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If you mean by Doctor Guy you have a Surgeon, I'd trade you a Space Girl for the Surgeon. The wife of my mom's boss is ALSO a surgeon, so they could be a pair.  I really hope there's a sale like this for series 7. I'm seriously considering just buying a case and selling the extras because there's so many in it I want.
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Captain Invictus posted:If you mean by Doctor Guy you have a Surgeon, I'd trade you a Space Girl for the Surgeon. The wife of my mom's boss is ALSO a surgeon, so they could be a pair. Sounds like a deal. Let's move to email mattfl @ gmail.com and we can work out details!
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Feb 24, 2012 20:28
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Captain Invictus posted:Decided to bite the bullet and take a trip to Toys R Us when they opened this morning and do some Series 6 fondling. I did this this morning at Five Below, who have Series 6 figs for $2.99 each. Got myself 3 Roman Soldiers and a Hugbot. I wish I'd been able to pick out a sleepyhead, but that one seems impossible to feel for. Edit: I spent 20 minutes feeling up every loving bag for THREE Romans. :| 
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Feb 24, 2012 21:06
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vrunt posted:A code for the bonus model was in the latest LEGO Club magazine. They'll be online for everyone eventually, but right now Club members are getting exclusive access. The instructions aren't 100% clear on that. Thank you so much! I'm pretty impressed with how close I came, the only major differences were pretty much in the color choice of some plates, and that bullshit with the engine rotor. I had no idea you could sandwich that divot between two bricks with the shaft pass-through lined up and have it stay.
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Feb 24, 2012 21:31
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Red posted:I did this this morning at Five Below, who have Series 6 figs for $2.99 each. Got myself 3 Roman Soldiers and a Hugbot. I wish I'd been able to pick out a sleepyhead, but that one seems impossible to feel for. If it makes you feel any better, I reached into a bin and grabbed 7 random bags and ended up with five mechanics, one skater chick, and one alien. My kids was laughing as she continued to open mechanic after mechanic. Still. :|
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Feb 24, 2012 22:13
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Captain Invictus posted:They are so awesome and detailed, especially the shield, I can see why they command at least $10 each on Bricklink even while the series is still on shelves. Managed to feel out a Surgeon to give to my mom's boss, who's a brain surgeon. They ought to love that. Holy crap. I definitely need to go raid the store nearby that fondles them and labels them before putting them out.
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Feb 24, 2012 22:14
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Dre2Dee2 posted:Keep the romans. Create a legion I really want to do this. Unfortunately I had not even one until my girlfriend bought a bag blind for me today and got one 
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Feb 24, 2012 22:20
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This makes me feel fairly smug about one of my local toyshops. The owner there is pretty keen and always has the minifigs sorted by figure, you want a roman? You get a roman...
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Feb 24, 2012 22:27
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Roblo posted:This makes me feel fairly smug about one of my local toyshops. The owner there is pretty keen and always has the minifigs sorted by figure, you want a roman? You get a roman... Does he open them or does he have some sort of non-fondling mystery method to figure out which is which? I really want a Roman now...poo poo, I just want the new X-Wing now 
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Feb 24, 2012 22:34
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Red posted:I wish I'd been able to pick out a sleepyhead, but that one seems impossible to feel for. The sleepyhead wound up being the one I grabbed at random and wound up having 100% accuracy with the other seven I felt around for. The best advice I can give you for the Sleepyhead is that the teddy bear feels really weird through the plastic. It's about the same size as the grey alien head, but the arms on the bear feel a bit like horns. (I had a bit of trouble finding a minotaur because the head doesn't come with the horns attached) The same gores for the baby chimpanzee from s5. I wound up buying one of those just to see what felt so weird inside the bag. As for the Romans, I knew I should've checked Bricklink before I decided against feeling up the thirty or so bags that remained in the hopper.
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Boondock Saint posted:Does he open them or does he have some sort of non-fondling mystery method to figure out which is which? When i have been in there before he stated he could work it out from the packet, as in the patten of little dots at the base. He had a list he compared it to. I think it has got a lot harder in recent seasons however. But either way, he is still doing it.
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Feb 25, 2012 00:23
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Jut posted:I've said before, but if you like interesting build with no repetition then this is the set to get. Much better than any of the modulars Definitely agree. I just finished mine up a few days ago, and it was so much fun to build. So much detail packed into that thing. The only knock I have against it are some of the roof areas are a little weak, but it's not like I'm going to be taking that off all that often anyway.
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Feb 25, 2012 01:21
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TLG has been making the minifig bag dots harder to discern. I think they used to have red outlines, and now they're barely visible. They also supposedly change them partway through the production run. Has anyone been discouraged from feeling the bags to determine what's inside? The staff at TRU seems to accept it as part of the fanbase. The only weird moment I had was wandering around the store while I waited for another guy to finish trying to find the ones he wanted.
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Feb 25, 2012 01:40
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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:The staff at TRU seems to accept it as part of the fanbase. The only weird moment I had was wandering around the store while I waited for another guy to finish trying to find the ones he wanted. That must have felt awkward. I'm not even sure why, but I bet it did.
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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:The staff at TRU seems to accept it as part of the fanbase. The only weird moment I had was wandering around the store while I waited for another guy to finish trying to find the ones he wanted. Eh, I just chatted up some random dude while we were both feeling up bags in TRU the other day and we helped each other find the ones we were looking for. Better to be polite and friendly than just molest those bags while pretending the other guy isn't there and staring in the other direction and being all awkward.
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Feb 25, 2012 01:48
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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:The staff at TRU seems to accept it as part of the fanbase. The only weird moment I had was wandering around the store while I waited for another guy to finish trying to find the ones he wanted. Forget waiting around man. That's too nice of you and if it were me I would have jumped in and started feeling bags as well. You never know if that one guy is looking for that certain one for his kid or looking to pilfer all the ones of the same kind leaving none for others.
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Feb 25, 2012 01:51
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Gammatron 64 posted:Eh, I just chatted up some random dude while we were both feeling up bags in TRU the other day and we helped each other find the ones we were looking for. Better to be polite and friendly than just molest those bags while pretending the other guy isn't there and staring in the other direction and being all awkward. This is definitely the way to go. Hell, maybe you'll get lucky and the other person is some kind of package-groping savant.
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Yeah, he was looking at the s5 bags, and I told him Wal-Mart had S5 for $2.50 a piece, and that s6 was around the corner. There wasn't much room, so I went and marveled at how far Nerf guns have progressed for a few minutes.
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Feb 25, 2012 02:17
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Feb 25, 2012 02:58
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I was giving the S6 bags at my hobby shop a good groping, after I went to pay for them the chick at the counter asked me if I got the ones I wanted  I knew I had 1 Roman Legionnaire and 1 something else, which turned out to be the
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Stopped in the local walmart tonight. I've never seen minifigs at any of the walmarts by me but tonight they must have redone their Lego isle as they had a tonne of them now. Finally got my robot, don't know why it took me so long to find him, he's the only one without a round head in the package and then managed to find 2 Roman dudes as well, didn't need them, but between them and the Bandit I think they are the coolest in the set.
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Feb 25, 2012 03:11
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The amount of printing and detail on the collectible mini-figs is amazing. The last time I really had any sets was with Exploriens, Aquazone, and the Western set way back when. The Western theme is when I feel like mini-fig faces and clothing were really starting to stand out from the two-color knights and pirates I had from the early-90s.
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Feb 25, 2012 03:50
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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:Has anyone been discouraged from feeling the bags to determine what's inside? Also, the girl that I asked if it was okay for me to check the bags said "oh yeah, it's perfectly fine. We've had people come in and sit there for three or more hours feeling for stuff." 
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Red posted:I did this this morning at Five Below, who have Series 6 figs for $2.99 each. Got myself 3 Roman Soldiers and a Hugbot. I wish I'd been able to pick out a sleepyhead, but that one seems impossible to feel for. As BetterWeirdthanDead said, the Teddy bear does feel weird through the package. Usually the arms of the Teddy bear is what I look for, but sometimes it feels like the genies lamp. But at that point I just check for the rest of the Teddy bear body and I'm usually correct. I have a sleepyhead guy if anyone wants to trade!
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youareoffthehook posted:I have a sleepyhead guy if anyone wants to trade! I believe I may take you up on that. I have a greasymonkey, an alien, and I think a rapper from series, uh, 3, I think.
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My fondling cheat is to make a 4x4 stack of them as I feel each one up with which one it is (usually have a printed sheet with me, or I just make it up looking on the phone). When someone else comes by and asks for one as I'm building out my two-of-everything collection, I hand them extras if I have it. Of course, once I get to like 5 of the skater guy in a pile, I just toss them back into the empty part of the box/shelve and continue. When I'm starting off, I generally can't tell them apart very well and make a separate pile of "I don't knows" that I go back to if I don't have everything, or I'm missing like 2 piles of guys. Really makes building out the collection much easier than "oh poo poo, I missed X, time to refondle." One time a TRU employee came by and asked if I'm going to buy them all. I said I only get two of each, and he asked if he could write on the ones I didn't want but already sorted. He went to get a pen and wrote on the bottom what they were for any kids who came in later looking for something. And the little 4 year old kid who really wanted a dwarf loved me. He got a few randomly from friends as gifts, but really wanted the dwarf. His dad didn't seem to much into the fondling, but wouldn't let him buy more than one so being handed a dwarf from me made his day.
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Red posted:I believe I may take you up on that. I have a greasymonkey, an alien, and I think a rapper from series, uh, 3, I think. My email is my username at gmail! Lets work out something.
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Bag fondlers  Captain Invictus posted:Decided to bite the bullet and take a trip to Toys R Us when they opened this morning and do some Series 6 fondling. Ended up with one Series 5(which I thought was a Gladiator, but turned out to be a Guy In Dino Suit, which I am A-OK with) and 25 Series 6, all for 65 dollars. Roblo posted:This makes me feel fairly smug about one of my local toyshops. The owner there is pretty keen and always has the minifigs sorted by figure, you want a roman? You get a roman... Gammatron 64 posted:Eh, I just chatted up some random dude while we were both feeling up bags in TRU the other day and we helped each other find the ones we were looking for. Better to be polite and friendly than just molest those bags while pretending the other guy isn't there and staring in the other direction and being all awkward. Im not completely innocent in this bag fondling thing (got 2 gladiators) but I still don't think its entirely ethical.
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I went in to a store that put in a new box of Season 6's, and grabbed 4 bags. Thought I was super clever with my dot code (that's easy to see with an iPhone light) and bag-feeling. Here I come, Minotaurs and Legionnaires! 3 Leprechauns and a Flamenco dancer 
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Manchild King posted:Bag fondlers It's really Lego's fault for doing this though. It's always the most army-potential figures that are shortpacked, the Spartan, Zombie(I think), the Roman, a couple of others. I wish they'd just let us purchase the specific ones of those types rather than throwing us to the scalper wolves.
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My work got in exactly 2 season 6: A hug-bot, and the space-chick. I will be buying them both at the end of my shift. Now I just need a dozen soldiers and Lady Liberty. (missed out on my dozen zombies, and spartans)
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http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=6048 Goddamn. Searching for the Statue of Liberty on Bricklink and I found this set that I completely forgot existed. Those sealed ones... edit: lol http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=446&colorID=48 http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=698&colorID=48 Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 12:31 on Feb 25, 2012 |
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Captain Invictus posted:http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?itemID=6048 Holy poo poo, $6000 for a lego kit. How much did the original box go for off the shelf?
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Two hundred bucks. Now just a complete one goes for four times that, let alone a sealed one.
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BaronVanAwesome posted:I went in to a store that put in a new box of Season 6's, and grabbed 4 bags. Thought I was super clever with my dot code (that's easy to see with an iPhone light) and bag-feeling. Here I come, Minotaurs and Legionnaires! The minifigs with 'skirts' are so easy to tell though! Not only do they tend to just look bulkier, you can easily feel the sloped brick with just a minimum of fondling. I did get all excited the first time I felt that sloped brick in S6, thinking it therefore had to be Lady Liberty because I had forgotten the flamenco dancer...
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Manchild King posted:I don't see how this would work. In my area the Romans would be sold out in the first hour, leaving the retailer with a box of worthless mechanics and space girls. Or are the figs priced differently like on bricklink? No idea, but he seemed to have an equal number of each, pretty much.
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Roblo posted:No idea, but he seemed to have an equal number of each, pretty much. Im thinking maybe I should save up for a box of S6, then try my luck selling the leftovers locally.
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Manchild King posted:I wish I could have nice moments like this with other customers. The problem is that there is a very good chance they want the same figs as you and you are basically direct competition for them. I just prefer to be polite and friendly to people, I dunno, that's just how I am. People always think I'm from Minnesota or Canada but I've never been to either place in my life. He really wanted a Genie and Lady Liberty, which I don't really give a poo poo about. I really wanted the Alien, the Bandit and the Robot. Granted, he wanted a robot too, but I just silently put that one in my pile without telling him because I'm a greedy bastard. Maybe I am Minnesota nice after all, haha...
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