What's your LEGO 'status' today?

oldtodd33

^ I see three problems with that gun. Number one, motorized toys usually break faster than non-motorized toys. The battery pack usually won't outlast the mechanics of the gun and then you have a gun that doesn't work just because the motor is bad.  Number two, if you've ever been hit with one of those balls on the skin it actually does hurt. Number three, I'm one Nerf gun away from a divorce and it's still on sale. I have two in my cart.

SumoLego

Number One:  The Nerf Gun Lemon Law applies in New York.  

Number Two:  The dog has fur, the children are smart enough to hide or run.

Number Three:  If I could hold two at a time, I would've bought two.

*I made up the Nerf Gun Lemon Law.

SprinkleOtter

SumoLego said:

Number Three:  If I could hold two at a time, I would've bought two.

But you can! It comes with a convenient shoulder strap, so all you have to do is hold the back handle with the trigger on it!

This has been another terrible idea brought to you by @SprinkleOtter

Switchfoot55

Just tell that "friend" of yours to wear his Kylo Ren mask and his wife's scarf when he borrows it...

Pumpkin_3CK5

Adam Savage customized one to hold 1000 ammo and shot some dinosaurs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y_h8QOjH5g

FowlerBricks

My status is drooling over the new Spider-Man 2099 minifigure. The design of that figure is amazing! I haven't seen the set in any stores near me yet. Good thing too, since I would be tempted to grab it even though my Lego budget is $0 right now. XD

TheOriginalSimonB

I’m feeling guilty after sticking the Saturn V box in the recycling as I have kept all my other ideas ones, but space dictates...

kbw

FowlerBricks said:

My status is drooling over the new Spider-Man 2099 minifigure. The design of that figure is amazing! I haven't seen the set in any stores near me yet. Good thing too, since I would be tempted to grab it even though my Lego budget is $0 right now. XD

He’s a good looking fellow for sure. I really like the new Spider Man figures across the board. 

FowlerBricks

@kbw The only one that's a downer is Miles, but that's only because he's very similar to the first one.

kbw

^Jang has a review of the set with Spider Man 2099. Pretty cool set. My son will love the spider thing

kbw

My status today is I have decided to take action on this winter train because it’s driving me crazy. I normally don’t get annoyed with sets but the addition of the power functions is really eating at me. Every time my son starts playing with it and asking for help getting the engineer in the train, I just say to myself that this thing could be so much better. It’s such a cluttered mess. The grey pieces you have to swap into the train and the small caboose also drive me crazy. I’ve never MOCed anything before so I’m new to all this. Seems like a simple thing that even I couldn’t screw up but who knows.  
Now the debate is whether or not to buy a second set or to try to source parts separately. Either way, something must be done!

stlux

My wife: "Shall be build some Lego together?"
Me: "Sure, which set would you like to make?"
My wife: "One of my modulars?"
Me: "Your modulars?"
My wife: "Yes, the modulars and the large Creator Expert buildings are mine, right?"

I better never divorce this woman!

eMJeeNL

Hahahah lol. You just got owned. Or, really, your modulars did. :)

I'd still awaiting my BnP/PaB order, so i'll be able to start my Mouseketeer's Gingerbread House. Wish the damn postal services would just hurry the **** up.

JudgeChuck

I've finally got all the pieces together (I hope!) to build the Build Better Bricks Oliphant, so will start putting that together shortly.

Otherwise, I just noticed that I've hit a (small) milestone of 500 sets:



That does include a number of CMFs, but nonetheless... :-)

PJ76uk

My Lego status for the day - in traffic leaving the Lego Discovery Centre in Birmingham. Hopefully the kids wore themselves out!

dmcc0

stlux said:

My wife: "Shall be build some Lego together?"
Me: "Sure, which set would you like to make?"
My wife: "One of my modulars?"
Me: "Your modulars?"
My wife: "Yes, the modulars and the large Creator Expert buildings are mine, right?"

I better never divorce this woman!

At least she's interested in Lego.  My wife absolutely hates the stuff with a passion.  Even the smallest, simplest build has her freaking out that parts are missing, instructions are not clear enough etc, etc. A few weeks ago she reluctantly helped me build a few of my daughters smaller sets so she could sell them and I couldn't believe how stressed out she was getting.

TheBigLegoski

What's my status!?!

Well I'll tell ya all what my status is!

It is pretty pretty pretty ecstatic!

Do you wanna know why?!

Regardless...

I will tell you all anyway!

I just scored Ninjago city harbour over at Amazon.de for €148,47

(this set costs €249,99 in NL at full RRP)

Isn't this just epic or what!?

Can't remember when I scored such a bargain, even though I was no longer planning on buying any more Lego, and definitely not such a huge set.

Shib

Decided to do my own advent calendar builds on social media for the build to give campaign

https://mobile.twitter.com/shib_san

Speedman29

That's a good idea @Shib Last year we had a blitz on build to give one wet Sunday afternoon.

Open door 1 of my SW advent calendar this morning. Pretty cool

omnium

Bentalls in Kingston have a huge Hagrid and a cute Harry on display.


And the Star Wars advent calendar is reduced to £10. I already have one, but hey how, now I have two...

kbw

Found myself in a kerfuffle with my wife over a box of Lego Classic of all things. My son just wants bricks to build things so I got the #10704 on Black Friday. I thought myself a smart shopper but wife is annoyed by the cardboard box. She wants to get him the #10698 because it has a nice plastic box and LESS pieces. I told her this makes no sense because it’s $28 more. We can buy a storage bin for peanuts, but she likes that it’s shaped like a Lego brick. I feel like in the twilight zone or something. 

PJ76uk

kbw said:

Found myself in a kerfuffle with my wife over a box of Lego Classic of all things. My son just wants bricks to build things so I got the #10704 on Black Friday. I thought myself a smart shopper but wife is annoyed by the cardboard box. She wants to get him the #10698 because it has a nice plastic box and LESS pieces. I told her this makes no sense because it’s $28 more. We can buy a storage bin for peanuts, but she likes that it’s shaped like a Lego brick. I feel like in the twilight zone or something. 

If your wife wants Lego shaped storage suggest she checks https://shop.lego.com/en-GB/category/storage

datsunrobbie

kbw said:

Found myself in a kerfuffle with my wife over a box of Lego Classic of all things. My son just wants bricks to build things so I got the #10704 on Black Friday. I thought myself a smart shopper but wife is annoyed by the cardboard box. She wants to get him the #10698 because it has a nice plastic box and LESS pieces. I told her this makes no sense because it’s $28 more. We can buy a storage bin for peanuts, but she likes that it’s shaped like a Lego brick. I feel like in the twilight zone or something. 

I'd suggest checking out Craigslist. Depending on what part of NC you're in, there are some great deals on LEGO storage.

Aanchir

datsunrobbie said:

kbw said:

Found myself in a kerfuffle with my wife over a box of Lego Classic of all things. My son just wants bricks to build things so I got the #10704 on Black Friday. I thought myself a smart shopper but wife is annoyed by the cardboard box. She wants to get him the #10698 because it has a nice plastic box and LESS pieces. I told her this makes no sense because it’s $28 more. We can buy a storage bin for peanuts, but she likes that it’s shaped like a Lego brick. I feel like in the twilight zone or something. 

I'd suggest checking out Craigslist. Depending on what part of NC you're in, there are some great deals on LEGO storage.

Also, just checked on a whim and there are a LOT of people on BrickLink selling just the box of 10698 for really cheap (between $2 and $5)! Probably people who bought the set to part out. That might be the easiest way to resolve this feud!

SprinkleOtter

Aanchir said:

datsunrobbie said:

kbw said:

Found myself in a kerfuffle with my wife over a box of Lego Classic of all things. My son just wants bricks to build things so I got the #10704 on Black Friday. I thought myself a smart shopper but wife is annoyed by the cardboard box. She wants to get him the #10698 because it has a nice plastic box and LESS pieces. I told her this makes no sense because it’s $28 more. We can buy a storage bin for peanuts, but she likes that it’s shaped like a Lego brick. I feel like in the twilight zone or something. 

I'd suggest checking out Craigslist. Depending on what part of NC you're in, there are some great deals on LEGO storage.

Also, just checked on a whim and there are a LOT of people on BrickLink selling just the box of 10698 for really cheap (between $2 and $5)! Probably people who bought the set to part out. That might be the easiest way to resolve this feud!

Shiiiipiinnnggg....

The silent killer...

Fauch

TheBigLegoski said:

What's my status!?!

Well I'll tell ya all what my status is!

It is pretty pretty pretty ecstatic!

Do you wanna know why?!

Regardless...

I will tell you all anyway!

I just scored Ninjago city harbour over at Amazon.de for €148,47

(this set costs €249,99 in NL at full RRP)

Isn't this just epic or what!?

Can't remember when I scored such a bargain, even though I was no longer planning on buying any more Lego, and definitely not such a huge set.

I guess I got you beaten. I saw it yesterday on amazon for like 166€. Since I bought a lot of sets this month, I thought, maybe tomorrow if it's still discounted.
I check today, and it's 147.40€ (from 260) !
I guess I got over budget quite a bit, but maybe it's better than regretting missing such a deal.

kbw

Thanks for all the ideas.  She’s over the box and wants storage bins and color coding. This appears to be turning into a full organization project so we’ll see how it unfolds.  #[email protected]

TheBigLegoski

@Fauch  

Tres bien, felicitation!

Good for you dude!

Do you also have the first TNM NC set #70620?

I don't, but that has now become pretty much a must have! It is just so expensive (€329,99 at full retail price). Hope it won't retire any time soon!

jnscoelho

@TheBigLegoski if you ever want to come by Lisbon, say something and I can get you #70620 for about 240€.
It's 299,99€ here, but sometimes you can get it with a 20% discount. The 70€ will probably cover the flight on EasyJet or a similar airline company.

TheBigLegoski

Thanks! but also LOL

Can you picture bringing that set along as hand-luggage on your Easyjet/Ryanair flight?! If they even allow it, it will be one huge box sitting on your lap in a cramped tight seat sticking out every which way.

Seriously though, thanks, in case I will head that way I will give you a shout out. 

Fauch

yeah, I bought it this summer I think, for 240. I think it was a promo at maxitoys

jnscoelho

TheBigLegoski said:

Thanks! but also LOL

Can you picture bringing that set along as hand-luggage on your Easyjet/Ryanair flight?! If they even allow it, it will be one huge box sitting on your lap in a cramped tight seat sticking out every which way.

Seriously though, thanks, in case I will head that way I will give you a shout out. 

Only if you want to keep the box. :)

VorpalRyu

Sunday afternoon, a perfect time to start a few new Lego projects, one of which might have to end up getting displayed at a brick convention or two.

milamber

Fauch said:

I guess I got you beaten. I saw it yesterday on amazon for like 166€. Since I bought a lot of sets this month, I thought, maybe tomorrow if it's still discounted.
I check today, and it's 147.40€ (from 260) !
I guess I got over budget quite a bit, but maybe it's better than regretting missing such a deal.

My City Docks came yesterday direct from the Lego Shop. £139.99 minus £6.75 VIP points, £6.06 TopCashback, £5 off Paypal offer, sold the free O2 Priority build up set for £8, sold the Christmas Gift Box 40292 for £18. Total paid £96.18 :)

Speedman29

Bought @Mouseketeer WV train carriage plans and BL lists from ebay last night. Now deciding which ones to make up for this year. The hot chocolate wagon is a firm fave with my daughter and I fancy the tree wagon as well. Then a redesign of the tender to make that powered instead of the train as others have done.

Fauch

they overproduced the ninjago city docks or what?

TheBigLegoski

^

Not sure if this set got overproduced?! Fact is, I just clicked on #70657 link on the Brickset homepage at the daily refreshed Amazon.de deals topic. Only to see that this set is now priced at €205,87. Though when you click on the link '99 new' from €149 at the amazon.de site you'll see that for prime members (which I am not) new stock should arrive soon. If it ever does?! As this does not always happen, nor at that  bargain price. Though I hope it will for anyone still looking for that set.

Fauch

I actually only planned to get ninjago city as it seems to be the superior set. I passed even at -30% on [email protected] but at 150€, I figured it's the size of assembly square at the price of the parisian restaurant...

Baby_Yoda

It's readily available for cheap here too. On Target, A$250 down from $350.

Patrik78

My status - counting every minute until the modular reveal this afternoon :)

snowhitie

Shib said:

Decided to do my own advent calendar builds on social media for the build to give campaign

https://mobile.twitter.com/shib_san

Love that! I'll try to check regularly (not on Twitter, but I'll save the link). Very good idea.

I've been a bit quite but been actually pretty busy with Lego, finished my first ever 'commissioned' MOC last week. Seemed to be well received so I'm very pleased with that.

Started building the Hogwarts Castle with instructions this weekend in between my son's birthday party happenings.He had a sleepover, Lego Batman Movie themed. I'll post the ideas in the appropriate party thread this week. Only problem was, when we turned the movie on, it was only in English (I didn't think to check if it was dubbed in Dutch). The kids didn't mind too much and they watched G-Force (which was dubbed and they enjoyed a lot too).

kbw

Lol my wife suddenly has strong Lego feelings. I had picked up the Police Station from Barnes and Noble to get the Harry Potter minfigs and she doesn’t want him to have the station. She doesn’t like the whole good guy/bad guy thing. I’m like “he’s a 5-year old boy! This is what they do! And besides these minfigs need justice!”   She wants the hospital for him instead. I suppose all the construction guys can go there when they get hurt on the job. 

Bumblepants

@kbw well now you have a free pass on the hospital set. Maybe you can keep making similar mistakes to get more sets for yourself!

datsunrobbie

kbw said:

Lol my wife suddenly has strong Lego feelings. I had picked up the Police Station from Barnes and Noble to get the Harry Potter minfigs and she doesn’t want him to have the station. She doesn’t like the whole good guy/bad guy thing. I’m like “he’s a 5-year old boy! This is what they do! And besides these minfigs need justice!”   She wants the hospital for him instead. I suppose all the construction guys can go there when they get hurt on the job. 

Don't worry. Having once been a 5-year old boy in NC, I think it is safe to say the hospital will easily convert to a police station as long as your son's imagination is intact.

Fizyx

Just got a couple of boxes from Fedex that pushed me up over the 1k set mark... next goal is 1k unique sets!  LEGO status:  You can never have to much.

kbw

Bumblepants said:

@kbw well now you have a free pass on the hospital set. Maybe you can keep making similar mistakes to get more sets for yourself!

Lol. Yeah, they don’t have the hospital so now I’m going to have to do something else (likely for me) to keep the HP minifigs and source the hospital somewhere else

MegtheCat

kbw said:

Lol my wife suddenly has strong Lego feelings. I had picked up the Police Station from Barnes and Noble to get the Harry Potter minfigs and she doesn’t want him to have the station. She doesn’t like the whole good guy/bad guy thing. I’m like “he’s a 5-year old boy! This is what they do! And besides these minfigs need justice!”   She wants the hospital for him instead. I suppose all the construction guys can go there when they get hurt on the job. 

But what will she do if he decides to be a policeman one day?;P

My Lego order is supposed to deliver today according to FedEx but it still shows as being in Illinois so I don't think it's likely! 

Switchfoot55

Due to several reasons, we missed opening the first few doors for our Advent calendar this year. We opened the first four yesterday. 

I was a bit surprised to find two minifigs stuffed into the door for Day 2 on the 2018 City Advent Calendar. Did anyone else have this happen? Or was it just a lucky drop for me?

benbacardi

^ Now I feel short changed, having only got one! Were they both the same? Did you get four little coins instead of two?

SumoLego

Anyone check and see if two Falcons fit into that UCS box?