In January I guess I saw enough people using the “I was bored lol” description of their work and made this:
In March I finally got my hands on some series 3 and series 4 minifigures and was moved to do my very first video blogging.
Lego Minifigs Part One from Dave Lartigue on Vimeo.
April 23 was the third birthday of my Lego image blog, Lego Diem.
In May I bought the Earth Defense HQ set and reviewed it:
Also in May I did my second foray into EPIC (Existing Pieces, Ignoring Color) building with the EPIC Green Grocer:
Most of July was taken up by the Shotgun House. For a change, I also documented it as a work in progress: 1, 2.
Not quite Lego, but in August I took a look at the Doctor Who building block toys.
Work slammed me hard after that, but in October I hit up the Lego store in Framingham. I grabbed some pick-a-brick stuff, minifig stuff, and one of the Heroica game sets (which I bought strictly for parts and can’t say much about the gameplay on.)
You all know what happens in November, and this year I had two Vic Vipers! The blue and the gray.
At the beginning of December I got excited about some new pieces, as found in a Ninjago set.
Then came my seasonal Star Wars Christmas scene, featuring Santa’s Trench Run.
I then held forth on the new “Lego for Girls” sets. The usual Internet discourse regarding Lego inspired this:
Before the year ended I bought a Creator set and one of those “plain-old-brick-sets” that everyone claims aren’t sold anymore (one for GIRLS, too, because it had some great unusual colors in it.) I also got this set on clearance:
(Dave T. suspects it will go even deeper on clearance and if so, I’ll probably grab another one.)
I’ve since then been doing some sorting — first time I’ve done a major sorting since 2010. It’s been a Herculean task. Will this be the year I finally re-sort by brick type instead of color?
(No.)
