I was asked today what my first Lego set was, and I sent them a link to the image shown above: Lego set 375, the original yellow Castle set. A classic, a collector’s item, if I still had it, or all it’s pieces, or even a fraction of it.
Now it wasn’t 100% my first, as we had other sets without the figures before that, boxes of colored blocks and shapes that we would have to figure out how to put together in ways we wanted, using our imagination as best we could.
We did okay; of course we did, we were kids.
But the Castle set was the first set I got, that felt like a whole thing, and I still remember it fondly.
The reason this came up today is that someone I care about built their first set ever today, at the age of 39.
And it was magical!
And I hope they remember it as long as I’ve remembered the Castle. 🙂