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so, here’s my city as it stands so far — left to right — floating train station, izakaya, game stack, and apartment. i have the bus off to the left but it’s gonna have to become the way left to fit one more block up here. check out the video below for flashies!
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so, it’s been a minute since i’ve played destiny 2 — both because of in-game reasons and out-of-game ones — not that i don’t love the universe and generally the concept as i’ve been able to put some time into destiny rising, the mobile game. there’s a ton to do in the game and one of those things is a fishing minigame. i chose this as the “thing to do” to bury the lede a little, as the city has a bunch of cats and you can feed them the fish that you catch. sometimes you even catch a gun, too.
in any case, i was waiting to post this until i’d actually managed to get a clean picture with all of them but the spawn points are random and the one that’s outside skorri’s across from the bounty board hasn’t been back since i decided to document them all, so i’ll just add them to the gallery later when they come back. or if i find new spots, or apparently to fix that picture of the one inside the throne room.
update: october 12th, still no cat in front of skorri’s but i totally forgot about this one, haven’t seen him in at least a month
update: october 13th (but posted the next day bc i forgot) i hadn’t seen this lil’ guy before either but he got fed today
update: october 20th, finally got that cat in front of skorri and fed that little bastard
NEW catto on october 12th below
NEW catto on october 13th below
NEW catto on october 11th below
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so this arrived like a week early in the mail and i don’t know, i kinda doubt mom would be interested in this one. but i’ll check with her next time we sit down to work on neuschwanstein castle to see if/when she wants a little intermission from long-term project. i wanted this set for me at the very least so maybe i’ll intermission myself between lumibricks sets
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finally started the castle with mom today, this one has an absolute ton of pieces and it looks like a lot of little detail work (the trees) that i might take on once we’re done with the structure — the part mom wanted to do anyway. i think we’ve both been both looking forward to this project (the building of castle) and dreading it (the sheer number of pieces). maybe me looking forward to it a little more and mom dreading it a little more but it’s pretty cool we get to spend time doing projects like these together at least
welp, got another missing piece 🙁 sucks because we’ll have to put it on pause mostly until we get it since we’re still on the bottom. and, uh, mail to my house from lego to here in the good ol’ us of a might be an issue at the moment…
[edit: didn’t pause just stole a replacement piece out of another bag and kicked the can down the road. probably do the same next time we work on this one as we’ve got a bunch of this hill to build and it uses a ton of those pieces]
small progress today, not a lot of pictures as mom was a bit more with it and we were a little chatty (and two were really, really blurry)
small update today was a little struggle but we finished up. kicked the missing piece down the road yet again. also uh we are ready for castle and ready to be done with the hill
and a couple more steps/bags done today i was expecting the back of the hill for support structure but nope it was castle time???
more (saturday, october 4th, 2025)
tiny bit more today (sunday october 5th?) mom was kinda tired and i really wanted to do some work on the train station
only a couple more pictures, we were just kinda on a roll so i forgot?
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showed up in the mail today (september 23rd, 2025) this one is in the queue after i finish up train, which is gonna take a bit. no pictures yet just wanted to get the post started since i was doing stuff on my site for the other builds anyway.
welp finally started this one today (october 11th, 2025) and it’s got a lot more wiring on the bottom floor than the others have had so far, and a lot more light points in general. also it looks like this one is gonna have a bunch of “neon” bars which i absolutely adore so pretty stoked about that
UPDATE: i kinda got in the zone and just like … finished and mostly forgot to take pictures. oof.
up late with the flashlight but snuck in a little more work tonight, built an elevator (hand cranked) which is a first
got more work in so a few more pictures
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okay lets fix the filler text in with the actual text now that i’ve started. didn’t get much done today since it’s a friday and usually i’ve got a thing to do but instead woke up puking so, you know, great start to the day. but i got some brick time in maybe it’s a wash. anyway. the floating train station, 3rd set in the cyberpunk neoncity set from lumi. i have mine in a different layout from theirs here — i think i’ll have the izakaya on the far left then apartment then game stack then train station? we’ll see once i’ve got all four built but i do know it’s gonna look so fucking cool and anyone should be damn envious
oop forgot to upload these
took a couple days off for being sick but did some work on this today but also did some lego stuff with mom, busy day with the bricks today (tuesday, september 23rd) but also the game stack came in the mail today! will have to get a couple pictures of the box and make a temp post blah blah anyway here’s more pictures
did a little bit yesterday after lego with mom but was running late so i kinda just left all my shit on the table, ugh. i did finish up the next day (today, friday september 26th) but wasn’t really feeling very well so it took me like two days to get one set of instructions done, not great. on the plus side though, finished up the first book and onto the second book — and i found another error that’s not in any of the errata so i got to remember to email them about it. also not a lot of pictures like other steps due to not feeling great and just trying to clear up the mess so mom and i can work on the castle tomorrow
lots of lighting bits today, still a few things to go and i’m not sure how the “animated” thing (the blue and green lights in the last picture today) is supposed to animate yet but i guess we’ll see?
little work today and serendipity occurred as the timing of the only bag/step without wiring was the one i was in the middle of as mom wanted to do lego stuff so we worked on the train together. this is the first one of these sets that she’s done any work on and being able to have a little time where we got to do it together was really cool. that’s why there’s not as many pictures this time, but i did take a quick video
small progress on the train station today too, added a little bit of 3rd story here’s some pictures. on the plus side i checked the instructions and the next step doesn’t have any special parts (so no wiring) so i might be able to have her help me out with it
ah, went ahead and did a couple more bags/steps next one is step 11 and the first step of the 3rd (and final) book… really coming together. finally put the big neon sign together and i’m still not sure how it animates. maybe there’s a power controller or something further in the set to make them alternate?
okay, got a couple steps in today (sunday, october 5th somehow) and put in one of the bigger neon effects which of course i adore
not really sure where the last couple days went but like i didn’t seem to take any pictures and this probably isn’t even going to be it’s final spot but i guess i zoned in and finished up? anyway…
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this set just dropped on lumi’s site or amazon and figured it looked like fun while waiting for the cyberpunk train station set (which came out yesterday, september 12th) a little quicker than expected but i’d already bought this one, might as well full send. also this was the first one i got with only the lumibricks branding — much, much better brand name than funwhole, right?
update: 18 september 2025: finished
lotta work done today don’t usually smash through almost an entire booklet of instructions in one day but might be a little excited for the cyberpunk train station
edit: okay so i finished up the actual rest of the book, first time i’ve finished a book of instructions in 24 hours but here we are, i’m going fast so i can get to the next one(s) i guess? and then i’ll have ……………
yeah yeah did more the next day (sunday 14th september)
tuesday, september 16th saw more building, few more steps (#10, 11, and 12) two left – but one of those is just finishing touches. this last step should be the projector level (neat) so i’ll be able to figure out which i want to “project” of the five that came with it — i chose constellations
finished up today so here’s the last of the pictures. we were just about done last time with only a few little bits to add really
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picked this one up to be the next project with mom, figured it would also look cool when we’re done (check out that water in the front) and after this we’ve got neuschwanstein castle too. having a really good time doing all these sets both with mom and the ones i’ve done on my own. if you’d asked me a year ago if i was gonna be that guy i probably would have been surprised… but i also still have the lego bricks from the sets i got as a kid somewhere in my garage still. maybe i wouldn’t have been that surprised.
update: finished on 6th sepetmber 2025
started today, sunday august 24th or whatever day it is. time is weird when you don’t really have a day-to-day schedule anymore
got around to more work today (saturday, august 30th) not a whole lot but progress is progress
and a lil’ more on sunday. two days in a row who are we people?
finished here, saturday uh 6th of september
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mom really wanted to do a castle and this was the first one i found for sale that was an actual castle shape and not just a building facade. although, lego does have a new one for sale coming out soon in august that i might pick up that’s more of the medieval castle style she wanted to build — lego neuschwanstein castle #21063 — but we haven’t really made much progress on this one lately
more today after mom’s physical therapy
update: saturday, july 26th: a few wall details in. we’re done with bag 5 of 17
more stuff done this week
more progress, still have bags 11-17 left to do after these:
mom had real physical therapy today (august 12th, 2025) so she wanted to read/rest a little after, but an hour later we got in two bags — more than normal lately — so i’ve got some new pictures to show off
more photos, more work – probably finish up tomorrow (sunday, august 17th 2025)
we finished up today (thursday, august 21st 2025) and gonna put it into the display cabinet this weekend with the rest of our lego projects, pretty stoked about the next one (pyramid of giza) and the one after that too. maybe by the time we’re done with the next two there will be some more new sets out and we just kinda keep chaining them. gotta have something to do in retirement, right?
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weirdly, this one is called “mansion” when you look at it on amazon but packaging refers to it as “apartment” so that’s the one i’m going with. except in the title and again in the text. but i only used apartment once, or well twice now that it’s in this sentence too. anyway, here’s my progress so far, just started it this weekend (july 19-20 2025)
shameless amazon link, no referral code dropping the link again, buy these so they make more
did a little more, this is ~24 hours of progress total
and did a little more today (tuesday, july 22nd)
finished up the first book of instructions, second book is a little thinner
saturday, july 17th: more progress. did bags 8 (five bags), bags 9 (five bags), and about four-fifths of bag 10 (two bags) to do this roof two floor apartment because i really wanted to see all the lights and there wasn’t really a good way to check without finishing
finished up today, sunday, july 27th. it’s so neat how these will just click together and share power. i really, really want more of these cyberpunkish sets soon because i am enthralled.
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this was my next project and the one that really impressed me with how everything came together. plus all the lights? and other “blocks” (as in city, not as in lego) from the same company can just click together and share power? i’m sitting here typing this out just mind blown
https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/10013762-82A9-49B8-8DCA-EFF490A12DFB in case you want to buy your own
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i think i saw these on an instagram ad and well, they got me. i picked this set to go first as it was the smaller of the three that i picked up. funwhole on amazon link i got the bus, izakaya, and “mansion” (apartment?) link isn’t even a referral i just want them to sell more so they make more of these cyberpunk sets. i did these lighted ones on my own as the light wiring bits is really small and technical
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ooh this one was a good time and i really liked how it all came together. enough to hang up on my wall, as a matter of fact… unfortunately, this set was short a brick that went under other bricks so we had to wait a while for a replacement to get mailed in from denmark. lego is super cool that way though and is eager to fix any missing pieces!
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got this one as a gift with purchase of some of the other sets i picked up, figured it would also be a nice little milky way project intermission. it was.
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these two were pretty quick and we did them during intermissions of the next post (above this one) which was a nice little break from how detailed that one was. these were building up instead of specific placing on a grid idk they required different skillsets
