35. Buy and build the Tower Bridge Lego

I’m becoming more than a little obsessed with Lego. I’ve bought a number of new sets lately.

March
I saw an advert on my regular Minifigs.me email about a Beatles set which had reduced in price for a limited time. As I already have the Lego Yellow Submarine Beatles, I thought it would be nice to have the earlier incarnation.

Yeah, yeah, yeah!

April
One of the Lego Ideas that was successful was the Mickey Mouse Steamboat Willie set including original Mickey and Minnie Mouse figures. The whole set is in grayscale. However, what you can’t see is that the inner mechanism is all using colourful bricks. As it was a limited edition set, I thought that it would be remiss of me not to include it in my collection.

Steamboat Willie seemingly on the Thames

May
Matheus and I went to the pop-up Brick Bar. It was good fun but I was a little disappointed that they were using generic bricks and not Lego bricks. We had a few challenges to do while we were there which included building the tallest tower and then naming it for extra points and also building a self-portrait. We did actually win points for the best building name (thanks to the quick thinking of Matheus) but it was, unfortunately, not the tallest tower - the tallest was built by a team of five or six people and we were only two.

The Hypodermic Needle - winner of the best building name

My self-portrait

June
I finally bought a building for the other corner of my street. It is the Corner Garage building. The ground floor is the garage complete with petrol and a door that rolls up for cars to get into the garage to be fixed. the other side has a door up to the veterinarian who is currently caring for a bunny rabbit and a frog. There is a little girl looking at a goldfish as well. The top floor is a flat for a family and a roof with a sun-lounger.

The Corner Garage

I also found on Facebook marketplace, a reasonably priced ‘Back to the Future’ DeLorean (retired Lego product), one previous owner. It was given to me built so I took it apart and rebuilt it from scratch. Anything ’Back to the Future’ makes me think about how Matheus and I first met, so I knew I had to buy it.

‘We’ve gotta go back, Marty” / “Where?” / “Back to the future”

July
One year married and my darling husband bought me our spirit animal in Lego form - a turtle (schildpad). He almost forgot to give it to me with the other anniversary gifts he had bought. Such a generous husband!

Een kleine schildpad

I also found on eBay this month, a 3-in-1 Pelican which can also be two other animals. However, I really love the Pelican and this is sitting proudly in my cabinet with my other animals.

I hope you’re enjoying my obsession as much as I am.