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LEGO |OT6| We Only Build in Black. And Sometimes Very Dark Grey.
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RightChandMan
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LTTP on both of these sets but I finish building the X-men Sentinel Battle and Star Wars Death Star Final Duel.
I enjoyed both. Regarding the X-Men Sentinel Battle, I wish they put more detail on the bottom of the blackbird. I love that it comes with 4 mini figs + sentinel.
The final duel was a lot of fun to build. I love the pliability to it. Good looking set.
I enjoyed both. Regarding the X-Men Sentinel Battle, I wish they put more detail on the bottom of the blackbird. I love that it comes with 4 mini figs + sentinel.
The final duel was a lot of fun to build. I love the pliability to it. Good looking set.
Yeah, i think I just need to try and a) ration myself b) not get hung up buying a spare set for years to come on the expensive sets and c) try to get the ones I want before they retire to save myself money in the longer run.
As I said before, I want several existing sets that could end this year, but I also want R2.
Haven't even thought about the modulars tbh.
Rodney McKay
Member
My interest in them comes and goes when I first got into LEGO about 6 years ago I didn't care much, but then I started to get into the Super Hero minifigs and the CMF series. Before I knew it I had a TON of CMF figures that I didn't really have any interest in.
One Christmas I used a bunch of pick-a-brick pieces I had gotten from my local LEGO stores and built little green/red Christmas presents with a different minifig inside and just gave them away to people at a party. Only the Disney and Batman CMFs got me to buy more.
I'll still occasionally want a minifig really bad, like Antman (I hate that I missed out on that great Anthony set), but I'll never spend a ton of money if the set it comes with is totally throwaway (unless it includes really good pieces I can use for other stuff).
RyanardoDaVinci
Member
Couldn't find any speeder bikes but I did find a lone K2 hiding in back of the shelf for $5.
That'll do.
That'll do.
I will be honest in a rare LegoGAF non-enabling moment and say those that don't go full deep end into collecting the mini fig part of Lego will overall be better for it from a mental and monetary standpoint. I will say with 100% confidence that the obsession with collecting just all the figs from a certain theme or line is what causes many upon many unnecessary purchases for me. I try to bricklink figs when I can but it ultimately ends up coming down to a savings of only a few bucks and at that point i'm just like fuck it and get the whole set most of the time. If you have the ability to shut off that compulsion to collect all the minifigs of anything than by god do it, save yourselves!
On the other hand, you know you are going to regret missing certain minifigs later which is going to cost you an arm and a leg to pick up in the aftermarket so just buy everything now and get it over with.
Don't care about minifigs.
So far just buy the odd small set. That way get some Lego but don't spend an arm and a leg.
The expensive sets are in incredible but I just browse the pics and such.
I'm not one that would want to display sets. I like the time building with family.
I will certainly have the odd nice set in the future but it will not be a Saturn. It will be something with meaning to me.
So far just buy the odd small set. That way get some Lego but don't spend an arm and a leg.
The expensive sets are in incredible but I just browse the pics and such.
I'm not one that would want to display sets. I like the time building with family.
I will certainly have the odd nice set in the future but it will not be a Saturn. It will be something with meaning to me.
Brickset has added box sizes and weights for September SW sets.
The 75187 BB-8 reports:
DIMENSIONS 35.4 x 37.8 x 9.4 cm (13.9 x 14.9 x 3.7 in)
WEIGHT 1.34Kg (2.96 lb)
It is a squarish box a little deeper than 41232: Super Hero High School and weights a little more.
Weight wise it is a little more than half of UCS R2-D2 with 2100 parts.
Depending on brick size, it can be anywhere in 500-1000 range
The 75187 BB-8 reports:
DIMENSIONS 35.4 x 37.8 x 9.4 cm (13.9 x 14.9 x 3.7 in)
WEIGHT 1.34Kg (2.96 lb)
It is a squarish box a little deeper than 41232: Super Hero High School and weights a little more.
Weight wise it is a little more than half of UCS R2-D2 with 2100 parts.
Depending on brick size, it can be anywhere in 500-1000 range
Rodney McKay
Member
Really excited to see how this looks.
A good looking BB-8 set is one of the few things I've wanted from Episode 7.
lol. You were doing so well!
I suppose I'm just not really a collector or completionist, never have been. I'll do it in a game where its fun like R&C, but can't be fucked otherwise. I know I'm never going to own some of the UCS sets, or some of the Modular sets purely due to money. Spending £200+ on a set is kind of a lot, spending £1000+ is bananas unless you've got the disposable.
I notice no one anywhere is talking about the free minifigure travel pack thing with recent US Lego Shop orders. Its kinda cute for a freebie, it comes with the space man t-shirt alot of AFOL's love. It also comes with a shit load of accessories and a couple of buildables like a beach chair. The instructions could have done a better job explaining what you are meant to do with some of the things. I'm not quite sure what you do with the punch out bookmark type things, are they supposed to be word bubbles for the fig? The passport is full of pictures of the fig doing different vacation things and different landmarks. So i'm assuming they want people and kids to take the fig on vacation with them during the summer and take pics. Thats a neat idea so the timing of it being a freebie is good. I just think if thats what they want you do with it the suggestion should have at least be said somewhere on the box or in the passport book and better yet include a hashtag for people to post pictures to. I'm sure people will still get this and post to the general lego twitter account but they could have embraced a bit better.
DrForester
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I wonder if they'll do snot style on it. If it's true it's the same scale as R2, I kind of hope not, since R2's dome isn't.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Or adopt the SNOT style of Saturn V and do it to get a spherical shape somehow.
LordOfLore
Banned
SiegfriedFM
Member
But Giant-Man is just an upsized Ant-Man. Although I guess we don't have his CW design in minifig form.
LordOfLore
Banned
Yeah, I'm sort of sad the exclusive figure wasn't one of the cover spiders.
Old fishing store page is up at shop@home. Some new pictures and information I guess. 10 euro mark-up in Belgium (159 euro) isn't to bad either. Will be a day 1...
Just wonder if the 1x2 plates that stick out when you open the back won't come off constantly.
Just wonder if the 1x2 plates that stick out when you open the back won't come off constantly.
Oh don't worry. It will happen.
When i started all i was interested were the original trilogy star wars sets.
its going to spiral out of control , quickly, you're welcome!
Oh don't worry. It will happen.
When i started all i was interested were the original trilogy star wars sets.
its going to spiral out of control , quickly, you're welcome!
You people did this to me too, I don't regret any of it...
TheSecondSpitter
Member
Where?
LordOfLore
Banned
TheSecondSpitter
Member
Oh. I was hoping for Miguel O'Hara Spidey.
whatsinaname
Member
omg, the Saturn V Stage 3!! Those wedges with the ball joints to complete the circle!
whatsinaname
Member
The fishing store page is up.
https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Old-Fishing-Store-21310
I'm kinda getting hyped for this.
https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Old-Fishing-Store-21310
I'm kinda getting hyped for this.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
They don't look like 1x2 since they have the anti stud or whatever it is called on the underside that is shown.
TheSecondSpitter
Member
Double post
TheSecondSpitter
Member
The fishing store page is up.
https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Old-Fishing-Store-21310
I'm kinda getting hyped for this.
Original model for comparison:
I much prefer the faded green of the original model.
TheSecondSpitter
Member
Good catch. It will probably be 1x4's or even longer ones.
LordOfLore
Banned
Someone want to make a thread like the Saturn V one?
Untill now, all Ideas sets were without stickers. The wooden planks are confirmed as prints. In the description they mention a sticker though:
So i fear this might be the first Ideas set with stickers. Unsure how many there will be. Probably stuff like the 'gone fishing' sign on the door...
friskykillface
Banned
Kylo Ren ship for $30 hype
Perfect price
Clone turbo tank went to $11 hdvkufvkydbku but sold out
Also got Jyn and Phasma for $5 each
Perfect price
Clone turbo tank went to $11 hdvkufvkydbku but sold out
Also got Jyn and Phasma for $5 each
TheFuzz
Member
Kylo Ren ship for $30 hype
Perfect price
Clone turbo tank went to $11 hdvkufvkydbku but sold out
Also got Jyn and Phasma for $5 each
Where?
friskykillface
Banned
Wal Mart, they are putting lots of sets on clearance , dunno why though
Captain Rex at-te
Kylo Ren ship
Lots of other sets
Aren't last Jedi sets coming out on Force Friday in September? Or are they coming out sooner.
LordOfLore
Banned
We need Walmart in Europe
I agree with you.
Sounds like you get a small Krypto set if you order a DC Super Hero Girls set this month.
SiegfriedFM
Member
Original model for comparison:
I much prefer the faded green of the original model.
Uh, that's not an actual Lego colour.
Also, Big Bang Theory had a few stickers.
A bit late to the party, but I finally finished the Saturn V, and even all the praise didn't prepair me for how great of a build it would be. Some of these techniques are absolutely insane. From the first part of the build to the much pictured second stage, all of them were even better then I expected.
Because I am an idiot I placed some of the grill pieces wrong (I had every dark gray part to the right, where it should have been dark - dark - light - light, etc.) and wanted to fix that when I had already finished that part. It really showed how it's really sturdy together, but really flimsy apart. Had to perform some precise rocket surgery to make it whole again.
And then the size. I didn't expect to have any room for it, but I wasn't prepared for just how much room I didn't have. The plan was to remove one of the shelves in my display cabinet, but I would have to remove two to make it fit... This'll have to do for now;
Because I am an idiot I placed some of the grill pieces wrong (I had every dark gray part to the right, where it should have been dark - dark - light - light, etc.) and wanted to fix that when I had already finished that part. It really showed how it's really sturdy together, but really flimsy apart. Had to perform some precise rocket surgery to make it whole again.
And then the size. I didn't expect to have any room for it, but I wasn't prepared for just how much room I didn't have. The plan was to remove one of the shelves in my display cabinet, but I would have to remove two to make it fit... This'll have to do for now;
Winnie the Pimp
Member
Clone Turbo tank for....11 dollars aka like 7 or 8 euro?
I .... have no words
I .... have no words
I think with prints its the same as with parts, generally they will not add new part prints unless done before (or after, in not yet released but planned sets). Each new part type to be printed needs the process for the printing machine to be designed, calibrated, tested. For already printed parts they have this done.
Plus some physical limitations of the piece having protruding parts, like door handles. I know they use two different printing methods, but in different factories, Billund uses tampon print, China something else ... don't remember the details.
Plus some physical limitations of the piece having protruding parts, like door handles. I know they use two different printing methods, but in different factories, Billund uses tampon print, China something else ... don't remember the details.
Chiaroscuro
Member
Big Bang Theory has stickers.
Edited: Beaten.
We need Walmart in Europe
I believe Sparmarkt, Euromarkt and a few others are owned by Walmart. Not the same thing tought
We need Walmart in Europe
It's a double-edged sword. For every great clearance deal I've scored, I've gone to the store twice as often and found nothing. Just today I drove to a Walmart on my lunch break for supposedly in stock sets and came back empty handed.
It can easily turn into a time waste if you're going for a specific set and the inventory is wrong, which happens often.
When I spend 40 minutes total in drive time and have nothing to show for it, I end up wishing I'd just paid more and saved the time.
Winnie the Pimp
Member
I hear you but then... IF you luck out you luck out in a HUGE way, i mean that's like 92% discount or something LOL
I just chalk that up as the thrill of the chase. I'm sure I'd be better off just buying the stuff I want at full price and spending my time wisely. It's more fun to chase the occasional deal sometimes.
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