Brickset users own over half a million sets between them!

 

  • Brickset users own over half a million sets between them!

    Posted by Huw, 08 May 2008 17:51. Filed under Brickset.

    Over the last few days you have collectively added 1000-odd sets to your 'sets I own' lists which now takes the total to over 500,000! Unsurprisingly, the top 25 most owned sets are all Star Wars bar one, and I have to say I'm surprised what that one is (take a look yourself).

    Here's to the next half-million!


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Posted by bigz123 in United States, 08 May 2008 17:50

Awsome! Cant wait to see the other five hundred thousand.

Posted by Jon_Brick in Canada, 08 May 2008 17:54

sooo cool I wonder If that's a record

Posted by silverdagger7, 08 May 2008 18:06

Yeah! Go us! *Cheers*

Posted by silverdagger7, 08 May 2008 18:08

Ha! sorry for the double post, but the non-SW set made me laugh. I only own about 2 tenths of those in the Top 25.

Posted by lego12 in United States, 08 May 2008 18:22

My brother used to have the number 1 set. I built it for him and he gradually lost it.... :(

Posted by Exo-ForceFan in N/A, 08 May 2008 18:25

I hope it will reach to 1,000,000! Anyway like silverdagger7 said Go us!

Posted by Fighter95 in United States, 08 May 2008 18:27

I own 17 of the top 25! This is awesome-500,000 sets! That would be way expensive...

Posted by BlackRabbit in Canada, 08 May 2008 18:28

we must buy buy buy and in 20 years we will have 1 mil sets

Posted by BlackRabbit in Canada, 08 May 2008 18:35

i just counted and i own 139 sets ,but most of my lego is from grage sales so the numbers could be higher if i knew witch set some of the peices are from and also a handful that i commandeerd from my brother peice by peice

Posted by lego12 in United States, 08 May 2008 18:44

I only have 42 lego sets :( I buy most of my sets and have been building legos since I was 9 years old...that was 3 years ago!!! I hardly have ANY sets and I am a proffesional Lego builder! Wow I stink at collecting Lego's!

Posted by lego12 in United States, 08 May 2008 18:50

Whoops...I just told you that I was 12! My apologies!

Posted by lego12 in United States, 08 May 2008 18:55

When did you start collecting Lego's doctorwho/. How old were you when you started? Just asking...

Posted by lego12 in United States, 08 May 2008 19:01

By the way doctorwho/ where do you put all of your legos if you live in a trailer park?(Look at Profile). Just wondering....

Posted by chucky12 in Australia, 08 May 2008 19:47

With over half-a-million set between eight thousand or so members, that's and average of 59 sets per owner! Cool. Lego12 you're behind! :) Just kidding. Still, I'm impressed by people like Huw who owns more than 600 sets. 8~0

Posted by Imperial13 in United States, 08 May 2008 19:50

Wow, never thought we'd get this far :P

Posted by Pegasi in United States, 08 May 2008 20:02

Wow. There are some new faces around here. Interesting to see the most-owned set. I myself must own at least three of them, as I have always had a fondness for clone troopers.

The ones that really surprise me are the final duel sets.. I never really thought much of them, and other than the fact that you get a cheap stormy, which at the time were quite expensive (if I recall) there aren't really any interesting peices/figs... I guess they're cheap and probably have something else that I'm missing in their appeall.

I think I own all of the star wars sets in the top 25 save for 7113. I'll go check that...

Posted by Da_LegoBuilder in United States, 08 May 2008 20:06

wow, 500,000 sets? Wow!! I actually don't own most of the top 25, and i'm a SW geek/fan! means need to save for these! I started collecting in 2005, so i don't have most of it. Obviously the clone scout walker would be the most owned, it looks cool and has the exclusive scout trooper driver!

Lets collect another 500,000 to set a world record! Wonder what it is, gonna google it!

Posted by Da_LegoBuilder in United States, 08 May 2008 20:10

So i googled it, and it doesn't really say what the record is for the most owned sets for a website, but did find interesting stuff, check it out!

More than 400million children and adults will play with Lego bricks this year.
It would take 40billion Lego bricks to reach the moon.
There are 62 Lego bricks for every person on the planet.
If all the Lego sets sold in a year were stacked together, they would fill a football pitch to a height of 77.8m.
Children spend five billion hours a year playing with Lego bricks.
There are 915,103,765 different ways of combining six eight-stud bricks of the same colour.
Seven Lego sets are sold every second.
Lego is sold in more than 130 countries.
There are four Legolands around the world. The original is in Billund, Denmark, while the others are in Windsor, Germany and California.
More than two million Lego bricks are manufactured every hour of every day.
The world's tallest Lego tower was built in Toronto, Canada last year. It used almost half a million bricks and reached a height of 95ft.
The number of Lego bricks sold in a year would reach more than five times around the world.
The eight robots and 15 automatic cranes that work in the Lego warehouse in Billund can shift 660 crates of bricks in and out every hour.
Lego is the world's largest tyre manufacturer, turning out 306million miniature tyres a year for its miniature vehicles.
The world's largest Lego Christmas tree was the 30ft of green plastic displayed in Oberhausen, Germany in 2003. It used 250,000 bricks and took 1800 hours to build.
2.4 million people across the world are members of the Lego Club.
The world's largest Lego statue is the 25ft tall Sitting Bull in the company's HQ in Billund, Denmark, and contains 1.5 million bricks.
Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond credits Lego with helping him recover from his brain injuries following his jet car crash in 2006. He said: "It's really good therapy."
The Lego company is still a family-owned business, having netted its owners £3billion so far.
'Lego's annual sales are nearly £800m'

Posted by Pegasi in United States, 08 May 2008 20:13

That's kind of funny. I don't think anyone's actually going to mak a lego bridge to the moon, but we all have our dreams...

It's kind of funny to think that lego is nearly played an hour for every person..

Posted by Leggodt94 in United States, 08 May 2008 20:27

I knew what the most owned set of brickset users was the Scout Walker. It's in the browse. By the way, I own it! :D

Posted by hustla187 in United States, 08 May 2008 20:32

Nice facts there. That is alot.

Posted by Pegasi in United States, 08 May 2008 21:03

I think that it won't be unusual for bricksetters to own it if it's the most owned set.

Posted by lego12 in United States, 08 May 2008 21:36

I just counted and I own 52 lego sets and its been 3 years. Should I have more Lego sets than I do now or do I have what most people got it three years? Please answer!

Posted by The Big Guy in New Zealand, 08 May 2008 22:28

I actually own all of the top 25, and i have to say the non Star Wars one, the ambulance surprised me.

Posted by Da_LegoBuilder in United States, 08 May 2008 22:41

actually lego12, i own only 60 sets, and i've been collecting for 3 years also. Most of the sets are SW, and some are bionicle. I actually don't literally own them, I HAD them, and later sold all of it to a private collector.I actually still need to mark some off as I own, but I can't find them in the database.

Posted by emoflower in United States, 08 May 2008 23:08

YAH!!!! that's amazing I can't wait till we reach a million!

Posted by Leggodt94 in United States, 08 May 2008 23:44

I own 95 sets and I've been collecting for five and two-thirds years. I would say that I have a lot, but about 74 of them are Star Wars, my favorite theme.

Posted by BlackRabbit in Canada, 09 May 2008 00:04

lego 12 im 12 too , um thats just the name of a trailer park from a show i watch called trailer park boys
,so i just got 2 of the new indi sets so thats 2 more closer to 1 milalso i was introduced to lego when i was 2 ( duplo) and started building with the real stuff at four and ive been a fan ever scince i also own one of the first lego sets

Posted by Luke Skytalker in New Zealand, 09 May 2008 00:19

Haha! I am surprised by the top set! I own 3 out of all of those sets, but I reckon it looks funny that they are all star wars and then there is an ambulance set. That is so cool.

Posted by BlackRabbit in Canada, 09 May 2008 01:14

i own 2 of the top 3 but dont have the scout mech

Posted by sebulba in Australia, 09 May 2008 02:52

I own 158 sets altogether, 21 of them are Star Wars out of which 7 are in the top 25 most owned sets. I have been collecting lego for almost 20 years.

Posted by Carl Sagan in United States, 09 May 2008 03:37

I wrote something about this actually,
The comment was in a review and can be seen on my review posts page (I don't have many reviews, about five i think)
please check it out

Thanks,
-Sagan

Posted by Carl Sagan in United States, 09 May 2008 03:39

also, I wrote the comment before this news came out, what a strange coincidence...
(sorry for the double-post)

Sagan

Posted by Town in United States, 09 May 2008 08:12

two tenths is a fifth. just pointing it out.

*shrugs shoulders*

Posted by lego12 in United States, 09 May 2008 09:00

Thanks Da_LegoBuilder, Leggodt, doctorwho/, and sebulba for all of the information. It's nice to know that people like me and doctorwho/ are the same age as each other! See I started with Lego at the age of nine. I am really mad at myself for not finding Lego earlier when I was a little toddler. >:(

Posted by BlackRabbit in Canada, 09 May 2008 10:00

my brother had lego so thats how i was introduced , i also sort of wrecked this set of his called the imperial trading post ,and how much was the re released 1 knights kingdom castle with modifcations because i seen it at london drugs for 90 bucks in american i think it was 119 so i think in canadian at shaop at home it was 150 sadly i had just bought 2 indi sets ,also all of there bionicles we on sale the new ones ,so i would ocasionly check zellersa and london drugs they have way better selection and zellers is about is good as toys r us

Posted by BlackRabbit in Canada, 09 May 2008 10:20

10176: King's Castle this was the set how much was it when it was on shop at home

Posted by silverdagger7, 09 May 2008 12:59

Ha! i'm such a nerd! Your right, Town. Two tenths is one fifth. :) Ah, anyway, i actually took the time to count (it wasn't hard) and i actually own ten of the top 25. So instead i own TWO fifths of those listed in the top 25. (or 4 tenths if you do fractions my way!)

Posted by LEGO 50 in Philippines, 09 May 2008 13:16

Wow! go brickset. It's not a surprise to me that starwars is the top 25 MOS

Posted by Commander-Cody in United Kingdom, 09 May 2008 13:38

I still have the number 1 set in perfect order :)

Thers another Mars Mission set in the 2008 MM sets thread on Eurobricks I suggest you guys look at it:
http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=12168&st=165&start=165

Posted by Sky-guardian in United States, 09 May 2008 15:42

there not ALL star wars. one is the Ambulance

Posted by lego12 in United States, 09 May 2008 16:18

Sorry doctorwho/ but I am not near a london drugs or zellersa. I live in the jungle.......somewhere near the Temple of the Crystal Skull(Look at profile) so I am not near any of the stores that you named........sadly. :( But they luckily have a Lego store in the Jungle near the Temple of the Crystal Skull!!!!! WooHoo! :)

Posted by lego12 in United States, 09 May 2008 16:53

I started getting into Lego's by playing baseballl....that a LOOOOONG story.... so I won't spend 30 minutes typing...hehehehehehehe!

Posted by BlackRabbit in Canada, 09 May 2008 18:11

well that was mainly for canadian lego fans like me ,and how can there be 8000 brickset users when only a few post stuff

Posted by Luke Skytalker in New Zealand, 09 May 2008 18:36

Because the others are dedicated to typing the reveiws, what everyone should be doing.

Posted by Leggodt94 in United States, 09 May 2008 22:03

Ok, Comander-Cody, I have all of my sets in perfect order thank you very much! And, Sky-guardian, how many did you say were not star wars? ONE?!? That's not a lot! And, I was introduced to LEGO by a free 2002 August-September LEGO Magazine.

Posted by Nikola Bathory in Bulgaria, 10 May 2008 03:36

This is great!!
And it looks like Star Wars is bringing serious $$ to the Lego Corporation!

Posted by BlackRabbit in Canada, 10 May 2008 14:58

i dont know why lego has finacal troble because 8000 people together own over half a millon,i think its because they keep making water guns and crappy costumes meant for really little kids

Posted by legolover94 in New Zealand, 10 May 2008 18:13

Man i don't even want to how much money i've spent LEGO. But its all worth it.

Posted by Luke Skytalker in New Zealand, 10 May 2008 19:19

You will have spent at least $5000 NZ on it. I would be much the same.

Posted by BlackRabbit in Canada, 10 May 2008 20:38

my lego is probaby worth um about 6000- 10000 by todays standerdsi got mopst of it at grage sales

Posted by Luke Skytalker in New Zealand, 11 May 2008 01:19

Is that including the members that have been deleted? They still own sets too, but are hardly Brickset users. Also, some users that have been deleted have made another account, ie, Thomas Technic/Tommyboz.

Posted by ra2phoenix, 11 May 2008 02:08

14/25! I am guessing the ambulance just has awesome accessories, I would have got it for the stretcher if it weren't for my rescue helicopter.

Posted by Leggodt94 in United States, 11 May 2008 12:26

I own 19 out of the 25 most owned sets on brickset. I think that I forgot to mention that earlier. :)

Posted by legoguysw in United Kingdom, 01 Jun 2008 14:00

The new most owned set is the clone battle pack. It leads by 2! I have all the 4 most owned sets. And now only the top 20 sets are Star Wars! Nooo!

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