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I quite enjoyed reading that article. Our oldest has just got into Lego in a big way, which is great. This Christmas I spent hours building the batmobile and some Ninjago airship thing.
Same for me, I've bought a lot of the figures from China, they are fine and nice and cheap.
Also, Lego doesn't really do figures outside of sets, you can use Brick Link or similar, but if what you want is "rare" you pay a bomb for it. If you're prepared to wait for delivery the figures are 50-60p each from China.
For Christmas, I bought him all genuine retired sites from Ebay, got them 2nd hand but complete with a box, was very surprised how well packaged they were. I got Palpatine's Arrest (or the Emperors Office as he calls it) and the Emperors shuttle.
Recently I've bought some none Lego bricks, around 4KG of 2X4 and 2X8 blocks, these are great as they are encouraging him to use his imagination and we do things together.
Not got any Chinese Lego sets as yet, probably will get Jabba's sail barge, not until Easter though he has enough Lego for now!