No idea how she thinks it's comfortable lol

Yes you read that right. Last week I was in Denmark participating in the Skærbæk Fan Weekend. I had also agreed to meet up with LEGO on Thursday to deliver a set I owned that they were missing from their collection! Pretty special, and I had a great time. :)

I met with Jette Orduna the director at the LEGO Idea House and Signe Wiese Bundsbæk who is a corporate historian (and on the picture with me, Jette behind the camera).

The Byggepinner was a plastic building system patented by LEGO in Denmark, but only sold on the Norwegian market back in the mid 1950's for a short time. My set was found in some cardboard boxes that had been in the attic of a Norwegian toy store which closed all the way back in 1959!

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Yesterday I took my 3 year old daughter to our local Lego store for the new releases. Out of all the new sets, friends, space, Disney, she insisted on the new Harry Potter Aragog set. At the counter the cashier looked at me and then my daughter who had a smile from ear to ear and asked “Why are you buying this?” with a disgusted look. I fear that my daughter knew what she was doing as I will find this throughout my house for years to come.

It took me two months on and off to wrap every piece, eight rolls of tape, and a few close calls. Totally worth it!

I’ve been waiting a long time to buy lego again

I’m feeling pretty crushed right now and just need to share. I recently entered a LEGO contest and spent an entire month on my build—sticking to all the rules like 64x32 studs, 51 bricks high, and making sure nothing overhung the size. But then I got an email this morning saying my submission was rejected because it didn’t follow the size guidelines. The thing is, I’m pretty sure they didn’t actually measure it properly. I couldn’t resubmit with additional evidence since it’s past the deadline.

What makes it even harder is that I’m deaf, and I’ve always wanted to inspire other deaf kids to join these contests and show that their creativity matters too. I poured so much of myself into this project, staying up late so many nights just to get everything perfect. And then... bam, rejected with what feels like an unfair reason. It’s like all that hard work went down the drain.

I’ve tried reaching out to different people to figure out what happened, but no one’s been able to help. The LEGO Ideas team hasn’t responded, which I understand—they’re probably swamped—but this is really important to me, and I just don’t know what to do.

I’m honestly wondering if it’s even worth trying again in the future. Has anyone else been through something like this? How did you handle it?

Thanks for listening, and I appreciate any advice or support you can offer.