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BaconCopter posted:Never mind, it took me like 50 refreshes but it's up to 150 now. can confirm. i was disappointed that it wasn't available, and then realized it was using my old address up in PA. it was available for in-store pickup at my local one down here in MD.
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BaconCopter posted:Never mind, it took me like 50 refreshes but it's up to 150 now. Yeah, all the stores around me were 150, switched to the tiny town 25 minutes away and was 50.
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BaconCopter posted:Never mind, it took me like 50 refreshes but it's up to 150 now. The same thing happened a day or so ago with an Xbox S deal for ~$180. As far as anyone could tell, only those in the western half of the country were getting the $180 price.
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Dec 16, 2023 00:53
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Cojawfee posted:That was my big issue when looking at lighting kits. So many of these have waaaay too many lights in them. Like the lunar lander set, you don't need to put lights all over the place, just put them where they make sense. I got the BTTF one because it makes sense for there to be lights all over the place on that thing, but some of these are just nuts. I just have the R2 one, because it’s actually pretty cool, the yoda one for his lightsaber which is quite simple, and the infinity gauntlet one. My ma got me one for the ghostbusters firehouse and I kinda started to install it before having similar issues as described above and deciding not to proceed. It’s fiddly and on a set you might really play with it’s limiting. Dogen fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Dec 16, 2023 |
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I kind of want to get the kit for R2 and the Galaxy Explorer.
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Dec 16, 2023 02:06
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Those higher prices are not walmart. They are resellers using the Walmart platform.
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Waltzing Along posted:Those higher prices are not walmart. They are resellers using the Walmart platform. yeah I had to double check the lego store cause I thought they were more like 100. which they are - but it turns out its sold out on the lego store so time for problems
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Dec 16, 2023 03:40
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Thanks for the lighting feedback and I agree. Fiddly and fragile has been my experience, even on the smaller sets, Dr Who, Tron & the first Ecto.
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Dec 16, 2023 17:42
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I got my friend a kit that was basically just a big light brick thing for the center of the dr who set (idk what that part of the set is come at me nerds) and that was actually a cool addition to that set, but again only one big light basically
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hellotoothpaste posted:A question: What’s a good way to display these things when there’s a toddler in play? My assumption is deep shelves at least 6 feet off of the floor, but does anyone have a cool setup they’d want to share? I want to get Sesame Street rebuilt, the lunar lander, Home Alone and then I have some art ones which appear ready to just mount on the wall (history of space & The Big Wave) You can buy these play pens to put toddlers in https://www.boulderbarks.com/produc...DyABEgJoOfD_BwE
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Just finished the Avengers Tower. It's a very big, very impressive build that looks awesome in person. But that's now that I want to talk about. I want to talk about this... the worst thing I've ever seen in one of Lego's 'premium-level' sets. This is the giant Chitauri alien from the first Avengers movie. It's the first thing you build, and it loving sucks. Quick question: do you have the hands of a tiny fey prince, with nimble fingers like little needles dancing to and fro? Do you have the delicate touch of an ethereal cloud, gently touching your bricks so finely that there's scarcely no pressure at all? No? Then this thing is going to loving EXPLODE in your hands if you look at it, or breathe near it, or someone a block away coughs slightly too loud. Most of this motherfucker is held by the clutch power of one, maybe two tiles. Pick it up from a weird angle? Whoops, it broke. Tried to gently push a tile down to get it to stay better? Whoops, it broke. Tried to delicately pick it up and move it to a shelf to sit there ignored forever? You bet your rear end something just broke off of it. The thought process was cool. It's a good idea. But holy poo poo, I hope you don't have kids, or curious friends who try to poke at it, or a shelf that's not as solid as God's good earth. Because otherwise, whoops, it's broke again, go back to book one. I'm not triggered, why do you ask
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Dec 16, 2023 19:09
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That looks like Bowser from a Wonder level where he turned into a turtle fish
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I was gonna wait to see if they went on sale, but then decided #fuckit and got that new Lego Space book and the minifig one with the orange Space fig.
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Dec 16, 2023 19:30
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It took me a long time of staring at that Chitauri photo before I could figure out where the front is.
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It's in the front.
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BaconCopter posted:Never mind, it took me like 50 refreshes but it's up to 150 now. Ordered mine this morning, picked it up this afternoon. $150 at my local Wal-Marts, $50 at the ones on the other side of the county by my in-laws' house where we were going anyway. 
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mutata posted:It's in the front. Unfortunately, it sounds like the front might fall off.
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Dec 16, 2023 23:49
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Jingle Bells,
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I am glad that even in this degenerate age of Mariah Carey and lovely Wham covers someone out there still respects the ancient carols.
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Viking Village down to only £100 on John Lewis website, if I hadn't already bought it then that would certainly clinch it (although I did get 3 free gifts on Lego's site at full price so it balances out).
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Dec 17, 2023 15:45
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Looks more like a cardinal tbh but good effort.
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The_Doctor posted:That looks right out of Thunderbirds. I would love it if Cobi went and made a Sunderland.
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Dec 17, 2023 22:33
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I saw the potted plants in person. What an adorable set.
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gschmidl posted:Starship. We Built This City
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Just built the ornaments gift-with-purchase set. https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/christmas-decor-set-40604?CMP=AFC-AffiliateUS-LNtsWdwRzsQ-2513819-1182088-1 Very repetitive — you build one assembly 12 times in different colors and its most of the parts — but nice end result. Another case of Chris McVeigh getting Lego to produce his designs from before he was hired which is pretty neat.
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Borsche69 posted:lol. got owned by a missing part. they gave me an extra 1x16 brown brick in lieu of what should be a second tan 6x8 plate. awesome Found another weird part mixup. I'm supposed to have a 1x12 black plate for one of the gates you construct in bag 21, but I instead of a spare 1x6 dark grey brick. I can only assume between this and the mixup I mentioned above, this weight must have been equivalent allowing it to sneak through whatever QC system they have. It's the only explanation I can think of, since I've never seen a mixup like this before in any lego set. At first I thought I was just missing the 1x12 black plate, but I get to the end of bag 21 and still have this 1x6 dark grey brick that never gets used in either this or bag 20 (started checking earlier instructions in case I just missed it prior, but nope, its a weird spare).
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Prepare to be utterly baffled when you see the winning Ideas sets; https://brickset.com/article/103367/ideas-review-results-revealed!
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PriorMarcus posted:Prepare to be utterly baffled when you see the winning Ideas sets; Money saved! Hmm, the knockoff Titanic is down to $200...
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I hereby thank Lego for selecting these boring Ideas to make into real sets, thus saving me money. (Still have to pick up the Viking Village... I guess that's the only thing I've got left on my wishlist now, until the medieval market comes out)
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gschmidl posted:Money saved! The friends garden is better and twilight left the cultural zeitgeist what, a decade ago? Guessing Swift wouldn't agree to the lover house because if they made that it would sell out every set even if they dedicated every brick they make for the next 5 years to that set.
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Scipiotik posted:The friends garden is better and twilight left the cultural zeitgeist what, a decade ago? I have some bad news https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/television/2023/04/19/twilight-tv-show-plans-lionsgate/70130863007/
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I always liked that house so if it turns out to be an interesting set I’ll probably get it and then my wife can play with the minifigures
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Yeah I don’t get the botanical garden. Like this video shows that the Friends one is up to modular standards is terms of cleverness. Just not an enclosed building. https://youtu.be/dvxV_-ZlsuE?si=rkiiSWvqW9CGDXpc
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I’m interested in the garden, I’ve actually wanted more modular gardens or parks for a long time now.
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Yeah I think I'd get the garden but it's probably like the museum and just too expensive for me
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Weird picks. Twilight makes sense if they're doing something new with the franchise I guess, but the botanical garden is just a larger but less interesting version of the Friends one. Easy pass unless they blow me away with the redesigns.
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Carbohydrates posted:Weird picks. Twilight makes sense if they're doing something new with the franchise I guess, but the botanical garden is just a larger but less interesting version of the Friends one. Easy pass unless they blow me away with the redesigns. They are doing a new TV Show but what are the chances they use the same real world house? It's not exactly iconic to the franchise like some houses are to their films/TV shows. Yes, weird pick.
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Scipiotik posted:The friends garden is better and twilight left the cultural zeitgeist what, a decade ago? Guessing Swift wouldn't agree to the lover house because if they made that it would sell out every set even if they dedicated every brick they make for the next 5 years to that set. that's the next review, i believe. Although with how terrible Taylor's merch is, she might bounce off Lego's narrower margins. Twilight was in a recent nostalgia wave. I think The Hunger Games is the main thing right now so wouldn't be surprised to see that pop up on the next batch of ideas.
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man don't tell me that twilight and hunger games are nostalgia bait
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those IPs are brand new. the year is 2008. im getting ready to play highlander on tf2
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