Bitter sweet because I'm pretty sure this means we lost real one. RIP
It's church thrift store run by elderly people and they get overwhelmed and will just toss anything on a whim. They practically give away the stuff they do sell.
The others that were piled up in the bottom of the box. Some of the discs had fallen out of the cases and sleeves but they all seemed fine except for one: Half-Life GOTY disc got a few tiny fatal cracks. A lot of software and bargain bin games have been excluded.
There were two discs that go with two joysticks I have. I have a sidewinder somewhere but couldn't bother looking for it for the pic.
Mom tossed out all my early 90s legos by mistake including all my older brother original 80s sets (including the train set).
I had two or three of the big pirate ships, the pirate castle with the soldiers and glow in the dark ghost, the space shuttle+launch pad, the marina with the red crane pieces that are super rare, the fucking awesome ice planet explorer dudes with the bright orange visors and antennas.
And...fuck me...this really hurts I had almost of the the undersea explorer series, the dudes with submarines and the shiny silver knives, coolest lego sets ever made.
I think this is why I dumpster dive. I'm still looking for them.
I share your lego trauma.
Mine didnt throw away my lego, they just dumped them all into one box.. then threw away the boxes and the manuals, which.. to me at least, was worse. I'd have prefered if the legos had been thrown away in addition to the boxes and manuals.
and they did it while i was a kid and still actively playing with them.
I cant even remember what lego sets I had anymore, outside of like.. one big set. So I cant even search for manuals online.
Erm...but the manuals are all online, though? So, I feel you, that it would be cooler with the actual manuals, but still having the bricks...is cool, I guess.
I was in a kinda similar position. Browse Lego sets of that time, a lot came back to me that way.