So word is getting around my friend’s circle lately that I’m really feeling a resurgence into building LEGO as my new hobby. I don’t really make it a secret, I’ve been posting pictures in all my social media accounts. So it’s gotten to the point I have friends and family sending me news of LEGO whenever they hear something. Which is fine by me.<\/p>\n
But I’m afraid I can’t stop. While I don’t quite have a collection as big as others, just in the past couple years I’ve amassed all the major expert (read: expensive) sets that LEGO has put out. I just guiltily (is that a word?), plopped down a couple bills on the Simpson<\/a> set that I know I don’t have the space in my condo to store.<\/p>\n I recently bought the CUUSOO Back to the <\/a>Future set, and the Mars Rover<\/a>\u00a0— get this — because “I was bored” and it was “cheap”. \u00a0You see? \u00a0That’s the kicker…when I start thinking of small LEGO sets in terms of being “cheap” I know I have a problem because there’s no way “Cheap” and “LEGO” should be associated in the same sentence.<\/p>\n And then…. \u00a0LEGO makes this announcement today:<\/p>\n [youtube id=_QT5zu1x65Q]<\/p>\n Help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So word is getting around my friend’s circle lately that I’m really feeling a resurgence into building LEGO as my new hobby. I don’t really make it a secret, I’ve been posting pictures in all my social media accounts. So it’s gotten to the point I have friends and family sending me news of LEGO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,30],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-4570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","category-toys","tag-lego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4572,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions\/4572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}