Mark Pospesel (Coding and Other Stuff)
Coding, tech, living abroad, travel, hiking, vintage plastic bricks
What an absolute turd of a LEGO set. The minifigure is the only highlight. The set doesn’t even come with proper building instructions; you have to find those online. You can build three different vehicles from the loose parts, but I could only be bothered with the first one: Aqua Watercraft. I don’t even know what that tablescrap of parts is supposed to be.
Remember when LEGO tried to emulate Nintendo’s amiibo™ figures? Ah yes, LEGO Dimensions. For some reason I have four. I must have purchased them at deep discount to harvest them for parts, but they’ve been gathering dust on a shelf since 2016. They’re probably the oldest unbuilt sets in my collection[1].
[1] Not strictly the oldest unbuilt sets, but the ones I’ve held the longest.
I picked up this small LEGO City set for the monkeys, which were new for 2021. Now I want to add them to my Eldorado Fortress setup. You get an ATV featuring wheels that turn on both axles, a small drone, a simple tree, a minifigure, two monkeys, a scorpion, a banana, and two pieces of poop for the monkeys to fling. Later I might try making some retro space rovers using the wheel parts from this set.
My LEGO Wall of Shame (all the sets I bought and haven’t built). I put away all the children’s games we haven’t touched in 5+ years and decided to fill this bookcase next to my desk with all (most) of the LEGO sets I need to build. I’m hoping this will prompt me to finally get around to building them. Let’s see how many are still there one year from now.
The completed Eldorado Fortress (I forgot to photograph the two boats). The modular sections can be combined in various ways, two of which I show here. I really enjoyed assembling this with my son. Now we need to convert the shipwrecked Black Seas Barracuda from the Pirates of Barracuda Bay set into an intact ship to assault the fortress.
Eldorado Fortress Bag 10/10: We add a corner tower that serves as a prison and a couple short sections of battlements. I really like the red tiled awnings over the two windows and cell door, especially with the two shades of red used.
Eldorado Fortress Bag 9/10: We build the foundations for the final section of the fortress. There’s a basement storeroom with treasure accessed via ladder and trapdoor. A pirate skeleton is wedged into the rocks. There are some loose floorboards through which pirates can escape and reach the beach. The final bag will be some sort of building on this foundation.
Eldorado Fortress Bag 8/10: We build a small tower with a crane atop. This is a huge improvement over the small flimsy crane in the original set.
Eldorado Fortress Bag 7/10: We build more jetty this time with a table set for a meal and a trapdoor that one of the guards is about to step onto. Comes with two Imperial Guards and a monkey.
Eldorado Fortress Bag 6/10: We complete a small guard tower with cannon and Imperial guard. Underneath is a grotto with a treasure chest and some kegs. This clips together with the larger gatehouse portion.
