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  • brick projects – apartment

    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. here’s my progress so far, just started it this weekend (july 19-20 2025)

    https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/10013762-82A9-49B8-8DCA-EFF490A12DFB dropping the link again, buy these so they make more

    Running wires
    First stage complete
    Placing lights
    Short-order window
    Open 24 hours!
    aw look at the cute little exhaust fan + stairway to nowhere (yet)

    did a little more, this is ~24 hours of progress total

    Rolling door in place
    It rolls!
    Garage door facade
    Just a chill lil’ vending machine
    2nd floor in progress
    Stairway to heaven?
    Power junction under the desk
    2nd floor lights: working!
    July 20, 2025
  • brick projects – izakaya

    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

    A final virtual walkthrough of the full Izakaya set block. I’m very excited to work on the next set, Apartment
    Starting out
    First wiring placed
    Inside the Izakaya
    Vending machine vibes
    Izakaya walk-up window
    2nd floor tea house
    More progress
    Another angle of progress
    Front door view
    Alley walk-up window
    Checking out more lights
    Back alley view
    Takoyaki hut
    Another alley view
    Completed and displayed

    https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/10013762-82A9-49B8-8DCA-EFF490A12DFB in case you want to buy your own

    July 20, 2025
  • brick projects – future bus

    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. https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/10013762-82A9-49B8-8DCA-EFF490A12DFB 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

    Lights off view
    Front view
    Side view
    July 20, 2025
  • brick projects – milky way

    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!

    How it started
    2nd set of panels coming in
    2nd column in place
    Column 3 placed in
    Almost all there! (notes in post)
    Everything’s in place
    Up on the wall today!
    July 20, 2025
  • brick projects – coral reef

    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.

    Front side
    Back side
    July 20, 2025
  • brick projects – other cats

    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

    Maneki-neko halfway
    Maneki-neko complete
    Playful cat and gubbins
    Cat collection!
    July 20, 2025
  • brick projects – tuxedo cat

    mom had a couple strokes, so we figured we build some lego projects together to help with her dexterity. i had a good time so i picked up some other brick projects with lights and have been really enthralled with those too.

    The box that everything came in
    Starting out…
    In progress…
    Getting there…
    Coming together…
    Almost done…
    Heterochromia!
    July 20, 2025
  • amusing names

    just a few of the most amusing names i have seen out there in the solar system

    update 12/26: here’s a few more

    December 26, 2024
  • 1-(888)888-xxxx

    idk i couldn’t think of anything amusing but here’s 1,888,888 lifetime final blows i guess

    destiny 2 screenshot showing 1,888,888 lifetime final blows
    March 26, 2023
  • absolute disrespect

    i guess i thunderclapped them cheeks

    October 29, 2022
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