All the kids in my family used to pool our Lego together to build the largest town we could, and we would sit around our enormous brick pile for hours on end to build whatever came into our heads. I really miss those days. Lego has always been my favourite toy, and so my personal collection of 1980s space Lego got huuuuuuge. Those days ended when I left home for university and my roommate situation forced me to settle for just one small technic kit.

Decades later, well into my working years, a ...