What's your LEGO 'status' today?

MaffyD

^ Same thing happened to my children, so I had to go get them. And then work from home because laptops.

nexander

khmellymel said:

I got sent home from work today due to snow which was amazing! I think I've experienced a snow day maybe once in my life. Now the day can be dedicated to (finding a place for all the) Lego! 

Expect another one tomorrow!  Pity the kids are off too.

Fizyx

Status today is: Monthly Mini-Build-a-palooza.  Recently went back and found a bunch of the in-store monthly mini-builds that I really liked and have been bricklinking/BnPing the pieces for them for a couple months now.  Today the final pieces came in, and I was able to finish them all up.  Not included is the Octopus from last year which started this whole fiasco.  Also included is my newly finished arcade rocket ride, however.

77ncaachamps

Two weeks into my self-imposed Lego purchasing embargo...just focusing on building and only building.

The GBC thread has been very inspiring...

KingAlanI

(looking at bin of parts I'm sorting) "Where am I going to put this f***ing thing?!) the LEGO warehouse I sleep in is near max capacity.

@Fizyx glad he found only a few 30356 is onto something about sets being too cheap in too high a quantity. Maybe all those hot dog carts can sell to all those cops and firefighters

@Lobot #21309 (and #21312) got me to think about non-LEGO space exploration as well

Speedman29

It's my birthday today and it's snowing! Had bacon and black pudding rolls for breakfast while unwrapping presents. Needed to get the sledge out as Little Miss Speedman wanted dragging to school....

.....good haul of all the 60th sets and a weekend away at the National Space Centre for the Brickish event. 

MaffyD

Happy birthday @Speedman29 !

snowhitie

Many happy returns @Speedman29, enjoy your day!

TheOriginalSimonB

Happy birthday to @Speedman29 - nice pressies.

milamber

Just finished 70612 Green Ninja Mech Dragon. What a terrific little set this is. Not my usual type of thing, but saw it cheap so took a punt. Fun build, lovely finished model and really innovative use of pieces. Plus some really nice parts, so might even buy another.....and some more mechs :)

TheOriginalSimonB

^And so begins the descent into Ninja madness...

milamber

TheOriginalSimonB said:

^And so begins the descent into Ninja madness...

Well that has sort of started anyway - I have Destiny's Bounty, Ninjago City, Temple of the Ultimate Weapon, plus some smaller sets. It's the oriental, cyberpunk theme I like, just never tried any of the Mech's, preferring ships and buildings.

snowhitie

Just launched the new monthly building competition and very happy I'm still going strong on my building every day challenge. 2 months and not missed one day of building and I'm certain it's having a good effect on my anxiety levels.

After MOC'ing the last couple of days I went for something slighty less impressive, but fun nonetheless, since I allowed myself to only look at the picture ont he front of the box to get the horse together. Here's #71344

If anyone is after the discs, send me a PM, I don't have the game.

jnscoelho

@milamber Try the #70611 Water Strider, my daughter asked for it after watching TLNM, I was able to get it at 50% RRP and it was a very interesting build. It moves well and looks amazing. 

milamber

jnscoelho said:

@milamber Try the #70611 Water Strider, my daughter asked for it after watching TLNM, I was able to get it at 50% RRP and it was a very interesting build. It moves well and looks amazing. 

Thanks. I was thinking about asking for suggestions. I've seen that cheap before as well. Hope it comes up again

Strider64

I'm in the process of  taking better pictures of my lego builds. I think I need to move the bus stop over to the right some more, for it's blocking the fountain. 

CaptainLego

Now you too can re-create the Mustang vs Camaro rivalry within your own LEGO world!

WatfordScottyM

Getting withdrawl symptoms.  Haven't bought anything since I got the Falcon on release day.  In desperate need of a Lego fix.

vizzitor

Lego every day since I was last in work on the 16th....I had a lot of holidays carried over from last year to use up.

Today I was supposed to go back to work but the Lego Snow Gods have seen fit to grind the country to a halt so I can have another uninterrupted 3 days of ABS-related joy. It's the less fun bit of the hobby, disassembling and sorting the 30+ sets I've built in the last fortnight but it beats a real job!

Once the sortings is done, then on to building some MOCs again. Maybe soon.

snowhitie

My son brought a test home today, and a part was about 'work' and 'free time'. One of the questions was: 'what does your mother like to do in her spare time'. So my son wrote (obvioulsy): 'building Lego'.

The teacher wrote a big line through it and dedcuted the point!

I don't usually complain to teachers (had to look up the address actually) but I thought to point out that adult women can actually have hobbies different from needlepoint or knitting, I did add a picture of my recent MOCing to prove the point. Hoping I'm getting rid of some of the presumptions in this world...

truck730

Just built Mr.Freeze ice attack ,it joins 2or even 3 other sets to make bigger energy plant ,something new to MOC complete power plant

Odeinoichus

Finally got the ecto-1 & 2 set... it was 59.99$ before taxes, making it not the best discount for a retired set, but better than thrice the price in some secondary market reselling circles.

Strider64

I've been fooling around in Photoshop (I have taken 2 courses in college in Photoshop) and decided to put a mountain background into the scene. To see the actual size of photo -> https://flic.kr/p/24LiKFy

FowlerBricks

@Strider64: That's pretty good! I do some Lego photography and Photoshopping too. All my best stuff can be found here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/106008340647935158666

CaptainLego

Ladies and Gentlemen of Brickset Forums, I present to you one of my greatest minifigure ideas ever: Clint EastWu.

CaptainLego

I’m bored, so here. Have a picture of Mr. Ferrari ordering pizza after smoking a confident driver.

Speedman29

End of a bumper four day birthday weekend. After two snow filled days sledging and playing with LEGO we set off in several inches of the white stuff to Leicester and the National Space Centre for the Brickish Weekend. Saw loads of really cool MOCs and some real spaceships before watching TLBM in the Planetarium in an after hours showing. Came back for a quick look around Sunday morning before a trip to Milton Keynes store and then home to blue skies and dry roads with not a trace of snow around! I've got a few photos that I'll get up in a thread when I get a chance.

Legoboy

So with all of the boys' clubs being cancelled over the weekend due to snow, despite there being no sign of it from Saturday morning onwards and 8 degrees, spent the past couple of days building LEGO and educating the kids with classic films.

Started with Jurassic Park, then Ghostbusters, E.T., Goonies, Back to the Future Trilogy and finished off with Fanboys.

I've not been able to build in the living room before but having recently inherited an enormous piece of 15th century furniture, well, didn't seem weird at all introducing Tudor to LEGO.  I really ought to put a sheet down next time though.

bandit778

@Legoboy
Sounds like you had a pretty damn near perfect weekend. :)

Legoboy

^ Wasn't a bad one actually, although my bum might not agree.

My wife was extremely patient and didn't fall asleep either.  Is that a sign that she enjoyed it?

KingAlanI

snowhitie said:

My son brought a test home today, and a part was about 'work' and 'free time'. One of the questions was: 'what does your mother like to do in her spare time'. So my son wrote (obvioulsy): 'building Lego'.

The teacher wrote a big line through it and dedcuted the point!

I don't usually complain to teachers (had to look up the address actually) but I thought to point out that adult women can actually have hobbies different from needlepoint or knitting, I did add a picture of my recent MOCing to prove the point. Hoping I'm getting rid of some of the presumptions in this world...

I think the teacher was assuming it was a child rather than adult activity rather than being sexist

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Stayed home today with the hope of sorting my BrickLink inventory backlog, and I am actually getting stuff done.

sid3windr

^ I didn't read anything sexist in it (and I don't think @snowhitie did either).

Starting to think Lego blacklisted me for whatever reason.

- Can't order on s@h since 2 months
- No response to CS ticket about the above even after reminder e-mail
- Can't check out as guest, payment is declined.

Big sigh.

I can still order missing pieces for free and buy with VIP at the store, so I don't actually expect blacklist, rather just technical incompetence...

CaptainLego

Got this neat little thing:

SumoLego

snowhitie said:

...The teacher wrote a big line through it and dedcuted the point!...

Did he get the point back? 

(That aside, how can one deduct a point for a question that doesn't have a 'correct' answer?  How is the teacher to know what hobby a parent partakes in?  I readily admit that I cross-stitch and am a curler.  I think this teacher would have to deduct all sorts of points!)

(As a further aside, my (at the time) six year-old daughter wrote a three page story with illustrations about how her aunt set a snowball on fire because there she said there is so much plastic in the atmosphere that snow isn't 'just' frozen water.  I never laughed so hard at a Parent-Teacher Conference.)

LostInTranslation

Had a Ninjago building weekend, decided to build Temple of Resurrection and Airjitzu Temple. Both really interesting builds with techniques I may adapt if I ever get round to building some models inspired by my trip to Japan a few years ago.

Also still got Ninjago City in the backlog pile to look forward to :-) 

snowhitie

@SumoLego I don't know, she's not replied yet! She did ask my son for his test back, so hopefully :) Love that story re the snowball... Kind of wish it was snowing still so I could give it a try too!

@KingAlanI didn't understand it as a sexist thing, just a parent/kid thing. I guess I threw you by calling myself an adult woman, but that's because I think of myself as such. Guess person would have been better. Anyway, no mention was made of sex in my email to teacher ;)

madejp86

So I bought 2 of the 3 Guardians of the Galaxy 2 sets last week. Now I think I will have to get the last one as well. I like the Milano build and it got me thinking of a UCS version. Luckily for me BuildBetterBricks already has a killer version. Dang more bricklink orders...

Strider64

I've been slowly taking better pictures of my Lego builds and tomorrow I'm getting a better camera body that will hopefully give my pictures more details. 

MaffyD

I am disappoint. I've missed the Infinity War GWP period for the Guardian's spaceship.

JooTog

MaffyD said:

I am disappoint. I've missed the Infinity War GWP period for the Guardian's spaceship.

Lately it seems that the GWP polybags have showed up at stores (TRU, Target) later on... at least here in US. Cross your fingers :-)

TheOriginalSimonB

Looks like I'm going to have to go shopping before the devil comes for my minifigures...

560Heliport

@TheOriginalSimonB Now there's an interesting excuse for buying LEGO... "The Devil made me do it!"

MaffyD

JooTog said:

MaffyD said:

I am disappoint. I've missed the Infinity War GWP period for the Guardian's spaceship.

Lately it seems that the GWP polybags have showed up at stores (TRU, Target) later on... at least here in US. Cross your fingers :-)

Yeah, and there's always Bricklink. But the main reason I wanted to get it now was that my wife approved of getting the freebie. Now there is no freebie any more her opinion may change!

piratemania7

^Even buying the GWP item straight from Bricklink is ulitmately "cheaper" than the typical threshold you have to pass on S@H in order to qualify.  I've thought of picking up a few items this way but always end up just buying from S@H.

Strider64

Taken with my new camera body and the lens it came with. 

LegoLover2029

Must.add.more.to.Bricklink.default.wanted.list!!!

CaptainLego

Got this beautiful thing:

Fizyx

^I haven't gotten any SC sets yet... but that one has definitely made me look a time or three.

LegobrandonCP

It's been a while since I posted but I wanted to share some good news and ask for some recommendations. 

I found a great deal on a flight from Seattle to Copenhagen from Late April to Early May, so I'm quite excited to be visiting Europe for the first time!

Here's a draft of my itinerary:

1. Day 1: LEGO House / Surrounding Attractions
2. Day 2: LEGOLand 
3. Day 3: Early morning flight (6:00 am) out of Billund to Copenhagen to catch my flight home (Departs CPH at 12:15 pm)

Is LEGOLand worth an entire day of my travels? I've been to the one in California so it should be more or less the same.

Another thing I'm worried about is the operating hours of the LEGO store inside BLL. I read online that they open at 4 am, but I can not confirm that. I want to make sure I can pick up some exclusives to bring home.

Any recommendations would be appreciated. :)

VorpalRyu

The final parts arrived, so I got to assemble my Millennium Falcon Special Edition Microfighter. Pretty happy with the end result.


There's a few extra photos on my flickr, including some with the #75030 & #75193 Falcons for comparison.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cjblkcz/