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mastershakeman posted:hey now, the hulkbuster was $50 for 2000 less pieces! this is a steal! Are you aware that Lego has done an Atlantis theme? Definitely a little simple compared to that Knossos Palace MOC that was posted but worth a look, and the instructions will be easy to find on the Lego site.
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sim posted:https://www.brickmeupscottie.com/ is another good site for non-LEGO sets. The guy who runs it does YouTube reviews for many of the sets so you can get a good idea of the quality. Seconding - Scottie is a great guy and provides excellent customer service. Shipping is more expensive (not his fault - HK doesn't get the same shipping discounts that mainland China does) but he often has stuff you can't find anywhere else.
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I put in an order with Scottie and just waiting to get a shipping estimate and will take it from there. I love those mini city vendor things, I have a few from Ali/Temu but his look bigger and better than the ones in my collection. Tried to do one from WOBB too but the price jumped up between the product page and cart which is a bit off, I’ll try on my computer later and see what’s up. It also says shipping is free on the site then asks for my zip for an estimate… e: yeah the site works far better in a real browser, not sure what was going on with the mobile one that jacked the price up and it seems the shipping estimate is probably just part of the template they use so not an issue. Cool! EL BROMANCE fucked around with this message at 23:11 on Feb 7, 2023 |
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Are you aware that Lego has done an Atlantis theme? Definitely a little simple compared to that Knossos Palace MOC that was posted but worth a look, and the instructions will be easy to find on the Lego site. No, I was not! This is why I came to ask all of you. My knowledge of lego is 1985-1990, 2020-now. i was trying to explain microscale to my friend and realized the microscale hogwarts castle , released 5 years ago, was $470 for 6000 pieces. so nearly identical piece count for basically the same price as rivendell, without even getting into the price increase last summer mastershakeman fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Feb 7, 2023 |
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Lamont posted:Seconding - Scottie is a great guy and provides excellent customer service. Shipping is more expensive (not his fault - HK doesn't get the same shipping discounts that mainland China does) but he often has stuff you can't find anywhere else. I just got a shipping quote of $80 for two sets. drat, that’s just so much more than I expected and can’t justify that.
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The new $10 piñata is really cute, too bad my local store doesn’t have it 
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EL BROMANCE posted:I just got a shipping quote of $80 for two sets. drat, that’s just so much more than I expected and can’t justify that. I'm not sure how much talk about lego knockoffs is ok here, but I use joytoyworld (complicated VIP account that you have to make) and marstoy (very weird payment system that seems scammy). Marstoy has the best shipping I think on top of being my goto for minifigs. heres some random big sets to illinois  frankly i wouldn't use them for sets that you can find new in store since the instructions, clutch, part quality etc are just enough worse. undercutting scalpers on old sets? sure . minifigs that may not even exist officially? absolutely. mastershakeman fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Feb 8, 2023 |
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Feb 8, 2023 00:09
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EL BROMANCE posted:I just got a shipping quote of $80 for two sets. drat, that’s just so much more than I expected and can’t justify that. Yeah they come directly from the faketory in China
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EL BROMANCE posted:I just got a shipping quote of $80 for two sets. drat, that’s just so much more than I expected and can’t justify that. What sets are you looking for? I mostly buy city/food stall type stuff so I might have seen them around on other sites.
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Feb 8, 2023 00:41
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Walter White battles Michael Gove, a classic set
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EL BROMANCE posted:I can only imagine what it looks like and I need it in my life.
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Telephone box and Halloweentown won the Ideas review https://twitter.com/legoideas/status/1623320936958009349
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Feb 8, 2023 15:36
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I actually like that Nightmare Before Christmas idea, I'll be curious to see how they design it to make sure the tower has enough stability. I noticed that a Polaroid was in that same batch, am I imagining things or was there not a Polaroid set of some kind that made it through recently?
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Lamont posted:What sets are you looking for? I mostly buy city/food stall type stuff so I might have seen them around on other sites. It looks like the ones that I've tried from Scotties are on WOBB too at similar prices but no shipping fee, so hopefully that'll cover most of my bases. Yeah sounds like we have similar taste, I like the little vendors that feel like unique items for the Japanese and Chinese markets that aren't just cribbed from Lego designs. The one I bought from WOBB to test things out is the Cada 'Starbucks' one which is bigger than the ones I've had from Ali etc before and has a light kit so looking forward to that, and I am tempted by the not-Cyberpunk 2077 stuff too as those designs seem fun.
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Feb 8, 2023 17:03
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The Nightmare Before Christmas set is awesome but the telephone box is the lamest thing I've seen since the $250 micro-foosball table. What the gently caress... why the gently caress? Lego REALLY needs to revamp their nomination system, this is a huge waste of everyone's time.
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Feb 8, 2023 17:27
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Vote with your dollars then, they can't all be zingers. If I had any nostalgia at all for british phone booths I'd buy it because the submission build is pretty well done.
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Feb 8, 2023 17:28
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xzzy posted:If I had any nostalgia at all for british phone booths I'd buy it because the submission build is pretty well done. If it comes with a 'Piss Spray' for accuracy of British phone booths, I'm in. Also tiny cards offering up prostitution services inside.
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EL BROMANCE posted:If it comes with a 'Piss Spray' for accuracy of British phone booths, I'm in. Now we're talking! Another solid choice for a UK nostalgia set would be a sinking ship. E: don't get me wrong, for what it's trying to be it's very well done, but it's just so freaking lame. BaconCopter fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Feb 8, 2023 |
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Feb 8, 2023 17:35
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Given lego's tendency to sneak in turds and assholes these days, piss stains are a very real possibility. Make half the floor dark grey and maybe one corner in reddish brown.
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Phone booth looks like a GWP. The other is just going to encourage even more crappy other peoples IP sets. Terrible results from this review.
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I think the best ones in that block got made into sets anyways (there's an Indiana Jones leak and a The Great Wave came out) There's some others I would have prefered but I feel that the the whole group was just weak. IDK. GWP phone booth is fine if true but no I won't be putting out money for these. In the next block for the summer there's a lot of good ones so maybe it's for the best from my wallet's prospective.
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There was a point in time where I bought every ideas set because it felt special and cool, and then I stopped when they kept licensing and releasing tv show sets and I've never looked back. The scale of that phone booth is way bigger than a GWP would be, I can easily see Lego charging like $100 USD for it lmao (current ideas version is 1856 pieces) lololol
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xzzy posted:Vote with your dollars then, they can't all be zingers. the set is well done, it just feels supremely uninspired. reminds me of the double decker bus they threw out a year or so ago. nightmare before christmas set is cool looking and probably is a neat build, but yeah tired of the IP creep. idk, some of the best ideas sets have been stuff like the fender guitar (although stringing it kinda sucked), the typewriter, starry night, and the piano. the blacksmith, saturn rocket, lighthouse etc are a little less truly inspired, but also excellent sets. gimme some more stuff in that vein i definitely agree there needs to be some revamp for this system because the whiplash in the quality of the ideas sets can be jarring. stuff like the globe, ship in a bottle, and fooseball should've been canned in development once they realized what the For Sale version would look like. and then a good 50% of the ideas sets as a whole are someone else's IPs idk, i'm browsing the ideas page and see poo poo like this and wonder why it's either not at 10k supports, or hasn't been expedited to the front of the line   
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The voting system is absolutely flawed, if you check out names on the sets that make it to review there's a few people that get 2-3 submissions approved for review every round. They know how to game the voting and it shows. But I think the lego review itself generally makes for pretty good sets. Obviously some are duds but the hit rate is excellent.
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Well you see how a lot of these ideas set translate into bricklink designer programs and they SUCK. so regardless of the voting and criteria they use, Lego still tries to produce things that will sell.
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I don’t think IDEAS reviewed sets can become GWPs based on the current rules. The ones that have been GWPs are all pulled from the competitions, not the regular voting.
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I mean there’s still some good stuff sometimes. A-frame cabin just came out and it’s amazing.EL BROMANCE posted:If it comes with a 'Piss Spray' for accuracy of British phone booths, I'm in. This is literally what my friend who went to uni in the UK said when I told him about this, lol Dogen fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Feb 8, 2023 |
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Borsche69 posted:i definitely agree there needs to be some revamp for this system because the whiplash in the quality of the ideas sets can be jarring. stuff like the globe, ship in a bottle, and fooseball should've been canned in development once they realized what the For Sale version would look like. and then a good 50% of the ideas sets as a whole are someone else's IPs I think the ship in a bottle looks good. It's smaller than original model but it uses much larger transparent pieces making it easier to see the ship (which is also much more sturdily attached).
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Fingers McLongDong posted:I actually like that Nightmare Before Christmas idea, I'll be curious to see how they design it to make sure the tower has enough stability. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/vintage-camera-5006911 It was a Gift with Purchase.
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Borsche69 posted:idk, i'm browsing the ideas page and see poo poo like this and wonder why it's either not at 10k supports, or hasn't been expedited to the front of the line These are incredible!
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Doctor Spaceman posted:What was wrong with the globe? Too many gaps? Yeah the gaps just feel awful. The continents need a lot more thought put into them also
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w00tazn posted:Well you see how a lot of these ideas set translate into bricklink designer programs and they SUCK. so regardless of the voting and criteria they use, Lego still tries to produce things that will sell. I like the vignette within the Travel Suitcase but I don't need the external shell. Also, seeing the Modular Arcade use the keys from the Typewriter as a marquee makes me wish the JAZZCLUB did the same. Very classy.
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EL BROMANCE posted:It looks like the ones that I've tried from Scotties are on WOBB too at similar prices but no shipping fee, so hopefully that'll cover most of my bases. Yeah sounds like we have similar taste, I like the little vendors that feel like unique items for the Japanese and Chinese markets that aren't just cribbed from Lego designs. The one I bought from WOBB to test things out is the Cada 'Starbucks' one which is bigger than the ones I've had from Ali etc before and has a light kit so looking forward to that, and I am tempted by the not-Cyberpunk 2077 stuff too as those designs seem fun. Both of those are awesome sets and pretty decent quality as alt brands go, I don't think you'll regret it! man I have so much of these to build, I basically spent all of pandemic on aliexpress
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Love the phone box, it will fit nicely into my Lego London collection. While I get why you may say it seems bland, I think you underestimate how iconic the phone boxes are to tourists. Lego probably made a good choice, this might become a very popular set all across Europe.
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The phone box feels like something they could have done in-house but it's a good idea for a set.
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I could see it being sold in tourist shops in the UK for as long as lego wants to print it. Like the space needle was all over Seattle for years. And probably all the other architect sets near whatever was being depicted. edit - I feel like I made this exact post for the double decker bus.
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Hopper posted:Love the phone box, it will fit nicely into my Lego London collection. You say that now, but when it gets released it will have morphed into a Doctor Who IP set where it’s a blue police box that unfolds into a life-size bust of David Tennant and it will inexplicably be on the shelves for years at a $350 price point.
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Blue Moonlight posted:You say that now, but when it gets released it will have morphed into a Doctor Who IP set where it’s a blue police box that unfolds into a life-size bust of David Tennant and it will inexplicably be on the shelves for years at a $350 price point. Can you post a link to where I can pre-order this set?
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Blue Moonlight posted:You say that now, but when it gets released it will have morphed into a Doctor Who IP set where it’s a blue police box that unfolds into a life-size bust of David Tennant and it will inexplicably be on the shelves for years at a $350 price point. I would be sad, because I'd love the set but ~250€ is where I draw the line when it comes to buying a bunch of plastic bricks.
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