Secret Santa 2020

truck730 · December 2020

I never see plots in movies or guess who done it, so a head would have to be on a plate directly in front of me! My stalking ability is click wanted list and try fulfil that! I'd love to see who got who or hear the guessers attempts

SirBen · December 2020

Thank you Secret Santa for the GBC lift pieces and instructions!

eanair · December 2020

Remember the Big Bang Theory episode where Penny gave Sheldon a Leonard Nimoy autograph and he was so overwhelmed with gratitude.......well that was me when I opened my Secret Santa gift. So much time, effort (and lego) went into creating my gift.

11 packages and a clue to answer before I opened each one. In fact it was kind of a journey through most of the current lego themes, and it was totally awesome and fun opening them! I have SO many new Minifigures to welcome to my city - I honestly don’t know how you sourced so many!! I have minifigs from Ninjago City, Lego Movie, Friends, Minecraft, Friends, Trolls, Unikitty, Seasonal, a Monkie Kid Polybag AND Ideas 40335! This gift would need a thread of its own and I’m going to write about them on my blog. But thank you Secret Santa so so SO much!! And thanks to the organizers!!

brickmatt · December 2020

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I don't know what to say about this...

All joking aside, I enjoyed the whole haul (pictured below, minus the trolls poly and the candy that were unwrapped in the box). I love the Ice Planet set with Commander Cold, who also appeared in Lego Racers, my favorite game as a kid. The Batman video game McDonald's toy is also neat because I liked the game and McDonald's was naturally one of my favorite childhood restaurants, especially when they had the brick toys with McDonald's characters printed on them. Thanks a million!

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BELTRAD · December 2020

Sorry to my fellow Scottish secret Santa, ment to post earlier but at least now get before and after at same time :).

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Somehow the chocolate didn't make it to Xmas day, weird huh.

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But wanted to say massive thanks to my secret Santa. Looking forward to getting these build, wee Yoda needs a new hut :)

shikadi · December 2020

My secret santa did their research - I've been working on an arcade MOC (which I need to post more of) and found a very creative card for me:

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On top of this, I received lots of fun sets from all different eras in Lego history:

Mixels are one of the most interesting themes to me and Ive been slowly building an army of them. And Kingdoms is one I missed except for the market village which I can now expand!

Thank you so much to my thoughtful and generous Secret Santa! These are very appreciated and my whole family will get to enjoy them in the coming weeks! And thanks again to our organizers! Hoping for a brighter 2021

khmellymel · December 2020

Apologies for posting a little late, I only opened these (and the odd other) gift a little while ago as I've been absolutely knackered from a full on Christmas day with my neices and nephew (they're very small and excitable and it took a lot out of me!) But a big THANK YOU to my ace of a Secret Santa, I didn't even realise that I had missed this set, and I'm way, way behind on my CMF collection so these were so welcome! I'm not gonna lie, I'm pretty sure my older niece is going to appropriate the Friends set, but you can't win em all lol. Plus the (I think!) 3D printed jumbo pieces will be FAB to decorate my "new" home office with! So all in all very successful gift, Secret Santa!

Thanks so much for keeping up this Brickset tradition to the organisers, what a bit of fun in a year with some real roller coasters. Especially to (fellow Canadian) @kiki180703 who had to gently poke me into checking the thread to sign up!

KungFuKenny · December 2020

^

sigh... every time I open this thread I end up adding something to my “wanted” list... now I must have a jumbo Lego camera and some flowers! 🙂

jmeninno · December 2020

Sounds like the beginning of a work from home/side business, if it's not already! Very nice!

msanders · December 2020

Sorry for the delay but thank you to my Secret Santa. Such a large set, plus some pieces for mocking and delicious chocolate of course!

I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas full of Lego goodness.

Thank you to the organisers! Really great seeing everyone's excitement and secret Santa gifts!

Mynatt · December 2020

Thank you to my secret Santa! Somehow knew exactly what I was after! I never found the skater from series 1 back in 2010. Ten years later Santa delivered! Very exciting to open these!

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Thank you organizers for putting this all together and thank you BSS!

SumoLego · December 2020

brickmatt said:

I don't know what to say about this...

Um, I know a guy (me!) that would be happy to take that off your hands.

Salamalex · December 2020

So, my alternative Christmas Day went a bit pear shaped. Presents were however opened so a big thanks to my BSS. Posting from the ‘big computer’ though so pics not possible. I’ll add later. Suffice to say a rather interesting rattly present and some sweeties hit the LEGO spot. 😊😊

SumoLego · December 2020

Although a bit late (and I don't necessarily blame USPS - it's been a taxing year!), I'm very delighted with the mix of polys from my Secret Santa!

eanair · December 2020

After 17 days TRACKING HAS UPDATED!!!!

(Just hope it keeps moving now!!)

gratefulnat · January 2021

Yeah I really hope to see those still in-transit presents start to arrive at their destinations next week, fingers crossed for all those who are still waiting!

evantyler · January 2021

My package from my Secret Santa found its way to me today! Thank you so much for these gifts--what a great way to kick off 2021! Here's to another year of building!

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Vgang · January 2021

A bit late to the party, courtesy of overwhelmed postal services, but it was well worth the wait! Best way to start the new year!

Thank you so much Secret Santa, I am beyond happy! I must have been a very very good boy in 2020!

KungFuKenny · January 2021

@Vgang
Glad to see your gifts finally arrived! Maybe this is the start of a new Brickset Forum tradition-- "Year-Round Secret Santa"... :-)

Kaitch · January 2021

KungFuKenny said:

@Vgang
Glad to see your gifts finally arrived! Maybe this is the start of a new Brickset Forum tradition-- "Year-Round Secret Santa"... :-)

What, like we should organise a thing where you anonymously mail each other random presents? Or even birthday presents? You volunteering to organise?

benbacardi · January 2021

I'm just going to say, for no real reason whatsoever, that it is my birthday next week… ;)

nexander · January 2021

Lockdown pick me up fairy?

Russell844 · January 2021

Several years ago someone organized a Valentine's Day Secret Cupid. I remember participating in that.

Switchfoot55 · January 2021

^Better start mailing your packages now...

ravendragonwing · January 2021

benbacardi said:

I'm just going to say, for no real reason whatsoever, that it is my birthday next week… ;)

It *is* my birthday next week. No, really, it is.....

Speedman29 · January 2021

The current UK wide lockdown is due to end around my birthday, if we could keep it going!

benbacardi · January 2021

ravendragonwing said:

benbacardi said:

I'm just going to say, for no real reason whatsoever, that it is my birthday next week… ;)

It *is* my birthday next week. No, really, it is.....

Yep, me too. I wasn't actually joking.

Tuesday, if anybody is interested!

stlux · January 2021

After an odyssey through the European postal systems, the package from my Secret Santa arrived this week. 🥳

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Thank you for the nice gifts, and especially the wonderful minifig mittens! 😊

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Cymbeline · January 2021

@benbacardi and @ravendragonwing happy birthday to you both!

ravendragonwing · January 2021

Thanks!!

MaffyD · January 2021

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Well, this is embarrassing. Massive apologies to my Secret Santa - I had much fun opening this on Christmas Day and showing my family, but I forgot to post on here!

The train was one I wanted for a while now, the satellite expands my current City Space set collection, the Imperial Shuttle goes with all my other SW polybags, and the Batman set is one I've been looking for to build with my son for ages! As soon as I opened it, Tom was asking me about the dog - he knows everything about Ace from the cartoons (Beyond, TBATB) and his DC visual dictionary. We'll have a lot of fun building this together.

Thank you my BSSS - you are very generous and a great gifter, and thank you everyone on here for posting such fab photos of all your gifts. Took me ages to 'like' them all!

Also, happy birthday @ravendragonwing & @benbacardi

Finally, and most importantly, many many thanks to the organisers @kiki180703 @KungFuKenny @snowhitie & @stlux - you are the bestest. Here's to a bright 2021 for all of us!

benbacardi · January 2021

Thank you! 😊

No LEGO for me this year, though!

Unikitty · January 2021

My gift finally arrived a few days ago! It would have been here on time, but it got recalled because it had to go through customs one more time.

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This gave me a good laugh when I saw it.

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Behold!

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I can not believe I got so many things from my wanted list!

#70848 Systar Party Crew was the last TLM2 set with a Unikitty I was missing. It sold out way too quickly on S@H and I was never able to find anywhere else that had it.

#40350 Easter Chick was the one that got away while I was waiting for a nice GWP to go with it. It is the only seasonal Brickheadz I did not have.

Five Elves foil bags, two Elves minidolls and the Unikitty from #70818 Double-Decker Couch! My poor wanted list is left in shambles at this point.

A Unikitty Christmas tree ornnament I had no idea existed. It is super cute, and I love it! This is also the one I was supposed to open before Christmas.

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And finally there is an Angry Kitty plush I was not aware of either!

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The plush and ornament will both get a new home in the Unikitty shrine cabinet.

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Santa spent five weeks on this and it shows. These are some amazing gifts and I am so happy to have gotten them. Even the extra wait was worth it.

And as if this is not enough, right out of the blue, for no other reason than the parcel being delayed, this shows up in my inbox on Christmas Eve.

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I still can not believe I got this. I did put it to good use though, and lo and behold, look what arrived today.

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I have wanted one of the Star Wars helmets for some time now and Amazon just happened to have this one on sale during Christmas. It is already listed as Secret Santa 2020 in the ACM on Brickset.

What more can I say? Santa has clearly researched me well and I am truly grateful for the amazing gifts I got. I also got some really exciting days when, how should I put it, decontaminating the package. The curiosity about what was inside almost killed me while waiting to open it.

Thank you very much, Secret Santa! I wish you all the best of luck in the new year!

Also thanks to the organizers! I can not imagine it have been an easy task this time.

Last but not least, Happy New Year everyone! May you all have a great 2021!

CCC · January 2021

That was one very generous secret santa.

MeganL · January 2021

Ooooh, so jealous of those Elves foil packs!

Muftak1 · January 2021

Still hoping my gift makes it to my designated target - sometime before Christmas!

KungFuKenny · January 2021

Muftak1 said:

Still hoping my gift makes it to my designated target - sometime before Christmas!

It has just arrived in the destination country, so keep your fingers crossed! :-)

wardm · January 2021

Arrived my secret santa finally has!

Thank you so much to my very generous santee and thanks to the secret santa team who put in the effort to track my lost package down with us!

Now I can finally take down my christmas tree (don’t hate me for it!)

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snowhitie · January 2021

wardm said:

Arrived my secret santa finally has!
Thank you so much to my very generous santee and thanks to the secret santa team who put in the effort to track my lost package down with us!
Now I can finally take down my christmas tree (don’t hate me for it!)

I'm so glad it got there and so strange it was returned. Big thanks to your Santa for sending it again!

Ps we only took our tree down today, lovely little lights were cheering us up!

KungFuKenny · January 2021

@wardm
Your package may win the prize for "most circuitous route", but I'm glad it finally arrived!

Gibbo1959 · January 2021

I want to know what odds on that S10 CMF being Mr Gold.

wardm · January 2021

@Gibbo1959 it was the blonde girl with chihuahua! Didn’t have that one in the collection, so I’m happy! :)

plasmodium · January 2021

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I just moved house and set up this diorama in a spare cubbyhole in my Ikea Expedit. It includes things from at least three past years of BSS (the white spaceship this year, the TLM2 spacemen last year and the S@H exclusive spaceman before that) and a few others as well. It was great to be able to alleviate the stress of moving with the joy of Lego spacemen, so thanks again to my BSS and the ghosts of BSSs past!

(Also - the way that spaceship's landing gear slots exactly into the Exo-Suit's grill thing is just so perfect. And do I now feel the urge to collect the missing colours of classic spaceman? No. Or so I keep trying to tell myself...)

KungFuKenny · April 2021

I’ve had a bit of a depressing couple of weeks... on an off chance I clicked on this thread again tonight. Needless to say spirits are now lifted and I’m ready for BSFSS 2021 to commence!

panchox1 · April 2021

I still believe that BSS: Christmas in July should be a thing!

KungFuKenny · July 2021

By my count we have about 3 months until Secret Santa 2021 will commence! To tide everyone over I thought I’d post a recent purchase. Fabuland books are a bit hard to come by in the US, so I was pleased to find a seller offering “Christmas in Fabuland” - I haven’t seen a copy on BL for a long time so I snapped it up!

Reading through it has definitely gotten me excited for the fall when we can start planning gifts for our unsuspecting Santees!

Russell844 · July 2021

Come on Santa Kenny, tell us a story! What's in the book? :)

SumoLego · July 2021

The Snowman gets suspenders. (Bracers, for my UK friends.)

Cymbeline · July 2021

Did you have to spoil the ending . . . all the suspense is now totally gone. Killjoy!

SumoLego · July 2021

That's just page one. Edward also gets roasted peanuts.

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