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Thought this might be the right thread to pose this question: What lego set would be a good fit for a brief speed-build competition for adults? I'd like it to be doable in 5-10 minutes and be a nice souvenir that the players can take home. Looking to spend under $100 for four sets but can stretch if the set is particularly cool. Thinking identical sets, but if there's a series that is meaningfully similar to build I wouldn't be against diversifying.
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Not a Children posted:Thought this might be the right thread to pose this question: how about the 4 pictures in 'tales of the space age'?
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Apr 4, 2024 13:42
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Not a Children posted:Thought this might be the right thread to pose this question: Maybe a 3-in-1, like the Retro Camera? It's kind of a neat set and then you could have 3 speed competitions in one.
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Apr 4, 2024 13:43
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The 3-in-1 creator sets. With a 5-10 minutes limit you can't go too big but they offer a good bang for your buck. There's some really cool ones like animals that would have a wide appeal. There's a really cute new dragon that's 10 euros that could be build in that timeframe. Anything above 15 bucks is definitely going to take too long, I think. The deep sea creatures (shark) is also a great choice.
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Apr 4, 2024 13:46
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We talking lego veterans or people that haven't built since youth? The small 3-in-1 sets would get my vote. Cheap, readily available, and wide appeal. The sub-150 piece sets for beginners, anything else for those that are turbo nerds like those of us in the thread. edit - maybe polybag sets too, though I think these days they're almost too simple and are basically just minifig kits.
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Apr 4, 2024 13:47
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The latest 3-in-1, fox/owl/squirrel is pretty cool
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Apr 4, 2024 13:51
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3 in 1 would also be good because people could build whatever they wanted and everyone would feel like they got the same thing (I’d like to think this wouldn’t matter for adults but)
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HootTheOwl posted:The latest 3-in-1, fox/owl/squirrel is pretty cool definitely not a 10-15 minute build, and easily gonna blow past the 100$ budget though.
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Apr 4, 2024 14:58
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They're not my jam, but wouldn't the brick heads be good for that? Cheap, easy (I'm assuming, haven't built one) and recognisable characters.
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Apr 4, 2024 15:03
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Butterfly Valley posted:how about the 4 pictures in 'tales of the space age'? This is a nice suggestion.
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Apr 4, 2024 15:04
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The 3in1 Fantasy Forest Creatures is also a really cute build. There's also a 3in1 Vintage Motorcycle that has some technic elements if you want to go another route. If you do want to go a bit bigger there's the White Rabbit which is cool, but also I think that's more of a 20-30 minute build if you go fast, longer if you're inexperienced. Brickheadz could also work if you know what they'd be interested in. There's also a couple of smaller flower sets (like 2 roses, sunflowers or lotus flowers) that could work for your audience, but might also not be as interesting or much fun to build. I think if you're wanting to spend $100 on 4 sets you'll end up with sets that will take much longer than the time frame you have in mind.
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Apr 4, 2024 15:10
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I finally bought enough little storage shelves to start organizing my kids' lego collection. I know it'll be a constant work in progress but it'll make building and rebuilding all their torn up sets way easier.
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Crazy Joe Wilson posted:I finally bought enough little storage shelves to start organizing my kids' lego collection. I know it'll be a constant work in progress but it'll make building and rebuilding all their torn up sets way easier. I recently got some craftsman organizers and it has drastically improved my ability to make mocs. just being able to scan my parts for the right piece or ideas is super helpful
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Apr 4, 2024 15:58
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The succulents and tiny plants might also work if you balance them right.
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Apr 4, 2024 16:09
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PriorMarcus posted:This is a nice suggestion. They were staring at me from behind my PC screen so it was an easy one. Not the most thrilling of builds but absolutely fits the budget and having something nice to take home and display criteria.
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Apr 4, 2024 17:47
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My Batman: TAS Gotham came today, and the amount of stickers makes me want to die. Pretty cool set otherwise.
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https://youtube.com/shorts/7t_f6SdiUfI?si=aimIt_LKlX4OlZ4r
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The DnD set arrived and boy, is it a big box. 30 something bags, I'm kinda intimidated. I think this is my biggest set so far, a title previously held by apocalypseburg which is only slightly smaller now that I checked. I also got gifted a flower trellis set (which will be a gift for my mum) and the mimic which I built this afternoon. It's cute but it's also kinda annoying that it doesn't close all the way with the tongue sticking out.
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the secondary market for the mimic is officially loving insane. idk what the contract with WoC looks like but it wouldnt shock me if they revisited the mimic as a regular non-GWP set
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Apr 5, 2024 20:34
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Wow. Looking at completed listings, it started bad but is just going up. I guess people quickly figured out it was worth more than 60 bucks. 120+ is normal now. I wonder how high it will go. E: and there really aren't many for sale yet.
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Apr 5, 2024 20:52
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Here on my local ebay-ish board (we don't use Ebay in Poland that much, they lost the fight to our local company) there are like two for 70-ish dollars after conversion and one listing for 90-ish. At this price point just bricklink it. Except the eyes it's gonna be like 1/4th of that.
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Apr 5, 2024 21:00
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Yeah, brickset says it has 168 pieces and none of them look rare to me except for the printed eye tiles. And you could easily substitute those for another, bricklink has 80 results when searcing "eye tile 1 x 1." I bet you could get it for $25 plus shipping. Plus I think a pink tongue would look better.
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Apr 5, 2024 21:32
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Lmao wtf? Like I already built it and I'm not strapped for cash but also it's not that impressive? I mean it's pretty cool but it's a simple build amd with some color changes I think I could make a couple of others with 95% accuracy. Getting a third or a quarter of the price of the dnd set back sure is tempting though.
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Apr 5, 2024 21:35
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deoju posted:I bet you could get it for $25 plus shipping. Yeah, it's telling me about $17-ish plus shipping and that's probably because of the purples, if I'd swap those to a more popular colour it's probably gonna be cheaper still. So no, a box I'll throw away and 4 printed eyes aren't worth an extra > 60.
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gently caress one of these just snapped on my Ghostbusters fire house. If that thing is a timebomb of brittle dark red I'm going to be pissed.Saithir posted:Yeah, it's telling me about $17-ish plus shipping and that's probably because of the purples, if I'd swap those to a more popular colour it's probably gonna be cheaper still. Edit: Nevermind, I found it on rebrickable under the inventory tab. https://rebrickable.com/sets/5008325-1/dungeons-dragons-mimic-dice-box/#parts deoju fucked around with this message at 22:17 on Apr 5, 2024 |
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That's honestly really dumb they didn't make enough of the mimic. They have to have known a lot of people would want that.
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Saithir posted:Here on my local ebay-ish board (we don't use Ebay in Poland that much, they lost the fight to our local company) there are like two for 70-ish dollars after conversion and one listing for 90-ish. No one is buying it on ebay to build it though, except maybe some edge case whales. And you can't bricklink the packaging. Assuming the price doesn't crash you could make like $250 buying those and reselling on ebay.
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veni veni veni posted:That's honestly really dumb they didn't make enough of the mimic. They have to have known a lot of people would want that. I think I said this more than a year ago but a $200 mimic set that looks like a treasure chest but sprouts teeth, a tongue, and eyes with gears and levers and poo poo when you lift the lid would have been so cool. I get that a Dungeons and Dragons set should have dungeons and dragons, but having that on your bookshelf or desk would be rad.
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deoju posted:I think I said this more than a year ago but a $200 mimic set that looks like a treasure chest but sprouts teeth, a tongue, and eyes with gears and levers and poo poo when you lift the lid would have been so cool. Something like that was one of the runners up. There were a bunch of other submissions along that line too. 
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god drat that's loving fantastic. the teeth could be a black metal band's logo
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I think I would have been more into that than the set that won. That set wouldn't be very economical though. It's gigantic for what it is. Probably like 3-4k parts for a brown box with no minifigs. I can see why it didn't win but it would have been cool.
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I'd pay extra to have my Lego delivered by anyone but DPD. They used to be good, but my last few deliveries have been increasingly poo poo. This morning I was supposed to have my D&D castle and assorted bonuses delivered. I got the e-mail with the one hour timeframe, and like last time, I eventually got an e-mail claiming I wasn't home for the delivery, and that my package had been left with neighbours. The last time that had happened 'left with neighbours' meant that they'd just dumped it in the lobby of my building. When I'd checked with the address in the e-mail they'd told me they hadn't taken in a package. It turned out that another neighbour had seen the big box sitting in the middle of the lobby and assumed that it was something expensive. He dropped the package off in person later that night. This time around 'left with the neighbours' meant that it had been dumped in the lobby of another apartment building, two blocks away. Thankfully I was watching my e-main inbox like a hawk this time, and managed to retrieve the package before anyone else could grab it.
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I ordered the 3 in 1 Fox for my wife last Thursday and it was delivered via UPS on Saturday. Fastest standard shipping I’ve ever seen from Lego.
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Apr 8, 2024 13:25
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At least they're not using Lasershit now for standard shipping in the Mid-Atlantic region.
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Working a new idea… Blocky, way too small and fuckin expensive
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Work in progress,  Tie Lancer. gently caress Tarkin Doctrine it’s gonna be an Imperial version of the B-Wing, a Capital killer with a turbo laser in the second pod (in my head so far), something resembling shields, 2 ion cannons (near the wing tips), and a couple tie blasters so far  This is a very first rough draft, just goofing around with the ship on my couch with its own pieces. a sexual elk fucked around with this message at 10:44 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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She ain’t helping 
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For those of you with more experience with collectible minifigs - does ordering a full display box of 36 mean you get three complete sets of twelve?
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Skios posted:For those of you with more experience with collectible minifigs - does ordering a full display box of 36 mean you get three complete sets of twelve? Varies. Usually I think yes, but in some cases no Probably the various Lego nerd websites and AFOL clubs will know more, but I don't know if it's predictable at all in advance
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So hang on, it looks like the lego.com site only allows 12 minifigure blind boxes purchased per series with no time limits. I guess they want to foster the secondary market to collect the full set?
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