Cool trucks...Lego and non-Lego

Im turning my back on being a Lego purist...

Ok, between real life, prior lego sets and knockoff lego sets, I have picked my favorite trucks that I'd love to build.  All the army/military sets could be in a battle/take on a group of 6950 mobile rocket launchers!!!

Ok so here are my favorite truck ideas

So I've looked at lego knockoffs..I feel so dirty but I do like the styles of the military type trucks!  But I'd take a classic space set any day over a non lego brand!!!

Maersk lego sets!

These sets Maersk my day ha ha

I never had heard of Maersk until the train set came out in 2016.  I wanted that set so bad but thought I wouldn't get it! Santa didn't think I'd been good that year...however just after it retired,, my wife found one on target's web page on clearance!!!  I was so happy.  Living far from the ocean, I wasn't too familiar with shipping containers, nor Maersk, but after getting that train I started seeing them ...2 were just sitting in truck lots and one one on the freeway.  I then was going through old lego sets and didn't realize there were multiple trucks in legos  past!

this top pic is the 2016 truck

Well, all these models were unknown to 

Me until I started seeing maersk containers in land.  Once I saw the Maersk train, I started seeing the containers more and more..  The final end all be all moment was when I took a boat tour of Seattle!

So I finally found the natural habitat of the Maersk containers!!!

I want to build the maersk train i have but I'm afraid of messing it up when it could make me a millionaire in the future by selling it!

When lego stores were doing grab bags where they put dissassembled store models, I know I got a good percentage of pieces for a second train...I can tell by they grey doors and distinct blue pieces. 

Spot the differences!!

 These boxes for legos look so similar but they have differences 

Its the missing stormtrooper..see bricklink for details

2nd example

The planets are different, the numbers are different due to the European vs American version as well as the astronaut positions are different and the flat plate has a crater built out of lego vs premolded!!

I love useless info!!!  Images from eBay and Google images and bricklink 

Dumb mistake #1 setting up my lego room

 I cannot get to my basement to get to my legos due to an injury ( I miss my legos so much).  When I built my room,  I thought at the time it would be neat to have legos stored from floor to ceiling, just like at the legoland workshop or a library where you need a ladder to get to the top/full collection.  Well I never thought about getting up to all the legos if physically I was unable. Now I've got to get someone to eventually get the top drawers down

Not so intelligent stacking cabinets so high!  No chance of reaching the top!  When I fill the 64 drawer cabinet on the particleboard bookshelf, it will be too heavy and unsafe...

Could also be a safety risk, esp. With steel cabinets!

Live and learn!

Dumb mistake in lego room setup #2

 Here was my second failure in an attempt to make a cool lego room, using dollies to move my drawer cabinets around on the work bench.

Ahh, the elusive $7.99 advertised dolly that's never in stock.  More elusive than the rarest of minifigs!

My inspiration for this idea came when I saw this picture below years ago...would give anything for this setup!!!

From Carney Castle.com (excellent website and builder!).  Also on Pinterest!

I looked up similar pics and found

So I had the brilliant idea to try this with the cabinets that I had i.e. the following inspiration, I would make my drawer cabinets and sterilite able to be moved around...

Like the childhood game below.

Although as the puzzle above shows, there has to be an empty space on the counter with the cabinets, not the vast one between my ears!

Rush hour, same type of game getting the red car (i.e. exact lego drawer) out

Well to do this, I was going to buy cheap dollies from a local store...unfortunately I could never get the dollies, they were always on sale but never in stock!!!

So I set up a front row of storage bins and a back row..such a genius...we'll see

Above and below are back wall bins withour being covered by the sterilite drawers

Here above. I put small bins in the back

Finally as in the 2 pictures below and the one above, I blocked all chance of getting to drawer cabinets with big plastic bins...what was I thinking?

So the back row hides behind the front row.  The problem is that I have no place to work on the bench and not enough room to move the front row out of the way....I wasn't as smart as I thought I was!

So ill keep looking at the options to make this work!!!

Also, I should put the lighter plastic cabinets in front...hindsight is 20/20