Grampa / Grandson Project

 A couple of weeks ago, one of my grandsons visited the TFTDDC home. As usual, when asked what he wanted to do, the answer was, "Go to the basement"!

On this venture into the sub-terrainian vault, I broke out every box of red LEGO I owned.

The mission: build the coolest red tower ever with as many of the parts as possible!

Here are the results...

I made sure to include plenty of ledges and platforms on which to place a number of minifigs.

A great way to spend an afternoon with a grand-kiddo.

Final note:  It took nearly as long to break this model down and re-sort the pieces as it did to build it!

Cheers....

An Estate Sale LEGO Score

 Last weekend, a family in my neighborhood conducted an estate sale at their home.

Perusing through a table full of kids' toys I was delighted to run across two gallon-sized zip-lock bags full of LEGO pieces.

$8 per bag was a huge steal, as I estimated there were well over a thousand parts in the lot!

When I got the bags home and perused through them, I did find a fair amount of 'not-LEGO' pieces in the mix, but there was still a ton of the real stuff.

Lots of standard bricks and plates, plus a lot of random different parts that I don't have in my massive inventory.

I even found enough minifig sections to piece together six new mini-dudes!  There was also a Star Wars BB8 minifig in the mix.

Here are some pics of the overall stash after disassembling many random built-up sections.  I've sorted out all of the dark gray elements at this point.  

A lot more to go....

Cheers!