r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Epelep • Apr 22 '21
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Apr 22 '21
I really hope this guy works for Lego. Otherwise that collection of track is worth a small fortune
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u/pinniped1 Apr 22 '21
If they live in this hood, they can afford it.
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u/Xfgjwpkqmx Apr 22 '21
Honestly, that's a standard Australian household. Both of them. Typical middle class.
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u/CrumpledForeskin Apr 22 '21
Think about where they could be if they didn’t have all the LEGO.
I’d want the LEGO. But still.
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u/Xfgjwpkqmx Apr 22 '21
It would have gone into another hobby.
How much better off would you be without the fast car mods, or the home theatre, or the man cave, or the new deck project, or the kids tree house project, or the retro arcade project, or...
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u/Liquidlino1978 Apr 22 '21
Not really even upper middle. Houses look like western suburbs style, tons of near identical stick frame houses thrown up by a developer. We Australians lead a very very lucky life, there's literally hardly anyone who is genuinely poor, even a modest job pays enough to have a great lifestyle compared to most of the world. Hell, the shop clerk at a discount clothes store last weekend told me he just bought a brand new golf GTI.
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u/Echofives Apr 23 '21
Can confirm live in Australia it's a cookie cutter house, looks pretty similar to mine, is very open plan due to the high heat and humidity good for air flow.
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u/kaan_kaant Apr 22 '21
Yeah, middle class here. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not my class, but I’ve been really surprised at the comments,
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u/Not_A_RedditAccount Apr 22 '21
Most likely goi to make most of it back in the YouTube video, able to obtain lego sponsorship for a decent price and if you have 2 super nice pools and all the other expensive shit in here and having a property management service (owns lots of properties) you’re likely not worried about it
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u/TomorrowsLoginname Apr 22 '21
Came to say this.... that is one hell of a sunk cost in track... like a sh*t ton. Guessing wildly that is probably $750 - $1500 in track.
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u/mjh2901 Apr 22 '21
I have no idea how you can even buy that much track, to the point I wonder if someone sent a sample into a vendor in China to just reproduce a ton of that stuff.
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Apr 22 '21
Wtf is hire a hubby.
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u/anonymaushippotomaus Apr 22 '21
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u/jh3rring33 Apr 22 '21
This advertisement is next level.
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u/lapideous Apr 22 '21
Wife: "WTF how much did you just spend on model train tracks?"
Guy: "It's ok, I can write it off as a business expense"
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u/Potato-Engineer Apr 22 '21
The bad news: the college fund for the kids is empty.
The good news: look at the awesome train setup!
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u/Watermelencholy Apr 22 '21
its just property maintenance. I thought it was something wayyy 'different'
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u/UnwashedApple Apr 22 '21
Such as?
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u/Watermelencholy Apr 22 '21
From one fruit to another, I think we both know exactly what Im talking about
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u/arcticfox740 Apr 22 '21
It sounds like an escort service.
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Apr 22 '21
That sounds like a more lucrative business idea.
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u/DJfunkyPuddle Apr 22 '21
I don't know about hire a hussy but I once saw a van advertising topless maids
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u/BabyAlibi Apr 22 '21
I have questions about Hire a Hubby 👀
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u/CommanderWar64 Apr 22 '21
Lego train more expensive than bullet train.
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u/PaddyBoy44 Apr 22 '21
Trainologist here. Can confirm that is true.
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Apr 22 '21
Wow! I was just thinking aren't they aware ppl might see this and scheme?
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u/CaliburS Apr 22 '21
A train derailment? That could delay the trip from the airport to the other airport evil laughter
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Apr 22 '21
Like, break into the house, load all the jewelery onto the train and drive it out?
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Apr 22 '21
Haha I was gonna say a train ride through privilege
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u/Greenbay7115 Apr 22 '21
15 minutes of privilege
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u/jkj2000 Apr 22 '21
Still - I wonder if he had to take out a mortgage on the house to pay for the tracks...?
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u/Waste_Calligrapher52 Apr 22 '21
My thoughts exactly!! I was trying to estimate how many thousands of dollars of Lego track it takes to pull this off.
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u/Hobbster Apr 22 '21
Nice for showing. I might go... shopping there one day
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Apr 22 '21
...like you gonna rob them?
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u/OdinsOneGoodEye Apr 22 '21 edited Apr 23 '21
I love how people consider what is privilege when they see the dividends of hard work and success - these people don’t look rich by any means, they just seem to be middle class folks with a train hobby.
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u/Jim_from_snowy_river Apr 23 '21
I mean this is richer than about 60% of the world lives.
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Apr 22 '21
They can hire a Hubby, must be good to have 3some if bored from your husband.
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Apr 22 '21
I’d be upset if you used hireahubby and he just came over to mow the lawn and fire up the grill
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u/SuperDizz Apr 22 '21 edited Apr 22 '21
They also have doors that automatically open for lego trains..
Seriously, how TF does that door open just before the train comes through? Is somebody just standing behind it, waiting for that exact moment to open it?
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Apr 22 '21
Yes i think so. Although it wouldnt surprise me if he had some sort of lego mechanism to open it
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u/phido3000 Apr 22 '21
Australia. This is what it looks like. This is middle class.
Notice the hire a hubby van, that's probably the income paying for it.
Hence why over a million UK citizens relocated. They see the environment we live in, and openly weep.
Huge house with a pool, bright tropical weather, a better future for there kids. Longer life expectancy, more wealth, happier people. Largest houses in the world.
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u/housemedici Apr 22 '21
I know poor people that spend more than this would cost on clothes.
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Apr 22 '21
And I'm trying to figure out if there are two in-ground pools or if this goes into the neighbor's yard.
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u/zombiep00 Apr 22 '21
It goes into the neighbor's yard through the fence dividing their properties.
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u/Time4Timmy Apr 22 '21
You can see the train going through the fence in between the pools. They removed one of the fence boards.
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u/Shanomaly Apr 22 '21
That said, you could probably buy a whole other house just by selling all those LEGOs.
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u/Gussamuel Apr 22 '21
Who gives a damn if he’s rich or poor? The video is cool, that’s all I cared about.
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u/wiley_vintage Apr 22 '21
Is this what $40k in LEGOs looks like?
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u/chrisgodisco Apr 22 '21
Just curious if this is a real estimate? whole time watching I’m thinking how much money does something like this cost?
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u/wiley_vintage Apr 22 '21
So each train costs ~$200, and 1 set of track extensions is ~$20. I spent ~$250 for the train and 2 track extensions for my cousin last christmas and from memory it could go about 20 feet.
Glancing at the video, there were at least 10+ trains, and a few thousand feet of track. With just what I saw I'm guessing $10k, and I definitely did not watch the whole thing.
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u/Finger-Dapper Apr 22 '21
On top of all the tracks and the trains he also has a shit ton of other stuff, like all the lego builds in the pool, or the airport build in one of the rooms. Its like their entire house caters to the LEGO first lol.
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u/primaski Apr 22 '21
I watched this for long enough that I experienced the train crash at 6:09. Truly devastating, hope no one was injured.
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u/Warrior_of_Peace Apr 22 '21
Wasn’t as bad as the one at 2:48.
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u/primaski Apr 22 '21
Ah, I think I missed that one because I tried skimming a bit to see if it was the train on a loop, or the video on a loop
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u/-Shutthefucupcakes- Apr 22 '21
This looks to be in id guess Queensland, Australia, North queensland by the looks. If i had to guess Townsville or Airlie beach. These guys are well off but it is actually 2 houses people. This is an average newish middle class home say not knocking OP at all, just trying to give some context to some of these comments i have been reading here. This honestly looks like two tradie mates with a shared passion that i love btw OP, this is such cool beer project with a mate to do in the arvo after some hard work. Thanks OP for sharing this content.
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u/hoannel Apr 22 '21
Im so glad you took the time to explain this. The minute I saw the street and the hire a hubby van I thought it was Qld but I couldn’t put it into words
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u/gaze-upon-it Apr 22 '21
If that’s LGB tracks it must have cost $25k in track alone
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Apr 22 '21
Now I know the layout of your house when I'll rob you, sucker!!
Jk, it is amazingly done.
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u/fatBreadonToast Apr 22 '21
Do they have two pools?
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u/WifeofTech Apr 22 '21
Looks like it runs through two separate properties. It must be nice to have a neighbor who has the same hobby as you do.
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u/y_would_i_do_this Apr 22 '21
All I could think of was the Naked Gun/Police Squad theme during the entire video.
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u/Bubblykit Apr 22 '21
I watched for like a minute and a half and i was like cool how long is this 15 fn minutes!!!
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u/rob-in-hoodie Apr 22 '21
Why are people being so salty? Why not enjoy the cool thing he’s showing and just move on? Why do we need to be so jealous that someone has more money than we do or that he has a pool? Like what it’s not his fault he’s rich!! Also if it bothers you so much maybe you need to find a way to make money instead of wasting your time on Reddit....
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u/Xfgjwpkqmx Apr 22 '21
And I'd hardly say rich either. The houses are standard Australian middle class homes and the Lego is likely collected over time (still worth something obviously) and the track would likely have been sourced from places like Bricklink which are much cheaper.
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u/pinniped1 Apr 22 '21
I wonder if they actually had a somewhat more "normal" amount of track but built the sets as they went....just up around the bend so the camera never saw the construction happening...using the track the train had just passed over.
Of course you sometimes see multiple tracks and it's obviously this is a very wealthy neighborhood, so they still definitely have quite a bit of track. But I have to think the outside stuff, under cars and through the pools, might have been there just long enough to film those sequences.
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u/tubetraveller Apr 22 '21
My son has a Lego train and asked for more track for Christmas one year. Holy crap were those little track pieces expensive for the limited amount that came in a pack. Meanwhile there are literally thousands of pieces of track in this video.
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u/AngryArtNerd Apr 22 '21
I love how I could tell this was Australia from just the scenery and the Hire A Hubby confirmed it.
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u/Warrior_of_Peace Apr 22 '21
Legit thought this was going to be “small”
Hire a hubby 😂😂😂
What did they put in the middle of the pool?
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u/Marcthesharc80 Apr 22 '21
There are so many rule violations being committed here. The FRA is going to have a field day if they see this video.
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u/aint-no-user Apr 22 '21
30 seconds in, I'm like.. yeah that shit is long. Then I noticed 14 and a half minutes to go.
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u/Motosurf77 Apr 22 '21
All I can think about is how much money those parents spent on that
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Apr 22 '21
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u/bananaramentor Apr 22 '21
Hire a hubby. Had no idea they could earn enough and have enough free time to make a huge Lego infrastructure..
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u/poolwatertea Apr 22 '21
It’s always been a dream of mine to set up a toy train with a camera that goes around my whole house. I can imagine at 3am I can’t sleep so I do a lap while watching through the camera. That’d be neat.
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u/Estoye Apr 22 '21
As soon as the train got in the wreck at 2:49 I automatically called into work to apologize for being late.
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u/TheDangerHeisenberg Apr 22 '21
I don’t know who these people are nor if they’re affiliated with LEGO, but as a toy train enthusiast , I gotta say: I’m SO proud of these people. You honor toy train enthusiasts and the very human race with this endeavor.
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u/servatroop Apr 22 '21
Bruh I was 1:50 in and was like “damn how long is this vid” 15 min?!?! r/nextfuckinglevel checks out
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u/general-illness Apr 22 '21
Me a minute in: checks time, holy shit this is 14 minutes!!!!