Star wars manual labor

 Today I started taking pics of the star wars manuals that I have.  

I am going to get rid of all the other manuals from town and creator.  But i thought these might be worth something as they are older original star wars sets

Above: The starfighter on the left sold for $5 vs. a prior price reduction from 19.99!

34 stormtroopers above

35 more stormtroopers above 

32 stormtroopers in first pics above = 101 total!

More to come!!

 More drawers that were sorted 2020

lego drawer

All sorted 2020

Galaxy explorer et al...

 Favorite intact classic space boxes

I found my prized possession today

2 mobile labs

Love the gray and blue color scheme in classic space!  I obtained these in early days of ebay i.e. 1999 before exorbitant prices became the norm!  I always crack up when now I see i.e. (hypothetical) 2 1x1 white bricks for $40 ha ha...it will then say in stock which it's going to be for a long time!

Hoarding/unorganized vs. Collecting and organized

When does collecting become hoarding?  

I Have to say that I don't know...although I'm not a completely a hoarder...just collecting a lot and unable to organize due to unforseen circumstances.

This week Ì had 2 people help me start cleaning my lego room.  I pointed out what was trash and what was donate. 

In the past, I had so many plans to make a cool diorama with using slot car track for roads...Lionel train tracks for trains until I got real lego track...etc...

Now I'm unable to set this up so I pitched the track. Instead, now  I want to use pure legos for a diorama instead.  The problem is that I planned to sort the legos but now I'm stuck with containers that look like bulk lego.  I cannot get to sort the multiple containers.

Here's my dilemma in pics.  Before and below is a pic of containers on floor and random sorted legos.

Above empty sterilite and other huge unsorted lego

After 3 hours my family helped clean up this mess in pic above since I cannot help lift.

Now I can get help to get things on higher shelves easier.

Sometimes I'm happy with all my legos but at other times I'm unsure if it is hoarding...!

I'd be curious to know if anyone else has experienced the same issue of trouble getting a hold on a lot of unsorted lego and empty containers/full containers.

Surrounded by lego in our lego room via panoramic pics

Panoramic pics of my lego room in panoramic mode vs. at Barnes and Noble 

And finally at Barnes and noble...not all panoramic but still fantastic 

I think my lego room won!

To be surrounded by Lego, even just a pic=perfection!!!! :)

Speed Champions

 I'm Having trouble building speed Champions.

I built the speed Champions newer sets and most people love them but I had trouble putting them together.  To reduce tightness And pushing together, the pieces on the other side of the car fall off as they arent locked at times. 

The pieces that are small are hard to determine the chirality of.  I feel like I'm trying to determine molecular structure with a model set while using then in a game of tetris.  The pieces that are 1/4 size of a dot piece are hard to apply esp to small sections that are built.  The small fender pieces fall off.  I can't get the Lamborghini front to stay on and the Ferrari was very difficult.  The pieces are hard to pick up like a coin on a table.  The 007 car canopy won't stay on. (76911 set)

I don't claim to be the best or the fastest builder but I wouldn't call the cars relaxing to build.  I think I'm old school where plates stack, headlight bricks were the thing, cars were studded ie police station.

Here's places I think it's hard to see instructions in the 007 car

 

Another problem I have is clipping subunits to bars...pieces fall off...i.e. ferrari (set 76914)

Also in the set 76914 above

I cannot get the black clips to attach to the gold oval 1x2 pieces and stay on in set 76915

Above 2 pics show black clips attach to the gold bars vertically 76915

 And pieces i.e. the small silver pin pieces fall off as below...see step 3 below

The same problem occurred putting the 007 car together (not shown) 76911

Another place where pieces keep falling off during the build is as below in set 76914

Those pieces are hard to keep on and small to hold.  Additional small subunits pieces are noted in set 76914

Hard to hold while assembling above as it falls apart if pieces are not tight together.

I think the lighting, fat fingers, too much force pushing, small pieces are just hard to do...obviously I'm not one of the quick builders.  I don't blame lego, it's just me.  Any tips or similar experiences would be appreciated in the comments section.

I think I'm old school where plates stack, headlight bricks were the thing, cars were studded ie police station!