As part of my #LEGO business, I've had to deal with AFO/FPO addresses. These special addresses are meant to obscure the actual location of overseas members of the US military while still affording them to receive mail and packages. However, one of the storefront I use reported the user placed the order using an IP address located in Germany. đź«Ł
So much for secrecy!
#LEGO update: I just finished my store accounts and I was surprised to find out that this I have reached $10,000 in ordered parts (including shipping) this October and in sold sets and parts (excluding shipping) this December.
Ten thousand dollars! đź’¸
If you want to contribute to these numbers, I have put some juicy sets for sale this week: https://store.bricklink.com/MrPetovan #LEGO
Earlier this year, I bought a fairly large #LEGO bin from a single mom for $50. I recently sold a train set that was part of the bin that I completed for a few tens of dollars for a whopping $122. I felt bad about originally paying so little for the bin, so I contacted her again and sent her $100.
This came about shortly after I picked up another bin last week in a Tribeca penthouse for $200. I thought it wasn't fair that rich people would be able to better price their lots while poor people would be taken advantage of wanting to make a quick buck for their belongings.
Der groĂźe #Lego Unimog hat an seiner #Seilwinde "natĂĽrlich" ein Schneckengetriebe!
#Diadvent22, #Diadvent2022, #Diadvent-7-12-22, #Adventskalender, #Adventskalender2022, #snailsmas, #snailsmas22, #snailcontent, #Calendrier-de-l-Avent, #Advent-Calendar, #Calendario-dell-Avvento #Dezember22, #photo, #Foto, #mywork
Auf eBay sind Lego Star Wars Packungen fast alle ohne Minifiguren. Selbst wenn die Leute schreiben, dass es komplett ist, steht in der Beschreibung, dass die Minifiguren fehlen.
Soweit okay. Kann ja mal passieren. Ich will mich auch nicht darüber aufregen, dass das so klein im Text geschrieben wird. Ich kann ja immerhin lesen. Aber ich meine, ich wundere mich einfach, warum das bei fast allen Packungen so ist. Irgendwie scheint es eine Industrie von Leuten zu geben, die ganz heiß auf die Minifiguren wie Clone Trooper sind, und dann das nicht zusammengebaute Set wieder bei eBay rein stellen. Was machen die denn alle mit den Minifiguren? Die können doch nicht alle Stop Motion Filme machen oder sich Armeen zusammen sammeln.
Welcome to my new followers after my most popular #Fediverse post ever!
I realize I don't have an #introduction post up, so this is a good opportunity to fill the void. In short, this account is a dump. A mental dump of what I have to blurt out to the world.
Here I'm mainly known for working on #Friendica (#programming), one of many pieces of software part of the #Fediverse. We strive to be compatible with as many decentralized social media protocols as possible, at the moment we're compatible with #Diaspora, #ActivityPub (think Mastodon) and #OStatus, with optional connectors with #Twitter and others.
I also own a second-hand #LEGO store front where I sell sets and parts: https://store.bricklink.com/MrPetovan
I have an 8-year old kid (#parenting), play #VideoGames and often have opinions about them.
Friendica doesn't have a post character limit but I still infrequently post longer pieces on my blog: https://blog.mrpetovan.com
Last bit you may want to know about me before following me on here: I am not in favor of absolute free speech. Online spaces need to be moderated to counter the real life discriminating power dynamics.
Nice to meet you!
The #LEGO order I just received includes:
I don’t know what they’re building but I’m into the magical-infused gunslinger archetype.
This is week my #LEGO hobby has been pretty frustrating. I've made a few inventory errors that are taking a while to resolve because I've had to order the missing parts, but then one of them was the wrong color, and a couple more orders I received were disappointing, with missing or damaged parts like an $11 (!) rare stickered part that was listed as damaged. And that's without counting the packages from Canada that take an unknowable amount of time to arrive, unlike domestic packages that have tracking and pretty accurate delivery estimates.
I've also had a weird interaction with a Czech buyer who placed an order for an expensive set, then didn't pay the invoice, so I reported them for not paying the order. The report went through after complete silence from them for a full week, which allowed me to put the set back for sale, and then they placed a new order for the same set. This time I sent them an email before issuing the invoice, and they ended up haggling over the price, which never happened to me before. After agreeing on a price, I issued the invoice that they paid the next day, but then I realized I was missing a minifigure for the set that I apparently sold independently 6 months ago (!).
I've ordered a replacement figure and I sent them an email to inform them of the delay but I haven't got any answer from them in a few days. Granted, most buyers and sellers have been responsive and I was able to move their case forward, but the silence of the few others always gets to me and I haven't been feeling good about the whole endeavor. Now, if it had been any other activity, I might have already given up, but I've invested so much money and time that I feel like I have to power through, and I can't wait for better days.
I've recently been wondering if one could design a #LEGO assembly that cannot be parted out without damaging any of the pieces. I thought about posting on a LEGO enthusiast forum, but the evil geniuses at LEGO went ahead and spared me the trouble.
LEGO has designed a set that can't be taken apart
My partner's workplace #LEGO Slack channel (!) has been asking questions about the making of this set and I put together a how-to make a color-scrambled LEGO set that I have now published on my blog.
It's niche so I don't expect a lot of traffic but I already did the writing work so it wasn't hard to convert it to a blog post.
♲ Hypolite Petovan - 2022-08-21 18:13:14 GMT
LEGO Boeing 787 "Putting back the dream in" Dreamliner
This is our latest #LEGO project with my partner, using an official design as a base (in this case, the 2006 Boeing 787 Dreamliner 10177 set), and using as many different colors for the parts as possible. Most came from my existing collection, several had to be purchased in the wildest colors possible.
To zero in on this set, I used Rebrickable Build Search feature that returns how much of which sets can be built given a pool of parts. This search engine has several interesting options, including disregarding the part colors entirely, matching only on part molds.
This gave me a result with an extremely wide range of sets, so I had to filter further. I first limited the results to sets with more than 1,000 parts so that the patchwork of colors would be shown at a meaningful scale. The second filter was manual, I tried to find a set where color differences weren't used to denote a change of texture or geometry. This set stood out thanks to its simple geometric shape, and the base bi-tone color scheme was perfect to scramble.
We're pretty happy with the result, and it will nicely adorn our living room shelves for a while.
More pictures:
Cologne Cathedral in #lego
Over 1 million Lego pieces
#church
On display in the Kaiserpfalz museum in #Paderborn
