Several weeks ago, I got the Winter Toy Store set at the Lego Store, but it doesn't exactly fit into the winter village thing I've got going on. I'm not sure where to put it or what to do with it yet, but it's together, so the easy part is over.
Winter Village Shop
Sure, there are kids in the winter village, visiting the carnival, skating, seeing grandma and grandpa, but toys aren't exactly essential in such an environment. So I have a few different options here...
- General Store: A small general store would sell the necessities to the small handful of villagers that live up in the mountains year-around. Since I've nearly got the city's grocery store completely designed and built, putting some food stuffs in here.
- Ski Lodge Hut: I've got enough minifigure accessories where I could have a little skiing operation going on. I'd need some walls to enclose the store and house some storage lockers. I also have to figure out how to design a slope.
The great thing about the winter village is that all the buildings are pre-designed for me. That's also the difficult thing. Taking someone else's ideas and trying to shape them into my own. It's like putting together a mix tape for a friend. You're taking someone else's thoughts and feelings and distorting them into your own. You think you're being original, but you're not. Someone else's idea goes into the blender, and you claim the output as your own.
I not under any kind of deadline when it comes to stuff. Maybe a little, as I'm trying to schedule my posts out for the next 18 months, but since I'm the one setting it, I can juggle things around. No big deal.
And it's not like I wasn't expecting this to take forever. I totally do. I've got a plastic tote full of things I have no idea what to do with yet. My Space sets from the late 80's and early 90's, Aquazone for some deep sea exploration, Simpsons minifigures. The holes in my city layout may be round, but some of my pegs are square. Hell, when I started out, everything was going to be together. Now I've got two regions outside city limits, the lake and the mountains.
It will never end. But I'm not stopping anytime soon.
I not under any kind of deadline when it comes to stuff. Maybe a little, as I'm trying to schedule my posts out for the next 18 months, but since I'm the one setting it, I can juggle things around. No big deal.
And it's not like I wasn't expecting this to take forever. I totally do. I've got a plastic tote full of things I have no idea what to do with yet. My Space sets from the late 80's and early 90's, Aquazone for some deep sea exploration, Simpsons minifigures. The holes in my city layout may be round, but some of my pegs are square. Hell, when I started out, everything was going to be together. Now I've got two regions outside city limits, the lake and the mountains.
It will never end. But I'm not stopping anytime soon.
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