LEGO Picture Thread

[Preppy]

Two recent acquisitions:


By fisheec3 at 2012-08-01

[dr_spock]

Your Unimog is awesome.

Thanks.

[99blackmagic]

I love the olympic figures, I wonder if they have them at local toy stores or not.

Side note, I noticed they're really pumping out the regular Series of Minifigures quick. I remember that series 4 and 5 were out almost a year, then 6 came less than a year later, 7 6 months later, now they show 8? No way i can keep up with buying, let alone finding them all.

[CanadianTurbo]

I love the olympic figures, I wonder if they have them at local toy stores or not.

I am not sure if they are exclusive to the UK and or if Team GB is the only version available, but they are cool and was glad to get a few.

[Preppy]

Anyone else have this one as a kid?

[xero_dobbler]

[Oliver@triplezoom]

Better get a move in then. I wish we had known because there a few of the creator sets that are no longer available, a coffee shop and hotel. Some douche on Amazon is selling the coffee shop for $1800 and the hotel goes for $600+...

I want to get the fire brigade and grand emporium before they are unavailable and I was actually thinking about ordering two of each and then selling the extas after the sets are discontinued for a profit.

[brickfrenzy]

Anyone else have this one as a kid?

Oh, I loved the Arctic technic sets. They were awesomesauce!

Also, this has been making its way around the tubes, and I assume many of you have seen it already, but this is a Lego picture thread after all...

[Hostile]

Holy wow!

[Hostile]

I track my sets at Brickset.com, here is link: http://www.brickset.com/search/?ownedBy=idburns

Anyone else have links to share?

[Oliver@triplezoom]

I track my sets at Brickset.com, here is link: http://www.brickset.com/search/?ownedBy=idburns

Anyone else have links to share?

Gotta love those old city sets. There's still a bunch of Lego at my parents house that my brother and I should sort through.

After a few years of admiring some of the new sets and wanting them but never pulling the trigger, I finally said "screw it" and started buying some. Here's my (very small) list: http://www.brickset.com/search/?ownedBy=odueck Still waiting for three of these to be delivered. I'm mainly interested in buildings (architecture, modular, Creator houses) and vehicles.

Built this yesterday:



I made three mistakes. The first I caught fairly early, but it was too late to fix without starting from scratch and didn't affect functionality. The second I noticed right away and was able to correct easily. The third, well, I didn't notice until I was done. I missed one of the many, many gears and the arm doesn't move up and down. Guess I will have to rebuild it.

[Hostile]

Gotta love those old city sets. There's still a bunch of Lego at my parents house that my brother and I should sort through.

The only reason I have those old 80's sets in my list is that I (surprisingly) still have the instructions for them.

Otherwise I never would have known!

Built this yesterday:



I made three mistakes. The first I caught fairly early, but it was too late to fix without starting from scratch and didn't affect functionality. The second I noticed right away and was able to correct easily. The third, well, I didn't notice until I was done. I missed one of the many, many gears and the arm doesn't move up and down. Guess I will have to rebuild it.

Tell me about it. Go a page or two back, I listed a Technic flatbed towtruck that I built. I had to rebuild it and I still made another mistake...

[Green Hare]

I just picked this one up yesterday myself... I'm not sure how soon it will get built, part of me is thinking about just holding on and accumulating more SW sets until we move, then putting in some sort of display case to hold them all.

So far this year I've picked up:

X-Wing
Y-Wing
Droid escape pod
Millennium Falcon
Tie Fighter

(and probably more than I can remember at the moment )

[goody6691]

Two recent acquisitions:


By fisheec3 at 2012-08-01

i want that crane so bad, just wont pay
300 for it

[Preppy]

i want that crane so bad, just wont pay
300 for it

I bought a used set on ebay... ended up at $115.

[dr_spock]

I bought a used set on ebay... ended up at $115.

I paid $80 for 8288 in 2008. I am surprised how much it has gone up.

[dr_spock]

I had this happened when I was a young single lad.

[dr_spock]

Another attachment MOC for my Unimog to match its little brother.

[Oliver@triplezoom]

Tell me about it. Go a page or two back, I listed a Technic flatbed towtruck that I built. I had to rebuild it and I still made another mistake...

I rebuilt the excavator the other day and sure enough, I made another mistake.

Just got done building tbe Fire Brigade. It's my first modular building and I'm quite impressed. I'll have to pick up the Grand Emporium next.

[iliaonabike]

Didn't think anyone on vortex played with Lego's.... and then I found THIS thread

AWESOME! I'm gonna have to post some pics of my collection.

I see some of you guys got the Uni Mog. Is it worth the moneys?

[Preppy]

Didn't think anyone on vortex played with Lego's.... and then I found THIS thread

AWESOME! I'm gonna have to post some pics of my collection.

I see some of you guys got the Uni Mog. Is it worth the moneys?

I bought one yesterday. It's insane.

[dr_spock]

Didn't think anyone on vortex played with Lego's.... and then I found THIS thread

AWESOME! I'm gonna have to post some pics of my collection.

I see some of you guys got the Uni Mog. Is it worth the moneys?

Yes.

[iliaonabike]

I bought one yesterday. It's insane.

Yes.

Great! I'll have to pick up 2 of those and 2 8070's. I started trying to pick up 2 of every new set I buy, one to play with and one for collection to sell in 50 years

[Hostile]

The wife and I made a stop at the LEGO store at Tyson's. F that store. Small and stupid crowded with aloof parents and their poorly-trained children. We'll make the trip to the one at Potomac Mills from now on instead.

For the wife (just came out yesterday):


For me:


And we got 3 of these for free for spending so much.


This logging truck is about 5x as complex as the flatbed truck I had to rebuild 3 times... This one has only one motor but two switched transmissions for the various functions. Crazy.

[xero_dobbler]

The pictures don't do it justice.. In person does:



These were taken @ BrickFair in VA a few weeks ago.
In the bottom right corner you can see some of the stats..

[xero_dobbler]

And since I'm in here, here's some of my recent work too:

[dr_spock]

For a Friends contest.


mia lupo spa by dr_spock_888, on Flickr

[iliaonabike]

Here is my small and humble but always expanding list. http://www.brickset.com/search/?owned=1
I probably missed a couple sets but all the important ones are there!

The wife and I made a stop at the LEGO store at Tyson's. F that store. Small and stupid crowded with aloof parents and their poorly-trained children. We'll make the trip to the one at Potomac Mills from now on instead.

For the wife (just came out yesterday):


For me:

Both of those sets look amazing! :drooool

[iliaonabike]

The pictures don't do it justice.. In person does:



These were taken @ BrickFair in VA a few weeks ago.
In the bottom right corner you can see some of the stats..

Does that say 70,000 pieces?

[Hostile]

These were taken @ BrickFair in VA a few weeks ago.

I was this || close to going, the Dulles Expo Center where it was held is about 20 minutes from my house.

[brickfrenzy]

Does that say 70,000 pieces?

Yup. 70,000 pieces, 135 pounds, just over 7 feet in length. It took me 475 hours over 21 months to build.

[iliaonabike]

Yup. 70,000 pieces, 135 pounds, just over 7 feet in length. It took me 475 hours over 21 months to build.

Oh you built that? That's insane man! Talk about dedication. Most think oh it's just plastic bricks haha but I'm sure there are only a few in the world who could make something of this scale. The level of detail on that thing is crazy! WOW! Do any parts of it open up to reveal the inside?

[iliaonabike]

Oh you built that? That's insane man! Talk about dedication. Most think oh it's just plastic bricks haha but I'm sure there are only a few in the world who could make something of this scale. The level of detail on that thing is crazy! WOW! Do any parts of it open up to reveal the inside?

Nevermind on that last question. Googled it and found the 's

[Preppy]

OMG!

[goody6691]

i would buy those alien sets right now. wow, are they cool