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LEGO Discussion => Everything Else => Topic started by: lisaloveslego on April 11, 2019, 11:00 pm
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I thought I'd start a thread for random LEGO related news/events/chitchat
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I got a text from my 7 year olds school today. After Easter they're going to be offering a LEGO after school class, one day a week.
Seriously, when did school start being so much fun. I went to that exact same national school & we lived in fear of Sr. Vincent and her ruler 😱 I'm not jealous or anything........
Anyway, my little fella can't wait for it to start and I can't wait to hear what they get up to!
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My Daughter is doing a lego camp with an entertainer ,I'm not allowed take her it's 50 Euro so I'll be expecting bulging pockets every evening
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I got a text from my 7 year olds school today. After Easter they're going to be offering a LEGO after school class, one day a week.
That sounds brilliant. Might be too far of a commute for me though ....
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John, I'm visualising you having a tantrum and stomping your feet because you're not allowed to go!!
I'm actually surprised these groups haven't started a destressing/mindfullness/team building thing for adults....
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I was checking out Facebook Marketplace today and someone is selling a MOTHERLOAD of LEGO.
I messaged him because I was interested in Downtown Diner but he wants to sell it as a job lot.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/410341519751492/
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That is impressive!
I picked up the diner myself the other day. My first modular. It’s on special in Smyths at the moment. I emptied my change jar and lied to my better half about what it cost 😉
Looking forward to building it this weekend.
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Had the "I want the house back" conversation rear it's ugly head ,so grabbed some stuff and headed out quick ,no avoiding it though ,tantrums or not
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Had the "I want the house back" conversation rear it's ugly head
That happens regularly in our house. I tend to get the kids to help clear up so it’s not quite as messy. It’s all their fault really ... ahem! Seriously considering moving house to have a Lego room 😂😂
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A basement or a great shed or massive attic , my problem is it's stored everywhere plus the what's out this month on the table , ostrich politics will win this for me I'm sure
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This might be going off topic but ...
I built my first modular this weekend, Diner 10260. I really enjoyed it. Lots of detail and picked up a few techniques on the way.
One thing I did notice is that it had a lot of the pieces I’m always looking for for my MOCs. When you factor in shipping on Bricklink with the pieces I’m looking for, it works out about half the cost per piece. Is this a good way to buy bricks? I’m normally very lord business, sets are bagged separately in one location with Lego for MOCs in another. I’m afraid I’ll start twitching if I buy a set just to use for pieces 😜 What do you guys do?
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Sounds like you need us to tel you get another diner, depending on how many of that specialized brick you need -price per piece usually 10-12 cent per brick but that's price divide by pieces, I can't imagine it's a way of getting the volume of one type of brick without using bricklinkers plus when you use the bits from the set its never going to be complete and the kraggle could render those pieces unusable
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Well it is on special at the moment ...😉
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This might be going off topic but ...
I built my first modular this weekend, Diner 10260. I really enjoyed it. Lots of detail and picked up a few techniques on the way.
One thing I did notice is that it had a lot of the pieces I’m always looking for for my MOCs. When you factor in shipping on Bricklink with the pieces I’m looking for, it works out about half the cost per piece. Is this a good way to buy bricks? I’m normally very lord business, sets are bagged separately in one location with Lego for MOCs in another. I’m afraid I’ll start twitching if I buy a set just to use for pieces 😜 What do you guys do?
If you don't think the pieces will fall in price in BL soon then it's a good way to source them if also all the other parts are at similar price to BL prices. You are buying a whole set of parts afterall and you may be saving some these sought after parts but paying above the odds for the others. Any example parts?
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If you don't think the pieces will fall in price in BL soon then it's a good way to source them if also all the other parts are at similar price to BL prices. You are buying a whole set of parts afterall and you may be saving some these sought after parts but paying above the odds for the others. Any example parts?
Tiles, anything in tan, windows and modified bricks were the main parts. Looking at the set, there is a big baseplate and some larger plates as well that would come in handy. Not sure about the pink Cadillac though ... might have to stick that on adverts!
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There's a Star Wars competition on brickset ,3 easy Qs and gets your brain working-pub quiz for lego fans and it's a lucky draw for nice SW prizes
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Any biker or creator fans seen the H.D. fatboy bike ,release August, at a ton im out but it would be highly desirable
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Any biker or creator fans seen the H.D. fatboy bike ,release August, at a ton im out but it would be highly desirable
Looks pretty cool alright. Did you see it’s big brother? https://youtu.be/Es6ovb7cTx4
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I can't unsee that ,making me really want the creator fatboy, on holiday now and planning a big one for next year so it'll be tough on purchases, but a LEGOLAND in U.S. might get visited
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Space trivia lego quiz on brickset ,did poorly but the correct answers provide great info
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Don't wanna mention the c word but images of the 4 advent calendars are out, S.W. Looks the best but Harry Potter fans get a nice deal ,city built a vehicle by not using wheels but technic cogs , won't comment on friend one
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Don't wanna mention the c word but images of the 4 advent calendars are out, S.W. Looks the best but Harry Potter fans get a nice deal ,city built a vehicle by not using wheels but technic cogs , won't comment on friend one
Might need to take a good look at the HP one this year. Normally get the City one but Harry Potter is popular in our house.
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CHRISTMAS. Wow that's earlier. Any idea when theyre in the shops?
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I think they are available from the start of September.
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They're never value for money unless you get them at 20euro, but it's a great novelty and addictive ,especially for S.W. santaised fig, the city one has a Santa so you can put one with all the batmen from the lego batma n movie
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New neighbour moved in today
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See if it glows in the dark like the mining ones, i can't see where it's stud is
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Just reading a forum about Lego Inside Tour and wondering if anyone here has been, it's pretty expensive but respondants seem to think it's worth it, I'd love to go but it'll be a lotto holiday
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Advent calendars are in smyths don't know price ,need to get trick or treat sweet season over first before unwanted gift sweet season starts
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Lego masters is going again ,not sure if it's U.S. based though , but it'll be great watching the kids getting knocked out by adults.I think I'd love to be on it but maybe not a great builder, I need the instructions while listening to everything is awesome ,drinking overpriced coffee
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but it'll be great watching the kids getting knocked out by adults.
LOL This made me spit out my coffee
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Anyone watching Great Model Railway Challenge?! It's actually quite good!
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Like scalextric I could watch it for hours but unlike lego they're not so easy to put away,train track even worse. As bad as lego addiction is train could be an obsession
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Have you seen the new Technic Land Rover?
https://www.lego.com/en-ie/product/land-rover-defender-42110
Very tempted but I'm not sure how I'd sneak it into the house without being noticed :-) it really looks fab though.
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Lieber bucket anyone ,as with all technic, highly desired but too highly priced, lucky me I've got corvette to build but does look holey or at least needs filling out
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Too rich for my blood unfortunately, a friend of mine keeps telling me he's going to buy it though, so I'm clinging onto hope that I'll see it in the flesh some time soon!
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Arrive with cans in hand when he's about to open it , I'm not encouraging bush building but any chance to get your mits on lego
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Anyone doing a Halloween display, I've got halloweenie stuff but can't find time to make a display, the C word stuff is packed away with the rest and with the advent calendar makes an appearance
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same here John, too busy hording wood for the bonfire! if i find time we might expand on a spooky graveyard we made last year!!
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There's a great competition on brickset ,it's a puzzle with clues and there is a prize too,hope I'm right but it's a great teaser otherwise
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In the Galway market is a stall with minifigs ,big ones and minifigs ,a Christmas feel to most of them,because of the tops in not sure if they're not-a-lego brand
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The chief designer of the minifig and some sets in the pirate and castle and space lines passed away R.I.P. Jens Nygaard Knudsen, died last Wednesday
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The chief designer of the minifig and some sets in the pirate and castle and space lines passed away R.I.P. Jens Nygaard Knudsen, died last Wednesday
Very sad news. Set designer Mark Stafford posted these messages on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/f7bjir/the_father_of_the_lego_minifigure_has_passed_away/)from himself and fellow designer Niels Milan Pedersen:
On Wednesday former Chief Designer at LEGO, and creator of the LEGO Minifigure Jens Nygaard Knudsen passed away.
Jens hired my colleague Niels in the 1970’s and they worked together until Jens retired in 2000.
“It is with great sorrow and dismay that I must announce that an amazing man, the best colleague of many years, an unforgettable friend, the most loving husband, father, father in law and grandfather: Jens Nygaard Knudsen has passed away on 19th February 2020.
Among all those who have worked for, built with, and generally known and loved LEGO over the years Jens should be known and remembered as one of the most important designers ever. He was the man who created the LEGO Minifigure, he was behind all the classic themes: Space, Pirates, Castle, Trains and countless more besides. He was a leader and an inspired builder.
Few have ever had as much imagination and creative power as he and no one who has got to know, or simply met Jens will be able to forget his amazing lovely and positive personality. LEGO fans around the world they should know that perhaps the most important ever creator of the LEGO Universe is no more. Honour his memory. His equal no longer exists.
Jens Nygaard Knudsen, 25 Jan 1942 – 19 Feb 2020.“
Niels Milan Pedersen
I (Mark Stafford) only met Jens twice, on both occasions he stuck me as full of energy and enthusiasm for LEGO and designing toys. For example I took him to take a photograph in the LEGO Idea House and he noticed a classic-space model he had designed 30 years earlier was built wrong and just had to stop, get down on his knees and fix it! Jens was made Chief Designer after the success of the minifigure he designed and led the design team throughout the 1980’s and 90’s.
He designed the LEGO Minifigure, and had a hand in pretty much every LEGO theme between 1968 and 2000, including Classic Space (he designed the entire first wave and most of the later models too), Blacktron, Aquanauts, Ice Planet, all the Classic Castle themes, Trains, Pirates, Adventurers etc. He leaves behind his loving wife, three children, two grandchildren and over eight billion little plastic people infused with childhood imaginations.
Millions upon billions of happy childhood memories are owed to this man. Thank you Jens.
Please leave a comment, all of them will be forwarded to his family.
And, if you would like to do something in his memory: build a LEGO spaceship, he would have loved that. Hashtag it as #NygaardMemorialFleet and lets see what we end up with.
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Might have a go at a spaceship with my excess pile
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Built the Hidden Side lab, talking about app before we saw if we had accessibility, didn't impress my Princess when we couldn't play in screen ,She wasn't even bothered about the dog and She's animal mad. I like it and must add it to the other science bits ,might even try vaccine experimentation
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The Hidden Side Boat & Shrimp Shack were two of my favourite sets from last year.
My 8 year old played with the app for a bit but he wasn't overly bothered with it!!
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Has anyone bought any of the DOTS sets yet? I kind of really like them!!
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Has anyone bought any of the DOTS sets yet? I kind of really like them!!
I bought the Ludo game from Lego earlier this week and got the dots picture thrown in. Looks like fun.
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They're for girls mainly but printed 1x1 tiles might interest some .as a bracelet i can't imagine the studs would last on any kid ,but argos's but 2 bracelets get filler pack free =12 euro
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I've bought 2 bracelets already (my 4 year old LOVES them!!) - unicorns & rainbows - two of her favourite things!!
That picture frame looks really cute, the LEGO store really do the best free gifts!!
The Ludo game looks really good too - what colour is the baseplate btw?
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That picture frame looks really cute, the LEGO store really do the best free gifts!!
Picture frame looks really cool. My wife and daughter are arguing about whose picture should be in it. I've a feeling the dog's picture will win ;-)
The Ludo game looks really good too - what colour is the baseplate btw?
We bought a normal Ludo board a few years ago and its great fun. The kids nasty streak is developing nicely :) The baseplate is dark grey and looks pretty nice so it may need to be swapped out with an old one ...
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Brickset has a quiz if the other C word is locking You out of society for a while, no prizes though
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Went looking for the quiz and got sidetracked: I see that Lego have a new competition. Show off your love of music using Lego (https://brickset.com/article/49264/lego-ideas-music-contest)
Though I say sidetracked... this whole thing is a sidetrack, I'm supposedly working from home...
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At least you remembered what you were actually doing
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Happy St. Patricks Day everyone, hope all are well , just saw series 20 minifigs and I want them all but not at crazy prices. On a side note since there's no parades We're doing a lego parade ,my Daughter doesn't know how much lego is actually in this house ,brace for overload
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Hope the minifig parade went well, hope it doesn't count as a gathering of over 100 people!
Happy Paddy's Day everyone!
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Didn't want to give the virus it's own thread as it's got enough of everything else, feeling guilty as I want to browse Tesco to see if any deals left but using essential shopping time and risking proximity ,especially as lego itself is giving deals and in u.k. 'entertainer' is doing BOGOF -but one get one free.trying to stay safe but need to stay sane too with something I really like
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How's everyone keeping? Things are bad when I started making the Technic Catamaran that my 8 year old started last November!! I finished it - but boy do I not like building Technic!! It's so hard!!
Is anyone currently in the middle of a MOC or anything? We could do a kind of Build Along where we share regular updates? So not like MOC of the month stuff - just WIP's?
John I was in Tesco last week - they had a few sets reduced but nothing fantastic. I haven't left the house in a week (bar to go in the garden) but I'm going to have to brave Tesco for cat food tomorrow (God damn picky cats won't eat Aldi cat food!) - I'll let you know if there are any good offers on LEGO there.
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I'm ogling over baracuda bay ,castle and pirates were my never had favourites as a kid ,and at 200 it shall continue into adulthood. 6.50 off 20 Euro sets ,lego has been branded un-essential, when I get voted in it shall be quintessential.
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How's everyone keeping? Things are bad when I started making the Technic Catamaran that my 8 year old started last November!! I finished it - but boy do I not like building Technic!! It's so hard!!
Is anyone currently in the middle of a MOC or anything? We could do a kind of Build Along where we share regular updates? So not like MOC of the month stuff - just WIP's?
John I was in Tesco last week - they had a few sets reduced but nothing fantastic. I haven't left the house in a week (bar to go in the garden) but I'm going to have to brave Tesco for cat food tomorrow (God damn picky cats won't eat Aldi cat food!) - I'll let you know if there are any good offers on LEGO there.
I like the sound of that, should there be a new thread for it? I've been very busy with Technic lately, almost fully sorted all my Technic and I've been tinkering with various mechanisms, most of which have been failures. Got a large vehicle project in mind but trying to figure out how all the functions will work first is a challenge.
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A full build from scratch is a major project ,how about getting a big set like 'tree feller' or crane and MOD/improve that? Must do some legoing as I'm off for 4 days so far....
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Lisa if You have some spare time brickset are looking for a female to do a "meet a member" article ,they've had 3 male responses and asked if anyone else would/could. As I read the one posted it brings back the memories of lego and how you live with it and who you are right from scratch.
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A couple of good Lego news stories people may have missed:
The Lego Foundation pledged $50m to charity "Education Cannot Wait" for providing education to children in crisis situations - https://www.educationcannotwait.org/the-lego-group-and-the-lego-foundation-support-children-and-families-impacted-by-covid-19/
And Lego have started making protective eyewear for healthcare workers - https://www.thebrickfan.com/lego-protective-eyewear-for-medical-professionals-during-covid-19-pandemic/
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(https://i.redd.it/hpt471g9h6t41.jpg)
Anyone ever seen this? Thought it was interesting...
Lego Byggepinner, a short-lived building system from Norway in the mid-50's, produced by A/S Norske Legio under license from Lego apparently... who knew!
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Has a stickle brick look to it ,might have been good for log cabin walls of trees if there though enough brown
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Anyone ever seen this? Thought it was interesting...
Lego Byggepinner, a short-lived building system from Norway in the mid-50's, produced by A/S Norske Legio under license from Lego apparently... who knew!
Where did you find that? Random Lego search?
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Where did you find that? Random Lego search?
Reddit, all sorts of weird and wonderful tidbits of Lego history pop up there from time to time!
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Brickset doing a SW trivia quiz ,and today I ventured into a Tesco nothing on sale but this store never seems to have deals or is it that there's no competition therefore no deals ,didn't look for clearance aisle though
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Brickset competition to build a polybag model ,enter multiple times and 2 categories- with minifig and without. Rules on brickset
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Opened 42104 technic race truck ,went looking to get small tyres for back and waltzed into 4842 Hogwarts only two books and as it was a kid played lot the task is rotten but I've gotten well notified hall but lots of bits missing , some big I'll move it on so far then try flog it -it'll go cheap but I must do build to see what's missing and it's a build that hopefully won't stick around
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Photo to show progress ,I'm aching from bent over ,sore eyes searching but feel like a kid so all's good
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Today I did an inventory of parts and mostly completed hagrids but ,a handful of parts missing but it's made and I'm done with them if anyone wants them( 4738 and 4842) for a proper steal ,some minifigs but none complete(could make 1 group)
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Collecting a skip today exposed me to 5978 ,found a base plate 1st , then a few minifigs, it's hard to pick out\save lego while crying!!! It's absolutely filthy but not damaged ,gold coins in chest clean and skeleton in coffin. There was also castle parts but not much -I'm post photos when it's clean -3 plastic bottles full!
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A western baseplate with a corner river , I'm gonna have to stop rescuing dumped lego but it's cheaper than buying it and I do love the find feeling especially when it's oldish stuff
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New theme "monkey kid" ,images of a ninjago nexo-knights style theme .I'm loving the truck but financing for another theme probably won't happen since I'm getting Harry Potty addiction with the new sets that are coming out.
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Collecting a skip today exposed me to 5978 ,found a base plate 1st , then a few minifigs, it's hard to pick out\save lego while crying!!! It's absolutely filthy but not damaged ,gold coins in chest clean and skeleton in coffin. There was also castle parts but not much -I'm post photos when it's clean -3 plastic bottles full!
John, you need to start an Instagram account (or at least a thread here) of your lego skip finds!!
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I'm disgusted and delighted with the find ,I do post when I find treasure (clean-up is hard), I don't get the chance to check these skis -it's only 2 so in reality ,i dread to think how much lego is being dumped every day
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A previous mega donation of a kid played-but clean and relatively minded, set 76005 daily bugle with instructions(7 missing pieces and 6 pages) ready for a new home
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4191 and 79109 ...parts gathered, as usual bits missing and kid played minifigs .I'm enjoying these builds but it's hard work .lone ranger set would do well as western theme in a layout
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John, are you looking to sell on any of your rebuilt sets above? Let me know what you've got/ what's missing and a price in mind.
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Daily bugle- 4 figs (1 head missing) computer screen and parker/spiderman tile missing and rope 25Euro .lone ranger bank and jail-no figs 8 cheat parts to complete 25 .....instructions for both (6 pages gone from spiderman set) .Hogwarts too but a lot more missing parts and figs there's some city sets too but need to do a check
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Amazing looking set and again some pieces missing , loved the build experience, my knees need a holiday, and again this one needs a new home
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76006, 76007, 60014 and 70915 built , 70915 missing alot(looks more like a garage set) 60014-coast guard impressive as it's big. Marvel sets nice but not my preference .minifigs on all are poor
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Back searching to build 3 sets ,one is a marvel jet (partly built) ,it'll mess my piece gathering but I'll soldier on .as per usual missing parts but not heaps -I might strike gold with my Dunnes\Barman parts bag but will have to wait till Saturday for next rummaging
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Coast guard boat looks good. Not sure why the hull sticks out though, maybe to stop it flipping over in the bath?
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My Niece oooooed it before her brother so it'll be Her birthday present, wide hull put on due to lockdown! Finished 31012 creator house , missing 15 or so pieces -nice big house and a 4wide car? Sitting on table near Simpson's .there's a light brick and room lights up sweet. Attempting 79103 t
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My Niece oooooed it before her brother so it'll be Her birthday present, wide hull put on due to lockdown! Finished 31012 creator house , missing 15 or so pieces -nice big house and a 4wide car? Sitting on table near Simpson's .there's a light brick and room lights up sweet. Attempting 79103 TMNT lair already missing T.V screen
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76032 jet ,about 40 pieces missing .the canopy being a major item ,and now looking for a new home. Sturdy built jet and super swooshability
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A photo for 76032 and today's waste of a day 6863 and 2254(gift for my nephew) and as usual , parts missing - 6863 hasn't too many
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3 skips yielding more lego ,1st a friends box with unopened bags (a mall) - 1st and 2nd bags missing but 5 and a few loose parts .2nd was some minecraft and ninjago and a few other bits also unopened bags of m**a s**t blocks(pieces for a demolition video) .3rd bits from many themes, 2 SW minifigs and a motor- the guy told me his grandsons collection is valued at 34grand but judging by what I got and how much more was dumped I'd divide value by 5. The amount of Lego dumped every day nearly keeps me awake but it's just parents with no appreciation for the quality toy that has a fairly long useable life
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Here's a picture of the motor that I found .....oh the horror of knowing there was more but couldn't save them!!!!
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Never seen one of those before! Has a kind of Dacta look to it, like it's transparent for educational purposes...
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47154 p/n -9 v motor 2002year, also a spoiler and a few nice other bits
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I haven’t bought a LEGO set in ages and torn between two. Elf club house 10275 and Harry Potter Clock Tower 75948. Any thoughts?
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I really like the look of the club house, parts look usefull too, I'm a big fan of dark tan and sand green bricks. Plus you can use those elves and reindeer in future Christmas displays even if you don't have the set on show!
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Elf clubbing we will go!!! H.P. stuff comes round every so often but the Christmas ones change every year
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Well Patrick did you get the Harry Potter club house ?
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Still procrastinating! I have the great hall and whomping willow sets which connect to the clock tower ... but I really like the club house! Waiting for lego.com to throw in Christmas freebies 😉
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In lieu of an actual holiday I was looking through last year's holiday photos. I'd completely forgotten about this display in the U.S. Supreme Court, celebrating the first 4 women to serve as Supreme Court Judges:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50669108748_56c3be8108_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kcsqKf)
Left to right, I think (only one I'm completely sure of is the late RBG):
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice Elena Kagan
If I find any more Lego photos from around the world I'll post them! Somewhere I've got to try and dig out a photo of a huge Kyoto train station model in Kyoto station...
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Are these photos You've taken from those places. If you make a minifig Tom ,you could take the photo of minifig with monument or whatever in the background
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Yeah, that's a good idea John, hopefully I still remember to do that by the time the world re-opens for holiday travel!
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Still procrastinating! I have the great hall and whomping willow sets which connect to the clock tower ... but I really like the club house! Waiting for lego.com to throw in Christmas freebies 😉
Procrastinated too long! Elf House is out of stuck and the Clock Tower is no longer on special so it would gall me to spend 15 Euros more. Hopefully will be back on special after Christmas. I bought myself the HP advent calendar as a consolation though ;)
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Is there a miniature of clock tower in the advent calendar , I'm hoping Tesco or artnhobby drop the price of whatever stock they've left
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In lieu of an actual holiday I was looking through last year's holiday photos. I'd completely forgotten about this display in the U.S. Supreme Court, celebrating the first 4 women to serve as Supreme Court Judges:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50669108748_56c3be8108_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2kcsqKf)
Left to right, I think (only one I'm completely sure of is the late RBG):
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice Elena Kagan
If I find any more Lego photos from around the world I'll post them! Somewhere I've got to try and dig out a photo of a huge Kyoto train station model in Kyoto station...
I love this! (I would also love to believe that you choose holiday locations based on the LEGO that can be seen there!!) Before kids, (and unfortunately for me), our holiday locations were always based around what football stadiums we could visit....................
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And then you built those stadia......win win
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Is there a miniature of clock tower in the advent calendar , I'm hoping Tesco or artnhobby drop the price of whatever stock they've left
Not sure yet. I got a golden egg on a couch today.. I got the last HP advent calendar in Tesco in Mahon point (dumped on a shelf away from the toys). It was down to €14.06. Elf club house came back into stock this evening so that been ordered!
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Must check my tescos
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Happy New Year and hope 2021 is the year we missed out on ,although apart from no physical meets we got to the end of 2020 safely so C'mon vaccine and get us bricking together again
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Happy new year!
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Apparently the world record for an "unmodified" Rubik's Cube solver robot has just been cut almost in half by a Lego robot called Cuboth, built by Elias Frantar. It averages about 1.9 seconds to solve a cube.
The previous record was also held by a Lego robot called Cubestormer 3. It averaged approximately 3.6 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjb-MmwueEQ&feature=emb_title (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjb-MmwueEQ&feature=emb_title)
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Even in the slow mo ,I lost it ,my time is about 8mins -under pressure!
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Even in the slow mo ,I lost it ,my time is about 8mins -under pressure!
My 10 yo son can do it in under a minute whereas the only time I ever solved one was when I took off the stickers ...
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Picking up more dumped lego today and black angle parts and a 2x2 round plate with an imperial symbol on it ,about a small lego set bag amount but trying not to think of what was dumped
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More dumped lego and a mix of nexo ,SW and technic , a few plates and a few interesting parts , a little oily but twas loved by a kid by the way the stickers were applied and the minifig with no matching part. A volcano explorers set parts too so modern enough to not be throwing away. Another imperial 2x2 round printed tile, about 10 years time I'll have a Death Star from my bin foraging
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You should do some bin-foraged-only mocs, would be cool to see what you come up with!
I have a small ziplock bag of about 20 parts I've found out and about (or around the house when we moved in here!), cleaning them is a job that's on the long finger though...
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I have about 4 plastic Roses boxes but all mix match that's from bins ,I did find a 1x16 beige brick for Simpson's house ,hopefully I'll find 3 1x6 beige tiles and 5 1x2 beige wedges and a brown window 1x2x3 , I did luck out before with a haul before it went in skip and Kwik-e-mart was there along with loads more bits of sets
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More dumped lego today ,I rescued a minifig decapitated and driven over, hands still clutch and arms swivel but it's ugly! From the pile -Ninjago, minecraft and nexo knights lost plus side I've another treasure chest(nougat) ,a white helmet and more grey bricks for a castle. 2heads and a minecraft sheep. Also retrieved a small brickhead container -no lid ,clean enough for where it had been,
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75318 ,I mean who dumps a child in a skip, the box is tattered and 3 bags open/made ,minifig at the bottom of the box and 5 unopened bags and instructions ,id never buy this but at this price I'll suffer on. Hope it wasn't someone hiding it from a non lego person as a stop go before bringing it in
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75318, that's a great find!
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Eyes are sore but I've made a child on my own. It's sturdy but some attachments don't seem well attached. The eyes are funny and the mouth opens so fun doing a Yoda voice while opening and closing the mouth. It's for sale too if anyone wants!
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That's an incredible find! Can't understand the mentality of someone who would put almost new Lego into a skip, but lucky for you they do I guess!
Makes you wonder how much Lego never gets found though.
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Based on what I find and ,what I see that's rolled over and beyond even me, an awful lot!
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Picked\rescued more of the precious today ,badly mangled so only a few of the bricks actually survived. On a scientific note the durability of it versus 10 ton and a loading shovel scraping it into the heap is pretty amazing! It was mostly ninjago and I pulled 1and a half minifigs out.
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Is anyone buying any lego lately -in sets or loose ,or is imminent bulk order wetting the appetites? ,I've amassed 60euro but the cheap deals that I don't want are screaming at me to spend and the technic McLaren I want is saying maybe it'll get cheaper. Although there's enough unopened stuff to last an apocalypse
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Haven't bought anything in a while but I was waiting for the Bricklink Designer Program to open, which it has done today! I've just pre-ordered the Great Fishing Boat, I really like the look of it and I supported it at the time it was first submitted to Lego Ideas. Looks like it's going to be second over the line for crowdfunding (first 5 over the line get produced) and it also looks like it'll be sold out in an hour's time at this rate!
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I don't get this, lego asks ordinary joes for ideas, dismisses them if they don't make the cut, then gives them another go if they jump through the new hoop, I don't have a budget for this but if you were keeping tabs on Ideas then it's got a market
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Latest dumped haul, rescued by one of the lads I told about my addiction, fair dirty but when cleaned they gotta go(by order of the management)
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Sorry for blurry old man shake, there's also a small water bottle of China too
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That's a lot of minifigs! Fire up the auld adverts.ie account John, you might make your LUGbulk payment back!
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A homage to my job and the lucky finds of dumped lego, I'm especially proud of landing legs as they lift truck off floor ,all watched by the duplo overlords
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Half box 31062 creator I retrieved a few months back, missing a few vital parts , none of which I possess but I kept the lower tracked but as I felt nice to roll around. The rest went to general population
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Emptying a skip and retrieved 2handfuls of bits from ninjago, nexo knights ,a Harley Quin hair, batman cowl, Minecraft bricks , chima and a printed round windshield . Some city monitors and a onearmed hobgoblin , twas fair dirty but my tears washed a lot of it. I got 3 yellow hands and non lego pieces too (they get a wash but nothing more) ,1 torso survived but I left the other one to fend for himself
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Another pick a brick cup today , a McDonald's cup ,some other brick type too ,an interesting piece (non lego -a soft bristle texture) and finally an actual piece I need for Ghost riders motorbike, I wish I could put in an order but more free bricks is always welcome
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Mixels assembled ,3 at front complete 2 at rear missing a talon and tail-5 pieces in all. I'm calling them a shower of mixels or maybe a scavenge of parts! I hated them from the start but did buy them cheap as present fillers or S.S.(secret santa), I got one as a present and have one still bagged for boulder parts
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Mixels sorted now and next reassembly is 70128 -Chima set -braptors wing striker one wing was broken so ......... I superglued it ,it'll be a Christmas or birthday present for another lego destroyer- my nephew missing one green foilage stalk .next up will be lego movie ice cream truck and a possible battle of ice cream road trucks
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Finished ice cream machine as that's what was originally made ,after dirt removal and rebuilt ,it's slightly delicate and some parts for can are missing. There was a 70755 ninjago offloaded from a previous find ,missing 8 pieces -one technic part to mount front wheel so it's more reliant than reliable for now! Love the suspension for the rear
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Cleaning process continues -hulkbuster ,mandarins motor and star wars battle pack now assembled, and now it's the lego movie castle scenes turn, it'll be incorporated into the castle/museum I'm planning as a big build
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Two more parts rescue getting cleaned too, some parts of newish enough sets. After I tipped I had hoped to find more parts but the machine mangled the lot so I'm hoping it was just a clean-up dumping and not a whole set clearout! I've asked the guys at the site to take out lego if the see it but the "sure I will" didn't sound like I wanted it to!
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Watching "lego DC family matters" and the limos are 8 wide ,bags of room and definitely looks better than the 4wide from the private jet set. No room for the high jinx as an 8wide would provide! Mmm... limo throw down time?
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Another handful rescued from the dumps. Hidden Side ghostly green and bits of ninjago and minecraft tab pieces , lucky me but how much could I have saved - I feel like a rescuer in a disaster zone. I have to stop thinking of how much gets dumped as it's potential house filling that my Wife doesn't want
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2022 sets on view at brickset, a 4wide train and a mobile crane ,loadsa lovely sets , time for a bank job
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Christmas ..a time for giving and getting or in my case getting rid of hoard and probably giving up more space to newly arrived hoard. My brother is benefiting a 501st walker and my nephew a hulkbuster,- no instructions for both, and Arkham asylum is sold to nephew for 50. The building experience alone is worth that
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Cleaning a handful of discarded bits, 50ish pieces nothing special and scratched badly so majority headed for broken pieces pile. If the minifig torso could talk although with crush damage I'd expect screaming!
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Another find - old pirate stuff , serious tears as I scrambled to pick out as much as I could before the machine mangled the lot. A few minifigs, a pirates/imperial flag(no lugs) ,an old style crocodile, a red row boat, and a 3 litre bottle full of bricks. That was the 3rd skip from a house clearout. I can't go on as it actually is painful to think what was dumped!
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Washing and drying my recent rescue, old crocodile , red row boat and a blue car jack, it's in set 1497 rally car service ,don't know if it'll lift 6wides
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I had that car jack, but in set 6539. A childhood favourite!
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In today's find 7998,7685 and 7686 ,looks like most of them are there and the minifigs below ...so far ,although about 2 litres volume to look at yet
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Also this Jamie Lannister lookalike, it's lego as it's logo is on his hip
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The bike is 8513 robodust , looks A.N.other brand but it's lego. Not impressed but chrome pointers out front
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Also this Jamie Lannister lookalike, it's lego as it's logo is on his hip
Jack Stone abomination. Lego's lowest point? I came across these figure before
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As I picked out Lego and tossed Not Lego ,I was amazed at all the terrain bricks and moulded wall pieces the A.N.other brand produced. These kids had mixed it up so lego carried out the other brand ,also found a road scene from the turbo racer era. The guy told me they had tons but have the big stuff to other relations and what I retrieved would've gone to charity but they wouldn't take due to covid- only good to come from that
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Strange, I've seen Lego in charity shops a few times over the last 2 years! Usually heavily mixed with non-Lego so not worth buying, sadly.
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At the right price and if it's not all playdohd ,it's nice to identify what set was there and maybe how much actually is
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Big green missing 5pieces ,bulldozer will be next ,helicopter transport will be a challenge as will yellow racecar
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Such a shame they use big single green pieces for the tippers, I guess it keeps the price down (and less gets lost in the skip haha) but they'd be so much nicer made out of panels and bricks!
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I've got the orange city ones and as nice as it is to build them and be able to modify them I LOVE these as they tip smoothly and are super light
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7685 built ,only missing a 3x8 slang plate and a yellow cab roof, looks nice but doesn't suit my needs and it's looking for a new home or building site
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A photo would be nice!
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Lego masters Australia ,it's recorded so not sure how recent it was but it was Spectacular and I didn't catch the first few episodes . Paid to build that's the dream!!!
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I watched one episode of the first season a couple of weeks ago and haven't had a chance to get back to it! As well as the great builds, I'm hoping for a bust-up between the obnoxious "I'm kind of a big deal in Lego in Australia" Kale and his downtrodden team mate!
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That was last season there's been a 2nd and it was way better, spoiler male dominated and NO ..No kids allowed
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A little find, it's rims are clear ,I'll scan for more at the skip as it's not emptied yet and a few days ago all I could rescue was a red door ,everything else was mangled
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The staple of 90s police sets! I might lean towards 6-wide over 4-wide but these are the perfect motorbikes for me, the recent ones seem much too big.
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I like them as retro bikes but I love all iterations of new bikes and I haven't opened the stuntz ones yet
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Cleaning today , a recent haul ,this lot had Star Wars ,monster fighters , city emergency sets and ironmans Cliffside scene, I also found a wolverine minus his head and possibly a mech, loads of wheels so tractor fleet should expand ,maybe a 4U silage contractor outfit(in miniature!)
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Cleaning lego that's not really dirty but needing a clean, and seeing bits of sets - number plate denoting sets ,or colour schemes-limegreen is volcano explorers, parts that look like wings or canopys but not enough parts to complete anything even with the volume I've found, ...example 8159 -yellow car good, red car awful (lowprofile tyres missing-none in my stock....) this will be a cry out to Lisa for wheels please!!!, I'm planning on making a firehospcop building- a firestation ,hospital and police station in one block building
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60051 dumped and a nice but if track , it has been rained on , it was a rush\rescue so I'm sure I missed some .there was also 3 long black minecraft guys, and lots of old lego
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The train seems complete minus figs, track is shy 4-5 rounds ,i was thinking a tram but the nose lends itself to highspeed train, I rescued 1 minifig and 3 tall black minecrafters ,a small amount of other bits but nothing exciting ,although the train is clouding my vision
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https://www.brickfanatics.com/lego-store-ireland-plans-blocked-by-council/
It's not as bad as the title suggests but we should get our plastic pitchforks ready for a riot!!!
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2prong will go in further and an army of minifigs armed or otherwise isn't very threatening
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A 1 litre ziplock bag with 41322 ,seems pretty complete but it'll never be an icerink again!
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That was a serious haul with the train! Seems as though you're finding some new every week John, no wonder the missus is keeping strict controls!
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Another handful today, small regular parts and a red motorcycle(fire one), I'm sure there was a few more bits as the man of the house was ruthless with the clearout
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A little find, it's rims are clear ,I'll scan for more at the skip as it's not emptied yet and a few days ago all I could rescue was a red door ,everything else was mangled
Wow, lovely find!
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Euro Dodgeball on in the Nederlands, we have a player in the comp. Good Luck to the team and Tom Eastawat. I watched the Austrians thump the Checz ,the camera is like a security one so not that easy on the eye but it looks intense even if your not winning
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Saw the box and on opening saw "lego " written on some so rescue was ON.The lower left panel is Lego the rest is 3different wastes of money ,one is a plastic meccano style , one a nanosize brick(with a seperator) and then crappyblocks -3 different versions. There's about 50 lego and 2arms which will assist other injustices. A lot of the bricks a well played so will enter general population but the clean ones will get VIP status
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5baseplates-2written on ,parts of spaceship and pirates themes ,2 pick-a-brick amounts but space orientated. A forklift lifter part too.
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You’ll have to put a value on all the LEGO you’ve rescued John. Into the thousands at this stage I reckon.
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If I had the complete of what I've found maybe but parts that have been overly loved just fodder for me , I've gotten some nice parts though ,even the Kwik mart wasn't complete
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5baseplates-2written on ,parts of spaceship and pirates themes ,2 pick-a-brick amounts but space orientated. A forklift lifter part too.
Some super cool baseplates there, wow 1980s gold dust!
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The last 3( 1 of 20 pieces) rescues have yielded 6 SW minifigs, a friends legs , a one arm workperson torso, a chima bird(minus headcover) with a Jek-1 transparent arm, and some city guys. A red motorbike body and a trike body( possibly a SW hoverbike ) .some old pieces -wheels with metal axle and city wheels and 2 bigs that make a bike and a spring shock
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Anyone watching any Lego Masters ,I've season 3 Australian one recorded ,and brickset is reviewing the U.S. one
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Like the UK lego masters eliminating the kids , Aussie version is laying waste to the women, the builds are amazing and I wouldn't be confident in entering as it uses every scope of building ,technic ,colour, storytelling, parts usage , I'm blown away by the builds
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The brickset secret Santa is open for sign up but is closed 4th Nov, I do say I'm not doing it next year but it's a great way to get a present from someone who wants to give you lego other than yourself, and the fuzzy feeling of giving and then seeing all the joy as others open and show off the goodness
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Check out smyths this weekend,there's a halloweekend gift "one per child" whatever! Probably a polybag ,could be the Frankenstein that lego shop has for monthly minibuild
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I live on the brickset site and the forum but need today is it'll probably a shutting down next year. It also means this Secret Santa will be the last facilitated by the forum
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Poly bags ,nothing major ,they had a haunted house on display with a stuntz set and the friends roller disco ,I wound the haunted house and the drop is cool the stuntz needed a bigger table to get speed and I know the disco set but as much as I wanted to physically explore it I resisted
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https://www.lego.com/en-ie/vip/rewards-center/rewards
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LEGO offering some world cup merchandise while managing not to mention the world cup. Presume it's a licensing issue, although I can also imagine them not wishing to be associated with the Qatar human-rights-abuse-fest.
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Brickset secret Santa has closed ,hope my incorrect closing date didn't catch anyone out
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Inspired by 3 stickers pieces of the Porsche Spider 75910 and the atrocious state the pieces were in should have trounced the inspiration but stubborn me bulled on, maybe 15 parts missing but big bits -it's reminding me of a carS.O.S. It'll never be finished but I won't be dipping into the audi of which I found the front grille
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I retrieved 2 suitcases of lego , there was an.other brand of a shuttle ,but the lot I'm interested in has Star wars, city , I hope weasleys burrow , I see maybe 15 figs. The machine took a lot too , this time I had 2 more helping and it took a while. There's a lot of yellow a I'm hoping it's the highrise crane. There were 2 sails and a tent material .I got a jabba and I think his barge, there's a pirate ship and a city airport and lots of red so must be a fire station. I put photos on the WhatsApp but I'll post here when I get time to clean and attempt to rebuid
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Hope 7905 highrise crane is complete looks like a majority of it is
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Giving a bus ,a bike ,a plane and train bogies a wash in the sink , I heard a noise and heart raced as I thought twas the water going down the drain, luckily it was the noise of the lego moving in the sink, maybe next cleaning will be in a basin!
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The Lego Life Christmas edition magazine came in addressed to my Daughter , there's instructions for a baby polar bear 29 pieces -all white but common enough. There's two on the 2nd page a mom and teenager beat but probably easy enough to make as there's no instructions
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, my Secret Santa gifts arrived today ,no tree up yet ,there's 8 gifts and a mini story with clues as to what's inside.
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The camper can wheels didn't match ,the OCD me spotted this
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Anyone watching the soccer, the actors got through ....just. The ref was the bane of the Dutch giving any touch of messy.Hope he's not officiating anymore matches
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Bigbrickcitysurvey.com has a survey to take part in and has 100usd for some lucky participant.
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A double rescue, I spotted a yellow wheel and retrieved 4 and the loader bucket and a duplo vehicle , 2nd was a bag buried a while and also contained city square 60292 instructions (wet ,dirty and unsalvagable) ,the pieces are what's left of an obvious kidclear bomb. And not one 1x3 black roof brick. A brick separator could have been the detonator as kids don't seem to grasp the concept of not using this device but resorting to tooth disassembly
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60139 set is the partial truck unit
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Happy New Year Everybody, I'm in dry mode a year so I'll be cracking 23 with a new box opening, although I'll also be washing another batch of bricks from the last haul! There was an anglia from weasleys shack and it's super faded -looks green on outside but covered bricks are the friends blue. It's a way nicer car than privet drives version and the colour now looks like an anglia a neighbour had
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I didn't do much delving into the stuntz 2nd wave but March sees a bigrig that might make me overlook the bin truck.
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I've taken a closer look at the stuntz bigrig and it's 8 wide so may not get a vote bar it hits 35euro
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Small rescue and a brickseperator found on second glance. Then 2 duplo pillars and 3 small pieces on the floor before the machine had its dinner! A few days ago I had a hospital skip and got 3 handfuls. Risking needlestick injury for the love of lego.a web and a wider and 3-4 plant bits ,felt like a castle type range of bricks
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Got some more bricks into water , I was looking for bits to add to the bus and the shack, there's nearly enough to keep me busy at this rate for 2 years, sorry lego group, but you did make a pretty durable product. There was a heavy block ,6x2x3 ,it's the ballast for high rise crane, loadsa yellow so I'd say it's all there ,and wings for big airplane(wing is mildly distorted) so I'll be crane ,plane shuttleing as my foreseeable projects. I did also get a boost for my lego fund to 90euro - bigger sets on my radar(at great discounts)
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Hospital haul, a grey web,and a castle corner and a landing gear that is unassemblable
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Relaxing with ALL the lego animations on skyanimation channel. If I'd saved them some of the builds -vehicles , robots and bombs look like nice creations. The scenery looks impressive too
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Passing the basin and giving the pieces a quick tumble ,I found this brick- it winds up then the button releases it to rewind- it's from a big coastguard helicopter, probably the winch.hope it's bath hasn't affected its longevity
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A photo would be nice, it has a nice feel to wind up. And a super whizz noise and pretty fast rewind
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Cool piece, I've never come across it before!
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Rescued a disabled hi-viz robber ,a steering wheel and a 4by car roof
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Feb 18 has a build and take event in smyths uk ,so maybe We'll be getting it too
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Dived into the topic and it's a friends polybag 30633 -skate ramp.if it's on I'll hopefully go but excitement level is 0.
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Dived into the topic and it's a friends polybag 30633 -skate ramp.if it's on I'll hopefully go but excitement level is 0.
Got excited for a moment that we might see a return of the big skate ramp piece (https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=43085#T=S&O={%22ss%22:%22IE%22,%22rpp%22:%22100%22,%22iconly%22:0}) but of course that would never fit in a polybag! It does make for a great bridge arch though (example here (https://www.flickr.com/photos/149351704@N02/51173862338)).
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A tome for any Lego fan so what @#*# dumped it in a cardboard compactor? It's pristine considering what a compactor does! There's a small bit of mould on page edge near lego symbol but will easily clean. I've another find from my new mine - the hospital skip
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Hospital find - no. 2 grey box is FULL ,other empty and one bag with 4 pieces unopened and a small sticker sheet
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The contents of no 2 box,and 18 wheels but more importantly rear wheels for tractors that are somewhat to an acceptable scale, random non lego guy -NTLB no toy left behind except for m@#abl#@kc obviously
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8470 1st model missing one thin 3x beam(I've a spare one somewhere!) The stickers where applied by an unobservant builder
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53588 mountain piece and an artic terrain part (game of thrones and all the John Snow lego I have) my castle will kick again maybe smaller than my desired size and with the aid of the 31120 castle
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Just saw HA 7790 on a rear bumper piece- the blue concrete truck- well this will get repurposing
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Based on no. plates, I'm attempting to remake those sets. Impossible when it's dumped and not all together but amalgamation of all found lego some can be remade. Frustrating looking for a specific part but seeing it in every other variation and colour but not it, then trying to source another part and finding the ones you've given up on
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A guy pulled a box from a skip and rang me with "it's got kreo written on the box" I said it'll contain lego - only some of a black avenger 4x4, but the kre-o was optimus prime and Megatron , I'll make optimus and give it to my nephew to massacre
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76030 avenger 4x4 minus roof top parts, the cro-o transformers was awful to handle and assemble. Optimus was missing an aerial , Megatron was missing alot. The bank was complete(scene part of the set) ,the mech heads were the only thing I liked and maybe the wheels were likeable. It'll be nephewed and it deserves to be!!!!
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Another mini find -2 figs and 7 halves a blackhull boat(that really floats) and a good handful of various bricks. Hints of friends but no minidolls, I didn't get to see the tipped skip so don't know what treasures the machine swallowed
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These look in decent nick John!
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Lucky day today in the charity shop. Haven't gone through it properly yet but looking at it briefly, it seems to be mostly in good condition. A few HP and SW stragglers but mostly City. Not bad for 50 euro.
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Win win ,better than just dumping it, although I'll be regretting that comment
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Grabbed before smashed, the machine is merciless but I rescued these 12 pieces before certain death.The health counter is nice and the bigfork piece I thought was A.N.other brand due to its colour(I'm not a racist father) ,my bionicle pile is slightly increasing ( maybe I should say graveyard ,due to incompleteness of finds)
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76219 ,box battered so I guess that's why it went even opened, I class these in the brickhead category- something wouldn't buy!
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2 boat hulls ,1 black ,1 green and well played with -scuff marks underneath . A white bicycle frame and 5-6 bricks. There was a carrera track dumped too. I'm getting to the point where I may have to turn a blind eye to these treasures......nah not happening!
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Boy did those boats get played with! These ships saw active duty.today was wash your Shuttle day too.hope to get started before May end. Minifig pilot was still in the ship.
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Bag 7 of the Adidas shoe(it's a spare bag of sorts- but not one I'd throw away) 3 instruction manuals -the few others I saw were water damaged, and a few more pieces (a car and minifig -a creator house set)
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10874 ....nothing to get proper exited for as it's a Duplo train ,it's a Great set and has some battery operated functions . The box and instructions were very damp so box is axed but manual is saved
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Found by a non-lego guy, but put it into a box (half box ) of 6090 ,a small shopping bag full. It's been WELL played but not abused
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Unbutchering the figs, what's the fascination with putting arms and hands on wrong looking figs? Better not unplug yet, I dice with drains when cleaning!
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Needs to win a few tournaments to buy a saddle!
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Needs to win a few tournaments to buy a saddle!
Great find, saddle or no saddle!
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75937 minus the dinosaur, and 2 dunnes stores bags full , about 60 figs from Star Wars , City ,Harry Potter and Marvel. I had a photo taken but I timed out
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7686 -motorbike ,60% of truck , 40% trailer and only the camera from chopper and 2 figs, also dumped was a Mario set and a pile of sh#@@y bricks.
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A 1.5 litre bottle (for cleaning ) full ,green parts which is the double tipper truck - maybe 15% but a green roof part for the other one and maybe the ability to create a tripple trailer with a brick built body. The grim reality of this haul is Shawshanks Andy Duphrane crawl through crap , it's going to need 2washes with detergent!
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Small handful rescue and a duplo elephant(compares as an adult in minifig land), nothing Wow but a radioactive fish
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41106 ...ok it's friends but free is not a barrier for me. Also a golden jay from ninjago, dumped even the box was decent enough. They started building and have up.not complaining but lucky me
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Missing 4 pieces but box was badly cellotaped ( a clear bottle ,a 1x1 black brick with technic pinhole, a 1x2 technic hinge plate -for the 1x brick ,and a golden toilet seat cover) she's ready for the festival season but also looking for a new home! It's a solid vehicle and a beautiful build, technical and a great play feature in its own. I might try a black version for my inner rocker! The pieces missing were easy find in allllll the other found lots!
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Got a start on 7905 high rise crane.all the lots of rescue lego have been assisting, it's a big job as I don't have anything sorted- jumbled up mess! Full kid mode and frustrating but fun
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Crane all present and a great build -kids would need help as bits were intricate or required a controlled force ,but it's BIG and looking for a new home too. My Wife's angry face got more so with every advance up and out! Worth it though......
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Wow it looks like a monster, fair bit of Technic in it too for a city set!
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A nice bag - free lego but a little dirty- nearly 70% complete 4842 HP great hall , 7 figs but all made wrong. I've already got a hall and smaller tower but this will give me a hall extension maybe a 2nd small tower and hopefully the medium bit , I have instructions for hall and tower but brickinstructions .com will give me that. Loads of the tiny zombies too ...possible game.
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My pot of 500 euro is all but gone due to 2 car theft attempts, 2 broken windows will see the insurance go heavenly, but I've been advised to get the car (an aqua by Toyota- easiest car to rob!) alarmed
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Some figs and what I call the precious bits and a car upper chassis single piece
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Only grey and fawn bricks left to wash n dry, hall extension and height for the towers - a huffle puff and raven claw rooms and extra library space. As a Brickset user ,the site is shutting down the forum on 4th Nov. Price and lack of traffic to links that potentially earned revenue - eBay and Amazon. For the secret Santa a new platform is being sought but not by Huw from Brickset!
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5 litres of lego and about 2 of sh@# bricks ,parts of sets -stickers with no's - stunt plane ,artic helicopter ,a space rover ,sky cops . A few castle bricks , in all a frustrated parents final warning for not clearing up.
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Could have been a wife's final warning about accumulating so much Lego :D
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That warning was 8 totes ago (16 parsecs)
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Canabalised a knight bus to complete one -only a grey hairpiece and a 1x4 purple brick for total. I was musing a double axle but canabalised bus has about enough for a car of that era! Also found a stickered part that is the airtaxi 3222. The limo and jet are more impressive but I'll try find the nose and tail and see .Also finished the wash of the hogwash 4842. And the vacant basin is home to Hopefully a falcon .....millennium style!
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A few more handfuls -what gets stuck after tipping(not my loads), my plan for a tiny batch is see what I can build from limited pieces- 30 but two are a 4x1 brick and a 3x3 corner plate the rest are 1x2 or smaller
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An unopened 31125 ,3in 1 -owl ,squirrel or fawn set chucked in a bin ,my GUY has my back on the lego front, and I reciprocate with dvds or electronic stuff
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75105 falcon commenced ,bag one complete (only missing a 6x6 light grey plate), I know the cockpit piece is missing - might be first cabriolet falcon- pull down mask and place over your mouth , I'm using brickinstructions.com, the build so far was easy to distinguish colour pieces
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Missing some bits and recolour of others, progressing slowly. Found some other brick types that may have been used
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More miss colour and having to check if it's actual lego! Progressingnicely but tools will be down for a few days to catch up on life
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Found some other brick types
Oh no, not M***bloks!?
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Notalego brick ,some have writing on the studs -4 letters too- even if they're the part type I need, there's something off about them. I've the same attitude to trucks , there's only 2 types of truck , Scania and notascania.
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A nice throne room piece for whenever I do my castle extension
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A disturbance in the force....... I retrieved a train set -not lego or brick type either- and set it up to see if it worked and I AM HOOKED! It makes the chuff chuff sound via the coal carriage, I hope it makes a loop of a tree in a few months . I'd prefer to sell it to restore the balance but twisting the control was addictive. slightly noisy too but the train rush...makes me want to get the Hogwarts Express even more and fire up the other train (white lego passenger ) aswell
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If the eyebrow of disapproval is raised at one expensive toy hobby you're on very dangerous ground flirting with a second one!
Can't wait to (eventually) have a loop of track set up for playing with Lego trains, make for great Christmas displays too.
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Bits of lego and a ton of bionicle ( well 5-6 characters) ,super dirty but I cleaned the 10 lego bits
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Slight progress on falcon, the 2 forward projecting sections , angled plates in size and colour absent, some lego magic and it's moving on. I should organize storage but that eats brick fund so rummaging is my only hope
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Some white bricks ,a wheel ,a 4x6 black plate and a fig with no hands, I did ask if there was more and skip filler said yes , but rummage revealed nothing.Her son was going to see what he had ..I did advise checking here
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Needing a wash ,here's the interesting parts ,a few other regular bricks
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The inconsistency of smyths prices is more volatile than the New York stock market
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Bumper haul ,although it must have said Pedigree Chum as some bits were mangled worse than the machine! Or this kid developed a taste for plastic! There's 5 boxes small-medium but one has BOOST written on it .I've found the heavy electric but but don't know whats there.some Mario and minecraft(the poo of lego) a few figs -star wars and ninjago...dismembered mostly .lego is not a toy!!!!
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Some of the liberated ,this lot have faired o.k. some bits got a right battering
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A box by my bike revealed pieces and manuals, -42095 tracked racer , city air ambulance and a speed champs konesseigg .some blue panels and tracks and a remote control ,sadly no motors and probably over 50% missing ...same or worse for ambo and supercar. BUT free lego is the best priced and the thrill (or horror)of sourcing the parts. New Year resolution will be not buying any more as there's such a backlog and a ton of cleaned /to be sorted lego . Best to get the possible purchases in before then maybe ....I'm coming Blanchardstown
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A few "cars " bits , this child did exactly what it says on the sign
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Nearly half ,some bits I'll have in all the other lots . I already have this one but a fleet for the long dreamed airport. 3 and a half figs nearly made it home-missing small bits too!
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Some minecrap figs and mangled beyond belief, I'm sad for them but that's kids
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Two bionicle - one complete? the other half but also a snowbike 8272 ( I dismantled it in the dark but confident it's all there)
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Another find but shawshank filthy! A few plane parts (needed for the missing of other plane finds) a half handful of bionicle ...but the treasure of a 4x2 golden (plastic though) brick.
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A 6166 box and I'd say most of the pieces are there- old but nothing special , and also 60376 -unopened found too
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The bounty continues with THE BOUNTY ,2 figs, 3 sails and very close to a complete ship. Needs a clean-up though. The technic snowmobile 8272 was all there and a nice build but rear track isn't smooth flowing. It's scale ideas off for the jeep wrangler to carry
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8272 snowmobile (looking for a new home ....somewhere with snow?) and ridef
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A big rescue today but had to leave heaps , trolls boat and a jail 4x3 panel.a space ship canopy. Airport manuals so bits of airport but no plane! About 12 figs and 6 unopened bags (star wars grey so more bits for the falcon.... hopefully!)
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A quick bath and here's a shot of some of the beloved
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2litres of old dirty lego , figs may be salvageable but we'll played with and Sun damaged! Some castle bits and fire station( 3 x printed doors) but 2 pieces point to Fabuland -a window piece and a model T roof piece
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Due to car break in ,we're not going to Dublin and the damage caused has killed our Christmas budget and obviously any lego budget. I've got some Harry Potter stuff to build ,1st off will be Room of Requirement and an extension like the box art suggests
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Stickers on door surround detail were nasty - a printed piece for the rounded ones at least! I'm adding a side hall as the movie room is huge and the box art suggests it too. There's room to add extra clutter with 2x2 bricks and 2x2 jumper tiles.I'll try to go higher but unlike the actual set with clear aerials for support. Needs a burning section too, maybe an incinerated slythetin body !
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Top tower is the 2nd Hogwarts Gryffindor room I have (modded out moveable fire) the rest is The Rescued hoard
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A find already in what I later discovered was an Ikea box -lid has studs- with friends ,one is 41344 Andreas shop - maybe 90% . A beach section , 2 figs in wet suits. There's a nice grey stone corner section - for a castle of the future
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41315 -surfshop but it's missing all small bits
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41334 only missing capes , dressing room, accessory stand and one fig. On top of the lid of the white box( it breaks down flat =ikea) 32 x44 lego logo studs.my new drainage box, as it's not watertight and has a bounty drying as my next build
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13 more rescued and a shark , maybe 2 litres of lego ...2 chassis and a roof section and cockpit of a 4439 helicopter. There was transformer bricks too from m#%ablox (I love the Megatron headpiece) 2 starwars plates -minus the builds! The black fig was old space -so played with only red shop is left
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Firetruck with squeeze water hose ,artic 4rotor helicarrier and grain harvester with some of the truck. All missing heaps but I've already got bits of helicarrier and tons of fire stuff .really only excited for harvester and the anticipation of the technic one to be released. I'll make a grass auger as it's missing it's cane blade. Also missing shoot so that'll need a mod too. One and a bit figs made it -axe and grinder ready to rebuild, all came in a duplo box
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Yet another discarded lot but seriously played and fragmented! Two motorbike tops, 1 frame -no wheels. Friends bits too by the colour volume. There's bits of Rya too. Also a book plate -6x8.
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Finding bits of a few sets that I already have so I have instructions. Harvester and truck (not seeing the trailer) , ice 4rotor helicopter, oil tanker (truck only) and a fire truck with water Jet -pump action (no instructions for this one. A few pieces more for mountain rescue helicopter
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John it's unbelievable what you're finding!! And crazy that people would throw out instead giving to someone else!
You really need an Instagram/TikTok where you can share all of these pics!
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I nearly want to not give up my source but I've too much ...there I said it! Today I found a piece for the shuttle trusted , I needed only one. I hoped to find a few others but 8other bits not related to the shuttle
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Slow week or too busy to get a peek at the dumped but today a big yellow storage head (and one city wheel inside) ,I need better storage as cardboard is falling apart(I use empty boxes sometimes)
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3 bags full! Yes sir , I won't be buying any lego this year . There was the silver birch bookshop and lighthouse (with lights) and about 30 unopened bags and a heap of loose lego. It's fairly clean but the backlog of lego to sort is mounting , may need to start my own bulkbrick shop!. Instructions for Nintendo game console , an angry birds set and the stunt plane from the 3 plane sideshow set
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42036 ,only front end built ,seems to be complete and a blue ninjago dragon - bag 4 not even opened , missing some leg ends maybe
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A sketchers show box full - a batmobile but about 50% ,lots of plates and 3 figs -batman ,Spiderman and meaning ( big head on minifig body) .but best of all a yellow doorframe for the yellow city bus( I had a white frame )
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Less than 200 pieces missing , a lot of recolouring ,make up parts and no figs but still a kessel runner. I will bricklink the parts sometime!
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75119 batmobile a few bits missing but I have a huge source although some are just too uncommon ,only 40% there so challenge accepted
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Still searching for bits, the grey pillar 2x2 serated round bricks may be elusive ....for now. It was remade but not with the original parts , instruction misplacement may have led to the wrong reconstruction or it was a cheapo bricklink of a build
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Missing 2 wings and 2 6x2x1 arch bricks and a 4x4 roof piece. The sides are a project too and may be a creative mod. Nice model though and I did need a batmobile???!
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42037 - minus a few correct pieces. I found a 2nd engine block but a crankshaft end piece to give alignment still AWOL. One rear driveshaft end also gone so diff doesn't work right!
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70652 jays Dragon ,only bag 4 was unopened so 1 fig is present. Anvil is missing gold armour.
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Whilst readying another few pieces for a wash these not lego pieces were outed! The figs are like evil babies ! The lego smalls don't have poseable arms so these have that over them! The 2 pieces are seperatable and the texture on the grey is soft bristles. Assembled they make microscale boat hulls
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Are the soft bristles like velcro or something?
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Rubbery ,I found the grey bits before singularly but these were assembled in the black bits
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Planning permission denied -as always!. But work has begun on 10270 modular bookshop. I'm using one plate so it splitting. Also using plates to beef up the floppy baseplate ,if say it's fairly complete bar the figs
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10278 police station too but not sure it's all there
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Waiting for bits to dry for bookshop , so wired into 70618 desting bounty. Currently missing 10 bits , I may strike it lucky in the other bits from the lot it came in.I picked what I thought were bits that looked like it. Nearly at deck level , it's crammed in the hold area so I wouldn't be impressed with it as a play thing.
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Hit a major snag with a boat prow section missing. I did find a black section lately so that may have to suffice .I had to improvise on a few bits, -instead of 2 1x4 Brown bricks I used a 2x4, instead of a 1x3 dark grey plate I uesd a 2x3. Missing a 2x3 darkgrey slope I'll use 1x2 & 2x2 (if I can find another 1x2.
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Another 3litres saved ,half is clean .mostly friends stuff -a carriage and some palace bits. There was a batman workbook with Robin fig - book is sopping set so for for compost but fig in a plastic holder...thank you.
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Space was the final frontier , well I've given the a stay of exocution. Vespa needs handle bar. The Ailsa (frozen queen) is a fake
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Like batman ,I forgot Robin! He can drive the nearly complete batmobile?
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Permission to re-commence bookshop.Missing 2black sausages and 2 2x1 holders for them, a 4x2 flat brown tile and 1 1x1 nougat tile... All got around nicely?
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The tree is missing some bits but the 2nd floor has hit a nougat drought, maybe a re-colour is in order.3rd section may be iffy too. I'll guess the 2nd building will be as incomplete. I've found police station pieces too
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10278 is the police station ,that seems more complete so possibly will be next build
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Can't believe people throw out modulars!
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Rescued scarecrow from wizard of oz -minus his hat and 5 other pieces . Today a small creator set (box mildly damaged) rescued from a charity shop bin.
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41688 magic circus carriage put into a lunchbox so hopefully it's nearly complete
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43196 beauty and the beast castle ,unlike the carriage missing a lot of pieces the castle is fairly complete (burgundy nexo shields absent)
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3biscuit boxes and one of duplo and one of other blocks. Only problem was I tipped a skip that had paint and it splashed it.it's washable and some is recent but also badly played with! There's a cactus guy torso that looks like it was shot peened
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Found a few more circus carriage pieces ,still a few to go-ahead friends colours of purple ,pink and teal - I'm sure they'll surface. Also wired into Beauty and the beast castle .2 oddly shaped 2x1 with an extension and technic hole missing. It doesn't feel solidly built and could easily see why a child playing would make it fall apart.
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Going through the 3box haul-2nd box in ,I've got a lot of parts for the recent tractor(2 of which I have), missing bits or at least I haven't yet found. I'll be modifying it like the other 2 as the instruction version is proportionally hideous(in my opinion), also way too big but these are the only tractors I have so the fleet looks consistent!
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Kid 1.. Lego 0.. Spidey senses saved him.I made 1 complete and the body parts on the left are saveable, the body count on the right is a travesty! Their arms could be salvagable. Today was build plane day..60103 jet ,some of the tapered parts might still be found .Also photo of the beauty & the beast castle
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Permission for "fly by" ...denied ....12 pieces needed to complete
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The aircraft so far , I also have a pilot's helmet and bits of the hangar and the bi-plane , this would be the 2nd of this set I've saved , the 1st one have me 3planes and little fuel cart and some hangar bits .I also had the instructions from that lot
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1 and a bit litres but it's destroyed and has s#@tty bricks too! The machine was at it as I drove into the shed! It's dirty and even though I see some potential bits ,I should have let this one die. I did leave some as the machine operator is on camera and idle machines attract the wrong attention. It's in an old plastic lego Basic box!
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Stickered parts for Mack from cars movie, eyes ,mouth and engine sides, in the dark I couldn't see any more bits!
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Excited to find a tyre and rim.......disappointed to see rim was mangled.it's a huge tyre(same size as buggy I nearly fully built) but it doesn't have lego written in tyre side and I can't find it in the rim.so not disappointed in the end
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The tractor 60287 currently found has 4rims but only 1rear tyre so a 4x4 mod with the older ugly big tyres is in motion. Also where does this fit in scale "far away" or a new city of the game tiny figs
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Only missing 1 engine block piece and 1 driveshaft end link. I've still only one recolour of a 9x technic bar. Also got given a marvel fig in the taped box....... Missing the head of pure white guy ( asking for a replacement but none in stock)
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Here's the start of a ModRod ,the front engine grille is all that'll resemble a hot rod, as it's getting Big Rig treatment
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Another truckoff perhaps ..old wheels ,cab roof and wheelarch plate. Tipper version but with these old parts and 4wideness the rig feels 80's. A "I 💛 HLC" cup dumped too!
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A 4/2 wide recovery truck ,4 on chassis 2on cab
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Today's 3litre haul was green city cargo plane /airport ,coastguard prop water plane and a technic chinook(small and blue -looks like they gave up as no stickers applied). It's clean but I didn't pick it so lost a lot of parts, one being the big wings but I do have a spare
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A wash n dry ,it's all clean but peace of mind! I had bits of this set from previous finds so I can add to the cargo
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Book 1,2and 3 for 60022 -hope most of it is there, book 1 for 60015 -boat but fishing rods , 1 fig and no hull or majority of parts , book 1and 2 for 60019 plane and service car full sticker sheet but I'm seeing most parts in my other finds, the tool bench is there though! The plane so far, need to tap the mine of parts in the wash!
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42020 technic chinook.I'm not putting on the stickers ,4 pieces eluding me -front landing gear and cockpit cross beam. They're in the wash hopefully!
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Chinook gear found, rear twisting point modified shorter due to missing bar.plans complete minus wing section but I have a spare ,just to re-find it
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Some great hauls John! Liking that Cargo plane!
How did you get on with the Bookshop and Police Station?
I do love a good haul myself, I haven't come across one in a while now. Last one was a cracking haul, see image of all the instruction booklets with it. It all came in at 80l container, all broken down, and a considerable amount of time was spent sorting.
The jewel in there for me was the 21108 Ecto 1, sadly Venkman and Stantz were missing, which I still haven't built.
Some nice surprises (not in the image) including a Princess Leia 20th Anniversary Edition.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53598512978_07c7bb00b5_c_d.jpg)
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To remake all those sets you'll need to hand in your notice or hmmmm work from home ....off screen! I hope Scooby headless horseman is there!
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Series 25 barbarian -taped close but everything inside, a potions mistake (some bits missing) and a small creator box (most parts in it). Stickers for the mirrors there too so I'm planning to make it fully round sinks like the movie and a 2nd toilet stall
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2 cockpits, 2 tail sections, 2 upper and lower sets of fuselage, 1 door .....and 2 wing sections -1 white ,1 grey . Cargo plane complete. Looks better with 2 instead of 4 engines , plus I'll need them for next plane assembly!.
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Dumped 41015 ,box was wet and bags 1 & 2 were opened. Only missing 3 figs and 2 dolphins (cue Ace Ventura), its a nice build , a lot of imagination required as no stairs to upperdeck , steering wheel obstructed by foot holder, sticker\sign depicting lifevests but none in set! I'm being adult picky but its a great ,imposing set for play ! Aaaaand if anyone wants to purchase it She's for sail ...I mean SALE!
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Huge volumes of dumped lego , -Ducati pignale ,Yoda child, technic 9392 quad bike, gingerbread house , haunted mansion and harps of ninjago and chima. Some figs but operated on by Kids so lots of arms and heads.some other brand star wars stuff. Figs from star wars advent calendar(Christmas Vader)
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Dismantling badly made technic revealed stressed bits and incorrectly assembled parts. As with all dumped reclamation ,missing parts so a few recolours but it's done 9392-the stickers fared better though
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2 Ziploc bags left for me , one was minecraft and a Harry potter advent calendar (minus snape ,Harry and voldemort) and one with lego movie cop car (70808 bike chase). As per usual missing bits but not too many, it's ugly for now but I will prevail
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The recent haul of Chima, ninjago and greys of Star Wars? has me overwhelmed as it needs cleaning and without physical instructions a gargantuan task. I did find a 4x hinge plate (at a probable Star Wars builds expense!) for lego movie cop car.
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Breaking point reached here! No more planning permission, ban on purchases ( not much of a deal breaker as I'm finding so much) ,so here's a tease of my next underground build. Missing the small link chain and figs but the building hopefully will be complete for Halloween
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10273 haunted house ,construction has begun despite ZERO planning permission ,up to bag 4 but one tan base plate\tile missing and none (honestly ) in my hoard, so a dark grey will suffice! Only worry is that plate missing may mean that section is missing. As I look at bag 4s build I can see those parts so fingers crossed
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First time disappointed to see lego , I left some behind nothing major just more bricks but I'm out of space and time to store and sort out the amount I have
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Getting a rare chance to scan Tesco and I got myself a cooking robo alien. Animal crossing set was cheapish too but I'm not going there!!!
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10273 ,up to bag 12! Some bits missing so may be one level lower !
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Like the gingerbread house the roof is getting a hammering. Big Black plates and and angled plates and connection pieces in general absent, gonna do a minifig base mashup fingers X. The light brick section is totally gone.
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31058 creator 3in 1 dino ,dumped , unopened ,small and delicate! I made the t-rex thinking of restyling as a Dragon for the castle ....sometime!
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7900 minus lots of bits ....reincarnation as 4axle high too heavier haul
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7998 also minus integral parts(both bodies and tipping parts. Big lemon is complete enough but limerick support truck needs under slung exhaust and a possible extra axle
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6363 ,battered and sellotaped ends on box I want to believe it's all there but I'm passing it to a professional. Also got a set of salt\pepper shakers. They're still in the box but dusty on top
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I probably have more found lego than what I've purchased, the lot today was a mix of city and creator, I rescued about 6 figs ,there was a small shuttle ,I'm thinking this kid liked space. transformer crappy brick in there too but weeded out quick.needs a wash and this is where my problem is -time and space and then time and space to make stuff
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Some of the recent salvage ,panel is from hogsmead visit!
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Looking for a concealment spot has revealed an attack on the Kwik-e-mart ,so it and the Simpson house need to find refuge elsewhere before further attacks leave them binbound. They're not complete and most figs are absent ,10% of house and 15% of kwik-e-mart are missing
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Anyone a fan of ledomasters, I'm on series 3 and the kids (cocky though) got knocked out. I love it and as much as if love to do it is be crap
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Harry Potter images for 2025 ,Hagrid and Harry on motorbike look hideous ,maybe same design budget as the small F1 cars - equally yuk!. Dueling class looks good and micro scale diagonally is impressive
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I wouldn't have bought it but if you throw it away in my presence, I'll gladly accept
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3 2x2 tan bricks and 1 2x2 Brown brick missing, a sausage ,can kid a clear jewel and the usual spare 1bys. I thought Sonic might be missing but He's there, I'm still not a fan ,same with Mario but the ramp and slam to spin Sonic is sorta cool. Whomever threw it out was daunted by the simp!e technic assembly at the start, it looks that way by some of the assembled bits. Now if anyone wants to buy it ,I'll expedite it as Sonic as possible
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Tiny bird thing is also missing ,the box was open so I guess I was lucky more wasn't missing
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60256 the blue/yellow one minus driver and 10 pieces ,some are common but 5 blue ones won't be so I'll replace them and it'll be a repaired from a crash
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Only missing 2 correct colour pieces, 1x2 black plates, trans clear cheese slope, black front deflecter are easy to replace, but the 2x2 light blue tapered plate and navy blue 1x1 with overhang are wrong colour . Today was cleaning parts and seeing more parts for a harvester that I already have some bits so hopefully a complete can be made! Also bits of ninjago movie manta ray .Also found white pieces with "countach" but only parts for a panel shop not an actual car
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It's unreal what people throw out!! I'm so glad that you're saving them from the bin and putting them to use!
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I'm disappointed to miss the pieces to complete them, yesterday yielded a police motorbike,and a technic pullback chassis vehicle. It's a serious chore to clean and then trying to see what actually is there and my biggest problem - where to put it!
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1st March free build and take F1 ,it's a hideous 4 wide thing but FREE ,usual bull condition of 1 per person (at least not restricted to kids)
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On closer inspection it's worse than 4wide ....it's a 3 wide!!!!!!
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1st March free build and take F1 ,it's a hideous 4 wide thing but FREE ,usual bull condition of 1 per person (at least not restricted to kids)
Ken Blacks sometimes mirror what Smyths do - I might pop in to see