spacefan6901

Through the "grapevine:" reposted from BrickLink forums: "According to what Tim wrote over on Flickr AFOL 16+ group, Brickshelf had hardware failures: "Thank you for your patience as we work to restore service after our recent hardware failures.""

What I see in the new Target weekly ad is: Buy 2 Get 1 Free on Harry Potter, PotC, and select Ninjago - but IN-STORE ONLY. So those who can get to a physical Target can get a better deal than online? (Assuming swarms of resellers didn't clear everything out on Sunday.) If only it was some theme I actually wanted (but keep clearing those shelves so eventually AC and new Kingdoms should show up).

I would just like to invite folks to leave me some feedback on my castle I am working on. I didn't make any building plans or anything, just started stacking bricks based upon what looked right in my head. It is nowhere near finished, but I am posting Work-In-Progress pictures at my Flickr page: I realize I have a ways to go in my building techniques and photography skills, but I have just started building again after almost 20 years away from LEGO. Feel free to check some of my other photo sets on Flickr too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacefan6901/ Thank you all, and happy building!

Actually the numbers are just a variation of the digits in my date of birth. I do believe I had set 6901, along with pretty much all of the 1979 and 1980 space sets. Had a few more after that over the years, up to having I think one Futuron set and one Blacktron set. I had a "moonbase area" of about 10 or 12 crater and landing plates. Gradually the dark age came as Dungeons & Dragons and comic books displaced LEGO, except for one time in the early 1990s I tried to built a space shuttle orbiter to minifig scale based on actual shuttle deck plans... had to shrink it as ran out of the right parts. I tried making a few space station modules as well (they were kind of squarish, but I did OK on the interior details I suppose). Then I put the bricks down except for giving a little help to my nephew in the early 2000s as he started to get his own LEGO (now he's in HIS dark age, but I have given a few sets to his little sister and I think there is still hope for her). I HAVE to get my hands on the new Alien Conquest Earth Defense HQ because all the BLUE reminds me of the old space. Maybe I would be inspired to make some vehicles in the old blue and gray color scheme.

I'd just like to say hi now that I have decided to stop lurking and join the site. I live about an hour north of New York City in the USA. I got my first LEGO set when I was 6 years old back in... 1975? I had quite a bit of "Classic Space" back in the 1980's (it is hopefully safe, I must search my grandmother's house!) and had some castle and town, but what I remember most was just sorting through thousands of parts in a big box or spread on a blanket and finding "Just The Right One" to use in what I was building. I returned from my "Dark Age" in 2009 and joined BrickLink to do a bit of buying and selling (a shout out to "superkalle" who was my first sale to Europe; it was the little architecture sets like the Empire State Building); but I have decided I finally must start building again. I have started working on a castle, just for "practice" for a BIGGER one exists only in my head at present, and I have posted some Work-In-Progress photos on flickr: Please feel free to make comments on my building techniques, as I am almost having to "relearn" how to build with LEGO, and even though I have thousands of parts again I still need more variety of different elements to make things look better. I found much inspiration looking at the creations of those on this site, and found the reviews of sets very useful in deciding what to consider buying. So here I am after a year of lurking! -spacefan6901