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Yeah, this whole Mr Gold thing seems incredibly shortsighted. Especially after the Minecraft fiasco last Christmas.
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Does anyone know when the Pet Shop is due to be discontinued?jeeves posted:I loving hate what Mr. Gold did to CMF and to Lego in general. It's getting such a bad response that they might actually take note though.
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May 21, 2013 05:42
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Lizard Combatant posted:Does anyone know when the Pet Shop is due to be discontinued? Are you kidding? I am sure it is their top seller of the year. Same with the B-Wing selling amazingly well to scalpers and pretty much loving the vast majority of people (ie: kids) out of getting it.
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May 21, 2013 05:47
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jeeves posted:Are you kidding? I am sure it is their top seller of the year. Same with the B-Wing selling amazingly well to scalpers and pretty much loving the vast majority of people (ie: kids) out of getting it. I'm sure you're referring to Mr Gold not the pet shop. You may be right, but I like to hope they'll be smarter about how they implement similar gimmicks in future.
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May 21, 2013 06:14
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The two modulars before the pet shop are still being sold, and it's unlikely it will be discontinued before them. I would say some time next year, at the earliest.
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May 21, 2013 06:24
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jeeves posted:Are you kidding? I am sure it is their top seller of the year. Same with the B-Wing selling amazingly well to scalpers and pretty much loving the vast majority of people (ie: kids) out of getting it. How is anyone hosed out of getting it?
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May 21, 2013 07:10
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Plus I'm not sure how many children were waiting with their saved allowances just in case the B-Wing went on sale.
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May 21, 2013 08:36
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Lizard Combatant posted:I'm sure you're referring to Mr Gold not the pet shop. You may be right, but I like to hope they'll be smarter about how they implement similar gimmicks in future. If they wanted to implement this they should have done it with a scratcher coupon in every bag with the winners being mailed Mr Gold instead.
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May 21, 2013 13:20
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Series 12 should have Mr. Gold as one of the standard 16.
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May 21, 2013 13:23
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The_Doctor posted:Series 12 should have Mr. Gold as one of the standard 16. I would love this. The fallout would be incredible, it'd be the hypercane of shitstorms.
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May 21, 2013 13:26
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LingcodKilla posted:If they wanted to implement this they should have done it with a scratcher coupon in every bag with the winners being mailed Mr Gold instead. This is good, but The_Doctor posted:Series 12 should have Mr. Gold as one of the standard 16. this is better
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May 21, 2013 13:42
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The_Doctor posted:Series 12 should have Mr. Gold as one of the standard 16. The people dumb enough to pay $1,000 on eBay would sue SUE SUE 
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May 21, 2013 15:18
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The Rage posted:Plus I'm not sure how many children were waiting with their saved allowances just in case the B-Wing went on sale. I kind of get the feeling maybe it wasn't selling all that well. I considered buying the set when it came out, AND I considered it when it went on sale for half price, but frankly I am just not all the enamored with it. So, yeah - I think people maybe buying an extra set was not unreasonable, but I'm kind of hoping that these sets are as unpopular so the people who bought 25 are doing lego a favor by clearing out stock that they were going to have trouble selling.
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May 21, 2013 15:47
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Lizard Combatant posted:So much do I loath that skydiver, it's this series' Sour Quince Log. It's still the biker mechanic for me. I bought another nine S10s in Michigan over the weekend and every single one was a repeat except for a single Revolutionary soldier. Sexy librarian continues to elude me. Story of my life.
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May 21, 2013 16:46
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drat you Lego! Why do you have such contempt for Australia? All I want is that Lone Ranger train and you have it available in every other country and a free shipping deal on top of it! Even New Zealanders can get it already! Though the poor bastards get even more of a mark up than us. Saint Sputnik posted:Sexy librarian continues to elude me. Story of my life. Yeah I need one too for my real life version.
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May 21, 2013 16:55
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Red posted:The people dumb enough to pay $1,000 on eBay would sue SUE SUE Could they, though? Or at least have a case? It's not like LEGO is the one that was selling the figure on ebay. I just don't know how it all works.
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May 21, 2013 17:06
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Officer Farva posted:Could they, though? Or at least have a case? It's not like LEGO is the one that was selling the figure on ebay. I just don't know how it all works. A.) I don't believe they'd have a case against Lego, no. B.) The legal costs far outweigh the money lost on Mr. Gold. C.) The kind of person dumb enough to drop a grand on a Lego figure that's a month old is probably the same kind of person that would storm into a law office, brandishing a tear-stained printout of the next minifigure teaser picture. Edit: Had to add tears
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Red posted:A.) I don't believe they'd have a case against Lego, no. I would love to be a fly on the wall in scenario C so very much. e: \/\/\/ That would have been better. You'd still get people buying whole cases and reselling the figs online but not quite as many people would be willing to do that and they'd have to sell the figs at below cost to unload them all. Lizard Combatant fucked around with this message at 17:35 on May 21, 2013 |
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May 21, 2013 17:31
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A much, much better way of handling this would have been to have made Mr. Gold standard in series 10, and include scratchers for a chance to win one of (X number) of a version made out of solid goddamn gold.
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May 21, 2013 17:32
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Lizard Combatant posted:I would love to be a fly on the wall in scenario C so very much. This is the part that's really disappointed me. I'd really like to build a revolutionary army, but I'm not going to pay John Q. Bricklink above-cost for the minifigs he's offloading from his Mr. Gold search. I get that some of the inventory is just because Series 10 is current, but this is still ridiculous: quote:Series 1 Minifigures (3367)
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May 21, 2013 17:43
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So I'm in Minnesota this week for work, and I just found out today that we're going to be staying in Minneapolis right near the airport on Wednesday night instead of the podunk town we're at now. Guess where I'm going after work tomorrow!
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May 21, 2013 19:38
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Dogen posted:...but I'm kind of hoping that these sets are as unpopular so the people who bought 25 are doing lego a favor by clearing out stock that they were going to have trouble selling. Naw, it'll be easy to sell, and is.
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mattfl posted:So I'm in Minnesota this week for work, and I just found out today that we're going to be staying in Minneapolis right near the airport on Wednesday night instead of the podunk town we're at now. Guess where I'm going after work tomorrow! I found the pick-a-brick there really disappointing when I was there a while ago. The store is huge and the wall is way bigger than most of their stores but they had the worst brick selection I've ever seen. Is that pretty normal for the Mall of America location or did I just have bad luck?
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Dogen posted:I kind of get the feeling maybe it wasn't selling all that well. I considered buying the set when it came out, AND I considered it when it went on sale for half price, but frankly I am just not all the enamored with it. So, yeah - I think people maybe buying an extra set was not unreasonable, but I'm kind of hoping that these sets are as unpopular so the people who bought 25 are doing lego a favor by clearing out stock that they were going to have trouble selling. Strangely enough, eBay is showing that even right now the people who bought out extras at half price are profitable. They're selling for around $150, which is still a deal for people who want the set, saving $50, and the people who bought them are making ~$30 after shipping and eBay fees. So it might not be a huge profit, but theres still some being made. And eventually once the set is truly discontinued, there'll be people freaking out that they didn't get one, and buy it for above original retail.
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May 21, 2013 20:38
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Dr. Tim Whatley posted:How is anyone hosed out of getting it? Lots of people were hosed out of getting it at a decent price because scalpers bought 25 at a time so they could turn a quick profit.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Lots of people were hosed out of getting it at a decent price because scalpers bought 25 at a time so they could turn a quick profit. As far as I know, after human beings got to work in the morning, they got into the system and continued selling them, despite being "sold out". I bought mine after the initial rush died down. Has anyone not had their order fulfilled yet?
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Mine was purchased after it was "sold out" and I received it, and have since completed building it. ... It's ginormous. I actually have no idea where to put it; it's so much bigger than any other Lego set I've dealt with.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Lots of people were hosed out of getting it at a decent price because scalpers bought 25 at a time so they could turn a quick profit. It was literally available to buy though on backorder for 90% of the time it was on sale. Any child with 99$ to spend on his very own B-wing was afforded the chance. My lego... 
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Hay goons, look what I got at a yard sale for $20: No instructions, but he claimed that the Amazon set was complete. The enormous baseplate is in perfect condition, which is surprising given how flimsy it seems in the middle. Also said that the bucket contains "most of a pirate ship". Digging through them now, will update when I figure out what I've got. So far, though, there are a ton of Tyco "Lego-compatible" bricks. Never seen them before, but drat if I didn't immediately know they were fake just from touching them: wrong texture, wrong weight. I suppose if my color vision was better I might be able to tell them apart by color, too.
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Squashy Nipples posted:I suppose if my color vision was better I might be able to tell them apart by color, too. Oh my god that must be hell for a Lego lover. It's like Mr. Bemis and his broken glasses from Twilight Zone.  (Although I just had a hilarious thought of a color blind kid building something he thinks looks amazing but it looks like a technicolor mess)
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May 22, 2013 03:06
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The Johnny Thunder theme never should've ended.  Or at the very least the Indiana Jones sets should've been half as cool.
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ChesterJT posted:Oh my god that must be hell for a Lego lover. It's like Mr. Bemis and his broken glasses from Twilight Zone. It is. I constantly get colours mixed up when building. Differentiating between the 1x1 brown tiles (decoration under windows) and dark red tiles (awning above windows) in this set  proved impossible and I had to get my wife to help.
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May 22, 2013 03:27
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Lots of people were hosed out of getting it at a decent price because scalpers bought 25 at a time so they could turn a quick profit. Also I don't see the B-Wing being a "quick profit", more something that sits for years before spiking in value like the Death Star.
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May 22, 2013 09:45
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It seems pretty hard to lose money on a Star Wars UCS set at half price. It's not super rare but it is a $199 lego.com exclusive.
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What I mean is that so many people will be selling them now that it ought to keep the prices low for a while, until suddenly the supply starts to run out and the price spikes like the Death Star did.
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ChesterJT posted:Oh my god that must be hell for a Lego lover. It's like Mr. Bemis and his broken glasses from Twilight Zone. No, no, I'm not color blind; I can pass those circle dot tests. I just have trouble distinguishing between very similar colors. So yeah, that does include the modern depiction of black Lego elements, but I've gotten used to that. The upshot is that I usually build MOCs from existing Lego color palettes, under the assumption that someone with a good eye for color picked them out originally. MaliciousOnion posted:It is. I constantly get colours mixed up when building. Differentiating between the 1x1 brown tiles (decoration under windows) and dark red tiles (awning above windows) in this set proved impossible and I had to get my wife to help. Yeah, I'm not quite as bad as this guy. Captain Invictus posted:What I mean is that so many people will be selling them now that it ought to keep the prices low for a while, until suddenly the supply starts to run out and the price spikes like the Death Star did. Yeah, some of the Bricklink sellers seem to think that Supply And Demand only goes one way. Me, when I buy set for resale, I pick a price I like and just leave it there... even if it takes years, eventually I'll be at the price equilibrium when someone wants to buy it.
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The Rage posted:Strangely enough, eBay is showing that even right now the people who bought out extras at half price are profitable. They're selling for around $150, which is still a deal for people who want the set, saving $50, and the people who bought them are making ~$30 after shipping and eBay fees. So it might not be a huge profit, but theres still some being made. And eventually once the set is truly discontinued, there'll be people freaking out that they didn't get one, and buy it for above original retail. I guess the lesson is, no set is ever really a failure. Especially as smackfu points out... UCS star wars set at half price. Although wasn't the UCS jedi starfighter a bit of a bust? I remember those were still available when I was getting back into lego and were super cheap.
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Dogen posted:Although wasn't the UCS jedi starfighter a bit of a bust? I remember those were still available when I was getting back into lego and were super cheap. They still have plenty of them at toysrus in canada and they knocked the regular price from $130 to $80 and goes on sale every 6-8 weeks. It is actually a really nice ship but at $130 for under 700 pieces it was way too expensive and now they have a hard time moving them even at a reasonable price. I saw them on for $47 during one sale and they weren't moving at all. The only UCS set I don't have but still want is the Y-Wing, they run anywhere from $400-600. I might bricklink it like I did the snowspeeder but haven't gotten to it yet. Maybe they will do another set like they have the X-wing and fix the problems the original had which would be nice.
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Squashy Nipples posted:No, no, I'm not color blind; I can pass those circle dot tests. I just have trouble distinguishing between very similar colors. Color deficiency 
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http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=528530   Usually I'm not into HF/Buinicle but I feel like getting some now.
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