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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
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 🤩
BROTHERS-BRICK.COM 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.
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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. 