What's your LEGO 'status' today?

Yodalicious

Recce said:

Yodalicious said:

^ Very nice. 

One day. I'm saving them for my boys. Still have every set in their boxes, along with the various polybags, and a few multiples. My sons' heads will explode the day we open them. 

My kids don't know anything about LOTR/Hobbit, they only cared about Minecraft. And kept telling me the new Minecraft movie will be out in 2019...

Mine don't either. They're far too young. But my mom was a huge LotR/Hobbit fan and the biggest cheerleader for my Lego obsession when I was growing up. She passed away years before my first son was born. Had she still been with us, I'm sure she would've bought all the sets for my boys and put them away for them when they were older. Instead, I did it. The first LotR wave is actually what brought me out of my dark ages. We found out our first was going to be a boy and I bought the first wave almost immediately. 

As for Minecraft, this is the extent of what my oldest knows about it: "why their heads not round like real Lego?" He swears they aren't "real" Lego. 

tallblocktoo

Thats sounds awesome Yodaliciuos.  I only recently started buying Lego and have missed out on most themes that I would consider buying every set.  I have actually done this with Elves and really enjoyed it.  Although I have opened and built them I intend to pass them on to my granddaughter.  I wish there were another theme like that where I felt the need to own every set that was available retail.  I have enjoyed some of the Ninjago sets but not the point I would buy everyone.  Your sons will have a blast.  

Legopassion8

Got the last Ultimate Axl out of Target. Sir Cowbell is hawt right now!

MaffyD

Won't be going near any Lego for a while - I've just come home after bowel surgery, and sitting at a table to sort and build would be agony. Not happy. :-(

tallblocktoo

All the best with healing @MaffyD.

Recce

tallblocktoo said:

Minecraft movie?  Somehow that doesn't seem exciting in the least.  I suppose to fans of the game it may be!

No idea what the movie will be like, but my kids play the game on the PS3, ipads, Samsung tablets and even on my phone!

Needless to say, I had to buy a few of the Minecraft sets for them. 

tallblocktoo

@Reece what did you think of the sets.  I have actually been tempted not as a fan of Minecraft as mentioned just as something a little different. That new Fortress coming out looks kind of fun the way you can reconfigure all the modules.  I have yet to buy a set but some did look appealing just as a Lego set.

Recce

tallblocktoo said:

@Reece what did you think of the sets.  I have actually been tempted not as a fan of Minecraft as mentioned just as something a little different. That new Fortress coming out looks kind of fun the way you can reconfigure all the modules.  I have yet to buy a set but some did look appealing just as a Lego set.

From what I can see with my kids playing them, the figures and animals looked interesting but the bricks are mostly common bricks.

I think even for licensed sets they're pretty expensive, though I'm happy as long as the kids enjoyed it :)

madejp86

MaffyD said:

Won't be going near any Lego for a while - I've just come home after bowel surgery, and sitting at a table to sort and build would be agony. Not happy. :-(

I just had the same thing, had 1 meter (3 feet) of small bowel removed. It's been a week after surgery and I can sit at a table with no issues. Don't be sad, you'll be fine shortly.

TheOriginalSimonB

@MaffyD and @madejp86 best wishes for a speedy recovery to you both. 

MaffyD

Well, who knew our bowels would be a common point of reference @madejp86! Glad you're feeling better. Mine includes some work at the "business end" so to speak, so we'll see I suppose...

Salamalex

Hope you're both feeling better soon. How LEGO connects... ;) 
And in other news - finally having a go at my first build/MOC in my new LEGO room. 

chrisalddin

my lego plans for today are. shot to hell.
i lost a finger. when i try to move said finger it like some one is cutting off the finger.
so. building lego is out of the question. just to painful.
and i am board.

JudgeChuck

chrisalddin said:

my lego plans for today are. shot to hell.
i lost a finger. when i try to move said finger it like some one is cutting off the finger.
so. building lego is out of the question. just to painful.
and i am board.

So, you've lost a finger, but moving it is painful...??!! Whatever you've done, it sounds painful!

My LEGO status today is catching up on all the posts on Brickset after summer hols... :-(

stlux

@MaffyD @chrisalddin hope you feel better soon!

To add a happy update to this thread for a change: will be in Saarbrücken this weekend, which will include a mandatory visit to the LEGO store! First visit to a LEGO store since I came out of my Dark Ages. Only been once in a LEGO store before. (Frankfurt)

chrisalddin

JudgeChuck said:

chrisalddin said:

my lego plans for today are. shot to hell.
i lost a finger. when i try to move said finger it like some one is cutting off the finger.
so. building lego is out of the question. just to painful.
and i am board.

So, you've lost a finger, but moving it is painful...??!! Whatever you've done, it sounds painful!

My LEGO status today is catching up on all the posts on Brickset after summer hols... :-(

i have not lost. my finger.
but as i can not bend it. it's as good as if i had lost it.  it still there but way to painful to use.

Legoboy

chrisalddin said:

JudgeChuck said:

chrisalddin said:

my lego plans for today are. shot to hell.
i lost a finger. when i try to move said finger it like some one is cutting off the finger.
so. building lego is out of the question. just to painful.
and i am board.

So, you've lost a finger, but moving it is painful...??!! Whatever you've done, it sounds painful!

My LEGO status today is catching up on all the posts on Brickset after summer hols... :-(

i have not lost. my finger.
but as i can not bend it. it's as good as if i had lost it.  it still there but way to painful to use.

I wish that was all I'd lost.  ;)

Pitfall69

chrisalddin said:

JudgeChuck said:

chrisalddin said:

my lego plans for today are. shot to hell.
i lost a finger. when i try to move said finger it like some one is cutting off the finger.
so. building lego is out of the question. just to painful.
and i am board.

So, you've lost a finger, but moving it is painful...??!! Whatever you've done, it sounds painful!

My LEGO status today is catching up on all the posts on Brickset after summer hols... :-(

i have not lost. my finger.
but as i can not bend it. it's as good as if i had lost it.  it still there but way to painful to use.

Sounds painful. I dropped a 75 pound weight on my right index finger and crushed it and basically was held together by a few pieces of skin. The weight blew out the "guts" out each side of the finger. Fun times :)

TheOriginalSimonB

Ouch!

Pitfall69

Yesterday was my wedding anniversary. My wife wants the Lego Disney Castle as her gift. I asked her what my gift was and she said "Me, of course." Can't argue with that :)

bandit778

@Pitfall69
congratulations on the anniversary, nice to see you kept the ears tied back for the picture.

Legoboy

Pitfall69 said:

Yesterday was my wedding anniversary. My wife wants the Lego Disney Castle as her gift. I asked her what my gift was and she said "Me, of course." Can't argue with that :)

;)

SumoLego

^^^ I assume she's standing on a bed of crushed 'My Little Pony' parts...

(I was going to dig out a photo as well, but my lovely Bride would likely set fire to my UCS MF.)

Congrats on the Anniversary!

BrickDancer

^^Wait, is that @Pitfall69 without hair or is that you @Legoboy with your best Pitfall69 impression?

dspigel

@Pitfall69
How many years now?

catwrangler

madejp86 said:

MaffyD said:

Won't be going near any Lego for a while - I've just come home after bowel surgery, and sitting at a table to sort and build would be agony. Not happy. :-(

I just had the same thing, had 1 meter (3 feet) of small bowel removed. It's been a week after surgery and I can sit at a table with no issues. Don't be sad, you'll be fine shortly.

Good grief, it's more common than I thought! Me three, though it'll be seven years on 1st September... once you get used to moving around and the home routine, Lego is a very cheering post-op activity, though! Hope you're both feeling a lot better soon. :)

Meanwhile, there was a very offended cat in our house earlier:



In her defence, it IS her chair, but I needed somewhere to put the tray!

Pitfall69

dspigel said:

@Pitfall69
How many years now?

14 glorious years :)

Pitfall69

BrickDancer said:

^^Wait, is that @Pitfall69 without hair or is that you @Legoboy with your best Pitfall69 impression?

Yes, @Legoboy did that as a joke to get us back for doing the same thing to him with a previous picture  ;)

Pitfall69

SumoLego said:

^^^ I assume she's standing on a bed of crushed 'My Little Pony' parts...

(I was going to dig out a photo as well, but my lovely Bride would likely set fire to my UCS MF.)

Congrats on the Anniversary!

It depends; is it a LEPIN UCS MF or a LEGO UCS MF? ;)

SumoLego

Pitfall69 said:

It depends; is it a LEPIN UCS MF or a LEGO UCS MF? ;)

Even she would notice the difference.  Despite the opinion of others in the Forum...

Yodalicious

BrickDancer said:

^^Wait, is that @Pitfall69 without hair or is that you @Legoboy with your best Pitfall69 impression?

Whoa whoa whoa! Let's keep the lack of hair comments to a minimum. Some of us get it enough from our kids!

Johnyk668

Getting my Lone Ranger on.... I actually thought the movie was entertaining and after looking at some of the sets have decided to buy a few.
So today I picked up #79108 from a reseller for $100 AUD which is $30 above the original RRP but cheaper than what other resellers are asking. 
Also ordered #79107 from ebay and now deciding on when to get the train. 

Jern92

Yodalicious said:

Whoa whoa whoa! Let's keep the lack of hair comments to a minimum. Some of us get it enough from our kids!

What's wrong with the lack of hair anyway? Some bald men are very attractive.

Lego_Star

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TigerMoth

Jern92 said:

What's wrong with the lack of hair anyway? Some bald men are very attractive.

According to IMDb, woman rate the Fast & Furious films more highly than men; it has nothing to do with cars.

bandit778

TigerMoth said:

Jern92 said:

What's wrong with the lack of hair anyway? Some bald men are very attractive.

According to IMDb, woman rate the Fast & Furious films more highly than men; it has nothing to do with cars.

Although to be fair, being rich and built like a brick S**thouse does help Vin Diesel's case.

Yodalicious

Jern92 said:

Yodalicious said:

Whoa whoa whoa! Let's keep the lack of hair comments to a minimum. Some of us get it enough from our kids!

What's wrong with the lack of hair anyway? Some bald men are very attractive.

I keep telling my wife that. ;)

My four-year-old is obsessed with my lack of hair. It makes no sense to him. Especially since I'm so much older than him. In his mind, I should have hair down to the ground since I've been around 33 more years than him. 

TigerMoth

bandit778 said:

Although to be fair, being rich and built like a brick S**thouse does help Vin Diesel's case.

Posssibly. But, with hair, he attracted a lot less "interest".

Have you seen photographs of him with his full afro? Can you imagine him with hair like his twin brother, Paul?

snowhitie

Hope @MaffyD and @madejp86 and @chrisalddin all feel better soon. Annoying when you feel too bad to even build Lego.

Congrats @Pitfall69 with the 14 years. I love your wifes dress, very fairy-take like, I think she deserves that fairy-tale castle! But maybe you can get the freebie? Or help with the stickers?

I got my first 6 series 16 CMF'S today and no doubles so pretty chuffed. Love the penguin and devil- boy. And the baby, got to love a baby.

Recce

Johnyk668 said:

Getting my Lone Ranger on.... I actually thought the movie was entertaining and after looking at some of the sets have decided to buy a few.
So today I picked up #79108 from a reseller for $100 AUD which is $30 above the original RRP but cheaper than what other resellers are asking. 
Also ordered #79107 from ebay and now deciding on when to get the train. 

I collect this theme as well, though till now only opened one of the Silver Mine Shootouts. 

TheMaker37

Today my training is complete. I have become a sithlord!!!

chrisalddin

i now got 50% use of my finger.
better but not back to full use.

TheMaker37

@chrisalddin I had surgery on my forearm last year for a workout injury and do to a complication (the surgeon ended up cutting off blood flow to the nerves that control my hand) I ended up losing nearly all feeling/function of my right hand. I couldn't write anything. Day after day I sat down with Lego sets teaching myself how to pick them up, especially the small pieces. My Lego building combined with a supplement my Dr gave me for diabetics with peripheral neuropathy made my recovery much faster than anticipated, there was a good chance that I would never gain full function of my hand again. As of today I have 99% function back with just a few patchy numb spots on my fingers.

The moral of the story I guess is Lego can be therapeutic in more ways than one .

Good luck with your recovery. Hop this helps. 

Speedman29

Detoured on the way back from a job today to Smyths and nabbed some Series 16. Did 30 seconds of bag squishing and found two banana guys straight away then grabbed seven randoms, got one duplicate. Got the hiker though, which is now my favourite minifigure

SumoLego

TheMaker37 said:

Today my training is complete. I have become a sithlord!!!

The mint Yodaheadsicle is quite tasty.  It takes about 800 years to melt.

MaffyD

Thanks for all the kind words guys. Surviving on profen, paracetamol and codeine at the minute. My wife keeps asking for bowel movement updates, but I'll assume you lot don't want any! Hope other people's ailments get better soon.

BrickDancer

This odd coincidence of 3 Bricksetters with bowel removal surgery conjures scary images of 'The Human Centipede' :shivers:

SprinkleOtter

I find it completely impossible to pack bricklink orders while Battlebots is on. Is this what the soccer finals are like for the rest of the world?

LEGO_Dad77

Recce said:

Johnyk668 said:

Getting my Lone Ranger on.... I actually thought the movie was entertaining and after looking at some of the sets have decided to buy a few.
So today I picked up #79108 from a reseller for $100 AUD which is $30 above the original RRP but cheaper than what other resellers are asking. 
Also ordered #79107 from ebay and now deciding on when to get the train. 

I collect this theme as well, though till now only opened one of the Silver Mine Shootouts. 

@Johnyk668 & @Recce I LOVE this theme! :D So far I've only got the Lone Ranger on rail cart polybag and the Silver Mine, plus the Stagecoach Escape which I just got last weekend! :) Really looking forward to finishing the series. Until then, for RIGHT now, this is my status:

starwars4ever

^ Which set is that? I can tell it's Ninjago, the Chen season, but not sure which exact set. Condrai chopper?