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Tyderium strikes a nice balance between a UCS set and a normal playset. It's very accurate, big and display worthy without being cumbersome and super expensive. The only drawback is you have to make your own stand or the wings are stuck in the up position on the shelf. I really love that set though.
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Zodack posted:I've never been particularly fond of it but to be frank the design of everything in Star Wars (even the prequel trilogy) is just fantastic, so I will happily display most Star Wars ships. I'm really taken by the U-wing design from Rogue One, though I'm unsure about the official set being in blue and white. Still gonna get that too, probably! I love what I've seen of the U-Wing from the trailers but I think the Lego model of it is really ugly and boxy, the worst of the Rogue One sets for me.
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Dec 10, 2016 20:27
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I was prepared to buy most of the Rogue One sets, but the Lego U-Wing is a pretty poor representation of the ship. It just looks really lackluster in person. The AT-ST looks nice, but the legs are completely immobile. I get why, but it just feels a little low-effort.
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Dec 10, 2016 21:13
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I won't be buying the u wing but I do think the box doesn't do it justice. It looks way better in the display models I've seen.
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Dec 10, 2016 21:35
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Now you guys are making me feel goofy for sticking it on my Christmas list. Especially after picking up the Tydirium for $60. Oldest Toys R US I've ever seen.
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Dec 10, 2016 21:55
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I put the Winter Train together! It's a pretty nice set, and I might get the power functions to motorise it, and maybe some lights wouldn't hurt... However, I feel like there weren't really enough parts to justify it. Aside from the track, it's pretty small, and it could definitely have used something else. Like, maybe a small station?
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Dec 10, 2016 23:17
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Went to Lego store. Came home w/ the Ferrari F40. Also with the release date of the new modular: 1/1/17. There does not appear to be a VIP presale for this one. $280. Geesh. Also got the Moana catamaran.
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Dec 10, 2016 23:25
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Waltzing Along posted:There does not appear to be a VIP presale for this one. This is very disappointing 
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Dec 10, 2016 23:43
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No double VIP in August, either. Due to the price, I think I am just going to wait. $25 back as opposed to $12. Not a huge difference but yeah.
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Dec 11, 2016 00:02
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You guys were not joking, that Tydirium is one of the best builds I've put together in a long time. Definitely worth my money, lucky enough that you guys noticed the sale so I could grab it.
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Dec 11, 2016 00:38
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Waltzing Along posted:No double VIP in August, either. Due to the price, I think I am just going to wait. $25 back as opposed to $12. Not a huge difference but yeah. For once, it's a hell of a lot more reasonable over here in the UK (only £169) but I wish I could see how many points expire on Dec 31st.
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Dec 11, 2016 01:42
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I went to see a late movie and remembered there's a toys r us nearby, and for WHATEVER REASON they are open until 1AM now, so I stopped in to see if anything was left from the sale the shelves were ransacked, everything of note pillaged, their spots empty and lifeless. a lone ferrari truck sat by itself, but was priced at 72 dollars, so gently caress that. but, on the not discounted side of things, there were four opened, seemingly unmolested Series 16 Minifigure boxes. I... I... I may have bought 10 more Bananamen It was so easy, the locations of minifigs are the same in each box, so grabbing the middle of the center row resulted in 3 Bananamen each in quick succession, and another found by random chance...
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Dec 11, 2016 04:56
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I hate to say this, Captain, but it might be time for an intervention. You just might have a problem.
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Dec 11, 2016 07:37
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I have plans for these bananamen.
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Dec 11, 2016 07:39
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Lego Dimensions is $30 for the starter pack at Target this week. For that price I'm finally jumping in. I long ago bought Unikitty for $7, and thanks to various recent sales I've got The Simpsons, Portal 2, Emmet, Benny, and Mr. T for like $60. I'm cool with that price just based on the piece count.
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Dec 11, 2016 08:35
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If i try and upload an LDD file to bricklink, and it tells me it doesn't recognize one (or some?) of the pieces, how do i figure out which one is the problem?
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Dec 11, 2016 13:54
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ElwoodCuse posted:Lego Dimensions is $30 for the starter pack at Target this week. For that price I'm finally jumping in. I long ago bought Unikitty for $7, and thanks to various recent sales I've got The Simpsons, Portal 2, Emmet, Benny, and Mr. T for like $60. I'm cool with that price just based on the piece count. Yeah it's dropping finally, I picked it up for 40€ on Amazon last week with the limited Supergirl figurine. I already have Doc brown, The Simpsons, Doctor Who, Cyberman+Dalek, (all for 3 and 6 $ respectively thanks to a friend in San Diego who grabbed them at Target when they were on offer ages ago. And I got Slimer for cheap. Now all I need is a... PS4 
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Dec 11, 2016 21:05
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Anyone ever build new sets while wearing rubber gloves? I look at the professional pics Lego does and there is no dust, hair or smudges on anything. I'm guessing rubber gloves are a part of that process.
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Dec 11, 2016 23:45
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No, they retouch the poo poo out of their photos on a computer. I mean they probably do build them in a relatively dust free environment and wipe them down with lint free cloths, but they're not doing it in a surgery theater.
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Dec 12, 2016 00:09
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xzzy posted:No, they retouch the poo poo out of their photos on a computer. Now that you mention it, I have a good buddy with access to a satellite assembly clean room who loves Lego... His worst abuse of it so far was applying the screen protector to his iPhone.
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Dec 12, 2016 00:29
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http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/112233386246
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While I'm sure that's worth a pretty penny, that dude is absolutely shooting for the moon with that price.
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Dec 12, 2016 01:18
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It doesn't even mention whether it's glued together or not.
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Dec 12, 2016 02:36
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:It doesn't even mention whether it's glued together or not. Like a 99% chance it is, every store display I've asked about is.
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Dec 12, 2016 06:34
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I like how eBay asks if I have one I want to sell. Sure, I got a whole room full!
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:It doesn't even mention whether it's glued together or not.
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Dec 12, 2016 09:49
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:It doesn't even mention whether it's glued together or not. A lego store employee in Chicago opened up the back of one of its brick-built Clone Troopers once while I was there. Not only are they glued, they've also got thick metal supports inside.
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Dec 12, 2016 09:57
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xzzy posted:I like how eBay asks if I have one I want to sell. Sure, I got a whole room full! You laugh, but that button is super useful since it generally fills out all the relative information for a given item if it has it, and even provides pictures sometimes. Obviously not applicable here, but for selling some of the lego sets I've listed, it's been a godsend.
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Dec 12, 2016 12:28
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when you really, REALLY want a lot of animal suit minifigures http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lego-Collec...%3D182386086906
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Apparently there's been an influx of completely delusional lego collectors on eBay lately.
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Well it's that time of year when people need money to buy gifts, and they bought all that stuff as an INVESTMENT so now it's time for the lego to do its job and fuel their materialism.
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I can't imagine there is a person in existence who would drop 20 grand on a thousand of the same figure. Then again, someone who collected that many of the same figure certainly exists... But why? I get those people who obsessively build Clone armies if only barely, but... Animals? Whats next... Banana guy?
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Zodack posted:I can't imagine there is a person in existence who would drop 20 grand on a thousand of the same figure. It's not even a thousand of the same figure, it's 98 each of ten different figures. You can occasionally sell a minifig for $20, because some of them are hard to come by and someone Just Has To Have that one single fig. But none of these are that rare to begin with and nobody is ever going to wake up and decide that they need 1000 animal guy figures badly enough to pay $20 a pop for all of them.
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xzzy posted:Well it's that time of year when people need money to buy gifts, and they bought all that stuff as an INVESTMENT so now it's time for the lego to do its job and fuel their materialism. Zodack posted:Whats next... Banana guy? and one of the others I bought for 105 hasn't been cancelled yet, so...probably another 5 bananamen that's it though
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Surely it would be better to sell "Set of 10 different Lego animal minifigs!" with 98 available quantity...? Probably not if he wants $200 a set though.
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Straight White Shark posted:You can occasionally sell a minifig for $20 Bumblebee Girl sells for up to $40 pretty consistently.
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Waltzing Along posted:Bumblebee Girl sells for up to $40 pretty consistently. Hot drat, time to sell mine.
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Dec 12, 2016 19:42
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Yeah, some of the CMF go for fairly obscene prices. I remember the original Zombie minifig going for just crazy prices even while the series was still available. Seems it's evened out at around 25 bucks a pop now though.
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There are a fair number of $20+ CMF. Especially from the earlier series. Anything in a full costume tends to be a bit more. Also, in some of the earlier releases there is a bigger disparity in the boxes. I think some boxes only had 2 of a couple of the figs. Now they all have at least 3 of everything. Or is it 4 now? Whatever, it was 2 for a while.
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Captain Invictus posted:Yeah, some of the CMF go for fairly obscene prices. I remember the original Zombie minifig going for just crazy prices even while the series was still available. Seems it's evened out at around 25 bucks a pop now though. That one was special because it was the first ever Zombie minifig and we love our zombies for some reason.
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