Saturday, January 30, 2021

Sorts illustrated

 I love sorting legos.  I don't know why its so relaxing but I love it.  I think it is the idea of preparing for future creations to come.  There is nothing I like more than seeing legos organized.  Ironically it's the one thing I can do for hours;housework or cleaning my car are far from organized and I avoid that like the plague.

My favorite thing is to start with basic categories...bars and clips, mini figs, people thing or animals, pieces that are 2 parts i.e. turntables, hinges, tilting bricks, car parts, wings plates and bricks and slopes.  That usually covers 75% of the pile.

I usually sort them in the living room in small containers, then combine with others in the biggest drawers.  I think the appeal is minimal thought needed, I'm doing something to .akr things better and I can watch TV while I'm doing.



















 Its difficult to explain why i like sorting legos...sort of!!!


Friday, January 29, 2021

Art imitating life part 2

 So I see a funny video in the news


However I submit that this was an illusion started in lego set 555 back in the 70s


Thank God for the modern miifig!!!


The set i played with the most

 The police station was my most played with set. 

I loved the cars and the helicopter.  I remember when I was little and would go to the airport to pick up family at night...I thought the blue lights lining the airports taxiway.  The police set had blue lights just like that as I didn't have any transparent blue cylinders til that point.  And to have 9 blue pieces to stack into a cool tube!  I also remember  at the airport when little going out on the observation deck which this lego set had also.  

The frustrating thing about the set was that when the cars and motorcycles left the station, the gray baseplate and lego world of that one set was harshly cut off on to the orange 1970s carpet in our living room.  Not much crime happening on the living room carpet.  Plus any orange convict that escaped blended in the orange carpet and was untraceable.  So my solution was to take the motorcycle,  cop cars and police force and helicopter to the most realistic setting in tve house....the fireplace.   Heres the scene


Yes, through the magic of online house sales, I found pics of the exact fireplace that was the site of search and rescue operations.  All the cop cars would gather and the helicopter would decend off the hearth into the carpet ocean and rescue the guy in the blue suit.  Yes the hearth was so close to the cliffs of the pacific coast.

Now the problem was this room was partially underground and never warm.  And wind always made the area in front of the fireplace drafty.  And the brick just kept cold trapped. The firewood in the holder caused me allergies so I couldn't breathe and the splinters of wood would poke my hands.  But despite all these obstacles,  that blue suit guy survived by climbing on the police helicopter...and then returned guiding the helicopter in.



The industrial lego look part 1

The industrial lego look part 1

I love the look of steel towers, power transformer stations, catwalks.  I don't know why I like this look except I think it came from my 2 most favorite video games of the 80s...

Both games featured a steel structure that i thought looked so cool...it even inspired me in the 80s to make my own pole position moc


And then the lego movie came out ...I dint like the movie, but the steel elevated track caught my eye.





So I  thought I was weird thinking about lego steel structures that could be made.  Then I saw the following masterpiece on lego ideas and thought wow, some other peopleine the industrial look

So I felt like there are others out there that like the steel industrial look....here are pictures I took in real life to inspire me































Ok I know this is all strange, but it lead me to order my favorite part from lego.com
I bought $100 and plan to make something like a radar tower for my airport!
So keep creating industrial structures!!!