What's your LEGO 'status' today?

pxchris

Lo1sJess said:

Like the cacti and the buffalo wish we had both!  @pxchris is there enough in the pics to MOC a train?  There was a train, I think, in the Lone Ranger theme, those instructions combined with the pics might work for MOCing.

I'd love to see if someone has given it a try. I'll have to search around a bit. I'm not familiar enough with trains myself to notice right off if there are any prototype parts in those builds or if they could be reconstructed fairly faithfully from existing parts.

Modeltrainman

pxchris said:

Modeltrainman said:

I always thought it needed a train.

Agreed completely!

Did you know, that there is actually an image out there of some unreleased prototype sets for the theme... including a couple of western style trains! I wish that at least one of these had made it to production.

For those who haven't seen this before... also take note of the buffalo piece!

Marshallmario said:

  The baseplates with wagon wheel ruts and parts of a river are way cool!

They really, really are! It's a shame we only got the one "curved road" plate with the rutted path pattern, I wish that we'd gotten a straight section as well.
Same goes for the river plate. Both this tan river plate design and the green one from the Islanders sub-theme could have really, really used some straight sections for expansion!

*groan* "Everybody's got a (water) buffaloooooo..." This looks so cool! Now I want a buffalo!  Also, those of us who missed out on The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks, well...we really missed it, y'all! Ebay's prices are... Yikes.

Lo1sJess

$212 and climbing!

Seems there are a few of us that missed, I wonder if the publisher would do another run especially if some us paid in advance.  Don’t know how to go about asking or who.

Fauch

the colorful train reminds me a toy story one I think

Switchfoot55

I randomly was checking my Disney Movie Insider rewards and saw they have a full size movie poster for the LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation Payoff show. Rewards redeemed and poster on it's way!

pxchris

Lo1sJess said:

$212 and climbing!

Seems there are a few of us that missed, I wonder if the publisher would do another run especially if some us paid in advance.  Don’t know how to go about asking or who.

Sadly, Unbound (the publisher) states all over the place that this was a special one-time run only.
I certainly hope that that stance changes at some point, because I think that the book deserves a much wider distribution.

Lo1sJess

Not sure if allowed so apologies in advance.  This popped up in searching and looks pretty good

The credits on the picture were 
turbosquid for shutterstock

pxchris

^ that's adorable @Lo1sJess!

Modeltrainman

My current LEGO status: Pondering the BDP! Trying would be a good idea, since it's not tied to my IDEAS attempts, right?

samiam391

Keeping in the vein of the discussions about LEGOs' history and the recent storybooks, here's my updated collection of wooden ducks; dates of each run from the 30s to 50s. 

Russell844

I am so jealous.

pxchris

Absolutely gorgeous @samiam391!!!

autolycus

samiam391 said:

Keeping in the vein of the discussions about LEGOs' history and the recent storybooks, here's my updated collection of wooden ducks; dates of each run from the 30s to 50s. 

Very impressive duck collection!

Minifigures too... Are those the Wicked Bricks wall cases? If so, what do you think of them? And how well do they handle unusually sized or oriented figs? (height, depth, etc. can be a real problem for some figs in some display cases)

If not the Wicked Bricks ones, what are they?

autolycus

My status right now: Rebuilding. Made a stupid decision and am paying for it. The music shop in my Holiday Main Street was missing one of the awning flag pieces. Just got the replacement in the mail today. Picked the set up to move it to my desk to add the piece. It fell from desk height to the floor and exploded. Ugg.. Hoping I found all the pieces!

Istokg

Never saw a LEGO buffalo in the wild.  Only a 2x2 tile with a buffalo pattern on it.

samiam391

autolycus said:

samiam391 said:

Keeping in the vein of the discussions about LEGOs' history and the recent storybooks, here's my updated collection of wooden ducks; dates of each run from the 30s to 50s. 

Very impressive duck collection!

Minifigures too... Are those the Wicked Bricks wall cases? If so, what do you think of them? And how well do they handle unusually sized or oriented figs? (height, depth, etc. can be a real problem for some figs in some display cases)

If not the Wicked Bricks ones, what are they?

Thank you!

The minifigure cases are from sfminifiguredisplays.

The sets in the background are in WickedBrick display cases. 

chrisalddin

samiam391 said:

Keeping in the vein of the discussions about LEGOs' history and the recent storybooks, here's my updated collection of wooden ducks; dates of each run from the 30s to 50s. 

1, 2, 3, 4, 5...

hmmmmm
thay could form up there own Power Ranger Teem.
Power Qwacks Go! :) it's morthing time.
i may be in need of some sleep.....

autolycus

samiam391 said:

autolycus said:

samiam391 said:

Keeping in the vein of the discussions about LEGOs' history and the recent storybooks, here's my updated collection of wooden ducks; dates of each run from the 30s to 50s. 

Very impressive duck collection!

Minifigures too... Are those the Wicked Bricks wall cases? If so, what do you think of them? And how well do they handle unusually sized or oriented figs? (height, depth, etc. can be a real problem for some figs in some display cases)

If not the Wicked Bricks ones, what are they?

Thank you!

The minifigure cases are from sfminifiguredisplays.

The sets in the background are in WickedBrick display cases. 

Hadn’t heard of that company. Looks like some nice options. Are those the 180 size? Can taller figures like Marge Simpson fit?

samiam391

autolycus said:

samiam391 said:

autolycus said:

samiam391 said:

Keeping in the vein of the discussions about LEGOs' history and the recent storybooks, here's my updated collection of wooden ducks; dates of each run from the 30s to 50s. 

Very impressive duck collection!

Minifigures too... Are those the Wicked Bricks wall cases? If so, what do you think of them? And how well do they handle unusually sized or oriented figs? (height, depth, etc. can be a real problem for some figs in some display cases)

If not the Wicked Bricks ones, what are they?

Thank you!

The minifigure cases are from sfminifiguredisplays.

The sets in the background are in WickedBrick display cases. 

Hadn’t heard of that company. Looks like some nice options. Are those the 180 size? Can taller figures like Marge Simpson fit?

@autolycus - Correct, the 180 minifigure version. I think a Marge would fit as it fits Imperial Probe Droids. Sadly, don't own a Marge to be able to test it for you. There's roughly 7cm of height space for a minifigure. 

vanvonfull

Those cases look great. Have you noticed any downsides? I’m pretty close to pulling the trigger on a couple as I’ve been casually looking for awhile. Thanks for the info. 

samiam391

vanvonfull said:

Those cases look great. Have you noticed any downsides? I’m pretty close to pulling the trigger on a couple as I’ve been casually looking for awhile. Thanks for the info. 

@vanvonfull - The only downside is that it'd be difficult to install any lighting in the cases. The front frame of the case also overlaps the sides of the glass, so minifigures in the corner are a little bit hidden when looking at it straight on.

Overall though, I highly recommend them. Those are just tiny flaws amongst a slew of pros to get these cases. 

Lo1sJess

Got my Lego order with #40565 so built it yesterday.  Have had a horrid cold so haven’t worked on my winter village overall or seen how this fits with the elves set.  Nice little build and like the sliding doors but like the review said the roof could use a little more attention.  Hope to build a bit more today but first more cough syrup.  Happy Building

pxchris

I finished up The LEGO Story book by Jens Andersen last night.
I personally found it very interesting. It's really much more focused on the Kristiansen family and the business than on the bricks, which was just fine with me as I learned a lot that I didn't previously know. The coverage of the early years was especially interesting to me. The unprecedented access that the author had to the company archives and to the family itself was really evident. If I had any criticism it would be that the later years didn't seem to get quite as good of a story told and there were some odd gaps and leaps. It was very interesting to read though about the generational leadership change from Kjeld to Thomas and the setup and plans for the fifth generation change as well. But overall, if you have an interest in the history of the company itself, and especially about the family behind it, then I would certainly recommend the read. 

Lo1sJess

@pxchris got my copy but haven’t started reading yet.

samiam391

pxchris said:

I finished up The LEGO Story book by Jens Andersen last night.
I personally found it very interesting. It's really much more focused on the Kristiansen family and the business than on the bricks, which was just fine with me as I learned a lot that I didn't previously know. The coverage of the early years was especially interesting to me. The unprecedented access that the author had to the company archives and to the family itself was really evident. If I had any criticism it would be that the later years didn't seem to get quite as good of a story told and there were some odd gaps and leaps. It was very interesting to read though about the generational leadership change from Kjeld to Thomas and the setup and plans for the fifth generation change as well. But overall, if you have an interest in the history of the company itself, and especially about the family behind it, then I would certainly recommend the read. 

I'm enjoying the read as well, even more so by the fact that some of the items I own are vaguely referred to in the pages. This one being one of my favorites, Ole Kirk's original letterhead stamp from the 40/50s with the last name spelled Kristiansen; although he apparently preferred the spelling with "Ch" instead of "K" despite it being written with a "K" in the church record. A/S OKK was the holding company for the LEGO Group company at that time; just like Kirkbi A/S is the holding company that holds the shares in the LEGO System A/S today. 

andhe

Lo1sJess said:

Anyone heard of the buffalo making it out into the world - rare, test pieces etc?

Calling @Istokg

I find it crazy that it's always these same pictures, you would have thought that with all these recent 'history of lego' publications that someone would have dug up some more materials. (Talking of Europa/Seatron/that prohibition type theme as well)

I guess there just wasn't as much of an idea to archive stuff 'back in the day', compared to the prototypes and materials that 'leak' these days.

pxchris

andhe said:

Lo1sJess said:

Anyone heard of the buffalo making it out into the world - rare, test pieces etc?

Calling @Istokg

I find it crazy that it's always these same pictures, you would have thought that with all these recent 'history of lego' publications that someone would have dug up some more materials. (Talking of Europa/Seatron/that prohibition type theme as well)

I guess there just wasn't as much of an idea to archive stuff 'back in the day', compared to the prototypes and materials that 'leak' these days.

I don't know that it's so much that none of these authors have dug up more materials on some of these unreleased themes or prototypes, but that LEGO has been reluctant to let any of it see publication.

samiam391 said:
 

I'm enjoying the read as well, even more so by the fact that some of the items I own are vaguely referred to in the pages. This one being one of my favorites, Ole Kirk's original letterhead stamp from the 40/50s with the last name spelled Kristiansen; although he apparently preferred the spelling with "Ch" instead of "K" despite it being written with a "K" in the church record. A/S OKK was the holding company for the LEGO Group company at that time; just like Kirkbi A/S is the holding company that holds the shares in the LEGO System A/S today. 

That's really interesting Sam! I know they talked in the book of the fluidity of the spelling of the last name, but I don't think they mentioned that even Ole used the K spelling at times like you've shown.

chrisalddin

so i been bisy building..
still got a number of set to build. but. this is a nice image of part of my lego room.

Switchfoot55

...I really need to figure out a way to get the Disney Castle...

flightrisk

@samiam391 your duck collection is incredible.  This may have been asked before but…. Have you sent pics to LEGO?

karrit

Switchfoot55 said:

...I really need to figure out a way to get the Disney Castle...

Better hurry since it's retiring soon.  I have occasionally seen it or parts of it in some shop Goodwill Auctions.  But I haven't looked lately. Been spending too much elsewhere.  Plus a lot of what I'll bid on usually ends up going for several 100's of dollars.  And there is one location that always seems to have really good stuff with ridiculous shipping costs besides the highest prices so I try to ignore their offerings.

Switchfoot55

Goodwill Auctions have never been good to me. But, worth keeping an eye on just in case. 

karrit

Relieved.  My shipment of Mos Eisley along with 4 GWP's & the VIP Pirate Ship Ride arrived today.  When I brought it in one of the box flaps was not secured with the packing tape so I feared something might be missing.  Fortunately the packing paper they stuff in the boxes these days held everything intact inside the box.  Interestingly the Packing slip doesn't look like any of the other packing slips I normally receive.  No Lego logo on it.  Just the column headings in a foreign language, order quantity, item numbers, a list of the items, date of order, order number, my address all printed on a plain piece of white paper.  And a line for the Return Authorization # printed on the page rather than the normal attached sticker sheet piece for the return authorization label.

andhe

I mainly build 'vintage style' castle MOCs in studio (Bricklink's free digital lego building software). I decide to combine all my builds from this year into a 'Annual' style format and it spiralled into a bigger project of adding puzzles and other activities.

Annuals are a bit of a Christmas tradition in the UK. Basically a book of puzzles etc all based on various toys/cartoons/LEGO etc. Do you have them in the rest of the world?

It's free, and available to download below.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jk2ydessgi7t7ht/ClassicStyleCastle Annual 2023.pdf?dl=0

The ClassicStyleCastle 2023 Annual is now LIVE! Click the link below to download the PDF for free! 34 pages of classicstylecastle goodness! Pictures! Puzzles! Instructions! Competitions! And lots more...!

pxchris

This is pretty cool @andhe!!

eMJeeNL

That is terrific @andhe ! 

Brickfan50

@andhe What a fantastic work you published there! The graphic design must have been quite a project on its own. Very well done (says someone who's working in the design/printing industry).

And I see that CorelDraw, which you used to make this, is still alive. Didn't know that.

Kudos!

andhe

Brickfan50 said:

@andhe What a fantastic work you published there! The graphic design must have been quite a project on its own. Very well done (says someone who's working in the design/printing industry).

And I see that CorelDraw, which you used to make this, is still alive. Didn't know that.

Kudos!

Haha, yeah, where did you see that? We still use it at work (due to some historic files we need to access) and I find it a lot more intuitive than indesign (that I also have to use) but don't tell my boss that (who worships all things adobe).

Fortunately it wasn't from scratch, but was a case of manipulating a lot of different graphics I had built up over the last year or so for different lego projects. 

samiam391

flightrisk said:

@samiam391 your duck collection is incredible.  This may have been asked before but…. Have you sent pics to LEGO?

Thank you!

No, I wouldn't know how to either. 

flightrisk

@samiam391.  Not sure I know either but on the LEGO [email protected] site, at the bottom of the page there is a ‘contact us’ section.  You can email them about anything.  One of the sections included is the ‘LEGO company’ and ‘anything else’.  Might be a good place to start.    If you do, please keep us informed if you find out anything substantial?  

Modeltrainman

Surprised that 91405 (plate, 16x16) is plain gone from PAB. Bright green is too....Weird!

560Heliport

Well, they won't fit in the cups anyway, so...
Oh, wait, I get it now... ;)

samiam391

A new addition to the collection is this aluminum Jupiter minifigure. LEGO sent 3 space-grade aluminum minifigures (Jupiter, Juno, Galileo) on the NASA Juno spacecraft headed for Jupiter in 2011. The spacecraft crashed (intentionally) into Jupiter's surface in 2017. There is of course a set (maybe 2) left of prototypes/duplicates left behind here on Earth. I was lucky enough to acquire one from Billund; thrilled to have it in the collection as one of the rarest minifigures in my collection!

SumoLego

It's okay to tell us that you retrieved the originals from Jupiter.

PapaBear

Modeltrainman said:

Surprised that 91405 (plate, 16x16) is plain gone from PAB. Bright green is too....Weird!

Do you know if it's gone for good?  I just added those to my list.  There's so many pieces gone from PAB that I want right now.

pxchris

samiam391 said:

A new addition to the collection is this aluminum Jupiter minifigure. LEGO sent 3 space-grade aluminum minifigures (Jupiter, Juno, Galileo) on the NASA Juno spacecraft headed for Jupiter in 2011. The spacecraft crashed (intentionally) into Jupiter's surface in 2017. There is of course a set (maybe 2) left of prototypes/duplicates left behind here on Earth. I was lucky enough to acquire one from Billund; thrilled to have it in the collection as one of the rarest minifigures in my collection!

A truly magnificent unique piece!!
The story and history behind this one especially is a really fascinating one.

Switchfoot55

PapaBear said:

Modeltrainman said:

Surprised that 91405 (plate, 16x16) is plain gone from PAB. Bright green is too....Weird!

Do you know if it's gone for good?  I just added those to my list.  There's so many pieces gone from PAB that I want right now.

I'd likely argue they are temporarily gone and will return in the next couple of months or sooner. If not in original form, in some other part number/plant based material/paper bag wrapped form. 

Modeltrainman

Switchfoot55 said:

PapaBear said:

Modeltrainman said:

Surprised that 91405 (plate, 16x16) is plain gone from PAB. Bright green is too....Weird!

Do you know if it's gone for good?  I just added those to my list.  There's so many pieces gone from PAB that I want right now.

I'd likely argue they are temporarily gone and will return in the next couple of months or sooner. If not in original form, in some other part number/plant based material/paper bag wrapped form. 

I hope so. My family got many in white, and I'd rather they didn't cancel...4618526: PLATE 16X16 | Brickset: LEGO set guide and database 

pxchris

Following along with my big LEGO room reorganization I have been getting some LEGO prints hung back up around the room. Mostly these are prints from some of the Classic Pirates marketing dioramas that LEGO used to such great effect in the 80s and 90s, but there are a few other prints as well such as the logo print and one of the patent prints.
Overall, I'm super happy with how things are coming together in this room!!






Once I'm fairly happy with the organization of the room as a whole, I'll share more photos of the whole thing.

Switchfoot55

Excellent photos, as always! My future LEGO-room plans involve displaying as many prints/posters as I reasonably can and have it still look good. 

I just received my LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation poster this weekend, which I will gladly hang with haste once this stinking house finishes being built!