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merry christsmas.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year to everyone 

Merry Christmas to all!!!  Was lucky enough to get a couple Dave and Adam's gift cards, a series 1 Upper Deck hockey tin, and a 18-19 donruss Soccer retails box so far (one more family visit to do tomorrow).  Hope everyone got a nice haul!

Hopefully everyone has a wonderful and blessed Christmas and a fruitful New Year.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas Day (or part of other holidays) yesterday! Even battling a head cold, I certainly had a good day. I didn't get any cards; I mean sports cards. I did get plenty of Target Gift Cards and one cool sports item that I'll share tonight or in the next couple days. I'm all kinds of off-schedule with work, holidays and the cold I have (hence this EARLY or VERY LATE post from me). But I got something awesome yesterday that I REALLY wanted. I unwrapped it about 1:30pm, but then had to go to my sister's house and got home around 9:45pm. But I couldn't wait to get started on the LEGO gift. They didn't call it Expert Level for no reason. I started about 10:30pm and even with minimal breaks from building, I didn't finish until 6am!!! It's easily the most awesome Lego set I've ever owned and totally worth the work. Looks like my screwed up work schedule for Thursday worked to my benefit b/c there's no way I would have finished it in one shot if I went to bed at my normal time (about 4 hours ago). I STILL have 12 hours before I can leave for work and that's plenty of time to get some sleep and re-coup from Wednesday. I do have pictures of my LEGO build, but I want to keep you all guessing until I post them.

Pretty cool about the Monster LEGO Build!  Our Daughter is an Entertainer and Ambassador at LEGOLAND (Winter Haven, Florida).  Sue and I were just there on 12 DEC.  She is on Her way here today to visit with Us on the Space Coast.  LEGOLAND is a beautiful and colorful Place.  Remember being there around 1974 as a Teenager when it was Cypress Garderns (still a small portion of LEGOLAND).  Good Times, Good Times!!  May each of You close out well the final Days of this Decade!!!                             

Yours In The Great Hobby - Felix

That is FUNNY that you mention the Space Coast. That is exactly the basis of my Lego build. As soon as I saw this in my Lego catalog a few months ago, I knew I wanted this more than anything reasonably-priced since the "The Simpson's" house (that I still don't have) from many years ago. The 50th Anniversary Tribute of the Apollo 11 moon landing:

I'd rather visit the Space Coast than Legoland, FL: but I'd do both if I got down there. I've been a fan of Legos and NASA since the mid-80s when I was a kid. I couldn't care less about Disneyworld. If I do get to Florida someday, it's Cape Canaveral and Legoland that I want to visit.

I thought about making a different thread for this, but this one is just as good to post the pictures. What surprised me was how intricate the plan was for the lunar lander. This thing took me 7 1/2 hours to build!!! It also weighs almost 2 pounds. It's the most intricate and incredible LEGO build I've ever done and it was totally worth it. It was a blast (pun intended)!!!

I did take a few short breaks for runs to the restroom and/or fridge and a break to pull a trio of new t-shirts from the dryer and fold them and put them away. I'd still guarantee that this thing took me 6.5 hours to build completely. It weighs almost 2 pounds and is basically a 7.5 inch cube in all directions. That is the coolest Lego creation I've ever done and I've been building stuff with Legos since at least 1985! Most were my own creations from the Legos I own and many were spacecraft I designed myself as I built them. They had to have a computer program to create this specific design! At nearly 1100 pieces and several pieces I've never seen as a Lego piece before, this couldn't have been built by someone with an endless supply of already-made parts.

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FAMDaddy wrote:

Pretty cool about the Monster LEGO Build!  Our Daughter is an Entertainer and Ambassador at LEGOLAND (Winter Haven, Florida).  Sue and I were just there on 12 DEC.  She is on Her way here today to visit with Us on the Space Coast.  LEGOLAND is a beautiful and colorful Place.  Remember being there around 1974 as a Teenager when it was Cypress Garderns (still a small portion of LEGOLAND).  Good Times, Good Times!!  May each of You close out well the final Days of this Decade!!!                             

Yours In The Great Hobby - Felix

Nothing super yet, didnt haul any gifts to my sisters house as we had other gifts that were much MORE important lol. Santa got me 6 rack packs of 2018 Topps baseball and my sister got me a mystery box of 100 common cards with a 1 in 5 of pulling an au or relic card. Nope lol jusy cards from 1990 to 2019 and nothing more. Going to go on the PIF pile. LOL time for the re-gift.