2013 Brickset Raffle *ENTRY TO RAFFLE NOW CLOSED*

SirKevbags

I have to check it all. I'll get a list up as soon as I can.

CCC

That's a lot of shipping boxes. And lucky you, your grass is dry (I hope).

SirKevbags

@CCC Tightly packed ones and yes the grass is dry although they didn't stay there for long anyway.

MinifigsMe

Awesome!

coachie

'K8ing hell!

lluisgib

Hi guys and gals,

Today I've been at the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu. They were really thankful about the donation. They were also happy because they recognized the quality of LEGO and how useful are the LEGO bricks helping kids with lacks.
They are going to use all the sets in the playroom of the Hospital, or in special rooms when kids are not allowed to play in common areas.
The polybags will be given to kids who suffer because of some medical test.

Instead of post some pictures, check this link. My wife has done a small video of the donation.

https://share.htc.com/gMr5JLsS5

Thanks to Kevin, Huw and all the others who make this wonderful donation possible.

Lluis

SirKevbags

City Space Moon Buggy #3365 1
City Police Station #7498 1
City Garbage Truck #4432 1
City Museum Break In #60008 1
City Flatbed Truck #60017 1
City Fire Emergency #60003 1
City Helicopter Rescue #4429 1

Bricks Basic Bricks #4630 2
Bricks Fun With Vehicles #4635 2
Bricks Deluxe Brick Box #5508 2
Bricks Large Pink Box #5560 2
Bricks Doors And Windows #6117 2
Bricks Wheels #6118 2

Games Creationary #3844 2

Creator Seaside House #7346 2
Creator Small Cottage #31009 2
Creator Log Cabin #5766 2

Baseplate Green #626 5
Baseplate Blue #620 5

That is a full list of the sets Lluis handed over along with 200 polys!

Basta

I dropped of the Lego to the Canberra Hospital Paediatrics department the other day.

They have just sent me some pictures to share with everyone.


"Thank you so much for your involvement in donating Lego to Paediatrics at the Canberra Hospital. The Lego was a HUGE hit! It was fantastic seeing the smiles on the faces of not only the children themselves but also their parents. I have attached photos of some of the children that received the Lego.

Also, we would love to put a post on our Facebook page in recognition of yourself and the Brickset Forum if that’s ok?

Thanks again"











Just wanted to say another huge thank you to @SirKevbags as without him and his organisation none of this would have happened. Also thanks to everyone who bought tickets, it really did make a difference to the sick kids.

SirKevbags

Happy faces :-) The power of the brick in full force. Outstanding work Matt.

SirKevbags

City Prisoner Transport #7286 2
City Satellite Launch Pad #3366 2
City Garbage Truck #4432 2
City Fire Truck #60002 2
City Flatbed Truck #60017 2
City Dirt Bike #4433 2
City Helicopter Rescue #4429 1

Duplo Build And Play #4629 1

Bricks Basic Bricks #4630 1
Bricks Large Pink Box #5560 1
Bricks Bricks Deluxe #6177 2
Bricks Creative Bucket #10662 1

Friends Stephanies Outdoor Bakery #3930 3
Friends Hedgehog Hideaway #41020 4
Friends Poodles Little Palace #41021 3

Creator Fierce Flyer #31004 2
Creator Super Soarer #6912 2
Creator Blue Roadster #6913 2
Creator Construction Hauler #31005 3
Creator Highway Speedster #31006 3
Creator Small Cottage #31009 3
Creator Mini Speeder #31000 3
Creator Mini Skyflyer #31001 2
Creator Mini Fire Truck #6911 2

Technic Hovercraft #42002 2
Technic Off Road Racer #42010 2
Technic Race Car #42011 2

Baseplate Green #626 2
Baseplate Blue #620 2
Brick Separator #630 2

A full list of the handover by @Basta .Fantastic selection.

AFFOL_Shellz_Bellz

Can't say enough good things about this whole project! Awesome!

sidersdd

Sorry for the delay. Here's what I'll be taking to the Peyton Manning Children's Hospital in Indianapolis later this week.





Full list of items:

Star Wars A-Wing #75003 x1
Star Wars Saesee Tiin's Jedi Starfighter #9498 x2
Star Wars Elite Clone Trooper #9488 x4
Star Wars TIE Interceptor and Death Star #9676 x2

City Patrol Car #4436 x4
City Police Minifig Collection #7279 x4
City Excavator Transporter #4203 x4
City Fire Plane #4209 x1
City Fire Helicopter #4900 x1

Creator Power Mech #31007 x6
Creator Blue Roadster #6913 x7

Hero Factory XT-4 #6229 x2
Hero Factory Voltix #6283 x1

Monster Fighters Swamp Creature #9461 x1
Monster Fighters The Mummy #9462 x3
Monster Fighters The Werewolf #9463 x1

Galaxy Squad Swarm Interceptor #70701 x2

LEGO Batman Visual Dictionary #DKBATMANVD x1
LEGO Minifig Encyclopedia #5002506 x1
LEGO Notebook #850686 x1

Duplo Grow Caterpillar #6758 x1

Friends Bunny's Hutch #41022 x2
Friends Poodle's Little Palace #41021 x2
Friends Hedgehog's Hideaway #41020 x2
Friends Stephanie's Outdoor Bakery #3930 x2
Friends Mia's Magic Tricks #41001 x2

Chima Ring of Fire #70100 x1
Chima Target Practice #70101 x1
Chima CHI Waterfall #70102 x1
Chima Boulder Bowling #70103 x1
Chima Jungle Gates #70104 x1
Chima Nest Dive #70105 x1
Chima CHI Battles #70113 x23

Total MSRP of these sets: $1507.12

Big thanks go out to many Brickset members for contributing a good number of those CHI Battles sets, which were given out for free in every order by S@H in the U.S. Also a big thanks to @graphite, who was able to pick up many of those Creator sets at 50% off at Target and worked to get them to me via Brickworld, so as to avoid any shipping fees.

The hospital has indicated they will attempt to take some photos and post on social media. I'll keep you updated as I know more.

SirKevbags

Fantastic effort :-) I've never seen a crescent of Chima sets ;-)

graphite

Awesome haul for the kids!

sidersdd

I dropped off the items at the hospital tonight. The receptionist there did her best to take some photos of me dropping them off. Bless her heart. She really did try her best. I asked her to take some with my camera. Attached to this message is the best looking one. Honest.



Hopefully the ones she took with the hospital camera turned out better. Supposedly they'll be posting on their social media outlets:

Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/PeytonChildrens

Twitter
https://twitter.com/PeytonChildrens

caperberry

Well I can make out a hospital, a person and a Lego set. So all is good. I can also see a thumb

sidersdd

caperberry said:

Well I can make out a hospital, a person and a Lego set. So all is good. I can also see a thumb

Heh-heh, yep, although it may be a fingernail. She had these long fingernails, and had trouble holding the phone and keeping it steady for the shot.

Anyway, they went with my original photo with all the sets. Here's the Facebook post FWIW (dunno if I'm posting this link correctly or not; I gave up on Facebook a couple of years ago):
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=671590256202303&set=a.397603916934273.103778.265353186826014&type=1

SirKevbags

Warren Elsmore who many of you know here or if you don't you may have bought his excellent recent book handed over the delivery at Yorkhill in Glasgow today. He is pictured with Claire Hughes from Yorkhill who communicated with the play team and the following sets were supplied.

#4636 Police Building Set x 37
#4637 Safari Building Set x 37
#4630 Basic Bricks x 2
#853195 Calendar x 3
#850581 Friends Calendar x 4
#40080 Friends Pencil Holder x 3
#628 Doors And Windows x 1
#620 Blue Baseplate x 3

Big thanks to Warren for driving them over and Claire for being so patient.

adiemc

Thanks for the update @sirkevbags. Are there still sets to be distributed?

SirKevbags

There should be more updates within the next ten days. A real attempt has been made to tailor the requirements for each hospital and that has caused some delays. The thread here will be kept updated and when everything is complete there will be a front page article with all the pictures and quotes in one place.

bmwlego

Being a part of this has inspired me to start a holiday collection to be donated to a children's hospital from ILUGNY. Thanks for reaching out to me @SirKevbags to help out with the Brickset donation. Now this is another type of "Brickset" effect!

CapnRex101

Next year's raffle will surely be even bigger, so how do you plan to deliver all these items then? I wonder if you can hire Royal Mail lorries...? :o)

Great job everybody.

SirKevbags

Royal Mail are meanies and want paying for things like delivery. TNT are much more generous ;-)

Jenni

Toulouse LEGO was delivered this morning.

@bmwlego We left the hospital this morning with my friend/translator full of plans for organizing our church to collect Christmas presents to donate. The "Brickset effect" is moving outside the AFOL community :).

SirKevbags

A picture of the sets @Jenni handed over today. Appropriate in the brag thread to? ;-)

I love the international flavour to this handover. Sent from an Brit to an Aussie to be delivered in France. Great work Jenni!

Jenni

^ I took my American/Australian daughter too! That's actually only a third of what we handed over BTW. We didn't unpack everything as not all of it was staying in the play room.

khmellymel

This thread makes me smile :)

legomatt

caperberry said:

Well I can make out a hospital, a person and a Lego set. So all is good. I can also see a thumb

The first of many. :oP

indigobox

I agree khmellymel :)
kinda makes me want another raffle though :D

AFFOL_Shellz_Bellz

Did the hospital in Sacramento, CA get a delivery?

SirKevbags

@AFFOL_Shellz_Bellz All remaining deliveries are imminent and that includes the Sacramento one. I understand Sweden is happening today or tomorrow so there could be more great pictures later.

CCC

Once it is all done and dusted, are you going to give us a total piece count handed over? Not sets, pieces. I like big numbers.

SirKevbags

I MAY do it for boxed sets....... Polys have been done by the bag full so no real record.

MinifigsMe

*happy face*

AFFOL_Shellz_Bellz

@SirKevBags Thanks for that info. I will watch for the notice!

SirKevbags

Not wanting to be spammy but if anyone has missed the announced thread re the building contest be sure to check it out.

SirKevbags

@Supersympa has been out and about today making a delivery at the Astrid Lindgren Childrens Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. I think everyone would agree Eric is looking pretty sharp!

And for those that say you can't ship an old lawnmower box with 19kg of LEGO inside internationally, well those people are quitters ;-)

adiemc

Great stuff. Thanks for the update @sirkevbags

Supersympa

Thank you @sirkevbags

I want to thank you Kevin and brickset for your trust and organisation. It was a great experience, and I am very proud of being part of it.
It feels good to help those children, I have met a few and it can not be easy every day i must say. I was not able to take pictures of them for privacy reason, but the staff at Astrid lindgren's hospital was very thanksfull, and I am sure those Lego will lighten up their days!

When I arrived this morning to deliver the lego, my contact was not there as she was taking care of a child with her parents, but I said I am here to deliver the lego, and all the staff seemed to know that the "legoman" was coming ;)

and for the lawnmower box...the man at the post office said: why did you buy a lawnmower, you do not have a garden! LOL

/Eric

GothamConstructionCo

Mountfield isn't any "old lawnmower" @SirKevbags especially the SP180, that's a hell of a mower :)

LostInTranslation

This thread makes me happy :-)
I can't wait for the next event to raise funds for the newly inaugurated Fairy Bricks :-)

Legoboy

Well, it was my turn in the UK to do the Brickset community proud this morning. Took my two little helpers with me to lug our donation up to Ward 24 of Wexham Park Hospital - the Children's Ward.

As with Eric's visit, most staff knew to expect the LEGOman and had told some of the kids to expect something special that morning too. The buzz in the ward was phenomenal and the staff and kids could not have been more appreciative.

I was completely humbled by what I witnessed and felt so proud to have been part of what us all and the Hairy Fairy did for them. I sense our efforts are going to make a big difference in the ward.

Well done folks. Thank you.

James.

SirKevbags

Superb effort James. Great work on the delivery and the pictures. We are almost done. Mark has delivered to Wales but pictures sadly were not possible and Christian delivered in Germany this week. By my reckoning that leaves one delivery to complete.

SirKevbags

I've been asked loads of times privately what happened to the Australian girl with with the red leg in the pictures provided by @Basta . Well I've been in touch with the hospital. She was injured in a skiing accident and with the help of her pink brick box she has made a recovery.

caperberry

What a superb sight, well done James, Sir HF and everyone who entered!!

SirKevbags

Just heard from Christian Krutzfeldt who I'm sure many of you know is the LEGO Ambassador for the German LUG 1000steine. Christian responded to my request for help when we had a problem with the handover and brought the Diako hospital in Flensburg on board.

The vast majority of their requests were for Duplo so thats what was supplied. Christian is on the left handing over the sets to Dr Dördelmann. Thanks for helping out Christian!

Legoboy

Good effort Christian. :-)

I should also mention thaa little something arrived in the post this morning. Well done everyone involved.

rocao

I was finally able to deliver the Northern California portion of the Brickset/Fairy Bricks donation during the 2013 holidays. It went to Shriners Hospital for Children in Sacramento, CA.

If you recall, half the donation amount went towards sets purchased by @norm103 , who answered my public call to procure sets at the 50% off Target clearance sales, since nothing was available in my area.

The other half of the donation I used to "purchase" sets from my inventory at my cost, which varied between 50-90% off.

Like others, I had contacted the hospital beforehand and spoke to various staff who helped me identify characteristics of sets that worked best for them given the environment and programs in place. Some large sets would go into the community playroom, and smaller sets would be given to children that couldn't interact with the general population. LEGO games, brick buckets and Hero Factory foil bags were pointed out as being particularly useful due to the packaging doubling as storage containers.

Eight of the ubiquitous 70113 CHI Battles that LBR were giving away free made their way into the donation, of course, including one forwarded on to me by @n8er who won the Sopwith in the raffle.

I'm pleased to say that the final retail value of the sets was an amazing $1818!
The sets were as follows:

3180 Tank Truck
3841 Minotaurus x 4
3843 Ramses Pyramid x 4
3847 Magma Monster x 4
4202 Mining Truck
4203 Excavator Transporter x 2
4625 Pink Brick Box x 4
5538 Duplo Creative Bucket x 4
5658 Pizza Planet Truck x 2
5659 Great Train Chase x 2
5749 Creative Building Kit x 4
6138 My First Fire Station
6758 Grow Caterpillar Grow x 2
6858 Catwoman Cycle x 2
6865 Captain America x 5
6913 Blue Roadster x 4
7789 Lotso's Dump Truck x 2
9467 Ghost Train x 4
10558 A Fairy Tale x 2
31007 Power Mech x 4
79004 Barrel Escape x 4
70113 Chi Battles x 8

The hospital didn't allow photos with the kids due to patient privacy and general health concerns, so here are photos of the haul and my children and I in the lobby playing the role of santa claus and elves.

AFFOL_Shellz_Bellz

@rocao. thanks, Nice to see the kids at Shriners will have loads of Lego to keep them busy!

SirKevbags

Outstanding effort @rocao So this effectively ends things for 2013 raffle fun. Who thinks we can pull it off again this year? Bigger? Perhaps. Better? Definitely not!

Anyone remember the name of the bloke @Jenni beat up when he dared to question why money isn't donated? If I remember correctly I passed over $600 which became $1818. I think that's pretty conclusive that us doing the shopping works :-)