Quote Originally Posted by Kyle View Post
What I find is... as a kid all the sets bought by my parents would eventually be disassembled into a big box and I would have wild fun with all the parts building all sorts of stuff. But now as a grown up when I go buy my own kits, I tend to buy the sets for their designs and appreciate them more. So I now prefer to build them and leave them and far less reluctant to use these sets for parts. And I don't really have much time to be creative again anyway...
I had the same phenomenon as a kid. As an adult, I now buy sets that I like for the sets, but I do envisage them all eventually getting thrown into the same vat, but I'll always save the instruction in case I do want to revisit something.