Lego WANT of the Day

You know what's really ostentatious? All those really useful boxes!

Well they are really useful, the lids clip on and everything.

Not sure if this is allowed but I bought one of the Lambo Sian's in the Amazon deal last week and have discovered that my wife has got one too. It cost me 200 and I know I can send it back but I wondered does anybody on here want it? I just want to get my money back so if you cover postage and paypal fees then it's yours.

sweajnr just came back with this from the local library. A full trip down memory lane....

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Has anyone bought and built the Mandolorians ship yet?

Any good?

I bought one but only because they are going for stupid money on eBay. Turned an £80 profit on it.

Looked like a good set but I don't have any other Star Wars stuff for it go with.

Whys this so crazy expensive?:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lego-Technic-42079-Heavy-Duty-Forklift-/273371256395?_trksid=p2385738.m4383.l4275.c10

Because someone is an idiot.
they are going for £67 buy it now on ebay

Oh, i'll take 2 then 😉

Hi, has anyone built the rough terrain Crane 42082? Was it a difficult build?

Yup, I have the 42082. Brilliant build, probably one of the best recent sets, quite complex but I had no issues, just check mechanisms as you go (have seen others with issues with things like the outriggers winding in at one end as they wind out at the other!).

Brilliant build, probably one of the best recent sets

On this recommendation (alone!) I've just pulled the trigger on that one. Currently 20% off in Asda and not showing on the Lego website. Apparently shortly to be retired.

was tempted by 42082 as it's had a few reductions lately & looks like fun, it's still not cheap at the end of the day though and some reviewers were a bit critical of it. Plus it's a couple of years old now and the lack of the Control+ app functionality actually puts me off a bit (reverse of some I know!)

jonno101
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Whys this so crazy expensive?:

Because they don't want to actually sell it, but they don't want to take it down. Probably waiting to guarantee stock, or away for a while so they don't want to take orders while they can't ship. So you whack the price up and that way your listing stays current but trouble free.

On this recommendation (alone!) I’ve just pulled the trigger on that one

Yikes, hope you like it 😉
I nabbed it for the bargain sum of £108 a couple of years ago! Have the car transporter stashed away for a Christmas build...

If anybody fancies taking it apart I have a fully built Rough terrain Crane 42082 in Sheffield I could do a good price on.

Bought it 2 years ago when I was off work for two weeks after an operation. Fully working and the original instructions (and box but that’s been eaten slightly by the dog!)

42082 now £132 at Argos - Hope you can cancel that order from Asda @creakingdoor?!?!

Also good price on the Control+ Top Gear Rally car at £62.50

AliExpress TIE Fighter update:

Built it last night. All was present and correct and the instructions, whilst condensed compared to Lego, were OK. Came with 4 mini figures and spare weapons. There was a brick left over, so I’ll check if I’ve missed something.

However, the quality isn’t quite there. The black moulded pieces were a little soft and had become scratched in the bag. One of them needed a bit of shaving with a knife to remove some flash before it would fit. The biggest difference was the lack of “click”. Lego goes together with a satisfyingly crisp “snap”. This didn’t.

So, not the most tactile of builds compared to the genuine Lego sets that we have, but the finished result looks the part and the model is solid enough to withstand handling.

Can’t grumble for £15 delivered.

@nre

You owe me £62.50

There was no way I could turn that one down

You owe me £62.50

I'm going to get a reputation for costing people money! 😉

PS Amazon now price matching, and if you have prime and you've set up a Kids Wish List you can potentially get 15% off with the KWL15 code (1 use only though so buy lots of lego all on one order :-D)

@nre
Asda order cancelled, Argos order placed.
Thank you for the heads up, much appreciated

Thank you for the heads up, much appreciated

Now I can say I *saved* you some money vs costing you a lot yesterday 😉

However, the quality isn’t quite there.

If you are going to copy/paste at least take the whole comment.

Edit

Forgot the emoji.

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Anyone know how annoying 'App control' is? It seems like it would be A) unresponsive and B) irritating to have to give my phone to my son every time he wanted to use it?

I have the 42099 4x4 Extreme off roader, App works really well to be honest, and there are some cool 'challenges' within the App, but I'd be inclined to use a cheap phone if letting kids control it! There are some other options for controlling using a game controller too e.g.

@Superficial I've only got one of the new trains not a car, but IMO the app is great, very responsive, WAY better than the old IR controllers plus lots of fun features. An old/2nd hand phone or tablet in Kiosk mode (so it can ONLY be used for The LEGO app) would be perfect.

Hmm, that Amazon KWL15 15% off code doesn't apply to anything in the list I created. It might take 24hrs to activate or maybe Amazon are just limiting to certain products.

It might take 24hrs to activate

The app control isn't too bad, it can be harder to operate if you don't look at your phone because you can't always feel the controls like you can with a physical controller.

You can download third party apps like Controlz that let you customise the control layout which I think is a big bonus, especially if you are making your own models.

I can see how it might be annoying to give your child your phone whenever they want to use it though.

Thanks for the heads up on the Argos price for the crane, I've just wasted spent £130 but at least I'll get something I want for Christmas! Argos gave me a £5 voucher too, so it was even better value.

Its that time of year again in the chrispy household.
I have a few christmas beers after work, hit the lego shop and come home with something expensive for myself clearly that's not happening this year but i feel I should stick to the spirit of the tradition.

What will it be....

Landrover Defender (42110)
Or
Ghostbusters Ecto-1 (10274)

Landrover Defender (42110)
Or
Ghostbusters Ecto-1 (10274)

Or the Ducati AND the bargain Rally Car above and money left over for beer

sweajnr just came back with this from the local library. A full trip down memory lane….

I've got some "stage extra" pre minifigs, and some of the big head block figures that minifigs were used as babies for.

Anyone want 'em?

(have seen others with issues with things like the outriggers winding in at one end as they wind out at the other!)

Heh, I did that! I didn't notice than in the middle of an otherwise identical arrangement one gear needs to go in a slightly different place. Lego instructions tell you how to build something, but they don't tell you how to unbuild something just enough to remove the offending gear and put it back in the right place...

It was my first lego build for decades and I thoroughly enjoyed it; the mechanisms for using one motor for all the different functions are very impressive. I presume this is why it cannot be controlled remotely, as that would require a motor for each function or at least some way of automating the function selection mechanisms themselves.

@phiiiiil if you search there are a few builders who've done it (at least one even provides instructions!) Looks like they have used separate motors, that's the best way though because you can then operate the various functions simultaneously.

£132 is the cheapest that 42082 has been for a while. Sorely tempted but I've just got Ecto-1 and the Batmobile.

Been building again, I can't take credit for the design though, that goes to Renegade Clone, although the internal gearbox to power the wings up and down is my work. Motor isn't quite powerful enough to lift the wings without assistance and the plastic gears slip a little bit but quite proud of the gearing and getting it to work (i.e. the wings lift and fall together, got thing backwards initially so the wings tried to tear themselves apart). About 70cm long by 55cm tall and about 4500 parts.
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Slightly different use of Lego, and not sure I want but it is fascinating ( to me) that someone could design and build such an intricate box

Great price on the Top Gear rally car at Argos... £125 down to £50! You have to add it to the basket to get the price. That’s my Chrimbo present (to me, from me 😀) sorted!

Actually, sod that, reviews aren’t great - but there’s loads of other Lego discounted at Argos so cancelled the Top Gear one and ordered the off-roader at half price! 😀 They also have the rough terrain crane, mindstorms ev3 etc at big discounts.

Bad news if you are trying to order direct from Lego.

They have suspended shipments to the UK until the issues at the ports are resolved.

Probably not their decision but forced on them by their logistics providers.

Actually, sod that, reviews aren’t great

I think a lot of the reviewers were disappointed at the cost compared to the number of parts, however for £50 I think it would be reviewed very highly!

Also I thought the Rough Terrain Crane was cheap the other day for £130 but £100 is a bargain.

@bikesandboats true, great present for a kid at that price (they are going for £70-80 on eBay so could’ve just moved it on anyway, thought I’d let someone else get the bargain though!) but aside from the motor, as an actual Technic set it looks pretty basic.

There are some real bargains at Argos right now

The Technic Car Transporter is reduced to £60! Thats a lot of Lego for the money

But:

MUST NOT BUY MORE LEGO

Argos seem to have a habit of putting very cheap deals on their website that are only actually available to click & collect at one store nationally, with no delivery option. The £100 crane and £60 car transporter are in this category. I guess it's their equivalent of clickbait.

1 box into the Bugatti Chiron build. 5 more to go, it might take a while.

I’m always amazed by the integrity and attention to detail of Lego, but this thing is incredible.

@creakingdoor Not this time, it was a genuine stock clearance due to store closures. You just had to get in early (and be lucky to be near a store with stock!) Plus the discounts weren’t even promoted anywhere by Argos AFAIK (you had to go through to the checkout for them to actually show up)

Has anyone used vonado.com for lego light kits?

Not tried them, but they look identical to the lightmybricks stuff but quite a lot cheaper (at least for the DIY parts). Not sure if it's a legit rebranding thing or a knock-off. Given where it's shipping from, I'd suspect the latter, but I doubt you can go far wrong.

I've just finished doing some fully custom lighting for a model as none of the off-the-shelf stuff did exactly what I wanted. Good fun if hand soldering SMD LEDs is your idea of fun! The components involved are all very cheap (e.g. 10 LEDs for £1 delivered), but hard to replicate the convenience of a plug that's small enough to pass through a "bar holder" sized hole.

I got the 42112 cement truck for christmas, first decent sized technic I've done for ages... So satisfying.

Is it just me, or is there a bit of showmanship in the instructions? It seems like quite often I'm building random looking assemblies with no idea what's going on and then fitting them to the model and still thinking, not sure that's right, then you rotate it through 90 degrees and push in a couple of pins and suddenly OH! That's what it is. I'm pretty sure some of it could have been easier to build, but less interesting.

I think there probably is. The building experience is a big part of it, so I'm sure quite a lot of thought goes into it.

For Christmas presents for our kids, I made instructions for technics Lego sets, one from my own design, and one based on someone else's MOC, and it was a very interesting (and fabulously time consuming) experience. It certainly helps you understand some aspects of the instructions for the official sets better.

Three days in and we're still building them. It's been great fun, and very rewarding, and only a handful of small mistakes in the instructions.

Not seen this before. Not a Lego fan but I quite like the look of it.

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/international-space-station-21321

Yup, it’s a great looking set, build possibly a bit tedious which is why I haven’t done it yet although do own it 😀 The Saturn V and Lunar Lander are also amazing sets, amongst my favourite ever!

Is it just me, or is there a bit of showmanship in the instructions?

Yeah, I've noticed this in both of the last two sets I built, the aforementioned Apollo Saturn V and the mini gingerbread house which I sneaked in under the guise of "a new Christmas Decoration" last week. Lots of the internal structural stuff is almost over-engineered or uses really random coloured bricks. It took a little while for me to twig, the internal structural components of the Saturn V are actually the real internals, all the fuel tanks and what have you. That doesn't need to be there, you'd never see it, but it's so typical of Lego's attention to detail.

Slightly more cynically perhaps, if the only way you can obtain a particular brick in a specific colour is by buying the one set that it's unique to, that's the collectors' market suckered in too.

Lots of the internal structural stuff is almost over-engineered or uses really random coloured bricks. It took a little while for me to twig, the internal structural components of the Saturn V are actually the real internals, all the fuel tanks and what have you. That doesn’t need to be there, you’d never see it, but it’s so typical of Lego’s attention to detail.

I’ve just finished the massive JP T-Rex. One of the first steps is putting a tiny frog inside the model, which is then bricked up never to be seen again. Like you say, it’s the attention to detail! (It’s also one of the best designed sets I’ve ever built, blending Technic & normal Lego to make something which just shouldn’t work, but is actually incredibly sturdy & well balanced despite being fully articulated!)

Interesting article on Lego

this is why I just roll my eyes when people moan about the price of Lego.

Plus it's all manufactured to incredibly high tolerances. Ever had a Lego brick that didn't quite fit? Me neither. One with a bit of sprue or some other moulding defect? I don't remember seeing that since the 70s, and I think they were old-hand-me-down bricks from god knows when even then.

We've said this before on this thread too but the notion that Lego is expensive "these days" is a fallacy; most Lego sets are a fairly similar cost-per-brick price and if you adjust for inflation it's the same price as they were when I was a kid.

And that's when your Lunar Module models looked more like this:

https://brickset.com/sets/565-1/Moon-Landing

When I was a kid we actually had to use our imagination to build things out of Lego 🙂

Thinking back it was an imagination similar to a Minecraft world 🤔

All the time/money that must be spent tweaking the designs until they’re perfect (and it is very, very rare for anything to make it to release with a sub-standard design).

Indeed. All 1,969 pieces of the Saturn V 👍

Sometimes the random internal colours are to easily differentiate slightly different pieces or orientation when built, further examples of attention to detail. My only gripe is they do sometimes use 2 pieces when ones would do, feels like an artificial way to get the count up.

Ever had a Lego brick that didn’t quite fit?

Yes but that may have been because I dried a load using a hot air paint stripping gun, my drying technique has since improved. I now use one hand to keep the pieces moving, I find my hand burns before the bricks distort. Also don't put them in the dishwasher, they don't do well in there, come out rather bleached.

When I was a kid we actually had to use our imagination to build things out of Lego 🙂

When you were a kid, Lego sets came with instructions just like they do now. And they all interoperated, just like they do now.

And for the luddite who whines about models not being big boxes of largely uniform bricks every time Lego is mentioned (is this you, I can't remember?), Lego do a range just for you. It's called Classic.

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/themes/classic

So there you go, fill your boots (I wouldn't put them on though) and let everyone else enjoy things.

My only gripe is they do sometimes use 2 pieces when ones would do, feels like an artificial way to get the count up.

Yeah, I thought that when building the gingerbread house. Loads of 1x2 pieces when a 1x8 would've sufficed. That's what you get for it saying "expert" on the box I guess. I suppose you could argue that the separate bricks look a bit more like, uh, separate bricks.

Indeed. All 1,969 pieces of the Saturn V 👍

Yeah, that makes me very happy. I read somewhere that initially it was a happy accident that they got almost 1969 pieces, like three or four bricks away, then someone at Lego went "ooh!" so they redesigned the support towers slightly to fiddle the brick count.

The support towers, incidentally, are very similar to the ones used under a real rocket at Kennedy Space Center. Attention to detail, see.

Looking at sales, This seems to good to be true?? Anyone bought of this lot? I can see s physical address, but could still be fishy?

https://www.willowbooks.co.uk/lego-harry-potter-hogwarts-castle-advanced-building-set-model-with-harry-potter-minifigures-71043.html

Yes, I would describe it as “fishy” 🤔

Christmas builds.

Genuine Lego:

The Boba Fett is beautifully engineered and features a lot of interior trickery.

Chinese copies:

and I'm doing battle with a Ferrari Enzo, but the instructions (or lack of them) are causing some frustration.

When you were a kid, Lego sets came with instructions just like they do now. And they all interoperated, just like they do now.

Nope just boxes of blocks when I was a kid and had p/n x469b motor but don't remember instructions but I was ony 7 years old. And if you're going to accuse someone of being a Luddite get the right person, so reel ya neck in.

Another Attention to Detail thing: I was given the Star Wars Lukes speeder set for Christmas. The centre motor folds back and there's a 'boot' for luggage. Inside there's a random loose part. I guess this has some Star Wars significance but buggered if I can remember. Anyone know?

Looking at sales, This seems to good to be true?? Anyone bought of this lot? I can see s physical address, but could still be fishy?

Cougar's Law of Internet Shopping: If you find yourself asking "is this a scam?" then the answer is yes, it's a scam.

Domain registered a couple of months ago for one single year.
Your "physical address" is a mid-terraced house.
Contact email address is an entirely different domain registered in the Czech Republic. There doesn't seem to be anything at that address currently but it could be where they lifted the storefront from.
No phone numbers (increasingly common on legitimate sites but the presence of a valid number would add credibility).
Block text is written either by a moron or, as I rather suspect, someone with English not as a first language (and before the professionally offended show up, not copy-reading your web pages is often a shibboleth for a scam site).

And of course, the biggest red flag of all: Popular products at half the price you can find them anywhere else on the planet? Sheah right, and monkeys might fly out of my butt.

40mpg - the random part is a pair of binoculars 😁

Inside there’s a random loose part

There was one with the Snow Speeder too. No idea what it is.

Nope just boxes of blocks when I was a kid and had p/n x469b motor but don’t remember instructions but I was ony 7 years old.

Your 7-year old's memory is incomplete. You could buy boxes of bricks sure, but that wasn't instead of actual models, it was alongside them. They introduced set models in the 1950s.

I remember them introducing that motor, I had a couple of them in yellow. They came in sets which had multiple builds rather than one single 'main' model and they absolutely came with instructions for at least some of them. The LM I linked to further up this page is of a similar mid-70s vintage.

And if you’re going to accuse someone of being a Luddite get the right person, so reel ya neck in.

I wasn't accusing you of anything, I was asking if it was you. If it wasn't then I apologise. I don't pay too much attention to usernames.

... it seems there were precursors to that motor too, it goes back to the mid-60s. Sold on its own or inside trains. I wasn't aware of that, before my time.

http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/x469b

Inside there’s a random loose part

That looks like the binoculars Luke uses when searching for Tuscan raiders.

Cougar’s Law of Internet Shopping: If you find yourself asking “is this a scam?” then the answer is yes, it’s a scam.

Cougar, wow amazing detail thanks, I know who to ask in future. 🙂

After dipping into this thread too many times, the wife bought me my first Technics in a good 28+ years. I was lucky enough to get the Porsche 42096 for Christmas.

Wow, I don't remember the sets being quite so involving, really enjoying the build though.

Just got to keep it away from the kids!

Cougar, wow amazing detail thanks, I know who to ask in future. 🙂

Did you ignore the rest of the post where I explained why in detail?

Cougar, wow amazing detail thanks, I know who to ask in future. 🙂

That's ok he's a weapon but a nice enough weapon. There's a few on here but he's one of the good ones.

Kuco
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When I was a kid we actually had to use our imagination to build things out of Lego

The only people daft enough to only follow the instructions and then never make anything else are adults.

The only people daft enough to only follow the instructions and then never make anything else are adults.

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