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[Capital Power]

$100 gift card with a $400 purchase from the Stores today only. Online shipping orders only. Good opportunity to get something back if you covet one of the expensive big sets . I was thinking of the Eldorado Fortress ...

Standard delivery is $12.50, more for sets over 3kg (which would be most of the big ones - there's also no free ship threshold).

EDIT : Typo

 

[PoppedCorn]

Stumbled across this today

Interbid Live Auction

www.interbid.com.au

 

[Capital Power]

Stumbled across this today

Interbid Live Auction

www.interbid.com.au

Cheers for that, some interesting lots there. Not sure I'd bid without knowing what they might need to be completed, but I'd love Emerald Night.

Collectors often report finding nuggets in the bulk brick lots including old rare sets, but I guess that's a complete pot luck.

 

[Capital Power]

Gringotts™ Wizarding Bank – Collectors' Edition 76417 | Harry Potter™ | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop AU

Spark memories of Harry Potter™ scenes with this collectible building set, featuring Gringotts™ Wizarding Bank, 3 bank vaults and a Ukrainian Ironbelly dragon

www.lego.com

That's a lot of Galleons .

 

[PoppedCorn]

Well u know im in

I'll be doing a few Saturdays buy the looks of it

 

[Neese]

Ouch that looks fun but prices are getting ridiculous.

 

[Capital Power]

Ouch that looks fun but prices are getting ridiculous.

I can see those who might already have Diagon Alley just buying the bricks to make the top section so it can sit within that set. If I get motivated I might even price that. Probably won't be much of a saving.

 

[Neese]

I did like the VIP Wookie preview though.
My Great Wave has been shipped. Finished the Bookshop and going to start the smaller Taj Mahal.

 

[Neese]

Oh and a friend's kids proudly presented me this for my birthday so I made it and sent them pictures.

 

[Capital Power]

I did like the VIP Wookie preview though.
My Great Wave has been shipped. Finished the Bookshop and going to start the smaller Taj Mahal.

Hope you enjoy the Great Wave, it was just different enough from the standard Art sets to be engaging. Looks awesome on display.

 

[Capital Power]

Currently building Perseverence. They've done a good job replicating it's ungainliness . It's good to do a Technic set that's not a car.

If you're into the NASA sets this is a must have. It's expensive at RRP, but is available at the majors and I think is on sale at Myer and amazon already.

 

[nobbyiscool]

Why didn't they give us this version of the "Play Unstoppable" series?

I would've bought the shit out of a green & gold Play Unstoppable!

 

[nobbyiscool]

Also, Lego Masters are casting again if any of yo are really, really good!

I'm not, it blows me away how quickly they're able to build enormous, intricate MOC builds.

 

[Capital Power]

Also, Lego Masters are casting again if any of yo are really, really good!

I'm not, it blows me away how quickly they're able to build enormous, intricate MOC builds.

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I could only do it if they gave the instructions .

 

[Neese]

Nope I build Lego to de-stress.

 

[nobbyiscool]

Realised today that it's been 6 weeks since I made my Voltron pick a brick order.

I had to split it into 3 orders, which they then split into "standard" pieces (which the site says can take up to 28 days) and "best seller" pieces (which the site says can take 15 days.)

So I'm expecting 6 bags - I still only have 3 of them. And it's the 3 "standard pieces" bags which are meant to take longer, something's gone wrong with filling the "best seller" orders I think.

I've just got in touch with customer service. Pretty annoying though. I'm on a bit of a building hiatus at the moment while I decide whether I'm trying to buy a place (in which case you'd create permanent display solutions), or whether I'm going to stay in my rental and just buy another cabinet, or whether I'm going to tell them to jam their proposed rent increase and move everything...

I do have a spot in the current cabinet reserved for Voltron though. I've been hanging out for the pieces, cos the way everything is sorted (or not) means it's going to be a good, detailed, month-long build I think, and everything else will be able to sit while I make some major life decisions.

 

[PoppedCorn]

I'm gonna pick a brick either the older or newer Hogwarts carriages on the small set and have a longer train when i finally get in the new place

I've never picked a brick and have been inspired by the efforts in here

 

[Capital Power]

I'm gonna pick a brick either the older or newer Hogwarts carriages on the small set and have a longer train when i finally get in the new place

I've never picked a brick and have been inspired by the efforts in here

Yeah that's probably not a bad place to start. The carriages are pretty simple builds. There are a couple of stickers though.

 

[PoppedCorn]

Just thinking long-term
Itd look so much better with say 4 carriages
Stickers I'll just get some more done or just not have any
Anyway this is ages away

Was in the Marion SA lego shop about ten days ago and nearly grabbed the brickheadz Potters

Kinda regretting I didn't as they dont seem to get stocked at the cheaper stores

Rivendale looked good too.
They hadn't built it but it looked good just in the box lol

 

[Capital Power]

Brickheadz don't seem to appear in the majors or at Amazon, so yeah you might just have to get those at full whack from lego.com or the shops.

 

[nobbyiscool]

Every week or 2 I watch a Formula 1 Grand Prix and yearn for the Mclaren build, I still think it's the funnest build I've done.

The other thing I do every time I watch a GP is focus particular attention on the Ferraris... I think, using pick a brick and the McLaren instructions, it would be real easy to build this seasons Ferrari. (I think it'd be real easy to build Alonso's Aston Martin as well, but I'm not 100% sold on any particular pick a brick colour - and it'd be a big order to get it here and decide the colour's wrong!)

Only bugger with F1 cars is that if you're going to MOC/semi-MOC them you probably need a decent quality printer and labels to print your own decals, you cant really do F1 cars without them.

In the ideas section a Creator version of the Red Bull hit 10k a couple of months ago, but with licensing and approvals apparently you're looking at a 2-year process before any potential release

Might see about pricing Ferrari PAB pieces in the next few days... although I'll have to see about creating a new basket, cos I still have 600 pieces for my other MOC idea sitting there waiting for double points.

 

[Capital Power]

I admire both your MOCing ability and your creativity on that front .

 

[Capital Power]

The Great Wave and Perseverance both discounted to $111 at Target, as well as a few other decent specials.

 

[nobbyiscool]

The Great Wave and Perseverance both discounted to $111 at Target, as well as a few other decent specials.

It annoys me when stuff that's still on my pile has a really good special like that.

 

[Capital Power]

It annoys me when stuff that's still on my pile has a really good special like that.

I'm with you on these two, although I decided to buy both on release despite expecting the price to fall in time. Sometimes it's exciting to get the new sets when they do come out.

Mid-range Technic sets, in particular, are often widely available at around a third off not long after release (the Peugeot for example) but I thought Perseverance would last a little longer than that .