Lego Reimagination

Today I didn't get a chance to go home tonight and write a post or take pictures. My girlfriend's sister is moving to Toronto tomorrow for grad studies and we were helping her do some prep, packing and sharing good byes. She also had a final goodbye party and one of her gifts she received was a large Lego "pick-a-brick" cup.

I grew up playing with a lot of Lego. I mean a TON of Lego. I have several large buckets which at the times was a huge collection, but by today's Lego collector standards it may not wow as many people. Lego was definitely a staple of my childhood, but I never started collecting Lego as an adult because I knew I was short of space and it'd be a never ending collection. I regularly use to build random things and take it up to my Grandpa's room to show him the things I built. After he passed away a decade ago, I stopped playing with Lego and it's since sit in storage in those large bins. 

Recently in Edmonton we had the privilege of an official Lego store opening this summer and with it a lot of new Lego specials can now be purchased locally. Of course I was at the store opening day and got one of the mini-figure exclusive sets I'll have to show you guys another time. 

One of the features of the Lego Store is you can purchase a big cup of Lego and fill it with "pick-a-brick" assortments. Last night, she received one of these large cups and it was full of random Lego pieces her friends had picked for her. They kept mentioning that nothing could be built from it and that it was just to accessorize a Lego Avengers Quinjet they also bought for her.  

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. I cracked it open and started building.  Eventually it grew and next thing I knew I was using up most of the pieces in that cup. I really wanted to use up 100% of the cup, but due to the nature of the leftovers I wasn't able too, but got pretty damn close. BEHOLD!

Leftover pieces in the cup:

What am I beholding? I know. It looks like shit. But at least I could prove you can kinda use your (my) shitty imagination when playing with Lego. Or what you have left at the age of 23. Pretty much nothing...It looked better in person. I swear, peeps. 

Okay, the cup had like a dozen chairs in it. what the fuck can you do with a dozen Lego chairs...