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The original vw beetle was my retirement plan but the resale price has gone below $500, I should have stuck with the 401k.
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VaultAggie posted:God drat exo-suit. The only set I've ever bought an extra of to sell, and it seems like every AFOL on earth did the same. Wanna sell it? I loved that set so much! I built one but would totally keep another to build one day. [edit] Nevermind. Unless you can get it shipped for less than 35 to me, Amazon Prime has it 
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 Just finished. This was a great build with minimal annoying moments. I'm ready for the Saturn V. <3
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May 19, 2017 23:44
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Stickers on a UCS is kind of bullshit. Well I'm crabby about stickers in general, but the top tier stuff in particular is pretty bad. Ideas sets get better treatment!
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May 20, 2017 00:14
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The only Lego store near me is closed until November because a hail storm destroyed the malls roof  Do any major retailers carry UCS? I can't think of any.
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I agree, totally. But I guess I understand. But yes, nothing like having a collector's set and loving up an alignment or tearing a sticker.
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Feenix posted:I agree, totally. But I guess I understand. But yes, nothing like having a collector's set and loving up an alignment or tearing a sticker. I have one hosed up sticker on my TIE and it still haunts me (the one on the 2x1 slope under the eyeball, so it's very glaring). Luckily everything else has been smooth sailing.
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The worst sticker they have ever done was the one that covers the entire cowling of the red 5 and leaves inevitable bubbles in it. I bought mine from a friend and while he did an OK job sticking it on it's not up to my sperg standards and it pisses me off to look at it lol.
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veni veni veni posted:The only Lego store near me is closed until November because a hail storm destroyed the malls roof Colorado Mills? There's a lego store in Park Meadows.
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Yup. Indeed. Park meadows is soo far and that stretch of highway is just horrible these days. I'd rather just order online. I can't believe cherry creek and flatirons don't have Lego stores.
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There was a guy in Cherry Creek that had a kiosk in the middle of the mall. It's kind of like seeing bricklink or ebay made brick-and-mortar though. Inflated prices, individual Star Wars mini-figs for $9 a pop, and such. I'm with you though. I'm slightly closer to Park Meadows than you and would much rather order online than inch through the parking lot that I-25 has become.
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I've gotten all the sand colored baseplates I need for my star-wars generic town/spaceport, but was unable to find any road-baseplates to make the landing pad. Might have to bricklink those, but am unsure if I want to use 4 curves, or 4 intersections, or just go with regular grey baseplates. Obligatory crap phone picture (click for bigger/blurrier) and LDD reference which I'm working towards:   The speeder-bike hangar and control tower are just about complete. The tan buildings need reworking when I have more parts ordered.
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Dr. Benway posted:There was a guy in Cherry Creek that had a kiosk in the middle of the mall. It's kind of like seeing bricklink or ebay made brick-and-mortar though. Inflated prices, individual Star Wars mini-figs for $9 a pop, and such. BrickArms has a store in the same mall as my local lego store.  Different wings though, would have been funny if they somehow got the store right next door. I've only walked past it, it's inhabited entirely by goony looking neckbeards.
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xzzy posted:I've only walked past it, it's inhabited entirely by goony looking neckbeards. Sounds about right.
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I haven't let my son know there is a Legoland in town, but his school is going their on a field trip so that's over. Hopefully he won't want to just live there.
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May 20, 2017 23:58
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Drove about an hour away to snag this Craigslist lot for $50. A bunch of great sets in here for selling and for keeping and another snowspeeder for my collection. Have a bit of sorting and rebuilding to go through.     
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I was like "wow, that's a pretty sweet haul for fifty bucks" until I got to the second to last picture 
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Yeah goddamn. I'm jealous that is a fantastic deal. Even if the sets don't end up being complete you made out like a bandit. If you end up selling stuff can you sell me that wampa and check if there is a Taun Taun in there? Edit: What is that big set above the slave 1? is that mega blox or something?
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veni veni veni posted:Edit: What is that big set above the slave 1? is that mega blox or something? Yeah, it is. Which means the loose bricks are potentially infected.
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The_Doctor posted:Yeah, it is. Which means the loose bricks are potentially infected. The only good megablock is a dead megablock. /cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/51664137/u5n3cradkmcq1h2wqoho.0.png) I've just been going through all my childhood boxes that my mam and dad dropped off when I finally got a house. It turns out that 1. I have about 3x as much Lego as I remembered including an amazing 1980 something 12 V train set and 2. I had at least two Megablocks sets. Ive already set up a quarantine zone for the contaminated bricks and a purge zone for the offending Megablocks. I guess I will just donate to the closest charity shop or something when I am done. Its actaully quite hard to find which Megablocks sets they are as records online are much poorer than Lego. Just for the horror of seeing them, I think its mainly this guy and a submarine I cant even find a picture of online:  mitochondritom fucked around with this message at 19:24 on May 21, 2017 |
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Wow gently caress. Nice haul bro. Jealousy++
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Looks like the Star Wars summer sets are coming out. Several (all?) listed on amazon but of course the bounty hunter set, which is the only one I want, is listed at $8 above retail for some reason, despite being sold by Amazon and not a third party
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What are the Star Wars summer sets again?
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Rathtar Escape Republic Fighter Tank First Order Speeder Transporter battlepack Bounty Hunter Battle Pack Vader Transformation (or was this already out?) Those Freemaker ships I don't care about Some more buildable figures I think
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Dogen posted:
A scout trooper with speeder bike!  Maybe one more, but those two are the ones I care about. Especially the Endor speeder bike.
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I want that tank. I can finally get an Aayla Secura that doesn't have a nightmare face.
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Dogen posted:Rathtar Escape The quadjumper set too. Which I actually really like despite not caring for the original ship much. Mostly looking forward to Vader transformation so I finally have Palpatine and Vader and the bounty hunter set though. The speeder bike set leaves me conflicted because that's pretty much the best thing but I hate those buildable figures they are hideous.
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veni veni veni posted:The speeder bike set leaves me conflicted because that's pretty much the best thing but I hate those buildable figures they are hideous. Personally I think the buildable figs works decently for characters in full armour, like Vader, Phasma, and Stormtroopers. They only look good for robots though. K-2SO looks cool, and I love Grievous.
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K-2SO is my first buildable figure, and he's great. So tall, and far more parts than I expected. Not sure I'd get another, though.
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get another and make him twice as tall
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Dogen posted:Looks like the Star Wars summer sets are coming out. Several (all?) listed on amazon but of course the bounty hunter set, which is the only one I want, is listed at $8 above retail for some reason, despite being sold by Amazon and not a third party Got the bounty hunter set at Toys R Us yesterday.
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Davros1 posted:Got the bounty hunter set at Toys R Us yesterday. Yeah amazon knocked off $5 but it's still a couple above retail. But it was close enough that I ordered it yesterday in the interest of saving myself the trip.
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Sorry for the double post, but http://www.thebrickfan.com/lego-ideas-nasa-apollo-saturn-v-21309-available-at-walmart/ In case any of y'all want to see if you can get the Saturn V early
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Dogen posted:Sorry for the double post, but Out of stock
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The_Doctor posted:K-2SO is my first buildable figure, and he's great. So tall, and far more parts than I expected. Not sure I'd get another, though. The bodies on the buildables are always so nice, but the limbs are so drat basic.
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Anora posted:The bodies on the buildables are always so nice, but the limbs are so drat basic. Yeah, but on Tudykbot that fits thematically.
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I'm surprised that even lasted an hour on CL. How does someone sell stuff like this for $50? Ignorant grandparent who found a box in kids room? Punishment? You'd think whoever spent that money would have at least some concept of the original cost of the sets even if they were gifts... maybe someone died or something?
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Sometimes people get tired of clutter and just want stuff gone more than they want to fuss around with getting a "fair" price. I've had a phases like that, not for lego stuff, just crap that built up in my home and decided to haul to charity during a spring cleaning. Don't question it, just hope you stumble on a deal like that someday yourself.
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Lego fares poorly in crash tests. Hopefully they start to take these things seriously because my minifigs deserve the best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2ECwX7Dl0c if you can read german: http://adac-blog.de/miniaturwelten-lego-porsche-crash/
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