Lego Haul - 9/10/17

I finally got a chance to go to the Lego store at the Mall of America last Saturday.  I originally wanted to get a large cup of bricks, some minifigures, and maybe a set or two.  Then my wife found the seasonal Halloween set.  I'm around ready to check out, making one last trip around the shelves and we saw some Lego Dimensions sets on sale.  So I grab one...  but my wife egged me on.  "Get another one, they're half off!!"  Such an enabler (but that's why I love her).

The Lego Haul for 9/10/17

It's been a while since I made such a large purchase at the Lego store.  But it felt good to do so.  There's a lot to cover here, so let's get to work.

Contents of my large Lego Cup

My large cup consisted of 2x4 bricks and nothing else.  15 white, 4 brown, 12 light blue, and about 100 pink.  The brown ones were for an additional layer to my police station.  The light blue are for redesigning the Princess Play Castle, and the pink and white ones for the Bakery I'm working on.

I haven't been seeing anything else good on the Pick-A-Brick wall at various Lego stores lately, so I think it's time to do an online order for bricks.  I've got my list ready to go, so I'll probably be ready to submit it in a week or so.

Contents of the 40260 LEGO Halloween Haunt

 40260 LEGO Halloween Haunt fully assembled with the gate closed (left) and open (right)

My wife loves Halloween mostly for the fun decorative items one can set up around the house.  Lego's are a great way to do that.  This year's set, the 40260 LEGO Halloween Haunt, is a great addition to my existing Lego sets.  I think I have enough for an outdoor Halloween haunted house-type thing.  I'll have to dig out the rest of my collection here in the coming weeks to help her get everything set up.

Contents of 60150 Pizza Van

60150 Pizza Van full assembled

Lego came out with yet another restaurant/food service type thing, and although I'm firmly in the belief that I have plenty of those kinds of sets and buildings, I had to get the 60150 Pizza Van.  Why?  BECAUSE THEY HAVE PIECES FOR INDIVIDUAL SLICES OF PIZZA.  Seriously, how can I be expected to say no to that?

I've got the Restaurant, a corner deli, separate pizza place, a grocery store, a coffee shop, a couple of hot dog carts...  There are plenty of places to eat in town.  I guess one more can't hurt.

But this is the end of it!!...  Maybe...

Three-pack of minifgures

I grabbed a three-pack of minifigures to get someone to run the Bakery, and maybe a couple of medical professionals as well.  So I grabbed a three-pack with some various accessories that could be used by others in town.

There is just one problem...  The dude at the register didn't ring them up...  Whoops.

I plan to, upon my next visit to the MOA Lego store, inform someone at my next checkout and square away my bill.

Lego's sales are down right now.  They don't need me walking out with merchandise that I didn't pay for.

Contents of 71248 Mission: Impossible Level Pack (left) and 71266 LEGO City Fun Pack (right)

71266 LEGO City Fun Pack (the first two two on the left) and 71248 Mission: Impossible Level Pack (last three on the right) fully assembled

Lego has recently started the next round of Dimensions game content updates and new sets to coincide with that.  This makes existing sets available on the cheap.  There's quite a bit of content my wife and I haven't unlocked yet.  Mainly because I rarely play it without her.  It's an activity for US to enjoy.  Especially when she unleashes on all the shit to break in the levels.  She's pretty good at figuring out some of the puzzles before I can as well.

She STRONGLY suggested getting some more sets, so I grabbed 71248 Mission: Impossible Level Pack and 71266 LEGO City Fun Pack.  It allowed us to unlock a few more levels in the game, and with the characters' abilities (like Ethan Hunt's x-ray vision), we can unlocked even more content.  Yay!!

 30428 Green Ninja Mech Dragon contents (left) and fully assembled (right)

Given the volume of stuff I purchased (regardless of how much I paid for it...), I got a free promotional 30428 Green Ninja Mech Dragon from the upcoming Lego Ninjago movie.  I don't plan on seeing it, as the Ninjago cartoon series or product line has never really appealed to me.  I'm just too old for it.  But a green dragon gives me an idea...

Uh oh, I'm thinking of building another restaurant.  Whelp. 

Everything fully assembled, surrounding the Bakery

Checking my list of the additional sets I want to buy...  Yeah, I'm going to keep have to keep going back there again and again and again...

Lego Haul - 8/28/17

I finally finished the summer semester at school, so I could sit down and relax for a bit, recover some personal, internal mental strength, and get back to my normal, chipper self...  Right?  Wrong.  My in-laws were in town for the week, which meant running around town and doing everything possible in the limited time we had together.  It's over now, but it really took it's toll on me.

We did make it out to the Lego store at the MOA on Monday, and it was bad.  The shelves looked fairly depleted.  Way more than they should have been.  It had to be an end of the month thing.  Getting rid of the relatively older inventory and making room for the new stuff that was coming out on the 1st of September.

The Lego haul from 8/28/17

I made the best of it and got a small cup of Lego's.  I got about 35 white 2x4 bricks to add another level to the walls at the Police Station.  I also got a few pink 2x4 bricks for the Bakery I'm planning, giving me enough to build at least one wall.  I think I have enough for the rest of the outside wall, but I'd have to finish unpacking all the boxes from my recent move.

Contents of the small Lego cup from 8/28/17

The medium azur 4x6 plates will go towards building a more secure floor for the Princess Play Castle.  The ice cream cones are going to be used for ice cream (duh) at various locales.  The dark stone grey 1x2/2x4 angle plates gave me an idea for a large display sign.  Where and what it says, I don't know.  It'll come to me.  The other bricks will have purposes as well, what they are, I just don't know yet.

I guess I should back to work building things from Lego's...

Treehouse and Princess Play Castle

Designing things out of Lego's is tough.  Sure, I can do big buildings to house banks, firefighters, and a fine dining establishment.  But not everything I touch turns to gold.

 

The Treehouse and the Princess Play Castle

Case-in-point, I have a 31010 Treehouse.  It came with a small boy minifigure.  To even out the gender scales, I've been trying to build a princess play castle, for the little girls to play in.

Rear view of the Princess Play Castle (in its current configuration)

It has not been easy.  I have high standards for the elements going into my town.  I know it looks like I don't, but I put a lot of thought into every item.  I've got a large tote filled with sets that I haven't touched yet because I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE TO PUT THEM.  All my classic Space sets from the late 80's to mid 90's?  Sea exploration sets?  They're staying put.  Possibly forever.

Side views of the Princess Play Castle

I've got plenty of bricks to play with.  I'm working on combining a few different sets together to get the princess play castle built.  10660 Lego Pink Suitcase and 10668 The Princess Play Castle help me with the building blocks, but I need more.  I'm keeping my eye on future set releases that might be more female-oriented.

Extra bricks I'd like to use, but have no idea where to put yet

I'll never figure all this out.  But it's the journey to my Lego town, not the destination.