Non Technic LEGO

[ukaskew]

I love independent shops. I think this nearly 4 years old now but they had a stack of them brand new, also found the airport from a few years back...

[russy01]

Yea I find it funny with one of my locals, half of his stock is a few years old and all of their prices are unnecessarily over RRP!
I find it quite funny that they complain about LEGO not selling as well as it should and it’s all to do with our area!! Nothing to do with bad product and pricing...

[ukaskew]

russy01 said:

Yea I find it funny with one of my locals, half of his stock is a few years old and all of their prices are unnecessarily over RRP!
I find it quite funny that they complain about LEGO not selling as well as it should and it’s all to do with our area!! Nothing to do with bad product and pricing...

This particular store never deviates from RRP, I think they might even add a premium. The store itself is absolutely huge so even though they have hundreds of Lego boxes on the shelves I guess its a drop in the ocean space-wise, so no need to discount if it shifts eventually. It's always fun having a dig through, I don't follow the Star Wars stuff closely but some of that looked like older lines too.

[A205GTI]

ukaskew said:

russy01 said:

Yea I find it funny with one of my locals, half of his stock is a few years old and all of their prices are unnecessarily over RRP!
I find it quite funny that they complain about LEGO not selling as well as it should and it’s all to do with our area!! Nothing to do with bad product and pricing...

This particular store never deviates from RRP, I think they might even add a premium. The store itself is absolutely huge so even though they have hundreds of Lego boxes on the shelves I guess its a drop in the ocean space-wise, so no need to discount if it shifts eventually. It's always fun having a dig through, I don't follow the Star Wars stuff closely but some of that looked like older lines too.

Which shop in which town is it?

[ukaskew]

Whitehall Garden Centre just opposite Lacock in Wiltshire. The Toy Shop in Trowbridge also has it's fair selection of discontinued stuff, but much of it seems to have been sold in the run up to Christmas.

Also found a mint boxed set 040 in a charity shop yesterday for £10.

[alorotom]

Wedding anniversary gift from the wife today ... took about 2-3hrs to build and it’s realy nice and a good size.

[ukaskew]

That's a first, the 4 year old had 60154 Lego City Bus today and there is no sticker sheet anywhere in the box (checked everything very carefully 4 or 5 times).

Hopefully they can dispatch a replacement.

[E24man]

My daughter fell in love with the X-Wing fighter a few days ago but at £90 I said it was way too much but I managed to find John Lewis had it on sale from today at £63 so it's in the post for her.

[alorotom]

Well today’s haul from Santa includes the Chiron, Vestas wind turbine and the pop up story book

Just finished the Vestas - nice build and my first powered one. Even at 800odd pieces it took a while to build (longer than the SoL above) as the bags aren’t numbered and it’s a little fiddly - I’d recommend it!

I’ll get pics of it tomorrow morning

[ukaskew]

Statue of Liberty for me.

My just turned 4 year old got Coast Guard Headquarters (800 pieces), Bus Station (340 pieces) and Jungle Half Track (380 pieces). Shockingly he's built them already, impressive given he only got the Coast Guard set at 5pm, he's quicker than me and what really blows my mind is that he will do things that turn out to be a few pages ahead that he's not seen the instructions for yet, when I pull him up on it he'll point to the picture on the box, inevitably he's absolutely right.

The Bus is pretty poor, really bad interior access which limits playability immensely. The Coast Guard Headquarters however is brilliant.

If it follows the usual pattern they'll be in pieces tomorrow as he'll en heavily modify them, then by the end of the week they'll be fully back to their proper build.

Edited by ukaskew on Tuesday 25th December 23:06

[alorotom]

Once upon a brick ... not massive volumes of pieces but quite clever!

The book:




Red riding hood set:




Jack and the beanstalk set:




I do prefer the latter, and it’s more technically accomplished

Highly recommend this, esp for kids!

[Silenoz]

Anyone else having problems with the Lego website? Sale just announced so went on but just keep getting a page not found error.

[ukaskew]

The pop up book is fantastic, really clever design.

I've not got on the Lego sale or new pages either, been down since the moment the email went out for me.

[Japveesix]

Silenoz said:

Anyone else having problems with the Lego website? Sale just announced so went on but just keep getting a page not found error.

Yup, what a load of st. Had a few things in my basket, including Mr and Mrs Claude and it just endlessly crashed. Try again a fair few hours later and half the stuff is out of stock and I can't be arsed anymore...

[ukaskew]

Anyone got recommendations for lighting kits? Statue of Liberty is going to go in a unit in our lounge but would be nice to light it semi-realistically. Thinking uplighters on the top of the pedestal and maybe some lights in the pedestal itself.

[Oakey]

Our city has undergone more rejuvenation

[slipstream 1985]

More pics needed please

[shortar53]

The boy got some Lego for Christmas, 75955 Hogwarts express, he's more than happy.
About 3 hours between us to build, and he's played with it more since.

It runs on the regular Lego tracks too. Bonus.







Neat 'feature', the kids have shorter legs that don't bend. Makes them smaller than the adults :-)

[2pad]

Just finished the Porsche 919 Hybrid (75887). Good little build with some interesting features. Took about an hour.

Edited by 2pad on Wednesday 2nd January 20:37

[2pad]

Tonight's build was the X-Wing Starfighter (75218). Took about 4hrs and has some good details. A nice touch is new and original character mini figures.