I'm stuck inside. It's cold and gray. I am adding products. Seasonal Affective Disorder is a thing, but at least I have new products to keep me occupied. I just cranked through a gigantic backlog of product images and now I can start adding more. And on a positive note, we are now past the Winter solstice, so I am gaining a whole minute more of sunlight per day. Yay.
So first and foremost - I am sorry for the lack of new pieces! I was cruising along getting stuff done and life was good, and then I threw my back out. The fun part is that I was literally doing nothing. I walked from one side of the LEGO space to the other and somehow during that walk my back went completely wonky. I've been able to keep up with orders but my tortoise speed and inability to sit has kept me from adding new stuff for the past two weeks. The good news is that I am pretty much over it now and the parade of new things should be starting again.
Also - Brick Warriors pieces have been restocked. Yay!
Long story short - I upgraded the website because USPS said I had to, which made my shipping break. So then USPS said I had to create a new account to get the new shipping rates. So I did that and on the final step it said 'Unable to process this request.'
I had a useless chat with a chatbot, a failed chat with a human (it said unable to process this request, lol) and now I sent an email to USPS which could take up to three days to get a response. So yeah - not a good day! And oh yeah, USPS also just lost a package today en route to one of my customers. Fabulous.
I am doing what I can. Please feel free to browse and add stuff to your cart. Hopefully the shipping rates will be sorted out sooner rather than later. :(
So I was cruising along adding new stuff, and then I got bogged down for a bit.The good news is that I am over the hump, so new things should resume. I added about 300 so far in September, but my goal is 600 so I have a lot to do this week if I hope to reach my goal. But even if I don't, at least there should be daily updates again. :)
OK, so first of all as soon as September hits I am going to try to fix the checkout process so it stops giving false error messages. That is long long overdue. This should also give everyone the option to use Apple Pay and Venmo and stuff like that. But this is not the HUGE update.
This site is already pretty big. Believe it or not, it currently has approximately 6500 products on it. (!) But between now and December 1, I plan on adding over 2000 more. That is not a typo. This site should be increasing by at least another 30%. Two thousand new products over three months - over twenty per day. It will mostly be parts and pieces for PCs, although there will absolutely be new monsters and parts for the 'general store'.
I have been waiting for over a year for this to start, and when the kids finally go off to school, it is go time. This will easily be the biggest update I have ever made to the site. Get ready! :)
Lots of stuff is back in stock, including Brick Warriors pieces. Yay! But meh. We are still working on adding as much new stuff as possible. There is a lot of behind-the-scenes photography going on right now, so we will be adding clusters of new stuff periodically. That is all for now.
UPDATE! The following monsters are all at least 90% done! Bulette, PF Fire Giant, Flail Snail, and ALL of the Nagas, and ALL of the Genies! We are finally actually finding enough time to complete the monster pile that has been accumulating for the past three years. Woohoo!
May was a little lame due to some unforeseen circumstances and some music gigs but I still managed 100 new pieces. June is still underway but I hope to reach 200. As always, no promises on the specifics but it will be both creatures and PC parts, and I am aiming for 10 per day. Also - New curved printed female torsos are coming VERY soon! These are very cool and they should be on the site by the end of June!
And now - hand color! Over the years I have had many people ask about getting a torso but with a different hand color to match their character's skin tone (or gloves). So now I have created a new product option and made it available for every torso or outfit where the skin color is not clearly shown. Hundreds of pieces are now customizable to match your game regardless of whether you play yellow or flesh, and you can even get red, green, orange, etc. hands to match your character.
This has been a disappointing year so far in terms of posting new things, but I am turning a corner now. My taxes are just an unpleasant. The school year is almost over. My house repair projects are coming to an end.
Let the wild rumpus start!
If you have any requests or recommendations on where I should focus (weapons, armor, monsters, scenery), feel free to leave a comment here. For right now I am just going with a shotgun approach and sort of randomly working on everything in all categories, with a small focus on some amazing new trees.
Hey! I'm still here! March is always crazy because of my Irish band, and then tax season just generally destroys my universe. 2025 was no different, but now it is over.
So I am restarting my efforts again to get the new stuff up. It's slow going right now, but I should be gaining momentum as the usual spring cleaning gets done.
I just wanted to make a new post so everyone knows I'm still alive. I lost my FB and IG accounts to hackers last year, so I'm not on social media right now, or possibly ever again, because mean people suck. But I am still here and I am getting a new batch of things ready. :)
Winter is winter. I am mostly stuck inside, so I am just working at getting caught up (impossible! ha!) on my backlog of parts and pieces. So far so good - I am trying really hard to add a minimum of 10 per day. I still have to get through a staggeringly large and intimidating number, somewhere in the THOUSANDS. This is not an exaggeration. My current quick estimate is approximately 5000 photos that have already been taken that need to be processed and added to the site, which is probably about 2500 products! Yikes! If I do 10 per day, I will be caught up by... December? lololol. Just keep swimming, just keep swimming...