What's your LEGO 'status' today?

stlux

Speaking of ABS bricks: it's Halloween in Legoland, so the bricks are covered in spiders and other critters. Sensei Wu needs to fight one off:

Bumblepants

stlux said:

@Bumblepants "Only" 325km to Malmö from Billund... I think I'll just concentrate on ABS bricks over the next 3 days ;)

As a native Texan 325km is just 'over yonder' and isn't that far at all ;-)

SumoLego

Imagine being married to this moron who wanders around the house for two hours proclaiming that Kit-Kat bars are reserved only for the Knights of Ren.

(By the way, that is my... er... his... wife's scarf.  Which was way more fashionable than the one that came with the children's costume.)

560Heliport

How do you... er, how does he eat Kit-Kats in that mask?

SumoLego

You save them for after you smash your helmet dramatically in the turbolift.

560Heliport

Yep, you'd need a snack break after that. I mean, Kylo would need a snack break.

Astrobricks

stlux said:

Off to Billund again! :)

It took me a while to figure out that strange language in the middle.

Gibbo1959

Astrobricks said:

stlux said:

Off to Billund again! :)

It took me a while to figure out that strange language in the middle.

I though it was Greek at first! Presume it was actually snapped mid screen change.

stlux

End of day 1 in Billund...



 Halloween Legoland was fun!









Although they do seem to work their staff to death...

mustang69

So after seven business days I finally got a tracking update for my BnP & PaB order. The package has made it a whole 9 miles!!! From College Park GA to Forest Park GA. They are saying it will be delivered by Nov 6th so I guess they plan on improving on their 1.28 miles per day progress.

dmcc0

^^ He's patiently waiting for a decent Black VIP card promotion :) 

SumoLego

dmcc0 said:

^^ He's patiently waiting for a decent Black VIP card promotion :) 

Maybe that's a time-warp - how do they still have a Classic Batcave in stock?

stlux

SumoLego said:

dmcc0 said:

^^ He's patiently waiting for a decent Black VIP card promotion :) 

Maybe that's a time-warp - how do they still have a Classic Batcave in stock?

At a whopping 10% off! (with Danish RRP on that set 20-30% higher than elsewhere, a VERY poor deal considering current aftermarket prices...)

There was also a full shelf of DC Super Hero Girls. Didn't visit the discount store yet, but pretty sure they still have hundreds of those binders to hold the Chima game cards.

SumoLego

If that have that old Creator Expert Hotel and Coffee Shop avaiable, go right ahead and pick one up for me..

stlux

LEGO Fries only with the kid's menus at Legoland? We'll see about that!


I'm a kid at heart, so that should qualify ;)

SumoLego

I would try wearing a Kylo Ren Halloween costume.  I... er... someone was frequently called a child while in the costume.

Brainslugged

Wasn't sure where to post his, but after the recent Brickset article about Wicked Bricks display stands, I thought I'd try a couple out. I got the tallest (XL?) and second tallest stands (L?), both angled and dynamic. Just tested them out and I think they look great. I wouldn't want to put anything larger than the U-wing on one though.

stlux

Had another great day in Legoland finding all the Halloween decoration:



In the evening I then went to the LEGO House:



Where apart from all the interesting presentations (might do a write-up on those later) I was introduced to this very nice brick separator:



(I asked Astrid and she said it was OK to post pictures of this new colour, as long as I mentioned where I had seen it.)

We build this funky little set with lots of interesting building techniques:



And Matthew Ashton was so nice to draw me a Unikitty!



Thank you Astrid and the LEGO House for organising!

Bye bye LEGO House for tonight, but I'll be back tomorrow :)

Odeinoichus

Pre-Ordered two of the Overwatch sets, will probably save a few others for in-store pick-up on the first of January. (Depends on how things go by then.)

stlux

Wanted to take a screen print when reaching the nice round number of 6666 likes, but seems I was too slow...


I guess I should just be happy and say thank you anyway :)

stlux

Had a great day at the LEGO House, where the dinosaurs were now all eating some ice-cream. (At least I don't recall they did before?)



Eating at the Mini Chef restaurant and have the robots deliver your food is still very entertaining!



Now waiting to board my plane back home, so taking a picture of the business lounge's guard and buying the obvious:





Billund was great fun as always; I hope to be back again soon!

SumoLego

Astrobricks said:

stlux said:

Off to Billund again! :)

It took me a while to figure out that strange language in the middle.

The flight to Billund connects through Kerplakistan.

jnscoelho

After some purchases yesterday, with 50% discount in all of them, my status today is just checking my backlog...

Legoboy

Not that old but seems like much longer ago than 2011 when I took this picture in The Big Shop, LLW.  Yes, Tower Bridge is over seven years old and yes, Toy Shop has since been rereleased.

I only wish camera phones had been better back then.

SumoLego

Can you grab a Flagship and an Emerald Night?  Thanks!

justintarte

Work in progress... but took some positive steps this morning with the LEGO Jurassic World scene in my LEGO City: (watch a short video here: https://goo.gl/UKpsp2)

Thoughts and/or suggestions?

LittleLori

Trying to decide if I add more to the Hallowe’en scene this year or if I should start winterizing some of my little houses.

Pumpkin_3CK5

LittleLori said:

Trying to decide if I add more to the Hallowe’en scene this year or if I should start winterizing some of my little houses.

Do both and make it a Nightmare before Christmas lol

SumoLego

My grand weekend plan of simultaneously organizing the kids' old toys, my LEGO hoard, removing and ridding the family of excess furniture (three couches, one piano and a coffee table), in an effort to relocate said LEGO hoard to the 'other' side of the basement has been a spectacular failure.

However, I am happy to report that the candy bowls are 22% lighter than on Friday.  And I ordered three highly coveted prospective Christmas gifts.

Ugh.  Maybe next weekend...

If anyone wants a lovely upright Wurlitzer piano - it's free and I'll help you move it into your vehicle.

pxchris

SumoLego said:

If anyone wants a lovely upright Wurlitzer piano - it's free and I'll help you move it into your vehicle.

How about free delivery to Oregon?

SumoLego

I'll see if I can fit it into a large flat-rate box.

MissKittyFantastico

Today's status: quite a bit poorer, and working out where to fit Voltron on my shelves.

Bumblepants

Spent a few minutes turning the #5005359 Minifigure Frame freebie into a baseplate with a minifigure freebie. Just a little ripping and scrubbing and soaking and a nice dark bley 32x32 became a lot more usable. 

560Heliport

Did you just soak it in water, or some (other) solvent?

Bumblepants

I used some dishsoap and hot water. There is a ton of goo on the back of it but a rough scrubber took it off fine without damaging the plastic.

560Heliport

Great to know! Thanks!!

omnium

Just left my first negative feedback on Bricklink.

I've had over 150 orders since 2012. 50 of those in the last 6 months. And whilst I've had some bad experiences, the seller has been good about it and sorted things out.

I suspect I'm an anomaly for this seller, as he has almost 5000 positive feedback reports. But his responses to the negatives (which I'm looking forward to!) are telling.

This seller was so slow, I had to chase the invoice after almost a week, then it took only 2 days to be marked as shipped, which seemed fair. But the postage was bought 5 days after.

The seller outright denied this happened!

Then the (new) parts arrived, a week after they were "shipped" 2nd class, they were quite grubby and many of them were badly scratched and scuffed. One even had what looked like a lump of snot stuck to it. Snot, not SNOT ;-)

Fair enough, the seller offered me a refund for the parts. But not for the postage or the return postage.

I thought I was being fair when I wrote:
"Very slow, had to chase my order. Poor comms. Most new parts ok, but some v. bad"

The character limit makes it hard to give meaningful feedback.

Anyone want to buy 144 dirty, scratched 1x3 tiles in DBG??

WatfordScottyM

Legoboy said:

Not that old but seems like much longer ago than 2011 when I took this picture in The Big Shop, LLW.  Yes, Tower Bridge is over seven years old and yes, Toy Shop has since been rereleased.

I only wish camera phones had been better back then.

An amazing array of sets.  Is it just me being nostalgic, or would you struggle to put together a display of current sets that's so mouthwatering?

stlux

I'd say it's the nostalgia speaking, as that shelf is the equivalent of putting all today's exclusives + general large sets + architecture sets together in 1 place.

Hogwarts Castle, Voltron, Rollercoaster, Disney Castle, UCS MF, Death Star, the 5 Modulars, Firehouse Headquarters, Ferris Wheel, etc etc all put together would also look quite impressive. 

Mr_Hobbles

Due to slight screw up caused by the people at the Blizzard Gear store, I've ended up with four #75987 Overwatch Omnic Bastion sets instead of the one I ordered. Oh well. :)

(Who sends a package out addressed simply to "San Francisco, California"? And when I complained that it never arrived, four seperate customer service people picked up my complaint, and each one placed a replacement order for me...)

I built one of them today and I must say, what an enjoyable little build! Some really interesting building techniques used, but the icing on the cake is just how poseable this guy is. One of the most posable Lego mechs in recent times I think.

Yo_dA

Brainslugged said:

Wasn't sure where to post his, but after the recent Brickset article about Wicked Bricks display stands, I thought I'd try a couple out. I got the tallest (XL?) and second tallest stands (L?), both angled and dynamic. Just tested them out and I think they look great. I wouldn't want to put anything larger than the U-wing on one though.

These look amazing!  What size plate did you go with for the x wing?  I almost bought a few of these also, but I can’t decide which base plates to get.

Muftak1

Mr_Hobbles said:

Due to slight screw up caused by the people at the Blizzard Gear store, I've ended up with four #75987 Overwatch Omnic Bastion sets instead of the one I ordered. Oh well. :)

(Who sends a package out addressed simply to "San Francisco, California"? And when I complained that it never arrived, four seperate customer service people picked up my complaint, and each one placed a replacement order for me...)

I built one of them today and I must say, what an enjoyable little build! Some really interesting building techniques used, but the icing on the cake is just how poseable this guy is. One of the most posable Lego mechs in recent times I think.

Do you fancy selling any of them? :-)

SumoLego

^ Funny, I was thinking the same thing...

Muftak1

SumoLego said:

^ Funny, I was thinking the same thing...

I asked first!!! :-P

Baby_Yoda

@Mr_Hobbles They must have been going off your profile here on Brickset ;)

omnium

omnium said:

Just left my first negative feedback on Bricklink.

I've had over 150 orders since 2012. 50 of those in the last 6 months. And whilst I've had some bad experiences, the seller has been good about it and sorted things out.

I suspect I'm an anomaly for this seller, as he has almost 5000 positive feedback reports. But his responses to the negatives (which I'm looking forward to!) are telling.

This seller was so slow, I had to chase the invoice after almost a week, then it took only 2 days to be marked as shipped, which seemed fair. But the postage was bought 5 days after.

The seller outright denied this happened!

Then the (new) parts arrived, a week after they were "shipped" 2nd class, they were quite grubby and many of them were badly scratched and scuffed. One even had what looked like a lump of snot stuck to it. Snot, not SNOT ;-)

Fair enough, the seller offered me a refund for the parts. But not for the postage or the return postage.

I thought I was being fair when I wrote:
"Very slow, had to chase my order. Poor comms. Most new parts ok, but some v. bad"

The character limit makes it hard to give meaningful feedback.

Anyone want to buy 144 dirty, scratched 1x3 tiles in DBG??

Well, I got my feedback. First, his reply to my feedback:

"Reply: Perhaps the most supercilious buyer I've ever had! Sellers beware!!"

Then, his feedback to me:

"Demanding, supercilious & stupidly high expectations - sellers beware!"

Unfortunately, he forgot to change "Praise" to "Complain", so I still have 100% positive feedback ;)

I'm so supercilious, I had to Google what it meant to be sure:

supercilious

/suːpəˈsɪlɪəs/

adjective

behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.

"a supercilious lady's maid"

synonyms: arrogant, haughty, conceited, disdainful, overbearing, pompous, condescending, superior, patronizing, imperious, proud, lofty, lordly, snobbish, snobby, overweening, smug;

I guess it's about right. I do feel superior to someone who sells LEGO covered in snot :)

Baby_Yoda

^ Ha, I had to google it too. At least he didn't call you libellous.

SumoLego

Baby_Yoda said:

^ Ha, I had to google it too. At least he didn't call you libellous.

Superlibellous!

Gibbo1959

Is that like supercalafragilisticexpialidocious?

iso3200

My lovely wife sniffed out this bargain at a local charity shop this afternoon. A few minor marks on the box but all seals intact. £2.49 - couldn't believe it when she messaged to ask if I wanted it or not - yes please!