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Olpainless posted:About drat time. a UCS super star destroyer for 80 bucks instead of 800 or green grocer for 60 instead of a grand when they've been out of production for years sounds fine to me, the legit ones are still around and still sell for absurd prices, but for us poors it makes getting the gigantic sets possible especially if they've stopped making them
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Olpainless posted:About drat time. They didn't harm anyone except greedy resellers. Don't stick up for giant corporations.
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Apr 26, 2019 14:36
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Hasn’t this happened before and they just come back with a slightly different name? RIP Lepin Long live Lobin
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Apr 26, 2019 15:02
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I thought they were just going to use the lepin name for things they steal/buy from MOC builders and made a new brand for the stolen Lego.
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Vintersorg posted:They didn't harm anyone except greedy resellers. Don't stick up for giant corporations. Also they tried to steal AFOL designs quite often. So yeah, Lepin are nasty.
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Apr 26, 2019 16:08
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Lepin sucked total rear end. If they just stuck to doing licensed MOCs and paying people for their designs they'd probably make bank, but they are gently caress heads who deserve to be shut down.
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The avengers tower build is actually pretty substantial for a free gift with purchase. Too bad the iron man fig seems to be like Tony just wearing part of the torso and an arm
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Apr 26, 2019 16:39
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So the Chinese suddenly crack down on IP theft when it's a rich toy company ey? Wonder how big the bribes were that Lego paid. China shits on patent law with a vengence and suddenly they care? With toys of all things?
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Not just toys, any company can pay China to care about its ip.
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Hopper posted:So the Chinese suddenly crack down on IP theft when it's a rich toy company ey? Wonder how big the bribes were that Lego paid. LEGO opened a factory in China back in 17 and started expanding into that market by agreeing to have more operations based in China as well as products catered towards the Chinese like the dragon dance and the NYE set and soon to include the Chinese rowing set. So, maybe there are kickbacks on top of that and almost certainly there are but in real terms LEGO has been creating incentives for the Chinese to play ball. They’ve been angling towards this for awhile. https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news-room/2015/october/factory-expansion
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I am obsessed with the new bakfiets (cargo bike) chassis that's going to be in the donut shop and circus sets. I'm not particularly interested in the sets as a whole, as cool as they are, so will probably pay over the odds to BrickLink just the bike.
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I wish in general LEGO would make more bike frames that were meant to be built off of.
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tactical_grace posted:I am obsessed with the new bakfiets (cargo bike) chasis Dang, that thing is neat. I love the street vendors, they are tiny, but they add a lot life and character to a display.
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Uhh... https://gardentrends.us/product/80-off-today-star-wars-tm-millennium-falcon-75192/ They list the MSRP as just $400, and cut that down to $50. Anyone brave enough to risk $50? [Edit] Or don't; they say they accept Paypal, but when you go to Check out, the paypal buttons aren't functional and they want your CC information directly. The site is duplicated across other domain names like celex.us or gracehomestore.com. Pyroclastic fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Apr 27, 2019 |
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Apr 27, 2019 19:31
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Paypal buyers get quite a lot of protection so you'd at least get your money back.
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Apr 27, 2019 19:38
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Either it is the dumbest scam of all time, or they stole some millennial falcons and need to unload them quickly.
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Apr 27, 2019 19:41
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The guy who gave me the link said the thread he got it from has a bunch of people taking the risk. They'll contest the charge or they're willing to lose $50 (hopefully using a temporary CC #). The three identical sites I found all have different registration info. The two .us sites were registered last July, but have contact information in Mexico for one site, Ohio for another. The third was registered anonymously this January through GoDaddy.
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Apr 27, 2019 19:52
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Sometimes these things work out. But this looks like a scam. Most likely would be protected by your bank, but still a scam.
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After looking some more, this looks like a really bad idea. Paypal link doesn't work. It's pretty likely that you will end up with a maxed out CC and the hassle of having to fight w/ your bank to get it all sorted out.
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Apr 27, 2019 20:53
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If you have any doubts: "Free shipping worldwide". It is a scam.
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Hopper posted:If you have any doubts: "Free shipping worldwide". It is a scam. In fact international shipping of an item of this size and weight would already cost several times the price that they are selling just the set for!
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Apr 28, 2019 10:55
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True a generic parcel US to Germany with those dimension is easily 60$+ by boat.
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Apr 28, 2019 10:58
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The first episode of something called LEGO Masters was on Australian TV tonight. I'm waiting until I can see it on catch up TV, but I am cautiously optimistic for it.
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Chairchucker posted:The first episode of something called LEGO Masters was on Australian TV tonight. I'm waiting until I can see it on catch up TV, but I am cautiously optimistic for it. Ah, it’s a UK show they’ve sold the format for. Teams do build challenges, and there’s teams of two that can be any combination of adults and kids competing together.
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It was okay. There was a minimum of manufactured tension or drama, and some of the builds were pretty impressive. As long as they keep showcasing the teams' creativity, I'll enjoy watching the rest.
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Yeah, I liked it. Hamish's antics were a bit hit and miss, but I reckon he'll grow into the role a bit. Most of the contestants are pretty likeable, not sure if That One Guy has been selectively edited to make him appear like an egotistical jerk, or if that's really him.
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Tonight’s challenge: Sort all of the Megablocks out of this sticky and nicotine stained bin of random bricks purchased from Craigslist. There might be a complete Star Wars set in there somewhere! Good luck!
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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:Tonight’s challenge: Sort all of the Megablocks out of this sticky and nicotine stained bin of random bricks purchased from Craigslist. There might be a complete Star Wars set in there somewhere! Good luck! My mom just dropped off around 60lbs of legos and my wife and I have been doing the same thing. It's oddly cathartic.
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I wasn’t very interested in the Rexcelsior until I saw the crazy nano scale interiors and I’m still not gonna buy it but they’re cool as hell
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lol http://www.brickfinder.net/2019/04/29/lepin-not-gone/
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I cant understand why anyone other than Lego as a company are invested in Lepin going down. Lots of Lego fansites have been celebrating the raid this week and it just makes me roll my eyes. Lego is a great brand and a great product (tho with horrible quality issues recently) but they aren't anyone's friend. Having a clone brand, if anything, probably helps AFOLS in the long run.
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I don't like Lepins tactics but I have no problem with them releasing old overpriced sets. I've purchased 4: Market Street, CC, GG and TH. And I supplemented each of these with the proper Lego bricks so they all are part correct. I just didn't spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on sand green stuff. I did buy new base plates and hair pieces and a couple of the older doors. You wouldn't know they aren't Lego unless you looked at the studs. My point: Lepin isn't bad, they fill a need for some people.
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PriorMarcus posted:I cant understand why anyone other than Lego as a company are invested in Lepin going down. Lots of Lego fansites have been celebrating the raid this week and it just makes me roll my eyes. Lego is a great brand and a great product (tho with horrible quality issues recently) but they aren't anyone's friend. Having a clone brand, if anything, probably helps AFOLS in the long run. Product Cultists
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PriorMarcus posted:I cant understand why anyone other than Lego as a company are invested in Lepin going down. Lots of Lego fansites have been celebrating the raid this week and it just makes me roll my eyes. Lego is a great brand and a great product (tho with horrible quality issues recently) but they aren't anyone's friend. Having a clone brand, if anything, probably helps AFOLS in the long run. I don’t have a problem with Lepin making bootlegs of real sets, but they’ve also developed a habit of stealing MOC designs and profiting off them, and that sucks. So gently caress Lepin.
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The fact that they blatantly just rip designs from both Lego and fans is just massively scummy as all hell, sorry. At least other clone brands make their own sets and piece designs.
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If the last CEO was arrested, what is the incentive for this new CEO? I don't think we'll ever have a decent clone brick business. Copying the actual bricks is most likely also illegal, so it ends up just being a slippery slope. They can sell discontinued and custom sets, but then it's too easy to just start selling new sets since you already make all the bricks.
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