Need a New Theme/"Theme" to Start Building...

Ranion · 2014-08-24T08:26:52.000Z

When I first got back into LEGO, I promised myself I'd stick to the Architecture series (the theme that got me back into LEGO) and a smattering of whatever I found interesting in Creator Expert and Lego CUUSOO/Ideas themes. But...I've run out of stuff to build! I'm thinking I need to "up it a notch" and start building UCS/Modulars to get my fix. I need projects that don't take one afternoon or even a whole day to build. I need a build that requires me to go to sleep before I awake to *possibly* finish it that day...Or the next. So far I have the following: 1. The whole Architecture series minus Trevi Fountain that my parents have "hinted" not so subtley to "not buy it...wait for prices to come down" or some nonsense which translates to "your birthday is in a month, we already bought it for you". I have acquire the coveted Marina Bay Sands and I'm in the process of acquiring set 4000010 "LEGO House" which isn't even officially an Architecture set but it's close enough. So I'm set here. 2. From the Creator Expert line I Have the T1 VW Camper Van and the Mini Cooper. Both were extremely fun to build and I love displaying them. I'll be buying whatever they throw at us from this line/group of LEGO sets. 3. My CUUSOO/Ideas holdings include The Ghostbusters Car, The Delorean Time-Machine and the Exo-Suit. I will hopefully be acquiring a Hayabusa soon as well as a Mars Rover but the Shinkai just might be out of reach for me. I won't be buying the Minecraft based sets as I just don't like them...At all. If you can't already tell, I'm a "completionist" type of person and when I start a new Theme or "Theme" (a specific line or group of sets within a larger Theme) I really think hard about it before any commitment is to be made. Another factor in my LEGO preferences are that I prefer sets more catered to adults; specifically, they usually lack minifigures. I have nothing against minifigures, in fact I love putting them together. But, the majority of sets I find myself attracted to are minifigure free. So...Going Modulars would bring me into the world of minifigures and everything that entails. Again, this isn't a bad thing. The problem is the price of said modulars. At $150+ a pop it's relatively expensive. It also requires lots of space to display that at this very moment I don't have much of. I would also have to consider not trying to acquire the really expensive modular who's name has escaped me at this moment. My second group of LEGO I was considering was trains. I wouldn't be trying to get them all, it would be a "theme" type of thing. I would focus only on locomotives/train-cars based on "real-life" examples. Like the Sante-Fe or Maersk. the obvious hangup here is that it's more expensive than the modulars, but there are less of them to acquire. But acquiring a Sante-Fe Locomotive and mail-car and passenger car (the same set with two different builds) would cost me quite a bit, something like 4-5 modulars I would think. Same with the BNSF line. I don't think I would be setting up a running track, just enough track to display them. I would consider adding the Horizon Express to this "theme" since it has "advanced building techniques" involved and resembles real trains well enough. I would forgo the City line trains that make use of large non-brick build parts and is more for running as a moving train. Third option is going deeper into the Creator series. Specifically: Maersk Triple-E, Taj-Mahal, Eiffel Tower, Sydney Opera House and the Tower Bridge (which I may acquire regardless of what direction I go). These are also expensive, but you seem to get a lot more pieces for your money. These sets more fit in with my Architecture interest. To sum it up... 1. Modulars because of building difficulty and they'll keep me building/occupied. 2. Trains because I think they're so well crafted and true to their real-life likeness and my dad likes trains which has rubbed off on me a bit. 3. Creator Expert to sort of continue in the Architecture direction I've been heading in. Although to be honest it would be nice for a change... Sorry for the god-awful wall of text... Thoughts? -Robert