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Could you not just squirrel away the extra now to adjust for the price hike? I don't want to say 'it's only £30' because from what I gather you have a family and we all know money doesn't go as far as it used to these days. It depends on how you were going to pay for it anyway I guess, saving until release or just buying on payday after release. Also all the trains on this page are awesome and considering I work on the railways and have complete disdain for train spotters you should consider this the highest complement, Lego Train Goons.
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Lofty132 posted:Also all the trains on this page are awesome I don't care for your sarcastic tone, sir! (  )
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Lofty132 posted:Could you not just squirrel away the extra now to adjust for the price hike? I don't want to say 'it's only £30' because from what I gather you have a family and we all know money doesn't go as far as it used to these days. It depends on how you were going to pay for it anyway I guess, saving until release or just buying on payday after release. I could afford it. It just pushes it past what I'm willing to pay for Lego. Probably more a psychological point than anything else. To be honest I may not have got it at £120. It's also a value thing. At £120 it was fairly good value. At £150 it's the same price as the Town Hall which has significantly more pieces. Gravy Jones fucked around with this message at 10:38 on Jun 27, 2012 |
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Gravy Jones posted:They adjusted the UK price for that Haunted House up from £120 to £150. That sucks, but I guess it was inevitable. It seemed suprisingly cheap before. That probably takes it out of what I'm willing to pay for it now. Which is a shame because it would be the biggest set I'd ever owned by far. The Australian price has been bumped up to $269 as well. I can't spend that 
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Gravy Jones posted:It's also a value thing. At £120 it was fairly good value. At £150 it's the same price as the Town Hall which has significantly more pieces. It's far cooler than the Town Hall though 
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Lofty132 posted:Could you not just squirrel away the extra now to adjust for the price hike? I don't want to say 'it's only £30' because from what I gather you have a family and we all know money doesn't go as far as it used to these days. It depends on how you were going to pay for it anyway I guess, saving until release or just buying on payday after release.
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Those trains are making me wish I had the parts or the know how to do coupling rods on wheels.  Also where did you get the decals from for those? I've seen Amtrak trains at MegaCon when they have their big LEGO setups and I have always wondered where you get Amtrak emblems and such.
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Where was the price increase announced? The Lego site still lists it at $180US which is unchanged as far as I recall.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Where was the price increase announced? The Lego site still lists it at $180US which is unchanged as far as I recall.
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less laughter posted:Gravy Jones and Lizard Combatant mentioned the UK and AU price, respectively. Nobody said anything about the US price. I just saw Gravy post about the UK price hike and checked the AU site fearing the worst. The US is safe, for now.
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Oh, man, I found a guy who built a Lego Allegheny. For those that don't know (which is probably a smaller number than usual in a thread like this) the Allegheny was one of the largest, most powerful steam engines ever built, with a 2-6-6-6 wheel layout. It's by far my favorite piece in the B&O Railroad Museum's collection, and I'm definitely going to have to build one for myself some day. The guy's flickr is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/savatheaggie/ And here is a picture with the Allegheny next to the Emerald Night: http://www.flickr.com/photos/savatheaggie/3670351149/sizes/o/in/photostream/
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Log082 posted:Oh, man, I found a guy who built a Lego Allegheny. For those that don't know (which is probably a smaller number than usual in a thread like this) the Allegheny was one of the largest, most powerful steam engines ever built, with a 2-6-6-6 wheel layout. It's by far my favorite piece in the B&O Railroad Museum's collection, and I'm definitely going to have to build one for myself some day. Awesome! Train chat rules.
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Lizard Combatant posted:I just saw Gravy post about the UK price hike and checked the AU site fearing the worst. The US is safe, for now. So as of right now I'd be saving £50 by buying stateside.. Hmm.
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The_Doctor posted:So as of right now I'd be saving £50 by buying stateside.. Hmm. I'd be saving USD$80 (what with the AUD being higher than the USD) not including shipping.
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Lizard Combatant posted:Fair enough. This is the train builder's dilemma here. I think those windows are too small for 2x2 rounds, especially at 6-wide, which is what they look to me, but probably bigger than 1x1. Still, I've mostly seen people use 1x1 round plates stuck in technic bricks for windows like that. It's not a perfect solution, though. Zeether posted:Those trains are making me wish I had the parts or the know how to do coupling rods on wheels. Most of the side rods we do are just thin technic liftarms in different combinations. The best thing to do is just get some wheels and liftarms and mess around with them. I make all my decals, though I do know guys who use O gauge decals for some things. Many of the fonts can be found online, and the graphics as well. I print them out on normal label paper, mostly because I suck at decals, and the labels are easily replaced if damaged. Log082 posted:Oh, man, I found a guy who built a Lego Allegheny. Definitely one of the best Lego train models I've seen. He does some pretty great work.
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Shuppiluliumas posted:This is the train builder's dilemma here. I think those windows are too small for 2x2 rounds, especially at 6-wide, which is what they look to me, but probably bigger than 1x1. Still, I've mostly seen people use 1x1 round plates stuck in technic bricks for windows like that. It's not a perfect solution, though. Maybe a variation of this technique using 1x3 arches?   It's not ideal but it does create a space somewhere between 1x1 and 2x2. e: nope, that creates a long oval shape. drat. Lizard Combatant fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Jun 27, 2012 |
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Now I really want to go home and play Railworks.
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If I can scrape together the cash, one day I will go on a Lego train buying spree. Always wanted the Metroliner and that one giant red electric crocodile loco too. Zeether fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Jun 28, 2012 |
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Big thanks to Mog for a great Minifigure transaction. I have 15 more Galaxy Patrol figures still sealed if anyone is interested. Shoot me a PM.
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Lizard Combatant posted:The Australian price has been bumped up to $269 as well. I can't spend that I don't know that the Australian price was ever lower than $269. I made a guess earlier in the thread that it would be about $250 (judging by another, similarly sized, recent set) but I never saw it at less than $269. It's still expensive. And they'll still sell.
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Amoeba102 posted:It's on the shop.lego.au right now as an exclusive: but it says out Sept 1st for 269.99. Shipping from the leego online store would be another 40 at least. Post from June 16.
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MaliciousOnion posted:I don't know that the Australian price was ever lower than $269. I made a guess earlier in the thread that it would be about $250 (judging by another, similarly sized, recent set) but I never saw it at less than $269. I swear I saw it for $239 on their site when it was first announced, I did a search on the site and found their temporary page which said AUD$239, avaliable September 1st. e: ok, looks like I may be talking poo poo. Guess I'm definitely ordering from the US. e2: actually since I don't really care about the minifigs (cool as they are), what could I expect to pay for a New/incomplete set on bricklink once it's out? How much would 6 missing minifigs knock off the price? Lizard Combatant fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Jun 28, 2012 |
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The Rage posted:Big thanks to Mog for a great Minifigure transaction. I have 15 more Galaxy Patrol figures still sealed if anyone is interested. Shoot me a PM.
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So this is basically the new Best Thing Ever and everybody needs to vote for it. If Minecraft got greenlit, surely Portal has a fighting chance, right?
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Optimist Prime posted:So this is basically the new Best Thing Ever and everybody needs to vote for it. If Minecraft got greenlit, surely Portal has a fighting chance, right? No. I seem to recall someone pitching a portal themed thing on cuusoo and I think even hitting 10k votes only to have lego say "yeah portal is basically never going to happen."
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Saint Sputnik posted:I just registered for Cuusoo so I could support this because got-dang So that got edited into this:  Which is still good, but significantly less rad. e: I'm dumb and need to learn to scroll down. He is doing an entire Roman History set, including an area and several Celtic sets.
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Without the wolf headdress I am less interested. I could see lego doing it just because there is no new molds. I know non violent themes don't sell well but I do want more futuristic non violent sets like I saw in the past, neon orange chain saws for cutting ice doesn't count as violent.
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Torael_7 posted:No. I seem to recall someone pitching a portal themed thing on cuusoo and I think even hitting 10k votes only to have lego say "yeah portal is basically never going to happen." Oh. Well, apparently this one was vetoed at first, but then Cuusoo gave it a closer look and reinstated it for voting. But Cuusoo's criteria are not the same as Lego's, so...
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Lego is addictive. I plowed through the 8110 unimog, and an nxt 2.0 set should get here tomorrow. Anyone know of any exceptionally fun nxt projects to try?
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Th_ posted:Anyone know of any exceptionally fun nxt projects to try? NXT Rubix cube solver.
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The rubix cubed solvers made my jaw drop when I saw them at the lego show. I'd assumed all that nxt/mindstorms stuff was just for kids in school to make dumb robots that you could program in a path or something. It actually all seems pretty powerful.
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Are there any good accessories/tools for the Unimog? Got mine built and saw some on rebrickable but they seem to require you to buy another one just to get the parts :p
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So a new toy store opened up near where I live and they're having 50% off on all Lego tomorrow. Based on other stores in the same chain I think they will mostly have City, Star Wars, Ninjago and Creator. Maybe a few sets from other current and previous themes but no UCS or modulars. I'll be looking to pick something up for myself but I also thought I'd buy something to sell online. If I can buy it for 50% and sell it for 75-100% of the retail price I'll make money and not feel like a bastard. I'm just wondering if I should look for or avoid anything in particular? Like Ninjago, is that easy to sell second hand or is the market saturated by retail? Should I just look for the biggest price tag?
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Buy all of it. With the exception of a few things that seem to always be half price everywhere I think anything that's 50% off you could probably sell for a profit. For some it might not be worth the hassle though. Just make sure it's 50% off MRSP not a big retail mark-up. Brickset have some mobile phone aps that could help with that. In general I'd say the more recent the better. Current Star Wars and Ninjago over City and Creator. Some City and Creator sets often have high mark-ups and big discounts so they might be ones that could catch you out. Unpopular sets from themes on their way out (Pharoah's Quest, Alien Conquest) or leftovers from stuff like Prince of Persia might not be worth it either. It may also depend what country you're in. In the UK 50% of a discontinued line happens now and then and isn't a massive deal. In the US it's still pretty unusual. Gravy Jones fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Jun 29, 2012 |
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Jusupov posted:Are there any good accessories/tools for the Unimog? Got mine built and saw some on rebrickable but they seem to require you to buy another one just to get the parts :p No official ones, and I don't remember seeing any MOC accessories that were from a single technic set. If you hit Build It on rebrickable it'll show you the sets that have the most parts you need, or let you export the part list to bricklink if you want to get the parts piecemeal.
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Gravy Jones posted:Buy all of it. With the exception of a few things that seem to always be half price everywhere I think anything that's 50% off you could probably sell for a profit. For some it might not be worth the hassle though. Alright, thanks for the tips! I don't own a smartphone but I've got a lot of prices memorized anyway.
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Merchant of Death posted:NXT Rubix cube solver. I can't remember where I saw it, but someone made a NXT Rubik's Cube solver-bot that can solve a cube as fast as some humans (<10 seconds). That blew me away. edit: I found this one that uses 4 NXT computer bricks and an Android phone to solve a cube in 5.4 seconds. http://singularityhub.com/2011/10/19/lego-robot-beats-human-world-record-for-solving-the-rubiks-cube/ rockinricky fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Jun 29, 2012 |
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rockinricky posted:I can't remember where I saw it, but someone made a NXT Rubik's Cube solver-bot that can solve a cube as fast as some humans (<10 seconds). That blew me away. I think I have to try to make that.
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Captain Scandinaiva posted:Alright, thanks for the tips! I don't own a smartphone but I've got a lot of prices memorized anyway.
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Gravy Jones posted:It may also depend what country you're in. In the UK 50% of a discontinued line happens now and then and isn't a massive deal. In the US it's still pretty unusual. Uh, yeah, about this. I live in Sweden and 50% off everything is pretty unusual it seems, I read somewhere it only happens when a new store opens. When I came by the store this morning the line outside was about 100m long! Up front were a bunch of 30-something AFOL-looking guys carrying a big black garbage bag and a blue IKEA bag. I left because I figured everything would be gone by the time I got in and I didn't feel like standing in line. Came back over an hour later and the line was half as long so I figured I could pick up whatever was left. But it turns out they had stocked up for the occasion and I got a pretty good catch!  In hindsight I should have come earlier, stood in line, picked up The Black Pearl, Jabba's Palace (I saw a few people carrying these when I came in but they were gone from the shelves, same thing with BP) and the Unimog, gone home and come back for a few smaller sets. But being fresh out of uni and unemployed that would probably have ruined me before I would have the chance to sell them. The City sets are for me, BTW.
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