What's your LEGO 'status' today?

datsunrobbie

@Modeltrainman this classic post is both funny and a pretty good guide to Lego sorting strategies. 

https://forum.brickset.com/discussion/comment/526117#Comment_526117

My status - finally getting a dedicated Lego room set up and started sorting 5 years of unsorted bulk purchases.

klinton

Modeltrainman said:

@Switchfoot55 I'm sorting by color first. Why exactly is that frowned upon, heavily?

It makes it more difficult to find the part you want if it's in a bunch of parts of the same colour. It's easier to find pieces if they contrast with surrounding bricks. :)

pxchris

This is actually a status from a couple days ago. I decided it was time to break out #21318 for a family build. Seemed like the perfect quarantine build!



Even though my state is currently under a "Stay Home" order, I work for a company which falls under a "critical manufacturing sector" definition. So at least for the time being, I'm still going to work most days, albeit with some limitations and modifications.

In any case, we broke open the box on Sunday, and are taking our time working through the model. Have thoroughly enjoyed it so far!

Switchfoot55

@Modeltrainman, as others have said, sorting by part should equate to an easier time finding the required piece. I've had my bulk sorted by color for the last two years and any time I've tried to sort out a set from Rebrickable or piece together a set I'm Bricklinking, it's taken ages. 

I've already experienced the benefits of being able to pull out my bin of slopes/plates/bricks and find the part I needed, or realize I didn't have it. 

To each their own is what it really comes down to. But I finally decided to pull the trigger and swap over and I haven't regretted it at all!

pxchris

Any wild speculation as to what my current project is...? 

560Heliport

Sure looks like #6274 and #6276 to me! 

Bumblepants

Finished my UCS Falcon today. Had a few weird missing parts where the missing bits were replaced in the bags by ones not even in the set. Luckily I had replacements on hand to keep things going.

KungFuKenny

Bumblepants said:

Finished my UCS Falcon today. Had a few weird missing parts where the missing bits were replaced in the bags by ones not even in the set. Luckily I had replacements on hand to keep things going.

I’d be interested to see how you display it— mine is still sealed, and will be until I can figure out where to put it I suppose...

pxchris

560Heliport said:

Sure looks like #6274 and #6276 to me! 

Pieces all washed and accounted for except just a couple small pieces I'll need to Bricklink. I also need to aquire one more of the large flags without any broken clips. Also have all minifigs except I only have one Governor Broadside between the two, so I'll need to grab another of those off Bricklink too.
All told when said and done , both should be 100% complete for about $110-120 total! Not too shabby. 

Pyrobug

(im)patiently waiting for FedEx to deliver my #75810.

560Heliport

@pxchris You (and the reveal of Pirates of Barracuda Bay) have inspired me to build some of my Pirate Sets this weekend... and my eeekend starts in about 6 hours! ( I work Sunday to Wednesday).

pxchris

560Heliport said:

@pxchris You (and the reveal of Pirates of Barracuda Bay) have inspired me to build some of my Pirate Sets this weekend... and my eeekend starts in about 6 hours! ( I work Sunday to Wednesday).

Can't wait to see the results!

Bumblepants

KungFuKenny said:

Bumblepants said:

Finished my UCS Falcon today. Had a few weird missing parts where the missing bits were replaced in the bags by ones not even in the set. Luckily I had replacements on hand to keep things going.

I’d be interested to see how you display it— mine is still sealed, and will be until I can figure out where to put it I suppose...

Right now it is on a card table in an overcrowded room. It will probably have to get taken back down. 

On a different note, the Creeper BigFig is a perfect smartphone stand for horizontal video nested under the chin of the thing. And it is like you have a friend watching with you. Is quarantine getting to me yet? No, why do you ask?

SumoLego

Decided to move stuff around again.  I have concluded I must devise a cloaking device for these storage shelves.

Switchfoot55

I think you just need a couple more keyboards and stands and Zorjirushi's that you can hide other boxes behind. 

SumoLego

Nope, I need to find me some Romulans.  They have the cloaking.

(And I thought about pushing everything to the back, but that's where the UCS Star Wars sets are, and the '90's/'80's LEGO.  Pirates, Castle and Ninja.  And Spongebob.  And TMNT.  And a set of loose LotR.  And on the top is the Vikings display that's not made itself to a coffee table... yet.)

Mr_Cross

SumoLego said:

...They have the cloaking.

A cloak isn't going to be enough, have you thought about curtains?

Odeinoichus

SumoLego said:

Decided to move stuff around again.  I have concluded I must devise a cloaking device for these storage shelves.

And here I thought my backlog was bad. Two Voltrons? Dude, are you sure you don't have a problem? Buzz and Zurg? Those are like ten years old, why are they still trapped in their cardboard prisons? Wait, are those even the LEGO buildable figures or actual Toy Story figures? Hard to tell from that shot.

How does your wife put up with you man? What's the secret? I really need to know, for research purposes as I am soon perhaps to be in the market for one. ;)

SumoLego

One Voltron in robot mode, and another in lion mode?  

I casually mentioned that I had a sizeable LEGO collection.  I think at the time that translated into: 'Blah blah blah'.  And when I met my wife, the volume of my collection was stored off-site.  She had no idea until be bought our house.  Then I had to conceal most of it in my basement.  And garage.

itsmebookmum

Hello all. I haven't been on here for ages because I had some technical issues but now I am back thanks to a new user name. I used to be bookmum but now I am itsmebookmum. Hope everyone is doing ok in these weird times.

itsmebookmum

I am not sure how my little picture defaulted to that one though. It's one of my daughter's many internet avatars.

datsunrobbie

SumoLego said:

One Voltron in robot mode, and another in lion mode?  

I casually mentioned that I had a sizeable LEGO collection.  I think at the time that translated into: 'Blah blah blah'.  And when I met my wife, the volume of my collection was stored off-site.  She had no idea until be bought our house.  Then I had to conceal most of it in my basement.  And garage.

Looks like you need a couple hundred #71022-15 CMFs

masterX244

Got time to waste... #75252 enroute...

itsmebookmum

As I have been away from brickset for a while I have been catching up on a lot of threads (got plenty of time on my hands at the moment....) but I can't see any threads about Dots? Is there any hidden somewhere? Do you all not like Dots?

panchox1

^ Personally, I just think it's too new. I'm interested in it and I think it's something my kids will like but right now, there is nothing from the theme available locally.

560Heliport

Starting my #6285 Black Seas Barracuda! :)

560Heliport

Aren't they beautiful?

560Heliport

She's done! With the "help" of Emilie and Jack.

560Heliport

Modeltrainman

Sorting. Still by color currently, to see what all I have.

SumoLego

560Heliport said:

She's done! With the "help" of Emilie and Jack.

Why are you wasting time cloning cats - start cloning Red Beard Runners!

560Heliport

They're siblings, not clones, and very much unique characters! 

pxchris

SumoLego said:

560Heliport said:

She's done! With the "help" of Emilie and Jack.

Why are you wasting time cloning cats - start cloning Red Beard Runners!

I would definitely be in for a Black Seas Barracuda clone... genuine LEGO of course.
Anybody... anybody?

Charmiefcb

I've found myself getting through my backlog of sets. I'm not going out and not buying news ones so the next couple of months I'll hopefully start Ninjago City and the Death Star. Both bought in 2017.

Gibbo1959

As mentioned elsewhere I’m in deconstruction mode. Next on the list is either Ninjago City & Docks or Simpsons House and Kwik-E-Mart .... decisions decisions!

vanvonfull

Due to some life issues, most of my collection got moved into a storage unit  more than a year ago  which I finally dug through today since our town is closing all non-essential businesses. 

I pulled these to keep busy:
Modular detective office (still in original bags)
fishing village (in pieces... fell on the floor before I finished it)
CMF collection (unorganized bags of figs)
saturn v (in box)

and its its time to assemble these... getting excited for next week’s pirate purchase: 

SumoLego

Castle Quarantine... Day 10...

KungFuKenny

Looks like the Prince wasn’t so charming after all...

samiam391

Mickey (in Palpatine voice): "Do it."

Modeltrainman

SumoLego said:

Castle Quarantine... Day 10...

That's going to hurt in the morning.  Been MOCcing the last few days. Will share, when done.

itsmebookmum

Back story needed to know what exactly the prince did @SumoLego. Other than being a Dumb Wimpy Disney Prince which is their default personality.

mafon

It was such a hot, dusty day.

SumoLego

itsmebookmum said:

Back story needed to know what exactly the prince did @SumoLego.

It's moreso that my sister-in-law is at her wits' end with her husband and daughter.

Venunder

No Lego today.
Although I thought I found some on the street, it was MB litter.

In a similar thought~:

Join the Keep Britain Tidy campaign to clear up for covid-19.

Safely, when you are exercising.

Pick up 5 bits of rubbish each day outside your home.

If the 5 million people in lock down do this each day

then we will remove 1/4 billion bits of rubbish from the environment in 10 days.

This will make a real difference to our planet if we can keep it going.

Your neighbourhood will become a cleaner better place.

You may not have dropped any rubbish, but collective HUMANITY is responsible for the mess.

Help to save the planet and save ourselves......

josekalel

pxchris said:

Any wild speculation as to what my current project is...? 

The Imperial Trading Post!! I remember getting this for Christmas, and unfortunately, I have less than half of all the pieces (including most minifigures and the island plate), one of my favorite sets, and my biggest at that point in time.

As for my status...on another long-term self-imposed dark age, only came back to get S20 minifugures. 

Charmiefcb

I'm out of isolation and went to my local shopping centre for my flu shot.

I was lucky. I was allowed to go home and self isolate. Now because people can't be trusted they are locking returning citizens in hotels for 2 weeks.

The local shopping centre where my indie toy store is is like one of those dead mall videos you see on Youtube. It was kind of creepy. The toy store was open and doing a bit of trade. I got a small set that will hopefully help.

Let's just hope this ends sooner rather than later.

Speedman29

Helping my daughter with her school work and messing about with some minifigures

pxchris

josekalel said:

The Imperial Trading Post!! I remember getting this for Christmas, and unfortunately, I have less than half of all the pieces (including most minifigures and the island plate), one of my favorite sets, and my biggest at that point in time.

As for my status...on another long-term self-imposed dark age, only came back to get S20 minifugures. 

Actually this is a combination of the pieces from #6276 and #6274. However the raised baseplate is the same as in the Imperial trading post (#6277). I had everything laid out on towels to dry after a thorough cleaning.

I was always a blue coat guy when it came to Pirates. I don't recall that I ever got more than one of the red coat Imperial sets. So now in my adult LEGO career, it's all about collecting the 89-91 blue coat Imperials for me. I'd love to snag #6267 some day!

bandit778

Today's status, while sitting sorting out the parts, ahead of building #72081 is wondering why medium to large Technic sets that don't have numbered bags don't just come with bags of the various individual parts all together instead of spreading the same part in different colours over multiple bags.
There's probably a good reason for it but it was one of those things that crossed my mind as I dropped yet another handful of parts on the floor because sausage fingers were trying to pluck small trans parts and gears out of another bag of connectors. :/

Venunder

I collected two bags of rubbish from my street today....
I was alone on the street so it was safe.
I found 1 red 2x2 lego brick and a yellow 1x1 plate..... So I'll count that as a win!
The £20 note I found was another bonus. :)