Pet peeves?

[Zoshi]

What are some annoying things(big or small) that you've come across being a AFOL?

Mine would be:

"Aren't you kind of old for this?" No.

When two pieces get so stuck together not even a brick separator can get them apart(looking at you, flat 1x2 bricks… )

Folded instruction manuals

Stickers

STEPPING ON THE DAMN THINGS

That piece that falls off if I so much as look at it funny

Realizing the set I wanted but couldn't afford has been discontinued and is now selling for twice the price online

SDCC exclusives

Looking up minifigs on ebay or amazon and finding bootlegs… bootlegs everywhere

[1980-Something-Space-Guy]

People saying "Legos"

[Andy D]

Not having enough time to work on all my projects!

Andy D

[dr_spock]

My cat peeing in the LEGO.

[THERIZE]

Realizing that everything you want to build is impossible because you don't have the bricks.

[Actor Builder]

When my cat lays on my LEGO as I'm working. That's not cool, Cocoa.

[badchriss]

-When you are almost finished with a MOC you`re working on and you`re missing one or a few Pieces.

-When you are proudly finished your big MOC and it drops on the Floor because you accidently pushed it off the Table.

-When you are totally happy about a finally found Accesoire and you accidently drop it and it lands somewhere under the Furniture at a Place that haven`t seen the Vacuum Cleaner in Month.

[Tariq j]

I'm building a set and can't find a piece only to realise it's still in the bag!

[Actor Builder]

When I've built a section of a MOC, then put it down to go get another piece from the sorting area, and not being able to find the MOC.

"I just had it!!!"

[Dannylonglegs]

My cat peeing in the LEGO.

This. This all across the sky. This.

~Insectoid Aristocrat

[dr_spock]

And having to wash the cat pee off the LEGO pieces. Don't wash chromed pieces, the chrome comes off. I am not sure if it was the detergent and/or reaction with cat pee.

[mediumsnowman]

Finding endless amounts of dog hair has somehow found its way into my part bins...

[Lady K]

-Cat spraying box of pieces and having to clean the whole thing because I don't know which got hit and which didn't.

-Dropping a piece on the wood floor, having it slide or bounce, then end up in an area of hidden large dust bunnies.

-Losing what I was building on my clean and organized table amongst the other pieces laying there.

-Looking everywhere and can't find the piece I need only to see sitting right in front of me.

Edited November 23, 2015 by Lady K

[Iria]

-When you try to make a minor adjusted to your build, accidentally cause it to break in multiple pieces and then cannot figure out how to restore it back to its former glory .

-Having a piece fly off, and have no idea where it went.

-Vaccuum day- you never know what bricks may be getting sucked up there. And if you do notice, having to pick them out of that dusty mess. Yuck!

-Wanting to purchase a set you really want, but knowing there are other necessities in life that take precedence. *sigh*

-When you are proudly finished your big MOC and it drops on the Floor because you accidently pushed it off the Table.

This has happened to me more times than I'd like to admit. Happens because my coffee table doubles as a computer desk/ eating/working/building/reading area. Ughh.

I'm building a set and can't find a piece only to realise it's still in the bag!

Yes! The reason I will never again throw bags in the trash before completing a set. Because, no matter how much you believe all the pieces are out of the bag, there often is a small one hiding in one of the corners.

[BountyBeast]

Looking for that last piece I need to complete my creation, only to realize I already used it for something else.

My creation breaking apart when I'm trying to use it.

My cat attacking my creations.

[AFOLguy1970]

Mine is more of a forum thing. It happens when there is some criticism regarding a set, and there are obviously a fair number of people who share the critical point of view. It could be the cookies in the DO, the battle damaged stormies in the new Empire Battle Pack, the purple Mystery Mansion, the stickers on the Ghostbusters HQ, etc. Then someone inevitably comes along and posts:

:"I dont get all of the hate for the.............."

So the critics are now "haters" because there is a certain feature we do not like about the set. It is not that I necessarily think battle damaged stormies are bad per se, it is just that a normal one thrown in the mix would have been nice. But, yeah, the cliche "I dont get all of the hate" is getting old. Maybe I should go back and post "I dont get all of the love for the....."

[kibosh]

People complaining about people calling them "Legos" or pronouncing it lay-go. Who cares? Do you correct everyone that asks for a kleenex or bandaid? If you do, I'm glad I don't need to be around you.

When people don't properly orient the hands on their minifigs. I always turn them so the flat side of the hands are up, and the curved side is down. Unless, of course, the hands need to be in a different position when holding something.

[dr_spock]

People complaining about people calling them "Legos" or pronouncing it lay-go. Who cares? Do you correct everyone that asks for a kleenex or bandaid? If you do, I'm glad I don't need to be around you.

People in the legal department of the company owning that trademarked brand name would care. If the name become genericized in common use then a trademark law suit could be lost in court. People use Kleenex to refer to any brand of tissue paper, Bandaid to any brand of bandages, Xerox instead of photocopy, aspirin instead of Bayer Aspirin for pain relief from people correcting "Legos".

Do AFOLs in general have any obligations to protect the LEGO brand's trademark? How about those AFOLs who are LEGO ambassadors?

[Zoshi]

When people don't properly orient the hands on their minifigs. I always turn them so the flat side of the hands are up, and the curved side is down. Unless, of course, the hands need to be in a different position when holding something.

THIS.

[badchriss]

-Getting fresh and new Parts from S@H,place the new "Bullet" into the Springloaded Shooter just to see how it looks and accidently touch the "Bullet" only to see it zoom away and hit something and you realized this was the first and last Time you saw this "Bullet".

-Dropping a small Piece under the Table (a round 1x1 for example),search an Eternity for it,finally find it and while getting up hit your Head on the Table Plate...

And because of the Pain dropping the Piece again....sigh.

-Flimsy and fragile Brick Connections to make a MOC look better and either damage it yourself or someone just wants to lift it to have a better Look at it and it falls apart....Now i have a Strict Rule in my House:If you want to leave unharmed and still alive,NEVER EVER TOUCH MY LEGO :D

[Iria]

When, instead of say the set name, people only state the set #.

Ie "I just got 60100- what do you guys think of it?", "Which is better: 96969 or 96966?" or "Selling 75904, 10229, 41116, 10203, 874748424.... Make me a deal."

I can't stand it. I don't have (or want) a memory for every single set id# Lego has ever released, nor do I feel like doing a search for every individual number series. When people only list set numbers in their topic, I lose immediately interest and leave the thread. Please provide the set name or at least part of it, not just set # !

[masterX244]

For those 1x2 plates: i usually sandwich em between 2x4 bricks and then try to separate em, somehow a larger gripping surface makes the work easier.

and @Iria: at a different forum when you prepend a # before a set number it automatically links to a page describing which set the number identifies

[Iria]

@Iria: at a different forum when you prepend a # before a set number it automatically links to a page describing which set the number identifies

That would be a really useful feature to have!

[Actor Builder]

The old rubber wheels getting sticky.

[fred67]

People complaining about people calling them "Legos" or pronouncing it lay-go. Who cares?

I care. It's annoying. There's a right way to say it, why can't people respect what the company says it's called? GIF is "jiff," like the peanut butter, despite the G standing for "graphics," (iow, a hard "g") because that's how the people who created the format say it's pronounced. They get to say how it's pronounced because they made it. If you make something and don't care what people call it, that's great. If we hung out together, and someone kept mispronouncing your name despite knowing full well the correct way to say it, it would bother me, too.

But no, I don't walk around correcting "lay people" when they say "legos." Co-workers, family, friends... in fact, I don't recall ever correcting anybody, but I find it more annoying when people who should know better do it. I'm not that OCD about it, but people in the LEGO community should know better. People on Eurobricks should know better. In fact, I just watched two documentaries (I would assume blessed by TLG) - LEGO, A Brickumentary, and Inside LEGO. In both cases, even the people doing the interviewing were saying "legos."

When, instead of say the set name, people only state the set #.

Ie "I just got 60100- what do you guys think of it?", "Which is better: 96969 or 96966?" or "Selling 75904, 10229, 41116, 10203, 874748424.... Make me a deal."

I can't stand it. I don't have (or want) a memory for every single set id# Lego has ever released, nor do I feel like doing a search for every individual number series. When people only list set numbers in their topic, I lose immediately interest and leave the thread. Please provide the set name or at least part of it, not just set # !

I agree completely... I've said it before, I even mentioned it in the BSTF forum. I think, in fact, a lot of people do it simply because it makes them look more like LEGO nerds. "Real" fans of LEGO know all the numbers! I'd even like the year... which version of Hogwarts? Which version of the X-Wing? The year goes a long way to answering that. The worst is people selling things - don't you want to make it easier for someone to buy?

For those 1x2 plates: i usually sandwich em between 2x4 bricks and then try to separate em, somehow a larger gripping surface makes the work easier.

and @Iria: at a different forum when you prepend a # before a set number it automatically links to a page describing which set the number identifies

That helps a bit on the reddit LEGO trading board, but it's unnecessary clutter because it makes a whole new post every time someone puts a set number (even if they also write the name of the set). Bricklink's method works, too - where you'd put [s=#] and it changes it to a thumbnail with the set number, name, and a link to it's page on bricklink. It's been suggested that we do that here, too, but the moderators pushed back - I forget the reasoning. Even if they did it, the problem is that people are still too lazy to use it. A lot of the the knowledgeable posters on bricklink don't even use it. When a seller there say he's got a xxxx on sale for $yyy, I don't even look anymore if they can't be bothered to use the helpful notation.