All Random Lego chatter!

Wouldve made sense to me if it was an across the board increase. Plastic moulding uses a lot, a lot a lot, of energy, and with the recent energy price increases it would make sense. Easier to implement on their own website for any new stock. But how do they manage it with their retailers? Would be a mix of new stock and old stock on the shelves, so bit of a nightmare to regulate. Can hardly let the shelves run dry. Im guessing they just ran the numbers and picked a few sets to increase both new and old stock, instead of say 5% increase across all sets, because that wouldve applied to new and old stock too.

Just luck of the draw now if you want a set thats went up.

I just think they would of had a lot of these sets that were raised in price already made so it will be an additional profit for them if price goes up 50 if they made it at the cheaper time. I just think if they made record levels of profit billions. They could of let the sets that were already out have no price increases as they will eventually retire but new sets then that's different as they will be released with whatever price there going to be sold at. I just think lego will take a hit in regards to this and the cost of living.

I think Lego view it as "well if you can afford to pay €200 for a set, you can probably afford €250". It's a bit ****. I'd understand if every set went up in price by a small amount but to whack €50 onto Ideas sets that they know are mostly bought by collectors/adult is a bit of a turn off to me.

Have they pulled out of russia? If yes then perhaps that was one of the reasons.

I fully understand I just thought if the sets are already made they could of left the price the way it was as probably made a few wks mths back, I know they will make more of them at the higher costs. Plus these might be retired in a year to 2 max so took the hit on those specific sets and I understand if newer sets come out pricier then that's different. I think lego could of taken the hit financially on the sets they increased. They could of had the August wave at higher price point on sets which I am sure are factored in in the price now and on the Jan sets have the price increase in them but not on sets that are out prior to this.

I ordered online on Monday this week and it was despatched from Belgium I think and was delivered with DPD on Friday.

So this is all the lego I got in August. I think it's the most I have bought in a single month. I will be curtailing my spend a good bit going forward with lack of room to keep things away and with price increases for lego but really price increases for every thing from food to electricity etc. I still have a few star wars sets I have to get not the extreme over 200 price sets that I need to get and the advent calendars which I might grab this mth on lego site once the next GWP arrives as I know the sets sell out fast enough online.

Just make sure you are registered on bricklink. My details are linked to Lego site so handy that as you get your lego points then. They have it looks like 2 times a year they have sets that were submitted by fans that they will release if they hit a certain threshold say 10k people say they will buy the set and confirm they will as your credit card details were submitted as you are registered on bricklink. So the set above went over the minimum threshold of people who were going to buy it so they would produce the set. I think it was December last year when I got to do it and confirm I would buy it. So was sent out end of July and paid for it then. That set did not sell out at the time. They done another release there a few wks back and I have another set I will purchase. I think most sets in the last wave hit 10k people targets within a few hrs so they sold out really quickly. When comes up again might be December or something for next wave in the summer 2023 I will throw it up here incase people interested.

If I remember right as lego own bricklink when you register on bricklink with the email address you will use on bricklink just use the same one tht you have registered for your lego account and I believe they are then linked then. My credit card was on it so its all linked If I remember rightly.

Yeah I got 4 of the star wars sets, optimus prime set nd the 007 and fast and furious set on Easons 20% off. Some off adverts and argos as well. Yeah I grabbed that set in lego store and got the free truck GWP as it's not been sold in argos or smyths so only place to get it. I got the trash compactor set in argos for 76 was 90 in lego store. I would recommend people if there in lego store and buying a set just look up the price of thy set in argos/smyths at same time as can be on sale in them.

Physical cards are (or were, I think I saw somewhere that they are doing away with them) only available in certain countries. Ireland isn't one of them. If you have made an account, then all you need to do with online orders is make sure you are logged in. If you are shopping instore you can give your email or vip number at the till. You can also get a digital card that is saved to your Google Wallet/Apple Wallet for scanning at the till by going onto the lego website on a mobile, go to the VIP Centre and then hit the "Get a digital VIP card"

Do you mean the Saturn 5 Set?

https://www.lego.com/en-ie/product/lego-nasa-apollo-saturn-v-92176

Sorry, just went back a page. That was me

"Space Shuttle Discovery - €180 and Atlas 5 Rocket €120 - Would love to get these to go with the Lunar Lander and the Space Station but it's just down to space and the size of them."

I don't know where I got Atlas from, maybe I just saw the A from Apollo and decided I didn't need to process the rest of the set name and that A = Atlas. No it is very much the Saturn V in my wishlist and not the non-existant Atlas V

As a side note, I was at the Lego store in Singapore on Sunday. The pick a brick wall was a let down for me unfortunately. But I should hopefully get to Legoland Malaysia in 2 weeks 😄

If I buy something here and use my digital vip card, would my Irish account get my points? I know a friend of mine ordered something from the Spanish Lego.com region site to be delivered to someone over there and the points only exist when you change the region online to Spain.

I won't be buying much as I won't have much room in my luggage. Maybe the latest Christmas tree ornaments to say I got them in Malaysia.

No the points you have earned in ireland wont be available in other stores. There are also different amounts of point for sets in some countries.

I've used my physical VIP card in the UK, Denmark and now here; as well as online for years. The points to currency ratio isn't identical as they can't keep changing it for Forex changes.