I disagree with this sense of entitlement.
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I disagree with this sense of entitlement.
Mine's gonna have to live on the spare bed for now. I can tuck it in at night!
Will need to pick up a bit of board for it to sit on though.
I'll work out something else when I actually see how big it is. Will probably have to move house though!
It's not entitlement. TLC is a business that sells product with a limited lifespan. Nobody is forcing them to stop producing these sets after two years of production, that's a completely self imposed limitation. If I am unable to buy one before it's retired, I'll take my business elsewhere. I'm a grown ass adult working full time and going to school full time. I don't have the time or energy to fight scalpers, online or in store, over this shit. TLC can fix the scalping problem by making enough sets to meet demand.
Nor should LEGO or Nintendo be forced to create enough inventory so that everyone is satisfied. Thinking otherwise is simply being out of touch with reality. Don't expect life to be fair.
Do I sound bitter? There are alternatives, I'm not going to lose any sleep if I can't get the real thing.
SiegfriedFM
Member
Damn you all! You made me buy Destiny's Bounty even though I'm technically not supposed to do any shopping until in a week. But it feels silly to spend 30-40 more in a week.
Chiaroscuro
Member
As long as alternatives are legal, you can discuss them here. Otherwise not, and it is up to you to be in peace with it. I mean, if I want a Ferrari, not only I have to work hard to get the money for it but also fight for the right to buy it. How dare they made them in so limit numbers?
That was the point of my original response. You sound as though you're entitled to something, therefore justifying purchasing products from companies violating others' intellectual property rights.
Aha, what? Comparing a luxury high performance sports car to injection molded plastic pumped out by an automated assembly line? Lego could make UCS Falcons till the end of time without bother if they wanted.
I'll try to buy it over the next two years, just like any Lego set. I'd never buy a clone of a set that's still available at retail. But if TLC can't meet demand and I miss out on it, I'm not going to reward the scalpers by paying them a 200-300% mark up. I'll still want the set, and there's no justification necessary for buying the set where I can. Lego retired it, they don't want my money, so they won't get it. If they offered EoL sets on demand at a small mark up I'd readily give them my money for older sets. No question.
They will have stock before it retires in two years. I guarantee it, you are creating a scenario to be upset about that's not going to happen. This is not a NES classic scenario, it's more of a Switch scenario and it's very far from unheard of. It all comes down to patience.
OT I've been helping my sister. She lost her 3 cats in the hurricane and her house is lost. We salvaged some stuff and a friend is letting her stay at a rental for now. She's going to settle with insurance and FEMA but I think she's going to sell her property to the city, they've been trying to buy it from her for years to build a bigger road. I'm just afraid of them undercutting her because of what happened.
With my degrading health and eyesight I was originally planning on moving down there so she could help me take care of our disabled mom but I think the plan now is she is going to move up here instead. So this may all work out in the end it's just really depressing at the moment. She's beating herself up bad about not coming up to stay with me before the hurricane that would have saved her cats. Again trying to be optimistic. If we go in together and buy a house up here I'm damn sure gonna have a Lego room.
SpinningBirdKick
Banned
The build I'll do with my five year old son. I'll be pointing at the manual and he'll be snapping the bricks into place.
Once it has been built the hunt will be on for a shadow box display case that you can use as a coffee table. Then it will live in the gaming room or the library.
whatsinaname
Member
Now that it looks like I won't be getting the MF this year, I need a Destiny's bounty sale in the US...
Chiaroscuro
Member
And so can Ferrari produce as many units as VW Golfs but they decide to make each model a limited release.
Yeah, I agree that It is an extreme exemple but the principle applies: you are not entitled to a compensation or something because you could not get what you want. You can choose to not support a company, not to buy their products but cannot say if I can't buy it I will steal it (what is exactly what those clone companies AND their customers do).
Edited: Ponn sorry for your sister's cats, think that everything else is replaceable and the you are both fine.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Oh god, Ponn. So sorry about your sisters pets and home.
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Deleted member 10571
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How are here not near-hourly updates on Falcon building?
I can see the set hitting discount many times over. Just deoends on what type of discount you want i guess.
Im going to try and hold off for 30% here in canada.
Damn, horrible. Irma hit you guys hard. I hope everything sorts itself out soon, so your family can land back on their feet asap.
If the cats are merely missing, keep the hope. We lost a dog and a cat during a hurricane, and the cat showed up a month later, the dog 6 months later. Just showed up at the house. Hope everything works out for you family.
parrotbeak
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Sorry to hear, man. That certainly brings perspective to what matters in life.
I get your sis might not have a choice but ya, seems like she's at a big disadvantage in negotiating with the city under the circumstances.
Best wishes to you and your family, hope everything works out.
On the topic of the MF, with the huge demand, I wonder how much higher Lego could've gotten away with pricing it. All of you guys who have bought one or are actively looking, would you still have picked it up if MSRP was $1000 or even higher?
I barely brought myself for the current price. Any higher, and it would only be to hold it and sell it years down.
If they had gone higher they would of needed more pieces and even more interior and stuff imo. On that note, I am on bag 6 now. It is really starting to take shape, I have built a couple of the interior rooms. I really like what they did to give the illusion of pathways. I can also see lots of possibilities for customization and modification further. I think this build will really allow for people to make this their own. Lego even left hollow locations within that will definitely allow large battery and wiring paths to completely light the thing up or if you didn't want to light it I see possibilities of expanding the interior. I will definitely be planning something myself.
Yeah I'd seen in the brickset review that there were some gaps for battery boxes etc. I don't have any lighting kits, but have started to look. I'm also looking at modding the engines, and probably remove all the green pieces from it. I also don't like the dark grey on one of the mandibles.
toythatkills
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Wednesday next week
I have them both, but I haven't opened either of them yet lol.
I hate you. lol
I even paid the extra £3 just so that Yodel wouldn't get their dirty mitts on it.
Fishing store may get discounts on Amazon eventually. I don't think ninjago city will ever see a discount but I could be wrong. Plus if you get ninjago city you will have gotten the costlier set out of the way. I have a feeling that ninjago city is a much more interesting build. Ofs is a basic build although it looks amazing.
whatsinaname
Member
Yeah, that's about what I am hoping for. Somewhere between $100 and $110 and I'll jump on it.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Ninjago City is the far superior build. Fishing Store is an okay build, but looks amazing.
Not a fan of the Ninjago City at all personally, looks ridiculous and not in a good way. Isn't it twice as expensive as OFS as well?
OFS has a really boring build, but that's never been something I have cared about. It is absolutely gorgeous though with a suitably rustic vibe to it. Seems reasonably priced compared to Lego's recent offerings too.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
I am looking at Old Fishing Store like Grand Emporium. It is a mundane and kind of boring build with a few cool techniques in there (GE had more though), but the end results are so good looking you don't really care.
I'm only two bags into OFS, but it's indeed not the most exciting build so far. It looks amazing though. I think you should choose based on your budget. Can you spare the extra cash Ninjago City costs? I've spreak my purchases out. Bought OFS on release, will get NC on double VIP.
As I didn't have a lot of time to build a new bag of OFS, but needed some quick winddown time building, I opened my Ninjago City Chase set today. Fun little set. Quite simple to put together, but it looks great (the tuk-tuk is really cool) and the stand is a way nicer thing then the usual 'flat building' they put in these type of sets. 5 figs too, which is amazing. Can't wait to include this little vignette in Ninjago City.
As I didn't have a lot of time to build a new bag of OFS, but needed some quick winddown time building, I opened my Ninjago City Chase set today. Fun little set. Quite simple to put together, but it looks great (the tuk-tuk is really cool) and the stand is a way nicer thing then the usual 'flat building' they put in these type of sets. 5 figs too, which is amazing. Can't wait to include this little vignette in Ninjago City.
Would've pushed it to a 200 set too I'm affraid. I agree it would be a nice companion though. City often has boats, but the color scheme would clash and it would probably be to modern. I think our only hope is the Creator 1 in 3 line doing an old style boat once. Or moccing...
Edit: or this Ideas set gets 10k ànd approval
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/51e55f5d-6dd1-489b-9c15-ce4774da702c
I was thinking something smaller than that. I would have accepted a $220 price tag if they threw in a decent boat and another minifig. Not sure why they threw the cat in, pretty useless.
BentBricks
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Temple of Aitjitzu saw a good discount. I feel Ninjago City may meet a similar fate. Pure speculation. Ninjago City I think has a more limited appeal to AFOL crowd than Temple and may have more of an appeal to the kid crowd. Unfortunately kids don't have deep pocketbooks and non-AFOL parents are unlikely to unload $$$ for the set for their kids.
Speculation again, but I think LEGO is discounting those larger sets if sales aren't healthy due to many, many large sets coming out of their pipeline. LEGO has saturated the market and is eating into their own sales.
Chiaroscuro
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PhoncipleBone
Banned
It seems to take them some time to get instructions up.Just noticed, no instructions up for download yet
Haloid1177
Banned
Think I'm gonna grab Palace Cinema this week. I keep putting it off but I want something to build and I know I'll somehow screw up and miss it because I forget or something.
Winnie the Pimp
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Holy shit i just finished Wall-E (LTTP on this one) and even though i had it sitting there for so long in my backlog and i saw tons and tons of pics of it online, i just was NOT prepared for so much awesomeness in one go! It looks absolutely stunning when done!!! Those eyes pretty much make the set!
OriginofHysteria
Banned
Ugh I fucked up bad on the F40. Turns out I put a connector piece the wrong way in the beginning of the build and I have no choice but to take the whole thing apart haha.
Oh well, could be worse.
haha.Oh well, could be worse.
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