What's your LEGO 'status' today?

SumoLego

MaffyD said:

SumoLego said:

Are you on brain detail?  'Cause I'm washing the windows.

Brain detail! It's a Pulp Fiction reference! Just got it now. Sorry... I'll sort out the upholstery!

Just be careful with the nice hand towels when you're done.

snowhitie

@William_Townsley what are those massive CMF-bags? Is that promotional? I've never seen that.

@SumoLego yes, you are obligated to build the city now, no two ways about it...

Bumblepants

SumoLego said:

flord said:

Where will all your Construct-a-Zurgs go? Inquiring minds...

@Bumblepants has all of them.

I traded all my Space Skulls and Star Justice for them! What a deal that was!

William_Townsley

@snowhitie There retail bags that shops hang up. I once transported 3 of them on a train for 4hrs. Not fun. They've been made for every CMF Line except the DFB Football figures 

William_Townsley

I'm always looking to expand my collection of them

Speedman29

Weekend away in Cardiff for for the Roald Dahl events. Fitted in a trip to the lego shop. Got a pile of cmf16. Just three let to complete the series now, my daughter also chose, picked and built the pickamodel turtle.

flord

Bought another 60 drawer parts cabinet, and another Sterilite bin to keep built Lego dust-free.

I need to stop. My Lego collection has quadrupled in the last year (I started with about 40). I am out of room.

JooTog

Thinking about getting one of those Akro-Mills 64 drawer cabinets as my current bins are full. Sadly, I only have space for one, so rethinking my "LEGO closet" organization to fit another one.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LDH3JC/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

Nothing will happen anytime soon as I'll be in Orlando the first week of October for a company conference and the last week of October in Houston visiting my parents; also thinking about going to Portland in November to visit a friend.

On the bright side, re-layout the "spare" room today to make room for a bookcase to display LEGO :-) ...need to order the bookcase though.
http://www.target.com/p/parsons-5-shelf-bookcase---threshold™/-/A-17315102

KingAlanI

rdflego said:

I had to throw away my collection of Shop at Home catalogues from 1998 today. Sad times, but in honesty I don't even remember the last time I looked at them.

I recycled my old catalogs, boxes and instruction manuals long ago. The boxes in particular were just taking up space and getting beat up.

Pumpkin_3CK5 said:

Got to enjoy a relaxing hour or so feeling for a couple S16 minifigs at the local LEGO store. Also, they had a bunch of leftover Nexo Knight minifigs they were giving away with the calendar coupon. So you get that and Lavaria for free! Not bad.

A couple days ago, I was searching S16 packs for 2 hours at Target. Got 4 Babysitter, 7 Penguin Boy and 5 Banana Guy, and there's stuff to go back for.

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Yesterday evening, I finally built #31044 Park Animals after getting it from [email protected] 2+ months ago. I bought it for the dog, but decided to build the ducks as well. I put those with the frog and lilypad from #30115 Jungle Boat, maybe I'll display them with my beach stuff if I ever get that back out.

bookmum

Tidying up the lego after a very lego-y weekend and I can't find my Benny Spaceman. Where has he gone.... Benny. Benny. BENNY! Sob. 

josekalel

I had a very fun weekend...I went to the LEGO Store in San Antonio and bought mini figures (the ones you 'design' yourself). However, the highlight was yesterday. I was able to build #10232 Palace Cinema (thanks to @TheMaker37 for making it possible!), and I must admit, it kicked my butt, but I truly enjoyed it. Here's one photo (sorry for the quality) but I'll take more as I add something else to the set it...

SprinkleOtter

Gosh darn it, it happened again.
"V-19 Torrent? That thing looks terrible, and sucked in Republic at War."
*Sees Torrent in person.*
"Ooooh, aaaah..."

starwars4ever

^So are you going to get it now?

SprinkleOtter

starwars4ever said:

^So are you going to get it now?

I already have it- it came in a job lot. My first thought was "Easy $50!" then I took a closer look at it, and now I can't part with it.

catwrangler

Amazon just informed me that my Dr. Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum and Iron Skull Sub Attack will be dispatching much sooner than expected and I should have them within a week! I MUST have the discipline to put them away, because I collected the King's Mech yesterday and have opened it already...

MaffyD

^ Both good models @catwrangler - The Iron Skull Sub Attack has an economy of purpose and the simple lines and effective colouring are very elegant IMO, and the underwater Iron Man looks amazing. The Sanctum is just lovely to build and look at - so many little things that make it really interesting. And it has a cross-dimensional beastie writhing and squirming as it comes out of the wall. You don't see many of those these days!

I'm sure this post will help you to not open them... ;-P

SprinkleOtter

I may or may not go a little nutty when packing BL orders. You decide.

Ra, Ra, Ra your boat, gently down the box...

catwrangler

@MaffyD I'm going to pretend I didn't see that! (Soooo excited about putting the tentacled thing into the screen of Palace Cinema, too!)

madejp86

Impatiently waiting for my Lego order to arrive. FEDEX WHERE ARE YOU?!

Venunder

To build or not to build my WInter Village Train? 
Or do I wait for Xmas?

Can't wait. :)

William_Townsley

Venunder said:

To build or not to build my WInter Village Train? 
Or do I wait for Xmas?

Can't wait. :)

Wait 

legomental

I am a fool. I dithered over buying the cargo train from asda at a ridiculously good price until it went out of stock. 

We really don't have room for trains and neither do I have the money at the moment  but I am strangely attracted to them for some reason 

Venunder

^^ I'll get a second WV Train later in the year to expand the one I have with power functions from another train.
I am happy I built the one I have now. :)

nexander

catwrangler said:

Amazon just informed me that my Dr. Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum and Iron Skull Sub Attack will be dispatching much sooner than expected and I should have them within a week! I MUST have the discipline to put them away, because I collected the King's Mech yesterday and have opened it already...

Dito on Dr Strange!  just need to figure how to fit it into my modular/superhero display, its going to be tricky

KingAlanI

Most of my LEGO spending lately has been CMF S16 at Target. The dog figurine and Babysitter set for display, and I went ahead with Rogue army building. It's not bad in quantity for a fig and accessories; I had looked at regular Castle archer minifigs.

All_That_Rocks

Currently having a large extension built on my house to incorporate a couple of Lego rooms. You can check progress on my youtube channel at youtube.com/brickarena

Really need to start thinking about my room layout and start planning a city. Have been stockpiling sets all year so will be having a MAMMOTH building session when the room is complete. Latest set I bought is #60052 which will allow me to start laying rail track when possible.

Bumblepants

All_That_Rocks said:

 Latest set I bought is #60052 which will allow me to start laying rail track when possible.

Start buying more straights. You can never have enough.

Johnyk668

Set #79109 arrived in the mail and because of comments in the reviews about the bank not really being a building, more a facade I made my first Bricklink order to rectify that.
Now the planning of my little western themed town begins. 

Speedman29

nexander said:

Dito on Dr Strange!  just need to figure how to fit it into my modular/superhero display, its going to be tricky

I missed out on the Amazon deal on Dr Strange. Probably pick it up for Christmas and try and add another floor to my modular MOC. Ground is a cafe, first is the Big Bang Theory lounge. I reckon it would look good on the top floor!

Speedman29

Sitting waiting for a customer to arrive on site. Flicking around Amazon and just happened to see Dr Strange for £18......should be here tomorrow now!

chrisalddin

i could spend over £3000 on lego today, if i had it to spand to start with.
as it is. i just looking at all the killer deal's poping up today and saying, "if only."

right now i am posting from the Royal Surrey County Hospital.
on a laptop with no spell check. (google for the win.)
geting a nice dose of Iron intravenously. as my body dont absorb the dam stuff when i eat food with iron in it.
i HATE NEEDLES.
i really hate Needles!
i really, really hate Needles!
i really, really, really hate Needles!
and yet i hate my body a hell of a lot more for not absorbing Iron from food so i could avoid the Dam Ass Needles to start with.
ah well the hard part is out of the way now the IV line is in. and now i just have to wait for it to finish.

my lego update is:-
that i have confirmed that i dont have room in my house to have a lego train layout setup, and ready to run at any time. (i dont even have the room for 16x turning track to make a loop like the one in the 2016 winter train set.)
if i wish to see my nice lego trains run around my track i have to set it up on the floor. in eveyones way.
(when i do this i am not playing with the train set. no no no, just the only place to show it off. not playing. i am 100% not playing with lego trains when it is on the floor.)
it dose give me flash back to my toy train set i had when i was a kid. i had a lot of track for that train set. to go all around the ground floor of my house. lol.

TigerMoth

chrisalddin said:

my lego update is:-
that i have confirmed that i dont have room in my house to have a lego train layout setup, and ready to run at any time. (i dont even have the room for 16x turning track to make a loop like the one in the 2016 winter train set.)

There are ways! One is to have a shelf all round a room above the height of the door frame - not necessarily very convenient, but it's a permanent loop or two. Other people have setups that are ceiling mounted and which can be lowered, in one piece, on pulleys. It's an old problem (for other types of train), and therefore has plenty of solutions.

[As for needles, there are ways that they can make things a lot easier for you (how do you think you give an injection to a screaming, needle-phobic five year old?). Paediatric nurses simply have to use them; most adult nurses forget to consider them an option - but they are still there.]

LostInTranslation

@SirKevbags - what was the thing you had built to help kids with needle phobia? I think @chrisalddin needs it! 
Hope you're back home with your LEGO soon, Chris. 

All_That_Rocks

Speedman29 said:

Sitting waiting for a customer to arrive on site. Flicking around Amazon and just happened to see Dr Strange for £18......should be here tomorrow now!

Thanks for the tip off. Just bought this and the Star Wars Advent Calendar which was £19.99 :)

JudgeChuck

I'm sitting at my desk at work waiting impatiently for #79018 The Lonely Mountain to be delivered to my desk. (Thanks, @Legoboy)
I know that it has arrived at work, from the tracking info... Hurry up!

snowhitie

Like a lot of people spending quite a bit of time on Amazon.co.uk today. Really wish they still did free shipping to Belgium. Trying to get as many things in one order so the shipping costs are low but balancing it with when the deal might have gone is risky business. Can't complain too much though, cause with the inflated RRP in Belgium, some of the stuff that's only about 34% off for UK prices is almost half price compared to ours, so happy happy.

I was thinking of sending some stuff to my mother-in-law, but with all the trading and buying I've been doing lately, I think she will start to panic if I let it all come to her place ;) Wouldn't arrive before the weekend anyway.

Good luck @chrisalddin I'm not scared of much, but hate needles as well.

William_Townsley

Got two Star Wars advent calendars on Argos 3-2 deal. Also purchased a phone case and getting the phone fixed on Friday :) 

catwrangler

TigerMoth said:

chrisalddin said:

my lego update is:-
that i have confirmed that i dont have room in my house to have a lego train layout setup, and ready to run at any time. (i dont even have the room for 16x turning track to make a loop like the one in the 2016 winter train set.)

There are ways! One is to have a shelf all round a room above the height of the door frame - not necessarily very convenient, but it's a permanent loop or two. Other people have setups that are ceiling mounted and which can be lowered, in one piece, on pulleys. It's an old problem (for other types of train), and therefore has plenty of solutions.

[As for needles, there are ways that they can make things a lot easier for you (how do you think you give an injection to a screaming, needle-phobic five year old?). Paediatric nurses simply have to use them; most adult nurses forget to consider them an option - but they are still there.]

I remember Leisureworld (cue everyone who grew up in reach of Belfast going, "Ahhhhhhhhhhh..."), our biggest local toyshop in my pre-TRU childhood, having a train set that travelled around a lot of the store like that!

Re: needles, if you were thinking of local anaesthetic cream, the issue isn't that they've forgotten it's an option, but that it's not stocked in adult hospitals/departments. I used to struggle a lot with blood tests when I made the transition from a children's to an adult hospital, and this was a bone of contention, as a nurse would have to run over to the children's hospital on the same site to pick some up... ah, memories. :S

@chrisalddin Sorry to hear about the iron infusions; it's not much fun to anticipate stuff like that when you find needles difficult. Hope Brickset's been some distraction for you, anyway! 

As for my own Lego status, I finished building the King's Mech! I've eked it out over the last three evenings while watching ghost stories on YouTube; it was very cosy...

TigerMoth

catwrangler said:

Re: needles, if you were thinking of local anaesthetic cream, the issue isn't that they've forgotten it's an option, but that it's not stocked in adult hospitals/departments.

There's various things, but that's one option. And it IS forgotten. I know an RNC who works in A&E. The nature of things means there are quiet spots and the obvious thing to do is help out "on the other side" (although, illogically, not as a nurse). "For kids, we..." is often met by blank looks, and then amazement when it works - but it is still there to be used.

A fifth of the population have needle phobia. They think it's "not normal". They don't ask. They don't get. As a result, few know how to work round it anyway.

No, I can't ask. I've just seen them, on a web cam, get off a plane a long way away.

Recce

I would assume, in general, people are afraid of cold, hard needles that poke through the skin. 

I had my fair share of it in the army back then while attending the Combat Casualty Course, and also that one time I donated blood. 

And that will be all for me. 

TigerMoth

Recce said:

I would assume, in general, people are afraid of cold, hard needles that poke through the skin.

But not enough for it to kill them. Some people will avoid all medical treatment just in case it turns out to involve needles - and die without whatever treatment would have been used, even if it doesn't involve needles. It can also kill directly because it can cause a fatal loss of blood pressure - something most other phobias don't manage.

If one person realises it's more than "just being silly" and that there are things that can be done, then it's been a good day.

chrisalddin

thanks all.
when i got home i fell right off to sleep.
just now woke up.
Hospital just take it out of me, (what ever "It" is.)

anyhow i have a corner deli Moc to plan. this will take some Deep thinking.

JooTog

As a kid (8-9 years old), when I got the flu, there was this nasty orange syrup the doctor will prescribe for a week. I hated the thing, couldn't even smell it. One time the doctor said that the alternative was one single injection in my arm... I picked the needle every single time (used to get the flu twice a year). Go figure!

LEGO status: Received my first Akro-Mils 64 drawer storage today. Cleaning it up with Pledge wipes before starting re-organizing my LEGO parts.

VorpalRyu

Building my Marvel SDCC BrickHeadz, then getting to work on a few articles for Awesomest Lego and later....work on a few Lego Ideas projects.

Speedman29

Finished my Scooby Doo mystery mansion last night. Got to see how big a baseplate it'll need to build a bit of scenery around it now, with enough space to fit the van on as well.

And, my Dr Strange set arrived from Amazon, looks really cool.

BrickDancer

After a year of some bad downs, it's about time to have some great ups. Starting with my birthday today. Kicked off this morning by my wonderful fiance's bday gift :)

JudgeChuck

I'm working from home today, so looking forward to finishing a little early and having fun with my daughters, setting up all the track for #60052 and sending my first LEGO train off on her maiden run. :-)
I scoured the house earlier for as many AAA rechargeable batteries as I could find and have spent the day ensuring they're all nicely charged up.

VorpalRyu

Like with the NYCC Luke's Landspeeder, I'll have to contact Lego Customer Service tomorrow....missing some pieces. Why do I feel a meme could be had from this?

SumoLego

BrickDancer said:

After a year of some bad downs, it's about time to have some great ups. Starting with my birthday today. Kicked off this morning by my wonderful fiance's bday gift :)

Um, do I want to know what 'super bone' means?

(That is a most excellent, gift, by the way.)

All_That_Rocks

JudgeChuck said:

I'm working from home today, so looking forward to finishing a little early and having fun with my daughters, setting up all the track for #60052 and sending my first LEGO train off on her maiden run. :-)
I scoured the house earlier for as many AAA rechargeable batteries as I could find and have spent the day ensuring they're all nicely charged up.

I'm jealous, mine will have to stay in the box until my new room is complete.