Hello and welcome to
Mario’s Bricks ! My name is Mario an AFOL from the West Midlands in
the UK. I’ve been a fan of LEGO since I was old enough to pick up
the brick as a young boy. Like most, I went through a dark age and
came back to LEGO in 2013. My brick addiction has slowly crept up on
me ever since.
The more sets I
acquired, the more I desired, and the one thing which truly struck me
was the massive calming effect LEGO has over me. LEGO for me is a
form a total relaxation that I haven’t been able to achieve with
any other hobby or pastime.
I would purchase and
build retail sets all the time, but my LEGO addiction truly took hold
when I began building my own creations. The more MOC’s I built, the
more time I would spend quietly working out how I would achieve my
end goal.
I realised that in this
rat race of a life taking time out to quietly think things over was
something I never really allowed myself to do, and has probably been
my problem for a large part of my adult life. I
found not only was LEGO making me more creative but was contributing
to making me a better person overall.
The more I built, the
more research I did, the more I became fascinated in other people’s
amazing creations and began attending LEGO shows across the UK. This
quickly ended up in meeting like minded people and my enrolment in
my local LUG Brick Central.
I find I am constantly
amazed at the very high standard of builds by people in the UK LEGO
scene, and not only that the calibre of the people themselves is also
something to be admired greatly.
To build more MOC’s,
to become a better builder, to build a sizeable LEGO collection, I
have found LEGO takes over your life. There isn’t a day that goes
by where LEGO isn’t involved at some point, quite simply I can’t
see myself ever stopping building.
The one thing that made
sense to me was to start this blog to record the journey of my life
in LEGO. I’m sure there’s plenty of other blogs bringing all the
latest LEGO news, I wanted to make my blog more about the huge LEGO
subculture in the UK and the creations of my own and other AFOL's.
I will of course also
be reviewing any LEGO sets, books and games I purchase along the way.
All of which I purchase at my own cost, so it will always be as and
when I am able to procure said items.
I'd also love to hear any feedback or whatever you'd like to say so feel free to email me at any time on JasonPMarriott@Gmail.com.
I’m a slow builder
and a slow writer but I’ll muddle along and hopefully bring you
some reasonable work along the way.
Come along !
Mario.
