What's your LEGO 'status' today?

Speedman29

Last minute buying session at lunchtime for a present. My daughter was going to a friends birthday party tea/early Halloween after school and needed a present for her LEGO mad friend who loves Halloween. Luckily my local Sainsburys has a stack of #40203 Vampire & bat sets from last year. Sorted

bookmum

I finally watched The Lego Batman Movie today!! I hardly ever see a film when it comes out new. At my rate of seeing films I will probably see the Ninjago one in about the year 2020. 

Legoboy

A very excited little Sam this morning......




With an added bonus surprise when we leave....



[good job Dad has his own ticket]

eMJeeNL

sid3windr said:

eMJeeNL said:

GRRRRRRR...

Somewhat familiar. Missed delivery yesterday by 5 minutes, went to post office to pick it up. "It's not here". Indeed, tracking doesn't say it is. The 2 Amazon parcels that were delivered by the same truck at the same moment were, however... They better not have lost it! Not that LEGO won't replace it if it actually got lost, but they'll be out of the VIP set once they do...

Hmmm... the Same statusupdate appeared twice more yesterday, with an update like ‘arrived at local sorting’... this morning and when I Just got home, there was a ‘we’ve missed you’-note in the door...

guess they’ll Be back monday. :s

Addicted2Oxygen

Just what I love to see: great big dirty boot prints on my Lego parcels

eanair

@Legoboy - me & my KFOL are heading to the cinema this afternoon too. His very first time!!
No goodie bags for us though

Legoboy

eanair said:

@Legoboy - me & my KFOL are heading to the cinema this afternoon too. His very first time!!
No goodie bags for us though

I actually really enjoyed it.  Better than The Batman Movie I thought - didn't fall asleep anyway.

Hope the pair of you have a good time.  :)

Meanwhile, somebody needs to get their priorities straight.....

snowhitie

@Legoboy aha - that's what you do, you read the books in the bookstore so you can keep the ones in your house immaculate?

@bookmum did you enjoy it?

Legoboy

^ Lol.  Killing time waiting for Joe.

gratefulnat

Thanks to Efferman's stand, I have found space in my living room to display the MF:

I am a little scared of waking up to a loud crash, but no risk, no fun :-)
Seems very stable, but was a #%&$@ to attach with the MF already built!

dspigel

gratefulnat said:

Thanks to Efferman's stand, I have found space in my living room to display the MF:

I am a little scared of waking up to a loud crash, but no risk, no fun :-)
Seems very stable, but was a #%&$@ to attach with the MF already built!

I winced looking at this. 

Legoboy

^  Me too.  Very very brave.  I do hope a heavy lorry doesnt rush past.  :)

SumoLego

^ I didn't see any wall anchors, a wire harness or a plexiglass box.  

Do not let Harrison Ford in your house.  Or adopt a cat.

gratefulnat

^Harrison Ford will never show up, and my cat lives outside (no joke) and hasn't entered my apartment in ten years (yup, wild and free).
Efferman is definitely a very experienced technic builder, so I place my trust in his abilities...
But yeah, time + gravity =  sagging ( at 47, I know that that is the case), makes me a little nervous.

vizzitor

gratefulnat said:

^Harrison Ford will never show up

Never say never! The odds might be long on it alright...up until he kicks in your door, shouts "Never tell me the odds!" while swiping everything from the top shelf onto your floor, then runs out without another word.

Just be vigilant, is all I'm saying.

bookmum

I thought Batman was OK @snowhitie. Not the best film ever, not the worst. I rented from the library for £1 and daughter already has watched it twice so I suppose that was a £1 well spent. Not sure I am in a hurry to sit down and watch it again soon!! It didn't really have the joke that it's Lego (and possibly could be some kids imaginary fun) - it could of been any style of animation really!! 

Switchfoot55

Feeling a bit confused and wondering if anyone can help me figure something out with Bricklink. Is there an easy way to determine the weight of the items in my cart? I'm trying to estimate shipping as best as I'm able to, but obviously need the overall weight as a starting point. Am I just missing something that is right in front of my face?

Klintan

Switchfoot55 said:

Feeling a bit confused and wondering if anyone can help me figure something out with Bricklink. Is there an easy way to determine the weight of the items in my cart? I'm trying to estimate shipping as best as I'm able to, but obviously need the overall weight as a starting point. Am I just missing something that is right in front of my face?

See https://www.bricklink.com/storeSettings.new.asp 

If you go to a "item display setting" of a store, as described in the link above, and then enable "Show item weight in cart" it should be able to show the weight unless it disabled in a specific store.

nexander

Salamalex said:

Suffering LEGO show organiser nerves. Everything's done and, as the LEGO facilitator says, 'if you build it and advertise it they will come'. I hope so. If there are any bricksetters near Lincoln please come along to Brick Lincs (see our page on FaceBook) and enjoy the fun. 

It also brings a new meaning to the phrase 'bricking it'!  Hope all went well.  I have jokingly said there should be a Facebook group for local Lego show organisers to prevent clashes, give advise and help each other etc but think it might actually be a good idea!

Salamalex

@nexander it did go well. Fun was had by all, exhibitors and visitors alike. It's nerve wracking and tiring but very rewarding all the same. And a FB group sounds like a good idea to me. 

Shib

My son just got the coolest gift.........





I kind of want a set for myself.

LostInTranslation

@shib it says age 1+, he won't need it for a while so seems only fair for you to test drive it for him first. 

eanair

@Legoboy - the Ninjago Movie was fab - we both loved it!!  My KFOL came away wanting the red mech - which is awesome because I had let Santa know that Argos had it on sale last month!

All schools are closed here tomorrow due to storm Ophelia. Would love to get a text saying that work was cancelled too, but I'm not holding my breath, would be a perfect day for Lego.  Stay safe Irish/UK peeps.

Legoboy

^ Good stuff.  Having watched it yesterday, Sam screwed things up for Santa and his birthday next month by wanting everything but what he has.  The green dragon thing is the main on so not too expensive to add.

Yodalicious

Not a true LEGO status, but related. I (finally) finished this tonight. It’s those super small bricks. My fingers are killing me. Had to support my team...despite the past few weeks...

dspigel

Yodalicious said:

Not a true LEGO status, but related. I (finally) finished this tonight. It’s those super small bricks. My fingers are killing me. Had to support my team...despite the past few weeks...

Great looking build! But I hope my team beats yours.

Go Gamecocks!

Swamppy

On my way to  leiscester square for a lego shopping spree. Day off from work to go down on train and spend birthday money.  Nice way to spend my 40th. Not sure what to buy although hoping saturn v is in stock

sid3windr

eMJeeNL said:

Hmmm... the Same statusupdate appeared twice more yesterday, with an update like ‘arrived at local sorting’... this morning and when I Just got home, there was a ‘we’ve missed you’-note in the door...

guess they’ll Be back monday. :s

I got a call from the post office an hour ago that they found the package, so I went and picked it up immediately. Woohoo :) Hope yours will be there soon :)

stlux

Haven't been able to do much Lego-related over the past 1.5 months, as constructing a Lego room (and the house around said room) + work took priority.

Fortunately on Saturday visiting a company involved in constructing our house took me close(ish) to Saarbrücken. In the local shopping centre people had been building sections of a ship over the past week in an attempt to break the world record of longest Lego ship. The result:


 
 

750,000 bricks - give or take 20,000 I was told :)

At 11.64m, the world record has apparently been broken. Which confuses me a bit, as wasn't last year's DFSF ferry @nexander @thebeermonkey and others built a bit over 12m? Or maybe it's a different category of "longest Lego ship"?

Earlier in the week I had been told that my niece doesn't play with her friends/Elves sets anymore. Me sad :( However there was also good news, as for her birthday (she'll be 9 later this week) she wanted Technic instead. She had recently put somebody's small Technic set together, and had enjoyed that very much. Specifically she wanted #42065 RC Tracked Racer. Who am I to deny her that?!

So a visit to the Saarbrücken Lego Store yielded the below:



I had actually forgotten the calendar voucher for the Ninjago keychain, but was given it anyway when asking nicely :)

Finally then went to see TLNM on Sunday. Not great, but still enjoyed it. All in all a good Lego weekend!

MaffyD

Was my birthday over the weekend (and wedding anniversary, and son's birthday, and FIL's birthday) so I've been pretty busy. However, still managed to get a couple of Lego things - my wife bought me #76085 Battle of Atlantis & #76044  Clash of the Heroes in order to get my DC collection up to snuff (Clash being the cheapest BvS set with Batman in it, and the Atlantis set being the cheapest JL set with a hero I hadn't got yet, with me already having the WW set from her movie). Now I can wait until the Flash and Cyborg movies come along to get them two. I think.

snowhitie

I've gotten the okay from my son to bag up Deep Sea Explorers set to make some room in his Lego cupboards for other stuff, so been breaking them down. Pretty impressed with no lost pieces except a great big orange buoy, guess that got put somewhere else.

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA

^ A great big orange buoy that was put somewhere it shouldn't have been?
Have you tried 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.?

gratefulnat

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA said:

^ A great big orange buoy that was put somewhere it shouldn't have been?
Have you tried 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.?

Oh man, absolutely hilarious!!!!!!!!

Shib said:

My son just got the coolest gift.........





I kind of want a set for myself.

@Shib I think they forgot an important word in their description: clean-up-afterwards

My son enjoying one of his first meals that he ate all by himself :-)
17 years ago...god time goes by.
Enjoy it while it lasts, once its gone, its gone except for the wonderful memories.

datsunrobbie

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA said:

^ A great big orange buoy that was put somewhere it shouldn't have been?
Have you tried 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C.?

That's more like old Megablok or one of the brands from this article https://brickset.com/article/15793/review-cheap-chinese-rubbish than anything TLG would ever make.

Speedman29

Successful Sunday evening on eBay buying extra track to go with the Cargo train for my daughter for Christmas. Two oval tracks so far and grandparents are getting a couple of the current track packs as well

Venunder

"Great big orange Buoy" , definitely MB! 
Nobody really wants it, not even MT wants to be seen with it ... or hold it. 

nexander

At 11.64m, the world record has apparently been broken. Which confuses me a bit, as wasn't last year's DFSF ferry @nexander @thebeermonkey and others built a bit over 12m? Or maybe it's a different category of "longest Lego ship"?

Yup, different category I *think*! the dfds ship is the longest 'supported' ship if I remember correctly.

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA

Speedman29 said:

Successful Sunday evening on eBay buying extra track to go with the Cargo train for my daughter for Christmas. Two oval tracks so far and grandparents are getting a couple of the current track packs as well

Certainly not required but I'd personally recommend getting two extra switch packs if possible (giving you a total of six including the set in the cargo train).  This will allow a switched double loop with two sidings or a switched double loop with an interconnecting line OR a switched double loop with a single siding and a reversing loop (which, with the amount of curves you'll end up with will be close to optimal track usage).
  I'm starting to think my ex wife is right - I really am a LEGO enabler...

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA

^Come to think of it you'll need seven switches to include a reversing loop - better make that THREE extra switch packs.  And THIS is how it starts...

Charmiefcb

Finally bought Temple of Airjitzu a couple of days ago. Amazing set and I can't wait to put it together over Christmas. I'm buying a whole heap of sets, plus others that are still in their boxes and will be building them from Christmas day and New Years Day. Giving myself a challenge. A week to put together many thousands of prices.
Lots more sets to come including ordering Ninjago City in the next couple of weeks.

snowhitie

What do you do when your son gets up before his waking up time and asks with puppy dog eyes if you can do a bit of MF building?



You get up :)

This bit was really fun since we were able to work in tandem, both things were the same except for 2 steps. With me hunting for pieces we managed to keep perfect pace with each other.

Legoboy

So my drunken wife and her friend raced across London on Saturday night and arrived at the Leicester Square store at 10.05pm.

Having blagged their way into the closed shop and grabbed a handful of this month's must haves, her friend who'd been carrying all the bags collapsed onto the floor to catch her breath.

They'd done it!!!


[cropped to save her dignity]

Game_on

Feeling a little accomplished.  I had the urge to try to rebuild my Blackatron Invader that hasn't been together in well over 20 years and I managed to assemble 2/3rds of it with the correct pieces.  Everything but the cargo hold so far.

I didn't realize how many rare pieces were in that ship alone.  I'm just as surprised I was able to locate them too.  Granted I was digging through a good size unorganized Rubbermaid container for several hours for pieces.  But I managed to pull it together, but felt pretty burned out afterwards.  Maybe this weekend I'll  dig back in and build the last piece.  

BuriedinBricks

My Old Fishing Store that was on backorder finally shipped. Excited to build this one finally.

Also finally feeling happy with how a commission I've been working on is coming along. Need to have the design finalized soon, so that crunch has been stressing me out a little.

Switchfoot55

Somehow I decided it was a good decision to start digging a French Drain for my backyard on Sunday...at 3PM. Apparently I decided it wasn't very important to check the weather before beginning said project. By the end of Sunday evening I had the trenches dug and ready for the next steps. 

Then on my way to work yesterday I heard that my area is expecting a massive rain storm that will last for several days beginning today. That left me with only a few hours after work yesterday to finish what I started or face some nasty mud rivers in my backyard for the next few weeks. 

At 11:30PM last night I finished what I started. The upside is the water will successfully drain out of my yard. The downside is I feel as if I've been smashed by a fully loaded semi truck. 

I'd try to take my mind off the pain by building a nice Lego set or two, but even my fingertips hurt!

If anyone figures out that whole time travel thing, can you go back and inform my Sunday-self that the idea I had was a bad one?

Speedman29

/\ she's a keeper @legoboy Mrs Speedman is off to Cardiff for work in a couple of weeks. She asked if there was anything I needed in the store!

@MAGNINOMINISUMBRA Got two sets of points with the Cargo set. Another two coming from the Grandparents and I may well buy a third set as well as Amazon has them at £11 currently

M_Boss

Got home to find a Lego box on my porch. Unfortunately it looks like someone decided to stab it with a sword (Probably because of our new open carry sword law down here :)   ). I have no idea what could have possibly happened to it, but CS is sending me a new one after I send it back. At least none of my freebies fell out!

Charmiefcb

Big sets out of the way now the smaller sets and Winter Toyshop included in the wishlist. A few places here are selling it so why not.
I'm starting to really like the Ferris wheel and if I can find one it's going to be hard to say no to it.

Klintan

Since yesterday I now own over a thousand minifigures(probably had that number earlier but I have not added all my loose ones to the database). That's a lot of figures.

Speedman29

@Klintan you made me go and check my levels now....1004 and I have a bag of at least 50 unsorted to add to that at some point!