What's your LEGO 'status' today?

SumoLego

Pitfall69 said:

^I can like that because of Dak, but I shouldn't because that meme is awful. You have much to learn young padawan.

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

Nonetheless, there isn't an obvious way to meld double points, dabbing and Dak Prescott into a simple meme.  

And I think a quadratic equation joke would be a bit much...

vizzitor

At the moment, I'm mostly taking apart my most recent builds and sorting them into my usual boxes, bags and drawers. This has made me think of something I hadn't thought of before and I'd like to ask others:

How do store your printed pieces so they don't end up having the images scratched off by other pieces? How do you store minifig parts with printing that you don't have on display so they don't have the same problem?

Would it be best to take a large baseplate and stick the tiles on there or does anyone have a better way to keep them in good condition without using too much storage space?

If this is something that should be moved to a separate thread, I'll open a new one.

datsunrobbie

^Printed parts seem to hold up very well without special care, based on the condition of parts in my own collection. Most of my LEGO is purchased used from thrift stores, so I've seen a lot of parts that that have had a rough life. Printing on LEGO parts seems to hold up very well unless a real effort is made to remove it, like with acetone or sandpaper.

snowhitie

After having to lie down all week I'm finally managing to sit up for a little bit and started on #70912 Arkham. Only did the first bag yet and I think it's a really cool police car.

Design flaw though, the roof didn't close with the Joker in it. Not sure if this is a known problem (staying away from the LBM thread to avoid spoilers). I first tried heightening the roof but for stability I solved it by putting a row of 1*2 trans clears where the windshields go, think it looks good that way but curious if other people came up with other ideas.


 

SumoLego

That just looks wrong.

(The setup of the car, not your modification.  There should be a cage atleast!)

snowhitie

^ yeah, I can just see him tickling (or strangling) the guard ;)

SumoLego

There should atleast be one stud separation.

Pitfall69

SumoLego said:

There should atleast be one stud separation.

I don't think I could fit in between them ;)

samiam391

Apparently, today is my 5th anniversary since joining Brickset.

Not many understand my obsession with LEGO, so I've always been very thankful for such a wonderful community to share my hobby/addiction with! A special thank you to each and every one of you here!

Here's to 5 more years :)

catwrangler

Tried ringing customer service about my Avenjet canopy, but they were very busy and I get jittery on hold so have decided to call them back. Unhelpfully, when you try to sort this kind of thing out online, the only options it leads you to are to buy a replacement for a brick that "has broken", not to be sent a replacement for something that was faulty when you bought it... I see why everyone always advises ringing them!

SumoLego

Pitfall69 said:

SumoLego said:

There should atleast be one stud separation.

I don't think I could fit in between them ;)

I set them up, you knock 'em down.

Pitfall69

samiam391 said:

Apparently, today is my 5th anniversary since joining Brickset.

Not many understand my obsession with LEGO, so I've always been very thankful for such a wonderful community to share my hobby/addiction with! A special thank you to each and every one of you here!

Here's to 5 more years :)

My 5 year Anniversary is in April. Coincidentally, that is when @Legoboy and I will be in Orlando :) What a great community this is. I never thought I would want to be part of a forum. I have met some wonderful people on here. 

BTW, if you do not hear from me after April, it was @Legoboy , in the Library, with a lead pipe.

Legoboy

The joke of it is we've left it for Jar Jar to collect us from the airport on 1st April.  I must be mad.

^ I don't deny it, it was me and Mickey.  Death by Disney Castle.

Jern92

catwrangler said:

Tried ringing customer service about my Avenjet canopy, but they were very busy and I get jittery on hold so have decided to call them back. Unhelpfully, when you try to sort this kind of thing out online, the only options it leads you to are to buy a replacement for a brick that "has broken", not to be sent a replacement for something that was faulty when you bought it... I see why everyone always advises ringing them!

They do send me replacement bricks for free when something breaks in my LEGO sets. I never get asked to pay for them.

Pitfall69

Legoboy said:

The joke of it is we've left it for Jar Jar to collect us from the airport on 1st April.  I must be mad.

^ I don't deny it, it was me and Mickey.  Death by Disney Castle.

April 1st huh? "Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?"

sid3windr

catwrangler said:

Tried ringing customer service about my Avenjet canopy, but they were very busy and I get jittery on hold so have decided to call them back. Unhelpfully, when you try to sort this kind of thing out online, the only options it leads you to are to buy a replacement for a brick that "has broken", not to be sent a replacement for something that was faulty when you bought it... I see why everyone always advises ringing them!

I've never been on the phone with Lego, yet I've ordered and received a few replacement pieces via service.lego.com at no charge at all. Are you following the right path? :)

Go to service.lego.com -> click Bricks & Pieces > click Faulty bricks (not sure of the wording as it actually says "kapotte steentjes" here...)

catwrangler

Thanks, @sid3windr! I was actually there, but the phrasing  ("order", "Broken Bricks" > "if a brick has broken") gave me the impression I'd be charged and that it was for replacing bricks I'd damaged, rather than ones that were faulty out of the box! That's saved me more time on hold!

sid3windr

Well, I think they even will replace bricks you broke during build.. at least that's how it sounded to me. Luckily I've never had any brick break in any way (knock on wood). Just had a few missing ones :)

josekalel

Got my little shipment...Not as impressive as most, but can't complain. 

CaptainLego

Put this awesome set together today:




This, and, the Bugatti were probably my most wanted sets of the first wave of 2017 Lego sets. i got the Bugatti the other day:

KingAlanI

Getting replacements for defective parts is phrased like an order, but it's free. probably makes sense for TLG to use the same system as for Bricks and Pieces orders. sometimes customer service puts in free [email protected] orders, same idea.

Somewhat amusing conversation with a BL buyer
He felt bad about ordering just one of a 19c part, so he ordered all 3 I had. I said this was nothing compared to some orders - yes, a single 1x1 stud or something like that. That's why I have a handling charge, so I can afford small orders. No gas - I print labels, leave packages out for the mailman or put them in mailboxes I pass anyway. It is fun, but there's a lot of work behind it.

snowhitie

The use of the gas in the beginning of the sentence put me on the wrong track for the end of it. Am I the only one?

KingAlanI said:

 No gas - put them in mailboxes I pass anyway.

brumey

i wasnt able to use my vip points 2 days agoe... so i decided to let assembly square sit in basket for another day.
today they ran out of disco batmans...
well... guess i m gonna wait for double vip now to get my asembly square.

when is double vip point time again ? i m not able to find any lego store calendars here in austria... i always end up on the german or US lego site.
is there a calendar for central europe maybe ?

gratefulnat

@brumey - the german calender offers are valid for Austria & Switzerland as well, if I remember correctly.

stlux

@brumey The Store Calendar is the same everywhere in Europe - the only difference is the language/currency used.

No Double VIP announced in the March-April Store Calendar: http://bricksetforum.com/discussion/24647/store-calendar-for-europe-and-promotions-on-new-lego-s-h#latest

Speedman29

Was working in Soho this morning, finished there about 11ish and decided to take the ten minute stroll to Leicester Square. Got there to see a bit of a queue, but Lester the security guard told me it was about 15 minutes to get in from there. Short wait and I was in. Loved Big Ben, the Tube with The Queen and the stairwell brick picture. There seemed to be plenty of sets around to buy and lots of people, but it was far from crowded. Bright Bricks had a table doing free mini builds so I pretended to be a child and built a school bus.

Bought TLBM accessory set that went out of stock on [email protected] quickly and one of the staff found Batgirl in a pile of CMFs for my daughter. Got the free calendar as well.

All this fitted neatly into my lunch hour!

KingAlanI

gas as short for gasoline does seem odd sometimes, partly since it's a liquid. maybe the brits are onto something calling it 'petrol'. I ride a bike and sometiems take the bus anyway.

apparently the national promo supplies are separate, #30607 still available on US [email protected] (and they've had #30546 available long past the 15th)

A couple days ago, I sorted through my box of clone brand bricks (partly to reuse the box as my LEGO inventory expands). got rid of the BestLock (recycled plastic trashed rubber), separated the TYCO (1 6.5x3.25 bag) and MegaBloks (2 10.5x10.5 and a 7x7.75 bag). found a few real LEGO and some non-building-block items. disassembled some piles of bricks, finally a use for the orange brick separator.

bandit778

My status is 'playing catch up'.

Have been on a self imposed sabbatical for a while as I found myself becoming a collector of Lego Boxes and not a Lego builder.

With all the sales and deals that were going on before Christmas, my collection increased at an alarming rate, but due to quite a busy real life, most of my spare time was spent looking for these deals, and then not having enough time to enjoy the fruits of my labour.

Over the last month or so I decide to address this issue and kept away from almost all of my usual haunts that were used in the hunt for bargains and spent some of my spare time actually building a selection of sets from the backlog.

What started with the Y-Wing (which I finished mid-January) ended up being a Rogue One-fest of sets (All of which I thoroughly enjoyed building by the way).

Not an extravagant amount of building compared to some, but a hell of a lot from my perspective.

The down side to this was that I haven't been keeping up with forum life and it appears that I have missed quite a bit.

@snowhitie please pass on my best wishes to @bendybadger.

@Pitfall69 Sorry to hear about your losses.

@Legoboy Still trying to get your own car parking space at the hospital I see and I sincerely hope that you now have gas (in the nicest possible way). :)

To anyone I may have missed out, my apologies but I do still have a lot to read.

snowhitie

Welcome back @bandit778 , I was thinking I'd not seen you around that much lately. Glad you got some of the backlog out of the way. Looks pretty cool alltogether!

I'll tell bendy you said hi.

flord

flord said:

I finally started on a City Hall for my little town. Creating the layout is my favourite part but as you can see I've used #10224 for some inspiration because I really like the entrance and overhang.  I'm going to try to build the elevator, but with a sliding door, and not a regular door because that's ridiculous. It will also not be orange, again because that's ridiculous. Had to stop for now as I am already short on pieces. It'll be a couple of months before it's finished.

Update on my progress:



I still lots of interior finishing details to do. I was going to create a third floor but I ran out of steam and bricks. I think this thing is already pushing 1500 pieces, if not more. Need more tan windows. The roof over the clock will be in black. Missing lots of 2x2 dark grey half bows for the roof line. I'm also thinking of changing the front doors to tan or dark tan because black is a little too dark. I do have the elevator and sliding door working. Surprisingly my kids really enjoy playing with the elevator.

KingAlanI

Too much time working and shopping, not enough time with what you already have, a common problem

KingAlanI

While at Marshalls looking for LEGO, I also got a tin of Walkers shortbread for $7. (will get to how that's LEGO related) I didn't see weight info (tag came off), so I used the pocket scale I carry for CMFs. The bags of cookies weighed 9.2oz (261g), so my guess is 8.8oz (250g). Small containers are useful for small LEGO. And Walkers is also a quality but expensive product, so one had to watch for deals.

Got a [email protected] order today which included a Black Widow keychain. ordered it to have enough for a promo, may as well use it. small and light compared to my previous key ring, hope I don't lose it. didn't bother putting on a couple keys I rarely ever use. for what I do use, the ring was so tight it was hard to fit the bigger key heads. Ask Hawkeye about that. :P Speaking of sexualizing her, did TLG really need to print clear lines for her breasts?

snowhitie

So, my health has been a bit worse than normally last weeks and I've been a bit scared and down, couldn't even really sit up to build much. So one of the friends (@iso3200, credit where it's due) I've made here on Brickset sent me a mystery package, a simple build to cheer me up.



I was very intrigued... (And slightly worried about the title of the CD ;) ) My husband popped the IT in the laptop and scrolled to the 1st instruction page (I wanted to keep myself in suspense not knowing what it was going to be).

I'm totally blown away with this 'little' surprise, the thought and creativity put into this is amazing.

To share the result I've got to rewind to a month or two ago when my son had to write and draw about his superhero. He chose his mum. This was touching to me as well since I'm not a very mobile mum and can't run around or take him to lots of exciting places like other ones. So I sometimes feel a bit like a failure and his gesture touched me. I shared the picture and feeling with iso who agreed that kids are great.

Without further ado, here's what I was sent...


And here's the final build:



So thank you very much - I'm very touched + had fun building. Curious what my son will say when he gets home from school :)

TheOriginalSimonB

^Most excellent.

TheOneVeyronian

Another day, another thing that I've noticed about LEGO that's bothering me that I'm surprised nobody else has really noticed. This time it's to do with one of the additional images for #70912 Arkham Asylum. Specifically this one:

If the "No Stationary" sign is a reference to the Joker pencil scene from The Dark Knight... why has The Riddler been put in the cell with the No Stationary sign? Come to think of it, that almost sounds like something The Riddler himself would ask.

All I can think of is that The Joker escaped, and since the set has five villains in Arkham Asylum jumpsuits yet only four cells, they had The Riddler occupy the cell instead.

Also, status for myself today: I have enough likes to make my "Like" counter read as 2K, even though I'm not technically at 2,000 likes just yet. Still, yay! :o)

Shib

@TheOneVeyronian several Riddler story lines involve sending riddles either as written questions or as gifts so it works for me 

Bumblepants

^I have been wondering about the big Laundry room in the Arkham set. There seems to be so much detail and so many bricks devoted to it I can't help but think early cuts of the film must have used it in the plot somehow.

omnium

@snowhitie, that's awesome!! It put a smile on my face :-)
@iso3200 you're a superstar!!

catwrangler

@snowhitie - I hope things pick up for you soon. And that's such an awesome model from @iso3200! :D

Went up to the attic for the first time in a while (there's been decorating going on in these parts) to consider the situation re: sorting, by which I mean, to fully experience the mild alarm that's been at the back of my mind for a while. I really have been neglecting it, which is unfortunate because it also means I put off doing stuff like building challenges - i.e. what Lego's all about, at least for me.

So I cleared the trestle table and lined up all the ice cream tubs I've been saving (it's important to get your quota of ice-cream for both nutrition and Lego purposes), having decided to give in and implement 'good enough' sorting as opposed to 'perfect', which is, after all, an ever-receding goal...

Pitfall69

@snowhitie , at first, I thought the DVD was S&M instructions ;)

KingAlanI

@snowhitie wish I could see the pics, am on mobile, anyone else having technical difficulties?

Arkham has only 4 cells? No wonder batvillains keep escaping. But seriously, LEGO sets often don't have room for the number of people that would use the thing for real.

Might be hard to rinse paper ice cream tubs to be clean enough for LEGO. And what size are they? Half gallons might be too deep to be easy to use for tiny parts.

catwrangler

@KingAlanI They're not paper here (or rather, only the expensive brands are, and we don't buy those!) - plastic rinses easily enough, and they're mostly 500ml or a litre, which is a nice in-between size. I've got a couple of Lunar Boxes that I use for the really tiny parts; I'm hoping the ice cream tubs will be good for sorting out sub-categories of 2xX bricks, and various things like wheels, doors, windows etc...

bandit778

Pitfall69 said:

@snowhitie , at first, I thought the DVD was S&M instructions ;)

S&M with Lego? 
Is that where you leave it lying on the floor so you can deliberately stand on it?

madejp86

So I think I have a problem, it's only been 4 days and I already have most of the new speed champion sets: the Bugatti, the Mercedes, the two Fords and the Ferrari development center. Not a huge fan of indy but the other sets are boss

snowhitie

@KingAlanI I usually make pics a bit smaller but forgot this time, sorry, maybe that's the reason?

If you put plastic iceCream tubs in the dishwasher you are pretty sure they are clean ;)

@Pitfall69 I have to admit at first glance I wondered about the name too :)

@catwrangler thanks!

@omnium I agree totally.

sid3windr

What a totally awesome supermum brickhead :) I hope you feel better soon @snowhitie !

josekalel

As I read the post and looked at the photos, I had to remind myself "I'm a Vulcan, Vulcans don't cry...I'm a Vulcan, Vulcans don't cry..."

KingAlanI

With the [email protected] promos this month, TLG really doesn't like me having cash on hand. :P

Here only cheap bulk ice cream comes in plastic, like gallon (3.785L) round tubs. I'm in a supermarket right now, so this was easy to check.
1.5 quart (1.42L) rectangular paper is standard for various brands. Over the years they shrunk from half gallon cartons rather than raise price.
Premium stuff is that quantity or 1 pint (473ml) in paper cylinders.

omnium

Mrs Omnium and me have just finished building our first ever modular building, Pet Store. Mrs Omnium complained that one flat has a no kitchen and has a toilet but no sink to wash your hands; the other has a kitchen, including sink, but no toilet. The paupers conditions of those poor Lego citizens! Someone should start a campaign to have their living conditions improved.
But at least the toilet has a door, which is better than the toilet in the RV and house from #31052 Vacation Getaways :-)

mldj77

I gotta represent my city. New Legoland Discovery Center Philadelphia opening in April. This 9 foot tall display of One Liberty Place will be one of the models featured there.