Cleaning my legos

I had a washer delivered and they turned the washer on but didn't stay to ensure the tubing was connected. The entire load of water drained on my lego room

You can see the water 💧 on the floor.  

Not the first flood as the tube came off the washer 2 years ago dousing everything...here was my favorite box ruined

But the worst water damage was a slow leak from a spicket overhead. The last lego set my mom got me for Christmas got wet and ruined..

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So make sure your lego room is protected 

Replaced with a better solution by they plumber as seen below

So make sure pipes and above your lego room is dry!!

My new theme song

 B Spears has written "oops I did it again" and thats how I feel and what I think of when I go into my lego room and at the entrance outside.  I start to get a handle on the mess, especially when I was off due to Covid and now I'm right back to chaos.  How do I keep doing this??!!

Now this was June 2020

I had things so organized...I hope I can make time to get back to where I was!

Thinking and sorting outside the box

So many times I've wanted to keep the boxes of lego sets I have convinced they'll make me a millionaire eventually

You just get to a point where there's no room for boxes!!  It killed me but I unboxed and sorted the legos, so much for keeping sets together:(

Open concept buildings

I remember early in life playing with a friends police station...it was so primitive and the building really was a backdrop for the vehicles and minifig silhouettes.  Then I learned in 2004 that set 493 existed.  I thought it was neat as I didn't know this existed as a kid.  On a Wikipedia site I learned an important fact about set 493/926...it was the first time you could see inside and play inside the building.

Compare the closed building without interior access

The building in space had an open room...same for cars

So much better having open options for play inside as well as outside of the building...look where this has gone

So lego  has sure come a long way...here's to future great sets!!!  What a difference 43 years makes!
 

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!!!

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

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!!!