A $6.99 purchase at a local thrift store makes for a fun afternoon.

Stashed in a nerf dart boxed, hidden amongst the toy graveyard is where I found these second Legos. The box originally contained more toys, some kind of transformer toy you might find in a happy meal, but I left them on the shelf.

What first caught my eye was the trans-light blue curved 1×6. Then I noticed some Bionicle like arms and engine type pieces. The more I looked, the better it got. There were some police branded pieces, jail bars with frames, various technic pieces, and vehicle parts. When I found 4 matching red mud guards I decided to buy the lot.

The first thing I did when I got home was clean the catch, crate and all. I drizzled on some extra strength dish soap, filled it up with water from the tap in the bath and shook until I was tired. There was a good amount of suds from the dish soap which makes it hard to see the pieces and easy to lose the little ones. To prevent losing pieces, I stop the drain, dump the lot into a strainer or a colander and rinse with water until the suds are gone. Next, I douse the Legos with a proprietary cleaning concoction which further degreases them and restores some shine. I rinse them out again in a colander and spread them out on a clean towel some place dry.

Once they dried I separated them by color decided to build something with only the pieces I bought that day. I was excited to see enough car parts to build a 9/10ths of a super car from a City set over 10 years old. The missing pieces include the parts to make front and rear spoilers, as well as some detailing on the rear engine. To compensate, I added 2 oversized jet engines, and a bubble glass cockpit. I think the MOC is fun, silly, and imaginative. The price was certainly right.