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Recce · April 2016

And Spaceman!

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mr_benn · April 2016

I'm loving this thread! So much more to Lego than just collecting sets.

AllBrick · April 2016

mr_benn said:

I'm loving this thread! So much more to Lego than just collecting sets.

That's what makes it so dangerous.

madforLEGO · April 2016

AllBrick said:

mr_benn said:

I'm loving this thread! So much more to Lego than just collecting sets.

That's what makes it so dangerous.

....and expensive

gmonkey76 · April 2016

Here's my unintentional LEGO collection.

MattsWhat · April 2016

Recce said:

And Spaceman!

*shortened*

This is awesome, but the modern helmet on the blue guy is upsetting me for some reason.

AllBrick · April 2016

^^ I think the blue guy should be a laughing benny, just to mix it up a bit.

Recce · April 2016

MattsWhat said:

Recce said:

And Spaceman!

*shortened*

This is awesome, but the modern helmet on the blue guy is upsetting me for some reason.

I do have the original blue helmet of the 80s, but the green one will still be the modern version so can never have all of them of the same original design.

Unless I change them to the modern motorbike helmet which I think had all the 6 colours.

VorpalRyu · April 2016

@Recce, yes all six are available on BrickLink, as there has been re-issues of all the original colours, plus there's also the Futuron, Space Police & Blacktron that were released with the updated helmet. I was planning to grab a few helmets for my original space men & also grab some of the re-issued figures...

andhe · April 2016

I posted a thread a couple of years ago about 'accidental' collections which I stumbled across again when doing some brickset clear up.

http://bricksetforum.com/discussion/1680/what-are-your-accidental-collections/p1

I have a large-ish collection of animals

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And seem to have ended up with a large collection of Chefs (unintentionally) and Wizards (intentionally)..

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catwrangler · April 2016

This thread just gets better and better! :D Now I'm itching to go through mine to see what I have collections of - if only we weren't in the middle of a major house reorganisation!!

Recce · April 2016

VorpalRyu said:

@Recce, yes all six are available on BrickLink, as there has been re-issues of all the original colours, plus there's also the Futuron, Space Police & Blacktron that were released with the updated helmet. I was planning to grab a few helmets for my original space men & also grab some of the re-issued figures...

I've got the Futuron figures.

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After scanning through Rebrickable noticed that most of the rare coloured Helmets are used as knights headgear, and I realized I've got quite a few of them :)

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catwrangler · April 2016

I've got such a soft spot for that yellow Futuron spaceman; he was my first ever Space minifig. :)

Recce · April 2016

catwrangler said:

I've got such a soft spot for that yellow Futuron spaceman; he was my first ever Space minifig. :)

For me, my first ever Lego was below set with the red spaceman bought in 1980.

Image: http://images.brickset.com/sets/images/885-1.jpg

VorpalRyu · April 2016

#885, one of my first Space sets, got that along with #886 & #891 for my fifth birthday. Probably why I have a love of Trans-Green & Trans-Dark Blue parts, also why I love the Series 15 CMF Astronaut figure (I did grab more than ten of them for my collection).

JudgeChuck · April 2016

@VorpalRyu, surely you mean Trans-Yellow, which would be more appropriate for the vintage of those sets? :-)
It's Trans-Yellow all the way for me! :-)

TigerMoth · April 2016

JudgeChuck said:

@VorpalRyu, surely you mean Trans-Yellow, which would be more appropriate for the vintage of those sets?

Tr. Blue was introduced a year before #885, #886 & #891 were produced. Tr. Red, Tr. Green and Tr. Yellow had been around for about ten years by then. All of them would've been "appropriate" at the time.

JudgeChuck · April 2016

TigerMoth said:

JudgeChuck said:

@VorpalRyu, surely you mean Trans-Yellow, which would be more appropriate for the vintage of those sets?
Tr. Blue was introduced a year before #885, #886 & #891 were produced. Tr. Red, Tr. Green and Tr. Yellow had been around for about ten years by then. All of them would've been "appropriate" at the time.

I'm sure the colours were available, but they weren't included in any Classic Space sets until 1980, with #6841, #6861 and #6901, apart from the 1x1 trans-green cylinders used as attachments to the "ray gun" / satellite dish.
Semantics, admittedly, but I would associate Trans-Yellow with those sets, rather than the others... ;-)

VorpalRyu · April 2016

@JudgeChuck, #886 & #891 had Trans-Green round bricks, #885 had Trans-Dark Blue round bricks, not sure what year they came out locally (my fifth birthday was in 1981), but BrickLink has their year of release as 1979.

JudgeChuck · April 2016

VorpalRyu said:

@JudgeChuck, #886 & #891 had Trans-Green round bricks, #885 had Trans-Dark Blue round bricks, not sure what year they came out locally (my fifth birthday was in 1981), but BrickLink has their year of release as 1979.

True, but they're very peripheral parts in the sets, not structural ship / building parts. There's also use of Trans-Red for lights on many sets and Black and White for other elements.
I do get your point, but I'd simply associate Trans-Yellow, Blue & Light Gray with sets of that vintage, due to the amount of windscreens, windows and roofs in T-Y and predominant ship and building structures in LG and B.

Anyway, I'm just being pedantic! ;-)

VorpalRyu · April 2016

@JudgeChuck, for me, classic Space is those colours, plus white & trans-dark blue as we started getting stuff like #6890, #6929 & #6927 not long after I started getting Space Lego (6890 is one of my personal favourites, along with 891). I don't know why, but for some reason, out of all the translucent colours, trans-green & trans-dark blue became my favourites right from the point I got sets with elements in those colours.

I personally would love to have a few 4L bars in trans-green with a couple of Lightsaber hilts & 1L bars with side studs in copper (another colour I love, but not just in Lego) for my SW MOC I have planned.

Bumblepants · April 2016

andhe said:

And seem to have ended up with a large collection of Chefs (unintentionally) and Wizards (intentionally)..

Auughhh!! I thought I had a complete wizards collection but didn't think to add in the alternate colors from Harry Potter... That might be expensive but it looks so cool. Off to Bricklink now...

brumey · April 2016

dat wizard collection is BOSS

brumey · April 2016

for me: pizza, money, sausages and an odd hairpiece, which i dont have a torso for!

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legogal · April 2016

Reece, Looks like you have way too much time and money on your hands! Love your photos BTW! These are so colorful and fun to gaze at; please keep them coming!

legogal · April 2016

DeMontes said:

I collect HEADS....but not in a macabre way.

legogal · April 2016

Wouldn't this make fantastic wallpaper, placemats, plate decorations, Christmas tree ornament strings, paint sample strips, flower planter designs with colors to match real heads, ... Where did you find a solid lime green head or is it printed and merely turned away? (Please PM me!!!) When I can't find a plain one, a printed head turned around works, but then I am not OCD, thank god!

legogal · April 2016

Guilty: Add brick-built pianos and Friends mini-dolls to the collections list. Afraid to contemplate what other "collections" are hiding in various containers. (There are some LEGO that Hubby does not need to see.)

andhe · April 2016

legogal said:

Wouldn't this make fantastic wallpaper, placemats, plate decorations, Christmas tree ornament strings, paint sample strips, flower planter designs with colors to match real heads, ... Where did you find a solid lime green head or is it printed and merely turned away? (Please PM me!!!) When I can't find a plain one, a printed head turned around works, but then I am not OCD, thank god!

http://alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clone/catalogitem.page?P=3626c&name=Minifig, Head (Plain) - Stud Recessed&category=[Minifig, Head]#T=S&C=34&O={"color":34}

aldredd · April 2016

Wow, I suddenly feel very dull, as I have no such collections!

That said, I do get a little excited when I come across a technics axle in non-standard colour (black for odd L, LBG for even L, Red for 3L)

Perhaps that'll be my thing - non-standard technics axles. #NeverADullMomentWhenImAround

MattsWhat · April 2016

^isn't red standard for 2L? Well red and black.
3L is black isn't it? Have I just messed up your collection?

aldredd · April 2016

yep, I got the 2l & 3l mixed up, but didn't realise until after I'd ran out of edit time :)

Excitingly, It looks like Axle 4l in Earth Orange is going the be THE one to get - only available in 1 set (original Sopwith Camel)

MattsWhat · April 2016

^Pics or it didn't happen.
Plus, I want to see an awesome display stand. With a brick built axle.

TigerMoth · April 2016

MattsWhat said:

3L is black isn't it?

Not these days, although it used to be common many years ago. Generally even length are black; odd length are medium stone grey. However, there are plenty of exceptions and quite a few one-offs.

I imagine the hardest axles to find are the threaded ones.

VorpalRyu · April 2016

How common are the milky white technics axles? Somewhere amongst my old sets I know I had one, 4L if I remember rightly, issue is according to all the info I can get on my set, none have one in inventory for those sets.

TigerMoth · April 2016

VorpalRyu said:

How common are the milky white technics axles? Somewhere amongst my old sets I know I had one, 4L if I remember rightly, issue is according to all the info I can get on my set, none have one in inventory for those sets.

They were originally (in the 1970s) all (?) that colour - before Technics.

Recce · April 2016

legogal said:

Reece, Looks like you have way too much time and money on your hands! Love your photos BTW! These are so colorful and fun to gaze at; please keep them coming!

Thanks, though now budget very limited so this year's sets mostly out of reach for me so far, except for GBHQ and a few Nexo Knights for my boy.

Recce · April 2016

Someone asked for minidolls? Photo shoot from a few of the Friends sets that my daughter had opened up. I posted this in another thread previously :)

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bobabricks · April 2016

Trans light blue and trans clear really get to me, I also love collecting special color parts. They add a sort of uniqueness to MOCs when you know the part never came from any set.

legogal · April 2016

andhe said:

legogal said:

Wouldn't this make fantastic wallpaper, placemats, plate decorations, Christmas tree ornament strings, paint sample strips, flower planter designs with colors to match real heads, ... Where did you find a solid lime green head or is it printed and merely turned away? (Please PM me!!!) When I can't find a plain one, a printed head turned around works, but then I am not OCD, thank god!

http://alpha.bricklink.com/pages/clone/catalogitem.page?P=3626c&name=Minifig, Head (Plain) - Stud Recessed&category=[Minifig, Head]#T=S&C=34&O={"color":34}

Hi! I realized that lime heads were not a good example when I woke up! But there are plenty of other rare heads like dark orange and pink that will drive a completist insane. And without BL, this project would be impossible to begin.

Recce · April 2016

Microfigures! Cheated a bit by taking pictures from the plain rear so the difference in colours can be seen clearly.

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welo999 · April 2016

Besides the one or another minifigure theme i collect Chima masks. They are neat and with the end of the Chima line a complete collection is possible.

Not sure yet how to display them. I'm thinking of building them a museum with display cases etc. - maybe even a modular.

1st draft of a display case

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SprinkleOtter · April 2016

welo999 said:

Besides the one or another minifigure theme i collect Chima masks. They are neat and with the end of the Chima line a complete collection is possible.

Not sure yet how to display them. I'm thinking of building them a museum with display cases etc. - maybe even a modular.

1st draft of a display case

"Here, kiddies, look at these dismembered heads of animal-minifigures!" ;)

pharmjod · April 2016

The museum displays is actually a pretty cool idea.

catwrangler · April 2016

I like that idea too - wouldn't mind trying the same thing if I get more Chima stuff!

Bobflip · April 2016

rolyateel said:
You're missing a test print head :)

Thanks for the... err... heads up. Couldn't resist getting one for myself :-)

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rolyateel · April 2016

Bobflip said:

rolyateel said:
You're missing a test print head :)

Thanks for the... err... heads up. Couldn't resist getting one for myself :-)

You just need a plain white torso now!
The slippery slope has begun!

Bobflip · April 2016

I actually kinda like the way the rubbed off gold print makes the torso look a bit prototypey!
But really I'll be holding out until I can get the test print legs and torso to go with it. And - especially in the case of the torso - that's going to be a long wait.

mpfirnhaber · April 2016

Test head and legs. I also collect 2x4 bricks so the torso seemed appropriate :)

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bobabricks · April 2016

mpfirnhaber said:

the torso seemed appropriate :)

It's a great torso... ;)

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