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Picked this up at my lego store today: Went in to get a modular building and picked up that and 4 grab bags as well.
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neckbeard posted:Yeah, they're overstocked on them. Once they're out of the VW Buses, Lego will be tossing in an Imperial Shuttle when you order Clone Trooper minifig packs. They must have a lot of overstocked items, I got a castle with my ninjago booster.
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neckbeard posted:Clone Trooper minifig packs. I've seen these, and the "hoth"-themed snowtrooper/rebel snow guy packs, but did they ever make stormtrooper versions of these? I don't have a lot of them but having a small squadron of them would be cool. And while I'm here - I found a few old castle sets in the "giant bin everyone had as a kid", but if i wanted to get a few cheap old-school castle kits, where would I start? Bonus for dragon or wizard or ghost. (Nostalgia!)
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Diogenes Cynicus posted:I have tons of LEGO from when I was a kid. And I've bought a whole lot more since then. I think my wife would really like her dining room table back at some point. My parents gave my childhood lego away.  I like to hope that somewhere, it made some kid's day.
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BaronVanAwesome posted:I've seen these, and the "hoth"-themed snowtrooper/rebel snow guy packs, but did they ever make stormtrooper versions of these? I don't have a lot of them but having a small squadron of them would be cool. I'd suggest something like Majisto's Tower or Fire-Breathing Fortress but I don't know if those register as "cheap". At about $40-45 Dark Dragon's Den doesn't seem bad but it's got a TON of the hated BURPs. Looking at the price to brick ratios it looks like Fire-Breathing Fortress is the best deal. The Dark Dragon's Den is a pretty tall structure but it's only 170 pieces thanks to all the BURP walls. I had most of these sets as a kid. The early 90s was a golden era for a sword and sorcery loving 12-year-old, we had Dragon Master legos and A Link To The Past on our super nintendos.
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Travis343 posted:I'd suggest something like Majisto's Tower or Fire-Breathing Fortress but I don't know if those register as "cheap". At about $40-45 Dark Dragon's Den doesn't seem bad but it's got a TON of the hated BURPs. Looking at the price to brick ratios it looks like Fire-Breathing Fortress is the best deal. The Dark Dragon's Den is a pretty tall structure but it's only 170 pieces thanks to all the BURP walls. Where does the term BURP come from? A google search didn't help. And really, people hate those walls? I thought they were awesome as a kid although I have avoided them in my recent purchases.
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Rare Collectable posted:Where does the term BURP come from? A google search didn't help. And really, people hate those walls? I thought they were awesome as a kid although I have avoided them in my recent purchases. It stands for Big Ugly Rock Pieces. People hate them because they don't have a lot of utility beyond being, well, big ugly rocks. Even if you use a bunch of them to make a mountain or whatever it's going to look like your mountain is made up of small, copy-pasted chunks unless you use smaller grey bricks to camoflage them.
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I remember liking them as a kid, but I started to sort my old Lego bricks last night, and I can't believe how many of those stupid rocks I have. I have at least a dozen, it seems like every set I had must have come with two or three of them.
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Jan 14, 2012 05:40
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The madness of building Cafe Corner via Bricklink begins!
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Man, all this chat about childhood sets reminds me of the 3 I remember most, but I can't remember their modelnumbers... First one was a police helicopter, second one was a rescue chopper (black with decals, I think?) and the last one was a Johnny Thunder set, but I forget which one. I think it had a car.
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Happysafer posted:I remember liking them as a kid, but I started to sort my old Lego bricks last night, and I can't believe how many of those stupid rocks I have. I have at least a dozen, it seems like every set I had must have come with two or three of them. Yeah, same here. I could have sworn I only had a couple back in the day, but nope I have like six of each of them. And there were practically no actual bricks in dark gray so I can't actually blend them with anything but I don't have enough light gray bricks to make any decent sized stone formations. Also don't get Fire Breathing Fortress, it's pretty lame. I hate that my peak lego buying years came during the dragon guys theme, it looked cool at the time but even back then I was vaguely aware that none of the sets were as interesting to build as the older castle stuff. 
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Jan 14, 2012 06:44
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I went to target today to check out some sets, there was a guy standing there for a good hour feeling up the minifig packets. I know it was one of you! 
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Spikeness posted:I went to target today to check out some sets, there was a guy standing there for a good hour feeling up the minifig packets. My Target still seems cleaned out. Although they just reset the ENTIRE store so maybe they'll restock when that's done. Question about the Clockwork Robot in S6. Is his head just a large 1x1, or is it a helmet?
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Just filled a quart baggie with minifigs. I wasn't even looking to find them, I just pulled them out as a scrounged up parts. Never have I seen so many dismembered minifigs. Oh, the carnage.
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Jan 14, 2012 06:51
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My local Target had both the following:  On clearance for $50. Yeah. Straight up an 800 piece and a 1000 piece set both for $50. My friend picked up an atlantis I'm thinking I might pick up one of each just to resell.
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Fooley posted:Question about the Clockwork Robot in S6. Is his head just a large 1x1, or is it a helmet? Looks like it's one solid piece according to the crummy pics here.
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Jan 14, 2012 07:07
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theSpurious posted:The only lego set I've ever built was the 1200 piece Vader's Advanced Tie set... Kept it on the edge of my desk and knocked that son of a bitch clean off... Never again. Why would you put something like that perched so precariously!
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I can't imagine how soul-crushingly repetitive those cheese slopes must be.
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Jan 14, 2012 07:29
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I really want the pieces out of that Ninjago booster, but I can't afford to drop $75 on larger sets with my wedding coming up and I'd feel like a tool actually buying into their latest Magic the Pokemoning thing. LEGO why do you make me feel ashamed to buy your cool pieces
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BrainWeasel posted:I really want the pieces out of that Ninjago booster, but I can't afford to drop $75 on larger sets with my wedding coming up and I'd feel like a tool actually buying into their latest Magic the Pokemoning thing. LEGO why do you make me feel ashamed to buy your cool pieces But...pearl gold chainsaws! Before I even knew the booster packs were out, I saw three boxes of them at Fred Meyer after Christmas...all empty. I've seen Booster Packs for Creationary at Toys R Us now. $10, but for some bizarre reason they only come with like 12 pieces. The only thing of 'value' in them are the new cards.
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Shin-chan posted:Picked this up at my lego store today: Do you know where I can get this other than a Lego store?
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Shuppiluliumas posted:
yes Finished the second floor  Comes with a politician and his secretary, minimal furniture. I like the plastic $100, gives plenty of options to act out tales of corruption and scandal. Jut fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Jan 14, 2012 |
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Shin-chan posted:Picked this up at my lego store today: I'm interested in seeing how this goes. I know at the price and piece count it seems cool, and it is about a foot long, but the pictures I saw of the actual item looked so underwhelming, probably because there was nothing to compare scale to.
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Oh, by the way -- my Christmas haul this year, in addition to the Mill Village Raid (which is pretty cool) contained a gift cert to Brickforge, and since my order of cool custom accessories just came in, I decided to spruce up my Final Fantasy themed figs and put my Engineer Cid into a little scene I threw together. Click here for the full 2324x1615 image I call it "The Right Tool For The Right Job."
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ZarathustraFollower posted:To my untrained eye, it really looks like you might have the Death Star in that haul. Imperial guard, the black droid, Grand Moff Tarkin....drat. I agree.
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Jan 14, 2012 10:19
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shop.lego.com has the UCS Obi-Wan Jedi Starfighter up at $60 down from $100. Went ahead and grabbed it to see if I'll like the UCS set before the B-Wing comes out.
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BrainWeasel posted:Oh, by the way -- my Christmas haul this year, in addition to the Mill Village Raid (which is pretty cool) contained a gift cert to Brickforge, and since my order of cool custom accessories just came in, I decided to spruce up my Final Fantasy themed figs and put my Engineer Cid into a little scene I threw together. I thought those cogs were K'Nex for a second 
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I can't imagine how soul-crushingly repetitive those cheese slopes must be. The suspension ropes were my favourite bit.
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Testro posted:but there was a point where x24 cheese slopes x8 got really, really old. That right there put me off buying it. Edit: oh those who were worried about town hall not fitting with the rest of the modulars...they all use the same size base plate. The footprint for TH is no bigger than the others Jut fucked around with this message at 11:28 on Jan 14, 2012 |
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Local Walmart finally restocked! They have most of the Dino sets and the new city and some of the superhero stuff. They have the batcave for $70. They also have the star wars clone Turbo tank on clearance for $90 and the star wars advent calendar for $20. Any of these worth picking up?
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I just dug out a huge bin of Train, original Bionicle and random minifigs that had been sitting in the closet for a while now. I've got pics and I'll upload'em soon as I find the stupid cable for the camera, but damned if there isn't a shitload of it. Probably 50+ pounds. Hopefully someone's interested in trading, because goddamn there's a lot.
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ZarathustraFollower posted:To my untrained eye, it really looks like you might have the Death Star in that haul. Imperial guard, the black droid, Grand Moff Tarkin....drat. I think it's from the Star Destroyer playset (http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=6211-1)
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The People talking about finding series 6 in supermarkets are in the uk, right? Where are/ are people finding them in the US? I've checked 2 toysrus, 2 target, and 2 Walmart. Not lucky enough to have a Lego store near me, am I just stuck waiting?
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Network42 posted:The People talking about finding series 6 in supermarkets are in the uk, right? Where are/ are people finding them in the US? I've checked 2 toysrus, 2 target, and 2 Walmart. Not lucky enough to have a Lego store near me, am I just stuck waiting? There are 3 super walmarts within 15 or so miles of me. One of them sells Mini figs. 2 targets within 10 miles, one sells them. 1 toys r us which sells them. All of them still only series 5. Lego store an hour from me when I was there last month still had series 5. Pretty much a crap shoot as to finding them here at least.
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Network42 posted:The People talking about finding series 6 in supermarkets are in the uk, right? Where are/ are people finding them in the US? I've checked 2 toysrus, 2 target, and 2 Walmart. Not lucky enough to have a Lego store near me, am I just stuck waiting? Yeah I got a couple of series 6 packs in our local supermarket (uk) and apparently I suck at feeling. Got a flamenco dancer and the genie (who is ace) rather than the Roman legionary that I was after.
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SockFight posted:they keep growing, slowly... Eh, its not that bad, they cheese slopes mostly came sorted already so just tear the bag open and snap while watching TV.
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Yay toys r us restocked too, kinda. They had the Luther power armor so I picked that up. No series 6 yet though.
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UberJumper posted:Do you know where I can get this other than a Lego store? It's considered a "VIP Exclusive" so either a Lego store or Lego.com when it becomes available. ElwoodCuse posted:I'm interested in seeing how this goes. I know at the price and piece count it seems cool, and it is about a foot long, but the pictures I saw of the actual item looked so underwhelming, probably because there was nothing to compare scale to. Here's the first building with a minifig. I've got progressive photos as well that I'll get uploaded. 
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Network42 posted:The People talking about finding series 6 in supermarkets are in the uk, right? Where are/ are people finding them in the US? I've checked 2 toysrus, 2 target, and 2 Walmart. Not lucky enough to have a Lego store near me, am I just stuck waiting? My girlfriend and I spent about 20 mins feeling for them and I bought 16, only ended up with 4 doubles. 4 more to go! The one girl working at the Lego store asked us which ones we were still looking for and even went so far to give us one out of her pile that she had in the back so we could complete the set. The people who work there always seem genuinely nice and helpful.
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