What's your LEGO 'status' today?

masterX244

SirBrickalotOfLego said:

This is where the fun begins!

Got enough shelf space cleared somewhere already?

mafon

Well, I bought Thanos. I like that he's not symetrical. Pretty posable, but if you try to play with him – limbs and fingers will fly.

itsmebookmum

@Speedman29 while your gal was clearing the jungle her colleagues were doing this...

itsmebookmum

^ It may have ended badly.

Bumblepants

Crocodile King: Carole Baskin Strikes Back

Bumblepants

Hey all you cool cats and kittens! Inspired by @itsmebookmum

pxchris

That, @Bumblepants, is pure gold!

Hahahahaha

Bumblepants

pxchris said:

That, @Bumblepants, is pure gold!

Hahahahaha

Can you find Don Lewis in the photo?

pxchris

Is there a bone somewhere? I'm zooming in all over the pic, but not catching it... 

Bumblepants

pxchris said:

Is there a bone somewhere? I'm zooming in all over the pic, but not catching it... 

He "disappeared". Strange.

windjammer

I'm nearly finished building #70425 Newbury Haunted High School that I bought in last year's Black Friday sales. It's a great looking building with some nice interior detail.

mafon

Week or two ago someone left mindstorms robot atop mail lockers, I checked it, yep – genuine mindstorms. And left it, 'cause I'm not really into mindstorms.

But yesterday, while checking mail, I suddenly noticed a box of Lego. "Ha-ha, very funny", – I thought to myself – "someone left the empty box". I lifted it. "Wow, they really went a mile with it and placed something for the weight". I opened it. There were 2 tron bikes inside. "Probably Lepin or some other knockoff". I checked the markings. "[email protected]#t, it's a real thing, ok I'm getting you back home".

It's in pristine condition, even with spares. I've never seen something used being so intact (with the negative experience of buying secondhand lego). But washed it anyway.

Guess, someone's having a dark age.

klinton

I've been slavishly checking [email protected] for the new Wonder Woman set, after hearing of it popping up in random American Target stores. This morning it was finally up, available to order! I'm so stoked for this one! :D

Legopants

Spent a couple of hours yesterday afternoon debagging my small backlog of CMFs.

First up, #71024 The Disney Series 2:


Then, #71025 Series 19:


Quickly followed by #71026 DC Super Heroes:


And finally, my enthusiasm waning ever so slightly, #71027 Series 20:

Speedman29

Successful Monday of lockdown schooling, so we grabbed a polybag from the LEGO room to build. Little Miss Speedy selected this years Creator 3in1 cat, but went online to find the ostrich instructions.

I was allowed to fit the eyes!

GrannyLEGO

@Speedman29 I love it ... especially the crooked eyes. Now I have to go find those instructions!

Speedman29

GrannyLEGO said:

@Speedman29 I love it ... especially the crooked eyes. Now I have to go find those instructions!

The eyes were my work! You can find the instructions for the crab and ostrich alternative builds here

TheOriginalSimonB

They say never meet your heroes but Space fan girl seems pretty stoked to me.

eMJeeNL

Very proud of my eldest; he recieved #60216 (and #60252) and build it all by himself :)

KungFuKenny

eMJeeNL said:

Very proud of my eldest; he recieved #60216 (and #60252) and build it all by himself :)

Impressive!  Even more so since he built it while hanging upside down!  :-)

GrannyLEGO

Speedman29 said:

GrannyLEGO said:

@Speedman29 I love it ... especially the crooked eyes. Now I have to go find those instructions!

The eyes were my work! You can find the instructions for the crab and ostrich alternative builds here

Thanks @Speedman29 ... I have some how not seen this one before!

Modeltrainman

My entry to the Music To Our Ears contest didn't make it to the fan vote. But, at least I tried, and didn't give up.

chrisalddin

my lego status is watching the https://www.lego.com/en-gb/page/star-wars-day-deals countdown timer...... slowy tick down.

eMJeeNL

KungFuKenny said:

eMJeeNL said:

Very proud of my eldest; he recieved #60216 (and #60252) and build it all by himself :)

Impressive!  Even more so since he built it while hanging upside down!  :-)

He’s a budding Spider-Man! ;)
that always happens to me on this forum from iOS... really annoying. Sometimes i just cannot be bothered to edit the, on my phone/iPad perfect, photo, sorry!

KungFuKenny

eMJeeNL said:

He’s a budding Spider-Man! ;)
that always happens to me on this forum from iOS... really annoying. Sometimes i just cannot be bothered to edit the, on my phone/iPad perfect, photo, sorry!

Ha!  I just thought your family lived on the International Space Station...

khmellymel

My status is that I think I'm finally going to build my Lego chess set and make my boyfriend teach me how to play chess.

SumoLego

^ I would get the basics from him, then Google some advance strategies and crush him like a bug!

(I caught my 10 year-old daughter utilizing this strategy for Monopoly.  We played a friendly game, and a few days later I'm suddenly doing high-level real estate negotiations with Leona Helmsley.)

SumoLego

For those keeping score - the Google Search was:

'how do i beat my dad at monopoly'

Charmiefcb

I have my own Monopoly strategies. I try to get the stations and the red, yellow and green properties. Get one side of the board and my line of thinking is you have more chance of landing on a green property on the way to GO than you do the dark blue ones. I do not touch Mayfair/Boardwalk. Why spend $400 and $350 when you could use that money on early properties on the board to use to trade later.

I did buy some Lego today. A Ninjago Mech. The Lego is starting to get smaller and smaller on the shelves at my local toy store because we aren't getting new stock in.

I'm happy they're selling it honestly and hoping they get through this OK. It is worrying that Lego sections are now getting barer.

Bumblepants

My Monopoly strategy is play something fun instead.

Speedman29

Bumblepants said:

My Monopoly strategy is play something fun instead.

We play Monopoly Deal, the card game version. Much quicker to play and far less arguments!
My BnP order arrived yesterday, 100 2x2 dark grey tiles. Its amazing how quick a pavement can eat them up. I think thats over a 1000 I've bought over the years for a fairly short street! Anyway we paved the last area around the MOC cafe and Chinatown market. 

I'd say we're complete, but there are plans to try and add another skinny building in somewhere!

AdeelZubair

LEGO Collection: Categories

KungFuKenny

Just received an email from our LUG... our local Lego store is one of 5 in North America slated to have a limited re-opening on May 9th... Not sure if PAB and BAM will be available though...

560Heliport

^ bring some disposable latex gloves...

560Heliport

Maybe they'd do curbside pickup... "I'd like three large PAB cups, please... I don't care what, just throw a variety in 'em... I JUST NEED NEW LEGO!!!"

klinton

KungFuKenny said:

Just received an email from our LUG... our local Lego store is one of 5 in North America slated to have a limited re-opening on May 9th... Not sure if PAB and BAM will be available though...

I'm a bit jealous. Even with shoppes set to open at the end of May, it won't include malls. Just individual storefronts with street access. Even if they did open malls, my Lego Store is in Laval, which is apparently a 'hot zone' with a high rate of cases. It's going to be while before I can visit them again. :/

panchox1

where are the other 4?

awahl211

Brainstorming my campsite layout. Debating if I should use the old beach house as the campsite “office” where the owner of the camp lives or if I should moc my own.
Either way I’m super excited to build this and try out different tree, bush and other greenery techniques

Odeinoichus

My LEGO Status is glad to have his account back and working, but wondering why I had to reactivate it with an activation code. All of my points and everything was still there, so why did I need to reactivate?

Also a little ticked that I had to make the same order twice minus the CMF Series 20 figures I wanted, since somehow LEGO put up a limit of 3 per order only, despite previous CMFs usually being limited to the number of actual characters in the set per order IE 16, 18 or 22, so why now all of a sudden only three per order?

Oh well, despite the limitation direct from LEGO I found a site selling them with no limitations or restrictions and unless that one gets cancelled too out of the blue I'll at least have 16 with however many duplicates I may wind up with. And I've got a bunch of Star Wars ordered too with the free item.

SumoLego

awahl211 said:

Brainstorming my campsite layout.

You need a yurt.  And three bears.  Make it interesting.  (No porridge.)

Modeltrainman

Waiting to see if I get to buy the LEGO House, or if we don't get it here.

stlux

KungFuKenny said:

Just received an email from our LUG... our local Lego store is one of 5 in North America slated to have a limited re-opening on May 9th... Not sure if PAB and BAM will be available though...

I wouldn't count on PaB nor BaM as they will likely put the same restrictions in place as at the German stores that reopened on Monday:

• No PaB
• No BaM
• No play areas
• No feeling for CMF's
• No touching of boxes - the store staff takes the box you want of the shelf for you
• Maximum 6 customers allowed at a time in the store

Source: StoneWars (in German).

So not much benefit over ordering from [email protected]/another retailer, except for seeing some sets "in the flesh" and talk to the store staff.

Switchfoot55

^It's always nice to get to see your dealer...I mean retail LEGO specialist...again though!

masterX244

First time i got a backlog of sets to build...

KungFuKenny

I was digging through a box of vintage parts earlier today and was able to determine that I had most of the pieces for #6930 “Space Supply Station” from 1983. 

Luckily I had a couple of extra blue stanchion pieces and a extra radar dish, and was able to finish the build.
This afternoon I have had quite a bit of fun driving the buggies over craters and swooshing the saucers !

SirBrickalotOfLego

Pull up a Hammerhead Corvette, I have an idea!

chrisalddin

so.

i am now in a waiting game, to see who get my order to me 1st.

i have my Big Lego.com Order's and one lego set from Amazon.

" #75248 Resistance A-Wing " is what on order from amazon, and

from Lego,com #75244 Tantive IV, #75275 A-wing Starfighter (UCS), #75278 D-O, #75258 Anakin's Podracer – 20th Anniversary Edition and #75267 Mandalorian Battle Pack. and some GWP's :P

when i placed my amazon order it i was told the estimated arrival date was May 19 2020 to May 20 2020.

just 12 hours ago i got a e-mail telling me "New estimated arrival date: May 09 2020"

i have just looked at my order, and Now my order status said "Arriving 5 May - 6 May"

at this point we know who is going to win... seeing as my lego.com order has yet to ship out.,

klinton

Amazon has been really wonky here in Canada. I did an order a couple of weeks ago, and items that weren't supposed to arrive prior to mid May showed up two days later, while items supposed to ship within days are still in limbo.

Lego, on the other hand, got an order out straight away and to my door within two two days despite the parcel needing a mid transit reroute ([email protected] always uses an old address as the default, and I failed to correct this when ordering).

I'm trying my luck with Bricklink today. We'll see how that goes. It will likely beat some of the items from my Amazon order to my door. :p

Cymbeline

I'm still waiting for a Bricklink order sent on April 21. Another order that I made subsequently arrived in only a few days. Fingers crossed! 

Speedman29

Building the first four series 20 CMFs Trying to ration ourselves to a few a day to spread the fun out a bit!