What's your LEGO 'status' today?

Modeltrainman

My LEGO status? I saw, somewhere here, rumors that Chevy might be coming back to Speed Champions this summer. My late grandpa  LOVED Chevy, so I'm excited, if true. (On a bittersweet sidenote, my grandpa went to Heaven, this summer, but we didn't get to say goodbye,(due to COVID existing) so the weirdest things remind me of him. So, to memorialize him, I Speed Championed his 2002 Silverado. I want to build it, this year...I have a hope that maybe LEGO will do a proper Chevy badge sticker, someday for the front, and 'SILVERADO, 1500, for the back, and sides... 

Legopants

Just arrived! :-) 

Bumblepants

I'm planning on getting the Ninjago Gardens at midnight tonight but in the back of my mind a voice says there will probably be a sweet gwp that is tied directly to it on Feb. 1 and then another voice says it will be sold out and backordered into the summer by then. Probably going to side with the order now voice but I'm always suspicious of the early VIP releases

Fizyx

Bumblepants said:

I'm planning on getting the Ninjago Gardens at midnight tonight but in the back of my mind a voice says there will probably be a sweet gwp that is tied directly to it on Feb. 1 and then another voice says it will be sold out and backordered into the summer by then. Probably going to side with the order now voice but I'm always suspicious of the early VIP releases

It's a VIP release too, so don't forget that the ACTUAL release time may be ~9am EST tomorrow.

Charmiefcb

Still isn't live for VIPs in Australia yet.

Salamalex

Very excited. For the first time I stayed up to order something the moment it was live - success was mine and a completed order for Ninjago City Gardens is too. Clearly, being in the U.K., I’ve no idea when it’ll arrive. 

JudgeChuck

Lego Status: Officially Arse Biscuits. Been hitting "refresh" on multiple devices for Ninjago City Gardens since 00:15 GMT and it's still "Coming Soon". Yes, I'm a VIP. Yes, I'm annoyed. Yes, I'm a bit drunk, which really doesn't help my mood... Grrrrr.

;-)

Charmiefcb

Still waiting for the Gardens to drop for VIPs here. In the meantime I went to the local toy store and they had new stock. Mini haul of the tractor, Captain America mech and the flower bouquet. Give them to my mother so I don't have to buy her flowers again. Look these are still going why do you need new ones? That's going to be my line I use anyway.

JudgeChuck

JudgeChuck said:

Lego Status: Officially Arse Biscuits. Been hitting "refresh" on multiple devices for Ninjago City Gardens since 00:15 GMT and it's still "Coming Soon". Yes, I'm a VIP. Yes, I'm annoyed. Yes, I'm a bit drunk, which really doesn't help my mood... Grrrrr.

;-)

Status changed to: Sobered up, not much hangover, Ninjago City Gardens ordered successfully, yay! :-))

It's a good reminder to have a little patience sometimes. ;-)

Charmiefcb

A few hours ago Gardens went live here and I got my hands on one. In Warehouse right now. I never got around to building Ninjago City or the Docks so this is going to be one huge build.

Legopants

Right, I've spent the last couple of hours fondling my box of 36 Series 21 minifigs.

For anyone interested, here's the bag sequence (number on bottom of box: 6341809 / 118789 038).

Left compartment (front to rear):
1 Airplane Girl
2 Violin Kid
3 Airplane Girl
4 Violin Kid
5 Alien
6 Space Police Guy
7 Alien
8 Space Police Guy
9 Alien
10 Space Police Guy
11 Beekeeper
12 Paddle Surfer
13 Beekeeper
14 Paddle Surfer
15 Beekeeper
16 Paddle Surfer
17 Ladybird Girl
18 Ladybird Girl

Right compartment (front to rear):
1 Violin Kid
2 Airplane Girl
3 Ancient Warrior
4 Ancient Warrior
5 Ancient Warrior
6 Centaur Warrior
7 Centaur Warrior
8 Centaur Warrior
9 Shipwreck Survivor
10 Shipwreck Survivor
11 Shipwreck Survivor
12 Cabaret Singer
13 Cabaret Singer
14 Cabaret Singer
15 Pug Costume Guy
16 Pug Costume Guy
17 Pug Costume Guy
18 Ladybird Girl

EGRoberts

Stuck on Canadian Armed Forces base 500km away from family and lego room staring at lego on the internet and pictures of my wife and kid while my fellow soldiers look at me like I am nuts lol. Just 5 more weeks and I might be able to go home for a weekend!

Astrobricks

EGRoberts said:

Stuck on Canadian Armed Forces base 500km away from family and lego room staring at lego on the internet and pictures of my wife and kid while my fellow soldiers look at me like I am nuts lol. Just 5 more weeks and I might be able to go home for a weekend!

Yeah, what kind of cuckoo wants to see their wife and kid. Sheesh! ;-)

Legopants

And here are the unpacked minifigs :-) 

pxchris

I still haven't seen any of the series 21 figs out around me - Target, Walmart... nadda.

SirBrickalotOfLego

Legopants said:

Right, I've spent the last couple of hours fondling my box of 36 Series 21 minifigs.

For anyone interested, here's the bag sequence (number on bottom of box: 6341809 / 118789 038).

Left compartment (front to rear):
1 Airplane Girl
2 Violin Kid
3 Airplane Girl
4 Violin Kid
5 Alien
6 Space Police Guy
7 Alien
8 Space Police Guy
9 Alien
10 Space Police Guy
11 Beekeeper
12 Paddle Surfer
13 Beekeeper
14 Paddle Surfer
15 Beekeeper
16 Paddle Surfer
17 Ladybird Girl
18 Ladybird Girl

Right compartment (front to rear):
1 Violin Kid
2 Airplane Girl
3 Ancient Warrior
4 Ancient Warrior
5 Ancient Warrior
6 Centaur Warrior
7 Centaur Warrior
8 Centaur Warrior
9 Shipwreck Survivor
10 Shipwreck Survivor
11 Shipwreck Survivor
12 Cabaret Singer
13 Cabaret Singer
14 Cabaret Singer
15 Pug Costume Guy
16 Pug Costume Guy
17 Pug Costume Guy
18 Ladybird Girl

Well that explains why I've so far only had two Centaur Warriors and two Aztec Warriors - they're all bundled together!

veyniac

I reworked parts of my Darth Maul bust again, based on all of your helpful suggestions. How does the mouth look? Any other feedback?

560Heliport

The closed mouth is better. Looks great!

Modeltrainman

(Not my status, just fun.) My Elf Clubhouse came today. Forza Horizon 4 1_14_2021 08_20_51 PM.png

Astrobricks

veyniac said:

I reworked parts of my Darth Maul bust again, based on all of your helpful suggestions. How does the mouth look? Any other feedback?

TBH, I have trouble telling where the mouth is.

veyniac

@Astrobricks not much I can do about that. If I make his mouth any more prominent, it will look like he got stung on the lip by a bee (happened to my uncle once). If I change the color of the lips, it looks really strange.

Bumblepants

veyniac said:

@Astrobricks not much I can do about that. If I make his mouth any more prominent, it will look like he got stung on the lip by a bee (happened to my uncle once). If I change the color of the lips, it looks really strange.

 I think it looks fine. Also I had a friend get stung inside the nose by a wasp and one side of his nose swelled up 3-4x the size of normal. It was really funny apart from the excruciating pain he probably had.

Bumblepants

Update on buying my wife the botanical sets: They arrived from Germany today and I gave her the box as a belated birthday gift. She audibly squealed with delight which is a rarity, exclaimed how she was envious of everyone in her plant internet groups that have been showing them off, and immediately opened the flower set and got to building! So the experiment was a rousing success.

panchox1

Despite saying a backorder would ship in 60 days, the Elf clubhouse I ordered on Wednesday night shipped today!

Astrobricks

veyniac said:

@Astrobricks not much I can do about that. If I make his mouth any more prominent, it will look like he got stung on the lip by a bee (happened to my uncle once). If I change the color of the lips, it looks really strange.

It is an unforgiving palette to work with :)

Switchfoot55

Currently contemplating how big of a personal LEGO warehouse I'll buy after I win both the Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots...

pxchris

Bumblepants said:

Update on buying my wife the botanical sets

Speaking of...
I received the package with my wife's Flowers set day before yesterday and she absolutely loved it! I showed her a picture of the bonsai set and she immediately said "I want that" as well, so definitely a success here as well!

Solojif

My status. New here. Hoarding sets and avoiding the wife finding out.

autolycus

Switchfoot55 said:

Currently contemplating how big of a personal LEGO warehouse I'll buy after I win both the Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots...

hmm... Do you need someone (admittedly in the opposite end of the country) to help you collect rare sets and to inventory this warehouse for a moderate income? I can do it remotely, somehow. No! Wait! I'll take the Mega Millions and you can take the Powerball and then we can each have a warehouse!

Mr_Cross

veyniac said:

I reworked parts of my Darth Maul bust again, based on all of your helpful suggestions. How does the mouth look? Any other feedback?

I think it's fabulous. I'm only contemplating the mouth because you asked, I don't think I have any helpful suggestions. As @Astrobricks says, it's not a very forgiving palette, and black is terrible to photograph, so I think you've done incredible work getting this!

I left posting my comment for half, hour, had another look. The mouth doesn't matter, it works just fine.

Lovely job :-)

Diamondback_Six

Finally have Elf Clubhouse and Exploration Ship coming to close out 2020. Now I have to hope the other Microfighter set shows up in time for May 4, and our two-of-each is enough to get whatever freebies... MF's and polybags are the last Star Wars, and aside from seasonal and Jurassic World, practically the last LEGO period we buy.

veyniac

@Bumblepants @Mr_Cross thanks for the help! Now that my inner perfectionist is satisfied, I can finally stop bothering you fine people and get to work on the building instructions. About time too, I think I have been working on this bust since June or July and I am totally sick of it :)

BrickBelt

Solojif said:

My status. New here. Hoarding sets and avoiding the wife finding out.

I currently have the Super Mario Bowser set inside another Lego set box in the basement, haha. 

It was just the best place to store it until I get the time to build it, but being able to keep it hidden in the meantime is definitely a bonus.

Speedman29

Wet and dreary day here, so its modular street dusting time....

....then I pulled a load of tiles up and rearranged a couple of the buildings

Legopants

Salamalex

@Legopants it’s an ace model. I had a shelf built specially for it in my LEGO room. It’s a really enjoyable build too. 😊😊

Legopants

Bag 1 done :-) 

Legopants

Salamalex said:

@Legopants it’s an ace model. I had a shelf built specially for it in my LEGO room. It’s a really enjoyable build too. 😊😊

@Salamalex - Well, I'm certainly enjoying so far :-) 

khmellymel

Status:  A bit sheepish.  I remarked to my husband how impatient I was getting because my Lego order (from the 1st of January) was still showing "In Warehouse".  I forgot that I hadn't told him that I made the order!  His reply was "Right, because the one thing that we need in this household is more Lego!" 

[He may have a point; I've also recently done an Ikea order so that I could add more cheapish shelving and storage to the flat, although this is not just for Lego - we turned the guest bedroom into an office, so we eliminated a lot of general storage (admittedly though that also meant my king size ottoman bed which housed a large portion of my collection.  He didn't realise what was in the storage bed until we emptied it... hence his snarky remarks!)]

Legopants

Bag 2 done :-) 

Legopants

Salamalex said:

@Legopants it’s an ace model. I had a shelf built specially for it in my LEGO room. It’s a really enjoyable build too. 😊😊

@Salamalex - you are absolutely right, it is ace :-) I would even go as far as to say that it's very brill :-)

That's bag 3 done. Enough for today. Time for a cup of tea.

GrannyLEGO

My status is excited! and over a silly little minifig even. With the new Series 21 out, there are really only three that I would like to have but I didn't hold high hopes as A) I can not afford to buy a whole set or box to be sure of getting what I want B) I am absolutely no good at 'feeling' the packages to figure out what they are C) I am one of the high risk Covid-19 and hubby is happiest when I just plain stay home.

Sooo ... a few days ago I placed a small order at LEGO.com (budget won't allow anything but small) and added a Series 21 minifig to make the free shipping level. The two other items on the order are both out of stock although an email late yesterday says #43186 Bruni the Salamander has shipped with an estimated delivery date early next week. Looks like everything on the order is shipping one at a time with the one minifig arriving via FedEx a little while ago.

My three Series 21 minifigs that I want are the Castaway, the Violinist, and most especially the BeeKeeper. Normally I am one of those sort of people that of the 12 new minifigs the only ones I would get are the other nine but you can imagine my excitement when I open the little package and Voila! it was the BeeKeeper!!! Happy LEGOmaniac AFOL sitting here .. figured I would bust if I didn't tell somebody!

pxchris

The Sea Cow is currently very high up on my "I strongly regret I didn't buy this when it was on the shelf" list. 

littletoki

I think I've reached a point where I'm thinking about selling some of my collection. I'm wondering if I'll get seller's remorse later though. Has anyone else gone through that?

SirBrickalotOfLego

littletoki said:

I think I've reached a point where I'm thinking about selling some of my collection. I'm wondering if I'll get seller's remorse later though. Has anyone else gone through that?

A couple of years ago on here I sold my complete CMF collection from series 12-18, TBLM 1 and 2, TLNM, Simpsons 1 and 2, all complete with display stands I had assembled. I am so regretful of it that it actually makes me upset to think about!

So now when I think I'm sick of seeing something on my shelves I just disassemble it and store it away until I want to bring it out again. So my advice is do that and make space for some new stuff.

Gibbo1959

I would agree with SirBrickalot. I’m in something of a lull with Lego right now, just buying the CMFs and a few select sets but have recently dismantled and reboxed the majority of what I had built. Had thought about selling stuff but can’t bring myself to do that. I have no need to cash in so if you’re not needing to dispose for specific reasons then I’d agree with the advice to just put stuff away and if you’ve not come back to it in a year or so then that might be the time to let it go.

littletoki

SirBrickalotOfLego said: So now when I think I'm sick of seeing something on my shelves I just disassemble it and store it away until I want to bring it out again. So my advice is do that and make space for some new stuff.

I haven't built anything in years and it's taking up so much space (even packaged up). You can see photos of my Lego room in my post history so you know what I'm talking about. I am fearful of that regret you mentioned though.

Maybe I'll sell the things I KNOW I won't want to build or rebuild. Thank you!!

Speedman29

GrannyLEGO said:

Happy LEGOmaniac AFOL sitting here .. figured I would bust if I didn't tell somebody!

I'm excited for you! Its lovely when you get lucky like that. I ordered a blind bag CMF to get an order over a GWP amount and got the one figure I was still hunting to complete that series.
I'm waiting to hear from my CMF guy (doesn't everyone have a CMF guy?) to get the full series from him. The beekeeper is one of my favourites, after missing the beegirl fancy dress minifig when it was first out I finally got one at a good price early last year, so this chap will look great alongside

EGRoberts

Astrobricks said:

EGRoberts said:

Stuck on Canadian Armed Forces base 500km away from family and lego room staring at lego on the internet and pictures of my wife and kid while my fellow soldiers look at me like I am nuts lol. Just 5 more weeks and I might be able to go home for a weekend!

Yeah, what kind of cuckoo wants to see their wife and kid. Sheesh! ;-)

Well I think it is the lego in the background that makes me looks nuts lol. I have more spent on lego then these guy spend on buy a new car lol.

EGRoberts

Speedman29 said:

Wet and dreary day here, so its modular street dusting time....

....then I pulled a load of tiles up and rearranged a couple of the buildings

My wife was not a fan but it turns out make up brushes are awesome for cleaning lego, they come in odd sizes to fit in hard to reach builds and they are firm enough to get all the dust but soft enough to not scratch it. The Mrs. cleans hers and leaves them in the lego room to dry out and the one day I was like "I wonder..."  2 days on the couch/sofa and she forgave me lol. Now I have a full set of my own bought at sephora (I shop there for her all the time) just to dust my lego.