I want to buy lego. Where should I start?

former-member · 2014-03-27T01:15:56.000Z

I'm 30. Played with legos till my early teens then forgot about them. Then the movie came out and now I want legos. But since they are so expensive and since I don't like to let people just walk with my money I'm almost certain I'm not buying retail, esp. not after seeing the prices at Walmart, Target, Toys R Us, etc. I'll likely search the internet until I find a decent lego let. But I've been at this for a week and still have to find a good deal. On amazon, for instance, there are a bunch of people trying to sell legos by the pound. But there is so much that is wrong with that business model that I don't even know where to start with my list of complaints: what if the pieces are all just 2x2's blocks, or all 1x1s, or some other generic/nearly useless piece? what if the bulk of the weight comes from a boat's hull, or some other massive piece? A pound is next to nothing, but in the pictures they upload it sure looks like they are offering a big box full of pieces that obviously weighs more than a pound. Since I doubt they are throwing in the extra pieces and paying extra for the shipping of a heavier package, my guess is that the pieces they actually send you are not the ones you saw on the single picture they were able to upload (which was probably all dark & grainy). That's Amazon. Craigslist is another cesspool of people who think the internet is full of suckers willing to pay retail or next to retail for non-collective used items that are obviously in pretty bad shape and I bet at least in half those cases missing pieces. And then I thought that I'd beat the system if I bought a cup of pieces at the Lego store, only to learn a few hours later that the Lego people are obviously very smart and k now exactly what kind of pieces NOT to place in the bins. There's more than one mall in this area, each with its Lego store and each Lego store with its own variety of loose pieces, but overall the kind / variety of those pieces really sucks. Maybe I should keep checking craiglist until I find a deal?