Yatkuu

Thank you Legogal, we had a great time too! LEGO is such a great hobby... and not just for the bricks as once again it also allowed me to meet new friends. hehe, really? I have no idea what you are talking about!

Nice entries so far... but your campers are no match for my Monster Van! Monster Van by Yatkuu, on Flickr Monster Van by Yatkuu, on Flickr Thanks EB for the fun contest and best of luck to all!

Thanks, I already do! I did! Gorgeous car. Thank you!

Hello everyone, I wanted to give you an update on the move of my collection. I am now happily installed in my new house in North Carolina… and approximately two months after having said goodbye to our goods in Belgium we now have them back at our new address… and my LEGO made it safely across the Atlantic! Here is a shot of the truck that delivered all our stuff. Although I have not counted them all I think that every brick is accounted for If anyone ever needs to prepare the move of a LEGO collection here is a quick summary of how we did it. Since I hardly keep anything built my collection is essentially made of loose sorted pieces placed into plastic drawers. Following advices from fellow EB members I had placed each piece category into ziplocs and then each drawer tower was wrapped into plastic foil. At first I thought I was overdoing it but it turns out it was definitely worth it. The moving company (Hasenkamp) placed all the towers into large cardboard boxes – see the picture below. They did their best to fill all the gaps in the boxes with either LEGO boxes (board games, unopened sets…) but even though they did a good job there were still small gaps here and there. These boxes had to be moved around quite a lot during transit and I’m pretty sure that if I had not taken all these extra precautions I would have found loose bricks scattered around in every box. I also noticed afterwards that there was no “This side up” indication on the boxes – I guess the logo made it rather self explanatory but you never know who is going to handle these during transit. I had also packed a couple of MOCs and built sets… mostly because I did not have the time to take them appart. I had stuffed the box with bubble wrap, the MOCs made it safely… but the official sets were not so lucky. The haunted house may look ok here but when I took it out of the box it was in bits and pieces. My U2 lemon on the other hand did not lose a plate! A magazine specialized in moving and relocations named “FIDI” found out about my experience thanks to this thread on Eurobricks. They contacted the EB staff which in turn sent me a PM to see if I would be interested to get in touch with them – which I did. It seems they are always on the lookout for unusual "moving stories" and they thought that it would make an interesting piece for their readers. We had a couple of email exchanges and they have now published the story in their latest issue. The magazine is only visible to subscribers so I’m afraid I can’t link it here but here is the article they wrote: They also included a couple of pictures of how the stuff was packed as well as 2 pictures of my latest MOCs posted on Flickr… a rather fun way to wrap-up this story! Thanks again to everyone who gave his input in this discussion and shared some advices. I know it’s not really the purpose of this topic but if anyone wants to know how my family and I are adjusting to our new life in the US I am keeping a blog of our adventures: http://usadventures.be/

That's is I just got my package! The reason for being so late is that I was in the process of moving from EU to the US, now that I am settled in my new home Fangy was kind enough to mail me my prize, thank you again Fangy for your flexibility!

I'm going to Raleigh, North Carolina. I'll make sure to join a local LUG once I get there - I believe there's the NCLUG? - does anyone here knows about it? Or another group perhaps? As for going to a convention, I'd love to check Brick Fiesta "as tourist" but I'm not sure I'll be able to make it as it's only 5 weeks away.

Wow, thank you to everyone who voted for me! As always the level was really high and it is always an honor to be selected amongst so many great entries. Congrats to all winners! I would like to extend a special congratulation to Emma, you really blew me away with your two entries (Alice & Pinocchio).

Hello, quick update - my collection is now all packed and ready to go! Ready to go! by Yatkuu, on Flickr Everything in the drawers is now in zip locks and the towers wrapped in plastic sheet. Thanks again for everyone's advices and recommendations... I'll post an update once I'm settled in my new place, hopefully somewhere around mid-July.

Great news! Although I feel sorry for the people who recently purchased a pro account. I had the feeling Yahoo would do something like that, it was only a matter of time.. this 200 pic limit was becoming absurd in view of the competition.

Thank you Faefrost and LEGO Guy Bri!! I spent the evening adding all the sets I own in my Brickset profile - lucky for me I keep all my instructions so it was very easy to encode all the set numbers. Anyway, I end-up with a collection of 188 sets, 47628 pieces. After exporting the list into excel I was able to compare the US and UK RRP (recommended retail price) and pick the highest value for most of my sets (the oldest sets don't have that info available) and it gives me a total of 4224 euro. Then, following LEGO Guy Bri's advice I tried the Brickpicker method. I knew about the site but I did not know it was possible to get an estimate of a collection. You just enter your Brickset credentials and your collection is transferred automatically... Impressive tool. The Brickfolio tool gives me a total of 6500 euro. Given that most of my sets are parted out I guess I'm going to go for something in between the two, 5000 euro. Thank you Chills for the welcome and good packing advices ! We're moving to Raleigh, North Carolina.

7) Cyclops Entry (Build by Plissken) – 1 point 10) Chicken Suit Guy Entry (Build by Clanure) – 1 point 26) Hollywood Starlet Entry (Build by vecchiasignoraceppo) – 1 point

21) Fairy Entry (Build by Emma) – 2 points 24) Businessman Entry (Build by Darkblane) – 1 point

7) Hippie Entry (Build by vecchiasignoraceppo) - 1 point – dude! 27) Bunny Suit Guy Entry (Build by Emma) - 2 points – wow, brilliant!

Thank you everyone from the good feedbacks! Placing the sorted pieces in bags first then in the drawers sounds like a very reasonable idea, I'll do that. As for wrapping the towers in plastic, I'll first see how they intend to do it themselves and try to assess the material they use. If I'm not convinced, I'll add a layer! I will try to take pictures and share them here. For the values, using BL for the sealed sets is a great idea. As for the loose parts.. I'm not really sure yet. I'm terrible with maths but if I'm not mistaken 10$/pound would make a price of 16€/kg, and that seems very low. I tried to estimate the cost of 1KG of new LEGO... according to Amazon data a modular set weighs between 2.5 & 3kg for a piece count comprised between 2k to2.2k. The retail price of these sets being 150€ (on average) it gives me a price per kg that ranges from 50 to 60€. I have no idea how many kg of LEGO I have but maybe I can consider a middle ground around 30€/kg? Thank you! Thank you! That's certainly a wise suggestion but I'm afraid I'm running out of time to do a full inventory.

Hello everyone, I’m about to move from Belgium to the US for a permanent relocation (and the answer is no, it's not because LEGO is cheaper there ;-) ...although I'm not complaining!) All our stuff will travel by sea in a container (5 weeks without LEGO ) and I have two questions for the community regarding the move of my LEGO collection. First - the packing. A specialized company will come and pack our belongings, it’s an insurance policy thing. Right now all my bricks are sorted in various drawers – see the picture hereafter. I have a few unopened sets and storage boxes too. The expert came to inspect our house and make an evaluation of the volume of things to be moved. He claims there is no problem, the idea is that anything that does not fit into a standard moving box will be wrapped in paper. For my drawer towers, they intend to wrap them with packaging paper and seal it all with tape. The method seems ok with me – do you guys agree? Second – the value There are no particularly “rare” sets in my collection and except for a couple of sets everything is parted out. I’m into LEGO for the MOCs and nothing else and when I buy a set it’s usually for the parts. I must declare a value for all the goods being moved. How can I estimate the value of my collection, with a price per kg? If so, would anyone have a guidance? Thank you!

Man, you have no idea! Good luck though, your project is extremely well designed. Oh, and regarding the votes going down, it is "normal" - as others have pointed out it's because some users are banned from the system and their votes are therefore considered invalid. My "Winchester" page now shows a vote count of 9992... the vote count on the deLorean is at 9950. (50 votes down!).

Everything has been said already... this is a magnificent build. That being said... and I realize I'm nitpicking a bit here but I think the scale of the stereo does not work with the rest. Ten months without MOCing, how did you manage?

I should have known better than to challenge you on that topic! I guess what you say makes sense, not treating the underside of a piece seems like a legitimate way of reducing costs. This piece here is something else however because the untreated part is clearly visible. I think the result is really disappointing, in particular for something so rare and supposedly "valuable".

I know nothing of the manufacturing process and even less about chroming but what you are describing sounds highly unlikely to me. If LEGO really wanted to chrome a piece I trust they could find a way to do it entirely. For instance, let’s consider the head – if the chroming process required to hold the piece while dipping it in a solution shouldn’t the bottom of the part be of a different color? The same goes with the shaft and the other pieces. The only Chrome piece I have in my collection are the Silver Chrome exhaust pipe, I do not believe that there is a "non chromed end" to it… but I’ll check tonight.

I don't know if this is legit but it's too funny not to share: http://www.ebay.fr/itm/LEGO-71001-Minifigur-Serie-10-Mister-Gold-SUPERSELTEN-NR-865-von-5000-/261200943042?pt=DE_AllesfürdKind_Spielzeug_Lego&hash=item3cd0ca17c2#ht_1517wt_685 999€ for Mister Gold... if this is true some people are really out of their mind.

It's been a while since I last saw the movie but I believe this burger is not a Royale with Cheese... but a Big Kahuna Burger. Extremely well executed, the figs, the artwork... everything is perfect!

Ochre Jelly. Epic build... and every Queen fan should know why he called this one "Fried Chicken"!

Extremely impressive Simon. I'm glad I don't have to judge this kind of contest, it must be very hard to pick a winner. I'm curious... how do you recover from such a challenge? I mean, after such an intense creative period, do you still care for LEGO or do you feel like throwing it all out?

6. Fabu De Ville – Purpearljellyblob - 3 7. Becka Bulldog's Fire Truck – Rick - 2

5. Fabuland Mario Mountainlion – Cecilie – 3 4. End of Fabuland - The Penguin – 1 6. Prince Charming of Fabuland – burlogh - 1