What's your LEGO 'status' today?

benbacardi

On holiday in the Peak District, so took the opportunity to shelter from the wet weather with a morning at the LDC in Birmingham. My three-year-old was happy enough (she did particularly like building her own three minifigures in the shop), my one-year-old loved crawling around the Duplo section, so my wife and I were happy! Miniland was particularly impressive, I love spotting all the little vignettes they hide in the and amongst the buildings.

I was a bit disappointed that all the sections to "build a helicopter!" or "build a flower" etc. just had generic parts bins, with seemingly nothing specific to what you were meant to be building. It may be my lack of creativity, but I would struggle to build a helicopter with the parts they had available!

One down side - we left my daughter's potty somewhere there! (She's currently potty training, and doing very well!) I feel sorry for anybody who comes across it, thinks it's some small child's suitcase, and opens it to try and find out how to return it... they're in for a not particularly nice surprise :-/

Switchfoot55

^^I just got a bulk bin of bricks and have found several pieces so far for the Air Temple. I'm looking forward to getting it built. 

Bumblepants

Excited for my recent BnP order to arrive. Got the black bike and dark blue leaves from Stranger things along with a bunch of both colors of the papered up windows, Clutch Powers and the coral/teal parrot from the new minifig packs, solar panels from City space, and the mulleted guitar shirt carney from the City people pack. Oh and the flaming marshmallow mug from City fire.

Charmiefcb

I saw some Lego in Aldi today. Just a couple of old City sets. I picked up Mountain Arrest and put it back down, now I want it. So I told Dad to get it in the moirning if they still have it. I hope they do. I think I'll regret not picking it up if they sell out.

Oh and I also got Dragon Boat Race today.

pxchris

Damnit @Bumblepants... now I want to go make another B&P order...

pxchris

*returns to forum after spending too much time reading the main site article comments*

I love you forum people.

Legopants

Hurray! My order has finally arrived :-) 
#10266 + #40335 + a battery box and motor for #10261 Roller Coaster

benbacardi

^ Likewise, home from holiday to find this waiting at my neighbour's house for me! #10266, #40335 and #5005907 - beyond excited to start building...

pxchris

Old and new. 

Fizyx

Status today is disappointed.  Have a business trip this week to a city that has an LDC, so I figured I would visit since I have some time today, and hopefully get some hard to find polybags if nothing else... They didn't have anything special, and all the polybags were 6+ months old.  Oh well, next time I'm out here at least I know I don't have to worry about checking in at that LDC!

jnscoelho

Bought a lot of used LEGO for 15€ because, after a brief inspection, it seemed to contain some interesting parts. It were the most filthy bricks I've ever seen, had to wash them thoroughly. And there's lots of broken/bitten/bent(?!) unusable parts - just look at the front of the speeder bikes for a good example. Lots of Bionicle-ish things as well (not in the picture) and many minifigure parts missing hats, heads, arms, hands, legs...
Still, I've found most of a #7110, a #7128, #6437, #6425 and probably of #6407 (all incomplete).
Still some Castle parts around, and many pieces (and almost complete minifigs) from (most likely) #5936.
Not my lucky day, but it still could have been worse...

Charmiefcb

I remember my brother getting that speeder set. 20 years ago. Target Ashfield. I got my Game Boy Color that day too. How time flies.

We are entering week 9 of tradesmen banging around the house. To cheer myself up about that I'm going Lego shopping after a Drs appointment mid week. I will get that Downtown Fire Rescue set just for the fire engine, building and crane will be put into the spare parts bin.

WatfordScottyM

Bracing myself to SELL some of my collection.  I've sorted the sets, I've dismantled them, I've reboxed them.  I just can't bring myself to pull the trigger on that next step of listing them on eBay.  It's like letting go of your children...

milamber

WatfordScottyM said:

It's like letting go of your children...

Honestly it isn't. When the children go you have more money and room for Lego. 

WatfordScottyM

^^ And I'm by no means suggesting that I'd ever list my children for sale on eBay.  For one, I don't think the rules allow it...

omnium

My Bricks and Pieces order, shipped on 22 May still hasn't arrived. I guess it's long gone now. So I've just been on chat to Customer Services who've re-ordered it for me. If only their website was half as good as their people ;-)

eMJeeNL

omnium said:

My Bricks and Pieces order, shipped on 22 May still hasn't arrived. I guess it's long gone now. So I've just been on chat to Customer Services who've re-ordered it for me. If only their website was half as good as their people ;-)

Did they throughout any VIPPoints your way?

omnium

eMJeeNL said:

omnium said:

My Bricks and Pieces order, shipped on 22 May still hasn't arrived. I guess it's long gone now. So I've just been on chat to Customer Services who've re-ordered it for me. If only their website was half as good as their people ;-)

Did they throughout any VIPPoints your way?

Aye, 300. That's 50% of my order value, so a very nice gesture.

SprinkleOtter

WatfordScottyM said:

^^ And I'm by no means suggesting that I'd ever list my children for sale on eBay.  For one, I don't think the rules allow it...

Yeah, he checked...

560Heliport

It's not easy finding a box big enough to ship them in.

Keilup

Thanking my family for this Father’s Day Lego haul. (I did get some shirts and hedge trimmer attachment for my weed wacker too which I actually did need). The Apollo will look great next to my Saturn V in my office. Can’t wait to build.

MaffyD

Hello! Well, I feel like I've not really been on here in a long time - an occasional post once a week doesn't really count does it? RL has interfered a bit, and I haven't really been able to buy/build/obsess over Lego as much as I have done in the past. But I did need to come on and just say thanks to my lovely wife for making Father's Day very special and memorable to me. I mentioned the Apollo Lander to her a while ago, but I've been so out of touch I haven't even noticed it was released. And she's obviously been looking at my Brickset wants list because on Sunday I got these beauties:



The Ferrari was a spontaneous idea from my youngest - luckily it wasn’t one I already had! I feel very lucky and can’t wait to build all the space stuff (the quinjet counts, kinda). Captain America’s motorbike is just... something else! Thank you Cathy :-)

eMJeeNL

I feel very disadvantaged as a dad. All i got was a lame-ass puzzlecube and a framed picture. 

;)

enjoy!

MaffyD

I love puzzlecubes too! And I bet the picture is of something that means a lot to you. Happy (very belated) Father's Day.

MaffyD

Also, I have realised that my iPhone doesn't resize photos. I'll have to fix that somehow...

benbacardi

Well, it may not be quite the size of the haul some of you seem to have got, but I love this custom hand-drawn minifigure that my 1- and 3-year old did for me 😁

redarmy

Status=Stagnant

GothamConstructionCo

^^ More exclusive than Mr Gold and worth a whole lot more @benbacardi

MaffyD

Love that minifig @benbacardi! That wasn’t hand drawn onto the minifig was it? Or was it? I certainly couldn’t be that careful.

benbacardi

^ Nah, it's from minifigs.me @MaffyD - you download an A4 template to print, draw on, then scan in and send off to them. They print it on the fig and send it back - it's great!

https://minifigs.me/pages/doodlefigs

sid3windr

Status is.... I haven't been on the forum much in the last few weeks, mostly because we've added a BFOL to our family on May 23rd. I've been focusing a bit on other things, but I've been building a few sets and been reading some of the threads here and there......

Slowly but surely I'll be back for more :-)

eMJeeNL

Congratz with the Belgian Fan of LEGO!

Lego_Star

Congrats @sid3windr and family. 🙂

pxchris

Congrats @sid3windr!

sid3windr

Thanks all - didn't even consider B for Belgian but I'll take it :D

His first Duplo sets are waiting in his cupboard...

Charmiefcb

I bought so much Lego today I had a hard time moving it so I had to get a Taxi home. If I were a bit taller the bags wouldn't drag on the ground so I have to lift them up and Lego is heavy and my arms were dead within a few metres. Managed to get a Ford Mustang and the Lego City Police Station. Is that retiring? I see less and less stock of it and I like it as a set. I want to see if I can fill it out with old bricks and make it a little less toy like. Plus a few other Lego things. Downtown Fire Brigade just for the fire engine and a couple of Lego Movie 2 sets on sale I wouldn't have gotten otherwise.

maniac

Bricks and Pieces order came in the other day. 

msanders

maniac said:

Bricks and Pieces order came in the other day. 

Why, Why, why do you have to post this....?! I've already placed a couple of large BnP orders and now I see so many more great pieces in your order...😀😁 I'm running out of money! Hee hee. 

maniac

msanders said:

maniac said:

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Bricks and Pieces order came in the other day. 

Why, Why, why do you have to post this....?! I've already placed a couple of large BnP orders and now I see so many more great pieces in your order...😀😁 I'm running out of money! Hee hee.

Gotta be done! BnP is an exciting and very addictive side to the hobby! 😁

PeteM

sid3windr said:

Thanks all - didn't even consider B for Belgian but I'll take it :D

His first Duplo sets are waiting in his cupboard...

Ha - I did the same and have a graduated collection of Duplo and Lego sets in storage to keep him going up until he's about 7 (well, they were on offer).... Congratulations!

pxchris

That's a real nice BnP order! I love those VHS cassette tiles - which set were those originally in?

FowlerBricks

I second @pxchris's question: where did those cassette tiles come from? I can't find them anywhere.

benbacardi

^ and ^^ I think it's part number #6267179 - found only in #75935, according to BrickSet:

https://brickset.com/sets/containing-part-6267179

pxchris

Thank you @benbacardi!

klinton

I picked up #10403 on a whim (I wanted the 'happy eyes' for Chocolate Bar, and that froggy is too damned cute!), and was pleasantly surprised to see classic smiley minifig heads. I don't collect the modulars, so it's been ages since I've opened a set and been greeted by those. It was a bit of a trip. :D

Redbullgivesuwind

My other half bought her first lego set (Steamboat Willie) and is actually rather enjoying it. The conversion has begun! 

SumoLego

Might want to suggest the Cinderella Castle.  Go big or go home!

Redbullgivesuwind

^she did spot that but decided it was too expensive. I mean she might always get a very late 30th gift and some minifig bags.

Shib

Mmmmmmmm, new LEGO! 

Lego_Star

That's just showing off! ;o) Nice one @Shib!

What set are the little white stackable pegs in?