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Weird it wasn't in the email or on the store page, glad it's still a thing though. Can't wait to pick this one up.
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I love the smaller ‘89 Batmobile except the grey barrels as intakes. Tbf they stuck out weirdly on the Classic Space Ideas set too.
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That little one is going to end up being more valuable than the big one lol. If I get it I don’t know if I’ll have the willpower to not build it though. Really sucks that the release of the batmobile is so imminent. I really shouldn’t be spending that much on a set right now but I absolutely don’t want to miss out on the minifig scale one either. Maybe Ill sell some sets on craigslist to justify it.
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MichaelFlatley posted:I love the smaller ‘89 Batmobile except the grey barrels as intakes. Tbf they stuck out weirdly on the Classic Space Ideas set too. I hate the gray barrels man. They have fudged up so many cool modern/sci fi sets. It’s so obvious they are old west barrels. Stop using them as intakes LEGO.
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I guess I'll buy it. If I can find the time. Just realized that picture is dark as poo poo. Pretty sure I have every single Batmobile.
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The mini looks like a $30 or $35 set by itself. I could easily see it going for 2x that as soon as stock runs out.
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Waltzing Along posted:The mini looks like a $30 or $35 set by itself. I could easily see it going for 2x that as soon as stock runs out. It's comparable to the 30 dollar one they just released. Only draw back is it doesn't have minifigs.
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I was looking at the pictures and thinking about how hard it would be to brick link the pieces and there are three I don't recognize at all. The wings at the back, and the two types that shape both the front and rear wheel wells. Anybody know those?
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Not sure about the wings, but I think the wheel well parts you're talking about are these: https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=50967#T=S&O={%22iconly%22:0} They've been around for a while and are easy to find in black. An entire inventory should be available soon so you can go from there, although if those wings are new you'd have to improvise. But hey, that's half the fun of Lego!
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Nov 8, 2019 08:55
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If you want to bricklink it you need to identify the rare parts and start buying them asap, before prices climb due to others doing the same. A lot of the "pro" bricklink sellers wath these trends very carefully
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These sets are a year old, but I have never seen mention of them: https://www.brickfinder.net/2018/11/01/lego-brick4me-puppy-series-revealed/ They aren't even on bricklink. Anyone know about them? ie: parts lists. I'd like to BL the parts for a friend. And find instructions but they seem to be very unknown.
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Nov 8, 2019 13:40
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well, here's a dumb and unfunny thing from Jimmy Kimmel(but I repeat myself) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDrxiBBJFm0&hd=1
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My wife said she is on it to order the batmobile for me first thing on black friday. I didn't even know about the mini-one. I totally glossed over that. Even more reason now to get it early. I'm definitely gonna build the small one as well. Well poo poo, now I have to buy the Tumbler as well I guess. My hope is one day soon they do the animated series batmobile.
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veni veni veni posted:That little one is going to end up being more valuable than the big one lol. If I get it I don’t know if I’ll have the willpower to not build it though. I actually only want the little one and the minifigures. So the larger scale set is basically a £219 black hole I'll be buying.
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They should rerelease the Town Plans, not that they’d be difficult to Bricklink but it’d be nice to just grab it off the shelf and or get VIP points for it.
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I just had an initially frustrating but finally faith-in-humanity restoring experience on Facebook marketplace buying a Lego set. After rewatching Rogue One recently I decided I wanted a U-Wing after all. Though initially lukewarm on the design evidently it had grown on me. I saw a woman locally selling a U-Wing for €40 with bags still sealed, so made the purchase. She showed me the box had been opened because as she described it her daughter had opened it and looked at the bags but didn’t want to build it. My fault for taking her at her word, but I was in a rush and had to get to work. When I checked the box a few hours later I saw that most of the bags were sealed but the first had been opened, the figures built and there were definitely missing pieces. Closer inspection showed that someone had built the set up to about stage 20, and all that initial structure was missing. The figs and everything after were present. I figured I’d been scammed but gave the woman the benefit of the doubt and messaged her with pictures. When she got back in touch she was extremely apologetic and confused about what could have happened. She searched for the missing parts, but I told her I didn’t want to cause her extra wasted time and that I would just return the set. She refused and had her husband looking for it too. At this point I’d made a BrickLink list of the 60 or so missing pieces and it looked like about €15 with shipping so I told her if she just wanted to refund me €20 I’d order the extras and be done with it. She absolutely refused and asked for my bank details and refunded me the full €40 today, telling me to keep the set, along with further apologies even though I told her she was being more than generous. So end result, I will have a very cheap U-Wing, and of course while on BrickLink I took the opportunity to buy a few more blasters to replace the stud shooters for the battle pack figs I have on my shelf. Also I picked up a couple pieces for my nephew’s Ninjago City set we noticed were missing when I built it with him, so smiles all round. Butterfly Valley fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Nov 8, 2019 |
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I bought the U-wing and thought it was a quite nice set, although if memory serves, the cockpit is wrong?
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It's single seat instead of two abreast, but that's just an issue of scale. It's a pretty great set.
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Batmobile looks absolutely incredible. However my seasonal purchase budget is in Ninjago City and the accompanying Docks- they’ll be arriving a day or two before BF and returnable within 90d if I find a better deal (and am patient)- we’ll see what happens. I mostly like stuff I can integrate with the minifigs at scale so the GWP is probably more my speed, but I’m really liking that Futura-based model here:
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Nov 9, 2019 01:46
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Also when did the term LEGO ‘System’ fall out of parlance?
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Batmobile looks absolutely incredible. However my seasonal purchase budget is in Ninjago City and the accompanying Docks- they’ll be arriving a day or two before BF and returnable within 90d if I find a better deal (and am patient)- we’ll see what happens. I mostly like stuff I can integrate with the minifigs at scale so the GWP is probably more my speed, but I’m really liking that Futura-based model here: The one on the top right? That was a SDCC promo. My wife found the instructions and bricklinked the pieces for me. There’s also a larger one that comes with the retro Batcave.
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COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:Also when did the term LEGO ‘System’ fall out of parlance? Well, 2000 was the year they stopped printing 'System' on the boxes/instructions so then I guess. I don't know why, presumably some marketing or brand thing like when they changed from 'Legoland' to 'Lego System'.
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The term system is still used frequently though. I think it was probably just marketing reasons since there are so many themes and licensed properties now. But it's still the terminology used to describe how parts can interact with eachother.
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It's just marketing. They probably talked to people who said "what is Lego System? Oh, it's the same as Lego?" So they dropped the System part.
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Nov 9, 2019 22:02
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I just picked up the first Milano from Guardians of the Galaxy since I have the one from Vol. 2 and their new ship from Infinity War and this one is my favorite, the size and colors are dope as hell and I love the Boombox inside, cockpit and rear window to view out the back. The Vol. 2 ship really sucks rear end in comparison.
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sigher posted:I just picked up the first Milano from Guardians of the Galaxy since I have the one from Vol. 2 and their new ship from Infinity War and this one is my favorite, the size and colors are dope as hell and I love the Boombox inside, cockpit and rear window to view out the back. The Vol. 2 ship really sucks rear end in comparison. I have this sitting on my shelf from when I was certain I was going all in on Marvel LEGO. I'm not sure what happened but I never bought anything beyond that.
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tuo posted:Speaking of stuff I want... Double posting because this is $167 on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Mega-Constru...243422a05d&th=1
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I had a couple of Mega Bloks sets when I was younger but even then something didn't seem right about them. I also remember Construx being a name for a different toy in the 90s, it was more of a K'Nex type thing with like rods and plates- here we go- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construx- that redshirt looks mighty chuffed with his shuttlecraft I must say. And of course that picture is "own work", lol
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Yeah I actually loved Construx as a kid. It was it's own thing. Megablox were just generic Legos. In the 80's Lego was always king but the other building toys were actually different from them. Contrux, Knex (sucked) erector sets...Now they are all just Lego rips. Also lincoln logs nevar forget.
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The one I had that never seemed popular* was Robotix, and it’s octagonal connection points. *But apparently was popular enough to have a movie? Googling it brought this fact up, and I’d never heard of the movie before.
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I played a lot with Construx. It was basically my second fix after Lego. Sadly, the quality of Construx (at least over here) was not even close to Lego, so the longer beams always started to crack after using them two dozen times for different things, right where you would attach the connector things. I still have a lot of Construx in the basement, and most of it is cracked, because I used it too much (I remember using the parts from the spaceship set...the large, quarter disc things....to build myself shoulder pads for my 40k Space Marine costume when I was like six or seven years old. Good times.)
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Construx was awesome because when you're a kid its easy enough to build something so big it's as tall as you are and the lack of intricate parts makes it more suitable for outside play. They were also extremely cheap compared to Lego which meant even the larger sets were very attainable. I had the massive army half track and the biggest of the black and purple alien ships and those combined with a few smaller but still significantly large sets meant I was never lacking for parts.
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Exactly. I never had enough Lego to build the really big things I wanted to build, and back then Lego also didn't have so many different parts that it has now. Some things I remember building out of construx: - Gatling gun from Predator, as close as 1:1 as I could (I think I even tried to implement some kind of crank so it rotated) - Hunter Killer Tank from Terminator 2 nearly a meter high I should have never seen those movies in that age of course, but my two older brothers didn't give a gently caress and promised my parents they'll take good care of me, only to pop in the VHS after the door closed, lol  Of course my parents were a bit surprised regarding my construx builds....
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CONSTRUX???Rhyno posted:Look at all these poor kids. Best childhood building toy ever.
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Speaking of alternatives to LEGO..... Wonder what the tolerances are like?
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dubzee posted:Speaking of alternatives to LEGO..... Precious metals are usually a libertarian thing, so they'll claim to have high tolerances but they'll be damned if they're sending their kids to the same school as the blacks
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If it is a libertarian selling it, the blocks will just be chrome plated pot metal.
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dubzee posted:Speaking of alternatives to LEGO..... Just splash for the Tiffany ones.
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