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Double points on the town hall would be £15, pretty good.

Just realised that the mini tie fighter is only if you spend £50 on SE Lego, not just any purchase.
 
The Lamonster said:
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Update:

I dropped this piece of junk off at the UPS store and wrote Amazon customer service. They upgraded the replacement order to one-day shipping so I should receive it tomorrow (hopefully in an outer box) and they gave me $10 Amazon credit for the inconvenience. She also said she forwarded my message to their shipping department.

Thinking about it, this hasn't really upset me very much. The box is so ridiculously damaged that the blatant disregard for packaging is just kind of comical and funny.
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Did you actually rip open that hole on the side or did it come like that too? It almost seems like someone from UPS was trying to steal some pieces out of th box and then just threw it back together and sent it on. Still doesn't explain the lack of a brown box, unless some douche ripped that open to get to the LEGO box and then reslapped the label onto the LEGO box. Very strange indeed.
 
Man, long ass day. -_-

Whatever the case, I think I may just order my double VIP Lego sets from home since I'll be busy and out of town until Sunday night. Could give me something exciting for Monday! But shipping...Ugh. Maybe not, haha.

Gonna need some build pics of that Town Hall ghostmind!
 
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I count 30 bags. :)


So, do I empty them all into one big pile, or just the Bag 1's (of which there are a dozen)?
 
Well, my Solid Snake sprite idea is out the window. Some of the pieces I would need are nearly $1 each - for little 1x1's! Ridiculous!

Even after careful planning of exact pieces, and switching out colors for cheaper/common ones, it'd still cost over $100. Bah!

Oh well.
 
Just bought the Town Hall, Fire Brigade, and Dune Hopper from our local LEGO Store (had to get the FB and Dune Hopper shipped though). ALL DEM DOUBLE VIP PTS!!!!!
 
DrForester said:
Big pile, only sorting allowed is to separate big pieces from small pieces.
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I just spent nearly 4 hours counting/sorting all the pieces I have for the UCS millennium falcon for my revised inventory system. My newbie mistake, as once I crossed the 4000 piece threshold, it got hard even finding the bags I needed to add pieces to from the ones that were complete. Dumping them into one pile is scary, but I'm already this deep into it.

Bricklink is a nice resource, but after this, I look forward to just dropping by a lego store and buying complete sets.
 
nicoga3000 said:
Man, long ass day. -_-

Whatever the case, I think I may just order my double VIP Lego sets from home since I'll be busy and out of town until Sunday night. Could give me something exciting for Monday! But shipping...Ugh. Maybe not, haha.

Gonna need some build pics of that Town Hall ghostmind!
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If you wait until the 12th, you get double VIP and FREE shipping with a purchase over $75.
 
Anyone know when the Town Hall will hit the regular shops?
LEGO.com isn't worth it the least for us Swedes, the Pet Shop for example is €40 more expensive than other shops/amazon. No amount of VIP points can justify the higher price, and expensive shipping on top of that.
 
Stopped into the Lego store here in Columbus today to see what I could find. Ended up doing a small Pick-A-Brick cup (the $7.99 one) - not real impressed with most of the selection there but they did have brown 1x4 tiles, which I wanted so I could start on an actual floor for my Grand Emporium - being a big western Lego fan I can't help but look in at the tan floor and think that it's basically a desert floor.



There's my haul from the PAB cup. Laid out I've got the following:

193 x 1x4 brown tiles
4 x 2x6 brown plates
108 x 1x1 light green round plates
72 x 1x1 light green bricks
12 x 1x2 light green bricks
24 x 1x2 green bricks
24 x 1x2 green slopes (45 degrees)
13 x flower stems
6 x red flower sprues

456 pieces total. That's not counting the couple dozen brown tiles (and a few 1x1 round plates under some of the displays) that I already put in the GE, so probably approaching 500. Under 1.7 cents per piece - not too shabby for that size cup, and I was tossing stuff in there at the end since I was running out of time.

Here's what I'm working on for the brown tiles:



Need some 1x1 and 1x2 tiles (and 1x3 if they exist) to finish it off while keeping the pattern intact and would also like to re-anchor the counters, as they're just sliding around for now, but I like how it's looking already. I debated trying to do a different pattern with different colors, but the price and availability was right for the brown tiles.

Oh, and yes, I have the kid hanging by one hand off the escalator. Those darn kids, always getting into trouble.
 
Picked this up after work.

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Did some sorting as well.

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I was hoping that I could grab it at my local Lego store and rack up some sweet VIP points. But they had none in stock. so I ended buying it at Toys R Us seeing as how its suppose to be OOP and already hard to find.

I still want to take advantage of the double VIP points, any recommendations? Looking for some nice intricate builds, not necessarily Stars Wars related. Some of the Creator stuff looks like it uses some unique building techniques.
 
parrotbeak said:
Second time recently where someone has said this. Do they time you when you are picking bricks?
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Oh, no, not at all. I had to pick my son up from daycare, so I had to pick up the pace at the end so I wasn't late. Those tiles are harder to stack than I thought as well, so after fiddling with them for more time than I should have I kinda just gave up on them and dumped them around the core of bricks that I had stacked up and took off to get my kid.

Can't speak for any of the other stores, but all of the staff at the Lego store in Columbus are very friendly and I've never felt pressured in there at any time. Definitely thumbs up for them.
 
jtkauff said:
Oh, no, not at all. I had to pick my son up from daycare, so I had to pick up the pace at the end so I wasn't late. Those tiles are harder to stack than I thought as well, so after fiddling with them for more time than I should have I kinda just gave up on them and dumped them around the core of bricks that I had stacked up and took off to get my kid.

Can't speak for any of the other stores, but all of the staff at the Lego store in Columbus are very friendly and I've never felt pressured in there at any time. Definitely thumbs up for them.
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Hey another Columbus Lego fan! I was pretty excited when they put that store at Easton, just wish it was bigger. I visited the one up near Cle a few weeks ago and its about 4 times the size of ours.
 
I might be heading to the Easton store on Saturday with my nephew. :) I work just down the street of Stelzer Rd...it's dangerous for my wallet.
 
I'm only halfway through the first floor and already some very cool features (which were not on the video) are starting to emerge. My son decided it was more fun to watch me than build his own set at the same time, which is cool, because I really enjoy the social side of building, and its fun watching his reactions to what I am putting together.


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I felt the same way with the Fire Brigade and Pet Shop. There are many features that I didn't know these sets had and it made it very fun to put them together. I may buy another Pet Shop just for expansion purposes so I can add two more houses to my street.
 
Where is everyone finding the Tantive IV? I want to get that set someday, and soon so the price doesnt skyrocket.

Picked up the Falcon tonight. Damn, that was a fun build. Much more fun than the X-Wing and TIE Fighter due to the mostly asymmetrical nature of the ship. While it is not as sturdy or model worthy as the Imperial Shuttle, it is still a damn fine looking set when finished.

So now I on one side of my TV I have an Imperial Shuttle towering over my equipment rack, and a TIE Fighter on top of my left front speaker. On the other side I have the X-Wing on top of the right front speaker, and the Millennium Falcon on the subwoofer next to it.

Yeah, gonna have to cut back. No room for any more sets for a while now.
 
PhoncipleBone said:
Where is everyone finding the Tantive IV? I want to get that set someday, and soon so the price doesnt skyrocket.

Picked up the Falcon tonight. Damn, that was a fun build. Much more fun than the X-Wing and TIE Fighter due to the mostly asymmetrical nature of the ship. While it is not as sturdy or model worthy as the Imperial Shuttle, it is still a damn fine looking set when finished.

So now I on one side of my TV I have an Imperial Shuttle towering over my equipment rack, and a TIE Fighter on top of my left front speaker. On the other side I have the X-Wing on top of the right front speaker, and the Millennium Falcon on the subwoofer next to it.

Yeah, gonna have to cut back. No room for any more sets for a while now.
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I got my Tantive IV from Amazon - it's still MSRP there.
 
Anybody have that UCS Obi Wan's Jedi Starfighter? It's $60 at the Lego online shop. I am just wondering what happens when you try to fit a minifig into the cockpit. Most reviews say it doesn't work but I don't understand why.
 
The Lamonster said:
Anybody have that UCS Obi Wan's Jedi Starfighter? It's $60 at the Lego online shop. I am just wondering what happens when you try to fit a minifig into the cockpit. Most reviews say it doesn't work but I don't understand why.
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I have a minifig sitting in mine right now. He fits in there, and the cockpit closes just fine. The ship is not to scale. The minifig is too small compared to the big ship.

Doesn't bother me in the least bit.
 
i decided to dig into my old lego and moc something basic together :)

behold my miniscale Moonbase ^^


my old lego has none of these fancy new bricks that i would like to use, but all the new lego I have is currently more colourful than grey
 
Leunam said:
I felt the same way with the Fire Brigade and Pet Shop. There are many features that I didn't know these sets had and it made it very fun to put them together. I may buy another Pet Shop just for expansion purposes so I can add two more houses to my street.
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haven't built it yet, but the Pet Shop might be my favourite of the modulars just from looks. Buying two and putting the houses together would be really nice, then adapt one of the shops into a different shop or another house.

The other models are quite specific
 
Yesterday evening I started the mini-modulars.

Seriously, to everyone who still is on the fence about buying them... DO IT!!!
I'm still at the beginning of my adult-age LEGO activities, but these are probably the most fun I've ever had building something and I'm really looking forward to doing the rest of them.
 
LazyLoki said:
Yesterday evening I started the mini-modulars.

Seriously, to everyone who still is on the fence about buying them... DO IT!!!
I'm still at the beginning of my adult-age LEGO activities, but these are probably the most fun I've ever had building something and I'm really looking forward to doing the rest of them.
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+1

The entire build was - 'whats this piece going there for....OH, its a tiny doorstep, so cool!' x 100

The VW camper was similar, but more 'why am I putting this....aww a tiny set of drawers, so cute'
 
mrklaw said:
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The entire build was - 'whats this piece going there for....OH, its a tiny doorstep, so cool!' x 100

The VW camper was similar, but more 'why am I putting this....aww a tiny set of drawers, so cute'
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It seems so expensive though. Or is the price per piece really good?
 
Does anyone know if the Lego stores (London, UK) stock the Power Functions parts on their own rather than the quite rubbish set?

I've never noticed them before.
 
Bakkuma371 said:
Does anyone know if the Lego stores (London, UK) stock the Power Functions parts on their own rather than the quite rubbish set?

I've never noticed them before.
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They should, I picked up some in the tiny Milton Keynes shop to convert my kid's Lego wind turbine set into a fan for him.

But it spun too fan and the blades disintergrated.

They usually stock a couple of different sized motors and a few cables.
 
Tence said:
It seems so expensive though. Or is the price per piece really good?
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price is ok, but the set is a fantastic intro to advanced building techniques. If you're interested at all in small scale, or just what can be done with some lateral thinking, you should grab this set. I'd suggest at least looking at the manual online but frankly I think you need to see it for real as you build to really appreciate it.
 
So I decided to take out the old barrel with all my lego.

Put it all on the floor, sat down and started building.

2 hours later I was still building.

I love Lego.
 
you guys are all crazy mixing up the bags like that, I find it hard enough to find time to put together a set as it is without making the process last longer.
 
wetwired said:
you guys are all crazy mixing up the bags like that, I find it hard enough to find time to put together a set as it is without making the process last longer.
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Thank-you for posting this. Watching everyone else go batshit insane in this thread by dumping everything out together I was starting to feel bad about myself as a person for always taking the easy route! LOL
 
wetwired said:
you guys are all crazy mixing up the bags like that, I find it hard enough to find time to put together a set as it is without making the process last longer.
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It is because of this thread I have decided to through it all together haha.
Granted, so far I have only done this with smaller sets like the log cabin.

But I do understand the point of it... it is so much fun looking for the right pieces.
 
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