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Jolly Tales and Christmas Treats
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This holiday episode of Brick City Radio is filled with festive stories, LEGO gift discussions, and lighthearted banter among friends. We showcase holiday experiences, culinary traditions, favorite LEGO elements, and plans for the new year, all while celebrating the community that keeps the spirit of LEGO alive.
• Sharing personal holiday experiences and traditions
• Discussing favorite holiday meals and treats
• Exchanging LEGO gift highlights and recommendations
• Celebrating unique LEGO elements and sets received
• Speculating on future LEGO releases and innovations
• Encouraging community engagement and storytelling
We wish you a joyful holiday season and a happy new year filled with creativity and LEGO adventures!
Welcome to Brick City Radio, a LEGO podcast for LEGO fans. I'm Puck.
Speaker 2:I'm Rebecca.
Speaker 3:I'm Santa. No, Mr Grawl.
Speaker 2:Today we do have Santa with us and some weirdos sitting behind me, so we have a couple of guests today for our holiday episode. So Merry Christmas everybody.
Speaker 1:Merry Christmas everybody. I hope everyone had a good holiday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we are.
Speaker 1:We are joined by a couple of weirdos in our community, but we love them so much Mr Harrell, aka Santa, and Scotty Rotten sitting in the back behind Becca Bubbles over there. Hey, scotty, hello weirdos. So how was everybody's holiday holiday? Let's, let's chat a little bit about our holidays. What did everybody get up to?
Speaker 2:well, um, I flew over to california on the 21st, so I'm here for two weeks.
Speaker 1:So, um, I got to spend the holidays here, which is a long haul for a holiday, but that makes it special, though we actually had a white christmas for the first time in many years, so oh, like no what I kill for a white christmas yeah, it was really lovely.
Speaker 2:We went out for driving a snowstorm, which may be not very sensible, but it wasn't too bad and um. So I you know, we went on a sort of mystery magical lights tour to look at everyone's christmas lights in the snow, so that in a big snowstorm?
Speaker 4:yes, that sounds amazing.
Speaker 1:What about you, Santa? Do you all get any snow ever In the North?
Speaker 3:Pole. The distribution center that I work out of is actually in a pretty warm valley because we can't have icing on the runways and the reindeer really don't appreciate icicles growing on their noses. So, uh, we, you know, we build up in the north pole and we bring it down here to the uh shipping and distribution and then we go out from there.
Speaker 1:So, no, no, we haven't we had a pretty warm christmas, so was it bathing suit weather for your Christmas?
Speaker 3:Not quite that no, that's for the next couple of months on vacation, you know.
Speaker 1:Ah, I see, I see. Well, here in South Texas it was definitely bathing suit weather. I actually did go out and lay in the sun Christmas morning for a little bit, because it was 80 degrees and sunny and beautiful. Yeah, we've yet to have really cold weather. We had one night last I think it was last Tuesday where it was like 45 degrees at night, but that's the coldest day we've had so far.
Speaker 2:So it was my you know, teen, what the? The second or third day I was here. I don't know what that is in fahrenheit, sorry, google it, guys, it gets really cold here.
Speaker 3:It dropped down into the 60s Fahrenheit and I had to actually put a coat on. It was crazy.
Speaker 1:It was like you know ooh, yeah, I definitely wish I could bring out my jacket and my nice fur hat would be great. But that's usually just like once a year. We don't get cold weather, usually until like mid-February. It's the strangest thing. Yeah, till like mid-February.
Speaker 2:It's the strangest thing. Yeah, Back home there was reports of having one of the warmest sort of holiday seasons ever. I think it was like nearly 15 degrees in some parts of the UK, which is very warm for the end of December.
Speaker 1:What is that? 15 C to so? That's Wow, that is warm. That's almost 60 degrees Fahrenheit. That is a warm winter.
Speaker 2:You would say that's short weather, wouldn't you?
Speaker 1:Spring, that's short weather, by fall it's not okay 59 would definitely still be shorts and a long-sleeved shirt, maybe a beanie, for sure.
Speaker 2:Well, see, Beanies. Now here we go. This is what they're called, right? What he's wearing is a beanie.
Speaker 1:But, he called it a toque. He's the Canadian. He's going to call it a toque, yeah.
Speaker 2:Which means, I mean, it sounds like a bird to me, you know, bird head.
Speaker 1:Are they called beanies in the UK? Do you guys call them beanies? You know what?
Speaker 4:it means to me those little hats you saw in cartoons, with propellers on them. That's a beanie.
Speaker 1:Interesting. Oh look, he's got one too, that's a beanie. Yeah, Santa's got a beanie. What's on your beanie there, Santa? He's got one too, it's a beanie. Yeah, Santa's got a beanie.
Speaker 3:What's on your beanie there, santa? That's a noodle dragon. I won this in Planet Lulu's stream. That's nice, I like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a nice little decal. Very nice, it's embroidered, that's nice. I see the embroideries are really nice on the on the the beanies, or if they're knit, because it looks like scotty's is a knit one instead of uh yeah, embroidered, this is knit and that's yeah, that's really nice yeah, that was a christmas gift from my best friend in the uk oh, that's so sweet.
Speaker 1:I love, see, I love, I love when, when everybody's just gift-giving to other people, significant others and other people, ho, ho, ho, pass along the joy to all. There you go, exactly, exactly. I actually have two of these hats. My mom had this wonderful idea one Christmas that we were all going to dress up the same, so she bought us all these elf outfits, so they're basically pajamas and the hats. So we have this picture with all of us in these pajamas and hats, and seeing my dad in an elf outfit with an elf beanie on was probably one of the funniest moments of my adult life. I was like this is just. This is just outrageously ridiculous.
Speaker 3:And you got to shatter the image of the father figure.
Speaker 1:Yes, Right, right.
Speaker 3:I was just like I've got a question for Becca, since they said that they were out looking at lights. Did Scotty run into any moose or anything while he was out there?
Speaker 2:no, not this time we dodged a few.
Speaker 4:I yelled at a couple. They were hanging out on the street corner. That's seriously what they do this time of year in the middle of southern Toronto, southern Ontario, where it's urbanized, there's no moose down here.
Speaker 3:Hey, I'm walking here.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't know, so I've been. I went to New Hampshire where my grandparents lived, and you would see them in the city center just standing in the middle of the road. I was just like, okay, that's a big creature just standing right in the middle of the road.
Speaker 3:Well, you're the visitor in their perspective.
Speaker 4:Right of course they do excel at just standing in the middle of the road. They particularly like to do it at night.
Speaker 1:I don't know why and they? You don't realize how big these creatures are until you see them in person. They are massive, yeah.
Speaker 2:We're hoping to take a drive to Niagara Falls next week. Okay, would we see one that way?
Speaker 4:Well no, niagara Falls is south of here, through the greater Toronto area, higher density than what we have here. The odds of seeing are moose. We're more likely to see a pack of raptors or T-Rex than a moose Cool.
Speaker 2:Either way, I'd be happy with either of those choices, so that's fun. You're not going to see them at all in the UK. So to be fair, there's still a higher, higher higher chances yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, apparently, apparently you can see so here in Texas during this time of year. Uh, down here in san antonio, we we start getting the influx of peacocks uh, this time of year.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, so it was a really funny story because we we call a lot of the people here in san antonio call them the christmas birds. Now, um, because what happened is in austin, the city, the city above me. Um, like, I mean, I've seen them chase turkeys before. Um, I'm not sure if they taste like turkey. I've never eaten peacock, but I have heard people do, oh, some cocoa with some. Oh see, now I want to go make some cocoa. But yeah, these, these birds, they they got loose in, I believe, the 50s and it's not illegal to own them in the state of Texas, but they got loose and populated this entire park. So there are just like hundreds and hundreds of these birds At this park in Austin, but when the weather starts to get cold, they migrate down To San Antonio and you'll start seeing like random peacocks Start landing in your yard. They'll land in the local parks. Yes, they're very good flyers actually look at those tails.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so they. They were like roadrunners or something. No, they fly very well, you'll hear them.
Speaker 2:It's like a, it's very jungly, you do that very well, I well, I try I try it's experiencing that I'll have to come for christmas one year just for the oaks, my uh, my, I have my neighbor good experience with peacocks, though no no, no no, no we go santa
Speaker 3:we went to a, the ranch where my wife used to have horses. Okay, and the ranch had wild peacocks and I decided to drive and I parked and we went and dealt with the horses. I have a. I had the time had a very shiny black on black paint job oh no know, reflective. The peacocks took offense to the other peacocks inside the black reflection and jumped up and decided to decorate the side of the car, from front to back, with stripy little claw marks. Uh-oh, the fun is explaining that to your insurance company. How did this happen, sir Peacocks?
Speaker 2:Seriously.
Speaker 3:And I took pictures of the peacocks and I took pictures of the car and I said they took offense to the imaginary peacocks in the paint job and left it a decorated mess. So yeah, $2,500 paint job and left it a decorated mess. So yeah, 2500 paint job. So that was not my idea of fun peacocks.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I would imagine to the ranch.
Speaker 3:It was not an option. No oh man, there's an aside for you.
Speaker 1:There's a non-santa story you know, you know, that would that would be. That would be the story of how I, uh would cook a peacock.
Speaker 4:I would be like, oh, well, I was hoping that was going to end with you telling us what peacock tasted like.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was kind of hoping for that. I was like did he go and call some peacock to eat for Christmas dinner?
Speaker 4:Yum.
Speaker 1:They do. Here in Texas. There's no law against catching them and people will, and they'll eat them. I've been told it tastes like turkey.
Speaker 2:Well, if any of our listeners have ever experienced peacock, then do send us a message.
Speaker 3:And let us know if it tastes like turkey, why not? Doesn't everything taste like chicken?
Speaker 1:everything tastes like chicken sure, sure except for alligator. Gator actually tastes like lobster. If you cook it right it's more like lobster. It gives it a like a buttery tender sea spider taste.
Speaker 3:I love.
Speaker 2:Scotty's face when you're describing. He was nearly. He was like wrecking them.
Speaker 4:It's not that they live on the bottom of the ocean and we're not supposed to catch them. They look like giant bugs that live on the bottom of the ocean.
Speaker 2:We're not supposed to catch them, so I'm guessing the alligator wouldn't be something you would like, then Probably not no, oh, okay, Sure, I mean, it's another reptile.
Speaker 3:When Becca goes back to England, are you taking a big old care package full of maple syrup and other Canadian treats?
Speaker 4:Yeah, I would. She just wants to go home with lots of weed, apparently. So, hey, I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because I really want to have that fun at customs on the other end.
Speaker 3:It's just peachy.
Speaker 1:It's just fine. What's okay? It's just a little bit of grass, whatever.
Speaker 2:It can't hurt yeah.
Speaker 3:Tell them you're a botanist and you're bringing home samples to study, yeah there you go, I'll give it a go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, good luck.
Speaker 1:So, speaking of food, what did everybody do for their Christmas dinners or their holiday dinners? And do you do holiday dinner on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day?
Speaker 4:We did the same as every year we overate.
Speaker 1:Well, of course yeah.
Speaker 3:That's why I'm not in my regular jacket I've got to let it out of the inch.
Speaker 1:How do you think Santa gets the big belly every year?
Speaker 2:Well, you know, in Santa's defense he does have to eat a whole lot of cookies. It would be rude to leave them if someone left them out for you, right?
Speaker 1:I imagine his blood type is peppermint.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3:It's a gajillion calories to travel from place to place in hyperspeed, so it takes a lot out of you.
Speaker 2:What did we have on Christmas Eve with Bailey?
Speaker 4:Too much to drink.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't remember what we had on Christmas Eve now, but Christmas Day Scotty made a really nice little ham, potatoes and carrots with maple syrup.
Speaker 4:I had to have the maple in there.
Speaker 3:Maple is very yummy.
Speaker 4:And a ham Plus the spinach casserole Like a spinach casserole.
Speaker 2:That sounds delicious. It's really really yummy. Yeah, spinach.
Speaker 4:It's got artichoke in it. And cheese and garlic and cheddar on top and you bake it and it's so good.
Speaker 1:Just drool. Yeah, okay, I haven't eaten yet today.
Speaker 4:From the early 80s now, whether we do a ham or a turkey or pork roast and the meat has rotated over the years that spinach is always there, Sounds delicious.
Speaker 1:We did a pork roast a maple pork roast with cordovets and mashed potatoes and Hawaiian rolls this year that's what we did, this year I'm going to have to be heathen here and say what was that?
Speaker 2:I don't even know what word you just said Cordovans, cordovans, cordovans.
Speaker 1:They're green beans.
Speaker 2:That I get.
Speaker 3:Don't say green beans. Everybody knows what a green bean is Codavance.
Speaker 2:What is a Hawaiian roll?
Speaker 1:So those are like the bread rolls, but they're sweet. It's a sweet bread roll, not crusty Soft surface.
Speaker 2:Like the bread rolls, but they're sweet. It's a sweet bread roll, not crusty Soft surface.
Speaker 3:No, not crusty.
Speaker 1:It's soft and fluffy yeah.
Speaker 3:Very delicious.
Speaker 1:It's got a sweet aftertaste to it, yeah.
Speaker 2:And then we had carrot cake for pudding so good.
Speaker 3:We had pudding for pudding yeah.
Speaker 2:For dessert? Sorry Dessert. I forget that pudding is pudding. Yeah, for dessert, sorry Dessert. I forget that pudding is an actual dessert everywhere else in the world.
Speaker 4:We had coffee for tea and ice cream for pudding.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's good. Okay, pudding is just another word for dessert.
Speaker 4:Tea is actually a dinner too, but I forgot about that as well.
Speaker 3:I've got to make her feel a bit more at home. What about you?
Speaker 2:Mr H oh, there you go, oh, there you go, um. I mean, obviously you were very tired on christmas day after your we had tea and crumpets deliveries no tea and crumpets.
Speaker 1:No, no, we didn't have tea.
Speaker 3:We had crumpets I know like they're delicious yeah, we had, uh, we had, um, okay. So here's first off, mrs Harall is a sous chef at a retirement facility, so she's working every day. Yeah, we didn't really have a formal dinner, but she did bring home some leftover turkey real nice turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy and we made some peas and that was kind of a makeshift but delicious meal.
Speaker 1:That sounds delicious. Yeah, that sounds great.
Speaker 3:Stoke up.
Speaker 1:Got to feed all them retirees their Christmas meals.
Speaker 3:Their families don't always have the ability to visit or they're out of state or something like that, so they don't have a lot of people to hang out with. So the facility what a terrible thing to call it the residence there you go, they stay at um actually sets out a beautiful spread, for it's really great. That's all the full nine yard meal. You know the traditional american style, uh, christmas meal, yeah and turkey and cranberries and pie and all the when you say pie, what kind of pie?
Speaker 3:they use apple and pumpkin, but the pumpkin is kind of just a little bit because they had that at thanksgiving american.
Speaker 2:That makes sense, I I blew um, uh, I was. Bailey. Scotty's son was here and I blew his mind the other day because I told him I've never had pumpkin pie and he was like what Wait? What I think we don't really get pumpkin pie, like we don't do kind of pies, like you guys do pies so much. We have pies but we definitely don't. We don't really have.
Speaker 2:I'm just shocked that you've never had one before, and I was going to get one, because we went out and I saw one and I said well, let's get one because he loves pumpkin pie, and Scotty was like no, don't like pumpkin pie. And I was like it looks delicious, you can cut that up.
Speaker 1:Oh, I mean, it is delicious. I probably during the holiday season, will eat by myself probably four pumpkin pies by myself where do you put that? What do you mean? Where do I put that? My god, in my stomach are they this big?
Speaker 4:no.
Speaker 1:I make the full big. I'm the only one in the house that eats it. Yeah well, but what people don't understand is actually pumpkin is the healthiest pie out of all the pies. So like a slice of pumpkin pie is only like 250 calories. So like I could eat a whole one and be like four pies is a lot more than 250 calories. Yeah, well, I mean I ate one. No, I don't eat ice cream with my pumpkin pie now.
Speaker 3:Whipped cream.
Speaker 4:We have laws in Canada, so you can't eat pie without either cheese or ice cream here in Canada.
Speaker 1:But see the cheese, I understand, for like apples, like I like it with apple pie, yes, but not with pumpkin, no, like pumpkin, I just eat like with a spoon and just or well, I take that back. If I'm, if it's really really early in the morning, because I've been known to eat pie in the morning, I just cut a slice and eat it like it's a piece of pizza.
Speaker 3:So this is the Make Everybody Happy podcast, and make everybody hungry.
Speaker 4:I'm already hungry, hungry and happy.
Speaker 2:Happy and hungry by the time you've eaten four pumpkin pies. That's got to be at least a couple of your like two of your five veg a day, surely? Oh yeah, no, it's full, it's full of fiber, yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean. I mean you know they. They start so for pumpkin pies, like if you're, if you're going to make them from scratch. So usually I make, I usually make one a year from scratch. So they start selling pie pumpkins early October all the way through early December. So I eat pumpkin pie until you can't buy it at the store anymore and you're just like, oh well, now I want pumpkin pie and I have to buy canned pumpkin and I'm like ugh, no, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh dear, well, it sounds like we all had a good Christmas day, food-wise, then.
Speaker 1:Looks like Santa's just come back from Texas.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was just remembering, we had barbecue last night.
Speaker 2:Ooh, so I was going to ask you. So Scotty says that you guys don't do Boxing Day over there. Is that right?
Speaker 1:No, we don't do Boxing Day.
Speaker 2:Not officially no. So you said it's just UK, canada and Australia apparently.
Speaker 4:New? Zealand? I think too yeah, New, Zealand, yeah, they do.
Speaker 2:Boxing Day. I had no idea. I thought it was like a worldwide thing.
Speaker 4:I didn't know until I got on Twitch and met a bunch of Americans personally, like from Twitch yeah, you guys didn't do Boxing Day. I just assumed it was worldwide that everyone that did Christmas did Boxing Day. They went hand in hand. They're like To me. They're like Christmas and Boxing Day or I mean Right, they just go together. They're one and the same. They've always been the two holidays. They're both days off here for us, so yeah, so boxing day is like like a sale right, it's a paid stat holiday too.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, but it's like all the companies have their big sales and that kind of thing it used to be back in the day things were closed.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 3:But now stores are actually open boxing day. They have the option they don't have. I got you can't, okay, check my history, but I thought boxing day was also the day that lords and ladies and everybody would get together and package up gifts and give it to the yeah, the, the workers and the, the residents and the other people of their victims. Right, yes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, interesting See, I didn't know the history behind it.
Speaker 2:You've got a brain up here, traditionally now.
Speaker 1:I only had a brain.
Speaker 2:I would say that it's become quite a sort of family day in. England anyway, you know, quite often that's the day where you know you go out and visit family if you haven't done the day before, and um, so that's what we did, isn't it? We went to scotty, scotty's family and it's just another day to eat.
Speaker 4:but boxing day is more like um nibbles, you know, and leftovers and kind of okay yeah, you know cheese and crackers and dip, yeah it was very much sort of a more fun kind of thing yesterday we do.
Speaker 1:Oh, there you are, you're back again. We had a little glitch there. We do all of our family stuff, at least, at least in my family, on both my extended family and my biological family. Usually it's Christmas Eve for us that do the family get-together and you know if you're doing gifts, you'll do the family gifts exchange on Christmas Eve and then Christmas Day is typically just for the immediate family, where you know you're with your immediate family opening gifts and you know having a brunch. Or sometimes my mom will do a smaller dinner Christmas lately, lately, lately. My sister says it's been a brunch, we'll do a late lunch and that will be the the holiday. Like the christmas day meal will be the the brunch. Um, so a little bit of breakfast, little bit of lunch, all together, yeah nice we've always done the same thing here is we will christmas.
Speaker 4:For me, like last 15 years, I would just be alone. I would stay home. Christmas day we always got together with with my side of the family on boxing day Okay, sister, go go to her husband's place for for Christmas day and basically all our friends, all our family, would do their primary dinner with with the other half of the family, and then we would get together on our side. And we we sort of did that because we take Thanksgiving every year, thanksgiving in side and we we sort of did that because we take thanksgiving every year. Thanksgiving in our family is like one of the biggest things of the year because we always could parties that weekend. It's our last weekend together as a family at cottage. So we take thanksgiving and then we give christmas day to the other half of the family and then, we talk to ourselves tell your international viewers, though, that canadian thanksgiving is not u.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's October Two different times, but we have ours in October.
Speaker 4:I would like to have ours where you guys have yours. Yours guys, it would be really nice. The spacing of holidays makes more sense, but as far as weather goes up here, it's just too late for us. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it would be really late because you guys would Y' guys would be having a whole bunch of snow already.
Speaker 4:We have Thanksgiving mid-October, and then we go all the way to Christmas with nothing. In November I would rather have Thanksgiving, yeah, mid-November, but everything's frozen by then.
Speaker 2:And not any Thanksgiving at all.
Speaker 4:Because we were thankful for getting away from that. They don't celebrate that. We were thankful for getting away from that. They don't celebrate that.
Speaker 3:Okay. So there's a tiny story around that I made the silly mistake in July to ask some of my visitors and viewers what are you doing for the 4th of July, including my British friends, and I went ooh, not the brightest thing to do. Thanks, Ooh, Not the brightest thing to do.
Speaker 4:This was one of my Christmas gifts, by the way, that Becca got me. It's a combination Canada and UK flag on a shirt. That's really nice. It works If I don't sit back.
Speaker 3:You think I'm simply British because I had the Union Jack on my head and the Union Jack here.
Speaker 1:You're multinational, you have a. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, well, and and and y'all um, you're canadian, so it makes it makes sense that you, you have both, uh, both with you. Uh, you wouldn't see that as much here in the us, with someone wearing a British flag and an American flag together. No, hey there you are, mr Haral, with your Uncle Sam hat on there.
Speaker 2:Who are you? Just for anyone who's listening to this, Mr Haral is on his fourth hat now and he's exchanging hats.
Speaker 3:Wear every hat.
Speaker 2:Of course he's trying to keep up, but failing miserably, but yeah anyway. So talking about Christmas Lego-wise, did anybody get any Lego for Christmas given to them? I?
Speaker 1:did.
Speaker 3:I did get, I did my uh my, my sister actually yeah yeah.
Speaker 1:So, um, you know, when we, when we talk about like the themes that we like it, it never comes to mind because I never think about friend sets, like it's not something I go out and buy and be like, yeah, friends, let's have a whole bunch of friends sets, woo, well. Well, my sister knew that I loved wicked, right yeah, and I had thought about it. I had been like you know, the only way I'm going to get any wicked Lego is if I do friend sets. But I hadn't bought any.
Speaker 1:So my sister sent me one of the wicked uh friend sets for uh that's wicked Um oh yeah no right, um, but no, I, I hadn't really thought about it because I was like you, really thought about it, because I was like you know, the Friends dolls are just strange and weird. But then she sent it to me and I opened it up and I was like you know, this is the only way I'm going to get any Wicked Lego, so I might as well just like it. What about y'all?
Speaker 3:I got a couple of Santa sets that I got the. This is santa getting himself something. I got.
Speaker 1:I mean, I mean, you deserve something. You work very hard.
Speaker 3:I love that set the elf club, which was, uh, actually kind of retired but I managed to find one in the box didn't you love building the lights at the front.
Speaker 2:I loved clicking those in.
Speaker 3:It was so satisfying. It was very fun. Oh, I just knocked the glasses off.
Speaker 1:Uh-oh, oh no, we had a tumble of Lego.
Speaker 4:One thing that happens as you get older is the floor gets farther and farther away.
Speaker 3:Oh, it's just completely gone. I don't know where it went.
Speaker 1:He's got his grabbers too, and he doesn't know where it went.
Speaker 3:You can't get by without this.
Speaker 2:Oh no, I've got one of those and they are lifesavers.
Speaker 3:I'll find it afterwards. What about y'all?
Speaker 2:I'm not sure and I can't reach anything, so I use it for games.
Speaker 3:This is an awesome kit though it has. If you turn it around, I'll see if I can do this without losing more pieces off of it. Okay, there we go. I have to hold it gently. There we go. If you look, there's a whole bunch of things on the inside. That's so cute kitchenette and a bunch of presents that a waffle maker yes, there's a waffle maker over here. Uh, if I can hold it without knocking everything off because I don't craggle anything, okay, I'm taking him off being allowed and they're over here.
Speaker 3:It's a waffle maker, yeah, and guess what's so cute okay the pan from the waffle maker is floating around on the floor somewhere, so I'll find out eventually really great set yeah, that's really cute amazing I enjoyed building it and it's really fun.
Speaker 2:It's got a lot of not spoiling it for anybody that hasn't had it yet, but it's got some fun play aspects, some little surprises and it's just really neat.
Speaker 1:I really like it. For sure. Are you going to light it up, Santa?
Speaker 3:oh, I knew you were going to ask that too.
Speaker 1:Of course I was going to ask that too, Of course. Of course I was going to ask that. Of course you're going to ask that. That was my question.
Speaker 3:You can't get by without asking about the lighting, nope, so no, I don't think I can light this one Only because I have a bunch of other ones. I have to care about lighting first, and I don't think I can do all of them and stay. I'd be able to afford to give Christmas gifts next time, but I think what I will do is I will put a lighted section for the shelf that this is destined for.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:And it also comes with a little Christmas tree that goes with it.
Speaker 1:I love the Lego Christmas trees. There's such a variety and Scotty is teasing Becca with some blue little funky. I'm not sure what. It's a pen.
Speaker 3:This is the mail, post office Wait a minute.
Speaker 1:You smack it in the head.
Speaker 4:It does that. Oh my god, I need one of those. This will be my to-do list pen for when I'm adding people to the wall.
Speaker 2:So which set is that Santa?
Speaker 3:This is the elf post office and it's got if I can actually center it on the camera, it's got santa's little throne area where he sits and checks his list twice. And then, on the other side, another espresso machine. Apparently elves need espresso they need lots of espresso gifts and bag and mail sorting slots. It's got all. I'm only half done.
Speaker 1:I've heard very good things about the set. I've been told the hot air balloon is very nice, it's awesome.
Speaker 3:I think it's just awesome.
Speaker 4:Are you still building that set or is it complete?
Speaker 3:No, it's only half done. I need to finish it off, and when I get done with it then I will add it to the collection. Well, don't waffle on that.
Speaker 2:Enjoying the build so far, though, what you've done so far.
Speaker 3:So wait a second, let's see if this works. I'm going to risk Hopefully it doesn't wreck us but I'm going to risk showing you the other stuff. No, it won't. Let me change it now that we've already started.
Speaker 2:Oh well, you can describe it to us.
Speaker 3:Well, there's the Santa's visit and the Alpine Lodge and the Christmas market and a bunch of other ones lined up across that shelf and when I get done.
Speaker 1:Oh, he's going to answer my question already.
Speaker 3:I was trying to, but when I get done they're all going to go together on their own little Christmas land.
Speaker 2:Ah, lovely.
Speaker 1:And that's what I'm going to consider lighting. Will you put down, like the pretty white fluff to make everything yeah.
Speaker 1:My my, my grandma used to do that with a beautiful, beautiful Christmas setup where she put the the white fluff in and the little trees and the little moving gizmos, and oh, I'm not sure what I mean. Say that again, talking about the ceramic houses. Yeah, so the ceramic houses, yep, ceramic houses, yep, yep, um. And we we have. We have one little um nativity scene that my great-grandfather built, and the houses are actually made out of cardboard. So he built all these little cardboard houses and painted them with, like I don't know, it kind of feels like drywall almost, but it's not. It's got that funky texture though, that he painted the outside of these cardboard buildings with.
Speaker 2:To make them look and feel more realistic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think my mom said the little nativity scene with the little Bethlehem houses and stuff. I think she said it was almost 100, almost 100 years old, um, and you know, she puts it out every year for christmas wow wow, yeah that's amazing.
Speaker 2:I, I have quite a few christmas sets, quite a few of the ones that you mentioned, santa. Um, I I did. I've got quite a good collection, but you know I've got nowhere to put them at the moment. So that sounds amazing. I'd love to do that. You know, a proper like snowy scene and you know the gift one you have too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the employees only oh, yeah, yeah one of the christmas sets that I have is actually an employee only um set that was given out and obviously someone was selling it and I was given it as a gift. It's a Santa and a sleigh and a brick built reindeer and it's really beautiful, kind of like the jazz club style with the bigger brick built figures.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2:That's really cute. What's that? Six inches.
Speaker 4:That's nine or ten inches dear.
Speaker 3:Oh, no, don't correct her that's six inches. I've been telling you that's nine inches.
Speaker 2:Right, okay, scotty's a booger. Nothing that makes you feel better.
Speaker 4:I meant centimeters. I meant centimeters, sorry. So what did y'all get?
Speaker 1:Lego-wise for Christmas, any good.
Speaker 2:I got the the Christmas. No, what's it called? Brickheads, all the Phantom.
Speaker 3:Menace brickheads.
Speaker 2:Okay, I hadn't got that one and that was the one I really, really wanted, so I was really happy with that, and I got a couple of flower sets as well. No, yeah, you can show us and um, so, yeah, that that's what I got, and we did start building the um, uh, the friends botanical oh nice.
Speaker 4:Okay, I wanted to be a little more so when I picked her up at the airport I I picked her up with flowers in hand.
Speaker 2:Oh, he did stand up at the airport with flowers. He was like did you notice I bought you flowers? And I was like did you notice I bought you flowers? And I was like no, and he's like here you go, that's so cute. All he got you was plastic flowers and I was like that's the best kind of flowers anyone's ever given me.
Speaker 1:They don't die. They don't die on you. No, that's true.
Speaker 2:I can take them home.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:When he buys me flowers, usually I have to leave them here.
Speaker 4:It makes me sad, so that was nice with me. Um, and you just got a few little steps, didn't you? Yep, well, our, our stockings were very, very. It's a neat little story we got to tell because we both got each other the same lindor chocolates we both got each other a few little lego and puzzle sets, and then the last thing in each was a few little Lego and puzzle sets, and then the last thing in each was a key chain.
Speaker 2:We got each other.
Speaker 4:So it was kind of. It was kind of saying it's really funny.
Speaker 2:You know, we both had these tiny little parcels left. I love it. Oh, I wondered what yours might be. Was the key ring as well? So funny, I love, I love. I wondered what yours might be. It was a key ring as well so funny.
Speaker 1:I love holidays like that, when you just exchange gifts like that and it's just you know, just y'all you know. We did something similar where, you know, we normally put up a lot of decorations and a lot of stuff at the house, but this year things were kind of all jumbled all together so we didn't really super decorate this year, um, it was mostly just, you know, gift giving and and spending time with each other this year, um, but no, we had a, we had a lot of fun. Um, I I think one of the gifts that I gave out was a DaVinci Codex, so the little puzzle that you have to solve to get in the little cryptex. So I put some money inside the cryptex and that was one of the gifts that I gave to my husband, and then my other partner Is into archery.
Speaker 1:So, I gave A little archery, target and stand for and some arrows that go along with it. But that cryptex Is going to take a while to open Because I made it really hard, a lot of work. For 75 cents, oh yeah, no, like, that Cryptex is going to take a while to open because I made it really hard, I made five cents. Oh yeah, no. Like, oh no, there's like 60 bucks in there I can get into it. Oh, good luck, good luck. It's heavy, it is.
Speaker 1:I didn't realize. So when I bought it I was reading about them and I thought it was going to be some like cheap plastic, little, whatever, right. And then I get it and I I'm weighing it, I'm like, oh my God, this is like solid brass, it is a solid brass thing. Um, and it's really cool because you know, uh, my husband is big into puzzles and he didn't really tell me what he wanted. Nobody, I don't, I don't know why. Nobody tells me what they want for christmas.
Speaker 3:ever, they never tell me so I'm like okay did you put in the the vial of vinegar and the papyrus and the whole thing.
Speaker 1:So so, this one doesn't have the vinegar in it so I did look into it but for one of those like for an actual one with the vinegar and the papyrus in them you're looking at like $1,200 to $1,500 for one of those. So I didn't get one of those, but this one it has a code and you have to follow the little puzzle and basically it's. The entire puzzle is scrambled and you have to follow the little clues and then unscramble all the words using each clue. So I'm expecting it will take him probably like about a month to get into it, if he doesn't cheat.
Speaker 3:You should warn people, though, that if they don't know what we're talking about, they should go watch the Da Vinci Code.
Speaker 1:Yes, go watch the Da Vinci Code, it's a. There's an episode where they have one of those. Oh, go watch the Da Vinci Code, it's a.
Speaker 4:There's an episode where they have one of those, oh, okay yeah, there you go. Only they realize right at the beginning, with no sentimental value, they just smash it with a hammer.
Speaker 2:So oh, Mr Harrell was onto something then, wasn't he? Oh, that's the Parks and Rec way of getting into it.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm not sure, but see, I don't know how the hammer would work, though Like this thing is like solid brass.
Speaker 3:Oh, it'd be terrible. Don't do that.
Speaker 1:I was like you could just yeah.
Speaker 2:So is there any Christmas sets that came out this year that you wanted but didn't get yet?
Speaker 1:um for me personally, the the little poinsettia set actually the little, the little flower poinsettia. I I'm I'm a sucker for the plant, for the plant set. I I just you look at them and and you're like this is amazing work that they do using Lego to look like flowers and as much flack as we give Lego sometimes. I can't say anything bad about their botanical sets. I don't have anything bad to say about them.
Speaker 2:You usually give your niece the botanical sets, don? I don't have anything bad to say about them. You usually give your niece the botanical sets, don't you? But we gave them that for her birthday, I think. So this year you got the you know, the parrot's art set. Oh, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I got her the birds this year, you got her the birds this year.
Speaker 4:The cherry blossom one you were talking about, though.
Speaker 3:Okay, am I still on? I just want to check. Yeah, you're here, okay, because it said it was reconnecting and doing a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everything will get fixed later when I do the upload.
Speaker 3:The only thing I got kind of as a Christmassy thing was they built this. The first part.
Speaker 1:Nice, I am so jealous. You have no idea.
Speaker 3:Amazingly good botanical gardens. Semi-modular. It's not really modular, but you can mock it into a modular and I plan on doing that, and you know that I will too, yeah.
Speaker 4:We're actually building the Friends Botanical right now.
Speaker 3:That's an awesome kit. It's a great set. They actually go together. You could make a little botanical park.
Speaker 4:I think the Friends Botanical was what they had first and they said this did so well and people liked it so much. Then they came out with the full-scale botanical set.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:When the Lego Ideas one came out, they hopped on that one pretty quickly. I gotta say I'm not a I'm not a friends fan at all, simply because of the dolls and the colors. It's just, yeah, really wasn't my thing, but the last couple years they've been coming out with some really cool sets. There's one of theirs, like the modern apartment, where it's sort of like spreads out at the top with the color. That set there looks really cool too.
Speaker 2:There's yeah, they've come out with some bangers, yeah, yeah, I don't think I think they underestimated how well that botanicals you know was going to sell and I think that's the reason why they got yeah, well, another one because it did so well, and I bought. I bought myself four I was gonna say I know you've got quite a few, didn't you?
Speaker 1:yeah to to build a modular version of it.
Speaker 2:And then they came out with one.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, and then they came out with one, and I'm just like Haral said, I'm going to connect. I'll take apart the design that I built, put them both on mills plates and then connect the two to fit together.
Speaker 3:Nice.
Speaker 2:What I think.
Speaker 1:I'll have happen is that botanical set has an entranceway. What I'm thinking of doing is taking the entranceway and connecting it with a tunnel, like the friends one has where it has that longer section, taking that longer section and connecting it into the other garden.
Speaker 3:Nice, I didn't get the entrance. I missed the boat. They didn't give me a GWP for the entrance, aww, so I might have to piece part it together to make one like it.
Speaker 1:I mean, hey, that's okay.
Speaker 3:Because you know, of course, the aftermarket is out there. Yeah, they're helping everybody for what they can get those gwps?
Speaker 1:yeah they, they go from anywhere. You'll, you'll see them go anywhere from like 75 to like 150 bucks and you're just like one thing to do better like that.
Speaker 4:Like the lord of the rings said the or the dnd had the, the mimic chest right, yeah, yeah, things like that are doing really well in the aftermarket yeah, yeah, you know, I I think I think the biggest problem with the aftermarket is, um, the sometimes it's the over inflation that people are going.
Speaker 1:um, like I understand a little bit, like when it retires, sure it's gonna bump up a little bit. Like when it retires, sure it's going to bump up a little bit. But some of the prices when you go on and you look, you're like, you're like I don't know, I don't think it's worth $75 or $150.
Speaker 2:It's not, it's so not. You can price. You can, like you said. You can piece, price it together for less than that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I will do that. It's the, it's the box, it's the box hunters. That, yeah, that are really gonna do. And I was talking to someone that I met at brick world chicago over the holidays and he was talking about, you know, the, the build that he's working on. But also, you know he, he doesn't build any sets like we do, so he, he only buys them and he sticks them in his archive is what he calls it and he basically has a giant warehouse room just filled with sealed sets. And every time he sends me pictures he's like oh yeah, I just added like 50 sets to my archive room and I'm just, I cringe every time. I'm like you don't build any, and he's like no, I don't build any sets, I only mock. He's a brick pirate. He is a brick pirate yes, he is.
Speaker 4:I think I know who he is you met him, you met him.
Speaker 1:You met him at Brick World.
Speaker 4:The silver plating guy.
Speaker 1:No, no it was. He came and sat with me and Becca for a little bit, nico.
Speaker 2:The guy that doesn't do any social media and all of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, oh I remember who you met.
Speaker 4:I know who you met. He was. He was, he was displaying there, right yeah.
Speaker 1:And I, finally, I finally convinced him, uh, right before the holidays, to start a social media um, yeah oh, my goodness, you must send that to me so I can vote.
Speaker 2:He was such a nice person shout out to nico if you feel listening. Um, he was lovely and really interesting and it was really different to like meet somebody who doesn't do any of that social media thing. I know you are now, but you know at the time and you know like it's completely different, like you said, does not build the sets, collects the sets, doesn't build them and mocks only. It's just really interesting to me. It's all different types of people and and what their their lego thing is, you know. So I really enjoyed that.
Speaker 3:So before I found twitch, social media was not even on my radar. I never didn't do it.
Speaker 4:They want it, mine either. It's still not.
Speaker 1:I mean, I'm on instagram, I don't know why so we can trade humor jokes yeah, yeah well, you know, you know, I, I found, I found that if you do content creation of any kind, social media is a must-have platform. People want to see what you're doing, people want to know what you're doing, people want to know where you are, whatever you're doing. I have two. I have one for my photography and one for the Lego.
Speaker 1:The Lego one currently is kind of stalled, but that kind of has to do with my uh recovery, that I'm still recovering from july, um which all of our wonderful listeners I do appreciate everyone, uh, hanging on while I am, because, let me tell you, there are good days and bad days, and sometimes my bad days outweigh the good ones, and I haven't been as active online as I would like to be, but I can't sit. I can't sit here more than three hours. It's really, really difficult. So those days that you guys do get four hours out of me, take them, I guarantee you very often.
Speaker 3:Yeah, don't push yourself, though don't. Don't get back to a point where you can't do it. So yeah, I was.
Speaker 1:I was told, um, I, I had, I had a procedure done, um, uh, on monday of, yeah, this month, this monday, um, for my upper back, and the doctor was like, just because we're doing this doesn't mean you're better, yeah, it doesn't mean you can go and like, do you know crazy strenuous things, because you're just going to end up right back here again and we're going to have to do this all over again. Uh, you know, in three months from now, if you decide to, you know over, strain yourself um, so you know, I, I, I'm still here, I'm still building lego, we're creating um, but it definitely has been a rough, a rough year um for, for content creation, because I just it hurts you have to just do what's in within your means, isn't you know?
Speaker 2:and I mean? Yeah you know our listeners, our regular listeners, will know that there's been a bit of a gap since our last podcast and that's partly my fault because I've been working crazy hours for the last month.
Speaker 2:I mean insane, getting up at five or six o'clock in the morning, working until between 10 to one o'clock in the morning yeah, there there have been one o'clock in the morning every day, crazy, crazy and so, and only coming home at weekends, and so you know that's been really difficult. That's completely changed my schedule with my new job and so we haven't been able to fit in as many as we want to and moving forward, if that's going to continue, then we'll just have to change how we do things and we'll plan, I mean, and that's, you know, that's totally fine, how we, how just have to change how we do things and we'll plan.
Speaker 1:I mean, and that's you know, that's totally fine, how we how we have to sometimes mix things up.
Speaker 2:I can't keep that pace up at work anyway.
Speaker 3:You were busy, becca, because Scotty was streaming every night.
Speaker 2:Yes, he would have done that anyway, because he does that after I go to bed. So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Scotty's been. He's been really, uh, active lately, but I yeah, I mean, you know, I yeah, I have been working crazy hours and we haven't really seen or spoken to each other really for the last month. I had a message from a couple of people on twitch kind of asking me if I was still alive. Um, yes, yes, I'm still here. I'm just working crazy, crazy hours because if I get any time at all in the last month, obviously I've been talking to cold again talking to Scotty.
Speaker 2:So and you know, that's just one of those things and you know, you know that's going to change in the new year. I cannot keep those hours up, so I will have. I, you know, I have to step back a little bit.
Speaker 1:and it's interesting because me and Becca Bubbles, we used to be up very, very late with each other chit chatting, and now I'm getting messages again late at night and I'm like, wait a second, you're usually sleeping, but I'm getting messages and it's like midnight my time, like what's going on here?
Speaker 2:Like oh hey, and I'm like I just finished work and it's like 1am. And I'm like I'm like hi. Or the other way, like I'm getting up at five and he's like what's?
Speaker 1:and I've yeah, I've met she's, she's. She's up at 5 am and I haven't gone to bed yet. She's like hi, friend, and I'm like hi, it's. You know, I'm just sitting here late night watching tv.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's been a bit mad, but yeah no, we will get back into a proper routine in the new year and I've been off work since mid-October too, so that does give me a lot of free time to stream yeah hopefully you're getting better too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think I'll be back mid-January.
Speaker 2:It's looking good for that for a return mid-January there's some stuff that is okay and some stuff that is still very much not okay, but I'm trying to encourage him to get seen by.
Speaker 1:I'm not, I'm not, uh, so I I've. I was working. Everybody that that knows me, I, I was working at a local brick shop here in, uh, san antonio crystals brick shop. Um, but like I, you know, I've been out of, I've not been working since july because, know, I can't be on my feet for eight hours. But things, things might be changing in the new year. I am most people that know me know I have big, fluffy sheepdogs. Yeah, I breed, I breed dogs as part of my life, I guess. I guess that's the way you put it and so we're going to be adding a new baby into the mix here soon. Exciting, so we can get back to having puppies. Yeah, so that's going to be exciting. We're going to kind of go into the hybrid dog mix is the plan? We're going to be doing golden retrievers mixed with sheepdogs. So they're golden sheepdogs but they're called oh what was the name? Cor Hang on Sheepdogs and golden retrievers. Oh what was the name um.
Speaker 3:Hang on sheepdogs and golden retrievers so they can clean your floor in half the time there you go.
Speaker 1:So they're called golden sheepdogs. Oh, or some people call them um uh, golden in in uh in german, um and uh my my whole, my whole idea is to have a dog that will play fetch but also lay down, protect well but also lay down yes, but also, but also protect, because so when you get, when you get a golden retriever, um, golden retrievers are those I'm. I love everybody I'm so cute.
Speaker 1:you know you think of up, um, and that's, that's what you think of, but then you mix it with a sheepdog who's got a little bit more of a protect your family kind of mentality. So I'm trying to get that middle ground where you're having the playful but you're also having the protective, like if you break in my house I'm still going to eat you, kind of thing.
Speaker 4:I'll play with you, right, you kind of thing I'll play with you there you go that sounds amazing.
Speaker 2:Well, you know, if you desperately need help with puppies, then I can just quit my job and come and get you come help me raise puppies?
Speaker 2:I literally would be so happy to do that. I was, I'm, I'm animal obsessed and I, I, I just love anything, but you know, dogs in particular are just so fun. Um, my friend, however, has got a kitten recently and I've been kitten sitting for her before I started doing crazy, crazy hours. I, I was kitten sitting for her and that was really, really fun and I was like video calling I could not, not have. Just camera on the kitten and totally not listening to anything he was saying, just completely distracted by the cat.
Speaker 1:I was just talking to the kitten anyhow, so and it's funny, I never thought I would enjoy cats until I got my own. And they're an adventure. They sure are. I was like this is different, Like you are totally not a dog.
Speaker 3:Not a dog, you're not a dog.
Speaker 2:Mr Bates have you got any pets in your family, any cats?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I have. Well, let me tell you the story. What's it called the Wayback Machine? When I got married, my wife had two Jack Russell Terriers. Okay, I had. Oh, look at that, Isn't that nice.
Speaker 1:Here come the blues, Is it I had? Oh, look at that.
Speaker 3:Isn't that nice. Here come the balloons. Is it going to do that too? Oh, there you go, oh.
Speaker 2:Mr H is messing with his.
Speaker 3:AI Magic.
Speaker 2:Fingers up for two and it did balloon, and now we're all having fun. Oh, anyway, I got married.
Speaker 3:She had two Jack Russell Terriers.
Speaker 1:They'll see it on the recording. I had a.
Speaker 3:Chocolate Lab A.
Speaker 2:Chocolate.
Speaker 3:Labrador Chocolate Labs are flumpy dogs. They just lay down and they're there and they're very happy to do that. They're like a wet noodle right, they just lay. Jack Russells are like little balls of energy that won't stop. And I won't shut up either, but they won't stop. So I also had a cat and the cat was very mellow and she would just lay there.
Speaker 3:The jack russell right and then the jack russells were just like oh, it's a cat, I have to get that. But when you get married you don't realize that you're creating a menagerie. Jack rus. Jack Russell's and the lab and they would rotate an orbit around the lab and the cat would go up on the shelf and just say I'm out of this. And she had two horses, so we had a zoo.
Speaker 4:We had a zoo. Horses weren't in Dorsal right no.
Speaker 3:They had their own spot. Remember the trip to the horse?
Speaker 1:to the ranch with the flamingo the peacocks yeah peacocks of doom. I do have a neighbor that does bring their horses inside. They are very brave the butchers are they like a small breed? No these are large full-sized horses and they put the little poo bags on them and they come inside and I'm sure I can find a video somewhere with the horse eating a salad at the table with the family.
Speaker 3:I will see if I get them to send it to me.
Speaker 1:That's definitely postable. If you guys follow social media, there is a guy that cooks with his cow in the kitchen and the cow eats everything and everything that comes into sight.
Speaker 3:He doesn't make roast beef or anything right.
Speaker 4:I don't know That'll be the final podcast. That's the final, anything right? I don't know That'll be the final podcast. That's the final live episode, right, okay?
Speaker 3:Oh, are we dark now. I have the wrong hat for that.
Speaker 4:Hey, you led us there. Yeah it's my fault.
Speaker 1:Big news coming out of the LEGO world for us modular builders Right as the holidays came around. Uh, january 4th, I believe, is when the next modular building comes out yes dark santa has now come and does that mean that? Does that mean that darth jar jar's coming along too is? Is he flying your sleigh?
Speaker 3:if I bring darth jar jar in then, then RC won't ever come again. He won't visit.
Speaker 1:Oh, you know what would be hilarious If someone did Santa's sleigh in black, oh, and then had 12 Gungans on their little, on their little whatever they call them the little toad horse looking thing and had those flying the sleigh instead and they'd all dressed up like Dark Jar Jar. That'd be hilarious.
Speaker 4:we need a Grinch a Grinch called the Jar oh my god the Jar and just retell the story of the Grinch with Jar Jar instead.
Speaker 3:Let's do that. Oh, I have so much fun with little special effects.
Speaker 2:Do we know what the modular is going to be?
Speaker 1:It's another corner, it's a corner building, but it's a tutor.
Speaker 3:Tutor, it's not two doors. It's not like it's a sports car. It's a corner building. Tudor. It's not Tudor. It's not like it's a sports car, it's a Tudor mansion. It's an.
Speaker 2:English thing you guys say Tudor.
Speaker 1:Tudor, how do you say it, tudor?
Speaker 4:What else is it we say? You say, we say wrong.
Speaker 2:You say everything wrong.
Speaker 4:Oh, water, water.
Speaker 2:Oh water.
Speaker 4:Water, water.
Speaker 3:They say, water Are we going to argue about aluminum again.
Speaker 2:Or is it aluminium. Water.
Speaker 1:She says, she says water bottle, water bottle Water bottle.
Speaker 3:Do bottle Water bottle?
Speaker 2:Do you want a bottle of water? Water bottle.
Speaker 1:And her accent. She says my accent is thick.
Speaker 2:Funny, my mum's house has the Tudor style fronting. Yeah, it's very, you know, you see a lot of it and we have open air museums and things around my area and they're all like that.
Speaker 1:So so I'm a little yeah, I'm a little, uh, I'm a little bitter about this, this modular, because a little bit um. So my, my feelings, I like it. The design looks amazing Like that, that, that part of like um, but they're they're not listening to the fan base and I have I've been having some gripes about it because I I'm building a city, right, so we've got a museum, we've got a jazz club, we've got a pizzeria, a french restaurant, a hotel, a garage bookstore bank city hall a diner, a 50s diner, and and Assembly Square.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I'm like, okay, well, we've got one, two, three, three restaurants, a hotel, a police department and a museum. Where are my kids supposed to go to school? Everyone's homeschooled.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but do you know what they need to?
Speaker 1:have. What happens when my minifigs get sick? Where are they supposed to go? We don't have a hospital.
Speaker 4:I see the problem with the hospital. It's the same thing you're going to see with the X-Mansion. It's that a hospital needs to be big and if they were to build a hospital within the confines of the modular system. It would be a rather small hospital, More like a clinic, Like a downtown clinic. Maybe there is a clinic.
Speaker 3:There's a clinic in one of them um but it's like one section, yeah, so there, I think there's a vet in.
Speaker 1:There is a vet in the corner garage because it's a nod. It's a nod to indiana jones. It says, dr jones, no snakes allowed oh, is it?
Speaker 4:um, yeah, I didn't know that that's cool yeah, I'll, I send you a picture.
Speaker 1:I'll grab a picture of it. But you could build a hospital the size of the museum.
Speaker 4:I'd be okay with that if you look at things like Museum, assembly Square, they're sizable you could build, definitely build what would be considered a small yet sizable yeah, hospital not being a modular guy, my perspective on this is that if they were to do a hospital and do it justice, it would have to be kind of like a double the footprint set. Okay, it would be big and it would be expensive. It'd be almost like a double modular to do it right and even then they would have people complaining it wasn't big enough or it wasn't this or it wasn't that. I mean, I looked and Zach explained it pretty well. I think with the X-Mansion I didn't really have an issue with it because I'm not a modular or a marble kind of guy.
Speaker 4:But just comparing that it's supposed to be a mansion. It was smaller than the Home Alone house.
Speaker 1:So the X-Mansion, they explained because it's not a modular, it's a small modular-esque style.
Speaker 3:Oh, modular-esque.
Speaker 1:They did the same thing with the Sanctum Sanctorum. It's a similar style, but it's not supposed to be the same. So that's like a motorcycle is car-esque Right, so they squish a lot of stuff into them and it's more meant to be a play set where kids are playing with them, versus when you go to the modular side. They are meant for adults to put on display and to do cities and shelves and whatnot, like you see behind um Santa and you can't see mine but over here and back in there and all these uh, everywhere you look.
Speaker 1:So I think that's the only thing that I'm like a little cranky about. That's really it, like the design itself is gorgeous. I'm excited to build it.
Speaker 2:You just wanted your school or your hospital.
Speaker 1:When I'm building a city, I'm looking around and I'm like there's important things missing. I don't know there's missing a library, a library they have a bookstore, but the bookstore doesn't, but it's not a library. They have a bookstore, but it's not a library. It's not a library.
Speaker 3:It should have a library. That's more of a blast from the past, because I don't think libraries are top of mind For most people now.
Speaker 1:No, not as much anymore.
Speaker 2:They're an important part of what we have now. And the knowledge that we have now is only Distributed by the fact that there was libraries at the time. They're a huge part of history, so I would like to have one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it would be really nice. Yeah, I agree. What else could they throw in there?
Speaker 4:I think it should be something like a I guess they've already done a town hall, but I'm thinking more like a city center with sort of a ice skating rink or some kind of yeah, yeah, yeah out front yeah, see, that would be nice.
Speaker 1:I would go along well with assembly square have another have another town center um, they could do like a like a park a park, I'd be, you know that'd be a park.
Speaker 1:A park I'd be, you know that'd be A park. Well, no, but see, what they could do is something similar to, like, the botanical gardens. But they could put like, do it like Central Park, where there's a little lake and you've got a little boat dock building and you know a place for people to sit out on the rocks. There's tons of things that they could do.
Speaker 4:If they're going to be like a hospital, which would be like a double, they should give you smaller, more affordable things like a park, which would still fit in well, A little more budget-minded maybe.
Speaker 1:I think we've talked about that. Me and Mr Haral have talked about how they should do smaller modular builds as well, where the footprint is only like a 16x16.
Speaker 3:You could do the New York style slice, where it's just a deeper but narrower. Yeah, the 32x16s.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, do more of those like the bookshop size where that's two 16x16 or 16x32s.
Speaker 4:A set of brownstones or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah and you know that's and you know that's.
Speaker 1:Haha, he's got some hearts going and you know, I think that was the idea for one of the um idea sets. I think someone threw in that idea of having the brownstone houses, where it's a bunch of houses in a line and each one are a little bit different but they all fit together and it really would make the city feel a little bit more alive. And I also think, like more houses, like more modular houses, would be nice, because the one that goes along with the bookstore is fantastic. You could build like a whole row of those.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Well, you know too, they're missing the courthouse to go with the police station.
Speaker 1:And a courthouse. Yeah, that's right. They don't have a courthouse.
Speaker 4:You know what else? They're missing too Lactron.
Speaker 1:Hey, that's coming out.
Speaker 2:What's it talking about? Wait what.
Speaker 3:What for this modular talk? What do you mean?
Speaker 1:that's on the horizon. When is that supposed to be? In January? Is that a January or is that a March? I know?
Speaker 3:I thought it was January. I know the tutor is like the big thing for January.
Speaker 1:But I don't know.
Speaker 3:I don't know if Blacktron is at the beginning, middle or end.
Speaker 1:Blacktron Renegade will be released January 1st. Oh, look at that it sure will be For $159.99 USD.
Speaker 4:Ooh see, that's a lot higher than what I had heard.
Speaker 3:It's got two holes. It's got a drop thing that falls out of the middle of it and a little car buggy thing.
Speaker 4:It's got a lot going for it $159 US. I heard it was going to be $100.
Speaker 1:US, here we go. No, that was sorry, that was on the before they posted it it's going to be $100 US. Okay, so that's like 130 140 canadian, that's more doable. Yeah, no, I was reading. That was from one of those sites that that leaked before it posted and I I didn't realize that.
Speaker 4:I'm happy with that too, because the classic space sets as much as I love them and they're popular, they weren't as big as some of the other sets from back then, like they knew a lot of castle stuff. Yeah, the castle stuff has been really big and expensive. I'm glad that's not my thing. I'm glad they're making the keep giving us more of these classic style sets space sets that are affordable I'm still holding out for some pirate stuff, yeah yeah, did you.
Speaker 2:Well, talking about pirate stuff, I read a rumor that they are going to do another Black Pearl and release that in the second half of 2025. Now, I don't know how reliable that rumor is, but if it is true, the original Black Pearl is one of my biggest regrets for not getting that. I've always regretted not getting it. I've regretted it every, I still do, and so you know I think this one will be probably bigger, more detailed I hope it's minifig scale, please.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I don't last one, not that's no, no, last one was yeah cool, that's pretty big so I'm expecting it to be a lot more.
Speaker 2:If that rumor is true, I'm expecting that to be a lot more expensive.
Speaker 1:There's another rumor that I heard too.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:What was?
Speaker 4:your rumor.
Speaker 1:Well, Becca will have some jumping beans go off oh.
Speaker 2:God.
Speaker 1:The same person that posted the Black Pearl leak. Apparently Lego has gotten the Star Trek license. No way, no.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:No, I'm not actually kidding. Seriously, it was the same post as the Black Pearl. I'm actually going to pull it up.
Speaker 2:Hang on, oh no, I didn't see that. I just saw the Black Pearl thing.
Speaker 4:That's exciting.
Speaker 1:If that's true, then oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:They finally answered all my prayers. I've been saying all I want. All I want is a Lego Enterprise.
Speaker 3:So I'm on. It's going to be the Galileo.
Speaker 1:So I'm on brickpostcom, which is one of the big Lego leak sites.
Speaker 3:We can see the reflection in your glasses, oh okay.
Speaker 1:The set is speculated to be a summer 2025 release, where the rumor ends. No other information surrounding is currently available but the Black Pearl and the. It is very likely that the USS Enterprise is going to be joining the Lego.
Speaker 4:How would that not be the first?
Speaker 1:set they do. I don't know. I would imagine that would be the smartest thing to do, Okay.
Speaker 4:I'm not going to buy myself any you know the gift with purchase will be a tricorder or a phaser or something like that, Probably.
Speaker 2:I can ask everybody to hold off on buying me 40th birthday presents.
Speaker 1:Next, year until the USS.
Speaker 2:Enterprise out and we do them all together.
Speaker 1:So I'm going to say for anybody that is a Star Trek fan or is looking at leaks because we normally don't talk a whole bunch about them, not holding my breath, but we'll just post them out there because these are from I have one, two, three, four, five Lego reputable Lego news sources that are confirming these things. It's Brick Fanatics, the Brick Fan that Jay's Bricks Um things. It's uh, brick fanatics, the brick fan um that jay's um, yes, jay's bricks and brick set um are all reporting.
Speaker 2:The same the same. So hang on. Who was it that had the license?
Speaker 1:Because they only didn't do it, because Megablocks did, but their license was up in October, I think. So, as always, guys, take it with a grain of salt. Don't hold your breaths, because it's all rumor. Currently there is no official word from lego, but again, these are from web, reputable lego news websites that if you follow, like the local brick shop, or you follow any other news source on online via twitch or social media, these are all the ones that people are going to be talking about, um, as reputable news sources, um. So hold your breath, but there's a good chance that it is a happy new year possibility that we will get, uh, finally, a captain kirk minifig.
Speaker 2:I hope they do it well. If they do it, though, I don't want to be disappointed.
Speaker 3:I want to avoid that.
Speaker 2:Because Puck will make one. That's better.
Speaker 1:It's okay, we'll fix it.
Speaker 4:I stopped following Lego news because it's just basically the FOMO news All the sets you can't buy coming out next month. That's exciting, that's good to hear.
Speaker 1:I find that I'm very much the same. I I took a step back from the fomo news sources because it's fomo news now you really get drawn in.
Speaker 1:You're like I wish I could afford that. I wish I could afford that. I wish I could afford that. Yeah, and, and you know and I've talked about this as being as being like a lego content creator and scotty and uh, and santa would know all about it is you're you constantly look for ways to continue doing content, but you also have to take in the fact that you know to continue doing lego content, you have to budget for lego content, um, because you know lego's not cheap. Everybody doesn't, doesn't, doesn't work that way. Um, but no, I think I think when good news like that drops, it's fun to talk about because you're like, oh, this, this could be something they could do really, really well, and you know people will be really excited because you know not that Mega Bloks is a terrible product. It's just not the same, if that makes any sense, like it's different.
Speaker 1:It has a whole different feel to it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it does the bricks feel very, very different.
Speaker 4:I've, yeah, it does feels the bricks feel very, very different I've heard people say that the last couple years since it's now been bought by mattel it is really up the quality of mega blocks.
Speaker 1:It's not mega blocks anymore, it's mega constructs no rocks, I think now, yeah, it's maybe, yeah, maybe yeah apparently the qualities come way up.
Speaker 4:Still not enough to get me interested in buying any.
Speaker 2:But no, I mean the only set I have. I've got a couple of Mega Bloks sets and that's the Minions that they did because, they were great. You know, they're sort of, you know, a good-sized Minion Okay so they're pretty big to make being like a tall or a short one oh, that's cute years, like they're really, really great and I preferred them actually to the large ones that lego did.
Speaker 2:okay, extremely unusual for me, uh, but that's the only mega blocks ones that I that I actually have um, and they're really fun, but the quality I would say, and again this is they've been out for a while. So we're talking about, you know, a good 10, 15 years maybe, no, probably 10 years, and you know, yeah, the quality isn't there for me, but it was a great build, I have to say.
Speaker 4:What was the brand of that Johnny Five you built, which was really impressive too?
Speaker 3:I don't know, because it was Mrs Farall that got it for me as a gift.
Speaker 4:Oh, I gotcha, I can find out if you're building it.
Speaker 2:I know which one you're talking about, if you find it really quick with a Google search, because it's an amazing kit.
Speaker 3:It's absolutely stunningly good and I'm sort of free prejudicial against flago, but I couldn't. The quality is there, the quality is there yeah it's like remote controls and all kinds of stuff that's awesome, see I I.
Speaker 1:Who was I talking to? I think it was jane. I was having a conversation with jane and we were talking about the the fun hole sets that have started coming out yeah and he was saying the bricks aren't quite there yet but they're getting there to get close to Lego quality.
Speaker 1:But what he did say was what may give Lego a run for their money in the future is Funhole has lights and no stickers at all, right, and he was like, yeah, fun hole could give lego a little bit of a run for their money if they keep going the way that they're going.
Speaker 1:Because you know, I I was looking at the wicked set um yesterday and I had thought that there weren't stickers in it, because I was looking at all the pieces and such and, and then I look at it and I open in, there's a sticker sheet in it and I'm like, I'm like wait a second, this is a a nine plus set and usually there aren't stickers in the nine plus and lower sets but it's. But there's, like I don't know, there's like 15, I think, stickers in it and I was like I was like this been printed, like this is a really pretty, like it's one of their vinyl stickers, the ones that are clear, and most of those are in there and I'm like, but this would have been a really good printed piece that I could have used like somewhere else later down the road.
Speaker 2:But you know, it's a sticker and I kind of looked at it and I was like I was like yeah, the first thing we did in the Botanicals Friends Botanicals set was a sticker, wasn't it the very first step?
Speaker 4:no, no, no, the very first step was two stickers you have to put a 1x2 on a tile, then you have to put a cover on the book that the tile is going in for the girl and I just don't get it.
Speaker 1:I really have lost the understanding. Because when someone from Lego and I just don't get it, I really have lost the understanding because when someone from Lego explained it the first time, I kind of understood, but then I heard it like four or five times after and I was like, well, now it doesn't make sense. Like first you tell me, oh, it's because you want to be able to reuse the pieces. I'm like, well, oh, it's because you want to be able to reuse the pieces. I'm like, well, if it's printed, it's more likely I'm going to reuse it than stickered, because I'm not going to peel, I'm not going to peel these are pretty complicated stickers, yes, um, but nothing about them couldn't be printed there's.
Speaker 3:They're not full, full cut. Well, a couple of them are multicolor, but they're not full color.
Speaker 1:So that's that's easy to do.
Speaker 4:The funny thing is like, four step later you get a tile, a one by two tile that's printed.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know, yeah, well, well, the strangest.
Speaker 1:I think the strangest thing that I've seen. Well, the strangest, I think the strangest thing that I've seen and this is a strange one there is a set, a Harry Potter set that you get a letter right. So almost all the letters.
Speaker 3:There's printed envelopes Right.
Speaker 1:So Lego makes multiple printed letters. Yeah, Multiple multiple ones. Yeah, so Lego makes multiple printed letters. Yeah, multiple, multiple ones. Yeah, they make a brown Harry Potter printed One by two tile letter. But there's a set I don't remember. I own it. It's one of the very few that I own. I think it's.
Speaker 3:I think it's the sticker and it. It's one of the very few that I own. I think it's the.
Speaker 1:And the exact same piece, instead of printed, was a sticker, and I was like wait a second. So I go in my little baggies of printed pieces and whatever and I pull out the exact same piece that's printed and I'm like, okay, what did we decide to do here? Here they're identical. Yeah, you printed this one, but you sticker this one.
Speaker 4:You know another thing that kind of boggles my mind is the whole the missing goat mold thing lego says you can't create that original missing goat, well, let me tell you there's 1,500 million companies in the world that are going to scan that and figure out how to do it themselves. 2025, lego. Don't tell me you can't take an element and recreate the mold. I just like saying oh we can't drive to there because it's just a direction of some stupid thing.
Speaker 4:There are a million ways and companies that will be able to do it if you fail to bring back more goats.
Speaker 3:There's so many extra bricks that they could just do.
Speaker 1:That they give us in all of our sets, where there's tons of bricks For our listeners here. Mr Haral was just shaking a bin.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:I'm assuming it's all extra bits that you've gotten from sets.
Speaker 3:Among the boxes of extra bricks.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And I've actually gone on and spent some time sorting it. But I look in here and I think there's there's tons of pieces, right?
Speaker 4:yeah, give me a couple less of these, yeah, yeah, you know because, I yeah, yeah, the first bag of that botanical the friends botanical set that first bag had to have 15 to 20 extra pieces from the first bag of I think eight or nine that are in there.
Speaker 3:It's boggling, it's boggling.
Speaker 1:I would never complain about extra pieces, but in this case I would like printed pieces versus stickers. If you're going to give me less pieces, yeah, sure. I'll even pay if you want to make a set like 15, 20 more, I don't care not to give me a sticker sheet like five bucks more five, I don't know. I, I, I'm gonna have to, I'm gonna have to go with the, the production line, having to add another pad printing in so 20, maybe.
Speaker 3:Okay, maybe I'll meet you in the middle with like 15 yeah, yeah, um, they reuse so many of these printed pieces, but I do I. I mean, all right, this is kind of ridiculous, but I don't even the littlest of pieces that are printed, they're giving us extras. So if they can afford to give us extras of printed pieces go ahead and give us some regular ones
Speaker 1:with print and Scotty made a good point with molding, because I we've touched base a little bit on it, but not really like dug into, you know. So I I went to the dentist the other day and she has this phenomenal little device and she said she bought it off of Amazon. And I was like, really Like a medical device off Amazon Really? And she's like, yeah, they're cheaper on Amazon. So instead of paying $5,000 for it, I paid like $1,500 for it. But it's a really cool thing.
Speaker 1:It's this wand with a camera on it and you stick it in the person's mouth and it scans your tooth. And then she goes to her polymer machine in the back that produces very strong porcelain fake teeth and prints my, my cap in like I think she says it takes like eight hours to do and produces a perfect copy of my tooth. And she's like I can do this with anything. So she and I asked her to prove it to me. I I was like, ok, here I'm going to. No, I did. I brought her a Lego brick like like a, like a two by two, and I was like, here, can you make one of these? Yeah, she's like sure, like she scanned it, send it to the computer. Perfect porcelain Lego brick Like I want a porcelain version of my.
Speaker 3:She said, she said that that know she said.
Speaker 1:She said that that if she were to sell it to me she'd have to charge me like $150 worth of you know, of a purse, porcelain, porcelain machine, but same. But she said the same thing can be done with a 3d printer. You can, you can take the wand and scan anything and make out of whatever material you want.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And so, with Scotty talking about like, like the goat, I'm like, okay, so Lego, go on Amazon, buy you a 3d wand, scan it and fix it. And I mean that. And if you look at the, the goats that came out that they re-released, that's when, when I called bullshit, I was like I'm. And if you look at the goats that came out that they re-released, that's when I called bullshit I was like I'm sorry, but you just released goats. There is no way, no, how that you can't do it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Like come on now. When I heard that I heard it on a stream, I think it was on Lego News somewhere saying you know Lego, you know they lost them all years ago and they can't recreate it I'm just like is this not the year 2024, or almost 2025? Now? Like, what are you talking about? If you don't figure this out. Another company will.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's interesting because you look at things like, like I said, like my teeth, or I have a friend that's a clocksmith that works on antique clocks and he's got a brass 3D printer that he takes his the cogs, so the pieces that go inside the clock, that make the clocks work, the ones with the teeth. So the machine, so it's there you go there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the poly scan 3d yeah yeah, it's, it's on your phone, it's free. It'll make 3d scans of things. I guarantee you. It's not the resolution that you're talking about. You're talking about. You know very small resolutions yeah, but the point is, this stuff's free. Free, it's out there, it's technology and you're absolutely right, they should be able to scan the damn goat polish it up.
Speaker 4:For some reason, LEGO does not want to bring back the original goat mold.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I mean, we all know they can do it. We know that they can do it.
Speaker 3:It's probably a history thing that they don't want to bring it back. It's probably a history thing that they don't want to bring it back. Because it will invalidate the people that have managed to collect them.
Speaker 1:And you know it'll depreciate the market and all those things People get mad but, like Scotty was saying, it is 2020 for almost 2025, here in a couple days, and the technology is out there. Where they can, they can concrete print, they can metal print. Um, they can use polymers, porcelain, um, I've seen people uh, print with pens. They make a, they make a plastic pen that you can draw 3d design with and and do it in little lines and they make masks and there's so much stuff. Um, and you know, like I was saying, the brass it's a brass printer. It literally is a 3d scanner and then you pop in a sheet of brass and it will print out the piece that you need, or whatever it is, to replace a piece of old. It'd be similar to, like your paper press. Scotty, I'm sure that when they need new parts, you have to send it out somewhere right to get a new piece, and I'm sure they use something similar where they've scanned or they've re-figured out how to make a piece and they just send you a new piece.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I find I gotta be careful I don't reveal too much because I'm not supposed to. But Uh-oh.
Speaker 4:Don't take them clothes off here, please. Okay, alright, let's go.
Speaker 1:You're not a dirty Santa joining us, it's already in virtual reality.
Speaker 3:You can get a VR headset, you can go in and you can do Minecraft. Point of view. Minecraft Okay. You are in Minecraft, okay.
Speaker 1:Right, of course, yeah.
Speaker 3:There's also a group of seven or maybe eight I don't know if one of them left, but there's. There's eight people all working hard at building virtual lego, where you can go in and you are minifigure size and you can grab bricks and you can oh this is fantastic in vr, so it's like this, so this is something being um being uh, worked on it's being developed yeah. That's nice. A couple of the people I used to work with when I was doing gaming decided to do this on their own, do their own project.
Speaker 1:Well, I hope it comes out. I would like to use it. We are.
Speaker 3:Lego yeah, but you need the headsets and the other stuff. I don't think it's really good for desktop, but if you could be in the scenes of your building.
Speaker 1:Just buy one of the Apple headsets.
Speaker 3:Oh no, no, they're stopping making those. You know that right.
Speaker 1:Oh, did they decide to yeah?
Speaker 3:they said, we're out of here, yeah. That was ridiculously priced oh my God, $3,500.
Speaker 1:So maybe they're going to come out with the thinner ones that we were hoping for in the first place.
Speaker 3:They got to rethink it. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1:Glass Like Google Glass yeah.
Speaker 3:I was something, but that wasn't it.
Speaker 1:I wish, I wish that Google had continued doing the glasses. I would have been nice.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're getting there. Yeah, we're in the technology land. Now it's like, yeah, we've taken a right turn from Lego, but these are the technologies that are coming.
Speaker 1:Hey, but it's. But it's important. It is, it is, it is Lego. Lego needs to hop. This is, and I firmly agree with this. Lego needs to hop on the technology train. They need to. They need to hop on that wagon and embrace it. I think if they continue doing anything that has a virtual reality attachment, they need to have a really good R&D department, really go through those before they do them again, because the idea is great, like I love the idea behind video and hidden side and what was the other one that was connected, monster fighters that all had a digital element. It's a great idea, but Lego didn't put the time into the R&D. A digital element it's a great idea, but Lego didn't put the time into the R&D to do it correctly.
Speaker 4:Lego's got a history of coming out with apps like that and things like that. Galador is one in particular background. There was a whole TV show and it was a game and everything. They kind of go all in on these things and if they don't do well, they pull the plug really quick. They don't seem to support these things for very long afterwards.
Speaker 1:Because they don't put the R&D in. They don't put enough money into it.
Speaker 3:They don't let the market develop a liking for it. They don't let anybody find it and experience it. Virtual Legoland would be absolutely amazing for the people who can't visit physical Legoland.
Speaker 4:Yeah, 100%. We do kind of lose interest. I mean, look at Lego Fortnite. It came out, it exploded out. I don't hear anyone talk about it anymore at all. I don't see it. It's just sort of gone.
Speaker 1:It's because they threw it in everybody's face, sort of gone. It's because they they threw it in everybody's face and, as Mr Carl says, they didn't do it in a gradual. Let people come and find it and see what it's all about. Kind of thing. They kind of just went and everybody's like, okay, cool we're done with that. Let's because, because society now is, if it's coming, if it comes out in a big like, just poof it's there Grand intros, uh-huh, and it all comes out at once.
Speaker 1:They do it like they do when it's on Netflix. They binge it all in an afternoon and that's it. And they wonder companies like Lego and we can even tie it in with like Netflix, where Netflix cancels things pretty quickly because they're like, oh well, this didn't do very well. And then someone's like well, it did, like millions of people watched it, but you're looking at long term, watching, watching. And if you throw everything out in one go, I'm going to sit in front of my TV screen and binge every single episode in a day.
Speaker 3:And that's what's happening with Lego.
Speaker 1:Is there like, okay, we're going to throw this all out here and it's done after a month or so.
Speaker 4:Netflix got us to binge and now Disney has got us back to episodes. Yes, I love the episodes.
Speaker 1:And actually Netflix is starting to follow suit, where they're going back to the episode a week style of release.
Speaker 3:You want to look forward to something.
Speaker 1:Because to keep viewers and to keep people buying things, you have to look forward to things, like Santa was saying.
Speaker 4:People will binge. Things you drop right away. But if you do it episodically you have the build-up to the final episode and people can slowly come on board, get the word out.
Speaker 4:They want to be there for the finale kind of thing thing and they can build towards that. I think disney has shown us that again. That that's the way we traditionally consume tv and culturally we were able to absorb it better that way, because each week we would talk about the latest cheers episode or the latest happy days episode, exactly whatever it was back in the day. And then netflix came along just erase that with binge watching and we all got into that and we all still do it. But I really enjoy watching things episodically, like we do that across the atlantic. There we'll watch episodes of things together yeah, yeah and so I got one that'll make becca happy.
Speaker 3:She's got the perfect example of not following through Star Trek Three seasons of the original series and then, oh, this isn't doing any good. We're out of here Right. Forty years later. It's one of the biggest things out there. That was a very big boo-boo on their part.
Speaker 4:They only wanted to do two seasons. Or one was it Didn't Desilu step in and say what we did have?
Speaker 2:Well, the fans were outraged and a massive thing went around and hundreds of thousands of people wrote into the studio and saved it and got another season.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and Lucy.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's the equivalent of having a massive online, you know? Um, yeah, sort of not survey what's the word I'm looking for? Like today, like a, you know something um.
Speaker 1:It was a really supportive petition.
Speaker 2:These days, we didn't have that. So you know they flooded there. They flooded the studio of letters.
Speaker 4:We touched on this and we talked about this when we did that episode with Astro and I talking about space. So we kind of forget about this. But for my generation, Star Trek was the start of it all. That was the show we watched. People ask what are you watching as a kid? What are your favorite movies? Well, as a kid, my favorite movies were TV shows. We didn't have movies. Going to the movies and seeing things like we did. There'd be reruns on there. You see reruns of movies, but it was things that you saw daily, like the brady bunch and gilligan's island, and star trek was a daily thing back then.
Speaker 3:It was always on repeat somewhere and time tunnel and, you know, land of the giants.
Speaker 4:Nobody remembers that one twilight zone, the this kind of stuff.
Speaker 3:Those were the shows, those were things that capture our imagination.
Speaker 2:You know, it's funny thinking about the past and how much time has passed and how much technology has moved on. And I read something on Instagram the other day that blew my mind it's being 2025, very, very soon, in a few days time it will now be, as the same distance from 1980 now as 1935 was to 1980 yeah, wow isn't that mad, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And I was like no, that's wrong, that's wrong. And then I I had to do the math and then I was like holy shit, yeah, it's 45 years. And I'm like, oh yeah, someone that was born in 1985 is turning 40 next year. That shouldn't have been hard to work out. But just thought of where we were in 1935 to where we were in 1980, and that being the same distance now.
Speaker 4:The thought that I've been a Metallica fan for over 40 years now makes me feel so old.
Speaker 2:It's crazy so old Weird Al.
Speaker 1:Why are you laughing at me? He's old, I'm the youngest here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're the baby of the group.
Speaker 3:There's so many great examples in the movies where they thought things are going to be amazing, yeah, flying cars and automatic shoes. And back to the future, 1985. Boy, it rolled around and didn't happen, and didn't happen, yeah. But then they were guessing that, oh my gosh, computers will fit in your house, in the pocket of your hand.
Speaker 4:Now they fit in your hand 2001 was 30 years in the future when it was made.
Speaker 1:I'll throw you one better. The computers fit on our wrists now.
Speaker 4:Yeah, remember your math teacher telling you you wouldn't always have a computer with you in the future, so you need to learn this. Oh yeah, right, or?
Speaker 2:calculator.
Speaker 1:You know, I got detention one year because I said, I said, what was it? It was the equivalent of like bitch, you don't know what you're talking about, something like that. And let me tell you, I got detention and then, two years later, the first iphone comes out and I'm like, I'm like ma'am, do you see, do you know what this is? And she, she had no idea what it was. And I was like ma'am, this, this is a computer, this, this can. This has a calculator on it. She's like, oh, but it only does basic functions. I was like, no, this can do what you told me I couldn't do, just on a computer. I'm like no yeah.
Speaker 3:Keep in mind, I went to school in slide rule days, the 1980s, early 80s right, and I have told this story before. I went to San Francisco and stood in line and got one of the first TI-52 calculators with a little magnetic strip that would go through it and I could program 99 program steps, five variables.
Speaker 3:Push a button, it would spit out the equations that I needed that I coded in. I took it to an engineering test that everybody's sliding their slide rules around. I'm tippity-tapping on the calculator, checking the answer, writing it down, handed it in half an hour before it was supposed to be over. He's like what are you doing? And I went I'm done and this is the future. This is the future then.
Speaker 1:so we're going way past that so that's, that's where you know when, when I talk about technology and everything in lego, you, you, you hope that lego will take technology into account because, like I was saying earlier, with like fun hole, lego, this, this company is giving lights printed pieces. Um, people that I know that I built it says the quality is almost there for the same of your bricks. What, what, what are you going to do to mitigate a company that's doing this?
Speaker 4:Yeah, I don't think they're going to start doing light bricks, and that's a technological point.
Speaker 3:Scotty brought up the perfect point when is Lego going to embrace light?
Speaker 4:They have little light bricks, but that's so they had light and sound sets in the 80s but they walked away from that. Now they sort of bits and pieces here do light bricks and things. I don't think they're ever going to get into systematic lighting of sets like Light my Bricks.
Speaker 1:They really should, though I don't think they want that market.
Speaker 3:Light my Bricks is like running your circulation system on the outside of your body. It's not a very practical solution. No, it's system on the outside of your body. It's not a very practical solution. They need something fully integrated into the bricks so that when you assemble the wall, it's a circuit and you can do that. You just have to design it into the system.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and Harald does a really good job with making his little adjustments.
Speaker 3:His modifications.
Speaker 1:I like that word Our adjustment, his brick adjustments, yeah, um, and you know, you know they they could, they could make and we've seen them do it. They could make specialty bricks for the lights where they could run them through the walls very easily with little, with little slits in the bricks and it and it wouldn't cause any structural issues.
Speaker 3:It would be totally easy. It would be a very easy mold to do.
Speaker 2:You know Lego is. We're seeing new things all the time, right, All the time we're seeing new pieces, new ways of building new instructions.
Speaker 1:Did you all see the new and ways?
Speaker 2:of building being brought back again and allowed. So who knows you?
Speaker 1:never know, did you all?
Speaker 2:see the new. Someone makes that decision.
Speaker 1:The new round clip piece. Did you all see that new piece that came out?
Speaker 4:This gift with purchase had two different new elements I'd never seen.
Speaker 1:That gift with purchase is really cute. Does the little ballerina? Does she move?
Speaker 3:Yes, she spins, I'm sure.
Speaker 1:Let's see oh, that's so cute. See, that's really cute. See, that's a good gift with purchase right there.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But yeah, no, lego came out with a new clip piece. It's. Lego came out with a new clip piece. It's a clip, but with a rounded top on it, so you can stick things on and then like, if you're doing like Christmas lights or whatever, you can stick the little rounded bits on the end and I was like, oh, that's it, that's a nice, that's a nice new piece I was already amazed with uh, even just the the christmas lights that they did on this oh, I know those are so good, they are so nice that was I mean it was, it's it, it's.
Speaker 2:It's just a really nice part of the build as well, like it, just it's. Just putting them together is really satisfying. Then you're going to clip them in. It really completely changes the look. It's very clever. I really like that part of that.
Speaker 3:Worst time I ever saw the string with pieces on it to clip to. I always had seen the strings I have a bunch of them on the titanic but I didn't.
Speaker 2:I never saw one with little pieces of plastic along the length of the string yeah, that you snap the the clip onto like, yeah, I mean, you know, they might already be developing something to do with lights for all we know. Um, I'd be very surprised if it's not even on the horizon oh yeah, they better start thinking about it.
Speaker 3:That's definitely the direction people are changing lego, if you're listening if you're listening. Santa says do it or you're on the naughty list.
Speaker 2:There you go I mean that in itself is is enough enough to make anyone do that, because nobody would be on the naughty list.
Speaker 1:No but I'm really so glad that we were all able to get together again this holiday season. I find that this is a nice tradition, I think, for Brick City Radio, I think having the same group on every year is is um, I mean, it's really nice we can't not have santa on at christmas no, there is no one else who would want to have on at christmas I blame zach.
Speaker 2:He made me for a lot of things and we and we'll you can blame everybody you want it's okay, I blame Puck for the lighting obsession For those who are wondering.
Speaker 4:We're talking about Zach the Lego Maniac.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Zach Marvolo Rutledge.
Speaker 2:Shout out to our good friend Zach, who, of course, has been on the podcast as well. You'll find his episode back in the archives.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I guess you know from you know, looking over the past year, you know we've had a really great time.
Speaker 1:And a big year for all of us.
Speaker 2:You know on the podcast, lots of different guests, lots of different types of guests, and we're still always looking to branch out and to you know. If anybody's interested on coming on, then please, just you know, message us and yes please do uh, because we're always uh open to looking for new, new things to talk about. And, yeah, anyone's got any particular subjects or anything they'd like us to cover, then just send us a message. But let's just make sure we can ask one more question, because we always try and ask this question, don't we?
Speaker 2:And sometimes we forget.
Speaker 3:Let me at least advise people. It's like I listen to the podcast when I'm driving, because the phone is integrated to the car.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 3:This is way better than any radio station that I can possibly get to, and you guys are doing a really good job of not making me have to see the video. But if I want to go back and look at something on the video, it's there and that's awesome.
Speaker 1:All of our videos will be on YouTube and then I will play the episode that we do live, like we are right now on twitch, usually um the day of, but I think this this week I think I'm gonna do it um on the tuesday. So this coming tuesday, because I'm not streaming for New Year's, but I know people will want something to do on New Year's, so I'll have this live on New Year's Eve for people to watch, so let's ask that question.
Speaker 2:Then, if you had to choose and bear in mind you have both already answered this question once before if you had to choose one favorite Lego element for today, what would it be?
Speaker 3:Element or kit.
Speaker 1:Element. Your favorite piece Could be a minifig piece, could be just a piece in general. Today I'm going to say is the little bird piece, the little tiny, where they come in, all these little, multiple different colors.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:This is a red one, and I've got a blue one and a yellow one and a white one. Now I'm thinking of a song that goes there was a blue one and a yellow one, and a green one and a purple one.
Speaker 3:There was a blue one and a yellow one and a green one and a purple one. Mine's weird, because it's one that I keep noticing every time. It's the grill piece, the piece that's sliced. It makes speaker grills. It makes drains in the streets. Everywhere I look, on my kits, on my builds, there's one of these grills. Grills, you know the horizontal, sliced, clear, cut through pieces.
Speaker 4:I have a tub of assorted grills right here, because you need them so often. They're right here in my drawer they're amazingly versatile pieces.
Speaker 2:And you can use them, for I think I've chosen that piece before on one of our podcasts because it is a brilliant piece.
Speaker 1:It really is, and you can use them for tracks too. If you space them enough, you can run a train track.
Speaker 4:I've seen the builds of cities where the train tracks. Yes, yeah, yeah, very cool.
Speaker 2:Well, we were of cities where the train tracks yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, very cool. Well, we were. It's funny. We've just had sort of a samesies moment while I was thinking about this piece, because we were just building the botanical set um and then he went, went off and got it without me saying anything. We're gonna go for this cute little duck yes, the duck, I don't know if it's gonna focus because there's too many no, probably won't.
Speaker 4:that camera doesn't like focusing on things I love it.
Speaker 1:I'm so glad they've given it to us in multiple colors now.
Speaker 3:Yes, so there's a yellow brown.
Speaker 2:I have seen the one red one I don't know what that was from and he's just so adorable.
Speaker 1:I didn't know there was a red one. I've seen a green. I didn't know there was a red one.
Speaker 3:I've seen a green, I didn't either but I've seen, I've thought in a picture, maybe just it was a Flago.
Speaker 1:I'm going to have to look.
Speaker 3:I don't know, I always like looking for things.
Speaker 1:Santa loves red.
Speaker 2:Maybe he was just seeing red that day.
Speaker 3:Look at what they do with the green frogs. They turn the green frogs into Rainbow colors, everything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, they're in the botanical, they're on the roof up here as gargoyles, and they've actually got one that's a neon green and if you put it under a black light it glows it glows. Awesome.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so just thank you so much, mr Harrell and Scotty, for joining us today. Yes, thank you so much? Do you want to just remind us, Mr Harrell, where everyone can find you?
Speaker 3:Right here.
Speaker 2:Right, can find you Right here, right here, right now, but in the future, where can they find you?
Speaker 3:I spend my time on Twitch on Tuesdays, thursdays and Sundays at 1 to 5 pm Pacific and I'm, like apparently one of the few people that has a genuine schedule. I know it's like I thought that would be a given, but apparently that's that's a rare thing apparently.
Speaker 4:I don't know we're driving back from from our family dinner. Yesterday it was about 20 after seven. I said here, get on her all stream I don't want to miss. So that's why she came in the stream and she was talking all weird.
Speaker 3:I saw that that was funny. This is Scotty.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. And yeah, this guy right here. He doesn't have a schedule, but he lives on Twitch, so you will find Scotty Button.
Speaker 1:You will find him in any Lego chat that you can get in.
Speaker 2:There he will be.
Speaker 4:Later tonight.
Speaker 2:He's, yeah, he streams when he streams.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You can find him on Twitch and Instagram.
Speaker 3:He's also an excellent Tangia mod. If you're willing to risk it, yes.
Speaker 4:That's a risk you're not willing to take.
Speaker 1:I don't know If you got the biddies. You might.
Speaker 4:If you're a Tangia mod, you get everything for free.
Speaker 2:Hey, there you go, that's right so I guess I just want to say we wish absolutely everybody has had a fantastic holiday season and a happy new year coming where you celebrate, when you celebrate, who you celebrate with, and we wish you absolutely all the best, uh, for the new year. I hope you get lots of health and happiness and um more from brick city radio coming in the new year awesome lego.
Speaker 1:Thank you, and lego don't forget the lego yep. Wonderful rest of your day, guys. Thank you guys for listening. We, um, we really do love our listeners and we will catch you guys in the new year. Happy New Year.
Speaker 3:Bye.