I have a huge space Lego collection. Basically a complete space collection from Insectoids back. Unfortunately no good place to display, so thinking of selling. Would trade for the right pin (ideally Oktoberfest) if anybody is interested.

Just pulled out the first batch of my old collection for cleaning and potential sale. Anybody have advice on selling? It's a near complete collection of Space sets from Classic to Insectoids (when they initially stopped the theme). Lots of Europe/Japan only sets and "super models". No boxes but almost all instructions are in excellent shape. I'm a bit afraid that once I start cleaning and organizing I won't want to sell. Brings back some great memories.

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One of my favorites...

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Thanks, I really enjoyed going through some of them last night and getting them cleaned up. They will be tough to part with if I go that route. Most were acquired before the internet and some in the Usenet days. Was quite a task hunting them down back then. I was probably around 10 or 11 when some how I figured out that they had different sets in Europe. I think it was because they showed an extra space ship or two in the layout pictures on some boxes. Our neighbor who was from Sweden gave me a name of a big toy store over in Europe and I was able to write them requesting info. Turns out they did indeed have more sets over there and they would be willing to ship to the US. I can still remember the day the package finally arrived! Same feeling when my Jolly Park arrived from CA. Ahh that grail pin feeling! Getting back on track, there were a few sets already discontinued so I had to wait until Usenet started up and them was able to obtain them. Prices were SUPER crazy back then, but I had some other sets to trade, so I did okay. Once ebay showed up the prices on the Europe only stuff plummeted. After the Insectoids subtheme they discontinued the Space theme so I stopped collecting. They evetuallly started it up again but I didn't get back into buying. Eventually my parents wanted to redo their basement, so I took down the giant layout and boxed everything up. I had been out of the house for a while so that was okay with me. No good place to put them in our house so it might be time for them to go to a new home.

Got all these guy put together yesterday. They were all partially assemebled and smashed in a big storage bin. Only 2 leftover pieces! Anybody know where they go???

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