What's your LEGO 'status' today?

VorpalRyu

SumoLego said:
E.T. looks pretty excited.

(And does every kid on this planet have a plush poop emoji??)

Mine don't.

Salamalex

Happy! Enough sorting and clearing has happened for me to finally do a large set as I like. Thus the Carousel has been opened, the bags emptied and 'sorted'. It's already taken me well over an hour. I think it'll take me longer than the weekend. What a shame!

Bricklover18

Built my batwing poly and ordered the Chicago skyline set and Buckingham palace set. 

sid3windr

No plush poop emoji in my house either. Hope it's not a "thing". :P

On a trip to Gouda in The Netherlands with zero advance planning... turns out there's a "Playtoday Lego store" here. Guess what turned out to be stop number one! Scored one polybag (#30349) and a "pick a brick cup". They had interestingly different parts in there than the regular stores (like cart wheels, trans-blue radar dishes, ...).

Also found a Bart Smit with an assortment of CMF bags (Series 14, 15, 16, 17, Simpsons 2) and picked up a few baggies of 14. Needed to contain myself not to just get them all, but I need to save a bit for next month :D

Yodalicious

When a new Cars movie comes out right before your kid's birthday and he just happens to enjoy this LEGO stuff...

iso3200

Legoboy said:

I'm not sure who's more excited?

Why is he asleep in your bed?

SumoLego

So, my lovely wife has mis-placed a pair of her favorite capris.  Every time she mutters or exclaims in frustration 'where are my pants?!', both of her children and her husband bellow:

'Where are my paaaaaaaaants!?!?!'

We are going to be tripping over ourselves to say 'here are your pants, series cancelled' if we do find them.

MaffyD

^ I think you mean "trousers" ;-)

snowhitie

After not being able to build for a while we did some breaking down to make room for new stuff. No matter how many times I do it, I'm always amazed how much space you save when a set is in pieces.

sid3windr

^ But I caaaaaaaan't.... :o

dmcc0

Sorting through a big box of bagged up sets only I discover a couple of used sets I don't even remember buying! A sign that I buy too much?

stlux

@dmcc0 That's heresy! There's no such thing as buying too much Lego ;)

One of my local supermarkets has reorganized their toy section. Total shelf-space dedicated to Lego seems to have remained the same, but now there's some space to accommodate Andrea when she's visiting:



Also told a dad that he didn't have to restrain his overenthusiastic kid from touching the statue. As it's all glued together there's no risk of it falling apart... Do these size of statues also have a technic or steel frame on the inside?

khmellymel

^ That's a lot of Lego for a local supermarket!  I'm jealous :)

stlux

@khmellymel Well to be fair that's their 12.000 m2 flagship store in the country, and not your typical neighborhood supermarket...

For a future passage of @Kerre through Luxembourg: this is in the Cactus Belle Etoile, not Auchan ;)

Kerre

^^^She's lovely! And on the 'right' side of Luxembourg, it seems ;)

I'll certainly pay a visit should I pass by. Looks a lot nicer than the supersized plain minifig with old-school enigmatic smile I saw visiting the a Supra Bazar store today.

SumoLego

dmcc0 said:

Sorting through a big box of bagged up sets only I discover a couple of used sets I don't even remember buying! A sign that I buy too much?

You just need a better inventory system.  

(Although, my last sentence could indicate I am someone who buys 'too much'.  Does one have 'too much' if their hobby requires an inventory system?)

Or this...



@stlux - crazy people in America!

All_That_Rocks

^ Interested to know if you inventory system is more than that provided on Brickset.com. 

stlux

I suspect @SumoLego inventory system is "If I forgot that I already have this set and bought another one, I now have 4 copies instead of only 3. Most excellent!"

And @SumoLego I don't generalise like that. Just having crazy *you* to point out to my wife is enough ;)

dmcc0

stlux said:

@dmcc0 That's heresy! There's no such thing as buying too much Lego ;)

I know that and you know that.  Unfortunately my wife doesn't agree.

Strangely, the same reasoning doesn't seem to apply to her hobby (crochet). To her there is no such thing as buying too much wool - "I'll make something with it".  When I counter with the same argument all I get is "wool is cheaper".  Can't really argue with that I suppose :-(

 

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA

^She is entirely correct that wool is cheaper.
You need to counter that with either;
A.  "Yes dear, but unfortunately your wool can only be used once for your magnificent creations whereas my raw materials are infinitely reusable."
or
B. Depending on exactly what you have in what state. "This set/part was purchased for X and is now worth Y" or casually show her one of those 'LEGO is a better investment than Gold articles'.

Be careful though as you MAY not want to reveal the, shall we say, extent... of your portfolio!

sid3windr

500€ of wool is not cheaper than 500€ of LEGO. End of. :P

dmcc0

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA said:

Be careful though as you MAY not want to reveal the, shall we say, extent... of your portfolio!

The stack of sealed boxes in the bottom of the wardrobe/under the bed, stuff on display and the boxes of bagged up sets in the loft are a bit of a giveaway

Speedman29

dmcc0 said:

Strangely, the same reasoning doesn't seem to apply to her hobby (crochet). To her there is no such thing as buying too much wool
 

My wife loves crochet and quilting, apparently whoever dies with the most wool/fabric wins!

catwrangler

Built the Ecto 1 & 2 set today - well, finished it, after starting it on Sunday while watching the movie on DVD. :) I particularly like all the equipment piled on the roof; it's a nice level of detail to have...

SumoLego

All_That_Rocks said:

^ Interested to know if you inventory system is more than that provided on Brickset.com. 

I just use Brickset.  (I have to use a few different profiles, but it works very nicely!)

SeijiAmasawa

As someone who enjoys both Lego and needlecraft, I'd have to say both cost $$$. Acrylic yarn is dirt cheap. But if one is talking 100% wool, it can get pretty expensive. Not unheard of for one skein to be $20+ then you multiply that by however many to make a sweater, blanket, etc. Yikes

SumoLego

(This discussion is why this is the best Forum ever.)

piratemania7

Trying to explain to my step sister what LEGO is...

All_That_Rocks

SumoLego said:

All_That_Rocks said:

^ Interested to know if you inventory system is more than that provided on Brickset.com. 

I just use Brickset.  (I have to use a few different profiles, but it works very nicely!)

Cool, thats what I'm using too. Just wanted to be sure there wasn't anything better :)

Bumblepants

Stepped into TRU for the first time in two years to find not much has changed. Bonus points for the security wrap and full price on this gem:

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA

^ TRU you say?  A heavily guarded Mammoth Stomper flanked by a heavily guarded Ferrari truck and Haunted Lighthouse?  Where are you exactly? Temporal Rifts r Us?

Penkid11

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA said:

^ TRU you say?  A heavily guarded Mammoth Stomper flanked by a heavily guarded Ferrari truck and Haunted Lighthouse?  Where are you exactly? Temporal Rifts r Us?

It's actually a big, two-aisle chart that allows you determine what Lego sets sell terribly. The older they are, the harder they've been to sell.

I'm serious. The amount of Bionicle, Angry Birds, Scooby Doo, large sized Minecraft and Super Heroes sets they have at mine speaks volumes.

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA

^ So what sort of prices are their Scooby Doo sets?  If I could get Scooby Doo stuff anywhere at retail these days I'd be all over it. 
Disclaimer - in Australia 

bookmum

My local TRU has loads of Geoffrey sets. In two different parts of the store with two different prices! 

Bumblepants

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA said:

^ So what sort of prices are their Scooby Doo sets?  If I could get Scooby Doo stuff anywhere at retail these days I'd be all over it. 
Disclaimer - in Australia 

The ones I saw were all marked up over rrp. They also had Angry Birds castles for $110 while Marshalls next door had them for $50

stlux

When you try to figure out how to display your first SDCC set...



(It just kept sliding on its back no matter what I used to prop it up!)

Bumblepants

Sorting 1*2s

redarmy

SumoLego said:

dmcc0 said:

Sorting through a big box of bagged up sets only I discover a couple of used sets I don't even remember buying! A sign that I buy too much?

You just need a better inventory system.  

(Although, my last sentence could indicate I am someone who buys 'too much'.  Does one have 'too much' if their hobby requires an inventory system?)

Or this...



@stlux - crazy people in America!

I honestly think we need to revisit our adoption conversation from a while back...i just need to feel safe and loved...if you just happen to have a lot of unopened Lego then i will just have to learn to live with it ;-)

KingAlanI

Working on a story centered around a kick-butt female character, and peppering it with references to other such characters. One of those is Macy Halbert, and my notes describe Nexo Knights as a long-form toy commercial.

@khmellymel I'm hardly a superstitious person but I did carry a lucky red 2x4 brick for school tests sometimes. Second time's the key chain bag charm.

re TRU - same here. I'm rarely there and I saw some old overpriced sets. Methinks there's a correlation.

SumoLego

redarmy said:

I honestly think we need to revisit our adoption conversation from a while back...i just need to feel safe and loved...if you just happen to have a lot of unopened Lego then i will just have to learn to live with it ;-)

Can you run inventory for a Bricklink Store?

redarmy

SumoLego said:

redarmy said:

I honestly think we need to revisit our adoption conversation from a while back...i just need to feel safe and loved...if you just happen to have a lot of unopened Lego then i will just have to learn to live with it ;-)

Can you run inventory for a Bricklink Store?

I can barely spell my own name..does that help?

SumoLego

redarmy said:

I can barely spell my own name..does that help?

I can't do math.  That would make for a dangerous combination.

redarmy

SumoLego said:

redarmy said:

I can barely spell my own name..does that help?

I can't do math.  That would make for a dangerous combination.

You scare too easily...

Yodalicious

SumoLego said:

redarmy said:

I can barely spell my own name..does that help?

I can't do math.  That would make for a dangerous combination.

Me either. That's why I went into marketing. I guess lawyering is the same. 

SprinkleOtter

Try going into engineering. That'll ensure you never do actual math again.

"3x8? I dunno. Just plug it into the calculator brick."

Fauch

never seen a 3 x 8 brick anyway

SprinkleOtter

^ Ever seen a 1 x 5?
Either kind.

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA

Either kind?
Im aware of the modulex brick with M studs - what is the other kind. If there was one with LEGO on the studs I'd have to own it. The amount of minds I could blow. 
FOOTNOTE:  Possibly the nerdiest thing I've ever typed on the internet.

SprinkleOtter

^ The LEGO Brickumentary kind.

SumoLego

SprinkleOtter said:

Try going into engineering. That'll ensure you never do actual math again.

"3x8? I dunno. Just plug it into the calculator brick."

Fake Math?