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Waltzing Along posted:Welcome to the I hope I can live in the modulars because Mrs Mango would kick my rear end to the curb if any more came home. We have no space to store or display them, so they might as well become primary residence.
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Goddamnit I drop into to the thread to see what going on and this appears in my mailbox: I've since built it and it does make for a nice classy Christmas decoration. And I am now hype for that new Futuristic Flyer set since it is equal parts Macross and Gradius, who are we kidding here.
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Yeah, that was a fun little build. I like the gold pieces, should be useful down the road.
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So i checked the store not long after receiving that email alerting me of the sale and over 200 of the 318 items on sale are already out of stock. Did they have like 1 of each for sale?
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Ineptitude posted:So i checked the store not long after receiving that email alerting me of the sale and over 200 of the 318 items on sale are already out of stock. Resellers buy most of them all at the discount and put them on eBay at just under full price.
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Do I need to dump all 4 boxes out at once for the falcon or can I go one by one? I’m a little confused because there a ton of #1 bags in the first box but then just random 14 and 15 etc so it seems like maybe I’m just supposed to dump them all? I wouldn’t mind not having 200 bags of Lego on my living room floor for the next week.
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Dec 27, 2018 02:36
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Yeah dude wtf, show your parents some respect and onepile it
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Dec 27, 2018 04:09
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I dunno. I one-pile everything, but the Falcon (and currently Hogwarts are just too big for it. Definitely do at least one whole box at a time though.
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veni veni veni posted:Do I need to dump all 4 boxes out at once for the falcon or can I go one by one? I’m a little confused because there a ton of #1 bags in the first box but then just random 14 and 15 etc so it seems like maybe I’m just supposed to dump them all? All the #1s go together, but one pile it.
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Dec 27, 2018 04:43
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veni veni veni posted:Do I need to dump all 4 boxes out at once for the falcon or can I go one by one? I’m a little confused because there a ton of #1 bags in the first box but then just random 14 and 15 etc so it seems like maybe I’m just supposed to dump them all? 
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One piling is nuts for a set that big. It'd take 5x as long to build.
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I saw the new Lego Movie sets at Barnes & Noble today, with a couple of the Benny's Team sets too. Only $9.99, but I didn't pick any up. I'll probably regret that.
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The benny sets are on backorder on the lego shop. Don't pay scalpers.
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deoju posted:One piling is nuts for a set that big. It'd take 5x as long to build. Yeah I did that with the UCS Slave 1 and I'd never do it again with a set that size let alone one 4 times the size of it. One pile can be fun for sets that are like >1000 parts Especially with the falcon which is mostly gray. I'd bet it would take 100 hours.
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The_Doctor posted:I saw the new Lego Movie sets at Barnes & Noble today, with a couple of the Benny's Team sets too. Only $9.99, but I didn't pick any up. I'll probably regret that. Came here to post that I grabbed one at Barnes & Noble today. I wasn't worried about not getting one, but I wanted it.
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That set is going to be everywhere in a few weeks. People need to stop freaking out.
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veni veni veni posted:Do I need to dump all 4 boxes out at once for the falcon or can I go one by one? I’m a little confused because there a ton of #1 bags in the first box but then just random 14 and 15 etc so it seems like maybe I’m just supposed to dump them all? I just one piled it these past couple days. Took about 4 days off and on (with one day spending like 8 hours on it). If you got the time do it. One negative to doing it that way, if you're not super careful like me and miss a step with a piece or two, you'll end up with quite a bit of random pieces at the end that will take forever to figure out where they go. Also I recommend just spending a day sorting things into smaller piles. Edit: I also spent like a day sorting before hand so it was really more like 5 days
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deoju posted:One piling is nuts for a set that big. It'd take 5x as long to build. To me that's 5x as much as fun for the same price. Sounds like a win.
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Of all of the things I find enjoyable about Lego, looking for parts for an exorbitant amount of time is not one of them.
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I bought 70830 today amongst others. I was on the fence for that one. Haven’t opened it yet. Anyone seen a review of it online yet?
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MaliciousOnion posted:One. Knolling! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxtUrloLlm8&t=116s EDIT: I knolled all the parts for my old UCS Falcon. Humphreys fucked around with this message at 10:11 on Dec 27, 2018 |
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DarkSoulsTantrum posted:Resellers buy most of them all at the discount and put them on eBay at just under full price. Yep. Gotta be there at the very moment the sale opens (midnight, presumably?) if you want to have even a fighting chance of getting any remotely interesting sets before they are all bought up. I guess Lego doesn't care because the sets sell out either way, so... I also had a look yesterday when I got up in the morning and it looked like about 2/3 or 3/4 of the sets were sold out already. Luckily there wasn't anything that I was dying to get, so wasn't too fussed, I was just looking to see if there was any good deal that would push a "maybe" set into "to buy" rank. TBH I am actually trying to reduce the amount of Lego that I am buying anyway because I really don't need that many!  I did pick up the Space Squad though, because that has nostalgia value for me since I grew up on Classic Space! ivantod fucked around with this message at 10:28 on Dec 27, 2018 |
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ivantod posted:Yep. Gotta be there at the very moment the sale opens (midnight, presumably?) if you want to have even a fighting chance of getting any remotely interesting sets before they are all bought up. I guess Lego doesn't care because the sets sell out either way, so... Unfortunately I don’t think Lego is really in a position to care. They aren’t exactly making money hand over fist these days so from their perspective if they can move a bunch of slow-selling high value sets quickly, they don’t really care who’s buying. The last time both the Technic Porsche and the UCS Falcon went on discount they sold out in under 3 hours. Sucks for the regular who didn’t know about the sale. Im still pissed about missing the Porsche for under $200; I would have finally pulled the trigger.
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I also had a pretty good Lego Christmas. My brother - who is the big lego collector in the family - noticed that I am building technic models again (after I got the Porsche from a customer as a present). Couple years ago, I told him he can have all my old lego (technic, that space maglev train, the red/black/green space stuff and the light and sound white blue space stuff, plus a firestation). He built them all and they are on very nice displays in his house. So at christmas I got back my old: 8865, 8856 and - most important - 8862. My brother told me they were all built when he picked them up (and I no longer cared about Lego), and they they are at the same state he picked them up. And 8862 had one single hose detached, after reattaching it, everything worked like a charm. I mean, I had to get two valves replaced on the forrest harvester, as they vented air, out of the box, and this old stuff works like it is brand new. I love Lego, and kudos to my brother (spinning the rotor of the helicopter right know)....
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I finally got around to building the winter fire zzzzz the other day. Easily my least favorite winter set so far. I know the train station wasn't popular, but at least it fits the theme and works with the train. The fire station just bores me.
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Checked the toy aisle while shopping for food today, and they were just putting up the Lego Movie 2 sets. Not terribly interested in most of it, but I did get a single Space Squad, because why not.
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deoju posted:One piling is nuts for a set that big. It'd take 5x as long to build. I'd love to rebuild my Tower Bridge that's in a couple plastic bags sorted by color but just thinking about the time commitment keeps scaring me off.
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Goddamn the UCS Y-Wing is a masterpiece.  
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They really should have the sets comes with more colors. Add a few dollars to the price tag and let people have their Y wing be blue or red or something.
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Vintersorg posted:Goddamn the UCS Y-Wing is a masterpiece. Yeah. I was kind of down on it when it came out cause the minifig scale one was so good and 1/4 the price, but after seeing it in store it’s a definite must buy. It’s a Totally awesome set. I’ve got like 60 Lego bux so I’m gonna use them towards that sometime this month I think. Here’s a question I can’t quite put my finger on. What is closer to actual Y wing minifig scale, the little one or big one?
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Looks like WalMart is starting its year end Lego cleanout, time to pick up some new sets for 40% off.
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Woot/Amazon has the Rathtar Escape on clearance for $38 https://sellout.woot.com/offers/lego-star-wars-rathtar-escape-kit?ref=w_cnt_wp_0_52 Edit: tomapot posted:Visited the Lego Store in the mall this weekend with my wife, just browsing. I made a subtle but not so subtle comment that I like the big London bus a lot. Hoping she picked up on it for my birthday in a couple months. So I dropped this hint more than once but I think she's fighting the encroachment of lego onto every surface of our home office and did not buy me any big sets for xmas. I did get a few Star Wars and the Groot/Rocket Brickheadz sets so that's cool. tomapot fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Dec 27, 2018 |
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i bought the passenger train for my kids and they did something to the controller where it no longer will just turn on and run continuously when you start it up instead you have to hold the plus or minus buttons on the controller to make it move, does anyone know how to fix this? nevermind i just took the batteries out of everything and that seems to have fixed it Doorknob Slobber fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Dec 28, 2018 |
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You know your mom's the best when she sends you presorted LEGO for Christmas.  Some of those pieces are pretty old too. Not sure where she got them!
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Synthbuttrange posted:lol at the sticker markings on the ywing tho On the front part of the canopy? Yeah I don't know wtf they were thinking with that. I wish they had just made a new part for that. Not that it's that bad of a match but it's a UCS set and they could also reuse it to make snowspeeders look less bad down the line.
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My girlfriend got me the Technic bucket wheel excavator for Christmas. I was a hardcore Lego fanatic when I was a kid, but I haven't played with them since I was maybe 16 or so. So far I'm about 1/3 of the way through the 500+ pages of instructions and I'm loving it. Technic sets today are very different from what they were in the 90's. It's strange having almost no parts with actual studs on them, but it makes sense. Once I finish this thing I plan to pick up additional motors and the IR remote system and set it up to run more functions independently, then I'll probably break it down and see if I can use the parts (and some of my old collection) to build a stripping shovel. I really like some of the new pieces like the special double peg to cross connectors, the big gear rings, and the 5 stud wide track assemblies. Disgruntled Bovine fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Dec 28, 2018 |
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