“The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

 Why not start the blog post off with a bit of Oscar Wilde, and there is you thinking you were just looking in on someone building with Lego.

You may have read in the past, that I have put what I have built so far on EBAY, It was a sale which had more to do with, "Well, if you will give me 10 grand then you can have it" I honestly don't want to sell the stadium, although I have no practical purpose for what I have built so far, and it will more than likely be sold in the future.

At present it is finding a value, I did when I put the stadium up for sale last time around get a few messages from someone advising me that they wanted to make a bid, but it wouldn't accept any of the bids they wanted to submit. I asked what the bid was? Thought it would be interesting to see what figure they plucked out of the sky. It all turned into a scenario like asking our lass the same question. I love our lass to bits, but our lass will never guess at anything. I think it is because she doesn't gamble, so has no need to formulate a value or guesstamate on something she doesn't know or have interest in. I can push and push, but I will get no reply, or if I do get a reply it is so wide of the mark, you may well have asked How far to the Moon? To which the reply would be Tuesday.

This person fell under the same category, when pushed they said they would bid £50, I wouldn't mind, as they did say they had no idea about the value of Lego, having just bought a set for £15, but I did think get real. £50! But I did ask, and they gave me their value. No different to how I would sell for £10k I presume. Is either of the figures fanciful or correct. Come a moment of crisis whats more useful, Lego or a box of matches? which would you pay the higher price for?

So there you have it, My Lego Stadium has a current value of £50, as that is the best offer it has had so far. Would be interesting what a true value would come in at, feel free to share your thoughts in the comment section.

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Check out Lego Football Stadium - Job Lot #Lego https://t.co/5t5A2jtfo8 via @eBay

I did have a cheeky bid of £50 when I listed it, I guess that is as cheeky as the £10k I would sell it for.

— MyLegoStadium (@stadium_my) August 26, 2020

Quadruple Nelson and the joke.

David Shepherd used to stand on one leg when ever the cricket score for a team or a player was at 111 or multiples there of. One of those superstitions, and like most the story was always a bit fanciful, no hard and fast facts but it made for a little bit of entertainment to see the umpire on one leg, I wonder if a batting team has thought we will play this out for a little while and see how long he can stand like this and not bother to get a run? 

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Anyway the stadium has now reached a capacity of 1,111 and yes I am fully aware not a multiple of 111 but you can see the similarities so lets run with it. It also gave me the opportunity to go back into my memories of cricket, so not all bad.

Now for the Joke.

GROUCHO (to woman seated next to him at an elegant dinner party): Would you sleep with me for ten million dollars?

WOMAN (giggles and responds): Oh, Groucho, of course I would.

GROUCHO; How about doing it for fifteen dollars?

WOMAN (indignant): Why, what do you think I am?

GROUCHO: That’s already been established. Now we’re just haggling about the price.

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This is what is happening with the sale of #MyLegoStadium on ebay, Would someone pay £10,000, I doubt it, but if they did I would sell. We all have our price it is just the haggling, If someone can pay millions for a painted blue square canvass in the name of art, I am sure someone has 10 grand to give me for a collection of Lego bricks which I have built into a stadium.

I am actually awaiting an offer. It won't be the ten grand, but at least it will be the starting point as to where I can be indignant.

Thanks for reading, I have a Lego football stadium to relist on ebay.

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It started with a brick never thought it would come to this.

This is the brick Part no,2339

Maybe would help to know when I first got hold of this brick, but unfortunately my memory fails me.

 Brick, Arch 1 x 5 x 4 - Continuous Bow

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I then got to talk train stations with @studdersfield and that led me to find the front facade of Liverpool Lime Street

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Now I know this first attempt leaves a lot to be desired, but it is where it all began, as the Carpenters would sing.

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Which led to

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and I thought that would make a great back to a stand

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and although not complete, it certainly is getting to shape up well.

(fromt)

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Would love your thoughts, feel free to comment.

Close encounters of the £10k kind

Yesterday I had another splurge on Lego bricks, which means I have around 2,000 lego bricks coming from various orders. Arches to complete the facade of the new stands, filler bricks in blue, white for facing the standing areas and 95 tan base plates to help build the base for the executive boxes which is then roof to the boxes and base for the 2nd tier. I think I have broken well into the budget for this project.

But why this project? I have touched upon it before, I really do feel as though I am building something much like the mountain from close encounters.

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I have in life gone with gut feeling, I have always lived as the happy idiot, simply falling feet first into each situation, not sure how I got there but only to find it was just the thing I needed. This is how I feel about building the Lego stadium, no real idea as to why I am doing it, but going with the flow. I am not spending money we don't have, as this is why I stopped in Lock down and not to say that Lego is like gold, but Lego does hold it's value, people always collect it, bricks do become rare. Although the bricks I am buying are mostly standard ones they are the filler that everyone needs. So if the time came to sell, I would get at a good proportion of the money spent, if not all of it back. You can't say that for a lot of things in life.

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As you can see above, why not do a bit of self promotion whilst also buying that lottery ticket style chance of someone actually paying ten grand, to some folks, ten grand is pocket money on a night out, for me and my lass it would mean our lass could retire or at least cut down a lot of her hours.

In the stadiums current form it shouldn't even have a 13 million to one chance, but when I have circled the pitch, and have the first level complete, who knows. It only takes one person with nothing better to do with ten grand, and both of us are happy, they have a lego stadium, I have ten grand.

More than likely I will just end up with a very tanned face, but if you don't give it a go who knows.

>>> Link to my lego stadium on ebay <<<

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Lego Brick

Two packages arrived today so it allowed for some tinkering, and I do like a good tinker. You can see in the first photo, I have replaced the seating with a standing section. The cost of 1x2 bricks and modified bar bricks were cheaper than a 2x2 seat. All things happen for a reason, and I quite like the result. Feel free to comment with you own thoughts on the design.

With the seats freed up, I could then go into tailoring the new stand to what I was looking for, one which included a dug out. I have since realised I need to put the 3x2 bricks the other way around to accommodate the technic chairs when I get them. But, all the same it is starting to take shape. With a concourse along the back, just need to gel the facade at the back with the seating and concourse, lets hope I am not a few bricks out in height.

You will notice further down, I have discovered Lego soldiers, so this will be a birthday present to myself when I find some for the right price.

Lego brick of the day (part no 4286) seems to just fit right for the edging of the walls around the dug out. and at 1p a brick will be my cheapest purchase yet.

All updated for now.

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It's a funny old world, but I don't hear anyone laughing.

The main reason I am building this Lego stadium is to keep my sanity. As the header suggests "It's a funny old world" But! I don't hear anyone laughing. For this very reason I do try to find folks who take you away from this world and who do their dioramas with Lego. A couple of good ones to follow on Twitter @fcbrickstand @bricktothepast

Now back to the update, no building in the past week, but I have ordered some new bricks.

More arches, not red as you see here but tan so that I can continue the arch theme which you can see in the photo below, Wanting to repeat this across three boards, see what the effect is like when built.

The second brick on order, is the modified bar, this is out of necessity 

1, lack of red seats 

2, cost of the red seats available

So the plan being on the two end terraces, is to remove the seats I have and replace them with the bar brick stood on a 2x1 brick, this is still half the price of buying the equivalent seat. Hopefully will get these this week, so I can get on with a bit of building, with results to follow.

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As for ebay

>>> Link to my lego stadium on ebay <<<

a 100 people have viewed it but no bids as yet (Que surpris) but then again I would have been shocked if anyone did bid, I do wonder if anyone came and had a look? feel free to comment if you did find this blog that way, or even if not that way, feel free to comment anyway.

Off to join the real world and wait for my bricks.

Our lass wants a static caravan in Whitley Bay

I have never been one to shy away from self promotion, and it came to me last night, when searching through ebay for joblots and finding the obligatory 2 bricks being sold as a joblot, then someone showed me a Lego brick for sale for £2,000. I went one better and found a £5 Lego kit available for £6,500. It got me to thinking, what would stop me putting My Lego Stadium up for sale? Nothing at all it seems, I had actually wanted to market it for £30,000 but my limit is £10,000.

Also this brings into play, what do I actually do with the football stadium when it is anywhere near finished? What is the point of it all?

The point of it all? Simply answered, it has helped my mental health, when I started this over a year ago, it was something fresh to focus on. I thought it would all fit on to an office table, and would be something for the grand kids to play with. It has grown a lot since then but so has the problems of the world, and having a focus has really helped.

What happens when it is nearly finished? What will be finished? The second of those questions is the most relevant question. I can imagine it just simply growing and growing, I will be happy when I have a stadia around the pitch, but then there will be the next tier, surrounding areas, I can imagine it will just grow and grow, well grow to the limitations of the space I have.

So what happens at the end? I know the bricks are always going to be worth something, I have easily cleared a grand, I would say building it, one day I might sit down and tot up the spend. I don't think I would really want to break it up and sell the bricks back to the world of Lego fans, I think I would go for the big sell.

This is why we are where we are now, if someone offered me the right amount of money, they could have it, and as described in the sale, I will hand deliver it, especially for this amount of money, and what would it be spent on? As the heading says a static caravan, probably Whitley Bay, but I think our lass deserves a treat for putting up with me.

>>> Link to my lego stadium on ebay <<<

Happy Bidding!

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