What's your LEGO 'status' today?

Legopants

Provisions purchased. Now off to the show :-) 

Legopants

Main Hall at 12:00.

CaptainLego

I realized I forgot to show my latest MOC; Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato. Hope these pictures aren’t too big.

snowhitie

After doing some big free-builds I'm just taking it easy this weekend and doing small creator sets. After making the fish yesterday, I've made the cockatoo,frog and fly today (#31031 ). Love the colours on this one and my son loves playing with the digestive functions!

sid3windr

^ My daughter's favourite Lego bird as well, for that exact same reason.

Legopants

LostInTranslation said:

 Legopants said:

Nice wheels! :-)
Wouldn't Cruella let you drive @Shib? 

@legopants - No I wouldn't! 

After having mithered Cruella until she finally and very reluctantly gave in, Legopants took the wheel... 





PC Plod and Dalmatian #87 made a full recovery. Probably. 

Legopants

Had a great time at STEAM once again. Great to bump into a few Bricksetters - this time I met @omnium in person :-) What a top bloke! :-) And here's his cool display:

Legopants

Here's another impressive build from @docsonia73. It's a mechanised trivision picture display unit thingy:

snowhitie

Cool to see all the pictures @Speedman29 and @Legopants. Some great works again over there.

My own lego-status? Doing some Secret Santa admin and having Christmas songs in my head while doing it.

Legopants

For all you BrickHeadz fans - Messrs Bump, Tickle, Strong, Happy and Nosey :-) 

omnium

Legopants said:

Had a great time at STEAM once again. Great to bump into a few Bricksetters - this time I met @omnium in person :-) What a top bloke! :-) And here's his cool display:

Thank you, sir! It was great to meet you too. It was nice chatting to someone in the real world, even if I did mostly witter on about a load of old nonsense :-)

Legopants

Legopants connecting with his feminine side in the fluffy, cutesy pastel hell that is @LostInTranslation's interpretation of N-Pop Girl's bedroom.

560Heliport

Is that a Double-Decker Couch to the left of the window?! Awesome! (... everything is)

Legopants

In complete contrast to N-Pop Girl's cuddly-wuddly world, Harley Quinn's bedroom (also created by @LostInTranslation of course) is as dark and scary as the red and white, Joker-loving villainess's twisted mind.

pxchris

SumoLego said:

SL:  "My display case for smooth-haired Leia and THRAWN arrived today!"

SLW:  "Ugh, you are such a man-child.  Get that off my kitchen table."

SL:  "But... THRAWN!"

SLW:  "Yes, your blue Oompa-Loompa and poop-hair Leia are lovely.  Off the table, please."

Where did you pick these up from, and are you happy with the quality? I've seen the like from some vendors, but wasn't real sure on what level of product they were peddling.

(Also, you spouse dialog hits awfully close to home!)

SumoLego

It's basically a 50-count acrylic card holder and a double-sided color print on card stock.

https://www.ultrapro.com/product_info.php?products_id=652&osCsid=ppmvct8ojhc282s649cmv1f116

I'm just really, really lazy and don't want to waste hours trying to find the graphic, size the graphic and then print (or have printed) the backing.

I got them off of eBay, and immediately tossed out the included custom minifigure.  Awhile back I got ones for the other chrome SW minifigures.  They were cheaper and didn't have the silly minifigures.  All have held up fine - I'm very happy with how they look.

LostInTranslation

Had an excellent time at Steam, despite certain rogue elements taking liberties with my models.
Now home and exhausted but will take stock properly of the weekend once I've caught up on some sleep. 

I'd forgotten I'd preordered this so nice surprise to get it today :-) 

Hanzo

My status is "trying to figure out how picky I am".  Just put my Kessel Mine Worker together and the torso/leg printing is a little off.  I can't unsee it now.  Would you all contact LEGO if you got this?

560Heliport

I wouldn't bother- it's a freebie, so I just look at it and think, "Woo-hoo! Free LEGO!" And who's to say that a replacement would be any better? When I get home, I'll look at mine again. It might be off in the other direction- then we could swap parts! I do wish they wouldn't design the prints on minifigs this way. It doesn't work so well for trading for different legs. 

FowlerBricks

^I agree. It doesn't look too bad, in my opinion. I would just leave it.

Hanzo

560Heliport said:

I wouldn't bother- it's a freebie, so I just look at it and think, "Woo-hoo! Free LEGO!" And who's to say that a replacement would be any better? When I get home, I'll look at mine again. It might be off in the other direction- then we could swap parts! I do wish they wouldn't design the prints on minifigs this way. It doesn't work so well for trading for different legs. 

I wouldn't normally bother, but this is made for display and hooks up with the others in the series so I'll have to look at it more often.

Switchfoot55

If you squint and tilt your head a little to the left, it looks fine! You could nickname the fig "Squints" to justify your actions every time you look at it.

Muftak1

Legopants said:

For all you BrickHeadz fans - Messrs Bump, Tickle, Strong, Happy and Nosey :-) 

You sure that isn't Mr Small? Mr Strong is a big square chap...

SumoLego

Hanzo said:

...my Kessel Mine Worker together and the torso/leg printing is a little off...

Judging by the one posted by Brickset - they all likely look the same.  

Hanzo

SumoLego said:

Hanzo said:

...my Kessel Mine Worker together and the torso/leg printing is a little off...

Judging by the one posted by Brickset - they all likely look the same.  

I folded and contacted them anyway. CS says they are going to match a torso and legs up for me and send it out. 

I <3 LEGO customer service. 

Legopants

Muftak1 said:

Legopants said:

For all you BrickHeadz fans - Messrs Bump, Tickle, Strong, Happy and Nosey :-) 

You sure that isn't Mr Small? Mr Strong is a big square chap...

@Muftak1 - you are absolutely correct. It is indeed Mr Small (I wondered why he was smaller than the others). I think Mr Strong wears a green hat, doesn't he? And, as you quite rightly point out, he's square. And eats a lot of eggs. 

Legopants

Below are a few photos of the fantastic Brickish collaborative build consisting of 40 or so modular buildings on a very detailed road layout.

Legopants

Above, a railway station created by @drdavewatford. 

Legopants

Below, a sushi bar by @messy.

Legopants

And, finally, a tattoo studio by Vaughn Medway. 

sid3windr

That LEGO House modular looks amazong! (and the others look great, too!)

That station reminds me @drwatford ... how is your elevated modular city coming along? :-O (I saw the blog post, but that's no excuse!)

truck730

Fantastic layout and really dig the 'Black Books' shop

Pumpkin_3CK5

I'm probably just being my usual paranoid self, but I really hope this ain't just a very good knock off since the LEGO logo is off kilter lolz

If the price of this set on the brickset site is anything to go by, I think I got a good deal. 

kbw

Hanzo said:

SumoLego said:

Hanzo said:

...my Kessel Mine Worker together and the torso/leg printing is a little off...

Judging by the one posted by Brickset - they all likely look the same.  

I folded and contacted them anyway. CS says they are going to match a torso and legs up for me and send it out. 

I <3 LEGO customer service. 

Realize you already contacted, but I just put mine together and the torso does match, fwiw

stlux

When one of my nieces started primary school 2 years ago, I gifted her a subscription to the German version of the Friends magazine to get her some regular reading material in German. (The first 2 years of primary school in Luxembourg are 100% in German, which is not her mother tongue.)

Her younger sister has just started primary school last month, and asked me last week whether she could also get a Lego magazine subscription. To learn German of course; and possibly also to get post in her name - kids love receiving mail! (At their age it's not all bills...) 
However she didn't want the Friends magazine (when I let her loose in a Lego Store for her birthday she chose #5929 Carnotaurus Gyrosphere Escape), but the Ninjago one. She was then told that there was also a Lego Star Wars ("oh yeah, I would like that one!") and Lego City magazine ("oh, police and fire service!").

As she wasn't able to decide, I have now bought all the most recent editions so she can pick which one she likes best:



Might have advertised the City magazine incorrectly to her though: the current issue is 100% dedicated to the sanitation worker on the cover, with not even an ad for a Lego Police/Fire Service set inside...

sid3windr

Cool gifts!

The city one is a totally different one every time... I like it! (and we don't have that issue here yet...)

SumoLego

stlux said:

...the current issue is 100% dedicated to the sanitation worker on the cover...

There appears to be a sanitation worker on the cover of the left magazine as well.

(And the guy on the right works with dirt, so maybe there is a common theme?)

560Heliport

Dammit @SumoLego, don't you have enough "likes" already?

SumoLego

560Heliport said:

Dammit @SumoLego, don't you have enough "likes" already?

I'm collecting all of them.  Kinda like polybags and minifigure keychains.

560Heliport

#*@%$, I just had to give you another. :)

Odeinoichus

About to build Captain Phasma's BrickHeadz.

Switchfoot55

I'll have to go find a random "Like" to take back  from @SumoLego so his collection will be missing one. 

Good luck finding which one with the Like Avatars missing now!

PJ76uk

Going through my parts collection to piece together #75997 and seems I am only 2 bricks short, the joy! Much better to order those from [email protected] or BL than paying aftermarket prices for the SDCC set...

VorpalRyu

@PJ76uk, #75997 is awesome & well worth the effort of tracking down the parts if you're not crazy enough to pay the eBay tax like I did. I'm liking the fact that TLG are doing the SDCC with already available parts these days & giving access to the instructions, it means more of the AFOL community have the chance to experience these builds.

PJ76uk

@VorpalRyu indeed, I have largely ignored all the exclusive SDCC etc stuff as the aftermarket prices are ridiculous and I would much rather spend the money on a retired set for slightly above RRP! I was lucky that I only needed 2 more parts, looked at [email protected] but out of stock, the part (need 2x same part) is only available in a couple of new sets so might wait a while and see if they stock it, otherwise will try get one of the sets on discount and find a use for the left over parts!

JudgeChuck

@PJ76uk A little while ago, I did the same for #COMCON033-1 Micro Scale Bag End, although I did end up ordering most of the parts twice, through separate BrickLink orders by mistake!

Definitely the way to go for these exclusives!

PJ76uk

@JudgeChuck just wish we could order minifig parts from [email protected] to make those exclusive SDCC minifigures!

BrickByBrick

^ just saying it would be hilarious if they showed up in BaM bars

Odeinoichus

Despite some minor hassles through Canada Post, I picked up a package from a fellow enthusiast this morning and I am now three less needed for the LEGO DC Super Hero Girls theme. Such a shame they vanished so quickly, most 2017 sets aren't that hard to come by this late in the year, especially Summer wave product, but I guess LEGO under produced this Theme in anticipation of retiring early.

Odeinoichus

Er, I'm not sure if double posting is frowned upon however I just finished adding my new Bricktober purchases to my collection and I have 1998 Minifigures in total. Two of which are ghost Minifigures because the database doubled them since they came from a Brickmaster book with a Polybag which both list the Minifigures for some curious reason.