All Random Lego chatter!

We all paid premium for the QC cost for lego bricks (and their patent minifig ha) - the brick design is actually not originated by lego (they actually copied some other company back then). If these other new/uprising toy makers can produce good quality bricks, why not?

The enjoyment comes from the building process and that matters most for me, especially for a display piece for a franchise that unlikely Lego will have a set on (and Mega Bloks is not some chinese sweatshop, they are a Mattel company that owns MOTU). That said, I haven't had any non lego bricks in house lol...

Yeah done the same there. I will hold off claiming it until there is 1 of those VIP accessories packs when you spend over 50 threshold as I would like to get something free when making an order and don't want to spend big on lego site at moment. So need to do 55 euro spend to get the free delivery.

Looks brilliant. I wish it wasn't 500 tho. Some lego sets getting pricey as hell. Double VIP points from the 10th of this mth for 6 days I believe and there will be a GWP purchase for 100 spend. Its an off road ambulance. Looks good now, its like a 20 euro city set if you were to go out and buy it.

yes i just saw it - so smart they use the tvshow to release the old lotr - and this one looks greattt. and more sets to come!

and ah 500e - it is supposed to be £430 *smirk + roll eyes*

Picked up the Lego Star Wars magazine this morning on the way in to work. No major interest in it but the minifig is Ba-Katan for anyone interested in Star Wars side of things. It has only been in one set before this, so basically a decent minifig for €7.

It's gas though, the average sale price for her on bricklink has plummeted. Averaging €16 in October, November, December, and January. Then it is the freebie with this months magazine and suddenly there's loads of them available for €6 or €7

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?M=sw1163&#T=P

Funny just in lego store in Jersey Gardens a few mins ago and they have sets up to 20% off as boxes a bit bashed. Like the office set for 96 dollars as box bashed. I wonder do they do that in Dublin store.

LOL @ Hulk with taxi. Needs more brooding Batman.

Picked up the lion knights castle. Will leave the box in the hotel as it won't fit into suitcase but really glad I got it. Had lego castle when I was small always had great memories from it.

Beyond excited for this set which is coming out on April 1st.

I had dollars and was birthday so I said feck it. Was more wasn't buyi g much more so I said I might as well with double VIP points. I didn't want to put stuff on credit card but yeah would of been much easier to get it from lego website by a mile.

There’s movement on the brick link designer programme sets. The winter chalet has shipped for me and the mountain observatory I got an it’s out of stock so it will

be a little longer notification..

Winter chalet arrived today, no GWP I say it goes by order date for the GWP rather then shipment dates maybe and also probably just cause it’s bricklink they’re probably not entitled to them..

My modular Construction Site has gone to in warehouse and my money had been taken. Pretty awful timing for.my bank account

theres a sort of promo going on this week where you make your own shamrock in store and can bring it home, can’t beat free Lego!

Careful in regards the lego magazines. I bought 3 of the star wars magazines yesterday in Tesco but I only realised today that when I went to open 1 of them a smart person made a small hole in the packet and got the minifigure out that way and packet was still left on magazine. With them been paper now its easy to do it now.

18+ :)

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I love LOTR and the Rivendell set is amazing but a bit too expensive for my taste.

However, it looks huuuuge when assembled. Very impressive kit.

assume you have the 90th anniversary Castle from last summer?

Now that's a good but dangerous idea. Not good for my wallet! I'll have a look at the Lion Knight's castle in store tomorrow and think about it. I'm leaning more towards Rivendell just because it looks fantastic not to mention huge, so I'm hoping the display model is as impressive in person.

Well I came up to Dublin today, and went to the Lego store all excited to see the big price sets on display, and there were hardly any! Rivendell is split in two and stuck under the staircase in a cramped display case. No Lion Knight's castle, no lighthouse; these are ones that I wanted to have a good look at before buying. Meanwhile, they had loads of cheaper Lego Friends/Creator 3-in-1 sets on display. It seems a bit bizarre to not push the high prices items. They have a big display of Trinity college taking up loads of space, and it just looks dull and repetitive. Rivendell is like an afterthought tossed beside it! They'd be better served having the big items displayed when you walk in the door. Blow our minds a bit if you are going to ask us to spend hundreds of euros. Don't get me wrong, it's great to have the Lego store but they need to put a bit of thought into their displays.

The lighthouse was on display a few weeks ago.

Yeah wouldn't be surprised if they look at moving to a bigger shop in a couple of years.