I'm probably going to invite all sorts of comments, but hell...
Lego is brilliant. It helped shaped what I wanted to do in life by designing buildings. Not just the look, but how things 'worked' in buildings.
I can vividly remember my first Lego set. 7th Birthday, and the first Birthday I can remember getting money to spend.
So, off with Mum down to the local Toy Shop, and £8 later came out with this...
www.1000steine.com/brickset/images/6930-1.jpg
Which led, at Christmas, to me getting this...
www.1000steine.com/brickset/images/6980-1.jpg
And that was it, that got me started. It was the perfect toy. Space stations, rockets, alien worlds, you name it, I built it.
Eventually this progressed on to the Castle and City sets and eventually some of the early Technic models.
A shedload of potential plastic tripping hazards.

Then growing up and moving on comes around. Lego gets put away into the roof to collect dust for a number of years, eventually all getting sold when the parents had a big clear out and I moved on.
The Lego sets kept me amused for hours, probably far more than was healthy and as said, eventually led to me doing what I do for a living. It was a natural transition.

Then they brought out the Minifigure sets a few years back. Nostalgia kicked in.

To date, one of the walls in the home office looks like this...

(Please excuse crappy cameraphone shot)
All 11 sets to date, except for that damned 'Mr. Gold' figure. The bastard.

Then they brought out the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit Sets. Currently up to date with those as well (Tower of Orthanc set just arrived in time for Christmas) and occasionally
I'll dabble in various MOCs which have included a 'Masonic Temple' among other things

So yeah, Lego. I love it. And I'm a grown man of 37 who owes his current profession and business to playing with those plastic bricks as a kid.
( The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Thu 24 Oct 2013, 17:48, 10 replies)

I'm missing a few from series 1 & 2 (and Mr Gold) but that's it
Though mine are scattered around the Lego city in the kitchen...I'll have to take some pics of it later
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 24 Oct 2013, 17:59, closed)

Deploy Beyond Parody Defence!

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 24 Oct 2013, 19:13, closed)

I can't understand the collectibles.
I can't knock it either as most of us collect something.
Sadly I can't thank Lego for having a career but I do think it is a thing to be celebrated: Leke god[sp?]!
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Thu 24 Oct 2013, 18:19, closed)

Hooray

( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 24 Oct 2013, 18:46, closed)

I also had toys as a child that probably had some influence on me in layer life.
So really the only difference between us is that I actually know what the word 'adult' means.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 24 Oct 2013, 19:12, closed)

Having small animals to torture
is not the same as having toys.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Thu 24 Oct 2013, 19:20, closed)

I once managed to tie up a bluebottle with fishing line.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 24 Oct 2013, 19:26, closed)

Best friends are tied up friends, they never leave you.
poor master shambo and his kidnapped bluebottle friend :(
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 24 Oct 2013, 19:45, closed)

After clicking on your first link...
..my head swam and my vision blurred as I was transported back some 30 years to when I too was given that very same lego set. Trippy.

Now I too am a grown man of 37 who owes absolutely nothing to playing with those plastic bricks...nothing, that is, but this: every time I leave my 4yo to be babysat by his nan, he asks me to make him a spaceship before I go. I do so using what remains of that very same lego set, no. 6930.

Then he complains that it looks nothing like the spaceships in Star Wars.
(filthytruck, Fri 25 Oct 2013, 12:14, closed)