I do indeed, but I'm short of the white tail fins so haven't built it yet.
They are a really crappy design that breaks easily so I'm missing quite a few. The grey and blue variants are the oldest and fetch about £2 each - the slightly later white and black are more common and I've got a batch of 6 on the way at 60p each so I'm reluctantly accepting colour substitution until I manage to get a bargain in the other colours. There's loads of black ones for sale in Australia for some reason so I may just buy more of them.
The other two bits that were easily damaged are the round legs and the 2x1 flat pieces with a ladder attached - both as used on that set.
There's a slightly different grey ladder that's a current piece which is close enough and costs pence.
They are a really crappy design that breaks easily so I'm missing quite a few. The grey and blue variants are the oldest and fetch about £2 each - the slightly later white and black are more common and I've got a batch of 6 on the way at 60p each so I'm reluctantly accepting colour substitution until I manage to get a bargain in the other colours. There's loads of black ones for sale in Australia for some reason so I may just buy more of them.
The other two bits that were easily damaged are the round legs and the 2x1 flat pieces with a ladder attached - both as used on that set.
There's a slightly different grey ladder that's a current piece which is close enough and costs pence.
Dr Zoidberg wrote:
There's another 13 sets to build yet.
You spoilt little fucker...
(Not even slightly jealous)
..........................................
Need more Lego on my desk
You appear to be gluing them on the underside of your desk. Gives you more room to work, I guess.
Lego Batman lives on my dashboard.
Future Warrior wrote:
You appear to be gluing them on the underside of your desk. Gives you more room to work, I guess.
ha ha.. how did that happen..
Ironman and Deadpool in my car.
And my desk at home.
And my desk at home.
Go on, why are they upside down?
It's Grim...'s little joke, He's been playing it on us for years.
(there are little arrows under the pictures where you can re-orient them)
(there are little arrows under the pictures where you can re-orient them)
Mimi wrote:
It's Grim...'s little joke, He's been playing it on us for years.
(there are little arrows under the pictures where you can re-orient them)
(there are little arrows under the pictures where you can re-orient them)
Thank you.. had to go on the web site
You need to dust your keyboard 
any my screen / house
I had to search for those S-world figures, those are great! Where did you get them from - I found a link to a site shipping from China, is that the one?
JBR wrote:
I had to search for those S-world figures, those are great! Where did you get them from - I found a link to a site shipping from China, is that the one?
I got them off EBay.
Ta much, I will compare ebay with elsewhere later on.
KovacsC wrote:
Thanks, man.
My Lego and fez are cool
The new UCS Falcon has been announced, to nobody's surprise.
https://shop.lego.com/en-GB/Millennium-Falcon-75192?
£650, 7500 pieces, 1st October release date.
I am obviously buying one.
https://shop.lego.com/en-GB/Millennium-Falcon-75192?
£650, 7500 pieces, 1st October release date.
I am obviously buying one.
Too rich for my blood. I seem to be cured, as my lego sets get sold. Still keeping my Death Star, but I'm happy selling many other sets, and look at the new ones with only idle curiosity, rather than the 'yeahyeahyeah!' I used to have.
Bought 2KG of loose bits for my son as well as a junior start kit
He likes to join in building with me and we spend hours
My issue is I keep seeing models I think are cool and buying them "for him" Such as the one below
Then end up being too complicated or break too easy and I'm back fixing them every 5 mins
He likes to join in building with me and we spend hours
My issue is I keep seeing models I think are cool and buying them "for him
" Such as the one belowThen end up being too complicated or break too easy and I'm back fixing them every 5 mins
I keep trying to buy All Of The Lego from their website but it won't let me 
Well, it might... It refers me to a phone number. To speak to a human. Pfft. Fuck that noise. It should be easier to spend all my of my money than that.
Well, it might... It refers me to a phone number. To speak to a human. Pfft. Fuck that noise. It should be easier to spend all my of my money than that.
A guy I used to work with is big into collecting the expensive sets like Death Star
He told me he found a website that showed when Lego was making models end of life, he would buy 2 and more often than not selling one of them a few months later would pay for the other one.
I still have a yellow electric train from the 1980's my brother is giving to me in a couple of weeks as he bagged all our childhood Lego as he had kids first.
He told me he found a website that showed when Lego was making models end of life, he would buy 2 and more often than not selling one of them a few months later would pay for the other one.
I still have a yellow electric train from the 1980's my brother is giving to me in a couple of weeks as he bagged all our childhood Lego as he had kids first.
It's not a guaranteed profit like it used to be, but there's definitely money to be made reselling EoL Lego sets.
The previous UCS Falcon was selling for upwards of three grand butthat was definitely an unusual case
The previous UCS Falcon was selling for upwards of three grand butthat was definitely an unusual case
That was exactly how I started (though not with the Death Star) - buy two, sell one later. Then with the battle packs it quickly went to 'buy 4, buy 5...', till I had about 30 of the 8084 Snowtrooper set. The little ones are, I think better, in that you can take better advantage of any Argos 3 for 2s without going 'jeez, I just spent £200 on some star destroyers', easier to store, easier to post and not such a worry on the scam front - if each one more than doubles in value, you receive double (after selling fees), and overall make more. But Lego do put the price up by a £ each year or even more quickly - market forces in action, I suppose, as they spotted the first ones sold new for £7, then a few years later were selling for £20. So the next were £8, then 9, etc., as they recouped a bit of the increase in advance. It is less guaranteed, just as you say - sometimes Lego more or less re-release a set. And Lego is generally more popular than when they started doing Lego Star Wars - they were slightly in the doldrums then, so the first sets were routinely discounted heavily.
KovacsC wrote:
Are these the figures that are not official Lego, but look just the same?
Found some of these for my son on Ebay, really good value. He lost his batman figure and I'm not searching his room of toys for it
So I paid £6 for 8 Marvel figures including Batman
Then found these for just under £18.00, not good as I'm wanting to get a small army of different Storm troopers now
asfish wrote:
8 Marvel figures including Batman
!
Aliexpress.com.
And prepare to want many, many more!
And prepare to want many, many more!
Malc wrote:
asfish wrote:
8 Marvel figures including Batman
!
Sorry! Some Marvel and Batman
JBR wrote:
Jesus, there is no end to the choices there, these are worse than Thomas minis to collect!
Guess you have used them, any issues with customs and whats the average wait time for them?
No problems with customs - moneysavingexpert suggests never ordering more than $15 worth - I've only ever ordered $5/6 from one supplier. Wait times can be quite long, though always within whatever timescales (a month?) they give you. I just see it as an order and forget thing - order lots of things and just wait and see when they get to you.
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Here's a photo of some that arrived yesterday, to give you an idea of what you'll get (don't expect too much packaging etc!) - 5 figures in that tiny jiffy bag. You might just be able to see from that that the arms (and hands) have to be attached, though I've had very few that aren't then as solid as you like.
JBR wrote:
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Here's a photo of some that arrived yesterday, to give you an idea of what you'll get (don't expect too much packaging etc!) - 5 figures in that tiny jiffy bag. You might just be able to see from that that the arms (and hands) have to be attached, though I've had very few that aren't then as solid as you like.
Yes I got some this morning, same figures but from a guy on Ebay who had UK stock, spent part of my lunch putting them together!
This month, I have bought 3 boxes of Lego.
Assembly Square
The Detectives Office
The Brick Bank
And now I'm totally addicted. Next on the list, is the cinema or maybe the Parisian Restaurant... There are also 3 train sets I want.
I also saw the Millennium Falcon in the store yesterday and wow.... It's absolutely enormous. I was also very tempted by the Disney Castle. I like the bigger builds with lots of pieces. Next, evict a child so I have room for all the Lego!!
Assembly Square
The Detectives Office
The Brick Bank
And now I'm totally addicted. Next on the list, is the cinema or maybe the Parisian Restaurant... There are also 3 train sets I want.
I also saw the Millennium Falcon in the store yesterday and wow.... It's absolutely enormous. I was also very tempted by the Disney Castle. I like the bigger builds with lots of pieces. Next, evict a child so I have room for all the Lego!!
JBR wrote:
I have had a few bits, the build quality had been a bit rubbish
KovacsC wrote:
JBR wrote:
I have had a few bits, the build quality had been a bit rubbish
I think that's probably about right. Though not so bad that people could tell the difference when it was all up in my office. It wouldn't be so good at withstanding a good hard playing-with, I guess.
flis wrote:
This month, I have bought 3 boxes of Lego.
Assembly Square
The Detectives Office
The Brick Bank
Assembly Square
The Detectives Office
The Brick Bank
I love those - the buildings they have to go in what seems like the 'Lego city - tempt the adults' range are what might make me eventually reconsider my "I'm cured of my addiction!" status.
flis wrote:
This month, I have bought 3 boxes of Lego.
Assembly Square
The Detectives Office
The Brick Bank
And now I'm totally addicted. Next on the list, is the cinema or maybe the Parisian Restaurant... There are also 3 train sets I want.
I also saw the Millennium Falcon in the store yesterday and wow.... It's absolutely enormous. I was also very tempted by the Disney Castle. I like the bigger builds with lots of pieces. Next, evict a child so I have room for all the Lego!!
Assembly Square
The Detectives Office
The Brick Bank
And now I'm totally addicted. Next on the list, is the cinema or maybe the Parisian Restaurant... There are also 3 train sets I want.
I also saw the Millennium Falcon in the store yesterday and wow.... It's absolutely enormous. I was also very tempted by the Disney Castle. I like the bigger builds with lots of pieces. Next, evict a child so I have room for all the Lego!!
Are all these from aliexpress ?
JBR wrote:
flis wrote:
This month, I have bought 3 boxes of Lego.
Assembly Square
The Detectives Office
The Brick Bank
Assembly Square
The Detectives Office
The Brick Bank
I love those - the buildings they have to go in what seems like the 'Lego city - tempt the adults' range are what might make me eventually reconsider my "I'm cured of my addiction!" status.
They're amazing - the level of detail is something else. There's loads of scope for actually playing with them, too if that's what you want to do. I've been showing everyone who comes to the house "Look! Look! The bank vault locks, and there's a secret passage here... And look at this one, there's a hidden door under here!"
The Ninjago city set looks incredible... Almost 5000 pieces and it comes with something like 15 minifigures. It's more expensive than Assembly Square, which is to be expected now there's a movie series and it's aimed at kids but given the individual block and minifigure prices, it's still great value. Maybe my town needs a Japanese quarter...
Asfish, no, they're all from the Lego store. I don't think I'd be happy with a copy, and it never even crossed my mind to go down that route - I'm happy paying Lego £150 or so for those, given the amount of work that must go into designing them and adding all the little details in.
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Asfish, no, they're all from the Lego store. I don't think I'd be happy with a copy, and it never even crossed my mind to go down that route - I'm happy paying Lego £150 or so for those, given the amount of work that must go into designing them and adding all the little details in.
I've bought some sets of figures from China as they are cheap and Lego don't do them. All my sets come from Lego though.
Figures are ok but you can tell they are knock-offs!
Lego Star Wars advent calendar day one (I doubt I'll keep this up, don't worry).
Spoilered in case anyone else has it and not opened it yet.
No, I don't know what it is either.
Spoilered in case anyone else has it and not opened it yet.
ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
No, I don't know what it is either.
An A-Wing?
Something Naboo-ish
markg wrote:
An A-Wing?
They're more flat across the back, aren't they? From the top this is pretty much an octagon.
Yeah it doesn't look much like one for sure but that's all I could think of.
It is the Ghost, from Star Wars Rebels....
