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Carbohydrates posted:So friggin' psyched for the new Speed Champions sets tomorrow. All these classic cars! Looks like they're available for purchase now on shop.lego.com!
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Whelp, local toy store is having a 50% off everything (no exceptions) moving sale starting tomorrow. Time to pick up some star wars. I want to MOC up some 'uglies' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaxOgW12XuE
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https://shop.lego.com/en-US/product...er_Garage_NA_US Garage is available.
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Target has speed champions for 20% off at release.
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Scipiotik posted:Target has speed champions for 20% off at release. Does that include the F40? E: Yes it does. Thanks for the heads up and ordered. Now I just need a mini DB5 and a mini Caterham. Waltzing Along fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Jan 1, 2019 |
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Jan 1, 2019 18:33
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Waltzing Along posted:https://shop.lego.com/en-US/product...er_Garage_NA_US Does this probably mean modulars are all going to be $200 from here on out? I kind of suspected they were gonna creep up to that price point.
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Jan 1, 2019 18:41
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veni veni veni posted:Does this probably mean modulars are all going to be $200 from here on out? I kind of suspected they were gonna creep up to that price point. Who knows. The Diner was $170 and a few hundred pieces less. Assembly Square was a beast with over 4000 pieces and cost $280.
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Jan 1, 2019 18:46
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Sorry if this has been asked before, but does anyone know when the detective's office will be retired? I see it's out of stock right now, but I don't know if that is how Lego retires stuff
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Jan 1, 2019 18:58
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I think it is retired. Just not updated on their site.
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Jan 1, 2019 19:01
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I've heard it's going to go out of production soon, but only Lego knows for sure. I'd grab it sooner than later if you don't want to have to buy it from a reseller with a markup. Sometimes sets end up in production for years longer than people expect though. I've been playing with fire on the UCS Slave 1 for like 2 years now.
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Wasn't it listed as retiring soon a few months ago? But now I don't see anything listed as retiring soon, so they may have removed that feature. E: https://www.reddit.com/r/legodeal/comments/9tdcer/is_the_detectives_office_the_next_modular_being/?st=jqe2b3pu&sh=b927c96b Yeah, it's retired. Any stock you can find is pretty much it.
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ohh I forgot Lego is actually listing stuff as "retiring soon" now instead of just the vague/meaningless "hard to find" listing. that's good. I guess that also buys me more time on the Slave 1. Unrelated, but what is the ship on the left here that looks like a straight up ripoff of the Battlestar galactica ship? I know nothing about the prequels or EU. That thing is sweet looking though. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2791043497786784 Also, man that deal is tempting. wish they were more complete. Luckily it's like a 3 hour drive anyways so my pocket scratch is safe. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Jan 1, 2019 |
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^^ That is definitely a Viper MOC. Either someone who wants to get rid of their old lego hobby, or someone's relative is.The Baumann posted:Sorry if this has been asked before, but does anyone know when the detective's office will be retired? In my experience, out of stock means it is not coming back. Backordered means it is out of stock but is coming back eventually.
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Ah, ok. I was gonna say the build technics looked way more MOC than Lego. What an odd thing to put in a lot.
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Cojawfee posted:
Fwiw, I ordered Benny;s Space Squad and it had a 30 day backorder. I got an email a day later saying it was "out of stock" and they would let me know. I know it's still coming. Just saying, they may occasionally use the "OOS" term for stuff coming back. Maybe?
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Feenix posted:Fwiw, I ordered Benny;s Space Squad and it had a 30 day backorder. I got an email a day later saying it was "out of stock" and they would let me know. I know it's still coming. Just saying, they may occasionally use the "OOS" term for stuff coming back. Maybe? Your email says out of stock, but it probably says backordered further down where it says what item it is, and also on the website. When I ordered the Porsche 911, they sent me an email that said it was out of stock, but in the section that lists the out of stock items, it said "BACKORDERED" in red.
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Cojawfee posted:Your email says out of stock, but it probably says backordered further down where it says what item it is, and also on the website. When I ordered the Porsche 911, they sent me an email that said it was out of stock, but in the section that lists the out of stock items, it said "BACKORDERED" in red. Gotcha. 
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My Lego store was cleaned out of new stuff by this afternoon. I got the last Emmet dream house and most of the movie stuff was gone
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Jan 1, 2019 22:57
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Come up to Canada. Every store has dozens of every new set.
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My dad was smart enough to sign up for the VIP program when he picked up the Falcon and gave me the card. Would I have any issues with using those points? I think I'll need to have him sign up online too right? I wonder if I can just put my info in at the initial sign up and have 2 VIP accounts to use them.
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My local target was cleaned out of everything. Either people bought out the store or they didn't bother restocking much since Christmas.
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Cojawfee posted:My local target was cleaned out of everything. Either people bought out the store or they didn't bother restocking much since Christmas. This. But I've been there a few times since Christmas and I think it's the latter. They haven't stocked.
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Same for the two Targets I went to today. They looked the same as they did 2 days ago, and definitely haven’t restocked today.
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Every Xmas, every single target in my area gets absolutely wiped out of Lego and it literally takes them like 2 months to fill the shelves back up. I have no idea why.
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What's weird is that the website says the F40 speed champions was in stock at my local store but all they had were a million of the Focus rally car and a couple 488 GTEs. I guess I'll check again in a couple days. Or I'll just wait til later and order from the lego store.
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veni veni veni posted:Every Xmas, every single target in my area gets absolutely wiped out of Lego and it literally takes them like 2 months to fill the shelves back up. I have no idea why. They literally don't care. Toys doesn't make no where near as much as other departments the month right after xmas.
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Try a web order and pick up in store, if they got the inventory they'll bag it up for you and have it waiting at customer service.
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xzzy posted:Try a web order and pick up in store, if they got the inventory they'll bag it up for you and have it waiting at customer service. I did that for the New speed champions sets today and the app stated “in stock at your store” and if I selected order for pickup it said pick up in 4-7 days.”
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I guess Target is just doing 20% across the board for Lego new and old. I just ordered my Futuristic Flyer set I've been drooling on for store pickup because screw driving all over town for it and it was indeed 11.99 + tax instead of $14.99.
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I went to the Lego Store a couple of days ago, and I hadn't realized just how big and expensive the initial Lego Movie 2 wave was. 19 sets, which go for over $600 even if you skip the Builder Boxes, Queen's Build Whatever Box, the Duplo, and the Movie Maker set. Only 6 sets are south of $20. Their price:piece ratios all suck, too. The Pop-Up Party Bus is the only decent ratio. Even the Queen's Build Whatever box is crappy at $40 for 455 pieces. Compare to the Destiny's Bounty, which has almost 2300 pieces for $160, to the Rexplorer, which has a bit more than half as many pieces, for $120. Destiny's Bounty has 7 minifigs, too, while Rexplorer has two with two raptors (which surely cost more to produce, but still).
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Pyroclastic posted:I went to the Lego Store a couple of days ago, and I hadn't realized just how big and expensive the initial Lego Movie 2 wave was. 19 sets, which go for over $600 even if you skip the Builder Boxes, Queen's Build Whatever Box, the Duplo, and the Movie Maker set. Only 6 sets are south of $20. Their price:piece ratios all suck, too. The Pop-Up Party Bus is the only decent ratio. Even the Queen's Build Whatever box is crappy at $40 for 455 pieces. Compare to the Destiny's Bounty, which has almost 2300 pieces for $160, to the Rexplorer, which has a bit more than half as many pieces, for $120. Destiny's Bounty has 7 minifigs, too, while Rexplorer has two with two raptors (which surely cost more to produce, but still). It really seems like Lego is quietly raising the prices on non licensed stuff over the past 6 months or so imo. It seems especially glaring since all of the NInjago movie stuff was such a ridiculously good deal.
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Emmets house was $70 for just over 700 pieces but since you get two tickets to the movie with it I thought it was reasonable
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The Galaxy Explorer would be $105 if you could get it new and the price were lockstep with inflation.  (it was 325 pieces)
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xzzy posted:The Galaxy Explorer would be $105 if you could get it new and the price were lockstep with inflation. Weight is a better guide than piece count.
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Waltzing Along posted:Weight is a better guide than piece count. Technically yes but no one ever brings it up in normal conversation, it's always part count.  Amazon lists Emmet's house at 2.87 pounds shipping weight, JC Penny listed the Galaxy Explorer at 3.2 pounds in their 1980 catalog.
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Weight would be a better metric since there's a lot of sets like, say, ship in a bottle which have literally hundreds of 1x1 pieces, but honestly checking into the types of pieces and if they're useful or super situational would be a better idea if you're buying a set for the parts or something
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I think the factors are, in some order: Weight # of minifigures Special parts: train tracks, sails, whatever Star Wars markup (might be happening w/ TLM2) and pieces. But weight appears to be #1.
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