What's your LEGO 'status' today?

pxchris

*sigh* sometimes I really hate dealing with these idiotic eBay sellers... but when the price is so good...

panchox1

pxchris said:

*sigh* sometimes I really hate dealing with these idiotic eBay sellers... but when the price is so good...

yeah, I caved and got a boost set, new in box, for $90 shipped off of ebay yesterday. was sketchy because the guy had loads of them.

chrisalddin

Weee....

Shipping Confirmation e-mail for Lego House. (and a samll harry potter #75945 set but that dont mater. oh and the gbpp polybag that also dont mater.)

SumoLego

Tested negative for COVID-19 yesterday (got the results today).  And then I randomly sneezed my mask off my face today.  Broke the straps off of my ears.

I plan to reward myself with an obnoxiously large chocolate chip cookie and a nap.

WatfordScottyM

A strange feeling today, my wife said yes to changing the spare bedroom to a Lego room. She's obviously going crazy, but who am I to question?! 

panchox1

Started experimenting with building a mountain/ train tunnel to incorporate into my winter village this year. 


I have no idea what I'm doing.....

but I'm pretty sure I need more bricks...

SumoLego

WatfordScottyM said:

She's obviously going crazy, but who am I to question?! 

It's a...

TRAP!

KungFuKenny

So our local Lego store has backtracked a bit on re-opening... looks like they will begin “curbside service” in a week (no PAB or BAM), with in-store shopping starting some unspecified time down the road.  There will be no April or May set launches available, and no GWP available (retail store warehouses had shifted to help out the [email protected] orders and the Mexico plant is shut down).  Looks like I’ll be spending some more time on Bricklink for now...

chrisalddin

what the hell amazon...

so i placed a order for 2 set's on amazon.de.
and also some orders from amazon.co.uk
both amazon.de orders shipped from with in the uk. (note i payed shipping cost's)
one of my amazon.co.uk orders shipped from Germany (i did not pay shipping for this order.)
WTF Amazon.... this sone type of joke?

GrannyLEGO

WatfordScottyM said:

A strange feeling today, my wife said yes to changing the spare bedroom to a Lego room. She's obviously going crazy, but who am I to question?! 

Perhaps she just wants all that LEGO stuff out of the rest of the house?

Charmiefcb

The more I look at Old Trafford and the details in that set the more I want to do the unthinkable for me and buy it. I don't dislike Man United and I do like the stadium itself and the set. It feels odd to me buying a rivals stadium in Lego form.

chrisalddin

Charmiefcb said:

The more I look at Old Trafford and the details in that set the more I want to do the unthinkable for me and buy it. I don't dislike Man United and I do like the stadium itself and the set. It feels odd to me buying a rivals stadium in Lego form.

Buy it, Build it, look at it for a samll time ( week or maybe month or 2) then unbuild it, use it for part for any MOC you make.

Gibbo1959

Coming to the end of my furlough from work, but very satisfied with 6 weeks worth of set deconstruction and re-boxing, mass disposal of other boxes, tidying of boxes being kept and overall realisation of just how much Lego I’ve bought in the last 6 years! 

Also, found these bad boys tucked away at the back of a shelf - I just know there’s going to be a lot of love for the big purple guy!

Also just about to break down #75904 Mystery Mansion and was thinking that’s one of the very few themes I’m complete on (with Mixels & Simpsons), only to find I was missing a polybag #30601. Selling for £10+ on eBay, but managed to find the original Blu-Ray it’s packaged with on Amazon for £8. Result - 3 complete themes!
Think that deserves a beer!

monkeyhanger

Gibbo: Going back to work on Monday or expecting it with the announcement due tomorrow?

It's been a strange experience for me. I've never previously worked from home, but on March 16th after a 3 month notice period that felt like 6 months (I hated my last job), I started at my new place. I was in for the 26th and 17th, and have worked from home since. So I've pretty much had to train myself in the new firm's ways of working.

I've been insanely busy on the Lego front in selling off my stash over the last 2 weeks. Lockdown has boosted ebay prices nicely and I've just about cleared £2k. I will probably earmark £500 for a discounted UCS ISD if I can convince myself that a big hollow grey box with poorly executed rear engines is worth £500 and that I can find the room to display it.

Since the demise of Tesco direct, Debenhams not selling Lego now and Sainsburys Lego dropping off with Argos coming in-store, there's not many opportunities to buy desirable sets at a big discount for reinvestment, so I doubt most of the eBay money will be spent on Lego.

Annoyingly, I have a box of new sets somewhere that I can't find, so couldn't list.

Gibbo1959

monkeyhanger said:

Gibbo: Going back to work on Monday or expecting it with the announcement due tomorrow?

@monkeyhanger Back to WFH status. I work for the well known national purveyor of sausage rolls based in Newcastle. Did one week of WFH at end of March then most of us were furloughed. Various teams now coming back (still WFH, I’ve had to up my tech skills somewhat) to gear up for reopening at some point as yet unknown. Superb company to work for and hope we can get things back up and running again.
No plans to sell anything, just had too much built and crammed in a shed. So mainly just keeping Modulars and CMFs out on display. Think I’ve become something of a hoarder but no doubt some relatives will be happy with the inheritance one day!

Keep safe.

monkeyhanger

Gibbo1959 said:

monkeyhanger said:

Gibbo: Going back to work on Monday or expecting it with the announcement due tomorrow?

@monkeyhanger Back to WFH status. I work for the well known national purveyor of sausage rolls based in Newcastle. Did one week of WFH at end of March then most of us were furloughed. Various teams now coming back (still WFH, I’ve had to up my tech skills somewhat) to gear up for reopening at some point as yet unknown. Superb company to work for and hope we can get things back up and running again.
No plans to sell anything, just had too much built and crammed in a shed. So mainly just keeping Modulars and CMFs out on display. Think I’ve become something of a hoarder but no doubt some relatives will be happy with the inheritance one day!

Keep safe.

Hope you've got a big oven for all those Sausage Rolls! Nearly joined the aame company as Quality Manager for the Longbenton site but got pipped at the post.

The new job is great, it's a long trek though (Billingham from North Shields) when I will have to be back on site.

It's a mystery where the final big box of Lego has gone. I'm sure I've checked out all the loft space (we have 3 voids).

Need the kids back to school soon, they've turned feral, the youngest getting up in the middle of the night to raid the fridge of all chocolate! 

We have built 5 modulars in the last 6 weeks.

Gibbo1959

monkeyhanger said: We have built 5 modulars in the last 6 weeks.

Modulars are what hooked me back in from a multi decade dark age back in 2014. Got them all from GE onwards, although I think last couple have dropped a bit in quality compared to, say PR, DO & BB. Won’t stop me buying them though! 

Afraid I can’t share the pain re kids but the dogs might get separation anxiety if I ever go back to work properly! 

Speedman29

Gibbo1959 said:

Also, found these bad boys tucked away at the back of a shelf - I just know there’s going to be a lot of love for the big purple guy!

Who wouldn't love Zurg, without him I'd have no Cadbury tanker for our cargo train!

Gibbo1959

Speedman29 said:

Gibbo1959 said:

Also, found these bad boys tucked away at the back of a shelf - I just know there’s going to be a lot of love for the big purple guy!

Who wouldn't love Zurg, without him I'd have no Cadbury tanker for our cargo train!

Sweet (literally). Has Unikitty been sampling from the tanker? 

masterX244

Anybody else having stuck parcels from the lego shop? Mine is stuck in belgium (thats where they are shipping from) since 5th may. Should go to germany.

Bonus annoyance: Its a Order with a May the 4th GWP....

monkeyhanger

I just found #75205 Mos Eisley Cantina unopened in a Lego bag at the back of the airing cupboard. I don't remember buying it.

560Heliport

@monkeyhanger that's a sign that you don't really want it, and should send it my way!

chrisalddin

masterX244 said:

Anybody else having stuck parcels from the lego shop? Mine is stuck in belgium (thats where they are shipping from) since 5th may. Should go to germany.

Bonus annoyance: Its a Order with a May the 4th GWP....

odd belgium to UK is working fine and stuff is geting to the uk in under 24 hours of shipping. it's just DPD dont do weekend with lego.com orders. so have to wait to monday but it inside the uk.

masterX244

Built the stormtrooper helmet set and instantly found something that irks me... the gray details at the back should be one wider and being angled at both corners (on the movies those are trapezoid details). Was impossible for me to not notice due to being a 501st member as a stormtrooper ==> you get more picky on those details and you got reference material at hand.

bpk2300

Our local outdoor mall that houses the LEGO Store opened this past week. My wife and I went and it felt good to be back out in society. Too bad the LEGO Store was one of a few stores that was still closed.

masterX244

got to phone CS later today... seems like DPD lost a rattly parcel....

KungFuKenny

Bumblepants said:

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

Saw this minifig at Citizen Brick today- $25 but maybe worth it!

SumoLego

Is the cat anatomically correct?  If not, that's a hard pass.

SumoLego

monkeyhanger said:

I just found #75205 Mos Eisley Cantina unopened in a Lego bag at the back of the airing cupboard. I don't remember buying it.

Welcome to a new level of collecting...

chrisalddin

SumoLego said:

monkeyhanger said:

I just found #75205 Mos Eisley Cantina unopened in a Lego bag at the back of the airing cupboard. I don't remember buying it.

Welcome to a new level of collecting...

when you forget just what you got at the shop's and loss it for 3 years.

SumoLego

chrisalddin said:

when you forget just what you got at the shop's and loss it for 3 years.

Or 10+ years.

Modeltrainman

Buying my Corvette MOC, which, I might add is on Rebrickable. https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-42109/Modeltrainman/c8-corvette/?inventory=1#comments

Brickfan50

Speedman29 said:

Cool T @kungFuKenny I've got one in a bright blue.

Today's minifigure build, drone boy. Are drones the new helicopterlighthouse? I have collected several from various polybags recently!

Amazing picture! How did you do that?

Speedman29

Brickfan50 said:

Amazing picture! How did you do that?

I found four really small motors that fit inside a stud and a power supply that you can hide underneath the top piece! JK
One of the clear rods with studs at each end from polybag #30452 and some photoshop wizardry. The stick is held from above so the rotor effect covers it and then I used four separate rotational blurs for the blades. 
And now I notice a hair on the minifig leg! 

masterX244

Parcel luckily not lost. Its just a traffic limitation reducing the throughput on deliveries

monkeyhanger

KungFuKenny said:

Bumblepants said:

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

Saw this minifig at Citizen Brick today- $25 but maybe worth it!

I wonder if we'll see any custom "Kings of pain" minifigs with associated nasties like scorpions, snakes etc. If anyone isn't acquainted with this TV series, I suggest you watch it. It involves capturing nasties and then pissing them off until they sting/bite/barb the presenters who then rate the attack on initial pain, damage inflicted and longevity.

Redbullgivesuwind

monkeyhanger said:

I wonder if we'll see any custom "Kings of pain" minifigs with associated nasties like scorpions, snakes etc. If anyone isn't acquainted with this TV series, I suggest you watch it. It involves capturing nasties and then pissing them off until they sting/bite/barb the presenters who then rate the attack on initial pain, damage inflicted and longevity.

I saw about 5 minutes of it. They are morons. American TV is really scraping the barrel now.

panchox1

panchox1 said:

yeah, I caved and got a boost set, new in box, for $90 shipped off of ebay yesterday. was sketchy because the guy had loads of them.

Well this showed up a week early, which was nice, with a shipping label from Best Buy. that surprised me as the ebay listing had no indication that it was from there.

So does this set not come with an instruction, build book? Seems like it's all in the boost app, which is fine. I was just curious. that omission surprised me.

JudgeChuck

I put in an order a few days ago for #4000026 LEGO House Tree of Creativity for me and  #41902 Sparkly Unicorn Bracelet, #41903 Cosmic Wonder Bracelet and 2x #41908 Extra Dots - Series 1 for my daughters.
All arrived today, along with the mystery gift, which turned out to be the April mini-build, #40398 Easter Bunny, so nothing massively exciting, but free Lego's free Lego! :-)

Bumblepants

panchox1 said:

panchox1 said:

yeah, I caved and got a boost set, new in box, for $90 shipped off of ebay yesterday. was sketchy because the guy had loads of them.

Well this showed up a week early, which was nice, with a shipping label from Best Buy. that surprised me as the ebay listing had no indication that it was from there. 

Probably drop shipped with a stolen credit card 

chrisalddin

Unbuilt 3 set's to make room for my new set's.
#60050 Train Station, #75139 Battle on Takodana and #70668 Jay's Storm Fighter.
are now packed away...

samiam391

Bumblepants said:

panchox1 said:

panchox1 said:

yeah, I caved and got a boost set, new in box, for $90 shipped off of ebay yesterday. was sketchy because the guy had loads of them.

Well this showed up a week early, which was nice, with a shipping label from Best Buy. that surprised me as the ebay listing had no indication that it was from there. 

Probably drop shipped with a stolen credit card 

@panchox1 - 100%. Too-good-to-be-true price? From a retailer? Drop shipped with a stolen credit card. Seller should be reported to eBay. Negative feedback left.

SumoLego

(You also want to make that report to protect yourself if it is a fraudulent drop-ship.)

Fauch

Redbullgivesuwind said:

monkeyhanger said:

I wonder if we'll see any custom "Kings of pain" minifigs with associated nasties like scorpions, snakes etc. If anyone isn't acquainted with this TV series, I suggest you watch it. It involves capturing nasties and then pissing them off until they sting/bite/barb the presenters who then rate the attack on initial pain, damage inflicted and longevity.

I saw about 5 minutes of it. They are morons. American TV is really scraping the barrel now.

With that description I don't even need to watch it to guess they are morons.

monkeyhanger

Fauch said:

Redbullgivesuwind said:

monkeyhanger said:

I wonder if we'll see any custom "Kings of pain" minifigs with associated nasties like scorpions, snakes etc. If anyone isn't acquainted with this TV series, I suggest you watch it. It involves capturing nasties and then pissing them off until they sting/bite/barb the presenters who then rate the attack on initial pain, damage inflicted and longevity.

I saw about 5 minutes of it. They are morons. American TV is really scraping the barrel now.

With that description I don't even need to watch it to guess they are morons.

They are morons, but watching people do dumb stuff can be entertaining.

Steve Irwin used to do well out of pissing animals off to show their reaction, until his fatal injury from a sting Ray that he apparently wasn't trying to piss off.

eMJeeNL

A 5euro-polybag purchase for a friend's BD quickly escalated into a 10-fold BL purchase. Damn you, BL-seller-with-too-many-good-bricks. 

Redbullgivesuwind

monkeyhanger said:

Steve Irwin used to do well out of pissing animals off to show their reaction, until his fatal injury from a sting Ray that he apparently wasn't trying to piss off.

True, but Steve Irwin also had a love of the animals and wanted to show how they were dangerous but also weren't much of a threat and should be cared for. 

These guys big up the animal as the most dangerous in the world. Then get they get bit and basically chest bump each other. 

KungFuKenny

I was browsing eBay a while back and took a chance on a huge lot of vintage Castle pieces... from the not too clear photos it looked like most of #6085 Black Monarch’s Castle was present, as well as a few other sets.  After some cleanup this emerged from the pile...

The printed shields and horse bardings were in excellent shape, and even the drawbridge string was still usable!  Now I’m waiting on some Bricklink orders to finish out the incomplete sets that were also in the pile...

Bumblepants

@KungFuKenny nice! My favorite castle growing up.

panchox1

samiam391 said:

Bumblepants said:

panchox1 said:

panchox1 said:

yeah, I caved and got a boost set, new in box, for $90 shipped off of ebay yesterday. was sketchy because the guy had loads of them.

Well this showed up a week early, which was nice, with a shipping label from Best Buy. that surprised me as the ebay listing had no indication that it was from there. 

Probably drop shipped with a stolen credit card 

@panchox1 - 100%. Too-good-to-be-true price? From a retailer? Drop shipped with a stolen credit card. Seller should be reported to eBay. Negative feedback left.

Huh. I didn't even know this kind of scam was a thing. but it makes some sense. Definitely gonna let ebay know.