What's your LEGO 'status' today?

SumoLego

KungFuKenny said:

I’ve taken a screenshot of your layout to use as evidence in convincing my wife that a kitchen island is a viable Lego display option… :-)

Goooooooood luck with that.

Speedman29

One of those lovely lazy Sundays. Sat with Mrs Speedy to build the flowers this morning over a coffee. I took them into the garden to take a photo and a bee tried to land on the orange poppy!

Spent most of the day watching motor racing on TV while Little Miss Speedy splashed in her pool. Then collected a freecycle LEGO bag of bits.

Couple of older Creator sets, the green army men from Toy Story minifigs and an Atlantis polybag that's still sealed.

Keilup

KungFuKenny said:

I’ve taken a screenshot of your layout to use as evidence in convincing my wife that a kitchen island is a viable Lego display option… :-)

Ha Ha Ha! Never happening in my house...

Mr_Hobbles said:

Decided to try building a small town with the new road plates and the few modulars I keep assembled. Sadly space isn't plentiful so I can't keep it up indefinitely, but it's fun to look at for a while.

Seriously loving this little layout.  Thinking about the modular I'll be building soon (due to me purchasing for my wife to give to me for Father's Day), I can't help but dream of putting something similar together.

JudgeChuck

Lego Status: Very happy and very humbled.

Quick story: Well, it was my 50th birthday over the weekend and my Aged Ps, brother and one of my two sisters (plus husband and one of their children) came from various parts of the country to join my family and me on a jaunt to the south coast and a fish & chip supper. (If you are in Hastings and in need of sustenance, I can highly recommend Maggie's Fish & Chips in Hastings Old Town).
We were supposed to leave relatively early, but people got delayed a little, however eventually all had arrived at my house. Cue demands to open all my presents and cards. Next thing I know there's a knock at the door and one of my best friends plus his son (also my godson) turned up to wish me Happy Birthday. This was quickly followed by an *enormous* package being produced from out of nowhere in, rather giving part of the game away, a Lego carrier bag!
Upon opening said wrapped package, I discovered #75159 Death Star!! My brother, two sisters and three best friends had clubbed together and somehow manage to snaffle the last one that had been sitting in Lego Bluewater! To say I was somewhat overcome is an understatement!
It was a wonderful start to a fabulous day all round. :-)

I have no idea where it's going to go at the moment, so will have to do some more sorting and packing away of sets to find some room! :-D

Speedman29

Happy 50th Birthday @JudgeChuck what an awesome surprise.

karrit

Belated Happy Birthday @JudgeChuck.  Wish my family would surprise me like that for my birthday tomorrow.  They complain that I don't tell them what I want but when they ask & I say Lego sets and/or Lego Gift Cards they just roll their eyes and give me candy I don't like & gift cards to the Home Improvement & Department stores that I rarely shop in.

bandit778

After Winning #40451 in another thread, I was eagerly anticipating said set in the post. It arrived this morning so as there was nothing on the agenda for this evenings entertainment, opened it up and built it.
 
Couldn't resist putting it in front of the binary suns.
Fantastic little set with some inventive building techniques for such a small set.
Thanks again @BooTheMightyHamster. Really enjoyed this one.

Fauch

karrit said:

Belated Happy Birthday @JudgeChuck.  Wish my family would surprise me like that for my birthday tomorrow.  They complain that I don't tell them what I want but when they ask & I say Lego sets and/or Lego Gift Cards they just roll their eyes and give me candy I don't like & gift cards to the Home Improvement & Department stores that I rarely shop in.

A bit like my family, sometimes they are like : "we don't know what to buy for you"

EGRoberts

Move completed.. Mostly unpacked... New storage arrived and debating on more now.. Sorting when I'm not working. 

lowlead

^^ WOW!!  Nice floor, too!

Dammit I need a LEGO room.

SeijiAmasawa

I received an email from Unity thanking me for providing feedback about creating a Unity/Lego game. They gave me a unique code to claim a Unity minifig. Check your emails if you took the survey!

MaffyD

@JudgeChuck - belated birthday well wishes! Sounds like you had a lot of fun that day. What a great surprise.

Modeltrainman

karrit said:

Belated Happy Birthday @JudgeChuck.  Wish my family would surprise me like that for my birthday tomorrow.  They complain that I don't tell them what I want but when they ask & I say Lego sets and/or Lego Gift Cards they just roll their eyes and give me candy I don't like & gift cards to the Home Improvement & Department stores that I rarely shop in.

Firstly, happy belated birthday, @JudgeChuck! Secondly, @karrit, maybe your family doesn't WANT to get you any Mine just thinks I have too much and I don't need it. My dad hates it, his mom does too, my grandma(Mom's mom) is the only grandparent who understands it. We'll just say for my dad to understand,(and maybe not even then,) I'd have to get a set through IDEAS and have the box in my hand...

JudgeChuck

Thanks all for the wishes. I (honestly!) try not to make much fuss over my birthday, but this year was very special all-round and not just for the Lego!

pxchris

"Today was a good day Popsy."





While photography is most certainly NOT my skill (as evidenced by the other build/collection photos I've posted) I have been wanting to up my game at least a little bit. I have had this scene idea in mind for a little while and wanted to try my hand at bringing it together. Fairly satisfied with the initial results.

GothamConstructionCo

^ So that’s where all the VIP coins ended up!!!
Red Beard certainly has it made.

Shib

I’m in the middle of a bit of a LEGO mystery…

Wanted to do a little bit of building this evening so went to my stash and grabbed the (still sealed) copy of #7599 - which I got in a trade with @sirrich69 a couple of years ago.

Opened the box and noticed something odd…blue boxes visible inside…

Three copies of #8073 inside, also all sealed. 

I wondered if maybe I’d bought them at the show we did the trade and put them in the Toy Story box to save space…but the set was sealed far better than I could have possibly resealed at a LEGO show.

messaged sirrich to ask if he’d ever opened the set, but he hadn’t…

I do remember buying one copy of #8073 from the same show a couple of years prior to the trade and I only have one logged as owned on Brickset…


I’m completely baffled by this one. All of the #7599 pieces were there so it’s not like someone did it as part of a switch. I seem to have gained extras from this but I’m left confused as anything.

klinton

TRU is on a roll with the polybags lately. I stumbled across this guy while checking out thier sale on Creator sets:

Switchfoot55

Shib, that's a sweet four-for-one deal! Indeed a mystery!

iwybs

Had an interesting experience today, thought I'd post about it here instead of Eurobricks for reasons.  I rode my bike to the local Bricks & Minifigs store (7.6 miles one way) not planning to buy anything, but just to look around and have a place to stop and refill my water bottle before going home.  A white woman in her 30s or early 40s was asking the staff for help finding a brown smiling minifigure head and hands to go with it.  She wanted to make a personalized minifigure for a boy she knows (I didn't catch the exact connection) with one white parent and one black parent, so with darker but not all that dark of skin.  She couldn't find any useful heads and torsos in the Build-A-Minifig section; the staff said it was because they held back the heads and torsos of licensed characters of color in order to be able to complete minifigures in licensed sets - to which she replied that she knows there are black and brown minifigures in licensed sets, but they're all adult men with facial hair or eyepatches or scowls, etc., and not appropriate sigfigs for a little kid.  She was going to buy a pack of expensive custom-printed minifigure heads in one of the nougat tones, but wasn't very satisfied with the purchase because they weren't quite what she was looking for and they didn't come with hands.  I pointed out the Dean Thomas from Harry Potter CMF Series 1 as a smiling brown kid who doesn't have facial hair, or an eyepatch, or a scowl.  She liked that a lot, even though she wished the hair was actually black to be a better match for the kid instead of dark brown.  She bought the Dean Thomas CMF and said thanks for the suggestion, it was just what she was looking for.  So, I didn't buy anything myself but I did help the shop make a sale and make the customer happy.  But more importantly, it's the first time I've really seen representation in Lego be as important offline as it is online.  Some people of color on the forums (in particular Poodabricks on Eurobricks) have said that they prefer the yellow standard with its occasional suggestions of black and brown identities via hairstyles and so forth, but clearly the yellow doesn't do it for everybody.  Representation.  It's a good thing.  Not everybody can see themselves in Simpsons/Lego yellow.

SumoLego

Once you start to differentiate, it is unwise to exclude.

Astrobricks

pxchris said:

"Today was a good day Popsy."





While photography is most certainly NOT my skill (as evidenced by the other build/collection photos I've posted) I have been wanting to up my game at least a little bit. I have had this scene idea in mind for a little while and wanted to try my hand at bringing it together. Fairly satisfied with the initial results.

Cool! But my first thought was, how will he ever spend it? ;-)

Yellowcastle

^ He’ll just need to wait for a couple of sea turtles... :o)

JamesOggyOgden

Loving my speed champions collection, 3 more sets of the 2021 sets to get

EGRoberts

I purchased more storage containers (again) for my collection giving me some room to grow for sure. I have spent more on new storage for my Lego now then Diagon Alley would have cost.. Part of me is twitching over that detail but I feel really good now that I have all nice matching storage so for the long run I think it was a good decision. I also came across #60233 Donut Shop Opening for 40% off and got my military discount of 10% on top of that! I always wanted the set but found it to pricey at full retail. What a great build it was, the heavy lift truck is just a great design and my son and I are already having fun with it. Poor robber has been squished by the donut around 10 times just this morning lol.

EGRoberts

Yellowcastle said:

^ He’ll just need to wait for a couple of sea turtles... :o)

"Aye, Sea Turtles!"

iso3200

Lose the bottom row. Shoes? Who needs them ;-)

SumoLego

iso3200 said:

Lose the bottom row. Shoes? Who needs them ;-)

Space-holders until the complete line of buildable sneakers are released.

(Seriously, who wants buildable sneakers!?!?!?)

Modeltrainman

SumoLego said:

iso3200 said:

Lose the bottom row. Shoes? Who needs them ;-)

Space-holders until the complete line of buildable sneakers are released.

(Seriously, who wants buildable sneakers!?!?!?)

Sneaky people who sneak everywhere? They'd, by that definition be sneakers, making them a shoe-in... Also, still sorting. Then I need to find 2/3 of the Incredibles sets. Haven't located everything, yet.

bpk2300

Went to the LEGO store yesterday. I planned to buy the 60's Batmobile #76188, but they still don't have any in stock. I still enjoyed walking the store as a little Father's Day treat to myself.

Also, I just witnessed the Amazon Prime Day deal for the Razor Crest appear and sell out within 60 seconds. $78!!! I almost bought few in the heat of them moment, but thought better of it. 

LummoxJR

Trying to figure out a better storage/organizational system for displaying sets and also storing parts. My organization has always been pretty poor but I really need to get things in order.

EGRoberts

90% sorted, had to take a break and build something. I always loved peoples lego cities and I have made some cool villages but the skyline was always meh. My tallest buildings of the past was brown stone apartment buildings at about 5 floors 30 bricks high. Decided to start building my lego city again since it was totally dismantled for the move and figured I'd start with a tall office building (small by a lot on the internet but for me the biggest I have built) to really sort of try something new. 2 days of building in my off time. Way more to do, it has walls that pop off for each floor and I plan to do the interior. I have made a pretend elevator (doors) on each floor. I plan to add some binocular stands on the top (empire state style) for tourists.





While I was building the wife asked me to take her to this thrift store nearby she had yet to see (I went to look for lego but have had no luck in the past visit). We piled into the car and off we went. Lego bags as far as the pegged wall could hold that left me and my son dancing with joy. We sifted through and ruled out a bunch (Grr mega blocks) and then came the serious discussion of which ones to get. My son picked a bag that was clearly all ninjago and what a great pick as when we got home the entire center out of view was full of snake bad guys and other cool figures we didn't even have. I picked up 2 bags myself 1 small one that had old space police figs and parts and a larger bag that turned out to be 90% of Launch and load seaport #6542 which cost me $15.00 for just that set. As we where heading out my son spotted a bin full of technic, we slid it out and low and behold it was complete set of #8547 Nxt 2.0 for $25.00 with a ton of technic added. All said in done we spent about $60 on lego and feel super pumped at our finds. Best part is it must have been adult owned as none of it was all sticky or gross with hair like usual for used lego.

iwybs

Where does everyone go that they find Lego at the thrift store? Doesn't sound like any Goodwill I've ever shopped at.

EGRoberts

iwybs said:

Where does everyone go that they find Lego at the thrift store? Doesn't sound like any Goodwill I've ever shopped at.

Goodwill auctions lego on ebay. They know its a better value so they get more online. Value villiage and salvation army are hit and miss. Flea markets and garage sales too.. Just have to go a lot and have lots of luck.

Astrobricks

Cool finds @EGRoberts! I’d never seen those 16x16x2 1/3 baseplates before. They came out in my dark age. Nice tower too :)

SeijiAmasawa

This arrived in a small padded mailer the other night. I prefer the smirk over the overly-wide smile.

Basty

Sadly my Lego life has taken a bit of a back seat due to work and in the process of buying my first house, hopefully will be moving early August and I'll have my own Lego room :)

Popped into the Leciester square store on Saturday, wow it was busy, but decided to pick up the Birds of Paradise.

pxchris

I got a bit of "art" hung up in the room yesterday.



In my opinion LEGO will never surpass the gorgeous dioramas in their catalogs of the 80s and 90s!

EGRoberts

Missing the blue smaller boat. Had to use different wheels on the crane as 3 are missing. Still have to build the forklift and blue container but even with missing pieces I would say this was one of my favourite $15 finds.

JudgeChuck

I've been building a few smaller sets in my backlog, including a couple of Lego Minecraft ones, but I got a hankering to do another skyline, after helping my daughters get the parts so that they could build @BenBuildsLego's Beauty and the Beast skyline, which turned out really nicely!
My next proper build will be my new Death Star, but I've got a lot of sorting and organising to do before I can settle down to that!
I've settled on his Jurassic Park skyline this time around, as it has a lot of green and generally looked appealing, so I've raided my collection and placed BL orders for that. I'm also readying myself to tackle a more architecture-styled one and really like the look of Neuschwanstein Castle, so I think that will be my next project. I'm going to try using BrickHunter for this project, to see how it performs overall. Some test runs seem to be positive, so I'm hopeful this might minimise BL orders to a certain extent.
Finally, I am slowly gathering period parts via BL orders, to make up a couple of Classic Space sets that are very difficult to get in the UK, #6901 Mobile Lab and #6861 X1 Patrol Craft. Progress has been good over the last couple of months, but I've got a little way to go still.

datsunrobbie

iwybs said:

Where does everyone go that they find Lego at the thrift store? Doesn't sound like any Goodwill I've ever shopped at.

I get most of mine from Savers. Sometimes there will several weeks with nothing, and then a dozen or more bags show up all at once. I tend to buy everything I can afford when they get a bunch, because the parts for any set could be scattered across many bags. I like digging through the piles for unique parts and then rebuilding sets based on those parts. I'm currently extracting #60003 and #60004 from a ridiculously large bin of parts I picked up a couple of weeks ago. 

Speedman29

Ordered the few parts I didn't have in my stash for the build and take Castle Byers Stranger Things set. I ordered a set of printed tiles for the stickered parts a couple of years ago and only found them the other day.

eMJeeNL

Got myself a 49%-off #31109 @ Prime. Nice o have on the backlog - need to finish the second build of #76388 first (actually bags 1-3, liked the other one better :))

Speedman29

Me and Mrs Speedy celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary today, had a cheeky pub lunch and walk by the river near us. The path runs under a main road flyover where local artists graffiti the concrete supports. Its usually wildlife or Star Wars art, but there is a new piece of art....
 ....super cool. 16 year is apparently celebrated with gifts of wax. I got the latest issues of the LEGO SW and Marvel magazines and a Toblerone bar!

Astrobricks

^ Wow! You sure that wasn’t sponsored by TLG? Guerrilla marketing perhaps?

EGRoberts

Highly disappointed by legocon. Most of it was chatter of star wars sets already leaked and vidiyo, nothing new was shown and they showed very little content. Would love for legocon to focus on all themes not just the ones they want to push to sell in the moment.. Seemed like a cheesy forced commercial peddling Vidiyo.

Mr_Cross

Woot! My IDEAS project Mr Moon has hit 1K! Thanks to everyone who has supported so far. If anyone else felt like supporting, it would be most appreciated - a comment or a share would also be very helpful!
Cheers :-)

KungFuKenny

Mr_Cross said:

Woot! My IDEAS project Mr Moon has hit 1K! Thanks to everyone who has supported so far. If anyone else felt like supporting, it would be most appreciated - a comment or a share would also be very helpful!
Cheers :-)

Congratulations!  I enjoyed your interview on Beyond the Brick… No surprise that the Classic Space version has my vote!  Good luck moving forward in the process — and maybe @Huw could give your project a plug on the main site?

pxchris

The sheep have arrived at Barracuda Bay! 

tne328

I finally received my copy of the 92176 Saturn V! It's a set I have thought was great for a long time! After a job change to a space company, I ordered it to celebrate my new position. As a bonus, I got my first GWP (Swing Ship Ride) and even a second GWP (Photo Cube)!