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Greetings from Southwest Florida
Hello All,
Thanks for having me, my name is Bryan and I live Cape Coral Florida USA. I am a residential new home builder, we build what most people refer to as LEGO houses here, it's a Styrofoam form that locks together in a similar fashion and is later filled with concrete. I credit LEGO with my choosing construction as a career for over 25 years now.
I have been a member of Brickowl for a little over 2 years now and just joined the forums today. I have had a long love affair with LEGO from the 70's to now, my dark age was really only between 1992 - 2001. I had a great mother who saved all of my childhood toys including my LEGO which currently resides in about 6 totes and I am currently rebuilding a lot of the sets from my youth from these totes.
My collection currently consists of about 1200 sets (polybags included) and with loose brick my total piece count is probably around 350k. I enjoy the CIty theme very much as well as licensed themes, especially Star Wars and modulars. We are currently in a temporary house while ours is being built which will hopefully be much more suitable to a large collection. My wife is urging me to just rent retail space to build my city and also have a LEGO studio of sorts. I love this site and use it daily, presently I am sorting through and completing sets from about 200 lbs of loose sealed bags of LEGO from unknown sets that I buy in bulk around 10lbs at a time, as well as about 40 lbs of misc. minifigure parts. This aspect of the hobby including the research is probably my favorite right now, figuring out what set a bag came from and then finding an unboxing video to figure out how many bags total there are, ordering the decals and instructions.
If anyone else on here is from the Southwest Florida area and would like to network I have created a meetup on meetup.com for SWFL Adult Fans Of Lego in hopes of getting a group of likeminded AFOLs together to network, trade and possibly gain a presence on this coast as the only 2 Florida Lugs are not exactly close. Also please if anyone knows where I should post something about that on here please let me know.
Sorry for the not so short introduction.
Bryan
Thanks for having me, my name is Bryan and I live Cape Coral Florida USA. I am a residential new home builder, we build what most people refer to as LEGO houses here, it's a Styrofoam form that locks together in a similar fashion and is later filled with concrete. I credit LEGO with my choosing construction as a career for over 25 years now.
I have been a member of Brickowl for a little over 2 years now and just joined the forums today. I have had a long love affair with LEGO from the 70's to now, my dark age was really only between 1992 - 2001. I had a great mother who saved all of my childhood toys including my LEGO which currently resides in about 6 totes and I am currently rebuilding a lot of the sets from my youth from these totes.
My collection currently consists of about 1200 sets (polybags included) and with loose brick my total piece count is probably around 350k. I enjoy the CIty theme very much as well as licensed themes, especially Star Wars and modulars. We are currently in a temporary house while ours is being built which will hopefully be much more suitable to a large collection. My wife is urging me to just rent retail space to build my city and also have a LEGO studio of sorts. I love this site and use it daily, presently I am sorting through and completing sets from about 200 lbs of loose sealed bags of LEGO from unknown sets that I buy in bulk around 10lbs at a time, as well as about 40 lbs of misc. minifigure parts. This aspect of the hobby including the research is probably my favorite right now, figuring out what set a bag came from and then finding an unboxing video to figure out how many bags total there are, ordering the decals and instructions.
If anyone else on here is from the Southwest Florida area and would like to network I have created a meetup on meetup.com for SWFL Adult Fans Of Lego in hopes of getting a group of likeminded AFOLs together to network, trade and possibly gain a presence on this coast as the only 2 Florida Lugs are not exactly close. Also please if anyone knows where I should post something about that on here please let me know.
Sorry for the not so short introduction.
Bryan
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I think I can partly credit LEGO as well for my career choice as well. I create visuals of new residential builds in the UK.
Would love to see some photos of the Styrofoam construction. Have seen it at a Building show and was really impressed with it. Have also seen it on a UK TV show called Grand Designs.
Tempted to use it for an smallish extension to our house but most builders prefer standard methods.
Mark
What a grand entrance. I came out of my dark ages about 3 years ago now, when I bought the Unimog technic set. I am a big fan of the Technic sets, but still not skilled enough to do anything of my own in that genre.
I am also trying to put together a small town with my two sons.
Looking forward to hearing more from you.
Best regards,
Lars