Non Technic LEGO

[Legmaster]

Funk said:

My Motorised Lighthouse and Atari have both landed. The 'not buying any more Lego for now' continues to go to plan...

Don't forget 'not buying' the Pacman set tomorrow too!

The lighthouse is a great build.

[james_TW]

The Lego shop had the pacman set. It's really cool

[Funk]

Legmaster said:

Funk said:

My Motorised Lighthouse and Atari have both landed. The 'not buying any more Lego for now' continues to go to plan...

Don't forget 'not buying' the Pacman set tomorrow too!

The lighthouse is a great build.

...and the Mars Rover Perseverance. And the upscaled Minifig. All launching tonight...

Fck.

[james_TW]

On the plus side, there are no speed champions sets for me to buy now

[C5_Steve]

Just saw an email that the Jaws set from Lego Ideas has been approved......much want.

[Funk]

james_TW said:

On the plus side, there are no speed champions sets for me to buy now

There are no plus sides. This is a war on my wallet that Lego is winning.

I both love and hate BrickEconomy - it's great for tracking what sets you have but it also tells me that since I got back into Lego during the first CV lockdown I've spent £8,200. And that'll be £8,500 by tomorrow.

The ONLY thing in my favour is that should I choose to sell it all (which I won't) the collection is apparently worth around £10.5k...

Edited by Funk on Wednesday 31st May 16:16

[james_TW]

Funk said:

james_TW said:

On the plus side, there are no speed champions sets for me to buy now

There are no plus sides. This is a war on my wallet that Lego is winning.

I both love and hate BrickEconomy - it's great for tracking what sets you have but it also tells me that since I got back into Lego during the first CV lockdown I've spent £8,200. And that'll be £8,500 by tomorrow.

The ONLY thing in my favour is that should I choose to sell it all (which I won't) the collection is apparently worth around £10.5k...

Edited by Funk on Wednesday 31st May 16:16

I don't want to know. I really, actually don't...

Edit. I hate you. I've just done a quick look-see of some of my collection. According to this, it's worth £5500 and it's cost (not just to me) around £3200 - truly sobering

Doesn't mean I won't buy any more of course

Edited by james_TW on Wednesday 31st May 17:20

[BobToc]

Looking forward to getting the little Land Rover tomorrow!

[ch37]

Way too much to share but easy enough to find online, but loads of the next wave of sets have been revealed, a few highlights...

Lego Ideas Jaws
Lego Ideas Cat

A large Captain America Shield replica, for Star Wars the Rebel Base on Yavin 4 playset with 12 minifigures, some new mech type designs (a bit like the Marvel ones) with Boba Fett, Stormtrooper and Darth Vader, a Ashoka Clone Trooper Battle Pack and the usual advent calendar, which looks a little underwhelming.

Edited by ch37 on Thursday 1st June 06:48

[james_TW]

The shield looks highly repetitive - not my thing...

I've held off on ordering the pac man set too, but only because I already have the current freebie which changes on the 3rd. If it sells out, I'll wait. I currently have 5 sets to build already

[McGee_22]

ch37 said:

Way too much to share but easy enough to find online, but loads of the next wave of sets have been revealed, a few highlights...

Lego Ideas Jaws
Lego Ideas Cat

A large Captain America Shield replica, for Star Wars the Rebel Base on Yavin 4 playset with 12 minifigures, some new mech type designs (a bit like the Marvel ones) with Boba Fett, Stormtrooper and Darth Vader, a Ashoka Clone Trooper Battle Pack and the usual advent calendar, which looks a little underwhelming.

Edited by ch37 on Thursday 1st June 06:48

The Jaws set looks good but I really hope the Clockwork Solar System gets approved one day - it's on its third or fourth submission now.

[james_TW]

st. Optimus Prime is in Argos. In stock. Near me. For £105.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Unless you'd a did hard transformers fan I'd maybe skip it, it's not one I think of fondly

[Getragdogleg]

If we get a Lego Solar system I want sun orbit and axis rotating planets and a moon that orbits earth too and that stays facing the same way as we go round.

Maybe not the tiny ones around the other planets but 100% earths moon needs to be there and do its thing correctly in time.

It would then be the best educational toy ever made and with help from a light kit to illuminate the sun it would be fantastic.

[james_TW]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

Unless you'd a did hard transformers fan I'd maybe skip it, it's not one I think of fondly

I am, but the reviews of it are not great...

[Funk]

My brother's done it - says the build was OK but apparently it's a little flimsy doing the 'transforming'. Where it shines is as a finished display model.

[ch37]

McGee_22 said:

The Jaws set looks good but I really hope the Clockwork Solar System gets approved one day - it's on its third or fourth submission now.

Playability issues, possibly? They got burned by Wall-E and the Caterham (in terms of fragility, truly the worst Lego set I have), they seem to be far more cautious with fragile builds now.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Funk said:

My brother's done it - says the build was OK but apparently it's a little flimsy doing the 'transforming'. Where it shines is as a finished display model.

I transformed mine earlier as this reminded me that he was stood there it did require reassembly after as a robot it is better looking

[james_TW]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

Funk said:

My brother's done it - says the build was OK but apparently it's a little flimsy doing the 'transforming'. Where it shines is as a finished display model.

I transformed mine earlier as this reminded me that he was stood there it did require reassembly after as a robot it is better looking

I'm not going to bother. I want the PAC man set really - and I spent over £120 on Monday at the Lego store already....

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Honestly pacman will be far far better