BenSpark Family Adventures

Photo-A-Day #02642 My sister, Tara sent me a gift card for Amazon and I used it to buy myself a fun LEGO set. I picked up the Toothless figure from How To Train Your Dragon. It was a great build. I made it while I watched the crew of the Artemis II return to Earth. It was amazing to watch. Really was something to see. I watched until the very end when the crew made it to the med bay of the naval ship.

Photo-A-Day #02635 I've had this LEGO set with me at work for a few months and tonight I built it. I don't think I've ever been so disappointed in a LEGO set before. You can see in the photo that the roof of the car does not line up well. I tried for a very long time to get everything in place but it just is a wonky build. I've done so many other LEGO car builds and this is by far the worst one. I really thought i was going to be good but in the end the very last bits did not fit together well or even securely. It was very frustrating.

Photo-A-Day #02593 Earlier this week Andy and I went to the Providence Place Mall and while we were there I picked up this LEGO Postcard. LEGO has a few of these in a series but when I saw it was London I had to get it and build it as a welcome home for Allison and Eva. I picked them up from the airport today. Their flight came in around 3:45 I had gotten to the cell phone lot at 3:30 and just waited till they were ready to leave the airport. It was pretty good just going to that lot before getting them. I hadn't done that before. Allison and Eva brought home some fun gifts for Andy and me. They had gone to the Transformers Store at Battle Sea Station and got me a couple of fun things including a tshirt and some pins.

Photo-A-Day #02592 This week Andy and I have been playing through the game, One Hit Heroes. It is a cooperative game that we've been playing for some time but haven't gotten far enough through the whole thing to really delve into each story. this week we've gone through almost the whole game. There are two more bosses that we have to face and we will work on them tomorrow. Today I also finally built the LEGO fortnite Battle Bus. I've been wanting to build this but I have no good place to display it and I have a lighting kit for it. It would look cool hanging from the ceiling or something like that. I probably won't be doing that but it would be neat. I did not add the lights yet. I may take it apart and build it again and add the light kit. We'll see. As I was building the set I was listening to the read through of the play so I could focus more on getting my lines down. We had rehearsal tonight and I think I did better. Our director was sick and our assistant d...

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02565 I do love a LEGO food truck. they are so fun. I love the look of each of them and have a few. This one will go perfectly with the Hamburger food truck. They also have a Toy truck that is out but I haven't found it yet. I'm sure that there are also some retired food trucks as well. They are very fun to make.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02559 A while back I bought some different off brand LEGO like sets from TEMU. This three headed dragon was in a blind box and I had no clue that I had ordered it because it was a while ago. So it was fun to see this and build it tonight. Took me several hours but since we had nothing going on at work tonight I had the time. Thi was where I was at 11:58pm.  Finished Dragon

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02557 LEGO has release two Back To The Future Delorean sets. This one above is the latest set and it is at a much better price point. I picked it up and also made sure to grad the light kit from Briksmax so that I could have it lit up for display. I'm trying to figure out a rig to display it on the wall in the over mode and also keep the battery pack attached to the bottom. The battery pack is huge so hiding it will be interesting.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02495 I finished building my latest set from Lumibricks. They sent me this set for a review that I need to post up next week. I've been doing a little bit each day but today I powered through and completed the whole thing. This will go perfectly with my Neon City Apartment that I have in the office and the neat thing about the two buildings is that they can eb lined up and both be powered by one powerbank. I'll make sure to put them together when I post the review.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02487 I was contacted by Lumibricks to do a new build review for them. I started tonight by building out all the little figures that are part of the set. This is another large set for their NEO-CITY line. So it is a futuristic set and I look forward to building all of it. It was just a bit too dark to do a proper begin to the build. It may take me several days to get this one completed.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02482 A while back I bought the Fortnite Battle Bus LEGO set, I have yet to build that one, but it came with a free LEGO set of a couple of Fortnite characters as BrickHeadz. Not a fan of Peely the anthropomorphic Banana but Cuddle Team Leader is cool. This set has been on a stack of LEGO sets I have yet to build. I'll probably resell these ones because I have no more display room. I'm trying to limit anything I purchase to what I can still display. Otherwise, I end up with years of collectibles that are just sitting in boxes until I get the motivation to sell them.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02470 The other day I learned about a new Back to The Future LEGO set. It was up for pre-order and so I placed my order ont he LEGO Shop site and I needed a little bit more to get free shipping so I ordered this little holiday themed set the LEGO Pumpkin truck. It was a cute quick build that looks really fun. 

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02455 While I was organizing my comic books I came across the instructions for rather, Players Guide, for the Wildstorms Collectible Card game. I've been looking fro this for a while because now that I have it I can get the cards down and see if andy would like to learn how to play the game with me. I think that Andy will pick it up quickly and I've always wanted to play this with someone else. I've played n my own as I collected the cards but not really with other people. In other comics news I picked up a copy of the Cold Slither comic book at Rubber Chicken Comics because my comic shop didn't have a copy for me. This is a one shot of the fictional band from G.I. JOE that is made up of the Dreadnoks. I was talking with my friend Ken all about it and he even remembers the entire song that went along with the show.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02454 I found the new LEGO Gameboy today at Target. This is one that I'd been waiting for for a while. The build as fairly quick but it was one of the most well constructed set that I've seen in a while. IT has the same size as the original Gameboy from Nintendo and it comes with 3 lenticular screens that you can put into the game plus two cartridges. Super Mario Land, which I never had and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, which I also never had.  I played Tetris all the time on the Gameboy, but I also had some other fun games to play like a fighting game and Tennis and some other games.  I remember when I got my Gameboy. I was working at The Dairy Tower on Cape Cod and my boss had a BJ's membership. We went to BJ's and bought the gameboy plus a brick of batteries. So many batteries were used playing that Gameboy over the years. I remember taking my Gameboy with me on a road trip with my friend James and his family. We went to and from Florida...

  Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02439 On one of my Temu shopping sprees I got a bunch of knock off LEGO sets. They are mostly robots and supercars. Today I choose one at random to build. Actually I choose it and built all but one part yesterday but Andy too priority on the photo a day yesterday.  So I finished this up this morning and here it is. It is a bit wild looking. The TEMU cars never look like real cars, always look futuristic. At least this one wasn't made out of super tiny LEGO pieces like my fake Optimus Prime was. Had a call back phone interview with Target today. Very much a waste of time. I clearly stated on my application the days and times I could work but once we confirmed that in the interview it was over because they want people for the weekends. I told you I couldn't do weekends at all. You should never have called me. Off to Granite State Comicon tomorrow morning with Eva. Unfortunately both of the celebrities that I was looking forward to meeting and hearing their pan...

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02435 As I continue to clean out and discover things that I have collected I find more and more strange things. At one time Hasbro tried their hand at LEGO-like sets called Kreo. They made this weird one of Optimus Prime but in a skiing jacket with skis. That is really weird. But I found it and now it is on display on my desk.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02434 I said I was going to build the Bumblebee Brickheadz soon so that I could display it in my office. Tonight I brought the set with me to work so that I could build it. Now I have to get some room on my computer to display it with the other larger Bumblebee set. Didn't sleep well today. So I got up and tackled the buckets that I had brought down from the attic. These are the boxes that I had packed up with all the knick-knacks I used to have on my desk at work years ago. So I went through the boxes and I found the remaining Transformers that I'm going to sell to Double Midnight. I also found a bunch of other things and I separated everything into different boxes. I found G.I. JOE stuff for my friend Ken. I also found Star Wars stuff for my cousin's son, Danny. My friend Marybeth has a son, Matty, who is very into Marvel and I put those things into a box for him. There are a couple of boxes for Savers and additional items that I want to sell. This week I...

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02427 I'm in the office tonight and I'm working on updating some projects which leaves me plenty of time to do other things. I do like to build LEGO when I have the time. Tonight I built this monster truck. I do like to pick up LEGO trucks when I can find them, especially food trucks. This, however, is not a food truck. I do have a couple of other monster trucks including ones that you can pull back and they move automatically.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02420 A few weeks back I realized that I had a bunch of LEGO points from the LEGO shop and so I made a purchase of a couple of sets including the Optimus Prime BrickHeadz set. This one has Optimus in both robot and truck mode. I moved a few things around in my display area to add these two little guys. They go great with the light up LEGO Prime. I also got a Bumblebee one and I'll put that guy with my light up Bumblebee that I assembled the other day.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02418 I finally completed building my Transformers Bumblebee LEGO set. As I built it I also set up the lights. There are a bunch of wires out the back of this but maybe I can hide them better. Might have to rearrange my lit up LEGO sets soon. Also, the next build will be Soundwave.  I took my car for service this morning and knew I'd be at the dealership for a while so I took this with me to build a bit while I waited. It definitely made the time go by quickly. I only got through 2 bags before they were done.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #02415 The other day I put together a mini knockoff LEGO set of a knockoff Optimus Prime. the set allowed me to not only build Optimus as a truck but also as a robot. I decided that once I built it that was the end of it. No Robot mode for me, just making it a truck and leaving it that way. It was a very cheap thing but it was fun to build albeit very challenging because the pieces were so small. My Optimus Prime display is getting more and more full. I'll be taking a lot of my older Transformers figures out of storage and I've decided that it is time to sell them. So there are many in the boxes that I'll be cataloging and then I'll decide if I want to keep any. Probably any that are Optimus and or Wheeljack. Maybe some others.