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What would be the easiest/quickest way for a UK person to get the Lego Optimus Prime? The Lego website says it's released June 1st which is the day before two bank holidays (ie shops/post mostly not happening). It can't be preordered there and even if it did it wouldn't arrive before the bank holidays, which would be the best time to get it. Are supermarkets likely to get it in?
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May 25, 2022 22:59
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Go to a lego shop?
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May 25, 2022 23:12
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...I think I started typing that I don't have any actual toy shops near me but deleted it, probably would have been useful to say! Nearest Lego shops are all around London but I wouldn't be able to drive the 90 minutes each way. I'm not the desperate (I think!).
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May 25, 2022 23:24
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Basically you’re looking at doing the round trip to a Lego shop on the Wednesday, or ordering it Tuesday at the stroke of midnight, and then hoping it gets shipped out sometime Wednesday and mayyybe if you’re super lucky you’ll get it Saturday or Monday.
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May 25, 2022 23:57
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lomzus posted:https://twitter.com/JediInsider/status/1529529124544339968 Pour one out for R5
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May 26, 2022 06:48
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I love the AOTC Jedi Starfighter, but the chunky Clone Wars version just ruins the entire design and I hate that it’s become the default for all the merchandise in the last few years. Like, that set is clearly supposed to be an AOTC thing but it’s still the big fat stylized TCW silhouette.
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May 26, 2022 06:53
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I love the AOTC Jedi Starfighter, but the chunky Clone Wars version just ruins the entire design and I hate that it’s become the default for all the merchandise in the last few years. Like, that set is clearly supposed to be an AOTC thing but it’s still the big fat stylized TCW silhouette. They somehow made it resemble a shoe.
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May 26, 2022 07:51
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I love the AOTC Jedi Starfighter, but the chunky Clone Wars version just ruins the entire design and I hate that it’s become the default for all the merchandise in the last few years. Like, that set is clearly supposed to be an AOTC thing but it’s still the big fat stylized TCW silhouette.
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May 26, 2022 12:08
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The CGI star wars did some ships dirty. Like the giraffe star destroyer. I assume this aethersprite is for the Kameno and not obi
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May 26, 2022 12:17
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The_Doctor posted:You just flash your VIP card and ask for it? They had some ready to go on the counter because I got there at open and everyone in front of me (5 people) wanted one. I just pointed to it and gave them my email.
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May 26, 2022 17:27
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I wish the VW T2 camper van came with multiple sets of accessories. In my imagination it is driven by a sensible German businessman who travels a lot and uses it as a cost savings measure, not a filthy Californian surfing hippie.
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May 26, 2022 18:41
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The_Doctor posted:Basically you’re looking at doing the round trip to a Lego shop on the Wednesday, or ordering it Tuesday at the stroke of midnight, and then hoping it gets shipped out sometime Wednesday and mayyybe if you’re super lucky you’ll get it Saturday or Monday. Seems to be! I've started seeing some on eBay now, £200+. Eeeevil
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May 26, 2022 19:17
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Marmaduke! posted:Seems to be! I've started seeing some on eBay now, £200+. Eeeevil Zavvi will also have it, so they might be quicker with shipping?
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May 26, 2022 19:47
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Carbohydrates posted:Is that what happened to it? Back when I was into Star Wars, I had the OG Jedi Starfighter set and I always thought it looked gorgeous, especially for its time. Lovely lines and gentle angles. This current one looks like a lump of poo poo. I saw this set announcement yesterday and thought to myself, "I don't remember it looking like that, but if this is more true to the source material, I guess it's okay if it's not as sleek as the old one." But it's not? Unfortunate. Yeah, the Clone Wars show introduced a new version of it with the droid moved from the wing to in front of the cockpit, a stumpier almost chibi-like fuselage, and it shortened the length and width of the whole thing, making it much less sleek and dart-like.
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May 26, 2022 19:53
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bird with big dick posted:I wish the VW T2 camper van came with multiple sets of accessories. In my imagination it is driven by a sensible German businessman who travels a lot and uses it as a cost savings measure, not a filthy Californian surfing hippie. It also should come with a bazooka.
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May 26, 2022 21:56
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If only it were possible to modify lego sets to include the design or features your brain dreams up!
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May 26, 2022 21:59
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I don't have any spare lego they're all assembled as instructed.
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May 26, 2022 22:06
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bird with big dick posted:I don't have any spare lego they're all assembled as instructed. I'm making a bazooka out of 1x1 plates and tiles they thought I'd lose.
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May 26, 2022 22:22
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bird with big dick posted:I don't have any spare lego they're all assembled as instructed. 
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May 27, 2022 00:23
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Now that we have a butthole tiger, I think we need even more anatomically correct sets. Elephant dongs. Dogs with balls that you can remove as a responsible pet owner.
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May 27, 2022 03:43
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I learned today that Van Gogh is my mom's favorite painter, and Starry Night is her favorite painting. Shame we're past Mother's Day and I'm still months out for her birthday...maybe a retirement gift?
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May 27, 2022 06:04
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I got some new Lego 
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May 27, 2022 08:30
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classic space full back piece when
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Chairchucker posted:I got some new Lego Who is that next to Kate?
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RatHat posted:Who is that next to Kate? Yelena
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The Starry Night arrived this morning. I'm going to need a yellow football helmet with green stripes for the minifigure of the cardboard adventures set.
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Sometimes I wonder if the redesigned Jedi Starfighter came about because when the did the AotC one, it had the astromech on the wing, and someone pointed out to George that the wing wasn't entirely deep enough to fit the whole body (because they only used its dome on the model), and George waved them off. "We can cheat it. It's on the underside. No one will notice." Nerds will George. Nerds will notice. (Then again, this was from one of the making of docs. So I wouldn't be surprised if George did it on purpose just to mess with people.) Also, re: sticker talk. You used to be able to buy Lego activity books that even came with stickers to put on your bricks. Including minifig torso pieces. 
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May 27, 2022 13:12
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It's a reverse N1, where instead the hole is too long and the astromech has to be stretched out to fit.
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May 27, 2022 13:19
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deoju posted:classic space full back piece when Honestly never been into classic space. If I were to get more, it'd be more overtly nerd stuff. Also that experience has persuaded me I'm never sitting for more than one minifig at a time again, I'm too old to hold one position for 6 hours.
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May 27, 2022 13:39
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Yeah classic Space was a bit before my time. My favourites as a kid in the 90s were Castle(specifically the Ninjas wave), Western, and Adventurers.
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Skios posted:The Starry Night arrived this morning. I'm going to need a yellow football helmet with green stripes for the minifigure of the cardboard adventures set. Is there a lego pogo stick?
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Pyroclastic posted:I learned today that Van Gogh is my mom's favorite painter, and Starry Night is her favorite painting. Maybe just a nice gift out of nowhere? I think people like those too 
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Chairchucker posted:Honestly never been into classic space.
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gently caress, I missed ordering the Starry Night set. Dunno why I thought it was June 1st availability. Is it being sold anywhere else that isn't just scalpers?
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Davros1 posted:Sometimes I wonder if the redesigned Jedi Starfighter came about because when the did the AotC one, it had the astromech on the wing, and someone pointed out to George that the wing wasn't entirely deep enough to fit the whole body (because they only used its dome on the model), and George waved them off. "We can cheat it. It's on the underside. No one will notice." They explained it at one point by saying that it was an incomplete astromech that's just hardwired into the wing. I think the model has a different designation, but I forget.
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quoting from the schadenfreude thread: easily 150 hours of work there.
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Butterfly Valley posted:quoting from the schadenfreude thread: Way more than that probably since they are all mixed up now. That's like 150 hours out of the original bags lol. Bonus from that thread. One of my favorite sub genres of Lego posting is "guy who has no idea what he is talking about but loves to mention how Lego is all custom parts now" BlankSystemDaemon posted:These tie-in sets are full of custom pieces not found anywhere else and only usable for that one model (to the point that I'd be entirely unsurprised to learn that whoever owns the rights mandated it). I swear there is not a public forum that covers Lego that doesn't have one of these guys in the comments.
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There was also this guy a few posts after:Jedit posted:There is one more thing about that shelf collapse that hasn't been thought of yet: Legos don't just spring apart. There's a very strong likelihood that a large number of the pieces in those sets got broken, and as previously mentioned a lot of them are custom parts. I would be surprised if the guy can rebuild them all, even with the time and will to do so. Lego springing apart is literally the entire point of it. If it's gonna break, it'll do so along the weakest possible lines, which are the ones designed for a toddler to be able to separate. Of course you could get unlucky and actually break a few thin plates but nowhere near enough to render the sets useless. I pointed all of this out in a post 7 pages later and got  in response which I suppose is fair given I'm now talking about them in the Lego thread
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A traditionally built lego construction will fall apart, but with the modern technique of building a skin around a rigid technic skeleton, breakage is definitely possible. It just depends on how unlucky the fall is and if any piece hits hard enough that it bends before the bricks around it separate. Or what if it's built entirely of reddish brown pieces? 
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