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Post by The Doctor on Jan 3, 2013 18:10:22 GMT
Helms Deep remains at £89 where I saw it so an easy pass. Actually, each Tesco appears to have completely different prices on most of their Lego stock. Seems to be mad luck if your local one has what you want reduced!
Legends of Chima has achieved impressive market penetration already. It is everywhere.
Saw a new SW set: the 'everyone get Palpatine' one in TRU. It looks fun but no way is that a £70 set. Looks more like a decent set in the £40 range.
TRU had the Old Republic Sith ship of death evil down to £60. I would have swooped but I have plenty to build for now. And need to eat! Ho ho!
Amusingly, TRU is once again heaving with Y-Wings but as they have been bumped up to £45 I don't seem them going anywhere soon!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jan 3, 2013 21:08:39 GMT
Ah well, I was a little too slow on the draw for that one, but I can pick it up for thirty-squid around this neck of the woods so I may well get it from a bricks-and-mortar in the next couple of days. Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 3, 2013 23:16:16 GMT
Upcoming SW polybags: www.brickset.com/news/article/?ID=5354The Republic Frigate looks great! In other news this evening I put together the 2012 seasonal website freebie set. A fun wee scene and the coachman is superbly sinister. It also has two of the Lego trees that I recall fondly from my youth. Also constructed the SW Y-Wing. A rather more involved build than the shape of the ship would suggest. The nacelles tasked me somewhat but the effort was well worth it as the model looks superb. Nice to have my favourite SW spaceship at minifig scale to go along with the micro one from the 2011 advent calander. I must admit that if Lego ever did a super detailed higher brick count one for the collector market I would probably red haze straight away. That leaves Dino T-Rex, Jabba's Palace, police van and the Batcave in the 'to build' pile. Yay. -Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 3, 2013 23:50:59 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 4, 2013 10:01:38 GMT
I must have this! Someone tell me how!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 4, 2013 10:12:07 GMT
eBay and £300+
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Post by Bogatan on Jan 4, 2013 10:19:55 GMT
Jabbas palace acquired. Eventually. Got to Tesco found it, then found that that Tesco does not have the facility to print out club card vouchers. So back on bus to other Tesco which does. 45 minute round trip later and the set was bought for just £49 plus £10 of soon to expire vouchers.
This is taking the place of cheap MP10 Amazon cancelled.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 4, 2013 13:36:03 GMT
Mermaid, knight and Alien Soldier today
Love the Soldier.... But the Knight is tops.
Need mech and cyclops
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 4, 2013 18:02:55 GMT
The Solider is tops. M has a spare Cyclops for me. I am on the hunt for the Knight.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 4, 2013 18:47:54 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 5, 2013 22:21:31 GMT
Lego T-Rex is the best Lego fig ever as you can put minifigs in his articulated mouth!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 5, 2013 23:09:31 GMT
I need a red Lego T-Rex. Yell if you see this set cheap
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 5, 2013 23:12:38 GMT
I got it in the John Lewis sale. It seems to have cleared out everywhere other than Smyths which still want full price for it. Annoyingly they still want full price for the Dino HQ as well.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 5, 2013 23:16:37 GMT
Which was where I got Dino HQ cheap.
You need Dino HQ. maybe not at rip but you need it.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 5, 2013 23:27:21 GMT
Alas, Dino HQ was not in my John Lewis when they had the sale on. If I see it on sale I will grab it but not at full price as I already have the red T-Rex.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 6, 2013 19:21:46 GMT
The Batcave is festooned with more stickers than I have ever seen in a Lego set. Not found one printed brick yet. I am not enjoying it.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Jan 6, 2013 19:49:31 GMT
The Batcave is festooned with more stickers than I have ever seen in a Lego set. Not found one printed brick yet. I am not enjoying it. -Ralph Ugh no, stickers. I hate those, especially when you have to stick them across more than one block!!
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 6, 2013 20:38:17 GMT
Almost all the detail is on stickers. Lazy set. The final teabagging comes when the last piece of the build is the one fecking printed piece in the whole fecking set!
And to make the 'Bruce turn into Batman' gimmick work you have to reach behind to pull out a piece which means I find it rather hard to see the damn thing work!
Not impressed.
-Ralph
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Post by kayevcee on Jan 7, 2013 2:18:09 GMT
The whole shebang works fine without that rod in place if memory serves. I still like it. Remember that printed bricks rather than stickers would mean either a higher price point or a smaller set. The 2012 Batcave is barely 2/3 the piece count and about half the size of the 2006 Batcave that was only ten quid more at RRP (if anyone could find it). I think the designers are doing their best with the more limited budgets they now have. -Nick
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Post by Benn on Jan 7, 2013 18:53:09 GMT
I do not like that Batcave. It's too flat. I prefer to build up, rather than lots of flat panels.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 7, 2013 19:13:11 GMT
It was improved somewhat when I realised that the T-Rex was the perfect size to pluck hapless minifigs from the upper level and crush them in his teeth of death.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 7, 2013 20:36:34 GMT
It's growing on me. The Batcave is growing on me. Robin has taken charge of the Bat-Computer!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jan 7, 2013 20:41:49 GMT
It's growing on me. The Batcave is growing on me. Robin has taken charge of the Bat-Computer! -Ralph Is he playing Galaga, thinking that we won't notice? Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 7, 2013 20:43:11 GMT
If only he or I knew what that was.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jan 7, 2013 20:52:05 GMT
Early arcade game - like a version of Space Invaders with extra twiddly bits. (The sort of thing I can see certain Robins installing Emulator software on the Batcomputer to play when Batman won't let him go on patrol).
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 7, 2013 21:21:22 GMT
I've asked him and he says he is playing 3D Deathchase on the Spectrum.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jan 7, 2013 21:24:39 GMT
A videogame even Batman would approve of him playing. (Not that he would ever manage to beat Batman's high-score mind you...)
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 8, 2013 18:53:00 GMT
I'm liking the Batcave more and more as I play about with it. It's definitely a grower and Bane's tank and the Batcycle are brill. Currently, several series 8/9 minifigs are attacking it. They are Bane's army!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 8, 2013 21:16:59 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 8, 2013 21:20:50 GMT
phil may need train
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