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The other two buildings look like off-shoots of the fishing shack. I'd be surprised if they get chosen because of that.
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uXs posted:Pretty sure there's no fixed number of Ideas sets they make so there's not really such a thing as taking another person's spot. And then a UCS Cthulu. I'm an alternate timeline that lighthouse came out instead of Fishing Store and I was about 20% happier.
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Hmmm...nothing new available on the eshop.
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Waltzing Along posted:Worth it for Green Grocer, Market Street, Cafe Corner. Things that are insanely marked up. Market Street is $50 from Lepin. $500 on ebay and was under $100 retail. I see HH for £250 on eBay, think it was £70 on Lepin. So I'd go with Lepin in that case. I was also thinking about getting the fishing store but I would pay retail for that.
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So i found out that the MF was to be available at roughly 8 AM. Not exactly at 08:00 because items in the store needs to be pushed manually, in every region. Anyways i sat there  'ing the webpage, at 08:01 it was not available for purchase yet and at 08:03 it was in back order. At 08:30 it was sold out. Welp.
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Sep 14, 2017 12:34
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Who successfully spent $800 today? I'm just extremely glad I have no interest in Star Wars. Between Destiny's Bounty, Ninjago City, the Old Fishing Store, and the Monster Fighters poo poo I bought, I'm already out over a grand in plastic bricks over the past month or so. I'm actually really happy about stuff like the Speed Champions sets, where I can get my fix for just $15 a pop and not agonize over the purchase.
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Marmaduke! posted:I see HH for £250 on eBay, think it was £70 on Lepin. So I'd go with Lepin in that case. I was also thinking about getting the fishing store but I would pay retail for that. HH was $180, though. It's not insanely marked up. Also, the Lepin version is inferior for a couple reasons. I think one is glow in the dark is missing. And the other is some cost cutting measures so it is not a true 1:1 copy.
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Sep 14, 2017 17:20
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Huh, so the Star Wars VIP card with the MF will have special SW VIP things that are for those specific cardholders only. Basically, it's a gently caress you to regular VIPs who can't afford the USC MF.
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10228 Haunted House is well within the "might as well buy the original" range to me. If you buy used, they float around $260-280 on a good day, which is barely (or sometimes less than) $100 up from its original price, which is just not bad for a 5 year-old, retired, desirable set. But then, I'm kind of against the notion of buying Lepin in the first place, so grain of salt etc. etc. edit: semi-relatedly, wave 9 of LEGO Dimensions came out a couple days ago, which I don't really care about except for 71349: Beetlejuice, which I may need for the minifig to occupy my own Haunted House. I think it'll join 71203: Portal 2 Level Pack as my only Dimensions purchases, and both of which only for the figs. Carbohydrates fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Sep 14, 2017 |
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Waltzing Along posted:HH was $180, though. It's not insanely marked up. Also, the Lepin version is inferior for a couple reasons. I think one is glow in the dark is missing. And the other is some cost cutting measures so it is not a true 1:1 copy. Well, Lepin is certainly inferior by default. Especially with minifigs. But if you're having a conversation with someone who wants cheap bricks, then I don't think you're going to convince them that a set only being double the original retail price is a good deal for them. Brickset has some weird stats... they list the current "value" for the HH as £121 if new, but £167 if used. (unless you click on the values, then the page tells you it's actually more like £250 either way)
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Carbohydrates posted:Who successfully spent $800 today? Does backorder count? Tried in person, but the store only had 7 and 7 people were already waiting. The_Doctor posted:Huh, so the Star Wars VIP card with the MF will have special SW VIP things that are for those specific cardholders only. Basically, it's a gently caress you to regular VIPs who can't afford the USC MF. How about it's a thank you to people that forked out $800....
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I was at work when they released the thing, and it was sold out when I got home. Hoping they open up orders again before the special snowflake VIP card promotion ends.
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I shifted my work hours today so I could go wait in line from 6 AM at my nearest LEGO Store (only 10 minutes from work). I was first in line and the second didn't come for 45 minutes. Store had 10 and we didn't get 10 in line until a little after 9. Very excited to get home from work and take a look at this thing. Probably won't start building until tomorrow night or possibly Saturday.
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Carbohydrates posted:71349: Beetlejuice, which I may need for the minifig to occupy Oh man I need that.
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Sep 14, 2017 20:25
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Target has a polybag ($4.00) set of that new walker from The Last Jedi
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Finally busted my bricklink cherry. This site seems...dangerous.
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veni veni veni posted:Finally busted my bricklink cherry. This site seems...dangerous. "Guess I need to add another $4 worth to meet this store's minimum. Ok, that looks good. So does that. I could always use some of those. Don't have any in that color! That's an uncommon piece and they've got 20! I didn't even know those pieces existed. loving hell, how does my cart have $45 of parts on it? poo poo, they've got that set I always wanted as a kid, and the price is good." *submit Paypal for $130*
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Chris Knight posted:Oh man I need that.
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after dropping below 1k, the MF is now skyrocketing on Ebay. I guess the difficulty of ordering the thing online and in person is inflating the secondary market quite a bit. I suspect a lot of those earlier Ebay sales will be cancelled due to sellers not actually getting the item. Bye bye free VIP points.
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Pyroclastic posted:"Guess I need to add another $4 worth to meet this store's minimum. Ok, that looks good. So does that. I could always use some of those. Don't have any in that color! That's an uncommon piece and they've got 20! I didn't even know those pieces existed. loving hell, how does my cart have $45 of parts on it? poo poo, they've got that set I always wanted as a kid, and the price is good." *submit Paypal for $130* I have a hundred dollar order from Bricklink with a status set to shipped on August 26th, but the USPS tracker never budged off of Pre-shipping. I shot the store owner a message last Friday and haven't heard anything back. Luckily if everything goes tits up, the package was insured but still 
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BL is great for finding pieces. It is poo poo in terms of how it treats the customers. It is totally biased towards the sellers which is a broken system.
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Sep 15, 2017 15:58
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My goal/soft cap for bricklink stores is $30. This gives me wiggle room to push up to my $50 hard cap in case the store happens to have some stuff I absolutely must own.
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Waltzing Along posted:BL is great for finding pieces. It is poo poo in terms of how it treats the customers. It is totally biased towards the sellers which is a broken system.
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Bought myself some "Lego" tape today. It's pretty fun, not sure what exactly I'm going to do with it though. It feels loose when you're sticking stuff to it because of the rubber but it does hold surprisingly well. Going to test it later to see how much it can hold horizontally.
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Captain Invictus posted:The other way around can be just as hosed, in my experience as a long-time seller on ebay. Buyers can hold you hostage despite you not being in the wrong at all, such as my experience with the empty boxes guy or the dude who thought my listing for 30 warhammer space marine combat knives listed in the toy section for 3 dollars was 30 actual real life full size military combat knives Oh definitely. But Ebay is better now that the customers are protected. Back when sellers could rip off customers/mistreat customers/hold them hostage it was really bad. It's true that customers can be dicks, but it can't go both ways now. BL allows sellers to be dicks still. That's bad juju.
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I think that has to be the way it goes. When the community is smaller, you have to side with the sellers, because without them, the small site will die. Then as the community gets bigger, you can side with customers, because you still have the major sellers and you can afford to lose some minor ones.
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Ebay is terrible for buying specific parts, but it still beats just about everything for lots of random parts and sets. And yeah, as a buyer it feels very safe these days and most sellers have insanely fast shipping. It's like ordering off amazon prime most of the time. The only thing I absolutely hate about Ebay is that you really have to do your homework and wade through the endless speculators to get a good deal. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Sep 15, 2017 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLmqKBRqyA8 Tested built their MF. It kind of irks me how they rip up the instruction books when they do these builds. I'm really glad I don't want this set, because it's way too big and looks kind of tedious.
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I wonder if saving that rolling cart it comes with will affect the value of it down the road  I am assuming the answer is absolutely yes.
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Cojawfee posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLmqKBRqyA8 I'm going to get a glass table for my living room and put the MF in it. Maybe.
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Cojawfee posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLmqKBRqyA8 I love the dudes shirt, the old school space theme logo
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Spookydonut posted:I love the dudes shirt, the old school space theme logo I was thinking same thing. I might seek that one out. The zelda shirt was pretty okay, as well. But not something I'd buy. https://www.theuniquetee.com/produc...LRoC7ZIQAvD_BwE
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I am not a vintage toy collector by any measure, so I don't have a good sense of things, but I have to admit that I am surprised that the price for the older 2007 UCS MF haven't taken a bigger dive. There's no doubt that the newer one is a superior set, and a determined buyer will be able to get it at retail price by early next year if not before. Who is paying $3K for 10179 now that the newer one is out? My wallet and marriage are both healthier because I am not into Star Wars lego. I am getting tempted by the Parisian Restaurant (10243) modular though. My bricklink wanted list has like $800 of parts in it right now, and I have done well not to pull the trigger on any of it lately. But for the grace of . . .
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Waltzing Along posted:I was thinking same thing. I might seek that one out. The zelda shirt was pretty okay, as well. But not something I'd buy. The best part is his looks faded
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Spookydonut posted:The best part is his looks faded You can grab a distressed one on Teepublic but I'm sure there are clones to one degree or another all over the drat place: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/1718847-bennys-old-t-shirt
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Despite being accurate due to the placement of the total graphic, the alignment bugs me because the sphere should be centered on the blackest. It looks weird.
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Waltzing Along posted:I was thinking same thing. I might seek that one out. The zelda shirt was pretty okay, as well. But not something I'd buy. Is this website a scam or something? A bunch of shirts on there that should be licensed but probably aren't and every single shirt I click on says "only 29 left, order within 14 hours!"
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I picked up another box of mixed sets from Letgo for $45 a few months ago. Not as great a deal as that last $50 collection (don't think I'll ever beat that). I picked it up for the #4483 AT-AT legs I saw but it had about 30 sets of different types. Besides the typical Star Wars sets it had these hockey guys and Mars Mission sets. The real kicker is this Dino Attack chopper, the thing is massive. Don't think I'm keeping it but it was fun rebuilding it. Here's the photo from the ad  hockey guys  Mars sets  Bad-rear end helicopter  
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Those hockey guys have some really handy and useful pieces that I don't think were ever used in other sets, like the chest pieces and helmets. Are you going to be keeping them? If not, I might be interested in them for parts.
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tomapot posted:Mars sets Today I found a box of childhood goodies and it had maybe 12 of those wheels but in white!
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