All Random Lego chatter!

Naid23

We have the winter toy shop and santas workshop now built and on the mantlepiece. Both very enjoyable builds.

We have the gingerbread house & mini train set from last year aswel as this years snowglobe so will be building them this weekend.

Really like the christmas tree from the toyshop set.

Theres going to be an awful lot of lego in my house this year and then id say the new modular will be ordered early in January :P:D

Rhyme

Have a Lego-themed crib every year, last year was a bit of a hodgepodge with the overall theme being 'George Lucas' with Star Wars, Indiana Jones etc. This year I was a bit stricter with a no-nonsense Lord of the Rings crib. Had a lot of fun acquiring the right minifigures over the past few months but I think it was worth it.

Going to do Pirates next year I think.

g0g

Anyone else tempted by 1/3 off on Tesco UK? Bucket Wheel Excavator £112 and GT3 £156. I'm not sure what my mental price point is but sooner or later I'll no longer be able to resist the office of them. Might even just buy them to build then sell on maybe €20 less. Have done that with a few sets on recent years

shotgunmcos

How do you get Tesco UK delivered to Ireland?

NinjaTruncs

shotgunmcos wrote: »

How do you get Tesco UK delivered to Ireland?

Use Parcel Motel or Parcel Wizard.

uck51js9zml2yt

My,train is,now built (looks good) and I'm half way through the toyshop:)

Jentle Grenade

Feeling so sorry for myself that I didn't order Christmas Lego because of self-imposed rationalising Stupid mortgage, ruining my Lego habit. Seeing some epic Christmas MOCs on Instagram and the forums is akin to torture!

TitianGerm

Guys has anyone seen an Indromines Rex Breakout set?

A lady in work is after leaving it really late to buy now and is pankining.

Optimus Prime

I was messing around the weekend and added this to my train. It isn't exactly great building I just stuck train wheels on the end of it. But looks ok going around the tree.

https://instagram.com/p/BOKa40_gISr/

Naid23

emmetkenny wrote: »

Guys has anyone seen an Indromines Rex Breakout set?

A lady in work is after leaving it really late to buy now and is pankining.

Think i seen one in smyths in Naas. Top shelf. Check the website for stock

TitianGerm

Naid23 wrote: »

Think i seen one in smyths in Naas. Top shelf. Check the website for stock

Thanks for that Naid but it doesn't seem to be on the Smyths website anymore.

NinjaTruncs

Try ringing nimble fingers in Stillorgan or Art and Hobby you may get lucky with one of them.

TitianGerm

NinjaTruncs wrote: »

Try ringing nimble fingers in Stillorgan or Art and Hobby you may get lucky with one of them.

None in Art and Hobby according to their website but didn't know about nimble fingers.

She's working in Dublin on Thursday so that could be a great choice.

OwaynOTT

emmetkenny wrote: »

Guys has anyone seen an Indromines Rex Breakout set?

A lady in work is after leaving it really late to buy now and is pankining.

Toymaster in Ennis have it and Ken blacks stick it too.

uck51js9zml2yt

5 hours into building the toyshop. Reckon another 2-3 left.
Really enjoying the build.
Instructions could be a bit clearer though.

polydactyl

Built my Lego village last week. I need more room to display it properly but keeping it away from my 2 year old is more of a priority at the moment

Sleepy

Built the Winter train last night with the kids and Mrs Sleepy's gingerbread house is sitting proudly beside it.

Would love to complete out the winter village range but some of the older sets are really going for obscene money at this stage!

g0g

So what's everyone building today themselves or with kids? 60124 City Volcano set here. The lava-launching volcano piece has been the success story of the morning! Built 10199 last week but we never got around to the Winter Train or snow globe, so I guess they'll be saved for next year!

Glebee

70751 Temple of Artjitzu with the young lad, this is going to take a while.

Naid23

Got the boyfriend a modular town hall- so will be building that over the next little while!!

robinph

They even got my hair right:

https://flic.kr/p/Qkr4gJ

Tom Mann Centuria

Just a reminder the Big Lego Christmas is on Channel 4 tomorrow at 8pm.

Necronomicon

I'm a couple of days late, but have only just had the chance to photograph my Winter Village setup. This year I've added lights that I got via a Kickstarter project called Light STAX. I'm delighted with them, they really add so much to the setup.

Conchir

I'm about halfway through building 10214 Tower Bridge.

Holy moly is it big. The detail is very nice so far, it's looking to be very impressive.

Some parts of the build are quite monotonous though, but I guess with something this size and nature, that can't be avoided.

Also, there's 556 1x1 tan slopes in this set! Madness, does anyone know of another set with that many of just one brick?

Josey Wales

Conchir wrote: »

Also, there's 556 1x1 tan slopes in this set! Madness, does anyone know of another set with that many of just one brick?

Probably not on the same level but that self portrait set that they do in the new London shop probably has a lot of the same pieces.

beauf

Maybe I'm alone, but I think some lego sets are very much form over function. They may look much better but they are built using very fragile building methods. When the kids play with them, they just fall apart at the lightest touch.

I wonder are the lego designers to influenced by Adult Fans of LEGO (AFOLs), who generally build in this way.

midg234

Just had a quick look through some of the stuff here and all I can say is wow.

I build lego with my daughter so she's like the Lego Friends sets.

So far we've built 41101, 41119, 41126, 41133, 41129, 41127, 41122, 41095, 41135, 41100, 41015, and a lot of the little smaller ones as well

L1011

beauf wrote: »

Maybe I'm alone, but I think some lego sets are very much form over function. They may look much better but they are built using very fragile building methods. When the kids play with them, they just fall apart at the lightest touch.

I wonder are the lego designers to influenced by Adult Fans of LEGO (AFOLs), who generally build in this way.

Architecture sets are not designed for play or targeted to kids. 16 on the box

beauf

L1011 wrote: »

Architecture sets are not designed for play or targeted to kids. 16 on the box

I never mentioned architecture?

Latest is the two legged at Star wars Walker. Just falls apart when you look at it sideways. Looks terrific. Just don't play with it.

AT-ST Walker 75153

L1011

Assumed you were referring to the post above on Tower Bridge. A 40 quid star wars set should be kid-proof - moan at customer service, as they use the CRM to track design faults.