What's your LEGO 'status' today?

Legoboy

^ No plaque, no UCS.

MaffyD

^^ is the base one large piece and therefore counts as a plaque?

MaffyD

My small collection of micro SW fighters:

drwoodsy

Just joined after lurking for a while. Currently re-building several old Star Wars sets to clear the decks for Saturn V and New UCS MF. Hi all!

snowhitie

Been updating my excell sheet for the Secret Santa UK delegation to make sure nobody gets the same Santee as last year. Only one more week to go for those who still want to take part. Especally EU/New-Zealand/Australia etc can use some more people :) Come and join the fun.

Mr_Hobbles

@snowhitie How does one go about joining this fun? :) Is there a thread somewhere?

Renny

My dad was doing some reading in the front living room when my Lego shipment was delivered (Old Fishing Shack) by Fedex. My dad saw the delivery hurl the box ten feet away from the door to the point where it slammed against the door!

My dad told me quickly opened the door, called the delivery guy over to him and yelled at him for five minutes straight about how unprofessional he was.

Fortunately the set itself was undamaged :) Blows my mind that with the bad publicity they received last time with that viral video that this is still happening. 

iso3200

@Mr_Hobbles look under the Community and Events section for the 2017 Secret Santa. Also worth a look is last years thread where all the unwrapping happened :-)

snowhitie

^ indeed, just like @iso3200 says, down at the bottom of the forum, check it out and see if it's your cup of tea ;)

Watched a neighbour kid for half an hour - I guess the 'lady who plays with Lego' is a good place to go in an emergency (my son was at music lesson). He was very well behaved and we built a park and some cars with eyes - got to love the colours!

iso3200

snowhitie said:

Watched a neighbour kid for half an hour - I guess the 'lady who plays with Lego' is a good place to go in an emergency ==

"Lady who plays with Lego" sounds like your tribal name :-)

This could make an excellent idea for the Bonusball Draw question...

AdeelZubair

That day I always dreaded has finally come...

Dancing Groot (BrickHeadz): https://flic.kr/p/RJJ14W

nexander

Need to remember to sign up for this year's secret Santa.  Also means it's time to organise the lug one too. Had a good lug meet yesterday, my to do list for Glesga Bricks is getting slightly smaller (yay!) and had a paper interview earlier with myself and the wife. Going to be a busy Lego few weeks!

samiam391

A few BL and eBay orders later and I have my new phone case!




Yes, the off center stickers bother me too (I didn't place them).

snowhitie

I'm sorry @Adzbadboy - that must be gutting!

Kerre

Heading into London, hoping to squeeze in a quick visit to the Leicester Square LEGO store.

sid3windr

Kerre said:

Heading into London, hoping to squeeze in a quick visit to the Leicester Square LEGO store.

You know what they say... "Bring me some Lesters!" err i mean "Have Fun!" ;)

stlux

stlux said:

Somebody at my local supermarket clearly got bored with typing "Lego Star Wars Confidential" when creating price tags for soon-to-be-released sets.

#75179 Kylo Ren's TIE Fighter, #75188 Resistance Bomber and #75189 First Order Heavy Assault Walker all got bear themed names...

As @CapnRex101 pointed out, these were the code names assigned to the sets for the new movie.

These code names for The Last Jedi sets are apparently still in my local supermarket's computer, and have now made an appearance in their Sinterklaas/Christmas toy catalog:



Interesting enough, they do get the set names right in the description...

This is actually the more competent of supermarket chains here in Lux, so I have to wonder if somebody is not simply having a laugh...

stlux

sid3windr said:

Kerre said:

Heading into London, hoping to squeeze in a quick visit to the Leicester Square LEGO store.

You know what they say... "Bring me some Lesters!" err i mean "Have Fun!" ;)

@Kerre Are you alone, or with colleagues? More people = more Lesters ;)

@sid3windr Isn't the fun bit sharing Lesters? :)

omnium

Did anyone organise a queue of friendly bricksetters who want a Lester at cost price from us Londoners??

I'm heading in tonight and will have a couple "spare"... ;)

FowlerBricks

samiam391 said:

A few BL and eBay orders later and I have my new phone case!




Yes, the off center stickers bother me too (I didn't place them).

Make sure the Imperials don't see that phone. Those plans are too dangerous in their hands. Also, you ripped off part of the Iron Golem's chest! How could you? Those poor villagers, unprotected... 

Hanzo

omnium said:

Did anyone organise a queue of friendly bricksetters who want a Lester at cost price from us Londoners??

I'm heading in tonight and will have a couple "spare"... ;)

Say goodbye to your inbox cause it's about to explode.....

omnium

Hanzo said:

omnium said:

Did anyone organise a queue of friendly bricksetters who want a Lester at cost price from us Londoners??

I'm heading in tonight and will have a couple "spare"... ;)

Say goodbye to your inbox cause it's about to explode.....

:-)

Well, I remember there being a load of posts from new or newish users in Marketplace hoping to have 3 posted to them, but I don't remember many of the "regulars" asking for a favour. And regulars are the sort who would read this thread. Posting such craziness in Marketplace would certainly cause an explosion!

I also realised I might only end up with 1 spare, what with Secret Santa coming along very soon ;-)

CCC

samiam391 said:

A few BL and eBay orders later and I have my new phone case!




Yes, the off center stickers bother me too (I didn't place them).

Shouldn't you switch the X-ray and the X-rayed cat parts, so the arrows point towards the X-ray of the cat. I love the tile of the puppy looking up the cat's butt. My daughter has that one and it makes me smile every time I see it.

msanders

omnium said:

Hanzo said:

omnium said:

Did anyone organise a queue of friendly bricksetters who want a Lester at cost price from us Londoners??

I'm heading in tonight and will have a couple "spare"... ;)

Say goodbye to your inbox cause it's about to explode.....

:-)

Well, I remember there being a load of posts from new or newish users in Marketplace hoping to have 3 posted to them, but I don't remember many of the "regulars" asking for a favour. And regulars are the sort who would read this thread. Posting such craziness in Marketplace would certainly cause an explosion!

I also realised I might only end up with 1 spare, what with Secret Santa coming along very soon ;-)

Not sure if I'm classed as a regular but I would love just one of these. I'm located in Switzerland but have an address in the uk to get it sent. @iso3200 is my regular source for Lego so he can vouch for me as a buyer!

dmcc0

First (baby) steps on a slippery slope ;-) first (of possibly many) Batman variant BrickLink orders has arrived.

CaptainLego

My status is more of a dilemma that has to do with my giant arsenal form third parties such as Brickarms.

These are all my unused third party made firearms:



The dilemma is how to actually start using some of these little by little outside of law enforcement, criminal underworld, and military special operations. Not as simple as it sounds.



These are Brickarms replicas of old rifles, such as a Lee-Enfield and a M1 Garand. These are pretty eaay to intergate into a Lego minifigure world. Many real life weapons like this tend to get passed down within the family.



These aren’t as easy to intergrate. I have so many of these modern assault/semi-auto/battle rifles from third party manufacturers. 

The main thing is not giving every single minifigure one, but, I gotta figure out something.

piratemania7

dmcc0 said:

First (baby) steps on a slippery slope ;-) first (of possibly many) Batman variant BrickLink orders has arrived.

What are you searching by on bricklink?

dmcc0

^just added all the batman variants to my minifig wishlist on brickset using a combo of "batman" and "batsuit" tags and exported to a BrickLink wishlist. 

Venunder

@CaptainLego
All those weapons are just asking for a MOC Arsenal build.
Terminator 2  Weapon cache?
Survivalists hut, with underground bunker/arsenal?
Police station Arsenal?
Police Evidence Locker?
Or just a Weapon Shop?

well you get the idea. :)

CaptainLego

Venunder said:

@CaptainLego
All those weapons are just asking for a MOC Arsenal build.
Terminator 2  Weapon cache?
Survivalists hut, with underground bunker/arsenal?
Police station Arsenal?
Police Evidence Locker?
Or just a Weapon Shop?

well you get the idea. :)

I’ve actually toyed with the gun shop idea before. If I ever get to making a building, of course. 

I also have a gang of gun runners in my imaginary Lego city. I already have a SWAT Team as well. I like having all of those available in case I want to do some sort of scene with my minifigures, but I gotta start using more.

omnium

msanders said:

omnium said:

Hanzo said:

omnium said:

Did anyone organise a queue of friendly bricksetters who want a Lester at cost price from us Londoners??

I'm heading in tonight and will have a couple "spare"... ;)

Say goodbye to your inbox cause it's about to explode.....

:-)

Well, I remember there being a load of posts from new or newish users in Marketplace hoping to have 3 posted to them, but I don't remember many of the "regulars" asking for a favour. And regulars are the sort who would read this thread. Posting such craziness in Marketplace would certainly cause an explosion!

I also realised I might only end up with 1 spare, what with Secret Santa coming along very soon ;-)

Not sure if I'm classed as a regular but I would love just one of these. I'm located in Switzerland but have an address in the uk to get it sent. @iso3200 is my regular source for Lego so he can vouch for me as a buyer!

Loved your Swiss House in the August build competition! PM me and we'll sort it out.

Hanzo

CaptainLego said:

My status is more of a dilemma that has to do with my giant arsenal form third parties such as Brickarms.

The main thing is not giving every single minifigure one, but, I gotta figure out something.

Firearms museum?

CaptainLego

Hanzo said:

CaptainLego said:

My status is more of a dilemma that has to do with my giant arsenal form third parties such as Brickarms.

The main thing is not giving every single minifigure one, but, I gotta figure out something.

Firearms museum?

Could work if I ever have the space for something like that.

VorpalRyu

omnium said:

Hanzo said:

omnium said:

Did anyone organise a queue of friendly bricksetters who want a Lester at cost price from us Londoners??

I'm heading in tonight and will have a couple "spare"... ;)

Say goodbye to your inbox cause it's about to explode.....

:-)

Well, I remember there being a load of posts from new or newish users in Marketplace hoping to have 3 posted to them, but I don't remember many of the "regulars" asking for a favour. And regulars are the sort who would read this thread. Posting such craziness in Marketplace would certainly cause an explosion!

I also realised I might only end up with 1 spare, what with Secret Santa coming along very soon ;-)

I know there were a few of us asking in the thread (http://bricksetforum.com/discussion/27177/missed-out-on-lester), including myself. I personally am after at least three (one to collect, one for my dad, one for MOC materials), but I figured if people are still doing this for their fellow Bricksetters, I can wait further back in the queue, as there are others only wanting one or two them.

samiam391 said:

A few BL and eBay orders later and I have my new phone case!




Yes, the off center stickers bother me too (I didn't place them).

It's times like this, I wish those companies would make more products for more phone models like back when Nokia was one of biggest phone manufacturers...

Pumpkin_3CK5

@CaptainLego This scene comes to mind.

Odeinoichus

CaptainLego said:

My status is more of a dilemma that has to do with my giant arsenal form third parties such as Brickarms.

These are all my unused third party made firearms:



The dilemma is how to actually start using some of these little by little outside of law enforcement, criminal underworld, and military special operations. Not as simple as it sounds.



These are Brickarms replicas of old rifles, such as a Lee-Enfield and a M1 Garand. These are pretty eaay to intergate into a Lego minifigure world. Many real life weapons like this tend to get passed down within the family.



These aren’t as easy to intergrate. I have so many of these modern assault/semi-auto/battle rifles from third party manufacturers. 

The main thing is not giving every single minifigure one, but, I gotta figure out something.

If I had all of those I'd probably make Burt Gummer's Rec Room, I mean I'm just silly like that. We need more Tremors MOCs in the world, I don't think I've ever seen one honestly. Then again I haven't done much searching online.

datsunrobbie

CaptainLego said:

Hanzo said:

CaptainLego said:

My status is more of a dilemma that has to do with my giant arsenal form third parties such as Brickarms.

The main thing is not giving every single minifigure one, but, I gotta figure out something.

Firearms museum?

Could work if I ever have the space for something like that.

The first thoughts that came to my mind were the trunk of Dean's '67 Impala, or Barbara Kean's new lair on Gotham. 

snowhitie

We started on the top!

SumoLego

snowhitie said:

We started on the top!

This photo should be censored.  Can't have folks trolling the Forum for 'Topless Star Wars Pics', now can we?

Speedman29

Successful Lego day. Smyths toys first for a party bag giveaway that had a TLNM battle pod. TrU on the way back for the Ice Tank build and take event. Lily and I sat and built hers and took mine away for later. The store manager came past and I casually asked what they were doing with the metre long cardboard sorting trays with Ninjago on the side....they're in the boot of the car now! And then shot over to see @Legoboy to collect TLBM Bricktober pack he'd got for me.


Great to meet another forum member and natter.

stlux

More "even after 2 months, we couldn't be bothered to update the code names for the
new SW sets to the actual names":



So my local supermarket is selling #75530 Big Brown Bear, #75529 Poog Bear Guard and #75528 Goldi-Locks. No Pooh/Yogi name for #75526 though...

xwingpilot

Balance has been restored to the force in the xwingpilot household - I've now sold/traded all the polybags, keychains and minifigures I wasn't displaying. So now the only LEGO I'm storing (except for spare parts from displayed sets/minifigures) are two sealed #40308 Lesters, some black display stand parts and some CMF bases. 

Bricklover18

Trying to get back into building after a second degree burn on my finger. It's healed enough that I can do simple sets such as polybags. 

samiam391

DEADLINE approaching!

Do not forget to sign up for Brickset Secret Santa! :)

CaptainLego

Pumpkin_3CK5 said:

@CaptainLego This scene comes to mind.

That was my exact thought process. I just wanted to have em cuz they’re cool. Gonna have to give some to regular civilians too. Which I did:



I really like that Brickarms Sturmwegher 44. Had to use it somehow.

CaptainLego

CaptainLego said:

Pumpkin_3CK5 said:

@CaptainLego This scene comes to mind.

That was my exact thought process. I just wanted to have em cuz they’re cool. Gonna have to give some to regular civilians too. Which I did:



I really like that Brickarms Sturmwegher 44. Had to use it somehow.

I forgot her:



The lone pink Brickarms had to go somewhere.

Switchfoot55

This story seems to be occurring more and more frequently in my life: 

Seller posts a killer deal - Switchfoot finds said deal and extends an agreement to purchase - Seller responds with mutual agreement of purchase - Two hours later seller marks deal as sold to someone else - Switchfoot cries in corner. 

The latest iteration had to do with two full totes of bricks. One containing every Monster Fighter Set as well as the Haunted House and several other smaller sets. The other containing several LOTR sets, most still in original bags. The price tag? $240. 

I'm sure many of you have been at this for years and years who have suffered through the thrill of finding a deal, only to have it ripped from your hands, know how to manage the disappointment better than I. But the sting is still so bitterly real for me. It doesn't help when I've lived it over and over and over during the last few months!

I just keep telling myself the next one will be mine! THE NEXT ONE WILL BE MINE!

Venunder

^ Maybe the answer is to be in the right place at the right time, with the right price.

Once a deal is struck a seller should not really take a higher offer, but greed is rife and a definite sale now at a higher price, is hard to resist, over a possible sale later.

Switchfoot55

It definitely is being in the right place at the right time. Most of the sales I've missed out on I was the second one to respond. This one was a bit different in that it appeared to me I was the first to reach out to them and confirmed the intent to complete the transaction. Whatever...life goes on. 

My wife is done hearing me mope around about missing this one yesterday. I better buck up quick or my buying green-light may disappear quickly!

BuriedinBricks

Massive load of parts for a commissioned piece just came in over the past few days. Almost time to start building!