What's your LEGO 'status' today?

kbw

My parents brought up some old Lego sets of mine during Labor Day weekend. Black Seas Barracuda was an absolute mess. Was missing quite a few parts, so I sourced them from Bricklink and Lego. Finally got around to cleaning this thing up today and it has been worth the effort. Still have to piece about 25% of it back together, but feeling productive. 
Kinda random, but I discovered during my cleaning that I have 2 Captain Redbeard minifigs. No clue how that happened as I thought he was only in this set

Speedman29

It was an all winning Bricklink, S@H and eBay LEGO delivery day today. Advent calendar turned up along with the Gingerbreadman. Plus <muffled voice> and <loud cough> and a couple of <inaudible muttering> for Secret Santa!

vizzitor

^In my head I was reading that post as the usual status update of not divulging your big purchases to your significant other/friends/colleagues/disapproving pets and substituting the noises for Millennium Falcon, Ninjago City and Fishing Store without even thinking.

The craziness of the generosity for Secret Santa was staggering until I reread it using the actual words typed.

As someone who couldn't decide in time and missed the Secret Santa deadline, it's still very generous.

Pumpkin_3CK5

Opened a second #76044 and noticed it didn't come with a gray cape for Batman. Checked brickset instructions and confirmed it was omitted. Anyone have an idea why?

FowlerBricks

Pumpkin_3CK5 said:

Opened a second #76044 and noticed it didn't come with a gray cape for Batman. Checked brickset instructions and confirmed it was omitted. Anyone have an idea why?

Actually, I do. The capes came in the first batch of those sets, but they tended to rip at the neck if you didn't remove Batman's armor extremely carefully. I had that happen and I complained to Lego. They replaced my cape and after that they removed the capes from the other batches. They even changed to box. I don't know if they got more complaints or what, but now there is two versions. I prefer the one with the cape even if there's the chance it could rip.

kbw

kbw said:

My parents brought up some old Lego sets of mine during Labor Day weekend. Black Seas Barracuda was an absolute mess. Was missing quite a few parts, so I sourced them from Bricklink and Lego. Finally got around to cleaning this thing up today and it has been worth the effort. Still have to piece about 25% of it back together, but feeling productive. 
Kinda random, but I discovered during my cleaning that I have 2 Captain Redbeard minifigs. No clue how that happened as I thought he was only in this set

Ok, so I got an extra Captain and another dude pirate instead of a the female pirate. Very odd. 

MegtheCat

Okay, so I'm late to the party...

1. what LEGO themes do you collect? Nexo Knights, TLBM, some Star Wars, DC & Marvel SuperHeroes, and whatever else catches my fancy.

2. How big is your collection? 554 sets, which includes a lot of CMFs, books & various non-sets

3. what is your favorite minifigure? I'll say Lester at the moment. It's really hard to pick just one because I after all started out as a minifigure collector.

4. what is your favorite set? Saturn V. I was lucky to be able to line up for it on release day

5. what is your latest Lego purchase? Women of NASA

6. how do you display your collection? On various surfaces around the house, including the fireplace mantel. I desperately need shelves - cat proof shelves.

7. how do you dust your collection? Umm...dusting:(

8. how do you store your spare parts? Badly.

9. what else do your collect? Apparently Funko Pops - I was holding at 7 but have recently added some of the new TLJ ones. Chewbacca holding a Porg is too cute! Also Hallmark's Itty Bittys (I tried to stop but then they went and made a set for TWD).

10. what are you reading right now? Ken Follett's newest book at home & and a terrible Dean Koontz book at work. I need something I can easily stop reading since I only have 30 minutes for lunch.

Pumpkin_3CK5

@FowlerBricks so it was all your fault!

Jk lol Glad I didn't wait and bought it when it first came out. 

nexander

Had a great day at Glesga Bricks. Lots of awesome afols and displays, lots of happy kids and parents, money raised for Fairy Bricks and we definatly converted a few parents to afol-dom.

We start planning the next 2 shows on Monday!

Speedman29

Little Miss Speedman had a birthday party to go to this afternoon. Her friend had opted for the same people we used. So another train bridge building session.



She had some great ideas which we built together. It ended up as an overgrown one sided tunnel!

Aanchir

Bit of a late update, but Thursday was the opening of the LEGO exhibition at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center! My classes this semester have been stressful so I didn’t have an opportunity to make anything new for the contest, so I entered my MOC from this summer, PAIGE: https://www.flickr.com/photos/aanchir/shares/83T1z8



She actually won both “Most Creative” and “Best Craftsmanship” in the Adult age bracket, but that’s not as impressive as it sounds since I was the only person to submit anything in that age bracket… the only other adults to enter did so as an adult/child team, which has its own separate age bracket. I did get a lot of positive feedback for her, though, including from the museum director!

msanders

Went with the little boy and his friend, to the toys r us minibuild event yesterday. Nice little BB8 build. It will go nicely with the minifigure BB8 and the large one once I write my Xmas list to Santa (well, it's siting in the basement at the moment until Santa puts it under the tree!). Although, technically my son 'owns' the minibuild, I can sneak it into a display with the big one right?! 

Charmiefcb

Being honest with myself that I have no patience so Ninjago City will be ordered this week.

Oh what the hell.
1. what LEGO themes do you collect? Mainly Star Wars, City if I like the set, Creator. If I like the set I’ll buy it from themes I don’t really look at. IE Destinys Bounty, Temple of Airjitzu and very soon Ninjago City.
2. how big is your collection? Probably around 200 sets or so.
3. what is your favorite minifigure? Jyn Erso from the U wing set.
4. what is your favorite set?  Grand Emporium.
5. what is your latest Lego purchase? Creator Carousel
6. how do you display your collection? Sort of hidden away in my attic at the moment so not really on display out in the open.
7. how do you dust your collection? My attic gets little to no dust thankfully.
8. how do you store your spare parts? Big box for old parts and spare bags from sets for all the small extra pieces.
9. what else do your collect? Video games, movies, you could say books. I don’t really consider myself a collector of things but I do seem to collect a fair few things.
10. what are you reading right now? Nothing. Have 1984 ready to go just need to find time.

Briking

Put in my order to Santa’s little helper (aka mrs Briking) for #21310

LEGO_Dad77

SumoLego said:

LEGO_Dad77 said:

Aquaman?

HAHA! Yeah. Ran out of time to complete his facial and torso details, as well as even constructing his trident. SO.... I just drew him up a belt buckle with the classic “A” and slapped it on, hoping people would know. :D They did!

SumoLego

^ Judging by the new movie, he'll need body tattoos, a biker beard and the ability to fly.  Upgrades for 2018!

Bumblepants

SumoLego said:

^ Judging by the new movie, he'll need body tattoos, a biker beard and the ability to fly.  Upgrades for 2018!

He will also have to serve as the comic relief by yelling with approval at situations others might find intimidating. Hilarious! (Seriously though, JL looks so awful)

Yodalicious

^ MY MAN!

MaffyD

FowlerBricks said:

Pumpkin_3CK5 said:

Opened a second #76044 and noticed it didn't come with a gray cape for Batman. Checked brickset instructions and confirmed it was omitted. Anyone have an idea why?

Actually, I do. The capes came in the first batch of those sets, but they tended to rip at the neck if you didn't remove Batman's armor extremely carefully. I had that happen and I complained to Lego. They replaced my cape and after that they removed the capes from the other batches. They even changed to box. I don't know if they got more complaints or what, but now there is two versions. I prefer the one with the cape even if there's the chance it could rip.

That happened to me! I had to ask Lego to send me a cape as my box didn't have one (It's on the main picture though). I mentioned it here (http://bricksetforum.com/discussion/comment/545628/#Comment_545628) but didn't have an explanation until now. Thanks @FowlerBricks !

MaffyD

Bumblepants said:

SumoLego said:

^ Judging by the new movie, he'll need body tattoos, a biker beard and the ability to fly.  Upgrades for 2018!

He will also have to serve as the comic relief by yelling with approval at situations others might find intimidating. Hilarious! (Seriously though, JL looks so awful)

Well, it's hard to do Aquaman justice. Looks like they went the easy route and decided to make him quotable, gung-ho and gregarious to make him popular. This may backfire horrendously. But I'll need to see the movie anyway...

Bumblepants

^He could easily be the best thing in that movie. His role as water master could be key as pretty much anything and everything in the trailer was on fire. 

kbw

Finally clean. Looks pretty good for a set that's almost 30 years old imo. 

Mr_Hobbles

Today I built my old #10199 Winter Village Toy Shop in preparation for Christmas. In the next couple of weeks I'm hoping to build #10216 Winter Village Bakery.

That leaves the train and the station for our nominated Christmas assembly (tree, decorations, etc) day. :) Very much looking forward to having all four at the bottom of the tree!

Paperballpark

I spent almost the entire weekend clearing my 'to sort' pile. I took apart a moc and at least 5 medium-sized sets, and sorted it all into my collection. Then I sorted some bags of parts which I had, and put those into my collection too.

I still have lots of bags left to sort, but I reckon I got through at least 80% of the whole lot - some of which has been needing to be sorted for over a year.

stlux

Visited the only Lego Store in Belgium last week. Due to higher Benelux RRP vs German RRP + traffic/parking nightmare in the Wijnegem Shopping Center, it's unlikely I will visit again soon and will stay faithful to the German Saarbrücken store instead.

However at least I got an extra stamp in my Lego passport, and got to say hi to the resident Stormtrooper:

SumoLego

Yodalicious said:

^ MY MAN!

(Which is ironic, given that he's referring to Cyborg.)

SumoLego

MaffyD said:
This may backfire horrendously.

How could it possibly go wrong? It's not like they're putting silly sunglasses on the outside of Batman's cowl.  Or turning the Flash into 'Wheelie' from the Transformers cartoons.

Or inexplicably not showing that Superman isn't really dead.  (Although, apparently, he has some sort of rock levitating cameo in the Last Jedi.)

SumoLego

Paperballpark said:

I got through at least 80% of the whole lot - some of which has been needing to be sorted for over a year.

Amateur.  I just discovered some Bricktober magnets from 2010.  I didn't know they made Bricktober magnets in 2010!

FowlerBricks

I finally made a Sigfig!

Speedman29

Mrs Speedman popped upstairs to check on Little Miss Speedman tucked up in bed, we then had a long discussion regarding Christmas Day and parent logistics (who is coming, when and where) We then got on to the usual present talk about what to get who. She then looked at the various Brickset browser tabs open on my PC and asked if my wanted list was up to date!

Glacierfalls265

Was pleasantly surprised after creating my MOC that I had enough of my pieces left to rebuild my Haunted house as an unhaunted house, and to add a heavily modified Town House from Pet Shop. Behold the new town of Glacier Falls! 

AdeelZubair

Attended my first LUG meeting this evening.

Mr_Hobbles

Adzbadboy said:

Attended my first LUG meeting this evening.

How was it? I wanted to attend this month (first time) but prior commitments scuppered those plans. It's in my calendar to attend the December meet up.

MaffyD

^^ Otherwise known as a trip to the pub, it looks like! Wish I had a LUG that I didn't need to drive to. You guys will have to do! :-)

bookmum

Hi @Adzbadboy I was at that LUG meetup too. Not sure if I chatted to you. I was the one wearing black tshirt with white butterflies on. @Mr_Hobbles you should definitely come. It's so much fun. I have been going almost a year (after a few chickening out times) and I love it and I have made new friends and it's given me lots of confidence!! 

AdeelZubair

Mr_Hobbles said:

Adzbadboy said:

Attended my first LUG meeting this evening.

How was it? I wanted to attend this month (first time) but prior commitments scuppered those plans. It's in my calendar to attend the December meet up.

It was good, a little difficult to get to know everybody the first time. Having a few familiar faces helped.

bookmum said:

Hi @Adzbadboy I was at that LUG meetup too. Not sure if I chatted to you. I was the one wearing black tshirt with white butterflies on. @Mr_Hobbles you should definitely come. It's so much fun. I have been going almost a year (after a few chickening out times) and I love it and I have made new friends and it's given me lots of confidence!! 

Not sure myelf, I was the one who was in white / cream, both shirt and trousers.

Bricklover18

Bought the Big Ben set today and the old fishing store set. Got the fountain as a free promo.

SirKevbags

You come up with an idea, it starts becoming real and then the moment you think "shit, what have we done"

https://m.facebook.com/notes/lego/buildtogive/10155228677533403/

Venunder

^ Well done SirKevbags and thankyou TLG. :)

Salamalex

@SirKevbags I might have to get myself over to the Hull event then.

omnium

@SirKevbags, awesome! I'll be sharing a photo with #BuildToGive
Fabulous work, you should be very proud of yourself!

TheOriginalSimonB

Went to Norwich today and bumped into this chap.



Seems Warren Elsemore's Brick Wonders show is coming to the Forum in a couple of weeks.

bookmum

Warren Elsmore's exhibition is just finishing at Banbury Museum where I saw it at half term. It was very good. Well recommended!! 

snowhitie

Be not so active lately, I do read along but most of my energy has been regretably elsewhere.

Last few days we are starting to get everything ready for my son's 'Lego party' next week. Just did a trial run of the cake - well just the cake, not all the decorations, just wanted to make sure it tasted good (that's my story gvnor and I'm sticking to it).

I thought making little party-favours would be easy since we got a ton of bricks. but to find something little, gender-neutral, was more difficult than I thought. In the end I used on of the builds of last years Xmas build-up.

 They will also get some jelly sweets in the shape of lego men (well, if I can make that but it doesn't look too difficult).

The plan for the party is, everyonee gets their own baseplate and a bag with some animals (2 tigers, some dolphins, a whole load of petting animals) and then they get buidling. I4ve tiled the outsides of each baseplate so that in the end it will come together in a square and we'll have fully formed zoo. The entrance I was thinking of pre-building, but with plenty of room for extra things to be added to by whoever wants.
Just hope there won't be too many arguments about who gets which animal.


I'm also planning on baking cookies in the shape of legomen (beforehand) that they can decorate and take home. I'll also provide a colouring station.

My son enjoys a quiz as well, so I might do that, but don't want to 'overload' the party either. They are 7/8 so can enjoy themselves as well.

Any tips are welcome!

Speedman29

That sounds like a cool idea for a building party. PM on its way to you with some ideas!

omnium

Why do I never get invited to parties like that? :) 

piratemania7

I’m just wondering why my invite was lost in the mail.

flord

I *may* have bought this for the 70s Giant Man minifigure. I hope this game is bug-free.

dmcc0

^I was going to do the same, but unfortunately no fig included with the Switch version for some reason - only Xbone and PS4 :-(

Patrik78

Managed to remove 75192 from my wanted list for good, ordered 75105 instead :) Quickly added Joker Manor, Artic Roller though...