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We have loads stashed all over the house. Doesn’t tend to get dismantled once it’s built. Still have all the boxes tho. Need to find a way to display it better as currently the Millennium Falcon is stacked on top of a star cruiser 😉
For some reason the Saturn V has passed me by. Wife’s birthday next month so I think we’re sorted there.
Got led lights behind them looks cool at night. Wife’s full approval 🙂
Currently building 007 DB5 then the Caterham to fill two empty spaces on second shelf. Don’t know where I’ll put my Ferrari and green Porsche once built !!
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It actually separates into the various stages accurately so you can do a proper takeoff sequence & everything
For added effect get hold of some cotton wool and lighter fluid, cram cotton wool into base orriface and soak with lighter fluid..
Grab lighter..
Ignite..
Boom!
speaking of which… has anyone bought those Kg bundles of mixed bricks off ebay? good / bad experiences? recommend a seller? our girls collection is pitiful to what mine was at their age…
We have bought an awful lot of loose Lego off ebay. Probably 20kg+ of the stuff. Not necessarily sold in bundles, but as job-lots. You always get some rubbish (Playmobil, "bandit" MY or other fake bricks and a bit of Duplo) and more Technical bricks than we want, but on the whole it is well worth it. Be prepared to spend hours and hours sifting through it though if you want to store it in some sort of order.
My daughter built a massive village (8ft x 4ft) that I tweeted to Lego and they re-tweeted it. It got 50,000+ hits!
And I love the Carpets!
Haven't done job lot mix bundles, have done "no box" type sets which have mostly been ok. We've ended up with
Tub 1 - eldest's stuff, bought new (or boxed complete) sets as birthday/christmas presents, all complete, still with boxes and instructions
Tub 2 - no box sets, most all complete, a few "joint present" boxes, some sets mixed up together
Tub 3 - detritus, all mixed up old stuff
First tub stays out of reach from the 3 year old, as eldest gets a bit upset if his stuff gets all messed up. Tub 2 gets "somewhat supervised" use to try and keep things as complete as possible but smallest plays with it ok. Tub 3 is a free for all and has even provided the dogs with a couple of chew toys.
Lastly.
Tub 0 - off the radar, undeclared to wife and children, all my old boxed complete sets from years back, mostly Technic stuff of mid/late 80s and some 12V train stuff. Currently kept in the dustiest most spider infested far reaches of loft space. Or, safe, in other words.
I keep my tub 0 at my parent's house. Well three of them.
I want to sort out some of the older (rarer?) early 80s space and city stuff before the kids get their grubby mitts on it. And two train sets. And the Technic stuff.
I really want the kids to use it though as it's been sat idle for 25 years and it's the only childhood toy I kept and would cost £100s to get kid's current collection up to that volume of bricks.
Link to Lego village that my daughter built.
https://twitter.com/HarrytheSpider/status/989749394005151745
Apologies if it doesn't work.
That's great, fair play.
Good work @harrythespider. My 4 year old love building car cities where we get all of his Lego cars out.
Worked at a chaps house a few weeks ago he had a whole LEGO room just full of LEGO, all in seperate plastic boxes and colours, along with a Saturn 5 in the bathroom on the Window cill,as part of a group they buy LEGO in bulk, last delivery a quarter of a ton of the stuff on a few pallets, all bagged up seperately.