Well with this, Mario and Yoshi and Tudor Corner to build I am set for a while...
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Definitely Mario & Yoshi first
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Just finished it.Definitely Mario & Yoshi first
Not a bad build, great display piece
I think all will be awesome builds but I really like the flamingo
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I started looking for my next big set with that Amazon sale, which is how I ended up with the typewriter in the absence of anything that really, really grabbed me. Had there been a ship or a castle that appealed to me, I've no doubt I would've just bitten the bullet and found space later. But it was a good sale, and I was getting twitchy about my pile!
If they'd had the motorised lighthouse, that's the one I would've loooved to buy. I'm no longer in a rush to buy the Red Bull technic, cos it'll be months before I want to build it. I'll get it eventually, the F1 technic's display as well as anything in the Lego world, but I wish I'd held off on building Ferrari a few more months after the Mercedes. (Especially when we saw it get as cheap as a $269 starting price at Kmart!)
If they'd had the motorised lighthouse, that's the one I would've loooved to buy. I'm no longer in a rush to buy the Red Bull technic, cos it'll be months before I want to build it. I'll get it eventually, the F1 technic's display as well as anything in the Lego world, but I wish I'd held off on building Ferrari a few more months after the Mercedes. (Especially when we saw it get as cheap as a $269 starting price at Kmart!)
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Was it this one you picked up?
I very nearly bought it, I think it would be super easy to MOC into one of Melbourne's new HCMT trains, it's so close in looks already.
Yep. Amazon not being particularly honest with their discount % (RRP was $300) but it's a reasonable deal and I haven't seen it anywhere else cheaper.
The lighthouse is a bit niche, but well put together and the lighting function works very well. Probably over priced for what it was, but they did develop the custom Fresnel Lens for it.
It came from the day when Ideas sets where truly to recognise the "idea" - that is, something Lego would never otherwise produce themselves.
Too expensive - agree. I’ll always regret not adding that one to my collection. I also wish I had started collecting all the modular building sets. Tudor corner looks great. Bommer sometimes has to go without. Plus I have a real space issue so have gone a bit conservative with set acquisition. Which is so boring I know. The car sets take up a bit of room so may need to start hanging vertically on the walls. Need to figure that one out.
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Ferrari updates - 7 bags in now, 3 to go.
Which was an interesting point to note - after recent builds like Endurance has a massive amount of smaller bags, this is the opposite. 10 paper bags, most with 2 internal paper bags... which sucks for me, cos without a dining room table to build on I don't usually empty the internal bags, I just fish the relevant piece out as needed.
I had to completely modify my building set up to deal with paper bags. Which is neither good or bad, but it was a bit annoying in being a bit unexpected.
Starting to look quite sexy now that it's coming together IMO.
Which was an interesting point to note - after recent builds like Endurance has a massive amount of smaller bags, this is the opposite. 10 paper bags, most with 2 internal paper bags... which sucks for me, cos without a dining room table to build on I don't usually empty the internal bags, I just fish the relevant piece out as needed.
I had to completely modify my building set up to deal with paper bags. Which is neither good or bad, but it was a bit annoying in being a bit unexpected.
Starting to look quite sexy now that it's coming together IMO.
I "collect" the modulars, but only if I like them, if that makes sense. I don't get every one, and don't have any of the "collectible" ones. To be honest though those early sets aren't a patch on the recent ones.
Tudor Corner is definitely recommended if you like the aesthetic. It goes very well with the others I have, but it wouldn't, for example, really sit with the diner or jazz club.
Have seen videos of the larger supercars hanging vertically. Can be effective if you don't mind them dominating a room.
Yeah I have those ikea cube shelves and got some sets in there and titanic on top.
Not all the cars have been built but some will have to hang on the wall.
Good to know re the modular sets. Tudor corner is on my list. If it’s the only one I get.
Thanks CP.
If you're not in a hurry for Tudor Corner it should hit the majors eventually and be available on sale in due course. But yeah, don't miss it.
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Gotta build 'em all - there are now about 1000 of them. Oh god my poor poor wallet.
Gotta build 'em all - there are now about 1000 of them. Oh god my poor poor wallet.
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Did I miss discussion of the Mario Kart while exiled?
Do we know whether it's an exclusive yet?
(Btw, I forgot to mention, I discovered the reason that no one had the Red Bull technic on launch day is cos it's the first F1 car to be a technic, which is an interesting choice.)
I haven't even played Mario in about 30 years, but this looks like it'll display so well!
Also - it looks like it's the same scale as Bowser, does anyone know for sure?
Another entire theme that I mercifully won't have to learn a single thing about!
Do we know whether it's an exclusive yet?
(Btw, I forgot to mention, I discovered the reason that no one had the Red Bull technic on launch day is cos it's the first F1 car to be a technic, which is an interesting choice.)
I haven't even played Mario in about 30 years, but this looks like it'll display so well!
Also - it looks like it's the same scale as Bowser, does anyone know for sure?
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Another entire theme that I mercifully won't have to learn a single thing about!
