I like sailing battleships, always have. I also like LEGO. But I don’t collect LEGO, for several reasons, primarily because they cost a lot and I don’t have space… I can’t do everything. But I still very much like LEGO. There was a point in 1996 where I almost bought this big LEGO ship, and I was so very close to doing so, but I didn’t. That might have been what would have brought me into being an active LEGO fan, and not a passive one.

I am aware that there have been a few ships released overall, I don’t know how many exactly, but they are out there. A new one coming out, the “Armada Galleon Esperanza” looks to be one I would really like to get!

This video sold me on it! However, I am between jobs, and have a lot of things going on, so a treat like this really isn’t important. But, a few years down the road… who knows? Just a neat thing to have.

My history with LEGO is documented in the below six photos. I only ever had four sets of LEGOs, one of them was pretty small. But we make everything out of them!

The sailing ship in two of the photos above, was entered in a contest at Villa Italia Mall. The rules stated that you could not use any non-LEGO items in your creation, but the winner was a guy who made a huge Mile High Stadium, topped off with a… non-LEGO horse at the top! He got the free trip to Waco, Texas. My little ship was a genius build for me at the time, and I was pretty disappointed that this cheater won! In retrospect, there were a lot of great builds there.

The “Voyager” spaceship was given to me by my Aunt Ida, and it pretty much blew my mind as the pieces and concept were far different from the LEGOs that I had available to me.

I still have all of these LEGOs in storage, and like my Star Wars collection, they are priceless to me. Material possessions I shouldn’t be so attached to, but I am. Too many good times.