>>9739068I got it because being a sane individual I understand, accept, and embrace the universal truth of "old good new bad". When I came out of my dark ages I was able to collect every single Castle set from Crusaders through Black Knights/Wolfpack. I stopped at Dragon Knights. I also got every Adventurers set outside of Dino Island. Anyway, recently I found a near complete Black Seas Barracuda in a used lot and it basically piratepilled me. I figured if I have that, then I should have someome for them to fight so I started trying to piece together the Imperial Trading Post. Then I saw that except for the baseplate and one minifig, the Eldorado Fortress is mostly pretty common, easy to acquire pieces. Then I said fuck it and figured I might as well collect the entirety of the original Pirates line. (I might avoid a couple of the really expensive sets from the end of the line, after they fired the original designers though.) I was also inspired by that anon who posts here sometimes about collecting old, unopened, new in box sets. How he does it kind of as a means of curation. New Lego can be nice and all, but when was the last time there was a theme where literally every single set after set, year after year was absolute kino? I have a duty to collect it.
