2015 Brickset Secret Santa

cjorgens

Sorry for the late posting, we have been away from home visiting family over the holidays. I just wanted to let my SS know that received and of course like my gift of the #60078 Utility Shuttle, a perfect addition to our space collection. I'm also glad to see that my recipient liked their gift as well. 

piratemania7

My apologies for an ever so delayed post.  I am truly grateful for the thoughtful and well planned gifts my SS sent to me.  :  )

Also thank you to @CapnRex101 and @rancorbait for organizing things this year.

ravendragonwing

BombTec said:

Awesome! Three TLM polys that I missed out on. And you can't have a Christmas without a tree. Thanks SS!!!

I am glad you liked your gifts (the cat must have liked them too!)
Jennifer

Russell844

My gift is now enroute. In the mean time, here is what I got from my Bricklink Secret Santa.
 

Pate5346

I was busy with work over Christmas so didn't manage to say thanks to my Secret Santa. I was very pleased what I've got as the poly was on my wanted list.
Plus got a quiz which was a guide what the other item was which got my tired brain think slightly harder at the time. Lots of though and creativity went into it.
 So It is delayed Thank you to my Santa.

GothamConstructionCo

The second part of my SS gift arrived today,



Several intricately wrapped and complete with instructions, presents and a ESB post card with a kind message on the back.

Suffice it to say I couldn't wait for a "Banksey style art emergency" or a "getting lost in the city of London emergency" so I opened them.



I doubt I will ever find out who my SS sender is but they certainly have done there homework in fact they seem to know me a little too well as these custom items all have very close connotations with me and my interests.

So I would like to say a big thank you to my SS, whoever you are :o)

DanGP

A very belated thank you to my Secret Santa. I think I know he it was but I'd hate to put my foot in it and thank the wrong person but needless to say good choice. I'm know the proud owner of all three generations of A-Wing. I got quite nostalgic building it as well.

TyresOFlaherty

I have to say, I'm really impressed with the amount of work and care going into people's secret santa gifting on here. I'll have to get on board for 2016, although I have to say, I'm a little intimidated!

TyresOFlaherty

And maybe this sounds super corny, but I can sometimes have a pretty pessimistic view of people and society, so it warms my little heart to see people taking such care in wanting to make someone else happy with what they gift them. I hope I can be as good a secret santa as the ones I've seen in this forum!

plasmodium

TyresOFlaherty said:

I have to say, I'm really impressed with the amount of work and care going into people's secret santa gifting on here. I'll have to get on board for 2016, although I have to say, I'm a little intimidated!

I know what you mean! Some people go way above the budget, but as a student I've always had to stick fairly close to it. People are still pretty appreciative, though usually!

snowhitie

^nothing wrong with that, also sometimes someone might pick up a great deal where they live or something, so I would not worry about this. Without wanting to sound cliché, but it's the thought that counts! And I think it's especially nice if someone puts a lot of thought in theirs ;)

plasmodium

Oh, absolutely! I certainly wasn't criticising people for being generous!

LostInTranslation

I think my giftee is happy with what I gave them but I am already thinking about what to do better for 2016. Obviously it depends on who you get as to what exactly you give but I'll definitely be keeping my eyes open over the year for cool little stocking fillers :-) 

iso3200

I loved the gift I received (obviously) and I thought I'd put some effort into sending one, but unfortunately the recipient hasn't posted on here so I can only assume I missed the mark somehow :-(

DanGP

Maybe I'm getting old but as much as getting something expensive is nice thought & effort is more meaningful. The second part of my SS arrived this week. It's always nice to get a little post Christmas pressie. Thank you Secret Santa.

L3go

 


Dear Santa, today is the first day I have been able to say this but thank you so much for the amazing gifts you sent me. I was blown away to receive such lovely lego and now I have something extra to build every Christmas to form part of my Christmas Lego.

Thanks again Santa

Russell844

Better late than never. I won't go into the story, but my Secret Santa Bricklinked me these store grand opening sets. This is one of the best Secret Santa gifts ever!

piratemania7

Already reminiscing of this part years Secret Santa - cannot wait until this years is announced!

piratemania7

@CapnRex101 and @rancorbait any idea when/if a 2016 secret santa thread will take shape?

Renegade007cjh

piratemania7 said:

@CapnRex101 and @rancorbait any idea when/if a 2016 secret santa thread will take shape?

Strangely enough, I was thinking the exact same thing yesterday!! Last year's was a blast, so definitely up for another go!

William_Townsley

I'm definitely up for it.

thebeermonkey

Count me in.

nexander

This will be my third one, bloody hell! Looking forward to it.

plasmodium

Well, this particular thread was started in November 2015, so hold your horses for a little bit. :-)

Bumblepants

^ You mean hold your plastic-light-up-reindeer I already have out on the lawn next to the giant inflatable Santa right? RIGHT?!?

plasmodium

I thought it was federal law in America that you had to wait till after Thanksgiving before you could think about Christmas?

LostInTranslation

Well I am already in the process of making Christmas decorations... Lego ones of course, from Chris McVeigh's excellent book :-) 

Edit - definitely up for doing Secret Santa again,  I need to pay forward the karma and generosity my 2015 Santa showed me.  

Bricklover18

Nope here in America stores start putting up Christmas stuff in September. 

Count me in for secret Santa. 

TheOriginalSimonB

I'm in for this. 

CapnRex101

I'll be opening a new thread for the 2016 Brickset Secret Santa on Monday. Looking forward to another great year!

piratemania7

^Fantastic cannot wait!

AdeelZubair

I've been watching Brickset Secret Santa unfold for two years now, I've come to a conclusion that I'd like to participate this year. It looks like a ton of fun!

Salamalex

^ Me too.

Russell844

I'm so in again!!!!

starwars4ever

Can't wait to join this amazing event for my first time! So excited!!!

SumoLego

Bricklover18 said:

Nope here in America stores start putting up Christmas stuff in September. 

Count me in for secret Santa. 

It normally goes: July 4th Sales (July); Back to School (July); Halloween (August); Christmas (August).  I was looking at Christmas lights at Target just a few hours ago.  Blah!

I'm in - it's a fantastic event.  Just make sure to update your 'wants' list.  It makes it much easier for us non-artistic or clever folks that can't build something without some Danish instructions.

historyman

I'm in

iso3200

I'm in again. I do hope my recipient takes the time to post what they receive on the forum this year though. That's all part of the fun.

I've been slowly putting aside things I dislike some really cool gift sets for a while now for this ;-)

plasmodium

Are we making it UK/EU this year instead of UK only? I seem to remember someone suggested that last year but it was too late to integrate it for that time round. I don't know how many non-UK mainland EU-based members we have - maybe it's even worth running three separate gift exchanges?

nexander

And a we check to see we don't get the same person as last year :) Think I would struggle a third time!

Bumblepants

^I got the same person back-to-back the first couple years we did this too.

plasmodium

Bumblepants said:

^I got the same person back-to-back the first couple years we did this too.

Same here! "Random"-ness is a funny thing.

joel4motion

I also got the same person the first two years. Definitely in again this year.

CapnRex101

I can assure you that it is a totally random draw!

SprinkleOtter

I'm a little nervous that I'll get some Jack Stone or Galidor in the post, but I'm in...

CaptainRogers

Very cool! I'll be in this year. Sounds like fun.

CaptainRogers

Also, I'm in the US, so if we do it location based I understand.

snowhitie

Looking forward to this, Christmas is the good thing about winter.

If there would be a separate Europe mainland one, I don't mind helping to organise (since I know you got one person per territory so you the organisers could be surprised too...), don't know how many there non UK-EU people there would actually be - I know last year us mainland based ones just entered the UK one since there was only a small amount of people, but I ended up using our UK address anyway.

Don't think it's that much more for a small parcel + it can be quite fun to go outside of the country since there might be other promotions/cool goodies there. But I guess the Captain has an idea of how many people we were actually talking about?

CapnRex101

A continental European event would be great if there is sufficient interest.

Is anybody in the US willing to organise the event on their side of the Atlantic? It's very simple and you can still participate in the exchange.

cmrt1014

I'm in the US and put my hand up to say "Me!" I'd be glad to organize the US portion.