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einTier posted:Playmobil has always been a little subversive. There's a devil Playmobil along with some stereotypically wrong African "savages". But all the I want all of those. Surprised this didn't make it on that list.
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Amoeba102 posted:I remember the old sets having a set of alternate builds on the back of the box or the instruction booklet. The couple of licensed sets I'v seen don't have these. Is it just the licensed sets or have these been scrapped on newer sets?
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Oct 26, 2011 17:44
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I think most sets stopped having alternate models around 2001 or 2002.
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Oct 26, 2011 17:53
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A giant fiberglass LEGO minifig mysteriously washes up in Florida. Even weirder, this is not the first time something like this has happened  
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3 posted:A giant fiberglass LEGO minifig mysteriously washes up in Florida. Even weirder, this is not the first time something like this has happened Even MORE weird, it was posted on the last page Also, the wife and I are starting to get into Legos more, it's a good crafty thing we do as a couple. If only they weren't so damned expensive.
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Oct 26, 2011 19:01
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Man, the difference in price pretty Bricklink and e-bay for that Space Shuttle Adventure is crazy. It's almost 100% more expensive on e-bay.
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Oct 26, 2011 19:28
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3 posted:A giant fiberglass LEGO minifig mysteriously washes up in Florida. Even weirder, this is not the first time something like this has happened wait till you see the LEGO beach house he came in 
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Oct 26, 2011 19:29
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Walmart had the Alien tri-walker on sale for $15 and I couldn't resist. It's a really great set!
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Oct 26, 2011 20:29
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I don't know where else to ask... I have an opened UCS Millennium Falcon that I want to sell off in time to get some holiday cash. I don't want to charge a scalping price but I would like to get something close to the going rate for an opened set with minor damage to the box and instructions (which seems to be about $1200 right now). What would be my best bet for selling it quickly? Bricklink, eBay, SA Mart? Would I get more for it if I waited another month?
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Oct 26, 2011 20:33
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ChesterJT posted:Walmart had the Alien tri-walker on sale for $15 and I couldn't resist. It's a really great set! It is great. I got one on sale too, I love the jail pod. Fond memories of my big Space Police roller thing with the removeable jail cell. I actually still have all of my old Legos, I need to get them from home.
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Oct 26, 2011 20:47
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Time Cowboy posted:I don't know where else to ask... I have an opened UCS Millennium Falcon that I want to sell off in time to get some holiday cash. I don't want to charge a scalping price but I would like to get something close to the going rate for an opened set with minor damage to the box and instructions (which seems to be about $1200 right now). What would be my best bet for selling it quickly? Bricklink, eBay, SA Mart? Would I get more for it if I waited another month? It's crazy that the -cheapest- price on BL is $1000, and that's without box or instructions. Ebay's probably your most reliable way of selling it--every auction for the set has bidders except for one recently listed one that starts at $900. If you list it at $600, you'd probably get about $1000 for it. Cheapest it's gone for on ebay is because someone foolishly listed it at $650 for Buy It Now. But then you have to deal with ebay. If you live in a decent-sized city, if you post it for a reasonable price on craigslist (say $1000 or best offer), I figure it'd be gone within a couple days. I'd love to have it myself, but no way am I going to pay what anyone wants now.
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Oct 26, 2011 23:19
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Has anyone else noticed any parallels between those Playmobil sets and the collectible minifigs? (Please let there be a hobo minifig in series 8.)
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Oct 26, 2011 23:27
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Just a heads up: Amazon.fr has the unimog for 127 euros, down from 190. Its not even november and I'm thinking of spending my monthly toy allowance already.
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MaliciousOnion posted:Has anyone else noticed any parallels between those Playmobil sets and the collectible minifigs? Theres an almost identical Cleopatra & snake combo. Never got the snake connection till now either.
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Oct 26, 2011 23:34
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I've not looked at playmobil since I was a kid, but those sets look amazing.
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Pyroclastic posted:It's crazy that the -cheapest- price on BL is $1000, and that's without box or instructions. I appreciate the tips. It seems that I'd get a better price on BL but I don't think things sell very fast there.
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MaliciousOnion posted:(Please let there be a hobo minifig in series 8.) 
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Baggy_Brad posted:Now I got ragtime silent movie piano playing in my head 
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He'd need a broken bottle and a flaming garbage can for accessories. Or a trolley full of baked bean cans if he's British.
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MaliciousOnion posted:(Please let there be a hobo minifig in series 8.) Here's mine 
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Pyroclastic posted:It's crazy that the -cheapest- price on BL is $1000, and that's without box or instructions. This really makes me want to buy 2 of the Super Star Destroyer kits.
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Colonial Air Force posted:This really makes me want to buy 2 of the Super Star Destroyer kits. I tried to convince my fiance on this (I haven't bought it yet). She didn't go for it. Maybe I can get her to come around once it's actually time to purchase it...
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einTier posted:Playmobil has always been a little subversive. There's a devil Playmobil along with some stereotypically wrong African "savages". But all the The Playmobil line of video games are actually surprisingly well done (especially compared to Lego brand games). The bum pictured here is in one of them, he's trained squirrels to forage food for him. 
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I braved Sainsburys at lunchtime (for those who don't know it's a UK supermarket chain that has a blanket half price on all toys for a week or so around this time every year) and predictably the lego had been pretty much picked clean. Not that it has a big selection to begin with. Got a dinky city jetboat thing for a couple of quid and for some reason they had loads of Ultimate Build Francesco. For some reason my kid and all his friends love the character so I grabbed a couple. It looks like it's got some nice curved pieces and the light green colour is pretty cool.
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Oct 27, 2011 14:17
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Francesco doesnt look that interesting, though it occured to me that on the smaller scale models of him, his head could be popped on to a R2-D2 for a hilarious angry-eyes droid.
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I have enough disposable income and enough desire to make a profit that I'm going to buy a couple of big sets and sell them when they have increased in value. What's the best set for that right now? I'd want them to turn a profit in about a year or so. I was thinking of getting either the Star Destroyer or the Death Star.
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Gravy Jones posted:I braved Sainsburys at lunchtime (for those who don't know it's a UK supermarket chain that has a blanket half price on all toys for a week or so around this time every year) and predictably the lego had been pretty much picked clean. Not that it has a big selection to begin with.  Half of them will go as Christmas presents this year, the rest will be stockpiled for a few years until my as-yet-unborn son is old enough not to try and eat the blocks.
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Oct 27, 2011 18:40
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Fuuuuuuuuck. <scarpers to Sainsbury's>
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PriorMarcus posted:I have enough disposable income and enough desire to make a profit that I'm going to buy a couple of big sets and sell them when they have increased in value. I'd go with the Death Star right now. It's a couple years old and will probably be discontinued within the next year, and it has a wealth of minifigs (some are exclusive to the set) that can boost demand later down the line. The Super Star Destroyer's readily available from Lego, and will be for the next few years, so it'd be stupid to expect a profit it on it inside of a year.
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Saint Sputnik posted:Here's mine What in the fresh hell is his bindle made of? VVV Well that's so clever I could poo poo myself. Flavor Bear fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Oct 27, 2011 |
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Flavor Bear posted:What in the fresh hell is his bindle made of? It appears to be a Ninja Wrap headpiece.
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Flavor Bear posted:What in the fresh hell is his bindle made of? Unfortunately it only looks right from that angle; viewed from the side or back the effect is spoiled. Lego needs to make a "loot bag" accessory with a combo grip/clip on top (and a dollar sign printed on the side). Like this:  One of these days I'll try designing some accessories in 3D and making them through one of those plastic printing outfits.
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The_Doctor posted:Fuuuuuuuuck. <scarpers to Sainsbury's> You're going to be disappointed! Pulled a late night shift today, but the stories from this morning were the usual affair of customers acting in very unfriendly ways. As regards to Lego: at the front of the store we had an ex-pumpkin shipper filled with Lego sets. It was all gone before an hour had passed, and the store opened to customers at 7. Eeesh. We managed to trickle out a few more sets over the day but good people of Britain: We are out...at least at my store. We managed to clear every toy we had out of the warehouse, so what's left on the shelves is all we have. I believe our sales figures sit at about £50,000 on toys today. Heads up to Brit-goons: toy stocks are allocated to stores based on their sales for the first day or two, so there's a delay before more stock comes in. Sunday night is normally when the second-wave of toys arrives (and hopefully the Lego) so get your asses down to Sainsbury's on Monday morning if you want a second shot at half-price goodies. GRAVY-JONES! Check your receipt on the Francesco kits. There was a pricing error on those kits so they weren't scanning at half-price. If you paid £25, go back and get the difference back. We had this problem all day and it had to be manually altered each transaction.
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I took advantage of TRU's "spend $50 on Lego stuff and get $10 off" deal today. Got three city sets, the Small Car, Satellite Launch Pad and Camper. Small Car is just a simple $5 or so set but it's pretty cute. I really dug the Camper. The Satellite Launch Pad was a little underwhelming but I'm a sucker for space stuff. The last two times I went to TRU (both this month) I forgot to ask about the minifig magnets but today I remembered. The lady had no clue what I was talking about (she actually acted like she had never heard the word magnet before in her life much less anything to do with her job) and spent a while digging through TRU fliers before asking another guy there about it. Luckily he knew right away and grabbed one for me. I guess there haven't been a lot of people asking for them at our store! Whatever, I've now got a retro space man on my fridge.
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Some guy on Craigslist around here bought a crazy guy's collection and put one thing up for sale. 5 Grand Emporiums modified and put together for one massive building. He only has pictures of the floors separated but needless to say it's impressive. He wants $500 for it, which is obviously a good deal, but the problem is the guy modified a lot of it, some pieces don't seem right, all the mini-figures are gone, etc. I'm still tempted to make an offer...
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Most stuff had gone, but there's a few cheaper kits still on the shelf. The little ADU wheeled vehicle, for example, and a lot of the small City stuff. I might go back in the morning and see what £20 will get me, although I wonder if I'm just buying for the sake of buying... Transformers were completely wiped out, so your tip about Monday morning is good, thanks. See if I can get me a 10 quid Voyager...
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Found this today and was pretty impressed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFjREmhAAOQ It's always amazing to see a creative idea in action and this is one of those things that makes me go "drat, I wanna try that."
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'What the, has he lost his marbles? That looks kind of dull. *click*  'Also found this: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=150009  
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All the cool kids are doing microspace fleets, and I've never actually built in micro before, so I figured I might as well get in on that action.  Click for flickr set! The fleet consists of fighter-sized Deepeye-class jumplabs, a bunch of purpose-built destroyers based on a modular Dagger-class chassis, and the big 'ol VS-04 Musashi acting as flagship and also showing off my intense love for ring sections on ships.
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