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clone wars has really helped me keep my lego spending in check, since i only buy OT sets for the most part.

my sons went through a brief clone wars phase but now say they don't like the show .. and they hate the cartoony minifigs.

B&N has a random coupon out by email

10---50% off

Pretty lame because you won't know till checkout

My coupon is 501721

Originally Posted by xycury B&N has a random coupon out by email 10---50% off Pretty lame because you won't know till checkout My coupon is 501721

Your # is different from mine. I got 101341

Well the clearance section at my local Target is gone and so are the Troll Fortresses I was hoping to see at 75% off. Bummer, should have bit at $50.

You've probably already seen this, but I got this from brickset.

Once again I've braved the near-freezing temperatures and a 2.5hr train journey to bring you LEGO news from the London Toy Fair. Today was the last day of the three day event, which was held at London Olympia. The LEGO stand was just about the biggest in the show and unlike neary all others there it was shrouded in secrecy, completely closed in, entry was by invitation only, and photography prohibited. I'm not really sure why because at the Nuremberg Speilwarenmesse in a couple of weeks it'll be more open and I suspect some photos will emerge. So, in the meantime, you'll have to make do with my descriptions. I'll go through each theme that's being released in the second half of the year that's of interest to us here. Harbour will be the City theme. There will be something like 5 sets including a harbour featuring a grain loading terminal and cargo ship, a marina, a fishing boat, a speedboat and powerboat on a truck. All are said to float. The Creator sets are excellent: there's another house with white walls and red roof, a yellow sports car much like previous Creator cars and best of all a Lighthouse which really was excellent, and very different from anything made before. Technic was slightly disappointing with only two new sets on show: a flatbed car recovery truck (think car clamping and subsequent removal) which had a very neat Power Functions mechanism and a 'bucket truck': a small American-style vehicle with a raising platform on the back. There are two others slated for release but they were not in evidence at the show. There's more Ninjago to come including some very cool looking dragons and other monsters for the Ninja to ride on. Alien Conquest looked aboslutely superb. It features aliens and humans and abduction/autopsy seems to be the main theme. The aliens, of which I counted something like 4 variants, have lime green heads and look great. The humans have legs/torsoes made with a new shade of blue. One set featured an archetypal circular UFO with light underneath and a very clever mechanism to abduct any humans it swoops down on. I could tell Mark Stafford had designed some of these: his trademark style was evident all over :-) There are four new Kingdoms sets on the way of which two feature 'ordinary medieval village life', albeit with some marauding knights pillaging the place. The big news is that they feature new minifig-scale animals: chickens (in white and brown) and goats. The Disney licenced room was shrounded in more secrecy than the rest of the stand and I will respect LEGO's request for confidentiality. Suffice to say that the Cars sets looked great. I was surprised as to how many are being released: something like 15 different sets. They won't appeal to everyone given there are no minifigs in them but they did look quite cute and they feature some neat parts in new colours. Pirates of the Caribbean sets were also in there, of course, and the lady on the stand was somewhat surprised to hear that pictures had already been leaked online. The minifigs looked excellent and the 7 or so sets will feature something like 30 different figs. Jack Sparrow appears in them all and in every one he is different meaning that if you're a minifig collector you will need to buy every set... There will be three new Harry Potter sets which will include something like 12-15 minifigs of which I estimate half of them to be new. Two new SpongeBob sets (yawn...) No less that nine Star Wars sets featuring a whole raft of new minfigs 'to die for' including a new Darth Maul, Savage Opress (wasn't he great in the latest episode of Clone Wars!) and Sebulba and Watto which are much improved on their previous incarnation. The Millennium Falcom looked pretty much like the older minifig versions: it still looked a bit rubbish, IMO. However the pod racers (Sebulba and Anakin's) were much improved on the old set. As you may have noticed in the databse there's going to be a Star Wars advent calendar. I'm not going to spoil any surprises and tell you what's in it, but needless to say it was excellent. No new Atlantis or Pharaoh's Quest, and loads of more of the same HERO Factory. They'll be up to version 3.0 in the summer...

Looking forward to the Star Wars advent calendar.

Originally Posted by bigdaddybruce44 Looking forward to the Star Wars advent calendar.

Gotta get this for my son, I'll get my daughter one with candy (she did about 10 days worth last time and then lost interest).

Damn Toy Story Train is still $39.98 at Target...I get the feeling this set went straight to 50% off and now is waiting to go Out Of The System.

Got my site to store notification for my Slave 1 today. Yay! I love being able to order something on the internet to get it cheaper in store and then being able to determine when I'll get it (so I can better hide the purchase from my girlfriend...).

Originally Posted by xycury geez that sucks, maybe I grabbed the last one? I checked out at 6pm, used up some rewards and got it for 29 shipped

looks like they shipped it

Time to return my otherone to TRU

Originally Posted by ackbar7 Your # is different from mine. I got 101341

Going out on a limb here, but the first two digits might be your percentage off. You had 10, xycury had 50. Just a guess.

Originally Posted by xycury looks like they shipped it Time to return my otherone to TRU

And I noticed it's completely gone off the site. They pyramid was $29.99 too, and it's now completely off the site. I wish I could have picked both of those up for that price!!!

Originally Posted by IOIHUMMERIOI Going out on a limb here, but the first two digits might be your percentage off. You had 10, xycury had 50. Just a guess.

That's what I'm guessing to but I'll find out on Sunday

Originally Posted by xycury That's what I'm guessing to but I'll find out on Sunday

Folks on dvdtalk have deciphered and in-store coupon is multi-use. for non-members 501691 is 50% off coupon.

See link below and scroll down to get images to print out.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/dvd-bargain...-part-2-a.html

The online coupon doesn't work with lego sets.

A lot of you might know of or have heard of Amazon Warehouse Deals from here or other places but they have Lego's too. I usually check but don't see anything worth posting about but I found a few.

Lego City Advent Calander $32 x3 read the descriptions before you buy.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...condition=used

Slave I $58.99 read description,

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...condition=used

Clone Turbo Tank $85.99 read description,

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...condition=used

Lego City Command Center $41.99 read description,

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...condition=used
Lego Creator Shuttle, $95.99 read description, not much of a deal but I know a lot of you don't have a Lego Store near you.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...condition=used

They have lots of other sets but I pretty much posted what I think are deals, in a lot of the descriptions it says the item may come repackaged which is why I emphasized to "read the description". For those you that have ordered from AWD know that the description can be accurate or completely false. Luckily Amazon has great CS and you can send it back if it's missing pieces.

Originally Posted by skiizim A lot of you might know of or have heard of Amazon Warehouse Deals from here or other places but they have Lego's too. I usually check but don't see anything worth posting about but I found a few. Lego City Advent Calander $32 x3 read the descriptions before you buy. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...condition=used Slave I $58.99 read description, http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...condition=used Clone Turbo Tank $85.99 read description, http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...condition=used Lego City Command Center $41.99 read description, http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...condition=used Lego Creator Shuttle, $95.99 read description, not much of a deal but I know a lot of you don't have a Lego Store near you. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listi...condition=used They have lots of other sets but I pretty much posted what I think are deals, in a lot of the descriptions it says the item may come repackaged which is why I emphasized to "read the description". For those you that have ordered from AWD know that the description can be accurate or completely false. Luckily Amazon has great CS and you can send it back if it's missing pieces.

I actually just noticed this a couple of days ago. I ended up ordering the King's Battle Chariot from a couple of years ago for 18.99. Seemed like an OK deal, and I liked the set.

slave I is only 62 new on amazon right now; clone turbo tank is 86 and change. just fyi.

Yeah, I don't see any deals from the warehouse. It looks like most sets are used and only a couple bucks cheaper. Not really worth it.

I got Luke's Landspeeder today. Couldn't find it at any other stores I've been to so I just got it at regular price. Heard bad thing about the speeder falling apart, but I guess the minifigs make up for it.

I also got my 20% TRU coupon and I got the Mandalorian set. They still had some Snowmen on a sidecap, so I bought half a dozen for spare parts.

I just ordered the turbo tank from Amazon. I had a $20 gift card so for $66 I pulled the trigger.