LEGO Alien Conquest & Me

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I finally started liking a particular theme in LEGO this year, Alien Conquest. It’s not that I don’t like anything else LEGO, in PARTICULAR EVERYTHING in this theme is the point.

I didn’t have any of my own stuff of LEGO ever before. I have bought many things for my children, getting more and more into wanting to build something for myself as they got older and older into bigger and better things.

My time has finally come. Entering Alien Conquest into the LEGO line was their best effort at introducing something awesome and totally different and unique. Totally up my alley.

Not just that, awesome pieces, nothing priced higher than $89.99 = I now have every piece, except for one promotional item that I seem to have missed somehow (ADU Walker) … and one item is on the way to me (Alien Conquest Battle Pack) since both Target and the LEGO store in our area were out of them. (I was supposed to get one before now, but with some things a bit tight, had to wait.)

My first actual personal LEGO build was this year, an impulse pack of a Pizza Planet LGM on a little flyer … cute, my favorite character in the Toy Story films. It was perfect for me as a single thing that was to be all my own for a small $.

We knew about Alien Conquest and that was what I wanted to get for my birthday. So for my birthday that’s what I got, but just one thing: Alien Conquest UFO Abduction. It was really fun to build, so solid and cool.

Since then I have gotten the other two little sets available: Alien Striker and Alien Defender.

For my birthday my daughter gave me a coupon for the Alien Conquest Battle Pack, but I couldn’t redeem it until we got more $$ since she was owed money (from birthdays, etc. that we hold ‘on account’ for the children) … I’d have had that for my birthday right away otherwise.

A couple of days ago we went to the LEGO store and got in one fell swoop ADU Battle HQ, Alien Mothership, Alien Tripod Invader,  and the ADU Jetcopter.

I put the Tripod Invader together first. Yesterday I started on the Alien Mothership, actually starting to video different phases on putting it together, and when I got to this and that, just quit, and put it all together with no more video. But I found at one point I didn’t have enough dark gray long pieces. Just had white. I saw in my instructions book 2 inventory that there should be 8x dark gray and 2x white. No use of white in book 2 though.

I couldn’t see totally where I’d used it or messed up previously until I was too tired to care. I also had a headache, so put it together completely with the wrong color in the spokes, but anyhow it is a really cool piece (way cooler than it seemed it’d be.)

So after that we tried to look and figured maybe I’d used those dark gray pieces in the saucer part, and just couldn’t see them well enough to get to them.

Looking at book 1 it was obvious I’d messed up there, white corner pieces looked white in the instructions, but the long piece looked gray and I just picked up the gray I had in the size, It looked great. FWIW.

So this morning I knew I had to do something and pried and pulled and had to dismantle the whole frickin saucer, but got down to it and sure enough, that was that. So I then got the white ones from the spokes, and put the dark grey in their place where they really belonged and the saucer now sits as a pile of pieces on my office floor.

I have no good place to put it either, it’s so big. over 19″ circular diameter. I’m going to figure out how to suspend it from the ceiling, me thinks.

I have to rebuild it first though. Of course. Also, the Reporter Mini-figure was on a shelf overnight, had her microphone in hand last I saw, and this morning I found her on the floor with no microphone. For some reason ever mini-figure I put on the shelf, those in the middle end up on the floor more often than any from other positions on the shelf.

My office is in the walk-out basement, not much activity down here, keep my door at night. OOOOOHHHH I just found it, microphone on my desk under my Tron Deluxe Disc. 🙂




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