How an AFOL is born...

Yesterday I was hanging on the phone with the Nemesis to set a date and go see Mockingjay part 1, and he had this nice little tid-bit of information: his oldest daughter`s holiday wish list was crammed full of Lego Friends.

I told him, that is how his convergence will start from the wargaming to the Lego hobby, and he laughed.

But will he keep on laughing?  I told him now what will be happening.

The kid will toss open the boxes on the floor...

The kid won`t be finding elements and you will be on his knees soon to help out...

You will be going to the toy store with the kid not buying for yourself...

You will see something theit you like, and grab a small set of said theme...

It will look nice on your wargames desk, and you`ll be getting a bigger set for display...

Before you realise it, you`re trying to complete said theme...

You will discover the online community as you`re looking for information of your theme of choice...

You will see great MoCs, and want to try your hand at building one yourself...

You will discover BrickLink and the PAB wall in the Lego store, and realise you just need one more piece for some idea you have...

Gradually, Lego builds will be relegating wargame figures to boxes as you need the space...

You go to a local convention `to show the kid nice builds`...

You will get hooked and join the local LUG...

A line will be drawn between your bricks and the child`s bricks...

... and before you know it, you will be standing there a whole weekend watching that little touchy touchy fingers don`t grab the creations!

So dear Nemesis, I look forward to exchange bricky build ideas with you within a year...