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Got some good deals today. Hit up the Target b1g1 40% on creator sets for a couple of $18 sets, used a 20% coupon at TRU on a small arctic city set that are new to me (snowmobiles, dogsled teams, cool arctic fur hats). TRU also had a deal going on where you buy any set, any price, and get a free poly bag of the Spider-Man Glider. Grabbed a Star Wars polybag I hadn't seen that looked cool and got two gliders.
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Is Ecto 1 going to be available through the online store? UK goon here.
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May 31, 2014 10:39
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Next series of minifigs preview: http://brickfanatics.co.uk/first-image-of-collectible-minifigures-series-12/
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May 31, 2014 11:40
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Lofty132 posted:Is Ecto 1 going to be available through the online store? UK goon here. I can't think of any reason why not.
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May 31, 2014 11:41
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:Next series of minifigs preview: http://brickfanatics.co.uk/first-image-of-collectible-minifigures-series-12/ Yooooo, that warrior woman. I was fairly pissed that the viking woman had a slope block for legs, this one nicely fixes their "gotta have dresses!" female characters while giving them moving legs. The Lara Croft lookalike next to her looks like a good figure too, and the bow looks like a new piece? Gamer dork is pretty neat, the space warrior looks good too and appears to have the contamination suit guy's helmet, Merlin is Merlin and what-the-gently caress-ever to the three musketeer guy. Three I'm looking forward to a lot, one I like but wouldn't want more than one of, one that's decent, and one that's a waste of a slot. All in all, a pretty good preview so far!
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May 31, 2014 13:11
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Actually the Merlin looks more like Pierce Hawthorne as a Laser Lotus.
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May 31, 2014 13:52
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The_Doctor posted:I can't think of any reason why not. So I need to be on first thing tomorrow morning to bag one?
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May 31, 2014 14:07
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I was very excited to see that the Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP!!! comes with robot disguise Emmett. Does anyone know if we're supposed to get a set with robot Wyldstyle or wild west Emmett? I need Emmett's face with the mustache.
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Lofty132 posted:So I need to be on first thing tomorrow morning to bag one? I heard they made way more of these than the Deloreans so I doubt it'll sell out too quickly. There's a 3rd party store on eBay selling them now for RRP and free delivery but you'd miss out on the VIP points. Apparently John Lewis have them on shelves already in a bunch of their stores too if you have one nearby and you can't wait! Edit: just bought one off the shelf in Jenners in Edinburgh, it's £49.99 but they have a 15% off sale today and tomorrow on all Lego so it goes through at £42.50. Griever fucked around with this message at 15:47 on May 31, 2014 |
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May 31, 2014 14:57
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parque bynch posted:I was very excited to see that the Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP!!! comes with robot disguise Emmett. Does anyone know if we're supposed to get a set with robot Wyldstyle or wild west Emmett? I need Emmett's face with the mustache. I believe wild West Emmett was a polybag exclusive for a theater or game pre-order.
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May 31, 2014 15:41
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Finally saw the movie last night. Amazing, awesome, etc, etc just like everyone else said, even the finance loved it. Will be getting Benny's spaceship spaceship SPACESHIP as soon as it's released.
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May 31, 2014 15:43
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Cloks posted:I believe wild West Emmett was a polybag exclusive for a theater or game pre-order. Special edition of the video game comes with it. You can actually pick it up cheapish.
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May 31, 2014 16:40
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I take it I should basically stay up until midnight to try to order the Ecto-1 from their website? I am guessing that poo poo is going to be sold out by reseller dicks within a few minutes, and my fiance really, really, really wants one and her birthday is on the 9th. Is staying up and trying to order right at midnight the best plan? Or do they start allowing orders at midnight eastern time, or what?
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May 31, 2014 17:15
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There's certainly going to be an initial rush so if you absolutely have to have the Ecto-1 this week yeah you want to get in early. But the BTTF Delorean is rotting on shelves all over the place, in the long run it shouldn't be hard to acquire.
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May 31, 2014 17:22
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since we are talking about the cuusoo stuff, does anyone know whether lego just underestimated demand for the mars rover or whether the only way to pick one up is from scalpers?
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May 31, 2014 17:36
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Ika posted:since we are talking about the cuusoo stuff, does anyone know whether lego just underestimated demand for the mars rover or whether the only way to pick one up is from scalpers? If it plays out like the delorean, another shipment should come in soon I would think and it should be easy to get thereafter.
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May 31, 2014 17:59
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xzzy posted:There's certainly going to be an initial rush so if you absolutely have to have the Ecto-1 this week yeah you want to get in early. When does S&H generally open for orders then, EST or PST? I'll stay up until midnight if I have to just for this present.
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May 31, 2014 19:53
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:Next series of minifigs preview: http://brickfanatics.co.uk/first-image-of-collectible-minifigures-series-12/ Cookie crisp wizard!! I like using the unicorn piece on the space gun I never thought of that.
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May 31, 2014 23:16
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jeeves posted:When does S&H generally open for orders then, EST or PST? I'll stay up until midnight if I have to just for this present. I called the Lego store earlier today about it and they said EST.
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jeeves posted:When does S&H generally open for orders then, EST or PST? I'll stay up until midnight if I have to just for this present. I just used the Lego website to preorder two Ecto-1 sets. So that is probably an option.
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Yeah I actually just did the same. As soon as you log in it gives you the preorder option, which is nice.
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Trying to do the pre-order but it says they are experiencing technical difficulties and I can't use my VIP points.  edit: And now since it's past midnight it's available and everything is working. wooo mattfl fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Jun 1, 2014 |
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Jun 1, 2014 04:56
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So I got the latest catalog in the mail, there's a coupon in the middle of it that says it's for a free ticket to Legoland with the purchase of a regular ticket, with any purchase at a Lego store/the website. Does anyone know how this works? Do I bring this coupon to a Lego store, and they'll take it and give me another coupon to bring to Legoland? Do I buy the Legoland ticket at the Lego store and get some kind of pass to bring to the park? I am confused.
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Captain Invictus posted:Yooooo, that warrior woman. I was fairly pissed that the viking woman had a slope block for legs, this one nicely fixes their "gotta have dresses!" female characters while giving them moving legs. The Lara Croft lookalike next to her looks like a good figure too, and the bow looks like a new piece? Gamer dork is pretty neat, the space warrior looks good too and appears to have the contamination suit guy's helmet, Merlin is Merlin and what-the-gently caress-ever to the three musketeer guy. Lara Croft is actually "Dino Tracker". Finally, I can make my Trespasser set.
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When might the Ecto-1 show up on Amazon? I've got a gift card I'd like to spend on it. PS I'm watching Ghostbusters 2 right now. Any decent MOCs for a dancing toaster? Edit: I'll just leave this here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_N10A9qAVA deoju fucked around with this message at 05:32 on Jun 1, 2014 |
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Knormal posted:So I got the latest catalog in the mail, there's a coupon in the middle of it that says it's for a free ticket to Legoland with the purchase of a regular ticket, with any purchase at a Lego store/the website. Does anyone know how this works? Do I bring this coupon to a Lego store, and they'll take it and give me another coupon to bring to Legoland? Do I buy the Legoland ticket at the Lego store and get some kind of pass to bring to the park? I am confused. I'm not sure about the 'coupon' in the catalog, but the current promotion is any purchase at the Lego store gets you a coupon which is basically a BOGO Legoland ticket coupon. So you'd use the coupon when you purchase tickets at Legoland. The stores do not sell Legoland tickets, as Legoland is run by a separate company. If your thing in the catalog doesn't look like a coupon and doesn't look like its meant to be cut out or whatever, then I'm sure you could head over to your local Lego store and buy something small or ask them nicely if they'd be willing to just give you one. Or you could order something neat online.
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UK listing if you still need it: http://shop.lego.com/en-GB/Ghostbusters-Ecto-1-21108
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Ouch, I had no idea the Ghostbuster car is $50! Think I am going to take a risk and wait for it to go on sale....wishing I would have waited on the Delorean since I've seen it pop up for sale quite a few times since it was released. I imagine that they have to make a lot of sets to get a return on investment for any custom pieces needed to be produced for the set.
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So my trip to the Lego store this morning was very fruitful! I got Ecto-1, the GotG small set, and a bunch of freebies: a balloon cart polybag , a birthday cake polybag, a TMNT Shredder minifig and a free minifig pack to come back and build three for free! Also, 100 free VIP points! So good   All the new sets are out too, like the Creator Bike Shop/Cafe, all the GotG sest the X-Men Blackbird, the Fairground Mixer, Benny's SPACESHIP etc. I had to choose carefully to not spend all my money :P
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The_Doctor posted:UK listing if you still need it: http://shop.lego.com/en-GB/Ghostbusters-Ecto-1-21108 Thanks for this, just ordered mine! I am a huge Ghostbusters fan: I have a tattoo of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man for god's sake!
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Jun 1, 2014 12:54
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To all the jerks that bought an Ecto-1 from the now sold out Sheffield Lego store...I hate you. 
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Jun 1, 2014 13:04
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Man, why isn't there a Lego store in Pittsburgh? I wanna get all sorts of free crap when I spend money on Lego 
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Sockser posted:Man, why isn't there a Lego store in Pittsburgh? I wanna get all sorts of free crap when I spend money on Lego I briefly worked in the Cleveland store. Lots of yinzers would make the drive out to shop here. It's not as far as people think.
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I've been working on another stand for my CMFs, for series 9, 10, 11, and the movie ones. If anyone has suggestions on how to improve the internal structure let me know. Its using a lot of plates right now to hopefully improve strength when the entire stand is held together by this structure x 6. First, a side view of the repeating unit, with and without the floor.  And the full stand, without the sides finished. I'm planning on using some sort of fencing on the left and right edges and perhaps the back as well.  E: The entire thing is going to go on my bookshelf in front of some books, so having all the loose figures on an easily removable unit will make it much easier to grab a book. Ika fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Jun 1, 2014 |
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Jun 1, 2014 16:46
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Just got back from Burlington with both a Spaceship Spaceship SPACESHIP and Ecto-1. Time to get buildin'. 
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Jun 1, 2014 17:46
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Got me an Ecto-1 today. Feeling good.
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Carbohydrates posted:Got me an Ecto-1 today. Feeling good. In line in Glendale CA waiting for the store to open. A lot of goony looking fucks ahead of me.
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And they had literally 10 sets to sell. Needless to say I did not get one. edit: they actually have more. Now queued in 1 giant line to buy/ maybe get one. They could have reLly handled this better ltr fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Jun 1, 2014 |
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Local LEGO store in North Kansas City has about 15 on the shelves and around 30 at the check outline with a few dozen more in the back, I think the manager said they received around 70 boxes for the Ecto-1.
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Okay so the Ecto-1! First off, though all the pre-release reviews mentioned pages falling out of the instruction books, mine had no such problem. This build has a lot of really clever moments. The angled side windows are probably the most obvious, and they work wonderfully. The set also found a good use for the 4x4 corner plate, where it actually feels like it was used well for stability and strength instead of just being a "why not use a 2x4 with a 2x2" sort of scenario. The blue hose on the side is pretty brilliant, too - it's just one piece of hydraulic tube looped around on itself and tucked under the roof detailing so the roof can be removed easily without having to disconnect said tubing. They're really generous with the silver bits, too - 1x1 round plates, cheese slopes, and 1x2 grill tiles in good numbers, plus a few 1x1 round bricks and a couple 1x2 cheese grater slopes. Oh, and those gorgeous hubcaps made out of the barbell weights piece. Interestingly, the set uses a bunch of 1x2 light gray cheese slopes, but no regular 1x1 light gray cheese slopes. There's a place where two of them are needed, and the set uses two silver ones instead. So yeah, definitely generous with the silver. Also building this reminds me of how much LEGO loves to reinforce its connections. It's a total tank. The front bumper/light section is connected by 12 SNOT studs, and the sides are basically pure SNOT - there are just rows and rows of brackets for everything to connect to. I like that they used that trick where two same-side 2x3 wing plates fit against each other to form a solid surface. Plenty of us have been doing that forever, but somebody is gonna learn about that trick for the first time in this set, and that's pretty cool. The figs own, and their stand has the Ghostbusters logo attached in a notably clever way - it's attached by both a pair of headlight bricks and a 1x2 bracket plate, utilizing both vertical and horizontal 1/2 plate offsetting. It's completely unnecessary and entirely gratuitous, especially since white headlight bricks aren't used anywhere else in the set. It's really more of a "hey look at this cool technique" sort of thing, which is awesome. One last thing - the current mold of the 1x1 tiles with the clip on top? They have the strongest grip I've seen in ages. Like, it's ridiculous, they have immense friction both in the clip and bottom. There are 7 points in the build where you connect a 1x1 round plate to the bottom of one, and I don't envy whoever gets to sit there and pry those fuckers back apart. I'm glad this is purely a display set for me. Carbohydrates fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Jun 1, 2014 |
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