When it comes to collecting LEGO, do you build and then keep sets together or do you part them out into pieces? Or do you fall somewhere in between? Let me tell you a story of my personal journey finding out where I belong on that spectrum… a story that starts… in SPACE! Sets as a Whole Images via BrickLink As a kid in 1978, I was fascinated with space. I was also a maker—I loved Lincoln Logs, Erector sets and the “newest” sets (to me anyway) of the “Highly Sophisticated Interlocking Plastic Brick System” called LEGO. They were Space sets 462 Mobile Rocket Launcher and 483 Alpha-1 Rocket Base. I loved these sets and still do. I looked at these two different products as one complete “set” when combined back then. I kept them together for years. After branching out into a few Town sets, I started to intermix and try to...

