It's DD1s bday & she was given $100 by her grandfather. Think I'll get the Kmart brick set with it. :-)
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It's DD1s bday & she was given $100 by her grandfather. Think I'll get the Kmart brick set with it. :-)
Dd arrived home with granma. Located new Lego. Asked daddy to help. He said "ask your mother"...
So tonight I've made the cargo heliplane, small red chopper and truck with digger thingy on trailer. She wants more done. I told her to go to bed lol
I just downloaded the brick master app and the most current year on it is 2010! Is that the same for you BG??:
No, the one I have links direct to brickset. It has stuff from this year for sure.
The one I have also has the direct links to the site but nothing past 2010. Weird!
I think DP would be into me if I downloaded the app ;)
Looking forward to Sunday & going to get the lego for the girls, letting them pick some out with DP there, he might let then pick more :p
I want the creator house I've seen PRMG has with the working light, I know BG has one too!
How awesome are the lego designs these days, what is your favorite?
So far I love DD1's rescue chopper!
Which house does she have? We have working lights in the three winter village houses. And the lighthouse. One of the other houses has a working doorbell (which is really quite annoying to listen to over and over and over...)
The heliplane is petty cool. I think I like it more because we've watched extreme logging on tv and it is really quite accurate in terms of how it looks.
Love the dolphin cruiser (may have mentioned that a time or two before thought). I reckon that and the houses are right up there on my favourites list. The other stuff is fun, but I really like the houses. I think because they are challenging to out together. Especially the lighthouse. That was awesome fun.
I'm hanging out for the arrival of the winter village market though. I so want to make that soon! Apparently Australia are deemed low priority to get it though. US toysrus are rather selfish and want it them all!
ZF. Why would downloading the app be a drama? Download the games like creationary and the city ones and then download the app as well and say you thought it was a building one but now you have it what's GREAT idea!
Which house does she have? We have working lights in the three winter village houses. And the lighthouse. One of the other houses has a working doorbell (which is really quite annoying to listen to over and over and over...)
The heliplane is petty cool. I think I like it more because we've watched extreme logging on tv and it is really quite accurate in terms of how it looks.
Love the dolphin cruiser (may have mentioned that a time or two before thought). I reckon that and the houses are right up there on my favourites list. The other stuff is fun, but I really like the houses. I think because they are challenging to out together. Especially the lighthouse. That was awesome fun.
I'm hanging out for the arrival of the winter village market though. I so want to make that soon! Apparently Australia are deemed low priority to get it though. US toysrus are rather selfish and want it them all!
ZF. Why would downloading the app be a drama? Download the games like creationary and the city ones and then download the app as well and say you thought it was a building one but now you have it what's GREAT idea!
We may have visited target country here in town just to beak (it's been open a year - about time right?). And we may have found the police station in there for the cheapest price I've seen it. And it might be the one set dd has been asking us for - for months. And she might now be playing with the completed project....
Four instruction books, 9 big bags of Lego. Somewhere between 2 and 2.5 hours = one happy girl
One very happy girl! IS that the police station they were packing on megafactories? If so, that set was awesome!
Well DS's behaviour has been in need of improvement for a while now & I've had no idea what to do about it. Until now. I cracked it last night over his sooking and refusing to even try his dinner (tacos - seriously stupid kid sometimes lol). Anyway I did up a reward chart. He has 4 things to do that can earn him stars. Stop sooking and use words to tell us what's wrong. Try his dinner. He doesn't have to eat it if he doesn't like it, but if he won't even try it, it makes my blood boil! Get ready for bed or leaving the house at quicker than a snail's pace, without argument and brushing his teeth properly without whinging. I told him he can earn a star for these things and when he gets 10 stars, he can get a lego set (just a polybag one) and when he fills the whole page, he can get a big set. Well, turns out he likes tacos so there's one star. He was devastated when he failed the getting ready for bed one though. Gave him ages to put his pj's on and he decided to annoy his sister instead so no star. This morning - got ready to go without drama so there's his second star. Here's hoping it works! I'm looking forward to helping him put the lego together lol.
I also did a reward chart to try & convince DD to TT but no luck so far, lol.
I got my text from target yesterday saying my dolphin cruiser had arrived so I was planning to go get it this morning but DD's atrocious behaviour has meant we're not leaving the house. She ran off on me in the driveway (we live on quite a busy street). Boo :( No lego for me lol. Maybe if the shops are still open when DH gets home from work, I'll go then on my own.
Yes it's the police station from the mega factories ep as far as I know. It's pretty awesome. Hidden crow bars so the crooks can escape. Two cars. Three storey police building with helipad on top (need a police chopper now lol). Two garages with roller doors.....
Boo to little runaway delaying your picking up of the dolphin cruiser. That's all kinds of wrong!
Looks like Santa is giving miss e another Lego set for Christmas. Mums sister asked to layby a set with our Christmas layby for dd. Sure. Why not. Today she tells me she has now layby'd clothes for her. Sigh.
Lego as a reward works here too ;)
Sounds like the one BG. Does it have a police dog as well? I want to buy that set just for the dog lol.
Both kids were complete ferals yesterday. DH got home early enough so I was like, right I'm outta here. Of course they behaved perfectly for him. Then I got home... On the plus side I got my dolphin cruiser but haven't opened it yet.
I forgot to see if they had the pool in store. I might have to buy it online if it's still available as I don't think I'll be able to get back in before Wednesday.
Not sure of the 20% off applies to target online so might be worth trying to go in
Yup, police station has a little dog. He's a bit cute.
My 13yo niece came over with mum for roast dinner last night. She wanted so badly to put Lego together. So now the friends high school is set up again. And the pool. And a car that happened to be out (which is what set her off. Seeing all the pieces she just HAD to put it together to see what it was lol)
So now we have bigger all room left with everything that is set up at the moment lol
My last post didn't load, long story short both target & big w were sold out yesterday so paid $100 at toy shop when we found 1 left hidden :p
DD2 picked the cafe & DD1 picked the pet shop. Building the cruiser today, the other 2 we built last night!
i still reckon 100 is reasonable to pay for the cruiser. cheaper is better (cos then you can get more!) but for what it is, and what you pay for a lot of the other sets, $100 is very reasonable
It is 20% off online, I checked already. Still deciding lol.
Sounds like some fun putting those together for you ZF!
She's happy & it's built and looks awesome.
DD2 wants the coast guard boat set for x-mas - big w have it for $88 which is awesome as it's a ship, small boat, lighthouse & dive thing... Might lay-by it.
DD1 wants the pool & school ;p
Might see what target have, can I lay by online with this sale????
Have just spent time pulling Lego apart. Apparently the "girl" Lego is flavour of the day... "Muuuuum can you please put away the police station and all the boy cars? Pleeeeeeease?"
I'm waiting for the request to put together more of the friends sets...
Lol, kind of glad all ours are in one box, I don't have to take each thing apart individually.
I think we WILL need more storage though so we can sort by color & shape :p
wait and see if you're still happy it's all together when you're looking for that one tiny frikken pita piece that you NEED before you can move on! lol
i think we need to get the Ewok Village - it looks awwwwwwwwwwwwesome!
Just told DP we will need some more storage, small parts don't worry me, they are in the separate tubs ;)
I'm thinking about taping cardboard into the container we have now as dividers so the girls can seperate into color or size!
Also need to sort out the 'little bits' container to make it a bit more usable, might also make those little drawers more of a lego holder too (maybe people / clothes) in a drawer etc.
Decision was made for me lol. Sold out online of the pool set. I don't really need it lol. I can wait for the next sale.
Not sure how to work the storage yet. I think the OCD part of me will want to keep all the sets separate. But I struggle to keep the toys they have now together. All those little bits & pieces might prove too hard I think.
DS's reward chart isn't going so well :( He's determined to be difficult.
Rowellen - your DS sounds as stubborn as mine, lol! Some kids just don't do rewards, no matter how tempting! It's actually a good thing... I think...
DH asked why we couldn't just mix the sets together too, but the OCD glint in my eye stopped him dead and he hasn't said a word since! I don't think I'd cope at all if they got 'messed up', but I have conceded that when we get roofs, windows and door pieces they can go in with the 'big box Lego'!
Can you buy figures separately? Looking for a few nice people figurines, not the random ones in a packet that you don't know what you're getting til you open them - DS would be freaked out by how most of them look! Oh, except for the Gingerbread Man - we'd love that ;)
They had Santa a few sets back in the random people set
The lego shop here has lots of people on a table so you can pick what you want.
The OCD side of me has to keep it separate. Thankfully dd seems similar to me with her lego. We have the "random" stuff broken down a bit for ease of use. Roof pieces in one container, doors/windows in another, normal bricks in another, small bricks (1x1 and 1x2) in another so that it can be packed up if little kids come over. We also couldn't find a container big enough for all of it to go in. It makes it easy having them separate. So much easier to find the bits we need!
Look on eBay. :-) That's where I've bought figures.:
My favourite is now the camper van that DD1 got for her bday. She also got a pink suitcase of Lego and loves that. It has a cute little cat in it.
Is that the friends camper with bikes and stuff? We had trouble getting that locally so had to get it off eBay. It's cute :)
No it's 7639 LEGO CITY Camper Van. I just looked at the Friends Camper and it's almost identical. The friends one looks like it has more in it and might be a later version? But I got the camper van because it has a normal sized girl figure in it.
The friends one doesn't open out quite the same way. Definitely similar though!
You wouldn't believe what dd seen on my phone and asked me to make after work tomorrow... Camper van here we come! Lol
The picnic table looks cool. :-)
I do like the way that the camper van opens.
Hi girls, a friend of mine mentioned a lego club or some kind of lego thing she had signed the kids up to. We're just getting into lego as opposed to the Duplo and was wondering if any of you knew what she may have been referring to?
go to the lego site for Australia. It's there.
The lego club is a membership. In the US it's free, over here its $20 for life membership. They get a magazine every few months. I keep forgetting to send the paperwork for it lol
Hehe I'm tempted to join, not sure DP would agree ;)
Have plans on what to get the girls for x-mas and there are friends sets coming in January DD2 can get for her birthday ;)
Plenty I want too!
$20 for kiddy membership for LIFE. Bargain!
Has anyone been to brickvention? I'm wondering what it's like.
I haven't been to anything like that. It looks interesting but I'm wondering if it's more aimed at adult fans of Lego - I wouldn't mind scoping it out but not sure dd would have the patience to appreciate the effort that goes in to the builds