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Am I the only one who finds the little "bridge playset" area built into the superstructure of the Executor kit a little odd? Just seems out of place in a UCS kit.
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If I were to pick up a VW bus today for ~$129.99, would I make a profit if I were to sell it a few months later? Is the VW going to be a collectible once it's retired?
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May 12, 2012 20:08
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Pittsburgh goons, the East Liberty target has S7 on the LEGO aisle endcap. I got 2 hippies and one each of the Aztec, girl rocker, space marine, black knight, and Poseidon. Really wanted a computer programmer 
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May 12, 2012 20:11
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MinionOfCthulhu posted:Wow, $4.31? I thought they were expensive here at $3.49. Yeah my TRU is dicks. 3.99 each + sales tax.
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May 12, 2012 20:48
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finished building my stands, my figures are now guarding my bookshelves. Still need to get the three missing S1 figures, shouldn't have skipped getting the complete set when they came out.
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May 12, 2012 22:47
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Hell loving yes Niven fan spotted! Also nicely done!
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May 12, 2012 22:48
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Good god, your bookshelf looks exactly like mine. Pratchett top shelf, below that Niven, Reynolds and Asimov, and below that I've got different books, but still, creepily similar. I also read all of Feist (but because I started reading that translated (in Dutch) when I was 12 I don't own them. Definitely going to check out Jim Butcher. You seem to like it so I probably will too.
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May 13, 2012 01:07
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Butcher is good for light reading, but often reads more like a movie than a traditional fantasy series. Also have a row of WOT hardbacks above the discworld, so I guess its not completely identical. Most of the feist is german because I started reading them when I moved here to learn german, the newer ones are english. Oh and I have LDD files of the two variations on the stand, I can upload them somewhere if anyone is interested.
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May 13, 2012 01:11
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Wife was at an almost-antique type store in town and spotted two older Lego sets and texted me to see if they were cool and/or a good price.    Both still sealed, never been opened. Boxes were in fantastic shape except for a couple spots you can see in the second picture. One was $12 the other was $15. Told her to grab them, so now she deserves a nice mother's day gift!
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May 13, 2012 02:10
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Totally had that first one as a kid. I might even still have those weird little figures. I'm only 25 and my childhood toys are already showing up at almost-antique type stores? 
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May 13, 2012 02:24
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For 12 and 15 dollars, I don't know that you could have stopped me, especially in that condition. It looks like the second one is going for at least double that on eBay, and about that at BrickLink. Easily worth that in nostalgia. I love how the special pieces are on display, and how the box art is even proud of them. Nowadays, I think the only pieces that tend to warrant that treatment are flick missiles. I also like how it shows kids actually playing with the toys.
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May 13, 2012 03:03
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The Rage posted:Yeah my TRU is dicks. 3.99 each + sales tax. TRU is gently caress you expensive. I think they jacked their prices up again on poo poo. It's not Lego stuff but I was looking for some Transformers and the 'Powerizer' size class used to be 26.99 and now they're 31.99. They're 21.99 at Target. 
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May 13, 2012 03:18
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Just found the Lord of the Rings Urk-hai Army set 9471 at a Fred Meyer in Yakima, WA.
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May 13, 2012 04:12
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The Rage posted:Just found the Lord of the Rings Urk-hai Army set 9471 at a Fred Meyer in Yakima, WA. They had that, the Gandalf Arrives and Shelob Attacks sets in Vancouver, WA.
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May 13, 2012 06:21
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Mr. Glass posted:Pittsburgh goons, Looks like I'm taking a trip to 'Sliberty tomorrow! If I can figure out what to feel for, I'll see if I can score you a programmer. But.. programmer is really all I want so, y'know, I'm taking first dibs.
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May 13, 2012 06:27
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Sockser posted:Looks like I'm taking a trip to 'Sliberty tomorrow! Well if you get a dupe let me know. I'll trade pretty much anything but the space marine. But especially the hippie, since I have two of him.
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May 13, 2012 06:35
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kensei posted:They had that, the Gandalf Arrives and Shelob Attacks sets in Vancouver, WA. Nice! I was not expecting to see these so soon. Fred Meyer always surprises me.
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May 13, 2012 07:13
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Apparently this is the Creator house for this year. http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=7346-1 Holy gently caress, I want that yesterday. Any idea when it's out for real? There are some people on eBay who have it already and want twice MSRP because hey RIGHT NOW.
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May 13, 2012 09:05
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ElwoodCuse posted:Apparently this is the Creator house for this year. I know my store will have it soon!
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May 13, 2012 09:49
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ElwoodCuse posted:Apparently this is the Creator house for this year.
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Sockser posted:Looks like I'm taking a trip to 'Sliberty tomorrow! Feel for the handle on the mug, it's more tedious since its about the same shape as the head, but keep at it!
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May 13, 2012 17:14
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Mr. Glass posted:Well if you get a dupe let me know. I'll trade pretty much anything but the space marine. But especially the hippie, since I have two of him. I've let you down and I've let myself down. Thought for sure I had at the very least a space marine. Bunnyman, Riding Hood, Poseidon. Poseidon will go to good use at least, helped my friend put together the giant Atlantis set last night. Super cool build. The giant opening shark head in the front is bitchin.
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May 13, 2012 22:54
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Sockser posted:I've let you down and I've let myself down. Dang. How picked over did it look? I might go back tomorrow for another round of baggie groping.
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May 13, 2012 23:27
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My fingers are pain, but it's done! I can't say I really have any major complaints about the build quality. I've heard that the original Star Destroyer USC kit used magnets to hold its top surface in place and that they didn't do a very good job. In this case, it's a pin & clamp arrangement and it's quite secure. The biggest problem I had was at the front & back of the upper surfaces - they're supposed to be held in place by one of those thin grey rods into a standard sized technic hole. The hole is, of course, larger than the rod, and so it allows for some play...not a lot, but enough to bother me. So I stuck one of those half-length technic studs into each hole and it holds it nice and tight now, although not "legally", I suspect. The other big beef is the flat bottom. It'll doubtlessly require modification of the stands, but I'm going to give it a proper contoured bottom & hanger section.  e: I take that, back, the other problem I had with it was that the normal Star Destroyer accompanying it was not to proper scale - at 49" long for the Super, the accompanying normal Star Destroyer should have been approximately 4.6" long, or 15 studs.  This oversight has been corrected. mynnna fucked around with this message at 05:56 on May 14, 2012 |
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youareoffthehook posted:I know my store will have it soon! You got S7 in? I could go for a single space marine.
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Manchild King posted:What is this new devilry?
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 Playmobil horses don't have poseable hind legs (unless they've changed them recently). The older Lego horse was actually probably closer to the Playmobil horse. The figures are approaching a Playmobil level of detail though. This is, of course, a good thing.Lookit me getting all spegy about a joke.
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I am so confused right now
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Lizard Combatant posted:What is this new devilry? Lego are getting smarter at forcing completionist fans to buy sets.
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My boy loved his first Lego set. I am a proud Daddy!
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Manchild King posted:If you want a full cast of lotr rings you of course must buy every set. You only need 4 of the 7 sets to get the complete Fellowship, which seems fairly reasonable to me. The other three each have a named secondary character unique to that set. It's kind of a Catch-22 with this sort of stuff because if they have secondary characters duplicated in several sets people would be complaining about that instead. Completionists are probably going to buy everything anyway (it's what they do!) overall I think they've been fairly good with respect to how the minifigures are distributed in this line. The most common issue I've seen is with the inclusion of a named character in the "army building" set which people who are planning on buying lots of these don't like as they'd prefer duplicates of a generic soldier instead.
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ExplodingSquidx2 posted:My boy loved his first Lego set. I am a proud Daddy! This day is a great day.  My one piece of advice would be don't go overboard on the Duplo as it's not cheap and he'll of outgrown it before you know it. Try and get one big lot of bricks of ebay or cl or something. Enough to build some bad-rear end towers to knock down.... and put money aside for the real deal instead. Gravy Jones fucked around with this message at 13:16 on May 14, 2012 |
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Mr. Glass posted:Dang. How picked over did it look? I might go back tomorrow for another round of baggie groping. Didn't seem too bad. I'm going back on Tuesday after work and hoping for the best. One loving store in all of Pittsburgh unless you want to drive to Ross Park. We're a major city, god damnit. Let me have cool Lego! Can't get the Avengers Jeep either!
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Gravy Jones posted:This day is a great day. You never outgrow DUPLO. I had mine until I was ten or eleven, and the only reason I gave it up was because my dad guilted me into giving it to the little brat next door that didn't have a lot of toys. He didn't appreciate them like I did. I'd still have them to this day, waiting to pass them down to my kids and occasionally bringing them out to see just how tall of a tower I can build after I sort out the *shudder* MegaBloks.
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AFOD spotted.
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Sockser posted:Didn't seem too bad. I'm going back on Tuesday after work and hoping for the best. Ross has that set, too... 
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Sockser posted:Didn't seem too bad. I'm going back on Tuesday after work and hoping for the best. Why does Ohio get all the Lego stores  Anyway I'm pretty sure I saw Avengers stuff at the Monroeville TRU back when it was first coming out. I haven't been there since, though, so I really have no idea what their selection is like now.
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Gravy Jones posted:You only need 4 of the 7 sets to get the complete Fellowship, which seems fairly reasonable to me. Which set has Boromir?
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Pagan posted:Which set has Boromir? The Mines of Moria. I think Boromir has the best likeness, then maybe Legolas or Pippin.
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