2014 Brickset Secret Santa

Thanos75

I would love to thank my secret santa for the amazing book. Beautiful LEGO 2. I was blown away by the book. It's both inspiring and intimidating. Awesome gift.

kioko21

Definitely worth the wait!! Thank you so much secret Santa!!! Was so excited when I saw the rabbit family but was completely shocked to get the knight bus as well!! Thank you so much! >. < merry Christmas everyone!

iamterry

Well somebody was rather interested in the secret santa pressy, also explains why he was asking for an ice lolly later on too :) Cheers!

margot

Did everyone except @Kempo81 receive their presents?

Bumblepants

^ No. Now according to the tracking they have decided that Coppell Texas is where my package should be headed. Granted it is my fault it has the wrong ZIP on it, but you wouldn't think it would be that hard for someone to actually read the entire address and see the correct city name and think it might be a good idea to send it there once it bounced back. Side note, the guy who answers the phone at the Coppell office would only interrupt me and tell me who I should be calling instead. It seems like everyone is keen to pass the buck to someone else. Yay for government run organizations. (Also not really that upset by it, mostly amused but also really anxious for more Lego)

iamterry

Cor! My boy in his excitement in seeing the ice cream truck managed to drop the other part of the santa present which we just discovered- a seriously cool set of custom pieces! Huge thanks!

kioko21

In all the excitement of getting my secret santa present yesterday I forgot to say thank you again to @CapnRex101‌ and @rancorbait‌ for organising it! Love doing secret santa's and this one has been great fun! Can't wait for next year! :)

paul_merton

City fire engine for me

SilentMode

Yes indeed, thanks very much for organising it this year!

plasmodium

^ & ^^^ Absolutely! Top notch job, chaps!

LegoKip

I'd hoped my recipient would post on here but nary a word.
A great deal of the fun for me is reading giftees' reactions -- oh, and seeing photos of their presents.
Maybe we'll hear from more participants in the coming days?

A great big Thank You to our organizers -- @rancorbait‌ and @CapnRex101‌ well done!

Also kudos to @Huw‌ for hosting this event.

theLEGOman

LegoKip said:

I'd hoped my recipient would post on here but nary a word.
A great deal of the fun for me is reading giftees' reactions -- oh, and seeing photos of their presents.
Maybe we'll hear from more participants in the coming days?

A great big Thank You to our organizers -- @rancorbait‌ and @CapnRex101‌ well done!

Also kudos to @Huw‌ for hosting this event.

Mine has posted, they seemed pretty happy.

margot

LegoKip said:

I'd hoped my recipient would post on here but nary a word.

There are some people who participated in Secret Santa that are pretty much forum lurkers rather than participants. Not sure how I feel about that as like you said, it's nice to see the gifts and read about people buying and receiving their gifts. But on the other hand I don't want to make people feel unwelcome.

MorkMan

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How are we doing the reveals this year? I'm sure my Santee knows who her their Santa was...

LegoKip

@MorkMan‌ She's lucky, too! Such a crafty guy you are.

carlq

^^I'm in the same boat as @LegoKip‌ - my Santee has yet to acknowledge opening, so I'm loathe to announce who it is in case they haven't opened it yet/hate it so much they can't bear to show what they got. :-(

joel4motion

Mine has posted, quite content with the response and as far as I know I left no clue as to my identity. Enough for me...

plasmodium

joel4motion said:

Mine has posted, quite content with the response and as far as I know I left no clue as to my identity. Enough for me...

I deliberately revealed my identity in the note I put in the bottom! I wasn't sure what the protocol was, and in other ones I've done we've always revealed. Still, probably doesn't matter...

Thanos75

I had to reveal my identity aswell due to unforseen delivery problems....hehe

LostInTranslation

joel4motion said:

Mine has posted, quite content with the response and as far as I know I left no clue as to my identity. Enough for me...

Same here! :-)

Bumblepants

Thanos75 said:

I had to reveal my identity aswell due to unforseen delivery problems....hehe

Well I am sure I will like whatever it is just fine when it finally turns up. If it doesn't get here before the 1st it might have to wait in line behind the Detective Office to get built though :smile:

snowhitie

Waw, this all looks like so much fun. I love Secret Santa, was cool to see how people made such an effort! I hope I can join in next year :-)

paul_merton

I don't think I've been rumbled yet, and I can't think of any clues that would be subtle enough to not give the game away immediately! :)

Shib

I'd love to know who my secret Santa was so I can thank them directly...my gifts were awesome and unexpected.

brickedin

^likewise and theres always the chance you can help them out in the future. Incidentally my secret santa has already helped me out with a deal spotted today.......;)

DanGP

Many thanks to @plasmodium for the polybags. It's good to finally cross them off the list. The bag of loose pieces was also much appreciated. Who doesn't love rummaging through a bag of those. It sounds as though the recipient of my gift is happy as well so it's all worked out beautifully.

Britcom

Thank you so much to my secret Santa, I feel so spoilt and wasn't expecting so much! I will definitely be joining in again next year, it was lots of fun.

margot

@Britcom, what did you receive? How about a photo?

Britcom

@margot, of course. Here is the photo.

oansun

thanks to my secret santa!

TheBrickLadd

@shib, it was me ;) hope you liked the personalised Keyring :)

Shib

@TheBrickLadd‌ - literally three days before opening it my joker keyring broke! Absolutely loved the whole lot. Thank you so much!

CapnRex101

I would be interested to hear who my Secret Santa was if they are willing to come forward. Whoever it was, they did a great job so thanks to them!

TheBrickLadd

No worries @Shib‌

Thanks very much to @GothamConstructionCo‌ for my gifts. I built the city set and it was taken off of me within 5secs by my son.

I will certainly be adding the little shed to my city layout as soon as the shed actually gets finished!

:)

Mrs_Wobblehead

@pricey73‌ and I just want to wish all the secret santa's out there a happy new year - we look forward to meeting up with you again next year :smiley:

margot

@Mrs_Wobblehead, Loved your photos, and you got great gifts! What exactly was that Lego tin that you got?

rancorbait

CapnRex101 said:

I would be interested to hear who my Secret Santa was if they are willing to come forward. Whoever it was, they did a great job so thanks to them!

I know who it was ;) But I don't think I want to tell you.... :P

rancorbait

rancorbait said:

CapnRex101 said:

I would be interested to hear who my Secret Santa was if they are willing to come forward. Whoever it was, they did a great job so thanks to them!

I know who it was ;) But I don't think I want to tell you.... :P

rancorbait

rancorbait said:

CapnRex101 said:

I would be interested to hear who my Secret Santa was if they are willing to come forward. Whoever it was, they did a great job so thanks to them!

I know who it was ;) But I don't think I want to tell you.... :P

LostInTranslation

@rancorbait‌ - were those duplicate posts accidental or were you just trying to wind up CapnRex? :-)

@CapnRex101 - I'll step forward and identify myself as your Secret Santa. I'm really glad you like the gifts. The significance of the 2x2 tile is that I had to empty out a box of loose parts to send your gift in and I think said tile must have got caught in the flaps of the box by mistake :-)

kempo81

Thanks to my secret santa! I've had this on my wanted list since it's release and I was beginning to think I was never going to pick it up! Another great Brickset SS, thanks to all involved :smile:

iso3200

^Worth the wait methinks

kempo81

^ Absolutely worth the wait!

CapnRex101

@LostInTranslation‌ - Thanks Lucy! I wondered about that tile for a few days and thought I must be missing something :)

LegoKip

@kempo81‌ Regarding your hand in the photo: nice personal touch and very appropriate. I think we all just breathed a sigh of relief.

Happy New Year to all the Secret Santas / Santees!

rancorbait

LostInTranslation said:

@rancorbait‌ - were those duplicate posts accidental or were you just trying to wind up CapnRex? :-)

@CapnRex101 - I'll step forward and identify myself as your Secret Santa. I'm really glad you like the gifts. The significance of the 2x2 tile is that I had to empty out a box of loose parts to send your gift in and I think said tile must have got caught in the flaps of the box by mistake :-)

I have no idea why any of those three posts are there....

Sorry Chris, I couldn't resist poking at you a bit ;)

CapnRex101

^ Don't worry Amos, next time I have an opportunity to irritate you I will make sure to take that chance! ;)

rancorbait

CapnRex101 said:

^ Don't worry Amos, next time I have an opportunity to irritate you I will make sure to take that chance! ;)

Go right ahead :)

msanders

Can we start questing who our secret Santa is?

I'm guessing..... @theLEGOman by virtue of he was tracking the parcel all the way and mine arrived Royal Mail special delivery.

Photo of my both my Lego Christmas present enjoying their time together!

theLEGOman

Not me.