1) My wife is from Denmark, and took me to Legoland in Billund for our honeymoon. She sounds and looks very similar to the presenter. She also buys me a larger lego star wars kit each year for our anniversary. She's totally awesome.
2) All those bricks you see on the tables where they are building will never be reused. When they are done, they don't get resorted back into the bins (takes too much time), but rather they are recycled into black lego bricks.
3) I would give them my tax refund right now for the UCS AT-AT.
4) No project has been approved at over the $50 mark. They seem to go more for ideas that could be impulse buys for adults, rather than dream kits. I think that Lego is trying to avoid the slower moving high price sets.
5) There's a rumor of a rerelease/redesign of the UCS Millennium Falcon. I really hope so, because I couldn't afford it back then.
The UCS Falcon was the one set I wanted to get when I started to get back into lego. But with that helicarrier coming out, I frankly just don't have room anymore.
For our third anniversary, my wife bought me 75 pounds of assorted lego from eBay. It took me weeks just to sort everything (and I still have about 10 pounds of unsorted parts).
Lego does not carry their full range of pieces through either the online or in-store pick-a-brick sales. So it's very unlikely you would get everything you want.
Pricing everything through Bricklink will be much more expensive than a Lego produced set. Unless the set ended up being 4,000+ pieces, it won't be in the $400 range. Also, using just the colored parts in the set can leave you buying some very expensive pieces. If you finagle things and are willing to have a little bit of off-color stuff (especially for structural pieces) you can quite often save a good bit.
For example, the flower pot pieces used on the original UCS X-Wing set were only made in grey plastic for the X-Wing. The last time I looked (because my dog chewed up two of them), they were like $30 each on Bricklink. I could get white ones muuuuch cheaper, which worked well enough.
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Another example is the first modular building, the Cafe Corner. To piece it out costs something like $500 now when it was originally $150. Those red slopes on the roof are very rare now. So rare that the Cafe Corner in the Lego Movie on the real model table has a different color roof.
If they re-release the UCS Falcon, I just recommend waiting to build it if you don't have permanent housing. I've been through four moves since I bought it and it doesn't travel super well. The first time I disassembled it first, but I just don't have the spare week to rebuild it every time anymore.
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If they re-release the UCS Falcon, I just recommend waiting to build it if you don't have permanent housing. I've been through four moves since I bought it and it doesn't travel super well. The first time I disassembled it first, but I just don't have the spare week to rebuild it every time anymore.
The best way to transport complete Lego is to wrap the entire thing in saran wrap. That way, if anything breaks off, it will be stick there. Then when you unwrap it you just reattach the parts.
If they re-release the UCS Falcon, I just recommend waiting to build it if you don't have permanent housing. I've been through four moves since I bought it and it doesn't travel super well. The first time I disassembled it first, but I just don't have the spare week to rebuild it every time anymore.
I am right this second starting a new business.
I will disassemble, pack up, and reassemble your Lego kits for you when you move.
This last time I discovered that it fits almost perfectly into this old TV box I had lying around, which helped. I just had some issues getting all the little bits reassembled properly, since there are parts that are tough to work with once assembled.
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This last time I discovered that it fits almost perfectly into this old TV box I had lying around, which helped. I just had some issues getting all the little bits reassembled properly, since there are parts that are tough to work with once assembled.
I already own a wide variety of tools, some of which will be very helpful when assembling tricky parts of the models.
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But I guess exclusionary jargon is part and parcel of every niche group.
Also Lego Doctor Who
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Sneak King was so great. Just sneaking up on people and stabbing them in the face with burgers and chicken fries.
The best part of that video is seeing the lego offices.
Damn they look like so much fun.
Same goes for any of the LOTR sets. I will hand over vast sums of money for those.
don't you want it to be structurally sound and actually affordable
I didn't say American students.
This is one of the sickest burns of all time.
I want it.
Even little Janine Melnitz and Louis Tully minifigs!
It's not so much a literal representation of the actors but a comedic representation of their characters.
Also there aren't very many ways to portray height difference in LEGO.
So, some comments to that video:
1) My wife is from Denmark, and took me to Legoland in Billund for our honeymoon. She sounds and looks very similar to the presenter. She also buys me a larger lego star wars kit each year for our anniversary. She's totally awesome.
2) All those bricks you see on the tables where they are building will never be reused. When they are done, they don't get resorted back into the bins (takes too much time), but rather they are recycled into black lego bricks.
3) I would give them my tax refund right now for the UCS AT-AT.
4) No project has been approved at over the $50 mark. They seem to go more for ideas that could be impulse buys for adults, rather than dream kits. I think that Lego is trying to avoid the slower moving high price sets.
5) There's a rumor of a rerelease/redesign of the UCS Millennium Falcon. I really hope so, because I couldn't afford it back then.
Look at all the other Ideas sets. They are all relatively small sets, mainly for display on desks and the like. The Firehouse is far too big.
No. As someone who has had them from all over the world.
They are all useless.
As a question though, if you can get hold of the instructions for what you want to build and source the individual pieces from the lego store?
Satans..... hints.....
Pricing everything through Bricklink will be much more expensive than a Lego produced set. Unless the set ended up being 4,000+ pieces, it won't be in the $400 range. Also, using just the colored parts in the set can leave you buying some very expensive pieces. If you finagle things and are willing to have a little bit of off-color stuff (especially for structural pieces) you can quite often save a good bit.
For example, the flower pot pieces used on the original UCS X-Wing set were only made in grey plastic for the X-Wing. The last time I looked (because my dog chewed up two of them), they were like $30 each on Bricklink. I could get white ones muuuuch cheaper, which worked well enough.
you will pay roughly the national budget of Uruguay
The best way to transport complete Lego is to wrap the entire thing in saran wrap. That way, if anything breaks off, it will be stick there. Then when you unwrap it you just reattach the parts.
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I am right this second starting a new business.
I will disassemble, pack up, and reassemble your Lego kits for you when you move.
I already own a wide variety of tools, some of which will be very helpful when assembling tricky parts of the models.