Thursday, February 11, 2021

The horizon express is a special set for me.

When I was in the lego store I just caught out of my ear a person saying "so thats a real train."

I got to live in France for a month in 1988 in a town called LA ciotat which is next to the tgv station...trans of great speed..or trains de grande vitesse (tgv)

Here is the station

So when I was at a lego store, someone asked if it was a real train and it was! I saw it!!!

Awesome set!!!!! Lego was on track with this model!

La ciotat 1988 july

Those free red bins are going to be the end of me

I love these free bins menards gives via rebates. For a while they did it almost every weekend. I built a great collection of them and tried to make my home version of the lego workshop

So I thought I'd build a bin rack as I cannot afford the nice $1200 metal ones

So here it is in all its glory

But it was wobbly and the bins kept falling off

A nice guy at work cut the metal pieces for me..thanks DB

But the structure just didn't hold up...I probably could have added a cross bar in the back but the bins still fell off:(

Plus it was too heavy on 1 side...

So now here's the bins in their current state

Now this pic on the internet was what I envisioned

Sigh....like so many mocs i know what I want things to look like in my head, but the building skills just aren't there....:(

Update: I bought loctite glue and well see if it can hold them together!!!

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

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..

Similar to these

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!!

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!

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.