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With everyone posting their collections earlier this week, I decided to post how mine currently looks. I am likely building the Porsche with within a few weeks so will have to move things around. Enjoy!

A few years ago I bought a used 6285 Barracuda off Bricklink. I finally had time to clean the pieces and build this beautiful ship! The sails were in fantastic shape. This was my first LEGO ship that I've ever built and it was a fun, but sometimes challenging build. I must say, once you start assembling the masts and raising the sails, this ship really comes to life! I hope you enjoy the pics.

Alice in chains

Working on a western scene and saw a western train station on Lego Ideas and liked it (https://ideas.lego.com/projects/9050), but wanted to mod some changes, make it a modular and add some LED lights (http://www.lifelites.com/). I have worked on this one on/off for about three years making all kinds of modifications to it. I want to redo the inside of the building at some point, maybe give it more detail like the outside. However, for now I am content with it. I hid the battery pack to the street lights under the water tower and ran the wiring under the building (you can kind of see the battery pack, but not too bad). The clock tower lights up too, though it may be hard to see. I hid the battery pack inside the roof, with a little trap door to turn the power on. I like that it is usable for western type scenes as well as a modern train station (since there are so many older train stations still in use across this country). I also modified the locomotive so that it runs on Power Functions. All the wooden planks that wrap around the station are the 1x4 wood grain tiles (not stickers), part #2431pb243. I bought a bunch a few years ago and am glad I did, they are quite pricy now. I think it makes it look a lot nicer. Spoiler: and those of you with OCD…you may notice in the pictures that the four clocks are not aligned to be the same time…sorry.

Thinking about the rooms in the castle and the wave 1 minifigs, it seems quite straightforward that this building is set to be populated with wave 2 figs. Why only Ariel in the first wave from all the princesses? Because she is in mermaid form. All the residents are missing. So, be prepared to see Cinderella, Beauty, Beast, Prince Charming, Snow White, human Ariel, Wizard Mickey, Rapunzel, etc. in the new wave. Quite smart product tying. If you like the figs, you want the castle for them. If you like the castle, you want residents. $$$$$$

The book is almost done. The designer is finishing it up. I had to go over the entire book the last several weeks and add callouts/blurbs/dialog and Jeff had to get the photographers bios together and locate some images. It looks really nice. A lot of dynamite pictures to choose from. Very creative. I wish we had more pages because some fantastic photos won't make the cut. We should be able to see the finished pages on screen in a week or two to see who stood out photographer wise.

This set should spawn a whole new legion of LEGO fans from the Disney fan base. I expect this to boost the entire LEGO market, especially larger, more expensive sets. Customers who make this their first big LEGO purchase will now be more likely to buy other sets that interest them. Dads will now have the green light from mom. Moms will become AFOLs. This set is groundbreaking for TLG. $350 feels just about right. From the first look it's absolutely gorgeous. Now we know what the A team was working on while the B team was designing Assault on Hoth. I wonder which team is working on the new Death Star? Anyways, I think this could be a hot QFLL item this Christmas, similar to Tumbler a few years back. We'll have to keep an eye on that around here.

Since I've been asked via PM now here is the building instruction for bb-8 for everyone http://www.henriklorentzen.no/lego/bb8v2.pdf

Sorry I just have to...

It has been sitting in its box for awhile and finally built it. I applied Designer Hans mods.

Batteries

If you have purchased enough to accumulate $600 worth of rewards points then you should know the answer to your question.

Or more appropriately....

Exciter is asleep, so it's cool.

Speaking of Prime Day. I see on Amazon's site there is $30 off $150 coupon if you use your Amazon Rewards Visa to pay for your purchase on that day and enter code VISA30. Sounds like it can be multiple items, but have to add up to $150. Good on items sold by Amazon. Can be used once. http://tinyurl.com/h5o5tv4

75095 $146.99 on Amazon. Third party seller. Has decent reviews on quick glance. No tax from what I see. https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Star-75095-Fighter-Building/dp/B00X3301HI?ie=UTF8&ascsubtag=78381b51d53cf9a583ca3bfa5e111298_S&ref_=dra_a_cs_lb_hn_xx_P1400_1000&tag=dradisplay-20

Finaly had time to finish this one after getting an incomplete one on eBay a few months ago, will need to replace the stickers eventually. The build was a bit on the boring side but the finished model looks great.

I'll get a few and moc up a cool Castle Greyskull.

Not today but over the past week, I built the second copy up. I have a 3rd as well. All from bulk lots, gotta build and verify each copy, then mix and match the best combination of parts... I have about 1.5 sheets worth of stickers between the 3 sets, and no minifigs. Gotta figure out how to distribute it for best returns. Kind of fun to start a full on fleet of these though, since they're so large. No idea where to put them now of course. 6211 version for those that can't tell at a glance. Sorry for blur, my hands weren't exactly perfectly steady at the end of this build session

People need to realize that we get a very nice email from The LEGO Group's legal team asking us to remove images like the new Cinderella's Castle until they are ready for it to be announced. It history is any indication of future events, LEGO will be announcing this within the next few days...maybe week tops, once they realize the cat is out of the bag.

Yes you should cover the cardboard outer boxes with a blanket if you are worried about he sun fading the brown cardboard and turning them into tan cardboard.

Thats set 8403, $30ish.

I think people have to consider the fact that poor selling sets or sets that are expensive to produce/issues can retire sooner than later. This has been shown many times. This leads us to the UCS TIE. While I love the set, many don't, so it is not universally popular, thus possibly a candidate for early retirement. LEGO adapts and adjusts. If it sells, it stays. Saying a set will be on the shelves for "X many" years is complete speculation.

Sweet. All those calls to my congressman finally paid off.

These: http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Ninja-Sword-Sheath-853447?fromListing=listing have been on sale forever. For the price, they are a great birthday party idea. My son had a Ninjago party where they dressed up as ninjas and did some activities outside, and each kid kept the sword to take home. Better than a crap goody bag of candy. The kids loved them, and they can whack each other without hurting each other too bad.

my son, 8, wanted me to post this. Minibeard.

I have a bunch of shots (from my GS7 Edge, not the big camera) from the Lego American Roadshow, it just departed from being at my local mall for 3 weeks. I also have some lego convention shots that I could share if anyone is interested...we did get the chance to meet Adam Reed Tucker (he was there from noon - 2pm, I got there at 1pm and he was already out of that cool poster....but he signed something else for me...(I mean he designed ALL the most recent architecture sets and said that only the Robie House was left untouched, not a single brick changed by Lego) We were also able to do a little mini build tho, which was kinda cool. That's below along with a couple highlights from the Roadshow.

More building...

I haven't seen you set down that mop once...

No pictures of sets that are still rumored and unconfirmed from LEGO. Unless it is the official release, we don't allow it. LEGO hasn't officially announced this set yet. But they did issue a number of take down notices on the photos that were leaked yesterday. They didn't have to send one to Brickpicker, because we didn't let anyone post it.

Somebody needs to offer Slave I at $146 shipped FBM to see if we can get AMZN to reprice down to $155 to win the buy box.

I'm SO EXCITED!

I didn't receive an email but the code WDEARLY20 worked for me. SD is suggesting WDEARLY may also work.

Amazon : $155 Amazon 3p : 146 if u don't pay tax and use Amazon card it is a sweet deal

Amazon has the ucs tie @ $187. I don't recall Amazon discounting exclusives in ages .

Talking about a QFLL

It's better you get a bucket .....

Speaking of Barnes deals, for all you Agent fans (yes, both of you), Barnes has 25% off Ultracopter vs. Anti-matter 70170 Even better than a helicopter. An Ultracopter.

Can't seem to get enough Bush lately...

Finally my parts arrived and I could build BB-8 (Thanks to https://www.flickr.com/photos/hensolberg/albums/with/72157660129079607 )

30% of Star Wars Tie Fighter UCS... from ordering anymore.

Took my wife, for our 17th wedding anniversary, to see Bryan Adams in concert. I had managed to snag 2nd row tickets when they went on sale a couple months ago. Fantastic concert. Really great. Before the concert, they were doing a charity fundraiser for Shriner's Hospital, a charity near and dear to our own hearts. Buy his album (which we already had) and get entered to win a meet and great. Yeah, we won. My wife has been a fan of his for 30 years. We've been hitting his concerts in town the last five or six years. Needless to say, she's on cloud 9. Picture and autograph. Lots of fun.