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youareoffthehook posted:We just put out the monster hunters this morning. We aren't putting Lori's of the Rings out until we get all the sets, which hopefully is tomorrow. Great to hear, I'll probably drive over sometime this week and pick up the zombie one and the swamp monster. thanks!. 
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youareoffthehook posted:We just put out the monster hunters this morning. We aren't putting Lori's of the Rings out until we get all the sets, which hopefully is tomorrow. Have you received my second email? If not I must be doing something wrong somehow, so you should probably email me instead. It's my username @gmail.com.
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May 22, 2012 21:14
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That monster hearse might be the best looking vehicle since the Space Pimp thing.
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May 22, 2012 21:28
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Haven't seen anyone else post this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icq-J15VHXU It's a "holographic" animated overlay to one of their displays, it looks like a semi-translucent mirror with an image projected down from the top, like some of those 80's arcade cabinets. I'm digging all of the effort Lego puts into keeping its displays fresh and engaging.
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May 22, 2012 21:53
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They've had em in stores here in germany for years, usually its ninjago tho. Guess we were test market?
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May 22, 2012 22:11
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Yup, now I'm definitely living in the future I imagined as a child. loving awesome.
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May 22, 2012 22:12
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Saint Sputnik posted:That monster hearse might be the best looking vehicle since the Space Pimp thing. Agreed, I ordered mine yesterday along with the Deadpool & Magneto helicopter
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May 22, 2012 22:32
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Impact Damage posted:Haven't seen anyone else post this: We had a ton of them around here (Fort Wayne) for Hero Factory. They're annoying as all get out. I want to feel up my minifigs in peace, dammit! 
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May 22, 2012 22:40
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Damnit, Friday's payday can't get here fast enough so I can order the Monster Fighter sets to get the Hulk minifig.
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May 22, 2012 22:52
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The Burlington Mall store has a City video clip about 15 seconds long that has police sirens in it. It loops. Constantly.
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May 22, 2012 22:52
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VaultAggie posted:Has the Monsters theme been released yet? My local Target and Wal-mart didn't have them and I haven't been to the lego store recently. I seem to remember that Monster Fighters is a TRU exclusive line, aside from Lego stores? Anybody confirm?
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May 22, 2012 23:36
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Huh, had no idea. For what it's worth I've been in the Cleveland area for the last five years or so and we just got our first local Lego store (that I'm aware of) less than a year ago. I'd seen the augmented reality stuff online before but that was the first store I'd seen it in person. The pseudo-hologram stuff was new to me but I could see how anything with looping sound effects would get really old really quickly.
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May 22, 2012 23:46
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loving stores around me simply DO NOT have the Wolverine Chopper set. It's not like they're sold out, there's just no space on the shelves for them. I picked up Cap's cycle set today, and man, is the printing on the Cap minifig ever lovely. His face looks green because of how thin the printing is, and the stripes on his torso barely stand out. Bummer. Travis343 posted:I seem to remember that Monster Fighters is a TRU exclusive line, aside from Lego stores? Anybody confirm? Not really a confirmation but that is what I heard, too.
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May 23, 2012 02:37
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Flavor Bear posted:loving stores around me simply DO NOT have the Wolverine Chopper set. Every single store around me is sold out of the Loki jeep too. Annoying.
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May 23, 2012 03:03
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Torael_7 posted:Every single store around me is sold out of the Loki jeep too. Annoying. You need Amazon Prime. Anything I want, to my door, for free, in two days. gently caress looking around at stores; unless there's a coupon or special, it's just not worth it.
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Arnold of Soissons posted:Agreed, I ordered mine yesterday along with the Deadpool & Magneto helicopter Which owns, by the way. Kick rear end set IMO
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May 23, 2012 03:27
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That barcoding scam thing isn't really new, Borders had a similar incident when I worked there. Somebody was doing the same thing and was getting huge discounts on books. It didn't happen at my store but they circulated notices to the entire chain.
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May 23, 2012 03:31
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Local Walmart has LotR now so I got the Gandalf cart and the spider, and they had a single solitary S7... not even a spot for where the rest of them would have been, it was just sitting on a shelf in the Lego aisle... and they marked down all the PotC, including QAR. It's a perfect storm and my girlfriend will hate me 
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May 23, 2012 03:47
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Late last year I was bitching about those Minifig cases being too big and bulky and expensive. Well a few months ago I had a change of heart when I saw them on special at Myer's. I think most people load them up with collectable minifigs, but I just threw in my favourites. Only theme cooler than Kingdoms is 80's - early 90's castle. Represented here by a Black Falcon and Lion Knight. Bottom row is Prince of Persia mainly. I've never seen the movie or played the modern games, I just like the figs. If you look carefully you can see that the gold pop guy has had his white feather removed. Basically all the tall minifigs with feathers in their hats don't quite fit in these cases. You may notice Also Santa, who played an important role of supplying new lego sets while I was a child.  Some cool statues, plus the old castle ghost. He still glows though not quite as bright as he did in 1990. He is surrounded by glowing tiles and holding two glowing balls (round plates). Im looking forward to comparing him to one of the new monster fighters ghosts.  I didn't take a pic of the red case because most of the figs in it are both recent and boring. The exception is the rare gold knight who was a pain in the rear end to get and holds the record for the most I have spent on a single fig ($11). Unfortunately with his plume he is too tall to stand in the case front on. I know you've all seen minifigs before, hope that wasn't too boring. For a bonus laugh you should see this ebay auction http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120918037909&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:AU:1123 I actually contacted her and explained but she clearly doesn't give a gently caress.
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May 23, 2012 10:11
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I was considering the Maersk Train set. However, I'm still learning the ins and outs of modern Lego buying. What does it mean when a set is listed as "Hard to Find" on shop.lego.com? Is it approaching end of life, isn't distributed widely, or do they just not make a lot of them?
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May 23, 2012 14:09
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madhatter160 posted:I was considering the Maersk Train set. However, I'm still learning the ins and outs of modern Lego buying. What does it mean when a set is listed as "Hard to Find" on shop.lego.com? Is it approaching end of life, isn't distributed widely, or do they just not make a lot of them? "Hard to Find" sets generally mean it's not sold in major retail stores and is only available from Lego.com or Lego stores. The best gauge as to when a set is approaching the end of its life is how long ago it was released, as you generally get a year or two worth of availability. Medieval Market Village was released in 2009 and only went off of Lego.com last year as the Kingdoms Joust set was nearing release.
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May 23, 2012 14:13
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Amazon doesn't sell it themselves, but TRU.com does, so it's not that hard to find. So I guess it doesn't mean that much.
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May 23, 2012 14:47
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Potc sets went on mark down/ clearance this week at Kmart and I snatch up two Queen Anne sets for 60 bucks each. A good day if I may say.
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May 23, 2012 17:21
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Adregan posted:Potc sets went on mark down/ clearance this week at Kmart and I snatch up two Queen Anne sets for 60 bucks each. A good day if I may say. Fuuuck. I saw them at Wal-Mart for 80 each, and I thought that was ridiculously cheap.
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May 23, 2012 19:28
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I bought this today at a used book store: I might go through it and upload some of the illustrations in at some point if anyone wants to see them (and if they aren't already online somewhere), it seems like a really cute book. Notice the ranger minifig on the cover!
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May 23, 2012 20:39
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Anyone notice the race driver from yesterday's Sun freebie is sporting a classic space logo on his race-suit? edit: VV ask and ye shall receive...  It would make a good space cadet/astronaut training jacket. beato fucked around with this message at 22:36 on May 23, 2012 |
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May 23, 2012 21:18
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beato posted:Anyone notice the race driver from yesterday's Sun freebie is sporting a classic space logo on his race-suit? Picture. Now.
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May 23, 2012 22:02
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Adregan posted:Potc sets went on mark down/ clearance this week at Kmart and I snatch up two Queen Anne sets for 60 bucks each. A good day if I may say. Hmmm I wonder if this is all Kmarts or just your local one? Either way I'll be heading there tonight, that's too good of a deal not to investigate. Check out Death Springs, my free webcomic updated every Thursday!
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May 23, 2012 22:08
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beato posted:Anyone notice the race driver from yesterday's Sun freebie is sporting a classic space logo on his race-suit? Lego should just release the set of twelve as a purchasable box in the US. Or make it the monthly model thing, or something, I would sign up for 20 bucks a year or whatever for that.
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beato posted:edit: VV ask and ye shall receive... Just the red jacket, then. That's a little disappointing. It's one of my absolute favorite minifig torsos--don't get me wrong. It's just off the shelf. I've raged about this before, but Lego desperately needs to do that jacket print in all the Classic Space colors, maybe with a white top for the black torso. It's not like space dudes are going to wear pressure suits inside their big ships all the time.
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I started looking into doing price-drop email alerts and it kind of morphed into something else. Some kind of a cookie based watchlist that you can use to create a persistant custom theme. I've limited it to twenty sets for now, but I'll probably increase that at some point. It's still a little hinky in places, but really handy if there are a few specific sets you're watching. I guess you can do similar stuff on the raw page, but I've kind of ditched that (as a user) because the main version kind of has more going on now and is more useful. This will also form the basis of the email alert stuff, but I don't want to get into that as I'm off on vacation soon, so it will wait until I get back. The basics are already in there though so it should give you an idea how it works. Edit: Also worth noting that after being pretty stagnant for the last couple of weeks both the UK and US have some decent Amazon deals going on at the moment. Nothing mind blowing, but a few decent sets have dropped to 20-25% off. Gravy Jones fucked around with this message at 23:58 on May 23, 2012 |
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Earth Defense HQ is discontinued, right? I just saw a pile of six of them at the local Barnes and Noble about an hour ago, so if you're looking to get your alien-killing fix on before the sets completely disappear from retailers, it's worth looking there.
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Am I the only person that greatly prefers the freebie promo Hulk minifig to the official set version? Maybe I'm letting my childhood memories distort the issue but I always think of the Hulk as the upper limits of actual human height, definitely not taller than 7-8 feet or so. The set version is just jagnormous. Proportionally, they should've given Wolverine yoda/ewok legs if they're so into modifying for height.
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Why cookie Rocket posted:Am I the only person that greatly prefers the freebie promo Hulk minifig to the official set version? Maybe I'm letting my childhood memories distort the issue but I always think of the Hulk as the upper limits of actual human height, definitely not taller than 7-8 feet or so. The set version is just jagnormous. Proportionally, they should've given Wolverine yoda/ewok legs if they're so into modifying for height. You're not the only one, no. I made sure and ordered enough stuff to get the freebie Hulk, because he looks fantastic, but I think that that Hulk and Deadpool and Magneto look head and shoulders cooler than any of the main Avengers minifigs.
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May 24, 2012 06:12
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Welp, got me both a Magneto and a Gandalf. Only thing to do now is team up and rule the Lego world.
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Now we just need some Da Vinci Code Lego and he can rival Alfred Molina for minifig numbers!
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The_Doctor posted:Now we just need some Da Vinci Code Lego and he can rival Alfred Molina for minifig numbers! Harrison Ford, Orlando Bloom and soon also Samuel L Jackson are all one away as well!
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May 24, 2012 08:51
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Don't forget John Rhys-Davies.
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I don't think they ever actually made a mini-fig for his Indy character, unless you're thinking of another franchise beyond LOTR?
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ireladd posted:I don't think they ever actually made a mini-fig for his Indy character, unless you're thinking of another franchise beyond LOTR? You're right, Sallah's just in the games! Unacceptable Lego
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