Manda’s (Amachan) LEGO

That is the first batch of old LEGO washed today, many more to go.

I am just going to enter this project in the spring cleaning challenge, it is spring and I am doing some cleaning of hobby stuff…… I don’t expect it to get anywhere, but you’ll never know.

I made a couple of changes to Sora’s Mech. Changed the sword a little bit to have the edge of the blades down rather than up. I also removed the pink translucent shuriken as it looked more like she was holding a flower than it being actually useful as a weapon or shield.

Got my first proper set build since about 20 years ago, took me about an hour and a half, but it was a great build, absolutely loved it.

I got a Ninjago mech and some storage for some bits. This storage won’t be enough for the whole old collection which I will be going through slowly, but will be good enough for a start.

I found the best LEGO tool ever in the bags!

And I couldn’t resist making a brick monster…..

I’ve been to my moms today and while I thought she had given all the LEGO away, I was wrong. ? This is the majority if not all of the LEGO I had as a child. ? It does all need a bit of a clean though, but I will be going through it bit by bit.

This project will go over my progress through putting together different bits of LEGO and moving it on to play the tabletop game BrikWars with it.

Why LEGO?
I have been struggling with massive disabilities causing me to not be able to paint or build miniatures. The major disabilities limiting my hobby are tremors in my right hand making it very unstable and lots of pain in my left which I was learning to paint with. So, that left me with no hobby to do. I am getting physiotherapy to try and help me cope with the disabilities, but I am not sure it is going to solve anything. That means I had to look at something else. I can still play video games, so I thought I would just focus on that and while it is great, it doesn’t beat doing something creative with my hands. So then I though of LEGO. I used to have a ton of LEGO as a child, sadly I don’t have a lot of that any more. I went out and bought 2 €3,- bags of LEGO and put those together to see how it goes.

And it honestly went really well, even though at the time my hands weren’t great, as long as I am patient and not try to rush it it goes well. THen I went looking at how other people would have converted using LEGO to tabletop games and I found this tabletop game called BrikWars, specifically made for LEGO.

My Collection.
I went through what my LEGO collection is now. I have the 2 kits I bought recently obviously and I also have a lot of the classic Bionicle stuff which is sadly missing a handful of bits here and there. I have 2 more kits in the bottom left of the picture that are missing some bits. Luckily most of the missing bits are quite generic so getting replacements for it shouldn’t be an issue. There is a chance that my mom still has a some of the old stuff, but I doubt it, so this will be my starting point.

What am I going to focus on?
There are many different ranges of LEGO and many other brands of similar brick building kits. There are plenty of historical things out there from other brands and I may pick them up at some point, but for now I am going to focus on the Ninjago range from LEGO.

What is Ninjago?
To quickly summarize Ninjago just think of what if Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers had a baby that grew up to be a weeaboo? It just rips off so many popular IPs and turns it into their own IP with a LEGO flair. Anyone who has played any of the LEGO video games or seen any of the films will know the silliness that they can come up with, so honestly it is perfect for me. But be your own judge, this video summarizes it perfectly.

What do I have planned?
Nothing concrete to be honest, I am just going to see where it goes. My ideas are to build a gaming table for BrikWars and maybe even create my own ruleset if I don’t like BrikWars as much as a game.

Anyway I hope you’ll join me in the next part of my journey of hobbying and wargaming with my disabilities.