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Not just today, but for the last three days... Just sitting at my workstation sorting, sorting and then sorting some more! Maybe in a week or so I will ave a better handle on what I have so I can avoid some trips to bricklink for parts.

While sorting I noticed that LEGO has just about every kind of weapon imaginable from canons to bazookas and flick-fire missles, from bow and arrow to blasters, every kind of knife, sword and spear I have seen or can even imagine, but... Not one church.

I am not trying to start something here... please just don't. This was just an observation, not a social commentary.

Andy D

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Planning to re arrange the dinning room Lego Room. A 5 ft long city, Avengers base, 6 Castles, 4 Space Ships, couple of thousand mini figs, a Space bar, 4 sailing ships, Dr Doom's lair and my classic Space station "Moon Base Alpha" to move, plus 50,000 pieces, a couple of chairs, a big piece of plywood and a Video collection in the way. Tomorrow's going to be a long day...

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Got 70803 (Cloud Cuckoo palace) as birthday present, bought 70809 (Lord Business' Lair) got one minifig bag and bought two more! (Pants-guy, Hard-hat Emmet and robot with beard)

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Went and watched The Lego Movie yesterday; been really busy with school to catch up with Lego but this week I'll see if there are still Mirkwood Elf Army sets at Walmart and grab one for myself.

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Yup, the sorting kills me, too! Keeps me out of my LEGO room for days at a time. I will pull one set out and play with it at the kitchen table instead of organizing and sorting everything so I can work on the table in there. Why is it so hard to sort LEGO? Most of my parts are in large bins sorted by color and only about 10 percent are lying loose in builds in various stages of completion and driving me nuts. The more I try to put them away, the more they spread.

I try to make a little progress every week by sorting for an hour or two. Or putting one more modular on the shelf, etc. Am finding all kinds of parts I did not know were in my collection. And it would be terrible to order what is already here. One big lesson, when storing a build, do not take it apart for any reason. You will probably never get it back together is my experience with the modulars and other large buildings. The parts tend to disappear, and it is torture to reverse build the top floor. Don't ask why, okay!

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Yup, the sorting kills me, too!

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The more I try to put them away, the more they spread.

I try to make a little progress every week by sorting for an hour or two. Or putting one more modular on the shelf, etc. Am finding all kinds of parts I did not know were in my collection. And it would be terrible to order what is already here. One big lesson, when storing a build, do not take it apart for any reason. You will probably never get it back together is my experience with the modulars and other large buildings. The parts tend to disappear, and it is torture to reverse build the top floor. Don't ask why, okay!

Yep, those buggers just seem to spread on their own.;)

Making some progress each week is the way to go. I currently have much of my unsorted collection in my build space, that is my incintive to get them sorted, then I will allow myself to build something as a reward. Week before last I built 2 of my Architecture pieces.

Sorting is one thing... Getting organized is quite another.

Talking about dissappearing parts, kind of reminds me of the sock that dissappears in the clothes dryer, you put 2 in and only one comes out.

My hope is that by sorting and organizing I can avoid buying pieces I already have and instead concentrate on parts I need for a build.

Andy D

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I am having plenty of time these days as I'm sick. As the updates in the fora I normally visit here on EB don't come often enough, I have visited other fora I normally don't visit. That is for example the reason I write in this thread :wink:

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I decided that I couldn't wait for a BL order of gears to step down/up the Portal Axles so I just wrangled an XL motor into the Unimog. That took a lot longer than it should have because I was without the Youtube instructions (I have satellite internet and the account had throttled back for excessive usage - it happens to me every month, so I should be used to it by now). So with a series of Text messages to a friend in Louisiana and screenshots texted back to me I was able to figure it out.

That first moment when I attached the battery, turned it on and the damn thing leapt forward was magical.

Brilliant set and so much fun.

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We tore down the house on our baseplate and started a park. There were too many minifigs to fit in the house and I figured if I built a park,I could have an amphitheatre to corral them all. Have not figured out how to do pictures yet but I will post when it's done. So far be have the stage area, bathrooms, a few attractions (parrot cage from Friends mini bag, and a doghouse I made myself) and a tree. I want to make a snack bar and picnic area, and maybe a ranger's house too.

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I've had a bit of a dim Age (not as bad as a Dark Age) for the last month or two and it was lovely to get back to bricking something - so I started on a railway depot. Now it's time to build the interior and grunge it up a bit.

I'm glad to be back.

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