What's your LEGO 'status' today?

Bumblepants

SumoLego said:

Avent Calenders?  Time really does stand still at the airport.  And BTW, that guy in the back has no idea he's about to be lunch for a T-Rex.

Yeah there were tons of Advent calendars, not just the ones you can see there. Also the dinosaur is anamatronic and roars when you go past so he might have a slight idea of his pending doom.

KLOKRIECHER

I've uploaded the new set of the week on my website www.klokriecher.de:

Coolguy5000

Curious why the fakes look so much more accurate than lego versions....

Really like Thanos printed gauntlet as an alternative. And good to see Wong.  Duel molded legs on Nomad Cap look so well.

Speedman29

Took two different Smyths toy shops to find one selling series 18CMF, but pleased to get my hands on the elusive policeman...

sid3windr

Another B&P order, another set of missing pieces... This time 3 16x32 baseplates. :|

FowlerBricks

^Ouch!

omnium

I woke at 2am, jetlag from a work trip abroad. Tried willing myself back to sleep and in the end, gave up.
The upside is I'm building the #4000026 Tree of Creativity that my lovely wife bought me for my birthday :)

Legopants

With his gleaming tool clasped tightly in his lickle fist, Legopants cuts the seals on another set from his growing backlog...

Legopants

Hot on the heels of #10219 Maersk Train, it's time for #4841 Hogwarts Express.

Got this cracking set in a trade with Brickset's very own @drdavewatford back in December 2012/January 2013, so it's about time it finally got built! :-)

Mr_Hobbles

I spent a little while this morning assembling the new #21314 Tron: Legacy set while watching the film. Definitely enjoyed it. :)

omnium

Nice one @Mr_Hobbles! We'll be building ours this evening. It's nice the both cycles are identical builds because the wife and I will be able to build in parallel :-)

We'll have to try harder to meet up next time!

Legoboy

Great afternoon spent catching up with @omnium whilst Sam took his sets apart to better them. He's his mother's son.

omnium

Ah-ha! Nice catching up with @Legoboy and his fabulous family!

I love how your photos flow like a timelapse sequence :)

Sam's definitely a master builder.

Speedman29

Went for a walk today and saw a sad sight on the road near us....

...poor Santa, smashed to pieces, body cracked, arms ripped off and missing his hat. He'll be added to my growing collection of random street LEGO finds.

samiam391

Sorting the rainbow... complete LEGO monochrome collection!

Russell844

Speedman29 said:

Went for a walk today and saw a sad sight on the road near us....

...poor Santa, smashed to pieces, body cracked, arms ripped off and missing his hat. He'll be added to my growing collection of random street LEGO finds.

Santa got run over by a reindeer!

Pebbles

Managed to finally finish this beauty. It's my first ever big set and i'm hooked. :D

Also thanks to @milamber your measurements were spot on and it fits in the case exactly as you predicted :D

Fizyx

Speedman29 said:

Went for a walk today and saw a sad sight on the road near us....

...poor Santa, smashed to pieces, body cracked, arms ripped off and missing his hat. He'll be added to my growing collection of random street LEGO finds.

The reflection of the water around the pieces, especially around the lower arm, almost makes it look like the pieces are outlined with chalk like a crime scene.  Feels apropos.

Legoboy

Apparently, I'm the only one with the Tron set.  That's never happened to me before!






With UCS previously being my favourite theme, it's somewhat taken a back seat in recent years.  Too many duds and rehashes.  Exclusives and signed stuff are in the driving seat now.  Definitely not cheaper, but take up less room.

SumoLego

Fizyx said:

The reflection of the water around the pieces, especially around the lower arm, almost makes it look like the pieces are outlined with chalk like a crime scene.  Feels apropos.

This is clearly why there is so much police in LEGO City.  No one is safe.  

They're looking for a scruffy bandit with a Santa Hat and a sack full of toys.  Please contact one of the 23 local police precincts.  Or stop by the mobile command center.  Or the other mobile command center.  Or the Swamp Precinct.  Or the Jungle Precinct.  Or Fort Legorado.  You can also contact Space Police I, II or III.  

SumoLego

Breaking Update!  Suspect spotted by the train tracks.

(I really need a hobby.)

Bumblepants

Everyone needs to stop posting Maersk Train photos before I end up buying a third one! 

jnscoelho

Cleaning an old set from my childhood - and it's actually my first time washing LEGO. 
Can anyone guess which one is it?

Legoboy

#6592 Vacation Holiday

Very nice.  :)

FowlerBricks

SumoLego said:

Breaking Update!  Suspect spotted by the train tracks.

(I really need a hobby.)

Thrawn is there, so don't worry. He'll find the guy based on the stuff he stole. ;)

SumoLego

(I think between Mr. T, a certain Yeti and a Samurai armed with a french bread... Admiral Thrawn is the only hope.)

snowhitie

Getting all ready so the Easter bunny can come by later on, making sure there are Lego-free area's in the living room where he can hide the chocolate :)

So not much time to build, but my Easter bunny did find a cosy sofa to have a rest in between deliveries.

VorpalRyu

Had plans for James, Anthony & I to build my #40290 this morning, but I'm wanting to preserve the box, so it's been delayed until I can figure that part out. While I've been puzzling out that idea, @xiahna has had fun building #21013, we recently decided we'll make a bit of space on our hallway bookshelf for a few small builds, so we're going to be assembling all our Architecture sets.

Legopants

Hurray! The Easter Bunny has been! This little lot should keep me occupied for a couple of hours :-) 

Speedman29

Fun day out and the town of Basingstoke rarely go together! But yesterday we popped down the A30 to hunt out all the Bright Bricks animals that were scattered around the shopping centre as part of their #greatbrickadventure Some pretty impressive models on display.

bookmum

Warning. The Easter Bunny is spreading bad cases of Bunny Pox!!! 

VorpalRyu

Thanks to @xiahna's brilliant bakery skills #40290 has been freed from its plastic prison & built, my wife's skills with a palette knife made short work of the box. I'm thinking of getting a small picture frame to create display from the front & rear panels of the box, along with a spare 60th Anniversary tile from one of the Classic sets & a red 2x4 brick (or possible two bricks, one from my childhood Lego collection & one from this year).

Legopants

Bags 1+2 done. Now for the train :-) 

Legopants

Bag 3 completed. Starting to look Hogwarts-Express-like. On to Bag 4...

Legopants

Crikey - there's no stopping me! Bag 4 done. Next up, Bag 5 - the wagon thingy used to store the coal.

chrisalddin

lego status.
trying to work out how to:-
1. make room for new lego set's to go on display.
2. work out how to change the way i store the set's that are unbuilt so that i dont kill my self when i am trying to move the box's the unbuilt set's are stored in.
3. trying to work out if i can buy and Fit in to my room more bookshelf's from ikea to display sets on.
4. looking at my backlog and wishing i could build some of it. but knowing that untill i make room that is a bad idea.
5. trying to workout of a new way to store the Building Instructions book's that i have.

what i need is a new room to be magicly added to my house.
sadly i dont see that coming to pass.

Legopants

That didn't take long! Bag 5 done. Now for Bag 6 (the last one) containing the parts for the passenger carriage...

Legopants

Finished! Just need to nick a bit more track off Legopants jr. to display it in now... 

milamber

I've been meaning to build one large ship from 2 Destiny's Bounty sets for a while because, lovely as the model is, I think it looks a little squat and unbalanced. Finally managed to pick up another set cheaply a couple of weeks back so started on it yesterday. First mistake was to think I could use some pre-assembled bits from the original. Soon learnt that it all needed to come apart as I took ages to find the piece I needed more than once. Second mistake was to not sort the pieces from the new set out, at least by colour.

Despite taking inspiration from a couple of other builds that people have done, it's incredibly hard. Much harder than I expected. I guess I sort of assumed it would be mostly a case of doubling up the original, but so far it's ending up quite different in some respects, though some elements are the same.

Hoping to end up with a ship about 1m long and using around 4000 pieces, but time will tell. It's a good job I have my own hobbies room which can be shut away when I'm not there. I'm not hugely organised.......

omnium

@milamber, sorry, i didn't read a word of that. I was too busy looking at your guitar, wondering what it is :)

SumoLego

That's a Jedson.  I'm more curious as to its vintage.  I am impressed that it looks well-used!

milamber

Good job I didn't show the other wall then.....my guitars share with my Lego. It's currently a fight for dominance.

Yep, it's a Jedson, good spot. I think it's from the early 70's, but it's very hard to tell for certain. It is absolutely well used, 'distressed' is, I believe, the modern parlance :) It's actually not much good as an out and out electric and I don't really play electric anyway. I do play slide though, so after a bit of butchery it now has a raised bridge and nut, Catwhisker P90's and heavy gauge strings. Looks like a dog's dinner, but sounds great (in the right hands).

Nearly sold it a month or two back in a weak moment, but checked it out before sale and changed my mind. Guitars are a lot like Lego in that respect. Easy to acquire, hard to part with.

SumoLego

I have to say I'm over the April Fools' Day press releases.

Legoboy

@SumoLego, you have one of these?  Ingenious.

SumoLego

Mine blows.

Legopants

SumoLego

(Take the Wand, leave the Cannoli.)

Speedman29

Chucking it down with rain all day, so been watching the live stream from the British GT races at Oulton Park while dusting and rearranging everything on the modular street and the shelves above it.

TheOriginalSimonB

Resorting from colour groups to part type.

Addicted2Oxygen

@Legopants I almost burst out laughing in a meeting reading that. Luckily had my hand over my mouth to cover the smirking.