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Where’s the best place to buy longer pieces of Lego? Brought my old stuff out of storage now that jnr’s old enough. He also has lots of various mini figures from magazines. What we are lacking is a decent amount of larger pieces for buildings etc. Obviously eBay but never quite sure what you are going to get.
Ebay is the best bet, expect to wash it and remove the fake Lego, damaged Lego, aim to pay around £10 to £15 per kilo including postage. Cheapest way by far.
You can buy direct from Lego, which is usually quite expensive, their pick a brick range is now huge. BrickOwl and Bricklink are also online market places for Lego but unless you want specific parts it can get also get quite pricey. If you have a Lego store nearby most have a wall of pick and mix Lego, what's in it can vary a lot but it can be a cheap way to stock up. You get a pick and mix style plastic cup to fill up (changing to cardboard boxes at the moment). Don't be afraid to stack piece together to maximises what you can get in the cup.
A bargain at Argos for anyone looking for a Christmas dabble:
Another Argos bargain:
UCS Republic Gunship. £345 now £275. TopCashback can save another 10% on that making it £248.
Pretty good value for a big star wars kit with ~3300 pieces.
I got the UCS Gunship a few months ago. It's so big, I had to take one of the wings of to fit it on the shelf.
Just completed the Space Shuttle, aided and abetted by my littlest. It's been tough for her to do, whereas she loved the Apollo build.
The build itself is just lovely. Well recommended if you can find it in the sales.
It's joined the "space shelf" in my office.
Shuttle looks ace, I've finally decided to order it. The free kit from Lego is about as much 'discount' as this kit has had. Seems only available via Smyths or Lego direct.
Like the shuttle, any chance it’s on any kind of discount anywhere?
Not really. As Nixie says, it tends to be offered with a freebie. Maybe you could snag a slight discount or cashback, but that's about it.
Had a hard to resist perfect storm conditions over the month of November.
Been booked in hospital and then was released on Black Friday itself gonna get some of my boxes/stock to ad to the collection later in the day from the Neighbours excited like a 5 year old waiting for Santa to pitch up.
Am trying to decide on the orient express released later on this week.
I think I will add an still annoyed I couldn't afford the emerald when it came out years ago
I half keep an eye out for Titanic. Dunno whether I ever would buy it, but I have a shelf in mind for positioning it...
I want the titanic but it's so much...
I have the shuttle, I'm toying with the idea of getting the lighting kit for it.
I spotted the whole external fuel tank and SRB thing for it. To go next to my Apollo rocket. Cost on rebrickable was something like £700.
I'm not getting the external fuel tank and SRB thing for it.
I think there are cheaper non Lego tank/srb options.
I think there are cheaper non Lego tank/srb options
Nope nope nope nope nope.
I'm focusing on the Titanic. 😁
Just back from the Leeds Brick Festival, some interesting displays (nothing compared to the cons you see in the states) and plenty of nostalgia from older kits.
However, from the many, many folk selling stuff at apparently market rate, I appear to be closer to being able to retire than first thought 😮
Whilst not Lego; I’m excited to have a new large Forge World model from the Warhammer 40K range of miniatures to build.
They're lovely tanks. Good in the current meta as well which is nice also. What chapter are you painting it up as?
This one will be joining my Ultramarines; I have started a load of Word Bearers just because of the old rivalry.
The Titanic seems to holds its price far better than other kits. £589 new and regularly sells for ~£450 second hand.
This can be both a positive and a negative depending on which side of the buy cycle you’re on.
Main things that stood out at the show
1989 Batmobile, (~£200 when available new) £350 used, £400 new.
Ltd edition small 89 Batmobile, that came free with the above, £250
Orange 911, think I paid £160 when it was on offer, £350, used & still built…
911 going up in value then. Nice.
Unfortunately the overall price of Lego is slowly dropping, i have may collection listed on BrickOwl which dynamically prices it based on current selling trends, been pretty consistently downwards. I think a combination of coming down after the Covid high and the cost of living.
With sets its all about predicting which ones will be a slow burn not too popular otherwise large quantities get sold but will also become more desireable with age.
The Titanic seems to holds its price far better than other kits.
That's surprising, I thought it'd go down quite quickly.
Latest Lego related project nearly finished, Billy bookcases doubled in depth, doors attached and all painted a fetching on trend light gray.
Even got some spare shelves which I will need soon, nearly finished building the original UCS Millenium Falcon (from my parts collection and BrickOwl), already have the newer one, and my next project, this:
Just out of interest, would anyone with the Concorde be able to tell me how tall it is when on the stand with the nose pointed slightly up?
1989 Batmobile, (~£200 when available new) £350 used, £400 new.
Ltd edition small 89 Batmobile, that came free with the above, £250
Orange 911, think I paid £160 when it was on offer, £350, used & still built…
That mini-batmobile price is insane, according to Bircklink the average price is £104. I've got a 1989 Batmobile sealed in the box, I'm saving it for a rainy day. I've also got the Orange 911 GT3RS but that's never going anywhere.
Its a UCS scale by Mr Idler on Rebrickable.
Realy nice build and its massive with the wings out.
Nice - I think I'd have to smooth out the studs on top, but that's a personal thing. I've also bought the instructions for Pixel-Dan's T6.
I'm also quite tempted by this e-wing:
[url] https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-127180/Eventus_Engineering_System/e-wing-ucs/#details [/url]
@Daffy do you have the dark red half cone that's essential for the cockpit. They are like rocking horse poo as they only came out in one set, Bricklink and Brickowl across Europe are out and you can't get them from Lego. I managed to get 4 of them by buying an incomplete set off Ebay, happy to pass one on for a reasonable price, the £55 I effectively paid for one piece is still stinging.
Hadn't seen that Ewing, looks good, book marked it for a future build.
A couple of big sets are now 50% off at Argos.
*palpitations*
https://jaysbrickblog.com/news/lego-technic-2024-sets-embraces-space-exploration-like-never-before/
Quite surprised to see Optimus Prime at eighty quid (Argos), didn't think he'd get big discounts
Just out of interest, would anyone with the Concorde be able to tell me how tall it is when on the stand with the nose pointed slightly up?
@rich_s - I’ll check when I get home on Sunday. Tag me in a reply if I forget ‘cos it’s 0225 on my body clock.
It is a huge model though and typically won’t fit on any shelf without sticking out. Mine is perched on top of a bookcase because that’s the only place in the house that I can put it without fear of accidentally knocking it over.
Got in the Manchester Lego shop at 9am this morning, bliss, i was the only customer in thete. Better than that they also had a box in the pick a brick of mixed bits, 20 mins of trawling pulling out the good bits. Oh bought a UCS X wing as well.
just in case flaperon is on a 24hr snoozathon.
The stand isn't adjustable so the height off the deck is 29cm, it’s a smidge shorter than that but that allows a bit of wriggle.
It’s a fabulous set to make, way better than the LR new defender, which was meh.
Some really clever bits of engineering to get the right angles, and the temporary bracing is a lovely touch and great levels of detail in the model and the build notes.
Brilliant. I think that'll work for me as I've got 33cm to play with. Thanks!
’ve got 33cm to play with
#humblebrag
The 2024 Lego Technic sets (space and city basically) are likely going to be enough for me to break my recent drought.... Way better than all the recent branded vehicles...