I had that one. It was amazing.
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Mine had blue sails. Still have it somewhere.
That one is easy to build as long as you don't mind shelling out $60 for sails and a yellow parrot. Every other brick in there is super cheap.
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Crap...
there there me boy.
I think that was the stuck up English navy one, not the pirate cool one.
I was gifted this by a family friend as a kid. It was super fun. My brothers had this and a castle. Now the parts are mixed in across 2 buckets of Lego that I've rescued from my parent's storage room last year and kept for my kids.the cycle continues.
We donated two big boxes of assorted lego accumulated throughout the 80s and 90s to an orphanage and young me was all feeling good and holy but old me is like fuck them kids I want my legos back.
Edit: they also got our Commodore 64 and there is no way those little freaks knew how to use it
I hate keeping sets together.
All my sets get built, enjoyed, then completely disassembled and mixed into a big bin for all the fun of making our own creations.
I keep the build manuals. So I can rebuild them again if I ever wanted to. But the fun is in the building, not the having of completed sets.
Same. Until i took it into the bathtub and the. It started to smell real funky after a few month
It truly did not float.
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Wow, I owned that exact set as a kid.
Stings a bit knowing I could have sold it for a down payment on a house 30 years later.
To be fair this is a random listing not an actual sale. Just looked it up and there are far cheaper listings
The real price seems to be like 600
Lego was never cheap. I had to have some dental done as a child and I was freaking the fuck out about getting needles in my gum as a 5 year old and I was inconsolable and my mom said that ok if I took the needles I could have anything in the toy store, and I said OH YEAH then I want the biggest most fancy LEGO set and she gave a sort of Marge Simpson "hhhrrrmmm" and agreed, and I took the needles, and we went and I picked out the biggest set I wanted, and as an adult that fucking pains me because we were by no means rich and my parents were struggling and it kind of hurts my heart that I put that financial burden on them.
It's weird, but their uncompromisingly selfless acts of love are some of the things that hurt the most now that they are gone. Because you just didn't understand what it meant when you were a child.
Same. Might have to call my Dad. He probably still has all my old Lego in a big plastic treasure chest. If he still has the boxes he might have some actual treasure.
BrickLink 'new' average sold for the last 6 months is 340~ retail was 200. its a retired set of a beloved 80's set updated, so deff not going to find a new set for less than that. i have one in my collection, yeah i'd prob let go for 340+you cover shipping, but I'd definitely cover shipping for 19k! lol
and yes you to can list anything on ebay for whatever absurd price you want. but even ebay has a sold filter/tracker you should be checking..
For $19k, I would personally hand deliver it within the US.
I would personally deliver it anywhere in the world that isn't at war, so not the US
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The trauma of having grown up getting pirates, castles, and OG space sets for Christmas and birthdays, then finding out your mom gave them to the bratty neighbor kids while you were in college is real. I’ve reacquired some as an adult, which cost me about the same as my college tuition.
It bewilders me how anyone could give their kid's stuff away without asking, and yet I've heard it from so many people.
I guess the thought process goes like "They're grown up and don't need 'toys' anymore!" and so they give the toys away to someone they think 'wants' them, and they're 'doing you a favour' getting rid of it.
But even if they believed that's true - which it often isn't - those things were given to you as gifts. They were yours! They didn't belong to your parents anymore to give away! And that really feels like a violation of trust.
When I came back from college my room was exactly as I left it. And when I moved out I decided on my own time what I wanted and what I didn't. So thank you Mum and Dad for respecting my space and my person.
The one from OP goes for about $70 on AliExpress
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Since they lost the patent there are a lot of more afordable lego options. If you want this set specific there are apps that tell you all the bricks you need and you can order bulk from china or something.
Of couse original Lego is awesome but some out of line sets are impossible for the regular person. Even some that are still sold by lego can be impossible. So don't go into debt to by a lego set.
ruining various subcultures of hobby collecting has really become a hobby for the unhealthy-wealthy
Unhealthyly wealthy is a great term
I saw it in a local store for about $200. You could take it apart and rebuild it. There are also a lot of companies making really cool plastic brick stuff.
This is just for insane people who want a thing that is in the box because it's rare. Not because they enjoy it
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I got myself a mega blocks pirate ship, about 20 years ago, give or take. I still have it. All my kids and nices and nephews and now grandson has played with it (and trashed the shit out of it, but meh) I still rig it up as a nightlight on top of my wardrobe. It still makes explosion noises with flashing lights, and launchable cannon balls. (I should probably check those batteries...) Doesn't look like mega blocks, looks like a ghost / ghoul type pirate ship model. Came with treasure, a heap of peg leg pirates, and a giant killer octopus. I still have the octopus. One of my top favourite possessions.
This is why I love videogames instead.
I had one big spaceship, a big blue one from the old school space series. I looked it up and it's like $2,000 something dollars now. I don't remember if I had the pirate ship in the OP. I had a bunch of them though.
It destroys my heart that I don't have all those old space sets left. We were heavy into those, they were fucking magical.
I wish I had the space and money to buy some of the bionicle sets I never got to have, like the bohrok, and the piraka
Unfortunately bionicle sets are ungodly expensive and I do not have space to hold them all lol
i still have all my old lego. not the instructions tho. or the ones my dog chewed up. damn dog.
bought that bundle of roses set, made it with the wife for valentimes. that was a great date.
I feel it's strange to call an evening with your wife a "date". A date is something you have with a presumtive partner. Once they're a partner it's like, it's not a date anymore, it's a relationship, hanging out all the time is the whole thing.
It's not just an evening with my wife. It's time I've set aside exclusively that unless there's an emergency, she's my only priority. Have you never been on a date before?
Have you never been on a date before?
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Wait, those few plastic bricks cost a whopping 110$?
You say "those few plastic bricks" but that set was 909 pieces, that's about 12 cents per brick
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