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As does anyone who recognises ‘LL928’
I had LL928 and LL918. LL was short for Legoland.
scuttler
Full MemberAs does anyone who recognises ‘LL928’
That's the planet Aliens is set on, right?
LL928, that brings back memories. It was always the reg plate for cars, trucks and lorries I built as a kid. Hours spent searching through Bejams ice cream containers full of classic Lego looking for the right pieces.
928 sealed in box = $5500 online in the States somewhere
https://store.bricklink.com/Josh1oreilly?itemID=443260051#/shop
My love of classic Lego Space could be a lot more worrying. I only bought one of the new Galaxy Explorers, for instance.
What're your thoughts on the new Blacktron Renegade?
I bought the LEGO 42043 Mercedes-Benz Arocs a few years back and thoroughly enjoyed the build. Since then the truck has happily been a shelf queen, but i am now getting the itch to do another build. I'm thinking of selling the truck (with box and instruction book), but i can't figure out what i should ask for it. I have seen it advertised on FB Market Place and Ebay for anything between £120 and £300+. Has anyone bought of sold this kit recently and, if so, do you mind me asking how much you paid/sold it for? Thanks
@ebikegum Bricklink has valuation data
If it was me, I’d break it down, re-sort the pieces into bags that correlate to the instructions and put it up on a eBay, Buy It Now with offers at 200, with a view to getting offers around 175-180. Having box and instructions makes it more valuable, re-bagging it makes it more saleable.
I also have the MB Arocs, it’s an excellent thing and was my first dally into ‘Big Stuff’.
The only things that have really come along since then that sooth the itch have been the Saturn V and Concorde. Tried the Defender but that just turned into over complicated gearbox nonsense that spoilt the whole thing and I’m not sure even works properly.
The new launch alliance thing should be awsome but leaves me cold. They should have released a companion launch tower to the SaturnV.. but I digress.
What’s everyone’s thoughts on Lego as an “investment” now? . It sort of seems that a lot of folk have got wise to buying sets and not opening them to hold on to, hoping they will increase in value. Influencers/collectors show videos of their collections but anyone can collect rare and unopened sets if they are happy to pay through the nose for them. But then the item isn’t rare, there are many unopened sets about.
I ask this partially as I have the Bugatti Veyron Technic set in the unopened transit cardboard box, so mint. I’m half tempted to sell it as it just such a big ruddy box to find a dry place to store it. It currently around the £250 mark, maybe if I hold onto it for another 50 years, it might be worth a couple of grand, but then I’ll be dead. There is no sentimental value to me.
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What’re your thoughts on the new Blacktron Renegade?
Blacktron showed up just as my interest in space Lego was waning. I had a couple of Blacktron minifigs, but never any of the kits. I managed to get hold of the smaller limited edition Blacktron ship that was released a year or two ago but it turns out that nostalgia for the range doesn't have enough of a hold on me that I want to spend 90 quid on the Renegade. While the asymmetry is apparently an iconic part of the Blacktron look the whole thing doesn't quite do it for me so I'll be keeping my money in my wallet this time.
Just built myself the 75312 Mandalorian version of Slave One. Lovely build, it's not big but it's an almost solid block when you're done, really heavy and satisfying (albeit with kinda sloppy wing-things). Kind of an awkward midsize scale, big enough for a minifig under the cockpit but some odd seeming proportions, then again it'd be much more expensive if it was even slightly bigger or £500 if it was "true scale". And lots of light grey and light green and mid grey stuff to drive colourblind folks mad.
But I love the artistry lego sometimes put into the instructions, where you're spending a few minutes building an inexplicable "thing" then you turn over the page and suddenly, oh, that's what it is! In this one there's a bunch of steps where the build's actually way fiddlier than it has to be, but it's totally worth it for these little gotchas, I love that stuff. There's a little cargobay built in for your frozen-in-carbonite dude and I didn't even know it was there til the end, despite building it with my actual hands. Class. Or the din djarin minifig having a completely blank head because OF COURSE you'll never take the helmet off, that's both good design and a funny joke, I'm actually congratulating them for what's really a cornercut/cost saving because it's so damn smooth. The little vehicle that converts into a stand is neat but honestly, I wish it had a proper stand, I'll end up building one or maybe buying an aftermarket one.
Also I'm reasonably sure you can sell the minifigs out of this for more than I paid for the whole kit, Not that I'm going to because boba fett ****in rules. It's retired but still available in some places and right at the bottom of the price curve, I paid £22 from a closing down Entertainer, was tempted to buy the whole stock.
rockhopper70
Full MemberWhat’s everyone’s thoughts on Lego as an “investment” now? . It sort of seems that a lot of folk have got wise to buying sets and not opening them to hold on to, hoping they will increase in value.
Well first of all, it's a sickness, toys are for playing with.
But, it still definitely looks doable as long as you're smart. Sometimes you see deals and it's almost unavoidable that you'll make money, like I mentioned I just paid ebay prices for the Tales Of The Space Age set, if you'd bought those last year at £35 from the Lego store you'd be making £20 profit every time, and it's bound to go up because it's such a specific and lovely set. And I've got the ISS from a couple of years ago that I bought likewise in a sale from the Lego shop and it's almost exactly doubled in price (it's not an investment, I just haven't built it!) Sometimes it's even flippable, one of the big toy shops was clearing out Death Star 10188s a couple of years back and you only had to wait til the sale ended and you could turn over a useful profit literally a couple of weeks later. You can pretty much smell collectability on some kits.
But you can absolutely guarantee that loads of people are going InVeStMeNt!1! and buying up retiring Speed Champions and such that used to give people a huge profit but now not so much... Or just not realising you have to take into account the costs. (I do a little ebay trading, I used to have a product that I made regular low-profit sales on, but eventually other people noticed and undercut me and I can guarantee that unless they were stealing the postage from work or something, they were losing money on every sale and telling themselves how smart they were)
Jango Fett’s - Slave 1 is due to be the UCS May 4th release this year with a rumoured 3000 piece count and £300.
Very interested in these rumours about UCS Slave I.
Might just have the Falcon finished by then.
Grangemouth brick....
Who got one 😉
We had a whole bunch when we were kids, I think we inherited an older cousin's collection when they "grew out of it". But I can't find any of them now 🙁 I reckon one of us must have intentionally separated them all out from the "proper lego", we always just sort of thought of them as like broken biscuits, poor person's shit lego. Still got a bunch of the older blocks and some cool old instruction manuals and such that probably came from the same collection though.
Oh yeah re investment up the page... One thing that still definitely works is the zero-risk flipping of new stuff. Like, perfect example, Amazon had the moon rover up for £120 yesterday. Possibly a decent longer term investment but with a deal like that, people buy a few, wait for the amazon offer to end (which today they're back up to £152) and then sell them for a small but safe profit. Ebay resale prices take a dip when there's a good new deal but they tend not to last. If the discounts stay for too long or you get cold feet, or the resale price doesn't rebound you can return them for free within the window. Ethically, well, it is basically scalping and you're wasting a little delivery petrol but other'n that it only really hurts amazon sooooo
You can use the Lego insiders free gifts to your advantage as well. I ordered Jabba’s barge at full price but got Luke’s Lightsaber (sold for £90) a Fortnite Brickhead (£9) and a light up Halloween Pumpkin (kept, but would have sold for £20). Got £20 in points for future purchases.
UCS Star Wars sets that are being retired should be a safe bet but not exactly pocket change. I dithered on the AT-AT when it was reduced to £500 last year. It’s now being discontinued and can’t see it going that low again. Can’t be bothered with flipping sets myself, I just buy what I want to build.
Do people occasionally find bits missing from new sets? Just been online to search the parts in the set but it says piece not found.
How response are Lego to such things?
Only once had a piece missing, there was an extra piece of the same weight. Every other time the piece was usually still in the bag or occaisionally on the floor.
If the piece you are searching for isn't listed you've probably got the wrong part number.
I've had a couple of sets recently with one to two pieces missing, and one set where the stickers were crushed. One missing bit was 2 pieces of 2 dots, and there was a 4 dot square left over so I the weight think makes sense.
Customer service sent out replacements very quickly with no hassle at all. Only a bit frustrating if you can't continue the build.
I have had to order missing pieces a few times. Its straight forward but annoying, luckily i have always been able to get a piece in different colour from my spares bucket so could finish building and swap later.
The machines that bags the bricks are indeed testing based on weight why there is usually quite a few extrs of various 1 stud flat bricks.
This is an odd shaped piece. I've had a good look around the build are. Confident that it's actually missing. Oddly, 6163989 is the correct part, but not listed against the model I'm building. The other 23 of them were though.
I've emailed them. Guess I'll wait and see. At least it's only part of the greebling so I can carry on with the build.
Lego have a simple form to fill in to request parts missing from new sets
https://www.lego.com/en-gb/service/replacement-parts/missing
In my experience the part turns up in about a week.
Reinforcements!
That micro LL928 is astounding. Set 11910 seemingly.
Came with a book, ISBN 9780241011638. Which I've just acquired from ebay for £15. \o/
Cougar2
Free MemberThat micro LL928 is astounding. Set 11910 seemingly.
Yeah I got it for christmas a few years back, the book's better than you might expect too, at first glance it looks like a wh smiths cash-in book sort of thing. I've got to figure out how to dock it permanently to my International Space Station 🙂
Oh, excellent. TTIUWP.
This is an interesting read. Interview with the designer of the Speed Champions series.
Endurance is a bit of a monster! Nice build tho, lots of 'h'mm what's that going to be' sub builds. Got a bit further since this pic but going to be a few nights work. We tend to do two bags and then stop. No point rushing. It's already quite heavy. I think there are 25 bags and we're on, er, 7 🙂
The sales/rigging look pretty finicky having browsed the end of the book.
I decided to stay away from building ships.
I got the Titanic and built up section one (the pointy end). About 230 stages into it, I needed a 8x2 black flat piece without holes.
Couldn't find it anywhere - but I could find a 8x2 black flat piece with holes.
Would anyone care to guess exactly what stage of the build I'd gone wrong at? 🤔
Yup. Or, stage bloody one as it became known.
I feel your pain, a few years back i got the 42112 cement mixer for christmas, had a lovely time building 4/5ths of it then was "missing a piece" which I figured inevitably meant I'd used the wrong bit somewhere- there were some very similiar bits. Only a little un but it made me put it to one side and then I never got back to it.
Decided I'd break it down and either start over or sell it. Thought I'd split it back into its bags. Now it turns out, this is not a thing I can do, something to do with attention to detail or concentration multiplied by bad eyes and fumbly fingers, it's been an absolute disaster and I'm literally doing the third pass through tonight to try and sort it.
AND it turns out, it really was missing the part! If it'd beeen an aliexpress kit I'd have not doubted it for a second but I have faith in lego.
Suppose I've had good value in terms of time spent on it at least.
Lego Hogwarts. Human for scale.
I want one 🤩
The attention to detail is staggering!
Just a PSA. Mothering Sunday this weekend. Lego flowers have had great success in the TiRed household. Don't say you have not been warned 😉
Always hard to do the airplane nose/cockpit in lego but I do want this regardless
I took a punt on this, was an enjoyable build, the finished article is impressive.
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I promised myself I wouldn’t buy Slave 1 as I already have the original, but 15% cashback, triple Insider Points, a 4% company discount and the host of May 4th freebies crumbled my resistance. Lego wins again.
Ebay the freebies, the Star Wars ones go for crazy money. I got over £100 back on my last big purchase just from the free gifts.
Was seriously tempted by the deal on the Razor Crest but don’t really have space for the sets already waiting in the build queue, never mind anything else.
That’s so cool!
Isn't it just.
This has been kicking around my son’s room with 11/12 bags unopened since Christmas. Some nice red wine and some nuts made for a very relaxing evening. 
What do we think of the Goonies set?
RE The Goonies set - I’m not a minifig/play space guy, so it’s not really for me, but the detail of the sets is quite impressive.
I wondered how long the Enterprise D would take to turn up here. 😁
https://www.lego.com/en-gb/live/black-friday
It’s a bit…low res, isn’t it? Especially on the underside.
I don’t care, just activate the buy it now button and take my money Lego!!
Okay - now I’d buy it just thanks to Jonathan Frakes in the livestream- still amazing!
It’s a bit…low res, isn’t it? Especially on the underside.
Yeah. I saw the leak before the official announcement, I thought no way is that an official Lego release.
Honestly, I'm more excited about Lego getting onboard with the Trek franchise generally than I am about this specific model. I kinda... don't really like it. I suppose it's an odd shape (and large) to make structurally sound.
Enterprise D. I’m in! Eagerly awaiting 2025-11-28 to order.
hoping this is the start of a few Star Trek kits. And also not due to the £££
Wanted to build this Lancia Stratos for ages. Tried to order it a while ago and it was out of stock. Made from copy of the Lamborghini Sian kit from Turbo Mac and online plans.
Has Gearbox, pedals, proper clamshell. A little bit fragile but fun. May have to work out if I can make some Rally lights for it next.
That's ace. Love the interior.
Endurance was started in dry jan and completed yesterday. Was a nice build. Some really clever touches. Part of the deck comes away so you can see inside the engine room etc.
The crane isn't quite finished. That's probably about 3 years old. The last one before the App. Pretty complicated build. And absolutely massive.
I don't have any other Lego but the wife bought me this for Christmas a few years ago when we were going through a Seinfeld phase. Sadly, they haven't rocketed in value since so I decided to build it and stick it on a shelf.
It was my first time building a big set with over a thousand pieces. I quite enjoyed it. I don't really have the space for lots of huge Lego displays but I'd love the Goonies one.
Lots of little details to spot for those familiar with the show.
Obviously there's the Klein Pinnacle in the background. Stolen from the set at some point and replaced with a blue Cannondale.
Some good Black Friday Deals available in Argos - Lego Star Wars UCS Venator reduced to £400. Work Pluxie tax save discount reduces that to £372. TopCashBack reduces that to £360 and you can get 400 Nectar points. So, free snacks to eat whilst building. 👍 🍷
Interestingly, I met a couple of guys who work for Lego at a conference this week. They do the structural modelling to ensure the builds are strong enough.
The Jaws set is currently on offer in Argos, I bought it on launch but still haven’t built it as have no where to display it.
Gonna need a bigger boat?