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CADPAT posted:I keep getting crappy minfigs and then just getting suckered into buying more... ARGH! I think I'm just going to buy a box and re-sell the rest. It will probably be cheaper that way. Welcome to the Magic: The Gathering secondary market.
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Diosamblet posted:Oh... oh god. I did not know there was a Lego Store in Bellevue Square. It's two blocks from my work, and two blocks from the apartment I'm applying for... in fact it's right in between. This is bad. Try working there! Every time someone returns a retired set and it's super cheap, I'll usually pick it up. I have spent more on Lego while working there than any time before that. Why cookie Rocket posted:When do you expect to receive set 6857 - Dynamic Duo Funhouse Escape? Its the only Superhero set I haven't seen in stock yet... We had it in stock last week, but it was gone within a few hours. We get shipments every Monday, so usually Monday afternoons are the best time to call/come in and see if we have them. IronSaber posted:Cool! I think I might have seen you once when I visited it. Creepy! No, just kidding, you probably did. keevo posted:Do I really need a cover letter when applying online? I didn't. Did you fill out an interest card at the store? If not, you should do that, and if it's not too busy, introduce yourself to the manager. My manager was out of town, so I called when he got back and scheduled my interview.
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 00:18 |
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So after some careful consideration I've decided I'm going to sell this bad boy: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?S=7476-1 Here's my SA Mart thread, or you can just drop me a message: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3457461 Figured I'd give SA a shot at it before putting it up on BL. CADPAT fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Dec 29, 2011 |
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youareoffthehook posted:I didn't. Did you fill out an interest card at the store? If not, you should do that, and if it's not too busy, introduce yourself to the manager. My manager was out of town, so I called when he got back and scheduled my interview. Ah okay. I'll have to drop by and talk to them. I was just looking online and one of the first things they ask for is a resume and cover letter.
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 02:13 |
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What is the employee discount at the Lego Store?
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 02:33 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:What is the employee discount at the Lego Store? I believe 30% daily, with a few 50% days throughout the year. At least that is what we non-retail LEGO employees got at our local LEGO retail stores!
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keevo posted:Ah okay. I'll have to drop by and talk to them. I was just looking online and one of the first things they ask for is a resume and cover letter. Yeah, I mean that's what they're going to look at, but going and introducing yourself doesn't hurt. The girl I gave my interest card to told my boss to hire me, so it's worth it! Aery posted:I believe 30% daily, with a few 50% days throughout the year. At least that is what we non-retail LEGO employees got at our local LEGO retail stores! It is 30%, and then there's a day every quarter where we get 50%. At Bellevue Square there's also the mall discount.
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 03:21 |
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Where do you buy the minifigs, I've checked Toys R Us and Fred Meyer.
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 03:49 |
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youareoffthehook posted:It is 30%, and then there's a day every quarter where we get 50%. holy poo poo
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 05:41 |
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youareoffthehook posted:Yeah, I mean that's what they're going to look at, but going and introducing yourself doesn't hurt. The girl I gave my interest card to told my boss to hire me, so it's worth it! So, uh, do you have limitations on those days? Could I paypal you $200+ tax and have you get me a Super Star Destroyer?
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 05:53 |
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Pyroclastic posted:So, uh, do you have limitations on those days? Could I paypal you $200+ tax and have you get me a Super Star Destroyer? There is no limitation. One of my coworkers alone bought over $1000 worth if sets. If I'm still working there or have friends willing to buy me stuff on the next 50% off day I'll totally do it.
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 06:29 |
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<runs into thread, stumbles, money tightly gripped in hand> $75 Pet Shop please...
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 09:57 |
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Sounds like it'd be a hell of a way to supplement your income. Save up and by a couple grand worth of sets, then sell them off at like 80-100% MSRP. Especially when you know AFOL-bait sets are going to be discontinued.
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Pyroclastic posted:Sounds like it'd be a hell of a way to supplement your income. Save up and by a couple grand worth of sets, then sell them off at like 80-100% MSRP. Especially when you know AFOL-bait sets are going to be discontinued. I think you'd probably be instantly fired if you got caught, and I can imagine Lego being the kind of company that keeps an eye on the whole scene surrounding it, so you probably couldn't get away with it for too long. Especially when you rock upto work wanting to purchase 2grands worth of one item.
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 18:18 |
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I would spend more than I make if I worked at a lego store and the closest isn't 300 miles away.
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 18:36 |
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So not only did I get the alien Tripod as a present from my friends, I returned home from my parents' place late Tuesday night to see a box with all the sets I bought from Why cookie Rocket!
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Aery posted:I believe 30% daily, with a few 50% days throughout the year. At least that is what we non-retail LEGO employees got at our local LEGO retail stores! Hi Aery! I hope all is well with you after the Universe news
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all this talk about working for lego had me check the lego website for jobs. I found something that matches my skill set perfectly...working in lego education developing material for schools. It's a shame they don't mention salary, denmark isn't a cheap country to live in. Any tips for applying?
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 20:09 |
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So after spending a straight day browsing Bricklink to find just the right pieces to build an army of Lego space marines, it occurred to me that this thread has gotten me badly addicted to Lego. In the space of 6 months I went from owning about 10 lbs of Lego and some old sets to having a collection with multiple storage bins and tackle boxes, and buying sets used or 50% off not for the sets themselves but for the parts they contain. Of course I haven't really done anything good with it until yesterday, when I successfully built something I've dreamed of building since childhood (pics will come soon!) So I send out a sincere thanks for this awesome curse. It occurred to me that I have to re-sort my whole collection again in such a way I can effectively build with it. I started googling for Lego storage ideas, and came across this (it's a long and funny read): Lugnet posted:
There is no hope.
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 20:56 |
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That seems like a pretty accurate outline, I think I'm at step 23. I actually believe that if I can build enough MOCs to use up pieces, and never take the MOCs apart, it will relieve the strain of having so many unsorted pieces. However I know I collect pieces much faster than I make stuff... plus then I have to store/display the MOCs
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 21:27 |
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I am step 24, I may not have much but I definatly regret selling my house and moving into an apartment while all my medical issues are being delt with. I need a house with a dedicated room for lego for me to be happy! Two maybe, one for parts the other for displays
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 21:51 |
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I did it a bit backwards, because I hit step 16 last night, but I'm doing step 15 right now. I think my upcoming "permanent" storage solution (which I realize will not be permanent at all) is to have a friend build me 3 of these with clear plastic fronts. Hopefully that should settle me for a while.
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 21:57 |
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We can talk about Kre-os in this thread, right? Cause Kre-os are loving awesome and you guys would dig em. They are also compatible with other major brands too* (*they just ripped-off LEGO pieces, ok)
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I like the "we didn't rip you off, some of our studs are hollow!" pieces. drat, they even ripped off some of the "special" Lego pieces. Check out the thighs and codpiece.
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 22:11 |
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Yeah, it's completely ridiculous, but I would take Transformers LEGO from the devil himself if he was selling em! ...and probably is the case, actually I'm also wondering if they hired like ex-LEGO designers or old designers with an axe to grind. I mean the kit is well designed... but it's not quite LEGO good. They do break some cardinal rules (stacking same size pieces on top of each other), and the instructions are dumb in the sense they practically want to show EVERY individual brick placement as a step. Comes the closet any brick building usurper has come, though. Dre2Dee2 fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Dec 29, 2011 |
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Those Transformers sets look cool and all, but I'd still rather someone did scans of the instructions so I could redo them in LEGO. Do they still give a parts list at the end like LEGO instructions?
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 22:26 |
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I saw the transformers set in the store and picked it up and was less excited when I realized it didn't transform I still have a 50% off coupon for zellers though.... maybe that would make it semi ok to go buy with zero effort found the optimus prime instructions on hasbros website http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_CA/shop/details.cfm?R=4CEA7F2B-5056-900B-10DD-612AEBAF2BB2:en_CA down at the bottom. I now have to try build one. Merchant of Death fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Dec 29, 2011 |
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Fooley posted:Those Transformers sets look cool and all, but I'd still rather someone did scans of the instructions so I could redo them in LEGO. Do they still give a parts list at the end like LEGO instructions? Yup! Don't know if every piece exists in LEGO or not though. All the instructions are online here - http://www.hasbro.com/kre-o/en_US/discover/instructions.cfm
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Dre2Dee2 posted:Yup! Don't know if every piece exists in LEGO or not though. All the instructions are online here - Looking at it, there are quite a few pieces that don't exist in Lego. The motorcycle halves, longer ball-joint bricks, peg bricks with detailed molding, brackets with detail molding, brackets with technic pinhole bricks, flat hinges (at least, they aren't made anymore), 2x4 bricks with technic pinholes, 1x2x5? panels, 8x8 panels with studs at the corners, plates with ball-joint receptors, the wheel well things with half the well missing, a single brick version of a 1x2 brick stacked on a 2x2 brick, 2x6? straight slopes... You could probably make a close approximation in Lego, but some of the missing bits seem structurally important and would have to be replaced with a bulkier solution.
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 23:00 |
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Anyone got any of the superhero stuff yet? I'm kind of interested in one of the cheaper sets like the Luthor Power Armour set or maybe the Carnival set with the Joker, Quinn and Riddler (that's 40 quid but looks fairly substantial).
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 23:15 |
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http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=60641 this optimus is lego, and transformes. suck it knock offs! I still can't believe how expensive the knock off lego is, and how fast it had price cuts.
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 23:15 |
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My LEGO sorting tips: 1. Minifigs and accessories in the little box (or under the couch). 2. Everything else in the big box.
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Merchant of Death posted:http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=60641 Haha, that's awesome. All we need is transparent orange pieces for the axe Also I'm pretty sure they are pricing it based off LEGO kits of comparable piece size
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# ? Dec 30, 2011 00:12 |
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I am a big fan of both LEGO and Transformers, and when I heard about these I was seriously considering getting one. This was despite the fact that they were Kre-O and therefore inferior to LEGO. Then I found out they didn't transform. I think the lack of transforming capability really hurt their sales. Without that, they're not real Transformers; and they're not real LEGO, either.
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MaliciousOnion posted:I am a big fan of both LEGO and Transformers, and when I heard about these I was seriously considering getting one. This was despite the fact that they were Kre-O and therefore inferior to LEGO. Then I found out they didn't transform. They tried this actually with the Built To Rule line actually it was an abomination to GOD. Seriously... it's shocking how bad they were. Absolute TRASH. I think doing it as a LEGO Creator kinda sets is the closest we'll get
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Gravy Jones posted:My LEGO sorting tips: Little box? My Minifigs and a good chunk of their accessories consume an entire 21 quart bin. And I think I'd need a 55 gallon drum to hold 'everything else'. Imagine digging through that for that drat 1x1 transblue round you know you have.
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Why cookie Rocket posted:When do you expect to receive set 6857 - Dynamic Duo Funhouse Escape? Its the only Superhero set I haven't seen in stock yet... By the way, we got more in stock. There were still a ton there when I got off work about an hour ago.
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# ? Dec 30, 2011 02:56 |
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So after 20 years I am finding my love of Legos again. Thing is my favorite sets were always the castle and knight sets. Unfortunately it seems the kingdoms sets are not in production anymore. But there is a lego store near me! So excited.
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AlexJade posted:So after 20 years I am finding my love of Legos again. Thing is my favorite sets were always the castle and knight sets. Unfortunately it seems the kingdoms sets are not in production anymore. But there is a lego store near me! So excited. I just built the Mill Village Raid a few days ago, and really regret not getting more Kingdoms/Castle sets. Shame that they're getting rid of them to make room for the LotR sets -- I think you could easily have both on the market at the same time, with Kingdoms acting as unofficial supplements. Yeah, the Hobbits totally stole that farmer's food. That blacksmith there, he's just making armour for the defense of the White City.
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youareoffthehook posted:By the way, we got more in stock. There were still a ton there when I got off work about an hour ago. gently caress fuuuuuuuuck gotta get to bellevue
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