Lego Lover and I were out and about today and our discussion eventually moved onto the subject of his old-time favorite videos, Might Machines. We first saw these videos while we lived in Canada for a year when he was a toddler. He absolutely adored them and was over the moon when we found a copy of one of the videotapes at a secondhand shop to purchase and bring back to Australia. That was watched repeatedly. A couple years later, dvds were released of the series and a second set of videos were made. As the dvds were released, we would faithfully order them from Canada and wait two months or more for them to arrive and eventually collected nine dvds. Lego Lover watched them all the time and never tired of them. We thought he’d be watching them as a teenager.

So about a year or so after we received the last one, Lego Lover decided they were history and didn’t want them any more, along with several other toys he owned. Most of the old things have moved on to new owners but we still have the dvds. We didn’t want to just give away something of such monetary and sentimental value. At one point I did attempt to sell them and even to loan them out. But for some reason, they have never left the house.

But back to our conversation today…Lego Lover remembered his favorite episodes and was reminding me of them too (because I just might have forgotten one or two details, after all!). Then he went on to tell me that there were some episodes that he didn’t like, mostly from the second set of videos, and now claims that’s why he stopped watching in the first place….hmmm…

So the result of that conversation is that tonight, Lego Lover started watching his dvds again and has returned to non-stop discussion of them. Game Fanatic is not very amused by this turn of events, even though it means we get some relief from long-winded Lego and Bionicle discussion. I don’t really think his interest will last for long. But what I find interesting is that perhaps he does has a slight sentimental streak after all.