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AJUMP23 said:
There is a Pirate one but it is only sold at LEGO HOUSE. I think there is a city one too.
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The city one is too bland. The driver looks great. Now I'm wondering how long it will be until its a big Harry Potter or Darth Vader rather than a Knight or Astronaut.
 
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AJUMP23 said:
Those look great MidGenRefresh MidGenRefresh
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Thanks, man. Adventurers in Egypt is a goated LEGO theme, right up there in the pantheon with Western and Pirates. It's such a shame that almost everything now is licensed, but I guess customers voted with their wallets and that's what won. 6755 is probably my favorite LEGO set ever. I have it in amazing condition, in the box, with intact stickers and everything.

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AJUMP23 said:
It is overpriced, but Lego seems to be doing just fine with their bricks. I think they are the most profitable toy company in the world.
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I'm not questioning it, I'm just stating the obvious fact that they're way, way overpriced. Just look at what you get from a company like Lumibricks. You get a lighting kit, no stickers, tons of prints, and twice the bricks for the same price. It's ridiculous.
 
MidGenRefresh said:
I'm not questioning it, I'm just stating the obvious fact that they're way, way overpriced. Just look at what you get from a company like Lumibricks. You get a lighting kit, no stickers, tons of prints, and twice the bricks for the same price. It's ridiculous.
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That is great, but that is not what this thread is about. If you want to make a thread complaining about Lego do that. If you want to say I found this cool block set from this other company do that. This is a hobby thread.
 
AJUMP23 said:
That is great, but that is not what this thread is about. If you want to make a thread complaining about Lego do that. If you want to say I found this cool block set from this other company do that. This is a hobby thread.
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OMG, don't get triggered because someone criticizes your favorite toy company, are you for real? I have a LEGO room in my house for my kids, but I refuse to be an NPC, lol. If you want every discussion to go exactly the way you want, then talk to yourself in the mirror. What a joke.
 
MidGenRefresh said:
OMG, don't get triggered because someone criticizes your favorite toy company, are you for real? I have a LEGO room in my house for my kids, but I refuse to be an NPC, lol. If you want every discussion to go exactly the way you want, then talk to yourself in the mirror. What a joke.
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I don't think my request is unreasonable. But thanks for the over-reaction.
 
MidGenRefresh said:
OMG, don't get triggered because someone criticizes your favorite toy company, are you for real? I have a LEGO room in my house for my kids, but I refuse to be an NPC, lol. If you want every discussion to go exactly the way you want, then talk to yourself in the mirror. What a joke.
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Lego is expensive yes. Lego has the name brand sets though with the big IP license. plus they give a lot of thought on new pieces and how everything fits together. if you think thats too much money then don't buy it, but they put in a lot of extra work and thought into their product. Go make a ZURU MAX community thread maybe? or a "We think Legos are too expensive!" thread?
 
RoboFu said:
Lego is expensive yes. Lego has the name brand sets though with the big IP license. plus they give a lot of thought on new pieces and how everything fits together. if you think thats too much money then don't buy it, but they put in a lot of extra work and thought into their product. Go make a ZURU MAX community thread maybe? or a "We think Legos are too expensive!" thread?
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I'm the only person who posted any meaningful content in this thread over the past few weeks, so clearly I like LEGO enough. You can like something and still criticize it. But it seems like this thread is exclusively for adult fanboys blindly worshipping a multi-billion dollar toy company. A toy company! Utterly pathetic.

I'm out, don't worry.
 
Just came back from my second trip to LEGOLAND NY.

I've been to NY twice and FL twice.

Let me say that you SHOULD visit LL FL at least once. It's a great place with great entertainment and rides.

LL NY however is a POS. Always Understaffed, almost everything is constantly broken or closed. First time we went half the rides were closed and a few food places.

This time most rides were open and ALL but the main food place were closed. We saw only one character out and that was Santa for Christmas in July. The one show wasn't running and no ice cream anywhere.

Both times which were 4 years apart the rides were so slow to on board and off board with workers slowly fumbling around. I sort of expect that when it first opened but not 4 years after.

Neither park has discounts for the Lego sets sold there. Seems like that would have been a nice perk but no.


So if you want to visit one ( and you should ) go to FL. It a better park with better rides and shows. Better workers and better theming. Staying at the hotel in themed room is also highly recommended.

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MidGenRefresh said:
I'm the only person who posted any meaningful content in this thread over the past few weeks, so clearly I like LEGO enough. You can like something and still criticize it. But it seems like this thread is exclusively for adult fanboys blindly worshipping a multi-billion dollar toy company. A toy company! Utterly pathetic.

I'm out, don't worry.
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I think it's obvious at this point Lego primarily caters to nostalgia adults with very expensive sets of many thousands of pieces?
My son is really into Lego, how we do it is: buy the Lego set that is on discount, build it (he doesn't care to play with it or to build it the second time), then sell it for 20-30% off. Works out quite well and allows him to have approximately two new sets per month. The annoying part is there are not enough sets in the 5-6 years old range, a lot of these really start getting good at 8-9. This tells you all you need to know where Lego priorities are.
 
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Cyberpunkd said:
I think it's obvious at this point Lego primarily caters to nostalgia adults with very expensive sets of many thousands of pieces?
My son is really into Lego, how we do it is: buy the Lego set that is on discount, build it (he doesn't care to play with it or to build it the second time), then sell it for 20-30% off. Works out quite well and allows him to have approximately two new sets per month. The annoying part is there are not enough sets in the 5-6 years old range, a lot of these really start getting good at 8-9. This tells you all you need to know where Lego priorities are.
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Their business model has definitely gotten more adult focused.
 
After the initial reaction to seeing it died down, I'm really not a big fan of the $1k death star. I would hope that on the path to teching-up more expensive versions, at $1k there would be a sphere or at least half-sphere shape. Very cool set, but $1000 cool? I want to see the pdf instructions, that's it.

I'd like a set that solves the design challenge of making a Death Star with both an interior space and covered exterior, so even if it's a cross-section, the design is there and you could combine two or mod it using the design offered.

By just taking a slice out of the center it feels like a cop-out, this problem remains unsolved (officially from Lego). $1k is too high for copouts man.
 
BlackTron said:
After the initial reaction to seeing it died down, I'm really not a big fan of the $1k death star. I would hope that on the path to teching-up more expensive versions, at $1k there would be a sphere or at least half-sphere shape. Very cool set, but $1000 cool? I want to see the pdf instructions, that's it.

I'd like a set that solves the design challenge of making a Death Star with both an interior space and covered exterior, so even if it's a cross-section, the design is there and you could combine two or mod it using the design offered.

By just taking a slice out of the center it feels like a cop-out, this problem remains unsolved (officially from Lego). $1k is too high for copouts man.
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You could make the whole sphere that then opens up to reveal all the internal details. I will not spend a grand on a Lego.
 
AJUMP23 said:
You could make the whole sphere that then opens up to reveal all the internal details. I will not spend a grand on a Lego.
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Thing is I see no elegant way to just turn this into the full sphere death star. It was designed and planned as a slice, the simple build around the edges was never meant to transition to a sphere, and using a similar design style around the entire structure is impossible. In other words, this adds nothing to the quest for real Death Star plans, send the Bothans back!
 
The Star Trek tease has me sweating. A 2-4k piece Enterprise (even the -D), especially if they can get those smooth curves, would be.......irresistible. The megablock ones were just too...blocky. For me at least its the curves that set Trek ships apart versus the more angular Star Wars or chunky Expanse stuff. If it's something on the scale of the UCS Falcon, in the 5-6k range, then an interior of the dish and the hull would be expected, but that's gonna be a BIG bulky ship with the nacelles.

Can't imagine it just being a bridge set or transporter room, it's gotta be an entire ship, right?
 
jason10mm said:
The Star Trek tease has me sweating. A 2-4k piece Enterprise (even the -D), especially if they can get those smooth curves, would be.......irresistible. The megablock ones were just too...blocky. For me at least its the curves that set Trek ships apart versus the more angular Star Wars or chunky Expanse stuff. If it's something on the scale of the UCS Falcon, in the 5-6k range, then an interior of the dish and the hull would be expected, but that's gonna be a BIG bulky ship with the nacelles.

Can't imagine it just being a bridge set or transporter room, it's gotta be an entire ship, right?
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I hope it is Original Enterprise. Or I would like a fleet of many Enterprise ships. NCC1701 original Then D, and Maybe 2 more. Defiant and Voyager.
 
AJUMP23 said:
I hope it is Original Enterprise. Or I would like a fleet of many Enterprise ships. NCC1701 original Then D, and Maybe 2 more. Defiant and Voyager.
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The tease has Picard, so it'll be the -D if anything. I'm worried it will be a bridge diorama like the Friends set which, while kinda cool, isn't the kind of set I'm interested in. And it has to have a certain scale for the brick resolution to be good enough to capture the grace of the ship, ESPECIALLY TNG era stuff.

Though a Bird of Prey would be dope as well, that is a very underappreciated ship IMHO.
 
AJUMP23 said:
Klingon Ship is peak.

I would take a Enterprise D - a Bird of Prey. A holodeck with Barkley too.
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Starting with the -D is a bold move (if thats what they are doing). The built up appetite for ANY Trek will help it sell, then they can follow it up with the easy sell of the OG or the refit. Personally I think anything from Enterprise, Voyager, or Discovery is likely to be a low seller, but a nice DS9 with a decent sized defiant would be sweet. Throw in the Reliant, a Klingon BoP, maybe a classic romulan ship or the klingon D-9(?) cruiser. Alas the TNG era isn't my favorite for alien designs though I like the Federation ships. I don't think the market would support UCS sized Cardassian, Jem-hadar, or Borg stuff, but a series of decent 300-500 piece versions might.
 
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