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Fayez Butts posted:Brothers Brick is my favorite Lego blog, easily lol look at the site you linked Here's the real site https://www.brothers-brick.com/
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I should have mentioned any with a focus on vintage reviews and stuff would be great too. Love reading about all the old sets I remember wanting from my childhood.
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Mar 1, 2019 03:32
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I picked up the Architecture Statue of Liberty, and I can't recommend it enough.
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Mar 1, 2019 03:49
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_gAmxFEqFE Lego posted a video about the Mustang. I feel like I'm gonna be driving around a bit tomorrow to see if I can get one.
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Cojawfee posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_gAmxFEqFE It's nice to see their prototype set. Look how much better the final set looks than the green proto. The door work especially.
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Mar 1, 2019 04:16
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veni veni veni posted:lol look at the site you linked That doesn't look like a legitimate website to you? Whoops
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Mar 1, 2019 04:34
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Mustang has been up for 40 minutes and isn't sold out, so it might be easier to get.
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Mar 1, 2019 06:41
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Well I just paid 20 dollars for a Zuckuss minifigure and another 15 for Cloud City Leia. I'm such a chump. Guess it's cheaper than diving into $470 worth of sets I don't want that badly. never thought I'd be the weirdo that over pays for minifigures though.
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veni veni veni posted:Well I just paid 20 dollars for a Zuckuss minifigure and another 15 for Cloud City Leia. I'm such a chump. Guess it's cheaper than diving into $470 worth of sets I don't want that badly. never thought I'd be the weirdo that over pays for minifigures though. Niche collectors of all stripes bemoan our frivolous purchases. Been stocking up on bumble bee girls which feels silly but somehow a little less silly than some of the other collecting I’ve done.
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Red_Fred posted:I should have mentioned any with a focus on vintage reviews and stuff would be great too. Love reading about all the old sets I remember wanting from my childhood. I currently use http://brickset.com/ random set of the day for this. Yesterday was the smaller pirate ship I remember dreaming about while leafing through the lego catalogues. Today an old police station that's from before my time. Tomorrow might be Clickets though. I love the site for this tiny feature. I'm very annoyed by the site's many adds though. So I hope someone else has a better suggestion.
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Mar 1, 2019 09:28
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How did you get Zuccuss? Via some factory theft?
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Yiggy posted:Niche collectors of all stripes bemoan our frivolous purchases. Been stocking up on bumble bee girls which feels silly but somehow a little less silly than some of the other collecting I’ve done. Why is the bee girl so popular? I've been browsing eBay recently and she seems to sell for £20 fairly frequently. I have one I might put up for sale. Especially as I was weak and splurged on the Dwarves Mine set last week.
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veni veni veni posted:Well I just paid 20 dollars for a Zuckuss minifigure and another 15 for Cloud City Leia. I'm such a chump. Guess it's cheaper than diving into $470 worth of sets I don't want that badly. never thought I'd be the weirdo that over pays for minifigures though. Yeah, I know what you mean. I paid too much for the green Futuron fig in 60097 City Square and the green Classic Space figs in 211029 Exo Suit, but gently caress paying so much for the sets themselves when they don't appeal much to me in the first place.
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Cojawfee posted:Mustang has been up for 40 minutes and isn't sold out, so it might be easier to get. I was able to get it from the webstore this morning so either the demand isn’t there yet or they did a decent sized first production run. Also the new Technic Corvette ZR1 earns double points right now for anyone who’s on the shelf about it might be a good time to pick it up.
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The store did manage to time out when I submitted my order but it looks like it went through.
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mitochondritom posted:How did you get Zuccuss? Via some factory theft? eBay. No idea how people are getting them already
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I like this kākāpō idea: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/2fb777d6-5c93-455a-974c-fee28963075c
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mitochondritom posted:Why is the bee girl so popular? I've been browsing eBay recently and she seems to sell for £20 fairly frequently. I have one I might put up for sale. Especially as I was weak and splurged on the Dwarves Mine set last week. IIRC she was one per box or something
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Mar 1, 2019 16:47
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Picked up the Mustang this morning, got a bonus bumper sticker and VIP Mustang keychain. 
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kefkafloyd posted:Picked up the Mustang this morning, got a bonus bumper sticker and VIP Mustang keychain. Got the keychain and a Unikitty poly bag with my online order.
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Also, I have a free shipping code that expires Sunday. I’m not going to use it. Whoever PMs me first can have it
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Mar 1, 2019 17:03
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Gosh it's nice to pick up something at the LEGO store that actually fits in the bag for a change
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Our store just switched to reusable bags! Which is nice because the state recently voided our bag ordinance and a lot of places have switched back to giving out single use bags free. Anyway yeah I got the Unikitty and the keychain. Seemed like there was plenty of stock on the Mustang although I didn’t ask. Just a couple other people in the store like 10 minutes after opening.
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Mar 1, 2019 17:48
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There seemed to be a decent number on the shelf despite the clerk saying they had a couple people waiting at open to pick it up. The Unikitty poly seems appropriate (she's in some blue roller coaster car), though this has to be the third Unikitty poly I've had thrown into a set purchase lately. I'm not sure if the bumper sticker is supposed to be referencing some other design, but it looks like someone literally whipped it up in five minutes.
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mitochondritom posted:Why is the bee girl so popular? I've been browsing eBay recently and she seems to sell for £20 fairly frequently. I have one I might put up for sale. Especially as I was weak and splurged on the Dwarves Mine set last week. My armchair bs reasoning is a mix of these things: *Bees are iconic, and many AFOLs came out of their dark age after Cmf 10. As I’ve gone back to look for the ones I missed I definitely had bee girl at the top of my list. But like, all of the warrior ones, I don’t really care about and won’t hunt down. Bee has higher demand and several cmfs have almost none. *The fairy wings are a rarer piece, particularly in trans-clear. They’ve shown up in the cmf series again as purple and pink but trans clear not really. To the point where I’m noticing a bunch of resellers are seeming to get away with buying the bee girl key chains to break up and part out and listing the wings as the money making part. It’s also in the Disney castle set? *If you’re collecting minifigs you can stop at just one, if you want to MOC with the bee minifigs you sort of need more than one. You can use key chains and I have a few but something about the metal keychain post is unsatisfactory to me at least and I imagine other collectors in my position. I’ll probably use em but it’ll be in spots you can’t see the hole on top of the fig. What bag is the unikitty bag? Is it the roller coaster car or something from Lm2? Yiggy fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Mar 1, 2019 |
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Roller coaster wagon, 30406
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Don't know if anyone cares, but Chicago Watertower lego store has the Parisian restaurant and GB HQ on the shelves. Also has the silent mary on sale for like 179.
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Mar 1, 2019 20:43
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There were a ton of mustangs at my local lego store.
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Cojawfee posted:There were a ton of mustangs at my local lego store. Oh yeah, also tons of those, they were building a second one with the alternate display when the lego employee tried to pick it up by the roof, it broke and fell onto the ground and there were pieces everywhere. So they got to start over. It does look really good in person.
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Scipiotik posted:Don't know if anyone cares, but Chicago Watertower lego store has the Parisian restaurant and GB HQ on the shelves. Also has the silent mary on sale for like 179. Is the Firehouse on its way out? I grabbed one on a crazy impulse a year or so ago and it's a great set; if you're lurking and thinking about buying it, you should grab it while you can.
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Cockblocktopus posted:Is the Firehouse on its way out? I grabbed one on a crazy impulse a year or so ago and it's a great set; if you're lurking and thinking about buying it, you should grab it while you can. It's supposed to be retired, but looks like it's no where near sold out in the US.
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Cockblocktopus posted:Is the Firehouse on its way out? I grabbed one on a crazy impulse a year or so ago and it's a great set; if you're lurking and thinking about buying it, you should grab it while you can. The firehouse and Ninjago city+docks are among my favorite sets, even if you are not a Ghostbusters fan it's worth it. Fits in nice with my Creator Expert city sets.
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The firehouse is a great set but an awful build. Just an absolute slog. It looks so good when it is done, though.
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The Mustang was a fun build but god dang I had to do fix like 3 things I did backwards in the early stages.Waltzing Along posted:The firehouse is a great set but an awful build. Just an absolute slog. I thought they did a good job with the pacing. Just when I was getting sick of walls they toss in some mini builds. Seriously my favorite playset (although I don’t have too many, mostly vehicles)
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Dogen posted:The Mustang was a fun build but god dang I had to do fix like 3 things I did backwards in the early stages.
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Yeah I had to turn the overhead light on, the book light I normally use was not cutting it. Haha did the Flinstones set come out yesterday? I did a cursory glance to see if there was anything else I wanted and didn’t see it (they had a stack of Mustangs by the register). E: couple of leaked endgame sets- war machine hulk buster and new largeish quinjet https://youtu.be/d3a7aXesCmY E2: just saw the marvel bricktober sets are gonna be an in store promo starting March 8 for $75 and up purchases! Dogen fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Mar 2, 2019 |
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I love reading Lego reviews on Amazon. It's like 60% multi paragraph turbo nerd reviews about model accuracy and build techniques, entirely interlaced with "Bought this for my 6 year old and he loves it! Up until now he didn't have any of his own Legos and just played with my 11 year olds Legos since he outgrew them" reviews.
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Anyone see the April calendar yet? Wondering if there are any giveaways that will be worth waiting for.
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Don't think so. Annoyingly it only leaks a couple days early now since they stopped releasing it a month early.
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Took family to brickscascade. Some of the crazy large builds are fun to see in person. The only vendor with non crazy prices wouldn’t take cards and cell service couldn’t connect to lte of course. The Ninjago City on wheels and a sick giant fairground were my highlights. They had the afol designer finalists there. Hotshot and giant fire truck looked pretty great and the eight studs looks more interesting in person.
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