What's your LEGO 'status' today?

brickventures

The end of an era...My 12 year old son asked me to move all his Lego (which is in this huge Sterilite drawers) out of his room into the Lego room.  He declared this summer that he does not want to build/play with Lego anymore. I’m a little sad that he officially entered his “dark ages”, OTOH I am kinda excited that I inherited this parts collection and can’t wait to start sorting!...And putting back together the minifigures from his collection!  I probably will still keep his Lego collection separate from mine so he can get it back after his dark ages end. 

Astrobricks

Is that Alderaan I see in there?

vanvonfull

Sad times, but You’re taking it in stride...

My father packed all of my displayed sets into tubs at some point after I left for college & he politely declined offers from my younger cousins clamoring to buy them up. He’s a hero. 

Bumblepants

Built a quick and tiny Octane from Rocket League this morning. My kids are obsessed with that game.

FollowsClosely

2 hours of sorting our trash drawer.

Cymbeline

You obviously don't have a cat!

Modeltrainman

Well, my Casey Jr. project only needs 100 more supporters to hit 1000. Otherwise, well, not much. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/8b153541-1956-42b7-bfec-a8f31755bc7e  

veyniac

@Modeltrainman have you tried promoting it on Reddit? Well-built stuff tends to get a lot of publicity there, in my experience.

Modeltrainman

@Veyniac, I have, a few times, also, thank you!

560Heliport

Modeltrainman said:

Well, my Casey Jr. project only needs 100 more supporters to hit 1000. Otherwise, well, not much. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/8b153541-1956-42b7-bfec-a8f31755bc7e  

Supported!

Modeltrainman

@560Heliport, thank you! You have no idea what this means to me! @veyniac, too! I could regale you with why, but that'd involve a new thread, filled with blood, tears, needles, countless LEGO pieces, a faith in God that can't be toppled, one scared kid, and countless elementary school teachers being super patient while that one scared kid felt dumb at math, and only wanted to design sets for everyone... My LEGO status today? Well, this. And a heart full of gratitude  to two fellow LEGO fans that I only know online. And that, dear fellow LEGO enthusiasts, is why Brickset is the best LEGO site, on the Web. I never feel small here, talked down to, looked down upon because my MOCs aren't big and flashy...

Russell844

Supported!!

Modeltrainman

Russell844 said:

Supported!!

Thanks, @Russell844! I feel like I should go cry manly tears in the corner...So blessed...Anyway, to keep this thread on track, the only new thing from me is that God is good, and my family and I finally got a Nintendo Switch. No LEGO games for it, because since we have Xbox and the like for those, I'm not sure why I would get them on Switch...But, I do see why some people wish LEGO Mario had the ability to act like an Amiibo...And why people wish DI and Dimensions were on Switch. Probably the most unique hardware I've seen in years...And, now I kind of want a LEGO case for the dock/Switch to build on...

Charmiefcb

I said I wouldn't buy any of the UCS Starfighters but I got the A Wing yesterday. Now I'll wait for the others to be remade, which they will be. I also picked up the Technic Porsche as well.

VorpalRyu

Charmiefcb said:

I said I wouldn't buy any of the UCS Starfighters but I got the A Wing yesterday. Now I'll wait for the others to be remade, which they will be. I also picked up the Technic Porsche as well.

I've been trying to avoid that rabbit hole too, so I got the most recent system scale X-Wings & a couple of Solo Story TIEs for my eventual planned display to go along side my UCS Falcon. My excuse to myself is that they're more to scale next to the Falcon, but I keep seeing the A-Wing & it is a nice looking build...

Legopants

Time for another bit of dusting off and disassembling.
Today it's the turn of #10188 Death Star. Purchased in October 2011 and assembled a couple of months later. Great fun to build - not sure I'll enjoy taking it apart quite as much though :-S  Still, it'll free up a whole load of shelf space for new sets. 
All personnel, despots, evil-doers, prisoners and droids have been evacuated to allow the cleaning crew to begin work.
The Death Star's filthy primary weapon, the Really Quite Nasty Annihilation Ray, is first to have 8 years' worth of dust removed from its surface. 

KungFuKenny

@Legopants
One of the truly great sets... and I'm impressed that your avatar can withstand the Superlaser...

Legopants

@KungFuKenny - he's fine. Just a little bit of very minor scorching to the facial area :-S

Legopants

Upper deck done! 

legomental

Rollercoaster chain 


Total fatigue .... Only 100 links to go 

GothamConstructionCo

Legopants said:

Upper deck done! 

How were you able to evade their turbo lasers?

Legopants

GothamConstructionCo said:

Legopants said:

Upper deck done! 

How were you able to evade their turbo lasers?

Remembered to unplug them from the wall socket :-) 

Charmiefcb

legomental said:

Rollercoaster chain 


Total fatigue .... Only 100 links to go 

The reason I'm putting off building the Haunted House.

SumoLego

Legopants said:

...he's fine...

Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you.

Charmiefcb

SumoLego said:

Legopants said:

...he's fine...

Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you.

You left out the best bit. The how are you? at the end.

560Heliport

Charmiefcb said:

SumoLego said:

Legopants said:

...he's fine...

Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you.

You left out the best bit. The how are you? at the end.

Right? Can you imagine any Imperial asking another "How are you?"

Modeltrainman

Feeling super blessed! I woke up, Casey Jr. was at 912, by lunch, I was convinced someone swapped his coal for rocket fuel...938. God is good!

Legopants

Just enough time for a spot of brunch atop the semi-disassembled Death Star before getting back to some more thumb-busting deconstruction work. 

Legopants

Phew! Nearly there! 

Legopants

Just need to sweep off and disassemble the base now... 

Legopants

The fruits of my labour :-) Just leaves the small tasks of checking that all 3803 parts are present, and then bagging them up :-S
But now it's time for a steaming cup of Rosy Lee and several dunkable biccies... 

LegoPegasister2015

Thanks everyone for the help supporting! My latest MOC, the Concession Corner Modular building, reached 1,000 supporters on LEGO Ideas today! I am very grateful for your help getting it so far. Onwards to 5,000!

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/e5754639-ea04-4419-8e4a-c59c713eb5b2

Astrobricks

I know “Status” is pretty broad term, but there is actually a thread dedicated to Ideas submissions:
https://forum.brickset.com/discussion/14849/lego-ideas-share-your-submissions-here/p25

SumoLego

Charmiefcb said:

The how are you?

I like to share.

Modeltrainman

Astrobricks said:

I know “Status” is pretty broad term, but there is actually a thread dedicated to Ideas submissions:
https://forum.brickset.com/discussion/14849/lego-ideas-share-your-submissions-here/p25

Good point. Maybe @Huw'd move mine from a few days ago? Other than that, well, I check Brickset every day, but haven't been able to build for a while.

Hjm

Audi R8 

Legopants

My double-points order has arrived!!! :-) 

Odeinoichus

I was in the process of rebuilding my Harry Potter sets from storage since I've finally gotten more to put them all together for a nice couple of photos, and what do I discover? Somehow at least five elements for Aragog are missing.

I just can't understand it, I'm so careful with disassembly, being sure to put them in their own ziplock bags with their instructions, and yet somehow I lost a 1x4 plate, a 1x2 plate with bar on the end, a 1x1 half-round with bar on the end, that little L shaped piece in brown and two 1x1 square plates in light tan.

I just don't get it, I mean sure I've got enough spares for the 1x1 square plates, those things are everywhere, but how did I misplace the crucial parts which are required to full construct Aragog?

This would be the 2018 set, the cheapest one, which is no longer easy to find on shelves. Guess I'll be using B&P Missing Pieces or something to get them back, because I own over 700 currently disassembled LEGO Sets. And I have no time to re-build every set from the past two decades to find the one set with the errant parts in their bag.

*SIGH* Problems of a LEGO Collector. Am I right?

JudgeChuck

However careful you are, the odd few parts are always bound to go missing. I am similar in that I am very careful to bag up disassembled sets, but when I do find the odd part missing, I just add them to a "Replacements" wishlist on Bricklink and add them to various orders, when available. If I do find the part eventually, well, I've got a spare.
I've actually also have the opposite problem. I have a small bag of parts which I have no idea the set they came from! I'll just keep them separate and re-unite them when the time comes. :-)

khmellymel

My Lego status today is a bit sad... I'm going through the collection to see what I can bear to part with.  The day has finally come where we need to turn the guest room into a more flexible space (working/laundry/guest/potential kids) and there's just too much storage in there dedicated to Lego.  My partner knows about all the purchases I make but when we were dismantling the ottoman storage bed he was positively overwhelmed at seeing it all in one place!  I didn't tell him that the closet is also full >.<

Odeinoichus

@JudgeChuck:

I have a few things that are where did I get these, but I'm so organized it's only a few parts. Mostly a 1x2 Chocolate Bar print tile from somewhere I haven't the foggiest and a 2x2 under dish that came off of one set during the huge disassembly project and got lost in a nearby reusable shopping bag that was holding sets slated for storage.

Also a lot of broken plants. And I can't replace any of the purple or red ones yet since they aren't in stock at the moment. Oh well, at least I got some green ones to replace the Attack of the Wargs ones that broke. Or just some spares on the off chance I already replaced broken plants. Plants are the worst offenders for breaking. Just something about the mold I guess.

Also threw in a couple of parts from one of my old Castle sets that was missing the parts. Unfortunately none of the gray elements were in stock. Nor was the 1x1 upper clip part. Oh well. I'm going to try out some Bricklink shops to get some older castle sets I used to own for some classic building fun.

LostInTranslation

Came across this on Twitter today. Love it. 

https://twitter.com/balconyshirts/status/1318236260708847622?s=19

Speedman29

First issue of the new Explorer magazine dropped through my letterbox this morning

Looks like a fun read. When Little Miss Speedy is back from school we'll have proper look. 

FowlerBricks

I've been so nuts with running my Youtube channel that I haven't gotten a chance to do much with Lego recently. So I made this little photo since I just bought a fog machine:

Afoltv

Hi guys - designed a new LEGO Apple Store MOC and put free instructions on YouTube! Hope you like it: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsz8BpFQcxk

Astrobricks

FedEx just dropped off my #10270 Bookshop that I ordered on back order from [email protected] It shipped almost two weeks earlier than predicted, and I got the double points, #40413 GWP, and the free #5006008 VIP gift bag “mystery gift”. 😀

Switchfoot55

FowlerBricks said:

I've been so nuts with running my Youtube channel that I haven't gotten a chance to do much with Lego recently. So I made this little photo since I just bought a fog machine:

What type of YouTube channel do you run?

Astrobricks

Switchfoot55 said:

FowlerBricks said:

I've been so nuts with running my Youtube channel that I haven't gotten a chance to do much with Lego recently. So I made this little photo since I just bought a fog machine:

What type of YouTube channel do you run?

Looks like maybe it’s called AFOL TV? Maybe? Probably.

bpk2300

I’ve begun the process of sorting my childhood Lego. Step one is removing all of the Mega Blocks, and random bits of Knex, batteries, Mattel Contrux, Hotwheels/Matchbox, etc etc. I clearly wasn’t OCD with Lego as a kid ;)

I’m also setting aside all minifigs and unique pieces so that I can get a sense of what sets are in there. So far I have a potential list of 27 sets, and it is a total nostalgia trip. One set of note: #7181 UCS Tie Interceptor. What’s odd is I have no memory of having this set back in the day...

Step 2 will be sorting the Lego further to make complete sets. I’ll likely BrickLink any missing pieces. Overall goal is to complete as many sets as possible, build them, and then disassemble them nicely for my son to enjoy one day. 

I’m having more fun with this project than I do buying and building new sets. Let’s see how long the feeling lasts :)

Switchfoot55

Astrobricks said:

Switchfoot55 said:

FowlerBricks said:

I've been so nuts with running my Youtube channel that I haven't gotten a chance to do much with Lego recently. So I made this little photo since I just bought a fog machine:

What type of YouTube channel do you run?

Looks like maybe it’s called AFOL TV? Maybe? Probably.

That was directed toward FowlerBricks instead of the immediate above AFOLTV. :)

...unless they are one and the same?