I used to enjoy looking at the Lego brochures simply for the scenes they'd planned out and the things that were happening in them, like accidents, cars swerving

I used to enjoy looking at the Lego brochures simply for the scenes they'd planned out and the things that were happening in them, like accidents, cars swerving etc. I really wanted a Lego trainset but never had one; I did however have the house, a hospital, a racing track, a police station, the docks/port, a mid 1980s spaceship (with "Benny" out of the Lego film), Robin Hood's hideaway, a Napoleonic era series of figures with a rowing boat (can't remember if we had the actual giant boat), a castle of some sort (got the cannons). My brother and I had many many days of happiness building and playing with Lego. I also had some horses. I have my characters somewhere but I think my mum gave away all of it to my nephew, who can only build from instructions, not from imagination. Hopefully he'll learn to do that.