3 brilliant microscale planes

I am not a huge fan of microscale but I think that the following planes show ingenuity

 

1) from Lego "Learn with Lego: numbers, counting", scholastic 

This is my favorite due to color scheme and the engines.  I don't know how you can make such A jagged model look so neat....

2) Sean Kenney

Even winglets on the plane!  No page numbers, just alphabetical.

3) from the lego ideas book, penguin random house

Amazing how 3 plates, a beam with holes and studs creates windows.  Also I like the approach to engines, a cone, a head piece, and a 1x1 with hole and head piece.  Amazing how 3 approaches, preset visual assumptions all combine to create separate approaches to the same object.

Very happy with lego and target

 Happy with lego

On February 18th I wrote disappointment with characteristics of  Benny suffering from anoxia.  I received a gift card for target for Christmas and it shows a Benny on a planet accomplishing placing a flag on the moon, having a dog nearby to love on and Benny in a usual posture, not some floating posture.

I think this is so much better done than previous pictures of Benny.  Even though helmet is still cracked and logo is scraped off, it could make more sense in the sense of an astronaut completing a rough mission. The tongue is more centered and eyes are relaxed more.

So thank you lego for bringing down stereotypes of people with anoxia.

More pics of oversorting

 

 

Just trying to sort too much

 Tonight I read an article talking about organizing in drawers and how it can be too broken down.  I used my stairlift to go down and spend 15 mins taking pics of presorted pieces from 2020

mins taking pics of presorted pieces from 2020

Star wars price drops initially

Greatest price drops ever from early Star Wars set production.

I always see how Star Wars saved lego when they were at a low financial point (I know no exact facts except for what I read) but I submit that lego wasn't as successful overnight as several stated in the beginning of star wars sets.  Stores were essentially giving them away initially....

5x$10 above for 5 models...on the clearance rack at the front of the store

Above $12 with a rare mini fig inside down from 49.99... Kmart 

Above b wing x4 sets each 17.98 down from 34.99

Above an at st on clearance at Walmart 

Above: Unbelievable deal...clearance of 2 sets to $50 each that rang up as $25 each.  Now worth at least a couple hundred each.  From meijer

Above 3x 4.98 each down from 9.99

$88.69 to 64.?  6 of these Above and below turbo tanks

It seemed like the demand just wasn't there...I got 5 4505 for 75 each but financially had to return to the store...eyes are bigger than the wallet at times with lego 

Piece names

 I have pretty good knowledge of the names of lego pieces.  Here's some that I didn't initially know

Still don't know this piece from toypro

Now I will say in my day, the aerial whips Above were the ski sticks.  (AND WE HAD TO WALK UP AND SKI UPWARDS EACH WAY!!! HA HA)

From lego ides book 226, p70-71