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Feenix posted:Is it likely 1/1/23? They’re usually pretty reliable: 
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I will only vote for the LEGO ideas set with the most frogs.
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Nov 8, 2022 08:56
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drat you musta loved the Parisian Cafe
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Carbohydrates posted:Pft, that guy. Like, who does that? He needs to give it a rest. drat it Carbo, I can smell that image, i hated that smell as a kid... though it would need the brick effect blocks to be white with specks of red bricks for the blood they couldn't clean off.
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So new modular is basically same size and price as the Boutique Hotel… after the mid year price increase on that set from $200 to $230.
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Nov 8, 2022 13:53
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Carbohydrates posted:Pft, that guy. Like, who does that? He needs to give it a rest. I like that the hamburger frog had its eyes covered so that I didn;t immdiately know it was a frog. But also grinding up the frogs makes me giggle.
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smackfu posted:So new modular is basically same size and price as the Boutique Hotel… after the mid year price increase on that set from $200 to $230. Not getting into the modulars from the beginning is simultaneously fantastic and awful for me. I want them all, but on the other hand I haven't spent literal thousands of dollars on them, so it's full of contrasts.
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Nov 8, 2022 14:05
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Luckily Assembly Square being expensive broke my streak and now I don’t feel obligated to buy them unless they are well reviewed. Keep in mind the earlier ones were only $150 when they came out.
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Nov 8, 2022 14:17
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Carbohydrates posted:Pft, that guy. Like, who does that? He needs to give it a rest. Frog mince. Frog mince. Frog mince.
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Nov 8, 2022 14:32
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Lizard Combatant posted:Frog mince. Frog mince. Frog mince. I played that flash game back in the day
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smackfu posted:Luckily Assembly Square being expensive broke my streak and now I don’t feel obligated to buy them unless they are well reviewed. Keep in mind the earlier ones were only $150 when they came out. My reentry into Lego was the modular Fire Brigade, and that was £99.99. I thought that was pricey at the time, now I tend to regard anything in that ballpark as reasonable. 
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I plan on hanging onto the modulars and then reselling them when it is time to put kids through college, and with the extra I will buy a small island.
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This Jaws set hit 10k. https://www.toysnbricks.com/lego-ideas-jaws-project-creation-achieves-10-000-supporters-2nd-time/ I really hope they make it, it'd be a day one purchase for me. The movie is such a classic. As a kid I would play in the bathtub with this set and pretend it was the Orca. https://brickset.com/sets/4010-1/Police-Rescue-Boat Though, the boat needs to be bigger.
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That’s a bit dumb to allow projects to get nominated a second time.
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Made a Mon Calamari Light Frigate, not a whole lot of white curved pieces so made due    
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a sexual elk posted:Made a Mon Calamari Light Frigate, not a whole lot of white curved pieces so made due 
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Oh that dusty guy? 
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Carbohydrates posted:Pft, that guy. Like, who does that? He needs to give it a rest. 
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a sexual elk posted:Oh that dusty guy? Throw those reds into that thing!
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Motherfucking Amazon just delivered my UCS Star Destroyer that I ordered and they shipped it without a loving outer box. Just slapped stickers on top of it and loving sent it. There were zero shipping options available for the purchase during checkout, no gift wrapping or choice to use Amazon packaging. What a god drat joke, Jesus gently caress. And yeah I'm probably just going to return it after I call Lego support to see if they can do something about it. What an immense hassle and let down jfc. BaconCopter fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Nov 9, 2022 |
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BaconCopter posted:Motherfucking Amazon just delivered my UCS Star Destroyer that I ordered and they shipped it without a loving outer box. Just slapped stickers on top of it and loving sent it. There were zero shipping options available for the purchase during checkout, no gift wrapping or choice to use Amazon packaging. What a god drat joke, Jesus gently caress. drat, that makes me second guess getting it form Amazon. Though I think my options are dwindling, since the online Lego store nor my local one have it in stock anymore
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Nov 9, 2022 05:16
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Amazon's been doing that on random stuff the past year or two. I ordered a video card this past spring and it showed up on the porch in shrink wrap and a display box. I'm not a box keeper so it doesn't bother me in principle but I'd really prefer to not have thousand dollar items easily identifiable from the road. I've had other stuff show up unwrapped but that was definitely the weirdest. No rhyme or reason to it that I can determine.
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xzzy posted:Amazon's been doing that on random stuff the past year or two. I ordered a video card this past spring and it showed up on the porch in shrink wrap and a display box. Amazon did that to me with a smaller set (~700 pieces) last year, and I returned it to them with that as the reason. Then they shipped me a proper one. Surprised they're still doing it.
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BaconCopter posted:Motherfucking Amazon just delivered my UCS Star Destroyer that I ordered and they shipped it without a loving outer box. Just slapped stickers on top of it and loving sent it. There were zero shipping options available for the purchase during checkout, no gift wrapping or choice to use Amazon packaging. What a god drat joke, Jesus gently caress. Is the set complete and unopened? Is the box damaged? Amazon doesn't tend to have massive boxes of that size. Most really big items don't get boxed up because of this.
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Waltzing Along posted:Is the set complete and unopened? Is the box damaged? Amazon doesn't tend to have massive boxes of that size. Most really big items don't get boxed up because of this. Dammit I was so pissed that i didn't even post that it's damaged. Besides huge stickers that aren't meant to be easily pulled off that'll probably damage the box, one of the top corners has ripped off in a 3"x3" tear. None of the inner boxes seem damaged, strange what an outer box can do. Luckily I live in a pretty private complex so I don't have to worry about theft, but there is a very high chance that it would have been stolen at every other place that I've lived at before this. "HEY LOOK AT THIS EASILY RESELLABLE $700 LEGO!" And yeah, I was assuming they didn't have stock boxes sitting around for it, but they certainly could have made something and it should have at least said something about how it wasn't going to be boxed. gently caress Amazon, I'm probably going to cancel my prime account because of this. BaconCopter fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Nov 9, 2022 |
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Were you trying to resell the box? It sounds like it did its job of getting the contents to you undamaged, who cares if a corner is ripped or there are stickers on it? You can drop it in the recycling either way. If the package was stolen or the contents were damaged during shipping, amazon would send out another or get you a refund. It seems like everything worked out, what are you angry about?
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Captain Invictus posted:I have this lego set! it is an amazing set, complete with a hubble space telescope! do not ship things this way!!!
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Were you trying to resell the box? It sounds like it did its job of getting the contents to you undamaged, who cares if a corner is ripped or there are stickers on it? You can drop it in the recycling either way. Some people, myself included, don't see the lego box as simply a means to contain plastic bits. If you ever check prices of any out of print set you'd understand why. Not to mention you paid for it, why should you be ok with it being destroyed?
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Were you trying to resell the box? It sounds like it did its job of getting the contents to you undamaged, who cares if a corner is ripped or there are stickers on it? You can drop it in the recycling either way. If the collectors market remains even slightly what it is today, you are recycling a lot of money with that UCS box. I dumped all of my unopened Lego sets recently plus everything built that I no longer wanna stare at. The difference the box makes - even damaged, folded, whatever - is immense. On one set (10268) it amounted to nearly 100%. The buyer payed basically the same for the box + instructions (after I found them) as for the bricks themselves, and in total way more than I got the set for, new.
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^This^ Wow, what an impressively bad post! Congrats. ChesterJT posted:Some people, myself included, don't see the lego box as simply a means to contain plastic bits. If you ever check prices of any out of print set you'd understand why. Not to mention you paid for it, why should you be ok with it being destroyed? Also this. Box condition makes a huge difference for resale value, if I want to sell it down the road I will get significantly less cash for it than if it was a pristine box. If it had arrived in this condition from Lego themselves they would give me 10% of it's value in VIP points, so $70 for the box getting busted.
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BaconCopter posted:Wow, what an impressively bad post! Congrats. You and everyone else seem to agree that it's only a question of the resale value of the packaging. We're on the same page then, the damage to the box does nothing to take away from the actual enjoyment of the toy.
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Also, there's the simple common decency to know that single ply cardbaord is not an acceptable shipping medium. It's really annoying that amazon will just decide that an unsealed, flimsy cardboard box can be shipped on its own. They shipped me a box that you can just open up, it wasn't even taped shut.
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100%. It's kind of unreal how intensely they have been cutting corners in recent years. I worked for a vinyl record distributor for a while and it takes so little effort to properly package something collectable when you have all of materials already available. Clearly more effort than doing literally nothing though. The graphics card situation that xzzy talked about is truly unreal.Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:drat, that makes me second guess getting it form Amazon. Though I think my options are dwindling, since the online Lego store nor my local one have it in stock anymore If I would have known this is how they'd ship it I probably wouldn't have gone through with it, be careful. I probably would have been able to pick it up somewhere else back then too, now it's pretty much unavailable anywhere else. Except StockX, where you can Buy it Now $617 + fees, but their whole process takes forever since the seller has to first ship it to StockX, they verify it, and then they ship it to you. I tried to buy the Mos Eisely Cantina through them and my 'same as the last sold' offer price was accepted by a seller within hours around 2am my time. Except they didn't ship it and because of StockX counting days as "start to end of business days" I was screwed out of my money for more than a week and missed multiple eBay auctions for the same set for only slightly more. Also StockX didn't communicate what was going on whatsoever, I had to start the conversation. BaconCopter fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Nov 9, 2022 |
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BaconCopter posted:And yeah I'm probably just going to return it after I call Lego support to see if they can do something about it. What an immense hassle and let down jfc. We probably can't do anything, we don't have spare boxes that we send out to customers. Usually we would tell you to go back to Amazon, or maybe in extreme situations we can replace the entire set, if you wanted to send it to our warehouse, and then maybe wait several weeks for the usual returns process before we shipped out the replacement, but the set is out of stock (and might never come back in stock since it's retiring at the end of the year) so we can't do that. Since it's not in stock and wasn't ordered from us, probably nothing we can do.
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That's pretty much what I was guessing would happen when I called tomorrow  oh well. Thanks for the info and saving me the time, I appreciate the insider scoop.
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BaconCopter posted:Motherfucking Amazon just delivered my UCS Star Destroyer that I ordered and they shipped it without a loving outer box. Just slapped stickers on top of it and loving sent it. There were zero shipping options available for the purchase during checkout, no gift wrapping or choice to use Amazon packaging. What a god drat joke, Jesus gently caress. I think it's before checkout, but you have uncheck "no hassle packaging" which translates to just slapping sticker on the box. It's stupid as hell that they don't have enough sense to not default to that for expensive collectable stuff. Imo contact Amazon before Lego and explain the situation and see what they do. They tend to be pretty good about that stuff.
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I hear you, but that wasn't an option. There were no boxes, buttons, options in general. I seriously quadruple checked that there were no options because I've had to do it a roundabout ways a few times since I've gone through this a lot already. Removed it from my cart, made sure that I wasn't missing anything from the product page while adding it to my cart. No mention of Frustation Free or No Hassle, no ship in Amazon package, no gift wrapping options, nothing. It sucks that I should have just assumed that they'd ship it like the septic dumpster seepage that they are. Is there actually a way to contact Amazon, like talk to someone, besides the click-through complaint/return process? I tried two seemingly different options but they both ended up dumping me into the same page where they offered a return with refund within 14 days, no replacement option. Then I searched around a bit and couldn't find anything on the site.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:You and everyone else seem to agree that it's only a question of the resale value of the packaging. We're on the same page then, the damage to the box does nothing to take away from the actual enjoyment of the toy. Knowing that I can trade in my toy later helps ease the anxiety of opening and playing with what I know is a collectable.
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Carbohydrates posted:Pft, that guy. Like, who does that? He needs to give it a rest. 
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Took the plunge and bought the Star Destroyer from Amazon. I’m calling it an early birthday present for myself lol. We’ll see how the delivery goes!
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