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Revol posted:LEGO Shop exclusive set: 10220 Volkswagen T1 Camper Van. 1332 pieces for $100 dollars, coming out October. well this is so going to be bought as soon as I can get my grubby hands on it.
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Rythe posted:Took some family who came into town down to Dallas to hit the museums and get some dinner this weekend. Haven't been to the Lego store down there yet, it was not nearly as big and impressive as the one I went to in Orlando Florida near Disney. Not sure if this is common knowledge, but the Orlando Lego store is the largest in the World. It has both the largest floor space and the largest pick-a-brick wall. (It got overtaken for wall size at one point, but the re-furb put it back at the #1 spot) I really want that Camper Van, but I have a friend in the UK who will want it even more. He spends too much of his money on Lego as it is, but he's also a VW fan... he'll be all over that set! In other news - I've decided to build a microscale version of some real life buildings. Does anyone have any hints or tips on how they'd usually go about doing this? I've never really dealt with microscale before now, and I'm quite looking forward to the challenge!
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Aug 14, 2011 04:19
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JohnWilkesGoonth posted:What I don't get is who would attack a blacksmith? Alternatively, why would a blacksmith attack someone? They want the weapons he's made, or something. Alternately they're the bad guys and they're just being dicks.
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Aug 14, 2011 05:13
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It's just a misunderstanding. The knight wants horse shoes but they don't speak the same language. Unfortunately it led to bloodshed.
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Aug 14, 2011 05:46
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Holy crap that VW camper is unbelievable. Way better looking than the beetle.
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Aug 14, 2011 06:06
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Its a few pages back, but I owned that technic Droideka set. It was awesome. Over-engineered as all hell, but totally awesome. It really did roll and open up, it was great.
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Aug 14, 2011 07:00
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VanSandman posted:Its a few pages back, but I owned that technic Droideka set. It was awesome. Over-engineered as all hell, but totally awesome. It really did roll and open up, it was great. I still have mine but it's so old that the bands have worn out.
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Aug 15, 2011 01:10
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Have the series 5 minifigures reached the U.S. yet? I plan on going to the Lego store at Barton Creek tomorrow and it'd be nice to pick some up.
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Aug 15, 2011 01:40
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I saw a brand-spanking-new LEGO Land Orlando tour bus driving down from Georgia tonight 
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VaultAggie posted:Have the series 5 minifigures reached the U.S. yet? I plan on going to the Lego store at Barton Creek tomorrow and it'd be nice to pick some up. The Eurobricks thread indicates they're starting to appear. Rumored spotting in NJ, and an actual purchase in PA. A TRU warehouse reportedly has 18,000 and they've started shipping to stores. Lego stores tend to get them later than other retailers, though.
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VanSandman posted:Its a few pages back, but I owned that technic Droideka set. It was awesome. Over-engineered as all hell, but totally awesome. It really did roll and open up, it was great. That's one of the sets in our Lego room (No sense calling it a library anymore, there's more Lego all over than books at this point..) in line for reassembly after the move. Need to figure out what kind of rubber bands it needs though, length isn't quite enough info, need to figure out the strength and elasticity, get a new set and keep the info on hand to replace in the future. We got the 7208 Fire Station on sale at Toys R Us for $54 or so today, came out to about the same price as on Amazon but HERE TODAY instead of next week. I love how the fire station sprawls, it makes it look a lot bigger than it is, and the ladder truck is amazing. Gotta get the police station put back together and work on a city scene. I think I may be more excited about Lego now than my fiance, and almost all the Lego in the house is his. The idea of setting up a city scene is getting me all giddy.
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Aug 15, 2011 07:25
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Woop, Melbourne's Myer had the Tripod in stock. And a bunch of Tower Bridge sets for- AUS$400?! 
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Revol posted:LEGO Shop exclusive set: 10220 Volkswagen T1 Camper Van. 1332 pieces for $100 dollars, coming out October. They put up a video for that one. They usually mention unique pieces. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utagD0Vh3Rc
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toochilled posted:Nice one. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard - surely they realise if no one wants the old ones, and people want the new ones, you bring them out and put them on sale? Can't believe you're trying to spend money and they're not allowing you. I work in a Tesco store and would bring them out for anyone who asked (after having felt them all up during my lunch break and buying all the best ones, obviously).
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 It's available on Amazon.
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satanicmantis posted:That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard - surely they realise if no one wants the old ones, and people want the new ones, you bring them out and put them on sale? Can't believe you're trying to spend money and they're not allowing you. I work in a Tesco store and would bring them out for anyone who asked (after having felt them all up during my lunch break and buying all the best ones, obviously). I can only agree! Any chance you can get a transfer to Streatham Tesco? I popped to Croydon at the weekend and got a bundle anyway. Managed to get most of what I wanted, except the 2 I want most (Gladiator and Gorn). Also got the pack of the 11 Doctor "not LEGO" Minifigs which I must admit are very cool, although I would still prefer LEGO to licence it propper.
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So I got an internship this summer. Now that tuition paid, some money in savings, yada yada, I've got money for lego. The problem is, I'm not such what to get. I've been eyeing the Super Star Destroyer or the Death Star, and I like the Death Star a lot more. I would really like a BOGO at Toys R Us, and hopefully find one with the Death Star and either the Falcon or Imperial Shuttle, but since they don't sell the Death Star online, that might be a pipe dream. The Super Star Destroyer looks sweet, but man, the piece count is so much lower than the Death Star, and it has less minifigs. If I get the Death Star, than the Christmas mini ships would be a great addition too. Goons, tell me what I should do.
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kensei posted:
Lego Wookiee Life Day!?
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kensei posted:
This looks loving awesome. I'll definitely pick that up. Also, I stopped by the lego store today but they said that since Lego officially releases Series 5 in September, they won't be able to sell them until the release date.
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kensei posted:
I saw the City Advent Calendar at TRU the other day, but I was pretty disappointed. It uses up 7 days to build a tiny police station and a police buggy.
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Pyroclastic posted:The Eurobricks thread indicates they're starting to appear. Rumored spotting in NJ, and an actual purchase in PA. A TRU warehouse reportedly has 18,000 and they've started shipping to stores. The Toys-R-Us near me in Omaha had 6 bags out, the people behind the customer service desk said they did not have any more yet. I will have to go back this weekend to see if they got restocked. I got the monkey trainer lady, the lumberjack, the boxer, and cavewoman. I love the roots hat on the lumberjack!
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Revol posted:LEGO Shop exclusive set: 10220 Volkswagen T1 Camper Van. 1332 pieces for $100 dollars, coming out October.  I neeeeed this Do they make purple bricks? 
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Thumposaurus posted:Do they make purple bricks?
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Aug 16, 2011 04:01
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Dame Cook posted:Pretty much that exact shade of purple. But I'm not sure they make all the parts you'd need in it.
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Lots of purply goodness here, but not a great deal of variety. Of the "normal" pieces, there's just 3x2 plates and 4x1, 2x1 and 1x1 bricks. So buying that VW though
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Aug 16, 2011 10:21
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Camper van is awesome, and I'll have to pick it up, but price is $119.99 not $100.
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If you're in the US and near a closing Borders, they have minifigures on clearance for $2.75 at the moment, which is better than any other price I've seen locally. Mine had a few series 4 left and a huge box of series 5 available. Don't bother with the other lego sets though; they seem to be marked up so that the "30% discount price" is pretty much the same as Target's regular price. Hobnob fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Aug 16, 2011 |
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So in the Space Center, how the hell is the astronaut supposed to get home? He's just chilling in orbit on the back of the box.
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Hobnob posted:If you're in the US and near a closing Borders, they have minifigures on clearance for $2.75 at the moment, which is better than any other price I've seen locally. Mine had a few series 4 left and a huge box of series 5 available. They have S5? Really? That would mean their warehouses are getting new stuff in, and they're not just clearing inventory. Guess I'll head up there tomorrow to check my store. And TRU's lego guy usually comes Wednesdays or Thursdays, so maybe I'll get lucky. I noticed their pricing on sets a while ago. They had a few of the Powerminers Lavatraz sets. MSRP: $50. Borders price before the 20% going out of business "clearance": $64.
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Pyroclastic posted:They have S5? Really? That would mean their warehouses are getting new stuff in, and they're not just clearing inventory. Guess I'll head up there tomorrow to check my store. And TRU's lego guy usually comes Wednesdays or Thursdays, so maybe I'll get lucky. drat, sorry, I was mistaken, not series 5. I was out looking for S5 too and got them mixed up in my mind when I wrote that post. My local Borders had some series 3 and lots of series 4. No series 5. Hope that didn't mess anyone up.
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ZarathustraFollower posted:Camper van is awesome, and I'll have to pick it up, but price is $119.99 not $100. Thank goodness, the CAN$130 vs. US$100 difference seemed a bit too high.
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Revol posted:LEGO Shop exclusive set: 10220 Volkswagen T1 Camper Van. 1332 pieces for $100 dollars, coming out October. This looks awesome, though I really want to buy it, gut it, and convert it into a drag bus.
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PopeOnARope posted:This looks awesome, though I really want to buy it, gut it, and convert it into a drag bus. I want to spacebusify it. Space-Heads needs to be the next space theme.
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boner meter posted:I want to spacebusify it. Space-Heads needs to be the next space theme. Call it the "Marcus Garvey" and make sure the mighty dub never stops. 
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Hobnob posted:If you're in the US and near a closing Borders, they have minifigures on clearance for $2.75 at the moment, which is better than any other price I've seen locally. Mine had a few series 4 left and a huge box of series 5 available. Yeah, they were always that high. I picked up a Falling Water from the one near me, but had to wait until they were almost closed to get it cheaper then MSRP.
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This is absolutely essential for anyone wondering when Season 5 arrives. I was linked to it here, by the way.
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Just to piss off all you s5 hunters - Tesco in Portsmouth [UK) had put them out early AND because they didn't scan through their tills yet, they used a s3 barcode instead which was reduced by 1/3. We now have the entire set for ~£21 when it should be £32. Tesco did something right for a change!
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