All Random Lego chatter!

Rhyme wrote: »

Time convenience, the slow boat from China is very very slow

I tend to try and buy from Irish sellers on Bricklink as much as I can, both to support sellers here but also the postage is faster than waiting on a few minifigures from Ukraine or wherever.

I'd be of the opinion that there should be a subset of the Lego selling area of Adverts for 'Lego compatible' sales. Just so people know what they're getting. It might lead to smaller and smaller selling areas though.

would be a lot better if that now. Pain going through adverts and there is tons of them from sellers. Can be a few pages when they upload all their things in 1 go 1 item at a time.

Star Wars UCS AT AT to be released in autumn/winter this year - set# 75313 6,782 pieces €799.99.

Day 1 purchase for me can’t wait!

Space is the one issue I have with those UCS sets. The AT AT sounds brilliant but I'm practically already at the stage of having to dispose of my bed to make room for Lego.

Deleted User wrote: »

Is that confirmed? There was talk of a giant death star. I think I'd pass on both to be honest. Building the Falcon at the moment and it's huge. I couldn't imagine how much space a giant AT-AT would take up!

Yes 90% confirmed and makes sense - been waiting for one ages, I can’t wait

Turtwig wrote: »

Ship in a Bottle is finally available again. Yes! Yes!

How long did that take?

Turtwig wrote: »

They brought both Ship in a Bottle and the Apollo 11 Sat V sets back out of retirement in late Oct/early Nov. For some reason only the Apollo 11 set was available outside the U.S. Ship in Bottle only became available very recently in the Irish/EU store.

Took ages then for it to be in stock again, bloody hell. You would think they could make the sets a lot faster tho.

Deleted User wrote: »

With massive supply chain disruption over the last year they were probably prioritising sets likely to sell well. Also they had new sets to launch as well.

Ahhh I understand but like someone said they mostly do a quota per period for sets and if sell out then can take ages to be back in stock, you would think if a massive seller it would be easy for them to pump out more of them for that period and not wait for ages to do them again, I.e the mandalorian ship its not been in stock for ages and when comes back in probably sell out straight away, you would think they would make tons more as fast as possible as it's a huge seller.

RGARDINR wrote: »

Ahhh I understand but like someone said they mostly do a quota per period for sets and if sell out then can take ages to be back in stock, you would think if a massive seller it would be easy for them to pump out more of them for that period and not wait for ages to do them again, I.e the mandalorian ship its not been in stock for ages and when comes back in probably sell out straight away, you would think they would make tons more as fast as possible as it's a huge seller.

I had the same with the Star Wars AAT, which just happens to be out of stock at the moment but available on back order.

Was watching it from the start of October but was always out of stock. Set up the "notify me when back in stock" around the middle of November, but it would always be out of stock and unavailable by the time I'd read the email and click through to the website. Eventually got it the last week of November.

It could be down to the number of pieces in a set, or unique pieces. No idea, but you can only presume that if you were to ask Mr Lego or the head of operations or some big cheese in the factory in Billund that he or she would be able to tell you what would be on the packing schedule for this day in April. Maybe?


That thought did send me down a rabbit hole on youtube of the lego factory and piece production. It's amazing, it really is.

Lega manufacturing is absolutely a leader in GMP/QC field. The price that we pay for each set is like 20-30% go to the QC

I only have ever had no more than 20 pieces broken/missing all these years. But i have heard people at US complained on the quality as often (probably the Mexican site supplied them over there)

RGARDINR wrote: »

Do you have all 3 of them?

city and harbour yes, but garden not (yet). dont have the space to place them ha ffs the harbour still sits in my storeroom

seraphimvc wrote: »

Lega manufacturing is absolutely a leader in GMP/QC field. The price that we pay for each set is like 20-30% go to the QC

I only have ever had no more than 20 pieces broken/missing all these years. But i have heard people at US complained on the quality as often (probably the Mexican site supplied them over there)



city and harbour yes, but garden not (yet). dont have the space to place them ha ffs the harbour still sits in my storeroom

Ahhh sweet there lovely looking sets now, well jealous. Ha I know what you mean about spare room I have a tiny part in the attic that I have set up and the rest are in the eves and shed and the parents attic.

brianomc wrote: »

The last few sets I wanted on launch day I got at 11pm Irish time, so an hour earlier than advertised.

Brilliant thanks.

Sets often go live an hour or so before the official launch date. That's quite common.

Regarding promos however, you won't be able to claim the 1st Feb promo(s) if ordering, say, at 11:30pm on Jan 31st. Likewise, if you wait until 12:01am on Feb 1st, you won't be able to claim any January promo(s).

PaddyFagan wrote: »

FYI Got an email that it was back in stock at 12.20 - just ordered one

Paddy

Me too. Just ordered now and coming here to say it

PaddyFagan wrote: »

FYI Got an email that it was back in stock at 12.20 - just ordered one

Paddy

So lucky was doing the kids school work so only saw your message about 12 mins after you posted it and it's gone, fecking thing sold out so fast so annoying