TheMadMilkman posted:

Ordered Wall-E. I didn't want to pay $8 for shipping, so I ordered the Scooby Doo mansion as well.

Pretty sure I'm bad with money.

Tomarse posted:

Tonight I decided that it was finally time to start going through my boxes of my childhood lego and trying to build some of the sets up. Starting with the blacktron base.

However, while digging out the bits for steps 1 and 2 of that, I found some parts labelled LL-918 and LL-928.

Back when I was about 10 in the earily 90's I was given a pile of classic space lego by a family friend who had 'outgrown it'. some of it was partially constructed and much of it was just in bits and it all went into my lego boxes.

I had never realised that LL-918/LL-928 were ships until I noticed that Bennys spaceship was LL-929. Now I cant decide if I am more excited to build up LL-928 or the Blacktron base!

Benny and antique Benny!:

NESguerilla posted:

That Yellow Submarine build is pretty rad and will no doubt hit 10000, but I wonder how hard it would be to license the Beatles. I would buy the poo poo out of that. Actually, that set would probably sell ridiculously well and everyone would buy the poo poo out of it.

ElwoodCuse posted:

There was a Knex [anything], it was pretty crappy

anotherblownsave posted:

Just picked up the general grievous buildable figure. Looks badass

Waldorf Sixpence posted:

$100? I wish. It is far, far more expensive than that here. £95, equivalent to $147 after tax. It's only £72 on Wii U though so I am thinking of buying it on that if there's no real difference between the platforms.

Gravy Jones posted:

The Darth Vader looks great as well. I really think they're the two best of those bionicle type figures they've done. Really impressive (Grievous is huge) and solid looking.

Captain Invictus posted:

mitochondritom posted:

For any UK Legoons, Tesco Direct have an offer right now where you get 1500 club card points if you spend 75 on Lego. They have the new StarWars sets and some marvel stuff seems to be lower than rrp (ant man battle was £16).

ijyt posted:

K'nex is awesome and I'll fight you.

rickiep00h posted:

Grievous is the thing that finally made me appreciate Bionicle as a system. That poo poo is tight. Plus he's basically the exact thing to show off what it can do.

And yeah, he's massive. All them arms and lightsabers. Not to mention he's like 2/3 legs as far as part count is concerned.

Gravy Jones posted:

If you're still considering it the Xbone and PS4 versions are both down to £80 on Amazon at the moment.

Pyroclastic posted:

I had the XB1 starter kit and the Portal 2 expansion in my hand today, before I decided I could wait for sales. Actually seeing that expansion and feeling its weight (and seeing the piece count) really made me reconsider the $30 price point. I really think Lego made a big misstep in pricing; it's just exorbitant. The starter kit for $100 I can kinda see. The game is $60, the RFID reader and 265 pieces are another $40. Priced high, but some SW sets have been almost as bad.
The Portal 2 Level Pack is 85 pieces, which is about a $10 set, maybe $12. The RFID tag isn't expensive in the least, so you're basically paying $20 for some in-game levels and a character. Unless that content is literally a third as long as the main game, it's not worth it. The Team Packs have even less value--no levels, just characters, and a similar number of pieces to the level packs, for $25. Fun Packs are a single character unlock and 30-70 pieces, for $15.
And then they release it all at once. If they divided it into waves, and released maybe 2 level packs, a team pack, and 3 fun packs at a time, it'd be easier to stomach. But, no, it's $750 to get the 'complete' game on release day. You can buy any two current-gen consoles for that. Or somewhere in the neighborhood of 8000 pieces worth of Lego sets.

If they charged $18 for a level pack, $15 for a team pack, and $10 for a 'fun' pack, I may have bought a bunch already. If they released them in quarterly waves, I definitely would have. But now? I'll probably wait for a "Buy the Starter kit, get a Level Pack free" or "Buy 2/1, get 1 free" on the packs before I get any of it.

Edit--I can see where they got their pricing cues--Skylanders, Disney Infinity, and Amiibo are all about $12 per figure, but at least with them you're generally getting a nicely-sculpted, nicely-painted statue and some additional game functionality. They basically don't exist outside of their respective lines (except as action figures for Disney/Amiibo, but even then they don't always exist). They clearly thought "One minifig and one minibuild is the equivalent of an Amiibo, so...$15!" without considering that we already have very well-defined prices for Lego. Then ran the math and figured a figure, two minibuilds, and a level is worth twice that, and two minifigs and two minibuilds is worth $10 more.
A Fun Pack is the same thing as a $4-5 polybag, and the game unlocks sure as hell don't add $10 of value.

rickiep00h posted:

Thing is that they're definitely aimed at those weirdo Skylanders/Infinity players and casual LEGO fans, which is the perfect rabid overlap. Friend of mine, who is generally amenable to LEGO but doesn't, say, post in this thread, went and bought the base game and every single expansion without having even seen a demo.

There's something about this game that makes people lose their loving minds, and that's coming from someone whose LEGO space is his dining room.

Waldorf Sixpence posted:

The level packs feature no instructions for the micro builds at all, FYI. Not even the first variation of each. Just the minifig (which really doesn't need instructions). Feels very cheap as a product for £30. Disappointed.

Hopper posted:

That is ridiculously off character for lego.

Mr. Glass posted:

ahahahahahahahahahahahhahaa wtf