What's your LEGO 'status' today?

MaffyD · December 2017

Can I wish everyone a belated Merry Christmas! Yesterday was too busy and today was too tired! Built a couple of sets with my son, and tomorrow will be my turn, hopefully. You guys will know if I post a picture or two!

KingAlanI · December 2017

@ Recce my mom who keeps saying I need to get rid of inventory doesn't like the LEGO buying sprees either. Speaking of which...

January 2018 catalog arrived
#10260 Downtown Diner is too big and expensive for subject matter I'm not interested in, though I may have considered a smaller version. I first thought this with Old Fishing Store
The Building Bigger Thinking sets look like a great deal for the piececount and some simple minifigures, good variant of the classic brick boxes, not in a rush to get any but may easily add some to an order.
None of the other new sets pictured stand out to me, and not just because of price.

Speedman29 · December 2017

Boxing Day was always about getting up early to leave my parents in bed while I played with my new toys. But I'd promised my daughter we'd get building when we got up so that's why I was cross legged on the lounge floor from 730am. By 11 we had #60052 built and with all the extra track we got made this masterpiece.

I was put on locomotive and crane yard building. Little Miss Speedman on cable wagon, cattle cart and forklift building. And Mrs Speedman on pallet wagon building.

Then we copied one of the layouts from the back of the instructions and added our own touches. An afternoon shining around before a huge spur line was built into the kitchen to deliver chocolate!

bookmum · December 2017

I am very very jealous @Speedman29. Can I come and live at yours?

bookmum · December 2017

Also love all the little houses!

Speedman29 · December 2017

@bookmum you can have the sofabed if you like or theres a double bed in the Camper on the drive!

The houses were made by Elf on the shelf, who delivered a new numbered one each day of advent.

MaffyD · December 2017

Built a couple of sets over the last two days with my youngest:

Green Lantern is probably feeling rather left out of the Spiderman (Spider-Mans? Spider-Men?) Shenanigans - wrong universe, my son said.

Speedman29 · December 2017

@MaffyD seeing the bombsite that is you table makes me feel better about the piles of stuff all over ours!

MegtheCat · December 2017

Received the 7(!) bigger Star Wars sets from my dad for Christmas - I was blown away by his generosity!

The Mighty Micro, Battle Pack, TIE Fighter & Kylo's shuttle polys I picked up rummaging through the wreckage at Target. Santa came from Wal-Mart.

Meanwhile the cat is dismayed that I am disturbing his naptime with my photography:D

MaffyD · December 2017

@Speedman29 - cheeky beggar! I'll have you know that this is a carefully arranged "pile-o-pressies" and that the position of each follows a choreographed 'order of play' for 2 of my gang and myself over the coming couple of weeks! Or at least that's what I told my better half when she noticed the mess. I think she's humouring me because it's Christmas, but I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth!

Also, I thought about the background 'noise' when I took the photo, but presumed that some forum members might like to guess at other presents they might be able to spot... :-)

CaptainLego · December 2017

Got this today:

bookmum · December 2017

Got my first 2018 set today. Olivia's Bedroom. Not the worlds most exciting set but it has the New Olivia. So I had to get it really. Had to!!

KingAlanI · December 2017

bookmum said:

Got my first 2018 set today. Olivia's Bedroom. Not the worlds most exciting set but it has the New Olivia. So I had to get it really. Had to!!

I do like the new torso prints on the 2018 Friends sets, but will wait for deals rather than buy whole sets

FowlerBricks · December 2017

Taking some Lego photos! Here's my newest one. You can find more here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/4gxuKE.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5015319/uploads/editor/42/rugcnj1cmrv3.jpg

iso3200 · December 2017

Laying on a bed at the Legoland Castle Hotel.

In a wizard room watching Harry Potter :-)

Wife is building one of the freebie sets next to me - I can’t quite believe it.

CaptainLego · December 2017

I built Hachiroku’s 2005 Ford GT in all black:

If you want to build it yourself, here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KwHRQ8M2v8&feature=share

Speedman29 · December 2017

Went to a Christmas LEGO workshop today, run by the same people that did Little Miss Speedman's birthday party. We built Christmas trees and then a little cottage. Both were then laid out to make a village with a train running around it and finally we built sledges to fire minifigures down a ski slope. It was brilliant.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5015319/uploads/editor/2n/27iod18icphm.jpg

CaptainLego · December 2017

Attempted to build an Aston Martin Vulcan.

chrisalddin · December 2017

*sound of a trumpet*
*sings* The Blue Baseplate is BACK!
#10714

eMJeeNL · December 2017

Finally got thought to the Cologne-Lego Store to make a reservation for the Diner #10260.
Called about 60 times the last 2 days.
Going to get it on Wednesday, as a birthday gift to myself on my GFs BD. ;)

snowhitie · December 2017

Tidying up the WV, looked lovely around tree but seeing as we're off to the coast for a week, thought to get it from underneath and dusted (gets a lot fluff on the floor). It went quite quickly though, I did it with my son and used some new make-up brushes I got for Christmas (don't think that was the use the giver intented).

The mountain is already broken down but sets will be for when we come back.

redarmy · December 2017

Ghostbusters Firehouse...aaaaannd done!

AdeelZubair · December 2017

It's been nearly two months since I visited Belgium for Rock That Block and AFOLs United. I was invited by Sophie and Gaetan to exhibit my LEGO creations to the public in addition to carrying out a workshop on LEGO microscale building.

The event itself was great, it was quite a relaxing. It featured loads of fantastic MOCs, the theme of the event was art and architecture so majority of them covered those. It was my first international event so it was quite a different environment however people are very friendly, it's one of memorable aspects of the trip.

Whilst on my trip I managed to visit the only LEGO Brand Store in Belgium, it’s pretty much the same environment as any other standard store. Even though I was in Belgium for four days I still managed to visit Sint-Niklaas, Wijnegem, Antwerp.

Thanks to everyone who made my trip a awesome, I made tons of friends and thanks for those of you who helped me out. Finally, big thanks to Sophie and Gaetan for the experience.

Phew, that's done! Back to work on my coverage of my first LUG meeting, #75192 - Millennium Falcon review and my annual throwback to the year as a whole.

Album: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmbyBRXY

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5015319/uploads/editor/ab/26dccg5n8d0g.jpg

vizzitor · December 2017

Just building some sets from my backlog at the moment and decided to build both #60154 side by side.

Spot the difference:

I did read on here that the printed newspaper 2x2 tile with the tree on the cover was being replaced with the firefighter rescuing the cat. The #10259 Winter Village Station I bought had the latter piece in the set and the former in the instructions but I didn't know Lego had changed over during the span of one set.

CaptainLego · December 2017

I actually built this yesterday, but, since I failed to build a Bugatti Type 35 today, I’m leaving this here. This is my attempt at a Saleen S7.

snowhitie · December 2017

We're ready to party, flashing lights are on ;)

TheBigLegoski · December 2017

Happy new year/ best wishes for 2018 to you all!

Speedman29 · December 2017

Daughter tucked up in bed. Mrs Speedman crocheting. Me building the London architecture set. Bottle of bubbly and box of chocolates on the go and random NYE tat on TV. Happy New Year to my Brickset chums.

AdeelZubair · December 2017

Firstly I'd like to aplogise for the lack of content during the last few months, I simply lost my focus due to personal reasons and struggled to get back up; I believe I've got myself in the right mindset and I'm hoping to change that moving forward.

Going into 2018 I'm hoping to expand my portfolio even further leading into my ideal career of becoming a product designer at LEGO. Alternatively I'm also interesting becoming a part of film production such as the art, photography or filmmaking. Having the opportunity to work on both in the form of upcoming LEGO movies would be awesome!

Majority of my future LEGO projects and creations will feature in-depth development of the project including primary / secondary research, concept art, visual development and detailed work in progress reports and updates on the projects.

I’m going to attempt to create one stop-motion animation and one short film per year. I’ll be also sharing insight and development as each project progresses much like the LEGO creations.

2017 Highlights:

- I’ve designed over 20 MOCs (My Own Creations) this year, including a good mixture of models based off existing IPs and original creations.

- Dancing Groot (BrickHeadz) blogged on The Brothers Brick.

- Exhibited my LEGO creations to the public at Excel London. It gave me the opportunity to interact with countless members of the public including adults and children of all ages.

- I was invited to Belgium for a LEGO fan event. The primary reasoning for my attendance was to exhibit my LEGO creations to the public in addition to carrying out a workshop on LEGO microscale building.

- Attended the 21310 - Old Fishing Store signing event and met the fan designer: Robert Bontenbal (RobenAnne).

- Attended the midnight launch of 75192 - Millennium Falcon. It was a pleasure meeting both Jens Kronvold Frederiksen, Director of LEGO Star Wars & Michael Lee Stockwell, Designer Manager of LEGO Star Wars.

- Attended my first LUG meeting via London AFOLs, I was invited by Tim Johnson to participate due to my interest in participating in future parts festivals for New Elementary.

Thanks to everyone who has supported my work, I'm looking forward to another year of personal projects and many more awesome experiences.

Happy New Year!

tamamahm · January 2018

My son just built BB-8 today. I have to say, he is just awesome. I love the head movement, and the tool release. Quite the awesome set, and will really add to his display of Lego robots.

Coolguy5000 · January 2018

Happy New Year!

CaptainLego · January 2018

I like big wings and I cannot lie.

CaptainLego · January 2018

The rear wing felt too wide with the 1x8 tiles, so I used 1x6 tiles.

Venunder · January 2018

Happy New Year to all AFOL. :)

SamJ · January 2018

Happy New Year! :)

So last year I ended up selling most of my collection as I bought my first house and needed the extra funds. Happy to say I've just bought my first set in 12 months, the Saturn V! Time to make a start on that Lego room.

FowlerBricks · January 2018

Finally watched the Ninjago Movie and enjoyed it very much! Even more than the Batman Movie, in fact.

Legoboy · January 2018

Me too. I really enjoyed it - couldn't stand Batman.

Yodalicious · January 2018

I need to watch it again. My “like” order was the release order...TLM, TLBM, TLNM...but I’ve only seen TLNM once, so it may grow on me.

Fizyx · January 2018

FowlerBricks said:

Finally watched the Ninjago Movie and enjoyed it very much! Even more than the Batman Movie, in fact.

Yeah, after watching it I don't get a lot of the hate for it. It was a pretty good movie, and certain parts of it were downright hilarious. I don't think it had the tons of inside jokes I was seeing it get panned for either. The only thing weaker than TLBM was the IP's popularity itself, I feel like. And I guess TLBM and TLNM definitely are different kinds of movies, so if you went in expecting the same pacing/storytelling/etc to TLBM then you would be disappointed. But if you could put that aside, it was a good movie.

rdflego · January 2018

I haven't seen a '2018 resolutions' thread so apologies if I'm miss-posting;

I am in desperate need of a storage solution for my instruction manuals. I've filled a chest of drawers and a couple box files with the hundreds of booklets I've acquired. I really ought to look into this

MaffyD · January 2018

Happy New Year, Bricksetters! It’s going to be a fun 2018! Speaking of which, I have an update, in a minute...

MaffyD · January 2018

Finally tidied the dining table. Not because the missus thought it was too messy (but she probably did think that) but because we had guests last night. But today, I looked upon the glorious expanse of empty table (should be up to your standards now @Speedman29 :-) and thought "I can use this." So, I made a trip up to my Lego storage and looked inside:

How come the one you want is always at the back?

MaffyD · January 2018

Anyway, I managed (although there is a bit of a mess upstairs now, hopefully my other half won't go up there soon). Future updates will go on the building thread, but I'll share a couple here:

Turns out, I have just enough space!

snowhitie · January 2018

Having fun with titsy little builds from #10706. Couldn't start the year without a day without bricks.

@MaffyD you need to work with a LIFO system then, although you might end up with a 10 year old set at the back ;)

MaffyD · January 2018

Watching Avengers Assemble right now... great inspiration for my build!

MaffyD · January 2018

Also, anyone seen this:

IMO, it's a bit naff. But would be interested to know others views...

MaffyD · January 2018

@snowhitie - I do have a LIFO system! That Helicarrier is from when it was first released. You should see what is under/behind it...

Onebricktoomany · January 2018

Current Status... Lego rich, cash poor. Is there such a thing? Happy New Year!!

Bricklover18 · January 2018

Just finished the Saturn V! I need to build a better support system for it.

snowhitie · January 2018

Having some fun in between bags...

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