Latest LEGO Purchases

tedpan

Oafley Jones wrote:

Had four of one of Christmas offer sets last year and two the year before. Id be surprised if they’ve changed it to per household.

Yeah, I'm sure it's 1 per order

shotgunmcos

Pulled the trigger on the Death Star! Missed Smyths so got the 399 S@H one on backorder before cyber Monday ends tonight. That's finally it for 2017. No technic this year but a small fortune dropped on ideas, star wars, city and creator lines.

The backlog is significant now!

Ryath

shotgunmcos wrote: »

Pulled the trigger on the Death Star! Missed Smyths so got the 399 S@H one on backorder before cyber Monday ends tonight. That's finally it for 2017. No technic this year but a small fortune dropped on ideas, star wars, city and creator lines.

The backlog is significant now!

Was in Smyths Athlone this evening mulling over getting slave 1 or some technics. They still had 3 Death Stars on the shelf despite showing out of stock on the website. Left empty handed just can't spare money with other expenses at the minute. Was dissapointed argos didn't honour price on Star Desttroyer. Hopefully get something in sales maybe Millennium Falcon either.

Greg81

tedpan wrote: »

Yeah, I'm sure it's 1 per order

1 per order for 100%.

2 parcels heading my way. Each of them contains nutcracker. Just made 2 separate orders one after another. No problems at all.

mloc123

Greg81 wrote: »

1 per order for 100%.

2 parcels heading my way. Each of them contains nutcracker. Just made 2 separate orders one after another. No problems at all.

Hopefully... I split my order in two with the intention of getting one for either side of the mantelpiece..

tedpan

Downtown Diner will be the next purchase. It'll be tough to wait a while month before ordering!

https://shop.lego.com/en-IE/Downtown-Diner-10260

g0g

My wife is going to kill me, picked up Cargo Train and Bucket Wheel Excavator in the Asda deals online

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Bought the snow resort and ski slope this week.

Conchir

Got some nice sets over Christmas.

I got 10258 London Bus from my parents. I enjoyed the build and think it looks great overall. The only bad part of the build was the seats, which isn't really surprising and didn't take away from it. With that order came a free 40254 Nutcracker which has a good, stylised design. I made it on Christmas day, and took it apart and put it with the rest of the decorations in the attic yesterday. Going to build it every year now for Christmas and put it on display somewhere.


Here's the bus beside 10252 VW Beetle. They're not the same scale unfortunately, but the bus would have to have been huge if they were. I'm not planning on displaying the bus with my other Creator vehicles so I don't mind too much.

Along with those two I thought I'd try to get some old sets I've always had my eye on. I bought myself 1349 Steven Spielberg Moviemaker Set and 6270 Forbidden Island on bricklink. Both look great so far, though the box for 1349 is in much worse condition than the listing led me to believe I'll try out the camera and software, even though they're both pretty famously terrible. I made a few brickfilms back in primary school (though I avoided the Moviemaker set at the same time as the camera I had was definitely much better quality), so messing around with the set now should be fun






I did my best to space all the building out as long as possible... that didn't really go too well.

NinjaTruncs

I've that pirate island somewhere iny Dad's attic, along with the pirate ship from around the same time.

The only set I got over Christmas was BB-8, it was a surprisingly quick build. But looks great beside R2-D2.

Then next purchase will probably be the Mack Anthem in the next few months.

irishgeo

after buying the saturn 5 lego set, i really enjoyed building it and it was a nice break from sitting in front of the tv or technology.

my next purchase was tower bridge. so looking forward to that arriving soon. Although the lack of number bags means it going to take a bit longer.

SMC92Ian

irishgeo wrote: »

after buying the saturn 5 lego set, i really enjoyed building it and it was a nice break from sitting in front of the tv or technology.

my next purchase was big ben. so looking forward to that arriving soon. Although the lack of number bags means it going to take a bit longer.

I have Big Ben and it came in numbered bags.

irishgeo

SMC92Ian wrote: »

irishgeo wrote: »

after buying the saturn 5 lego set, i really enjoyed building it and it was a nice break from sitting in front of the tv or technology.

my next purchase was big ben. so looking forward to that arriving soon. Although the lack of number bags means it going to take a bit longer.

I have Big Ben and it came in numbered bags.

Its tower bridge I bought. No idea why I typed big Ben.

Conchir

irishgeo wrote: »

Its tower bridge I bought. No idea why I typed big Ben.

Yep, built it last year and the entire time I was wondering "why on earth didn't they use numbered bags".

tedpan

The Palace Cinema is built. Fits in nicely

shamrock55

I know it's not Lego but I got the kids lepin deathstar and Simpsons house and tbh they are pretty spot on,alot of sorting pieces alright cos bags aren't numbered correctly but for what you pay they can't be faulted,the only difference is there's no Lego print on the blocks,carbon copies otherwise

Conchir

tedpan wrote: »

The Palace Cinema is built. Fits in nicely

Very very nearly got the Palace Cinema the past two Christmases for myself. I think I'll have to hurry up and bite the bullet before it's discontinued.

tedpan

Conchir wrote:

Very very nearly got the Palace Cinema the past two Christmases for myself. I think I'll have to hurry up and bite the bullet before it's discontinued.

Yep, it's a nice set. Lovely exterior design although not a whole lot going on inside so is a quick enough build.

Fanny Wank

shamrock55 wrote: »

I know it's not Lego but I got the kids lepin deathstar and Simpsons house and tbh they are pretty spot on,alot of sorting pieces alright cos bags aren't numbered correctly but for what you pay they can't be faulted,the only difference is there's no Lego print on the blocks,carbon copies otherwise

We got a Kazi Tiger Tank. The pieces aren't as good quality as Lego but once built it looks really great. Nice build also. Makes me long for "proper" Lego military. €18 from Ali Express, incredible value

tedpan

Conchir wrote:

Very very nearly got the Palace Cinema the past two Christmases for myself. I think I'll have to hurry up and bite the bullet before it's discontinued.

Sold out at the moment. It says to call them for availability.

Conchir

tedpan wrote: »

Sold out at the moment. It says to call them for availability.

Ah jeez, thanks for the heads up! I might have put it off too long after all

irishgeo

tower bridge came today. There is lots of bags. Any ideas on how to start sorting out the lego. Alot of the bags look like they contain the same pieces.

Sleepy

Unless the bags are numbered, dump it all out on the table and get stuck in old-school. No time for this noelling stuff myself!

WildWater

irishgeo wrote: »

tower bridge came today. There is lots of bags. Any ideas on how to start sorting out the lego. Alot of the bags look like they contain the same pieces.

What sleepy says. Also, build both towers at the same time.

OwaynOTT

Hire someone to build it fir you. Easiest way, all the pleasure of looking at Lego without the hardship of building

NinjaTruncs

Sleepy wrote: »

Unless the bags are numbered, dump it all out on the table and get stuck in old-school. No time for this noelling stuff myself!

This is the only way to build, I've found that with numbered bags the build time is cut in half (well maybe not in half but it's much quicker), and half the fun is rooting through all the pieces for that 1x1 black tile you can't find.

Sleepy

I'm available!

irishgeo

I am looking forward to the challenge. In no hurry. Got it to pass these **** winter evenings.

ozmo

WildWater wrote: »

...Also, build both towers at the same time.

I do this myself sometimes when you build a large section and you know you will need x4 of them etc...

But then feel guilty...
Does anyone else think this is cheating or is it just me

SMC92Ian

NinjaTruncs wrote: »

This is the only way to build, I've found that with numbered bags the build time is cut in half (well maybe not in half but it's much quicker), and half the fun is rooting through all the pieces for that 1x1 black tile you can't find.

Worst part of Lego that is, hate looking for parts.