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[Capital Power]

$100 e-gift card with a $400 purchase today (28/12) only at the Certified Stores. If you had your eye on anything for Christmas, but Santa didn't deliver, now might be a good chance, and you'll get $100 to spend next week when all the new releases land .

Unfortunately Endurance is OOS .

 

[Capital Power]

Just been reading that there are rumours Lego has finally acquired the licence for Star Trek, and an Enterprise is on the way in 2025. What a joy that would be if true .

 

[nobbyiscool]

I think I'm done with un-sealed Lego.

Just a week or so after solving the Friends Apartments debacle (although I still have some loose threads to tie up - including receiving the pieces), I managed to pick up an old Speed Champs set at a Salvos. There were plenty of bags in the box, including 2 unopened Lego bags, and it was only 9 bucks - I had to go for it!

It's one of those 2-pack speed champs. One car uses bags 1-2, and has been built, and I don't appear to have all the pieces. Then the other car uses bags 3-5, and I appear to be missing the entirety of one of those bags... but the other 2 are still sealed. I don't have the stickers for that 2nd car either.

Can't be too upset over 9 bucks, but it's not a set that I'll be throwing money after to complete. Not even sure I can be bothered spending the time finding out whether I have pieces to complete one of them.

 

[Capital Power]

I think I'm done with un-sealed Lego.

Just a week or so after solving the Friends Apartments debacle (although I still have some loose threads to tie up - including receiving the pieces), I managed to pick up an old Speed Champs set at a Salvos. There were plenty of bags in the box, including 2 unopened Lego bags, and it was only 9 bucks - I had to go for it!

It's one of those 2-pack speed champs. One car uses bags 1-2, and has been built, and I don't appear to have all the pieces. Then the other car uses bags 3-5, and I appear to be missing the entirety of one of those bags... but the other 2 are still sealed. I don't have the stickers for that 2nd car either.

Can't be too upset over 9 bucks, but it's not a set that I'll be throwing money after to complete. Not even sure I can be bothered spending the time finding out whether I have pieces to complete one of them.

Yeah I don't think I'd buy used Speed Champions simply because they'd be pretty lame without their stickers, even if you could source the parts. I wouldn't have thought twice at $9 though, even for what you got. A single Minifigure costs $6...

 

[Capital Power]

What's top of everyone's list for January 1 purchases?

I think the Tudor Corner looks great, but that'll likely turn up at the majors before too long, and be available at a discount. I love the little Mario Kart sets and the new Botanicals look good. Does seem though that the pricing is creeping up again.

I think my wish list would be headed by Blacktron, Da Vinci and the Pandas. Possibly also the little Technic plane, I do love those smaller Technic builds.

 

[nobbyiscool]

Nothing for me... I'm hoping to get the Mercedes F1 and Endurance built before the next wave of F1 releases in March.

I also need to build the Friends Apartments when the PAB orders get here, and this week I was tidying up and came across Great Wave, which I've been meaning to build for 2 years now. I don't know why I haven't, I think it'll look great in my place.

I'm kind of glad that I don't have anything like the space for these expensive modulars, that's a real slippery slope once you get started I think.

It'll be interesting to see how the Kiosk performs on the secondary market. I'd be surprised if it does as well as Shackleton's Lifeboat, I think with that a lot of people were much like me, they viewed it as a critical part of the story, and if they weren't getting it with the lifeboat they weren't getting it at all. A little kiosk is unlikely to be as crucial to anyones modular "city".

 

[Neese]

Da Vinci looks great but bit expensive for the number of parts.
I love the Tudor corner.