like such a nice, round figure. It would be • neat to
> me to see if someone could build an element collection for around $1000 • that
> contained about 10,000 parts and have that become a standard element • collection.
> People would build from only those parts in those quantities and see where • that
> would take the hobby. Certain decisions would have to be made of course. • How
> many of the 10,000 would be basic bricks, what colors would be used (using • all
> would be too expensive), which specialty elements would be chosen (not • many
> SPUDs, I imagine). Does this idea have wings? What are some alternate • thoughts
> about minimal, full collections?
I don't really think there is a minimum amount for someone to enjoy the
hobby. I know when I was a kid my collection wasn't even 1000 parts and I
had more fun with those parts than I could possibly describe. When you
start talking about an AFOL and what they want to accomplish with Lego as
hobby, I think it is depends on the individual. For myself, I am able to do
lots of things I would like to with Lego. I do however still run into
situations where I don't have enough of a particular part or color of that
part for an idea I have. I don't honestly think that it matters how big
your collection is. There are going to be times when you don't have enough
of some part for the idea you have.
Greg
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