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JAMES VTI S · 11-12-2013 9:53am

was about to ask the same

NinjaTruncs · 11-12-2013 10:40am

I build whichever model I like least (A or

first, then take it apart and build the other model which I display for a while, however space is an issue at the moment so I breakdown some sets and store them away to display newer sets. I've only space to display about 6-7 models, three of which I keep constantly build so I rotate my other 3-4 depending on the size of the models.

When I get more space (i.e. move) I'll hope to have a wall with shelves to display all of my sets, I've about 30 Technic sets so will need a fair bit of space to put them all up.

ShadowHearth · 11-12-2013 1:37pm

Got this today for free from the lads in Gamestop today. They know I love Lego!

. Fair play to them!

Necronomicon · 11-12-2013 1:46pm

Nice! Which branch?

ShadowHearth · 11-12-2013 1:51pm

Necronomicon wrote: »

Nice! Which branch?

They are not giving them out m8, I only got it as they know me. they had one Spare.

Necronomicon · 11-12-2013 1:58pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

They are not giving them out m8, I only got it as they know me. they had one Spare.

I figured they weren't giving them out, just thought I'd chance my arm

Well, that and we got a copy of the Marvel Superheroes game last month without receiving any, didn't realise they had them.

ShadowHearth · 15-12-2013 5:45pm

Bollox to that, bit the bullet. Thanks Santy! :pac:

pikaia · 16-12-2013 11:29am

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Bollox to that, bit the bullet. Thanks Santy! :

Did you order this from the lego store?

Necronomicon · 16-12-2013 1:29pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Bollox to that, bit the bullet. Thanks Santy! :pac:

http://images.wikia.com/lego/images/2/21/10237-the-tower-of-orthanc.jpg

I saw that in the flesh yesterday, it did nothing to steel my will power :pac: It's a beast of a thing, enjoy.

I caved and ordered this year's addition to the Winter Village theme, #10235:

However, I ordered it last Tuesday and I still haven't gotten a dispatch email, getting impatient/worried.

I really don't have room for this with our current Winter Village set up, but it's a nice headache to have really

ShadowHearth · 16-12-2013 1:33pm

pikaia wrote: »

Did you order this from the lego store?

The only place you can get this. I guess I got 199points too lol.

By the way lads, THIS one is getting built 100%!!

kollegeknight · 16-12-2013 3:54pm

79007-LEGO-Lord-of-the-Rings-Battle-at-the-Black-Gate.jpg

Battle at the black gate from pixmania. €55 delivered

unklerosco · 17-12-2013 12:00pm

Necronomicon wrote: »

I saw that in the flesh yesterday, it did nothing to steel my will power :pac: It's a beast of a thing, enjoy.

I caved and ordered this year's addition to the Winter Village theme, #10235:

However, I ordered it last Tuesday and I still haven't gotten a dispatch email, getting impatient/worried.

I really don't have room for this with our current Winter Village set up, but it's a nice headache to have really

Did the same myself, same every year now.. not Christmas without it!

Also ordered
9398 4X4 Crawler
10240 Red Five X-wing Starfighter
42007 Moto Cross Bike
42008 Service Truck

And I still have my R2D2 to build and I plan to build this over Christmas..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjyxzSEj3HQ

Mr Bloat · 17-12-2013 2:36pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Bollox to that, bit the bullet. Thanks Santy! :pac:

10237-the-tower-of-orthanc.jpg

I saw this built and in a glass case in the Lego shop in Copenhagen and it looks amazing. I was going to get it for myself for Christmas this year but am going for 10225 R2D2 instead. I couldn't resist it after watching the designers video.

ShadowHearth · 17-12-2013 2:52pm

Mr Bloat wrote: »

I saw this built and in a glass case in the Lego shop in Copenhagen and it looks amazing. I was going to get it for myself for Christmas this year but am going for 10225 R2D2 instead. I couldn't resist it after watching the designers video.

I am not SW fan at all, so Lotr for me. On topic

:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxAEo3CWeq8

*Not suited for children, if mod wants to remove it, its 100% cool. I always forget that it is all age friendly part of forum, even if the average age he is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over 18.

unklerosco · 20-12-2013 6:21pm

Santa arrived early, unfortunately it's not all for me... But still enough to keep me busy over the next few weeks ;-)

shamrock55 · 20-12-2013 9:17pm

^^^^ holy crap did you win the lotto:eek:

unklerosco · 20-12-2013 9:51pm

shamrock55 wrote: »

^^^^ holy crap did you win the lotto:eek:

I wish! Altough having contacts in LEGO n getting 50% off is kinda like winning the loto

JAMES VTI S · 20-12-2013 10:02pm

Please do tell

wandatowell · 20-12-2013 10:03pm

And of course you'll be doing a big order in the New Year for your fellow boardsies

syklops · 20-12-2013 10:06pm

wandatowell wrote: »

And of course you'll be doing a big order in the New Year for your fellow boardsies

Indeed he will.

If he doesn't it'll be the worlds first Lego-related tiger-kidnapping.

ShadowHearth · 20-12-2013 10:16pm

In fairness if he could get us 50% off for Lego, he would be a king around here.

.

I guess there is a "catch" where we cant get involved.

wandatowell · 20-12-2013 10:35pm

Though if he did ever do the right thing and put in a big boardsie order it might look a wee bit questionable if he orders half a dozen Millennium Falcons

Do it.

NinjaTruncs · 20-12-2013 10:58pm

Dear unklerosco Santa,

I'll have a Ewok village and Red Five X-Wing please.

unklerosco · 20-12-2013 11:37pm

No boardsie deals I'm afraid.. I get a certain amount lego at a discount per year. Gets used up by family. I do a lot of business with them.. Has its perks, annual trips to billund, factory tours etc. Needless to say I'm my nephews favourite uncle

NinjaTruncs · 21-12-2013 12:31am

You've just gone from being loved to being hated in these parts.

unklerosco · 21-12-2013 12:37am

NinjaTruncs wrote: »

You've just gone from being loved to being hated in these parts.

I get that a lot..

syklops · 21-12-2013 1:38am

unklerosco wrote: »

No boardsie deals I'm afraid.. I get a certain amount lego at a discount per year. Gets used up by family. I do a lot of business with them.. Has its perks, annual trips to billund, factory tours etc. Needless to say I'm my nephews favourite uncle

Word of advice. Dont go boasting about having a 50% discount on Lego, on a Lego thread.

The flimsy story about getting a Lego "allowance" doesn't help things.

unklerosco · 21-12-2013 10:05am

syklops wrote: »

Word of advice. Dont go boasting about having a 50% discount on Lego, on a Lego thread.

The flimsy story about getting a Lego "allowance" doesn't help things.

I distribute lego educatoin kits, I have no problem doing boardsie deals, as I have done in the past, on anything I distribute.. You can see my store here, it's getting an update in the new year with more products.. anyone looking for anything pm me.
Unfortunately I don't distribute retail LEGO hence the reason I can't get discounts for everyone on it.. If anyone is ever looking for anything specific I'm more than willing to help out..

wandatowell · 21-12-2013 2:52pm

If I had a Lego discount I'd be like "Hey everybody enjoy paying RRP for lego, lolz"

unklerosco · 21-12-2013 3:24pm

I'll prob get banned for this but ironically I spend so much time running workshops with lego that I rarely build it outside of work. Christmas is the only time I really build at home..

ShadowHearth · 21-12-2013 3:48pm

unklerosco wrote: »

I'll prob get banned for this but ironically I spend so much time running workshops with lego that I rarely build it outside of work. Christmas is the only time I really build at home..

Well m8, I cook for living and I hate cooking at home.

I would not be surprised if you are surrounded by Lego at work and just wanting something different at home.

I would love to have somesort of job which would involved Lego. Though I dont know if I would enjoy to be Bricklink reseller... Having my own brick and mortar lego would be fun though.

NinjaTruncs · 21-12-2013 4:00pm

If you want to ruin something you love do it for a living.

unklerosco · 21-12-2013 4:06pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I would not be surprised if you are surrounded by Lego at work

We've over 500,000 lego's and counting so I'm fairly surrounded :P

If you want to ruin something you love do it for a living.

I wouldn't say that, I do have a pretty awesome job and I never thought as a child I'd ever get to visit the LEGO offices, tour the factories, meet the family... It sure as hell beats every other job I've ever done!! In saying that there are times when the last thing I wanna see is a lego brick.. they're usually the days when I've to sort out all the boxes!

wandatowell · 24-12-2013 2:49am

No sign of any 50% discounts here

.......just the 25% it is.

Thats my Christmas day sorted folks!

camel jockey · 28-12-2013 8:10pm

Got the large X Wing, the Death Star and the Sopwith Camel.

Also just completed the Shuttle Expedition (10231) that was forgotten under the bed for the last 3 years.

JAMES VTI S · 28-12-2013 8:12pm

camel jockey wrote: »

Got the large X Wing, the Death Star and the Sopwith Camel.

Also just completed the Shuttle Expedition (10231) that was forgotten under the bed for the last 3 years.

Some pictures would be sweet

unklerosco · 28-12-2013 8:13pm

camel jockey wrote: »

Also just completed the Shuttle Expedition (10231) that was forgotten under the bed for the last 3 years.

That's a nice find, wouldn't mind one of them..

camel jockey · 28-12-2013 8:55pm

JAMES VTI S wrote: »

Some pictures would be sweet

I've made the Shuttle and about half the X-Wing, will post some pics tomorrow.

Arciphel · 28-12-2013 11:04pm

ShadowHearth · 29-12-2013 6:12pm

Was in town today and picked up this in Smyths for 29.99eu. Now I miss only one set from Hobbit series one.

Almost bought unimog in Smyths too. I am sort of in between 42008, 42009 or unimog... Not sure what to pick up yet

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camel jockey · 29-12-2013 6:57pm

camel jockey wrote: »

I've made the Shuttle and about half the X-Wing, will post some pics tomorrow.

Completed the X-wing and the Sopwith Camel this afternoon.

NinjaTruncs · 29-12-2013 10:08pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Almost bought unimog in Smyths too. I am sort of in between 42008, 42009 or unimog... Not sure what to pick up yet .

Get the Unimog, it's about to be discontinued and you will have a good 18+ months to get the other two sets at a discount.

sullivlo · 30-12-2013 11:32am

NinjaTruncs wrote: »

Get the Unimog, it's about to be discontinued and you will have a good 18+ months to get the other two sets at a discount.

I got the unimog and so far it's been the best build experience!

HorseSea · 30-12-2013 5:40pm

Nearly got the Unimog yesterday in Smyths Blanch, last one. €179 reduced to €159. It was on the top shelf and when they lifted it down the bottom of the box was completely ripped open. No idea whether everything was in there or not so I left it. They seemed annoyed I wouldn't take it after getting the ladder etc. LoL

ShadowHearth · 30-12-2013 5:52pm

HorseSea wrote: »

Nearly got the Unimog yesterday in Smyths Blanch, last one. €179 reduced to €159. It was on the top shelf and when they lifted it down the bottom of the box was completely ripped open. No idea whether everything was in there or not so I left it. They seemed annoyed I wouldn't take it after getting the ladder etc. LoL

It was still 179.99eu in Cork.

If it was 159.99eu I think I would have bitten the bullet for sure. Just a little saving would make it worth it. I am sort of kicking myself for not buying it yesterday even for full price.

I think misses wants to go to Cork this week so I might as her to pick it up for me.

HorseSea · 30-12-2013 6:38pm

€159 would prove very expensive if there was a bag missing inside, the rip was the entire length of the box so I bet someone had helped themselves as some stage. Go for it at €179, it's a huge set.

Oafley Jones · 31-12-2013 12:02am

Unimog is a fantastic set. Get it, you won't regret it.

Got a present of Mindstorms EV3 for Christmas.:eek: It's incredible, only worry is do I have the imagination to get the most out of it. Some phenomenal ideas online.

PaddyFagan · 31-12-2013 2:41pm

HorseSea wrote: »

Go for it at €179, it's a huge set.

There is at least 2 in the Smyths in Naas, for anyone who is in the market. (Also means if you buy them there's no risk of me being tempted...:D)

Paddy

NinjaTruncs · 31-12-2013 2:47pm

Howw much where they?

PaddyFagan · 31-12-2013 3:22pm

NinjaTruncs wrote: »

Howw much where they?

€179 :rolleyes:

They had €20 off the 4x4 crawler and that seemed to be the only discount on technics I could see.

Paddy

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