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Matthew Lang

Family guy and web developer

Lego

Building, collecting, and appreciating the art of Lego.

Enjoying a very relaxed Saturday

I love Saturdays like this. No plans, no need to go anywhere. Just going with the flow.

The Goonies Lego build is coming along nicely. Some really great finishing touches, and it’s great to have most of the movie in a single build. I’m leaving the next couple of bags for Drew to do tonight.

A LEGO pirate shipwreck set displayed on a wooden dining table, featuring a tilted brown ship hull built into gray rocky cliffs with several minifigures positioned throughout the scene, including characters on the upper deck and in a cave-like area below.

I put the finishing touches on a new learning feature in Dailymuse today. It’s a spaced-repetition feature that sends notes to you over a period you define. It’s like flash cards by email. I’ll be testing this myself for the next few weeks before I release it.

Fajitas for dinner tonight, followed by an episode of Tulsa King and an episode of Shrinking, will wrap up a much-needed relaxing Saturday.

I think Drew and I are going to make a start on The Goonies set tonight. He’s been itching to get started on it. I think I’ve made him wait long enough.

A LEGO Ideas set based on The Goonies, showing the box art featuring One-Eyed Willy's pirate ship built in brown and grey bricks. Multiple minifigures representing characters from the 1985 film are arranged across the multi-level ship interior. The box sits on a wooden surface, with a retro space-themed poster partially visible in the background.

Wee yin has started building his A-Frame Cabin set from Lego. I’m just a smidge jealous that he’ll get to do this one all by himself.

A child is assembling a Lego set at a table in a room with framed pictures on the wall.

Ordered the Boarding the Tantive IV set for the wee yin and picked up the Tales of Space Age set and the Mos Espa Podrace Diorama for myself. The Lego budget is blown for the next few months!

Added the standard light set from Game of Bricks to the Home Alone house. I’d say it worked out quite well!

The Home Alone Lego set illuminated on a small table.

Drew finished the Home Alone build a few days ago. It’s a fantastic build with plenty of detail. A great set for the holidays.

The Lego Home Alone build is coming along nicely. Not much progress this week though as Drew has been in his bed with a virus this week.

Drew and I started the Home Alone build from Lego last night. We finished the van last night and started the first bag of the house this morning.

Lego Marvel Venom with Light Kit

A couple of weeks ago Drew bought this Lego Marvel Venom set. We decided to try out the additional light kit for it from Light My Bricks.

I have to say, the final result looks pretty good. The LEDs and wires fitted into the build nicely, although the green LEDs that go in behind the Venom’s teeth were a bit of a pain to fit and to stay in place.

Unbeknownst to Drew, he’s got a another light kit heading his way for Christmas which will be for the Lego DC Batman head we’ve bought him. I’m looking forward to seeing how that one turns out.

The Tantive IV set is complete! It took a wee bit longer than we planned, but it’s finally finished. Now, we just need to find a place to put it.

In an effort to break the boredom, I opened a few Lego sets that we had initially put aside.

Drew’s been desperate to build the Tantive IV set, so we’re starting with this one and just doing a couple of bags a day. When it’s done, it’s definitely going to be quite big.

Another Lego set is complete for Drew!

This year’s Christmas set, with the light brick and the detail inside, has some nice little touches. We just need to dig out the other sets tomorrow night when we put the tree up!

Drew with the first part of his Lego Ideas bait store. Even at this early stage, some of the detailing on the build is fantastic. C3B8E307-7C52-4128-804A-F4CCD3BD6368.jpg

Drew made great progress on the Lego Winter Village Fire Station tonight. Just a wee bit of help by myself with the fire engine. Well done my boy!

Drew built this little set all by himself. He needed just a little bit of help with the mechanism but just a little bit! #legostarwars #coolbeingadad