BrickFan has solid sources, so it would be safe to assume that Palace Cinema, Classic Batcave, UCS TIE, and SHIELD Helicarrier are heading OOP soon.
I'm surprised the Cinema lasted this long.
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BrickFan has solid sources, so it would be safe to assume that Palace Cinema, Classic Batcave, UCS TIE, and SHIELD Helicarrier are heading OOP soon.
I'm surprised the Cinema lasted this long.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
UCS TIE people. You need it. So large and magnificent.
Boogalogist
Member
Yes...c'mon. Announce it already!
So the Cinema is definitely the next modular to go extinct? Didn't LEGO retire the Town Hall before the Pet Shop, even though Per Shop was the older set? I'm always paranoid about modulars, now. If I get the Cinema for double points this weekend, should I be covered on retiring modulars for a while?
Chiaroscuro
Member
Seems so, although I thought Parisian Restaurant would go sooner, due to its pieces. So to be safe, grab it too.
Chezzymann
Member
Y'all think palace cinema will make it to the holidays or will it die in a couple months?
PhoncipleBone
Banned
I give it to Black Friday, or VIP weekend before, at the latest.
friskykillface
Banned
Funny you guys mention palace cinema
I bought a tub of legos at a thrift store that has that set in it along with a shit load of other sets
I hate sorting through everything, tedious
I bought a tub of legos at a thrift store that has that set in it along with a shit load of other sets
I hate sorting through everything, tedious
Supa Necta
Banned
Nice! What did it cost for the bin?
Chezzymann
Member
I only have the budget for one modular a year, so its probably gonna come down to palace cinema or old fishing store. Ideas sets dont seem to last much longer than a year so I'll have to get that one this year probably. Hmm it'll be hard to chose. Might end up getting palace cinema this year and old fishing store in the summer of next year before it retires.
GoodCoffeeJoey
Banned
Coincidentally Walmart Canada just put all of those sets, minus the tie fighter, on rollback; along with Assault on Hoth, the Ferrari F40, the Minecraft Village, both Simpsons sets and the Yellow Submarine. Palace Cinema seems to have sold out immediately unfortunatly, most of the rest are still available though.
https://www.walmart.ca/en/toys/lego...kWr0b5luhu3pkYocXW8Wg&wmlspartner=TnL5HPStwNw
Those are some big price drops for Canada - I don't expect these to stay in stock soon.
MiniBossman
Member
I went in on the Classic Batcave. Been wanting the set for the minifigures and the sale price was closer to what the set should have actually been Double points pushed me over the edge. I think that set would have been a much better seller at $200 than $269.
SiegfriedFM
Member
There would be tons and tons of big plates, rather than the 1x1 parts that they are normally padding parts counts with nowadays.
I do have to wonder if there wouldn't be a better way of calculating a fair price, as per peice is clearly rubbish when so many are 1x1 or 1x2.
Maybe per LEGO unit, and 1 unit is equal to 1x 2x4 "standard" brick. So a 1x1 @ 1/3rd height piece would only count as 1/24th. A 1x1 full height would be 1/8. etc. Might be a bit more difficult to calculate though
lol.If this Falcon ever actually comes out I'll be waiting for a double VIP at the minimum.
That's assuming they ever get the Saturn back in stock.
formated4tv
Member
Does anyone know if older Minecraft sets are hard to find/expensive?
I'm debating starting another collection of trying to get everything, and the new Mountain set looks awesome. I know if buy it, I'll want the rest of them to finish the set, haha.
I'm debating starting another collection of trying to get everything, and the new Mountain set looks awesome. I know if buy it, I'll want the rest of them to finish the set, haha.
Chiaroscuro
Member
I do have to wonder if there wouldn't be a better way of calculating a fair price, as per peice is clearly rubbish when so many are 1x1 or 1x2.
Maybe per LEGO unit, and 1 unit is equal to 1x 2x4 "standard" brick. So a 1x1 @ 1/3rd height piece would only count as 1/24th. A 1x1 full height would be 1/8. etc. Might be a bit more difficult to calculate though
If this Falcon ever actually comes out I'll be waiting for a double VIP at the minimum.
That's assuming they ever get the Saturn back in stock.
I am assuming that the ammount of material used in a piece is irrelevant. Cost is based on the ammount of pieces a machine can produce per ammount of time, plus of course fixed costs for packing, transportation, marketing, developing. The size of the pieces won't matter for packing/store space too since Lego packages are fairly big in relation to their contents.
Yes, smaller pieces should be produced faster, but not as a big saving as someone would imagine. For us customers bigger pieces are a better value, but to a manufacturer I would not guess.
Looks like they are starting to get harder to find. Not sure about expensive yet. The Lego Store here was clearancing half their sets, and they barely had any on display to start with. Their section for Minecraft was about half the shelf space it used to be. Have seen clearance at other stores too.
I would expect it to be somewhat similar to silicon chip production. Each press will likely have a fixed mold size and they can therefore produce a lot more small parts in one pressing than they can for larger parts. Plus if there are any defects in manufacture, they would potentially affect larger pieces more, if theyre 'defects per mm2, for example.
At a simplified level, the pricing could be per gram, as larger pieces will use more raw materials as well as more space on a mold.
Winnie the Pimp
Member
Finally finished...
Thanks again oneknightr for the delightful transaction.
Nice to see the old DS getting some love... I have that one displayed still and have no intention of getting the "new" one, the minifigs are dated but still timless in a way!
oneknightr
Member
Cool interview with Jamie Berard and Morten Graf-Wang, about the London Bus, the Advanced Vehicles line, and the Creator Expert theme in general:
https://brickset.com/article/29026/interview-with-creator-expert-designers-morten-and-jamie
https://brickset.com/article/29026/interview-with-creator-expert-designers-morten-and-jamie
Curious about that Cinderella's Castle minibuild - whether it means the Princesses-line-style Castle or the Disney Castle style castle.
Kinda... neither?
It's very abstracted, but that looks to me like it's trying to ape the theme park castle.
Edit: Although the upper-left tower doesn't belong. The theme park castle is nicely asymmetric.
friskykillface
Banned
$20 after 20% discount
The savers I go to has high prices on lego bins and people don't touch them, bought a $10 bin with arkham asylum a few weeks back
Fuck sorting pieces, I hate it so much
LordOfLore
Banned
Anyone living in LA that know a place with somewhat cheap sets?
I tried to nab a bin on Facebook marketplace for 25$, the pic had the unmistakeable engines of the ucs Y Wing. Somebody else beat me to it though. Still dreaming for a score like you guys seem to find
Ok I just had to stop and walk away from building the Saturn V because I was losing my temper. I'm on bag 4 and I've been noticing this throughout the build but it just hit ridiculous proportions. This is a really ridiculously unstable build. I was questioning some of these connections as I'm building them and sure enough they are not tight. I'm putting on one assembled panel and as I do two parts fall off. I start turning it to inspect and a whole previous build falls off the side. I try to put that panel back on and literally two more panels fall off. And then the bottom portion just decides to simply say fuck it and fall right off and I'm literally now back to the bag one build. This definitely feels like a MOC build not an official Lego build. I'm sure the end product is glorious as everyone says but this build has been one of the more frustrating ones I've done.
RyanardoDaVinci
Member
Hmm, I had no issues with fragility when building the Saturn V, except for attaching the first panel wrong, like someone else in this thread did.
When putting the panels on I just braced the exact opposite side and things clicked into place.
When putting the panels on I just braced the exact opposite side and things clicked into place.
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Yeah, no stability problems here either. Not sure what is happening.
Rodney McKay
Member
Me three on the Saturn V.
I've only completed the main bottom area (half-way or so through the whole thing) and it has been solid as a rock so far.
I've only completed the main bottom area (half-way or so through the whole thing) and it has been solid as a rock so far.
I had a couple drinks and came back to it. I had to rebuild a good chunk of it and placed some of the later panels out of order to be able to get a better grip and make sure the clutch was tight. Those little red 2 x 2 red side snot pieces being used on just one stud kept slipping but that wasn't the main problems. The bottom half of the first module being held to the top by only one 2 x 2 brick kept coming loose everytime I was putting on the side panels. And then I was holding an opposite panel putting pressure to brace as I was adding another panel but one or both of the middle panels kept losing their clutch and popping off. All of this happening at the same time. If it holds tightly with the finished model it won't be a huge deal it just would have been nice to have more snot pieces in the inner build for the panel builds to clutch on to. It's holding right now as I got more of the top part built and added more panels but that was just really annoying. It's gonna knock it down a notch for me overall.
DrForester
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Seems kind of shitty to only give people a month heads up on an $800 set....
Is that rumor that it's going to be super limited still around?
SiegfriedFM
Member
I picked up the Constraction Scout for double VIP. Added him to my Scout Trooper shelf. The finished product looks good, but as someone who's not using to dealing with a lot of Technic pieces, getting things lined up was kind of fiddly.
That's a cool collection! I'm a fan of the Scout Trooper, although obviously not no that extent. Is that a Hot Toys version? And I don't see the Figuarts version, you should get that.
supervillain
Member
Oh man, that Sideshow Speeder Set is so awesome.
parrotbeak
Member
Those misaligned 1x1 bricks under the arch are driving me crazy.Kinda... neither?
supervillain
Member
Some people just want to watch the world burn.
Ahh I think all the stickers are done so no worries
SiegfriedFM
Member
I had a rough hour at the dentist, so I treated myself to a set that I was planning to wait for a sale on. It's 41187 (Rosalyn's Healing Hideout), the last of the dragon sets (for now). I've built the dragon (will take updated group shots once the weather clears) but I won't bother with the building since it will just sit around until I break it down for parts.
(Anecdotally, a little girl was at the shop and picked out the fire dragon set after much deliberation - good for her, that's a great set for the price.)
Aside from the dragon, I also got the set for Rosalyn. As usual, when Elves put some extra effort into a minidoll, they are amazing. A pretty good Naida too... I'm thinking this is the third variation I have.
Also, some of the parts gave me an idea...
(Anecdotally, a little girl was at the shop and picked out the fire dragon set after much deliberation - good for her, that's a great set for the price.)
Aside from the dragon, I also got the set for Rosalyn. As usual, when Elves put some extra effort into a minidoll, they are amazing. A pretty good Naida too... I'm thinking this is the third variation I have.
Also, some of the parts gave me an idea...
PhoncipleBone
Banned
It isn't out for two weeks I thought.
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