It's not a cheap hobby, but what I value the most are bulk bricks for custom builds. Usually the cheapest way to shop. Best way to get those are bins at our awesome local used shops, Bricklink, and TLG's Pick a Brick, depending on how specific and new/used I'm looking for.

The curved slopes don't stop coming! This is definitely an overdue basic one, though.

Utility vest, GO! Looks awesome and useful 👏

Spoke with a friend about this over the weekend, apparently the internal tools only allow customer service to order 999x too. Though some elements - if they're all you need - won't qualify for free shipping in multiple orders 🙄

Interesting! I recently had to place multiple qty 999 orders to get more than 1,000 for a large project. I wonder if that's still allowed.

Also, I hope PaB standard be back soon in the US. Not that I'm optimistic about our international trade at the moment. 😭 My big project still needs more parts!

Sometimes, and if I'm lucky, I think that about all the strangers I see too.

I think it would wear out from rotation pretty quickly, another reason to save this build as a potential up-scale project later.

It's a weird one, it's been around since 2009 but only in 91 sets in that time, with no more than 8 copies in a single set. Most have just one or two.

The 1x2 beam with angled bar (85940) is the key part in this build, and one part which I sometimes forget exists!

With the LEGO head out of production, making my own might be something I consider soon.

I sort by part type but am at the point where some bins are overflowing. Those are getting divided by color families - grayscale, warm, and cool. Might not be long until some get divided by more specific colors.

How often do long parts fall sideways through the holes? These seem neat but I always wondered.

Wow, so many Throwbots! I had the purple one, still have some parts floating around, but can't find the super rad belt clip case. Oh well!

The face one makes when you see your flowers in bloom, naturally!

These days though, we've got a crap ton of U-joints, so that's what I'm going with.

A Hog it is indeed!

I'm starting to think the suspension's lack of linkages is the most sci-fi thing in Halo. Floppy steering has been a frustrating problem in several versions, but I think I have a better solution now.

I have one of the arms built IRL, I'll try to remember to bring it to PortLUG!

Now it really looks like Tomb Raider ruins! Great mix of masonry, torches, and leaves.

Boone has a series of tutorials on YouTube, they're a great starting place!

Look up the hotkeys which save a lot of time (as with all software) in positioning bricks, navigating the brick picker, changing views, etc. Too many tips to share here but if you have more Qs others here and I may have As!