I was at the store doing my weekly grocery shopping earlier this week. As usual I stopped by the Lego section to see what was on sale. I shop at one of those big we-sell-everything stores because I only have to go to one store and they're the only place around here that sells groceries without one of those %&@@&*! loyalty cards. I dislike the idea of someone tracking what I buy, and I'm not going to pay twice as much because I don't want someone tracking what I buy. (And yes, I know I'm paranoid; but am I paranoid enough?)
Anyway I had to buy set 7079 "Drawbridge Defense" because of the jester mini-fig. I attempt to juggle and made a jester costume for Halloween several years ago. Though my good one is red, white and black rather than the red and blue in the Lego set.
In 1994 friends of mine and I won the costume contest at the Hilly Hundred bicycle ride in Bloomington Indiana. He and I were jesters and his wife was a mime. You might say we had one mime between the two of us. We won mostly because he and I wore our costumes all day and juggled at every rest stop. We never have figured out how to pass objects between each other, but we do a pretty good side-by-side juggle where he's the right arm and I'm the left. That jester costume is yellow orange and green.
I also bought set 8942 "Bionicle Jetrax T6" while I was at the store because it was about 1/2 price and I didn't have any Bionicle sets.
Oh, did I mention I have about 30,000 Legos?
I have about 30,000 Legos. That's not really very many as you can see by the picture to the right. They are more impressive dumped into one big pile, but they take about 40-50 hours to sort back out by size/shape.
To really do anything interesting you need between 250,000 and 500,000 blocks.
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