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Frocious posted:I had just about every Explorien set as a kid. Some of my favorites. Me too  I even had the big fuckoff Explorien Starship, but it's disassembled in a giant Rubbermaid tub along with the rest of the UFO and Insectoid themes, and a bunch of other assorted space port sets and random parts. gently caress me, there's a shitload of cool stuff in there but the act of sorting it is so daunting I can't even bring myself to start.
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Lizard Combatant posted:Truly, Superman fights for the American Way. The shuttle looks pretty cool, but Emerald Night is both classy as gently caress and is a genuine 4-6-2 loco with unique wheels. Also it's based on a real steam train. E: would definitely like to have another five or ten passenger cars, even though it wouldn't fit in my bookcase any more.
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These are the expensive roof tiles for Cafe Corner. Bricklink indicates that these use a similar mold type and are much cheaper. Any thoughts as to whether they will work? Edit: Not cheaper. gently caress. Interlude fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Jan 18, 2012 |
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Phy posted:The shuttle looks pretty cool, but Emerald Night is both classy as gently caress and is a genuine 4-6-2 loco with unique wheels. Also it's based on a real steam train. Oh the dilemma! My childhood love of both steam trains and space are fighting for supremacy. I might have to go with the emerald night but the only thing that's holding me back is that it possibly looks too good. As stupid as that sounds, hear me out. From the pictures I'm not getting a lego vibe from it, instead it looks like a really nice model. Does this make any sense?
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MaliciousOnion posted:That's Tommy Nine-toes. Gotcha, thanks! I thought he had been in that pizza shop set.
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It's LEGO. Tack on enough extra parts for a space train.
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SynthOrange posted:It's LEGO. Tack on enough extra parts for a space train. I don't know if that's inspired or blasphemous. Either way, I'm getting the train.
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Anyone know if the Shuttle set will still be around in March? I'm basically broke until then.
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PKMN Trainer Red posted:A post on Brothers Brick earlier today says each box has: My local Target finally put out series 6 either today or yesterday. As soon as I saw the two boxes I instantly realised I was too late. They were not packed neatly and some of the foil packaging they come in looked stretched and creased on some packs. Thats right, a bag fondling army builder beat me too the punch. I only wanted a single Roman soldier and a Genie. There were still a couple genies but in the 30 or so I checked not a single Roman. If you take one or even two of a specific fig I don't mind. If you take all the figs of a certain type out of both boxes available you are probably being selfish. Or at least bring in a pen or marker and write "NO ROMANS" or whatever on the box.
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Manchild King posted:This is kind of weird to me. Are Lego intentionally trying to create "chase" figures? Im sure they realise the Roman Soldier will be highly sort after yet they only put 3 in a box. Yet low demand stuff like Skateboarder, Bandit and Mechanic are quite common. No one wants those lovely figs because they can already buy practiclly the same thing in existing sets. I get what you're saying but have you seen the bandit? He has one of the coolest torsos and his face is Lee Van Cleef. I'm having trouble tracking down space girl myself.
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Tighclops posted:Me too Yep, I had the Starship and the Base. I spent some time looking through one of the websites that has all of the old sets archived, and jesus did I have a lot of sets. Seems my favorite two themes were the Exploriens and Ice Planet, but I had a ton of MTron, Castle, and Pirate stuff too. Now it's all sealed away in two big rear end tubs. I'm thinking about going home for a few months while I sort a few things out, maybe I'll get all that stuff sorted back out. That would be quite an undertaking.
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Manchild King posted:This is kind of weird to me. Are Lego intentionally trying to create "chase" figures? Im sure they realise the Roman Soldier will be highly sort after yet they only put 3 in a box. Yet low demand stuff like Skateboarder, Bandit and Mechanic are quite common. No one wants those lovely figs because they can already buy practiclly the same thing in existing sets. Probably based on what kids are most interested in, rather than AFOL parts scarcity logic. Given that, it is to Lego's advantage if people need to buy more bags to get what they randomly want.
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CADPAT posted:Which part? I haven't seen them yet, mind you I haven't looked in a week. Went to two Targets, a Meijer and a TRU Monday (in northern Indiana), and bupkiss. They all had leftover S5 out, obviously desperate to be rid of them but not desperate enough to discount them.
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smackfu posted:Probably based on what kids are most interested in, rather than AFOL parts scarcity logic. Also, it makes sense financially to place 5 figs that are easily created with preexisting parts.
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Been ordering like crazy on ebay and the lego site. Should have stuff coming for days. The lego site keeps sending me these ninja minifigs and emails about my posters being on backorder. How many posters do I need? Anyways, another ebay purchase:  
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Not sure if you guys noticed, but the Black Pearl is on sale on Amazon for $80: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004ZFF3CQ...ASIN=B004ZFF3CQ
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Fully transformable Zeta Gundam MOC.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqNzC9vzrVE (Based on this: http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/MSZ-006_Zeta_Gundam)
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 UK GOONS Sainsbury's got some new Lego ranges in today, including the Friend's lines. However, here's what's more important: There is a pricing error on one of the Star Wars lines specifically the V-wing TIE fighter. It's supposed to be £24.99 but is instead priced at 84 pence. This was a global error and if the store was smart they should have caught it and manually overrode it but as we all know people are fallible which means you could profit! So check out your local Sainsbury's and see if their team missed the cock-up. If it doesn't go through the till at 84p, which it was doing, check the shelf edge label on the product. If it hasn't been changed the store is legally bound to sell it for whatever price advertised. Thought some of you might benefit from that knowledge. I, sadly, have too many competent colleagues in my store and our stock was removed from sale very quickly and rectified locally. See if you can be victorious where I was not!
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Zedd posted:Fully transformable Zeta Gundam MOC. By the end of the video I was expecting it to fly around the room too.
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TRU actually DID have the nanoblocks space shuttle in today so I got that. Goddamn nanoblocks as if I wasn't already spending enough of lego now I've got another thing that I want to spend money on (though to be fair I don't think I'm going to get anymore for a while seeing as how the space shuttle was the one I was most interested in).
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runwiled posted:If it hasn't been changed the store is legally bound to sell it for whatever price advertised. Please don't do this. Working retail is miserable enough without people being cocks about this kind of thing.
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runwiled posted:If it hasn't been changed the store is legally bound to sell it for whatever price advertised.
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FreakyZoid posted:They aren't. The sales contract doesn't start at the shelf. we have the scanning code of conduct in ontario and every major store follows it except zellers. If the item is worth less than $10 it is free, if it is more than $10 it is $10 off the lowest price. Example, it scans at $24, priced at $14 its $4. If it scans at $24 but shelf price is $1, its free.
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That's great. He's talking about the UK.
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This isn't true, sadly, while they might do it as a gesture of good will, they're not at all bound to the advertised price, its a misconception based on people shouting it loudly at shop assistants, same as the "Scottish money is legal tender" thing. FreakyZoid posted:They aren't. The sales contract doesn't start at the shelf. Yeah, what he said.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Please don't do this. Working retail is miserable enough without people being cocks about this kind of thing.
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LDD 4.2 is up, and boy howdy it's a doozy. Since DesignByMe and LEGO Universe are officially dead and buried, the entire palette has opened up in default mode, and extended mode is availailable from the splash. I'm of two minds about this: on the one hand, I appreciated the restrictions the old DBM palette placed on selection and colors because it encouraged (for me at least) creative usage of a limited pool of bricks, but on the other hand OMG COLORS EVERYWHERE
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smackfu posted:Eh. Usually you just go "but the shelf says it costs X" and they go "but it's ringing up as Y" and then a manager is called and they override the price and then go change the shelf. Works out for everyone and not a big deal. It's only a problem when the clerk digs in their heels about the price. Clerks don't like to go against the what the till says, while managers prefer to just get you out of there in questionable situations. Except what usually happens is people flip out and start acting like entitled children over a pricing error. So no, clerks digging their heels in about price is not a problem.
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Merchant of Death posted:we have the scanning code of conduct in ontario and every major store follows it except zellers. If the item is worth less than $10 it is free, if it is more than $10 it is $10 off the lowest price.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Anyone know if the Shuttle set will still be around in March? I'm basically broke until then. I've been to a physical LEGO store on two occasions and have seen 20 sitting in a stack, and then 0 the next time I was in. I ordered mine online just so I could quit doing the "will it/won't it" game.
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illcendiary posted:Except what usually happens is people flip out and start acting like entitled children over a pricing error. So no, clerks digging their heels in about price is not a problem. The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > LEGO: flip out and start acting like entitled children (I agree with you.)
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I found my old fiber optic cables, generator, and 9volt power brick  EDIT - Holy crap those cables go for $5 a pop 
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Please don't do this. Working retail is miserable enough without people being cocks about this kind of thing. I work at Sainsbury's and we have always operated on the policy that if you mis-advertise the price on a product, you have to honour the error -- so much so that I believed we were legally obligated. I have never seen this challenged in circumstances as cut and dry as this: the ticket SKU and description match the item, only the price is incorrect. If a customer challenged me on the price I wouldn't have a leg to stand on. We've lost hundreds of pounds on TVs and other items due to errors that customers have either accidentally or deliberately exploited. Is the customer at fault for our mistakes? That being said, I apologise if I've rubbed people the wrong way by bringing it up: I thought of it more as doing you guys a favour. I did't think that many British Lego consumers would stumble across this thread anyway.  Back to the Lego discussion!
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illcendiary posted:Not sure if you guys noticed, but the Black Pearl is on sale on Amazon for $80: I just ordered this as my first lego thing since I was in middle school, probably. It ain't a Black Seas Barracuda like I had, but it will do. edit: I like the "This ship does not float" warning on the box.
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I used to have a huge Lego ship that my dad won in a competition in work and it floated
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Zedd posted:Fully transformable Zeta Gundam MOC. Here, have a Gundam complete with transforming core booster, too. I really wish Lego Corp. was the one to pick up the Gundam license instead of Megablocks...
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Took a 50 mile drive today to a Toys R Us out in the boonies. They had not one or two boxes left of series 5, but 8 boxes and no series 6. All rejected I started to leave, thats when I saw a brand new box of series 6 just sitting on a random shelf. Gleefully I started feeling my thru them. Found a few that I wanted when I noticed a elderly couple that had been watching me fondle them. I felt like such a creeper, like Chris Hansen was gonna pop out of a aisle and say " so you looking for a lego teddy bear? Why don't you have a seat." I grabbed like 8 blind packs and checked out. 15 packs, only 5 doubles and 2 of them were Romans that I wasn't even trying for. Not a bad haul.
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runwiled posted:I work at Sainsbury's and we have always operated on the policy that if you mis-advertise the price on a product, you have to honour the error -- so much so that I believed we were legally obligated. I have never seen this challenged in circumstances as cut and dry as this: the ticket SKU and description match the item, only the price is incorrect. If a customer challenged me on the price I wouldn't have a leg to stand on. We've lost hundreds of pounds on TVs and other items due to errors that customers have either accidentally or deliberately exploited. Is the customer at fault for our mistakes? Don't be disheartened; it's nice to see some UK offers. Supermarkets try to appease the customer, because it's usually not worth the headache of them complaining to head office or the bad will generated. However, a shelf price is just an offer, not a guaranteed sale price. There are grey areas with the issue of false advertising but an incorrect price tag isn't really that. Most places would generally let the customer who noticed the error take advantage of it, but it's definitely not law.
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C-C-C-oval office posted:This isn't true, sadly, while they might do it as a gesture of good will, they're not at all bound to the advertised price, its a misconception based on people shouting it loudly at shop assistants, same as the "Scottish money is legal tender" thing. Things that people also either believe or just say/yell in the hope that clerks will believe them: "I can return anything for a refund/exchange within 30 days for any reason", "I am entitled to a cash refund for buying the wrong item", and "I've read Trading Standards" (no such thing, it's the Sale of Goods Act 1979, and everybody should actually read it, because your actual consumer rights mainly relate to faulty or missold goods, and it's a good thing to know what your rights are in case you do need them). Unfortunately, most of the things people think they're entitled to are actually acts of goodwill on the part of shops. The problem is that the inconsistency between shops leads people to think some favours are applicable anywhere, and this means that many customers and cashiers end up having a worse day than either intended. (Also Scottish notes apparently aren't even legal tender in Scotland, let alone England) ChuckDHead fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Jan 19, 2012 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Please don't do this. Working retail is miserable enough without people being cocks about this kind of thing. Counterpoint: I work at retail and I don't really mind this, as long as you're not being a dickwad about it (most people are). If you politely point out that the price on the shelf was different, and I have the time to go check it, I will gladly mark it down for you. It's when you come at me with stuff like "UHHHHHH, NO BUDDY IT WAS TWO BUCKS IT SAID RIGHT ON THE SHELF," or "WELL YOU DAMNED BETTER GO LOOK AT IT" that you can go right ahead and gently caress yourself - 90% of the time the people didn't even read half the sign anyway (FYI Buy one get one 50% off on all X brand towels != all towels 50% off). edit: And yeah they aren't legally bound to honor it either. No matter how many times some pissed off old lady screams "THAT'S FALSE ADVERTISEMENT WHICH IS ILLEGAL I COULD REPORT YOU TO THE BBB," a sticker with a price on it on the corner of a shelf doesn't mean poo poo. Those stickers take three seconds to make and print out, I could mark everything as costing a penny if I wanted, that doesn't mean everything costs a penny. Funkmaster General fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Jan 19, 2012 |
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