Lego thread: Shiiiiiiiit, I don't got the money for this.

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The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Rhyno posted:

I special ordered it so I'm kind of bound into the purchase. How do the blind bag figures sell? We've blown through 5 boxes in 3 weeks and they're now out of stock.

They're all over the place here, and doing much the same gathering dust dance. I assume so anyway. I've yet to see anyone buy them. But hey, what do I know? CO are doing a wave 3 of them and a bunch of new playsets too this year.

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Rhyno: Mar 22, 2003; Can't post for 10 years!

The_Doctor posted:

They're all over the place here, and doing much the same gathering dust dance. I assume so anyway. I've yet to see anyone buy them. But hey, what do I know? CO are doing a wave 3 of them and a bunch of new playsets too this year.

I guess us stupid Americans can't get enough of them.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 02:15

RodShaft: Jul 31, 2003; Like an evil horny Santa Claus.

Rhyno posted:

Isn't that like $15 American? Because US retail is $99.

The sets all look terrible and expensive.... I just want a tardis, a tenth (and 11th) Doctor, and an army of angels, daleks, and cybermen... They would fit perfect in any theme. I guess I'd need a companion. But, drat EXPENSIVE, for generic lego in the US.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 03:13

Funkmaster General: Sep 13, 2008; Hey, man, I distinctly remember this being an episode of Spongebob.

Received a care package from LEGO today - my missing bag of parts from the Earth Defense HQ! I had already thought they were awesome when they notified me that they were sending me the parts no questions asked, but it really sunk in when the parts arrived.

They came in a ziplock bag, and a parts list/shipping manifest was included, listing each brick individually. When I had sent the request I just said that bag 3 was missing, assuming that they'd grab a bag 3 off the line somewhere. Turns out someone had to go and figure out each individual brick that belonged in that bag and drop them into my ziplock. I'm sure the process is more streamlined than that, but however it is, it's certainly more labor intensive than I had initially imagined, and thus awesome that they had done it for me. There were even some spares thrown in.

Of course, whoever it was that did it was probably muttering under their breath about how I was a douchebag or something.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 04:59

rickiep00h: Aug 16, 2010; BATDANCE

Funkmaster General posted:

Received a care package from LEGO today - my missing bag of parts from the Earth Defense HQ! I had already thought they were awesome when they notified me that they were sending me the parts no questions asked, but it really sunk in when the parts arrived.

They came in a ziplock bag, and a parts list/shipping manifest was included, listing each brick individually. When I had sent the request I just said that bag 3 was missing, assuming that they'd grab a bag 3 off the line somewhere. Turns out someone had to go and figure out each individual brick that belonged in that bag and drop them into my ziplock. I'm sure the process is more streamlined than that, but however it is, it's certainly more labor intensive than I had initially imagined, and thus awesome that they had done it for me. There were even some spares thrown in.

Of course, whoever it was that did it was probably muttering under their breath about how I was a douchebag or something.

If the documentaries I've seen are any indication, it was probably more likely "Must... keep... the children... saaaaaafe..." :stare:

# ? Feb 12, 2012 05:01

Well Manicured Man: Aug 21, 2010; Well Manicured Mort

I made some more robots in LDD. These are so fun!

# ? Feb 12, 2012 05:36

Big Bad Beetleborg: Apr 8, 2007; Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.

Brick Daddy pulls into the truckstop to check his girls are still on the job...

So yeah, I got the cheap one. I also have one arriving at work tomorrow to play with there.

e: poo poo is longer than the inception truck (the one with LEGO boxes of itself inside itself).

# ? Feb 12, 2012 05:38

Time Cowboy: Nov 4, 2007; But Tarzan... The strangest thing has happened! I'm as bare... as the day I was born!

Dead Alice posted:

Brick Daddy pulls into the truckstop to check his girls are still on the job...

So yeah, I got the cheap one. I also have one arriving at work tomorrow to play with there.

e: poo poo is longer than the inception truck (the one with LEGO boxes of itself inside itself).

I would love to do a Space-ified version of the Lego Lego truck, in the style of the space redneck vehicles that came with SPIII. Too bad I don't have the set.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 05:57

Big Bad Beetleborg: Apr 8, 2007; Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.

Time Cowboy posted:

I would love to do a Space-ified version of the Lego Lego truck, in the style of the space redneck vehicles that came with SPIII. Too bad I don't have the set.

What do I look like, a guy who's not lazy?

# ? Feb 12, 2012 07:03

Luminaflare: Sep 23, 2010; No one man
should have all that
POWER BEYOND MEASURE

Does anyone know where I could buy just bag 2 of Earth Defense HQ? I only really want the Vic Viper and I can't afford to buy the full set.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 08:20

Bloody Hedgehog: Dec 12, 2003; 💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something

Luminaflare posted:

Does anyone know where I could buy just bag 2 of Earth Defense HQ? I only really want the Vic Viper and I can't afford to buy the full set.

Bricklink is probably your best bet.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 09:39

memy: Oct 15, 2011; by exmarx

Since everyone else was doing it, I ordered a Lunar Limo off Amazon too.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 14:18

Lord Gold: Feb 22, 2005; 'STACHE
WE CAN BELIEVE IN

I understand the love everyone has for the space pimp and his Lunar Limo, but I think the best set to come out of SP III was the big SP Undercover Cruiser. It's possibly the most swooshable thing I've put together since I started back with Lego.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 16:22

Jut: May 16, 2005; by Ralp

Is there no love for the Galatic Enforcer?
One of the best space theme cruisers though has to be the dropship from Mars Mission. Not a great theme on it's own, but that ship was great. Reminded me of the Aliens dropship.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 16:49

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

Jut posted:

Is there no love for the Galatic Enforcer?

It's a great set! Lots of detail and playability. It's just heavy as hell when it's all together. The front part that comes off, is great though! It's all very Fireball XL5 (even down to the little robot co-pilot).

# ? Feb 12, 2012 16:58

RodShaft: Jul 31, 2003; Like an evil horny Santa Claus.

Jut posted:

Is there no love for the Galatic Enforcer?

Everyone knows the best space police ship was the Mission Commander. The modular jail cells from that series were awesome and I built all kinds of ships that could carry/move them.

Although my favorite spaceship would be the Deep Freeze Defender.Now that ship was swooshable as gently caress, and modular little ships. I built a bunch of other ships that could plug into the parts, and a buch of other bases that the ships could plug into.

Edit I picked up the Alien mothership, the Pirates Excape, The Twoface bank job(I just wanted the batmobile) and the Lex Luther exoskeleton this morning. Not bad for under $100 bux.

RodShaft fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Feb 12, 2012

# ? Feb 12, 2012 17:34

The_Doctor: Mar 29, 2007; "The entire history of this incarnation is one of temporal orbits, retcons, paradoxes, parallel time lines, reiterations, and divergences. How anyone can make head or tail of all this chaos, I don't know."

RodShaft posted:

Everyone knows the best space police ship was the Mission Commander. The modular jail cells from that series were awesome and I built all kinds of ships that could carry/move them.

Definitely preferred those jail cells to anything done since. The weird blue pods in SPIII were so flimsy.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 17:53

FreakyZoid: Nov 28, 2002

Avengers set pics up on Marvel
Quinjet looks badass. Giant-headed Iron Man looks bad & rear end.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 18:02

thebardyspoon: Jun 30, 2005

Looking at that Lego wiki apparently Hamleys in the UK have released some more info about some of the Marvel sets. Some of it was already known but I didn't see the Wolverine chopper ambush set posted, includes Magneto and Deadpool as well as Wolverine. They also have a Spider-man set called Spider-man Doc Ock Ambush so we're getting some good Spider-man villains as well, no pictures of that one though.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 18:04

purple death ray: Jul 28, 2007; me omw 2 steal ur girl

Oh my god that Iron Man is so awful looking. If they'd just give him some body armor or something that would help balance it out or something but jesus gently caress. It's like that camera in that Achewood comic where it makes you look all fat and awkward except just applied to his head.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 18:21

rickiep00h: Aug 16, 2010; BATDANCE

Travis343 posted:

Oh my god that Iron Man is so awful looking. If they'd just give him some body armor or something that would help balance it out or something but jesus gently caress. It's like that camera in that Achewood comic where it makes you look all fat and awkward except just applied to his head.

I don't know why they couldn't have made armor like the stuff they put on knights. Seems like the most elegant solution.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 18:42

Spaceman Future!: Feb 9, 2007

Tony Stark here to sa *falls on head*... uh.. ok sorry I just have to *falls on head* GOD DAMNIT

# ? Feb 12, 2012 19:41

Fooley: Apr 25, 2006; Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shinin'...

If it comes with a Tony Stark head I'd just never put the helmet on, and have him always holding a wine glass.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 19:45

thebardyspoon: Jun 30, 2005

Fooley posted:

If it comes with a Tony Stark head I'd just never put the helmet on, and have him always holding a wine glass.

I'm gonna say it probably does or they probably would have just made the helmet his head.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 19:53

MinionOfCthulhu: Oct 28, 2005; I got this title for free due to my proximity to an idiot who wanted to save $5 on an avatar by having someone else spend $9.95 instead.

The face part flips up if I remember correctly.

Goddamn it looks goofy as hell... At least everyone else looks okay. And we're getting DEADPOOL. :siren:

# ? Feb 12, 2012 19:57

Jut: May 16, 2005; by Ralp

The jet is the only one that has my interest.
That Iron Man minifig looks retarded, why didn't they just go for a printed minifit head instead of that bobblehead

# ? Feb 12, 2012 20:04

Joramun: Dec 1, 2011; No man has need of candles when the Sun awaits him.

Santa Maul.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 20:37

Red: Apr 15, 2003; Yeah, great at getting us into Wawa.

FreakyZoid posted:

Avengers set pics up on Marvel
Quinjet looks badass. Giant-headed Iron Man looks bad & rear end.

Ugh. Stickers. I'm going to be avoiding these sets like the plague.

(That Iron Man looks just loving awful.)

# ? Feb 12, 2012 20:39

NitroSpazzz: Dec 9, 2006; You don't need style when you've got strength!

As usual I stopped in the LEGO isle at walmart last night when picking up some groceries. They had the Pirates of the Caribbean black pearl set for $40 and had three on the shelf.

Any point in picking these up to sell?

# ? Feb 12, 2012 20:57

Sockser: Jun 28, 2007; This world only remembers the results!

Yeah the Avengers sets all look pretty terrible.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 21:00

mynnna: Jan 10, 2004

Black Pearl retails normally for somewhere around $90-$110.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 21:01

Digital War: May 28, 2006; Ahhh, poetry.

Well they're the only set that contains the Davy Jones minifig, which goes for more than half that price: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogPG.asp?M=poc031

In fact it looks like you can easily make that price back by just selling the minifigs.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 21:01

Paragon8: Feb 19, 2007

Wow, Iron Man is terrible. I really like the Quinjet kit, not sure if I'd get it. Might grab the Cap cycle just for the mini fig.

Hopefully the spider-man kits are better!

# ? Feb 12, 2012 21:05

Arnold of Soissons: Mar 4, 2011; by XyloJW

Honestly I feel like Thor (and to a lesser extent Cap) is the only not - that - terrible part.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 21:11

Merchant of Death: Jan 19, 2006; Cha-Ching

I really do love the Hulk minifig and will end up buying that breakout set just so I can have it. The sets are pretty underwhelming and disapointing overall.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 21:18

NitroSpazzz: Dec 9, 2006; You don't need style when you've got strength!

Digital War posted:

Well they're the only set that contains the Davy Jones minifig, which goes for more than half that price: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogPG.asp?M=poc031

In fact it looks like you can easily make that price back by just selling the minifigs.

Should have checked bricklink before asking...I've been out of LEGO for too long. Next time I'm on that side of town I'll see if they are still on the shelf.

# ? Feb 12, 2012 21:35

Paul Proteus: Dec 6, 2007; Zombina says "si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes!"

Those sets do look pretty bad, but I'm curious if they are really the final minifigures. That captain america looks different than the wall art at those cons: he doesn't have eyes,his mask has a different opening and it is obviously a sticker, not a print, on his chest.

Paul Proteus fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Feb 12, 2012

# ? Feb 12, 2012 21:39