I created a perpetual motion machine out of technical LEGO when I was 5. The first models I remember owning were Thatcher Perkins Locomotive, London Bus, and Forklift Truck (with old 4-piece minifig). I have exactly enough blue railway track to make the biggest layout in the instruction booklet, which I begged my parents for one Christmas, but had to make do with the 4.5v motor with black box made to look like a tender.

I love the Star Wars sets, Batman, and the Architecture series. I ...