Been a long and slow journey... we are building this community... one brick at a time.

Not the grandest of collection, but.. what the heck... here's part of my display:






People often heard of planes over shot the runway...

I posted instructions on how to build it is in my blog. Since its going for about rm90.xx in TRU I think, quite a good catch for useful parts.

Not alot actually. there's about 5 or 6 more on the detolf display next to it.

Yea thats the "dilema" I'm facing with some LEGO models. Kai Blade cycle is simply too gorgeous (thank alucrix =) . I cant bear to disassemble it for MOC. Might leave it there for a while more.

made me wonder... is there a "volunteer" program by TRU to lessen their staff workload , They can focus on real store management tasks.... while we "offer" to help set up their display for them (aka build /arrange LEGO display). I dont mind doing it for free. hehe...

This post has been edited by alanyuppie: Aug 8 2012, 11:39 AM

Looks like trolling.

LEGO company manufactoring processes had measured the % of "flawed" sets. The chances of any one of us getting more than few sets with missing good number of parts are VERY ,VERY ,VERY low.

Dont tell you gonna push your luck and report to them half the parts missing from a 1500-pcs set in your 1st attempt ?

This post has been edited by alanyuppie: Aug 8 2012, 02:42 PM

This is "mad".... the more I read the more I wanted to hit the mall later to splurge on a set for 2nite's fix. BTW any of you have a special set tucked in the store with an imaginary "Break Glass during *emergency" label?



Hmmm this drawn me:

Why aren't we MOCing yet (on a big scale.. like the AFOLs elsewhere) . Truly contented with a single building experience right off the box? kinda wasted having them putting effort in ensuring clutch power good enuff for long term repeated builds.

looks like lombongland to me. seriously.

There's a LEGO town plan anniversary set with the grandson inside the box-art. hehe.

Dont get too high hopes on varieties in pick-a-brick either. Its highly unlikely they will offer even 90% of parts found in big/exclusive sets. There are too many parts in LEGO inventory, not to mention colors as well. I personally would be very much contented if they offer an average of 20 - 25 sen per part for common parts.

Have to separate into licensed and non-licensed set , still. Licensed set hits a wallet-squeezzing 50 sen per piece on average. The rest mostly lingers around 35 - 40 sen. LEGO company LOVE to introduce huge part into the set to justify their 40 sen per piece . Just look at the dino theme. Each dino figure "contributes" to the set , lessening the number of actual parts . And lets look at the Creator motorcycle, just by having 2 big tyres inside... the parts count become <200 for rm100 (assuming 10% discount). I don't want to talk about overpriced ninjago vehicles either that (again) contains 2 or more HUGE tyres.

In the past, we keep most parts in their respective "set piles" coz if one or few went missing.. all hell breaks loose. Today no need worry.. there's always bricklink.com =) . and of coz... just PM me if you have missing few parts.. I might dig into my inventory and give you FREE ( I've enuff of everything. so don't worry).

In the end.... we all wanted to minimize the hassle / time wasted of doing boring tasks (like sorting/retrieval) and go right in into playing/building immediately. Time is a commodity for most of us AFOLs . finish work reach home settling down 8pm++, left only an hour or two to indulge ourselves (that if not being nagged by the queen to do house chores first). LOL.

U mean MOC of a Myvi / wira minifig scaled? 2-seater wide or 1-seater?


Wait for our "spy" to sacrifice himself for an indepth infiltration and get his feedback on worthi-ness. hehe.

Welcome aboard! You should register an account in www.mocpages.com and upload your LEGO creations there for all to enjoy.

I just finished my latest LEGO creation yesterday:









visit one of the following link for more photos:

http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/337572
http://alanyuppie.blogspot.com/2012/08/leg...eaker-with.html

after some googling.. it is found out the grandfather of all brick (2x4) is about 2.5 gm. for rm30 well get only 40 of such bricks, making it 80 sen per piece. for those who wanted many bricks , might as well buy the official bucket/sets.

I can safely assume plates would be 1.5gm or less since they're 1/3 thinner. ... still 50 sen per piece.

yea... u are right there. tiles (without studs to compound the weight)... might be a good deal at about 1gm each.

Thats why some prefer to go small and do micromodels/MOC rather than minifig scaled ones. "evolution" are pushing fellow AFOLs to downsize tbheir creation.


This post has been edited by alanyuppie: Aug 22 2012, 09:54 AM

Thats a bit too harsh ... LEGO clones are still decent building blocks, albeit the lower quality (pay peanuts, get monkeys). Considering the price of LEGO , its a bit risky for retailers not to offer similar alternative so consumers can easily decide and checkout. its mostly about profit.

Hopefully with the competitive building block toys filling the shelves and posing threat to LEGO... maybe our local distributor can smarten up and review their pricing when the malls refusing to take in more stock due to poor reception. Either way , I will patiently wait for their warehouse sale. God I miss the ex LEGO distributor texchem and their sales.

This post has been edited by alanyuppie: Aug 24 2012, 08:58 AM

not really. if anyone can get the parts and i can voluntary it built it for them FOC =)

I was asked yesterday by a member here on how I store my lego parts. I usually store them in 3 major group/category:


GROUP 1 -

Conventional sized bricks , plates and slopes and parts of same color goes into one tray. Below are the trays with colors I'm currently using for my MOC project (the rest are in store room)



GROUP 2 & 3

- Group 2 are specialised parts like tyres and joints which I only required a few for my MOC (so I handpick what I need from storeroom)

- Group 3 are special parts like "stick plates" more than 2 stud long , or more slopes (<< just recently sorted them into one tray, since LEGO been introducting alot of these rounded slopes the last few years)



GROUP 4

Trays of smaller ,specialised LEGO parts (gotta isolate them or else hard to korek from GROUP 1)



^ from the top
tier 1 - tiles or parts with no studs on top
tier 2 - 1x1 bricks/headlights/rounded parts
tier 3 - technic parts / pins / connectors
tier 4 - mostly tiny parts goes here ( 1x1 plates / cheese slopes /tiles) , 1x2 plates



^ from the top
tier 1 - bigger technic parts, bricks with holes
tier 2 - 1x1 or 1x2 brick with holes
tier 3 - wedge plates . (for those with opposing sides, I connect them together as pairs)
tier 4 - brackets
tier 5 - hinges


ps: as you can see.. sometimes the parts are sorted incorrectly. dont care too much since its tedious trying to be systematic.


This post has been edited by alanyuppie: Aug 28 2012, 10:47 AM

I gotten my trays from daiso as well (rm5). the exact same item sold in Popular for rm7 . duh!

The "shoe boxes" doesnt have a wide surface area like a tray, so its hard to locate parts . Having a lid would be redundant coz my parts will overflow

I wont go so far and further separate small pieces into pill box compartments. besides time consuming , having to dig out require part with adult fingers is also counter-productive .




Try group based on size first, rather than colors (except for my case when things have gotten out of hand.. literally!) . Imagine a tray of lets say white parts (bricks big and small).. and you're trying to locate a 1x1 plate from it . small parts will be at the bottom of the tray/box. What a chore!

if you're in klang valley.. I can offer to drive you in my car for you to graciously pump the petrol into ... so you can get the LEGO.

and yes... you're welcome. cheers

Oh thats suprising. I thought the initial jab of "poison" was applied when we were kids. Until now start ketagih again. hehehe.

My first jab was set 6656. I believe our endearment to vintage sets are due to nostalgic factor. One of these days I'm gonna bricklink all required parts and build my favorite (but failed to acquire) sets from the 80s.