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[quote name='xycury']maybe I'm reading too much, are you saying that the Space sets wil be cheap? You've got a price list?

I'm all over Space... Need some pictures though.[/quote]

No not the new 2009 Space sets, those will most likely be insanely overpriced like all of the other 2009 sets. I'm talking about the now extremely cheap Factory Space sets. I just wish the Space Skellie set was a lot better, those black legs have a lot of useless pieces.

And I have seen Pirates and such at TRU B&M.
 
[quote name='180husher']Just make a new girlfriend out of Legos, but leave the mouth off.[/quote]

Hell yeah. Better use some lego mindstorms so you can teach that roboho to cook. PS: your xbl avatar almost looks like dr venture.
 
FYI - I spotted new City, Creator, and Pirates(!) sets in store at TRU today. They all qualify for the Buy-One-Get-One-50%-off sale. The Pirates sets were some of my favorites growing up, so I am especially excited about those.
 
I may have to buy the Blackbeard's ship. I loved the Pirates line as a kid. Next thing you know I will be buying the castle at Walmart since I still remember the yellow castle I had as a kid.

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Just got back and picked up:

Blackbeard's Bounty - 6243 ($100)
Construction Site - 7633 ($90->$45)
Loot Island - 6241 ($20)
Concrete Mixer - 7990 ($17->$9)
Off Road Fire Rescue - 7942 ($11)
Kraken Attack - 6240 ($10->$5)
Police Car - 7236 ($7)
Cannon Battle - 6239 ($6->$3)

Blackbeard's Bounty is listed as $85 on the website so I wonder if they price match if I print that out and take it in...
 
[quote name='FadeToOne']Blackbeard's Bounty is listed as $85 on the website so I wonder if they price match if I print that out and take it in...[/QUOTE]

That's a great haul! I have asked about video game prices being different online and in store, and there is no single price guarantee. I doubt they will adjust the price - I also doubt we'll see that ship in stock on tru.com this week.
 
You have28 minutes to still have free shipping AND $10 off $100 or more.

I ordered...
(I gave in...)
Star Justice
Garage
Two Curve Tracks
Two Green plates
$3 Doc set and $10 in PaB including street lamps and 3 skellies.

All for $97 shipped.
 
From Kmart and their B2g1 free...

Castle Tower raid
Castle Carriage
Creator Jet

all three for 50.

Kmart didn't have enough sets to justify anything else... I really wanted 3 20's but decided to get the towers since I got got the castle last week

so only 50, i got one set for 1/3 off, one full price and one 50% off.... not too bad.
 
Yep and the Garage is back to normal price.

And they didn't take the $10 off my order in the email. Now I have to call them. I don't think they know what they are doing. The site still says "Extended Free Shipping" and if you click on that it says the offer expires Dec. 1st. Umm.... hello... that's yesterday.
 
PIRATES ARE FOR SALE AT LEGO S@H!

:)

Also Farm is being added, but nothing is in the folder.

Construction site and dump truck are online.

A couple Creator sets are online to.

They always add new things right after free shipping sends, always. Can't wait for them to add Farm so I can see the piece count.
 
[quote name='bigdaddy']The site still says "Extended Free Shipping" and if you click on that it says the offer expires Dec. 1st. Umm.... hello... that's yesterday.[/quote]

Doesn't sound extended to me :lol:
 
I almost walked out of Toys R Us with a couple of sets from Pirates, City and Agents but I fought the impulse again. I need to stop reading this thread. It helps that my dining room table is covered right now since I have a remodel going on otherwise I am sure I would be building a set right now only to wonder why I spent the money when I was done. I am sure my cats would love to help me build also.

I really need to just grab my old Legos from my parents and see if I even have any type of knack building my own things. I haven't messed around with Legos in so long that I don't really remember how much I used to build my own things versus just following plans and then playing with those.
 
Well, my girlfriend went to TRU with me to check out the pirate sets and we walked out about $350 farther into debt. Here's what she got, best I can remember (she has all the legos and the receipt, since she bought most of them):
Brickbeards Bounty - $100
Troll Warship - $80/2 = $40
Dwarves Mine - $60
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3245132Soldiers Fort - $50/2 = $25
Shipwreck Hideout - $40
Lego Batman Batcycle w/Harly Quinn - $35/2 = $17.50

One of these is priced wrong I'm pretty sure; one of the pirate sets was lower in the store, and I think it was Brickbeard. Might have been priced to $80.

I myself bought:
Indiana Jones River Chase - $25
Skeletons Prison Carraige - $22/2 = $11
Luke Skywalker Maquette - $10!

I've wanted the maquette for the longest time, but the lowest I ever saw it was $20. I found a lone box sitting near the larger sets at the front of the store, and almost didn't try priceing it - glad I did!

I may go back for Indy Temple Escape and another $70-$80 item.
 
I was at Target yesterday nd didn't see nything on sale. However thta is an awesome price for that set, I want the woman nd the sharks.
 
Anyone else get either of the advent calenders?

I'm underwhelmed so far with the city one. The first three days were:

1) A City Minfig with a Turkey leg
2) A like 20 piece oven
3) ~6 piece table w/ frying pan and goblet
 
[quote name='lordwow']Anyone else get either of the advent calenders?

I'm underwhelmed so far with the city one. The first three days were:

1) A City Minfig with a Turkey leg
2) A like 20 piece oven
3) ~6 piece table w/ frying pan and goblet
[/quote]

the city advent is supposed to be pretty shitty but the other one has 20+ minifigs and most of them are original.
 
Yeah I knew the Advent Calendar was terrible in February from the Toy Fair Pictures. :lol:

A good hint is the fact that it is $30 for only 180 pieces when 3 years ago the advent calendar had the same pieces for $15.

The Castle one, which wasn't sold widely in the USA, had 10 minifigures and was a lot better. Rumour is we will see those special minifigures in sets next year.

I am using last years, I buy them on Amazon after Christmas for at least 50% off.
 
[quote name='bigdaddy']I went and scanned one yesterday, not on sale in store.[/quote]

bummer, glad for the confirmation!

I just found out... shaking boxes, that one of them is definately a lego set under the tree. :bouncy:
 
[quote name='xycury']
I just found out... shaking boxes, that one of them is definately a lego set under the tree. :bouncy:[/quote]


Maybe it was a wine glass and because you shock it the thing broke? :)
 
[quote name='bigdaddy']Maybe it was a wine glass and because you shock it the thing broke? :)[/quote]

haha, I shaked the box in front of her... that would be the cheapest plastic sounding glass I ever had.


I'm really depressed that I didn't pick up the Castle Advert Calendar set... those minifigs are the bomb... :bomb:
 
[quote name='lordwow']Anyone else get either of the advent calenders?

I'm underwhelmed so far with the city one. The first three days were:

1) A City Minfig with a Turkey leg
2) A like 20 piece oven
3) ~6 piece table w/ frying pan and goblet
[/quote]

I've got the City one on the way from Amazon (a little late this year). Mainly just want it for wintery type stuff to go with my Green Grocer set that I am tricking out for Christmas. I want the Castle one too, but I haven't found it anywhere but eBay and for $50 from some third party vendor on Amazon. That seems unreasonable, despite how nifty it is.

Also, does anyone know where you can get the Santa minifig they show on the LEGO site? I see he was a keychain, but it's sold out.
 
I have three Santas, I thought I had like 5, they used to be included in City Advent Calendars until last years set I think. For some reason (lawsuits from Muslims and Jews most likely) there are no more Santas in a Christmas calendar.

And the Castle Advent was only sold in the USA for one day several weeks ago if you called up LEGO S@H and ordered one for $30 plus $7 shipping and plus tax. It was lame and outrageous on LEGOs part. Just like the fact that Europe gets a Good Wizard Impulse set when the USA doesn't.
 
It was already posted, but that's OK. The 2009 Racers are online now at S@H.

That leads me to my next point (rant). LEGO in Mayish 2007 switched over to some third party shipping company to save money. The company was so bad the LEGO store in the Natick Mall ran out of LEGOs for about a month (the manager had to go to another store to pick up sets). They have only gotten worse. I used to get my orders no more than three days total (even around Xmas), now it takes a week for something just to ship! I ordered one thing a few years ago at 9pm and got it the next day at noon. I live 20 minutes away from the LEGO area in Enfield CT. So they used to get it all ready and shipped within a few hours, now it's days and days. The little annoying things are terrible, they overcharged me $10, which they fixed with a phone call. They finally changed the "Extended Free Shipping" to the 8th, and the only Farm set is backordered until until the 5th, which was yesterday. The Star Justice is back in stock online, same with the Garage set, however in my order they are backordered and will ship within 30 days. So people ordering now get them before I did when I ordered over a week ago.

So "in order to save money" they got rid of a major thing that made the company great, the service, the LEGO service people are awesome and will help if they can, but they can't. The shipping company is so dreadfully bad it's unbelievable, and from the phonecalls I have made sense the switchover (which would be three calls in six orders in a 12-18 months, verses zero phone calls in over a dozen orders over many years before the switch) it seems the LEGO people in Enfeild are annoyed too. They get all the calls about everything that's messed up, but they don't know anything because the shipping company doesn't tell them anything.

LEGO should have just kept comtrol over it's shipping and warehouses, really stupid move on their part.
 
[quote name='bigdaddy']It was already posted, but that's OK. The 2009 Racers are online now at S@H.

That leads me to my next point (rant). LEGO in Mayish 2007 switched over to some third party shipping company to save money. The company was so bad the LEGO store in the Natick Mall ran out of LEGOs for about a month (the manager had to go to another store to pick up sets). They have only gotten worse. I used to get my orders no more than three days total (even around Xmas), now it takes a week for something just to ship! I ordered one thing a few years ago at 9pm and got it the next day at noon. I live 20 minutes away from the LEGO area in Enfield CT. So they used to get it all ready and shipped within a few hours, now it's days and days. The little annoying things are terrible, they overcharged me $10, which they fixed with a phone call. They finally changed the "Extended Free Shipping" to the 8th, and the only Farm set is backordered until until the 5th, which was yesterday. The Star Justice is back in stock online, same with the Garage set, however in my order they are backordered and will ship within 30 days. So people ordering now get them before I did when I ordered over a week ago.

So "in order to save money" they got rid of a major thing that made the company great, the service, the LEGO service people are awesome and will help if they can, but they can't. The shipping company is so dreadfully bad it's unbelievable, and from the phonecalls I have made sense the switchover (which would be three calls in six orders in a 12-18 months, verses zero phone calls in over a dozen orders over many years before the switch) it seems the LEGO people in Enfeild are annoyed too. They get all the calls about everything that's messed up, but they don't know anything because the shipping company doesn't tell them anything.

LEGO should have just kept comtrol over it's shipping and warehouses, really stupid move on their part.[/quote]

I've only ordered 4 or 5 times, in the past year and had everything to me in about a week.

I had one set that was backordered till Jan (Castle skeleton battle pak) but it shipped with my order and again, got it within a week.

So far, haven't had any issues. Does Lego service different areas differently?
 
[quote name='bigdaddy']
And the Castle Advent was only sold in the USA for one day several weeks ago if you called up LEGO S@H and ordered one for $30 plus $7 shipping and plus tax. It was lame and outrageous on LEGOs part. Just like the fact that Europe gets a Good Wizard Impulse set when the USA doesn't.[/QUOTE]

I'd actually like to defend LEGO on this one - they had no plans to release the Advent Calendar in the US. However, they got lots of emails from fans and had a small run sold here as a result. I bought one for me and one for my brother.

I thought that was pretty neat, even if I don't understand why the Castle Advent Calendar wasn't released in the States.
 
But even that was a disaster. LEGO forgot to tell their customer service people about the Castle Advent sale, so they were haphazardly given out to some people who called and not others.
 
Yes, the communication is really screwed up.

And all real LEGO sets should be released in all areas, not doing so is just terrible.
 
[quote name='bigdaddy']I have three Santas, I thought I had like 5, they used to be included in City Advent Calendars until last years set I think. For some reason (lawsuits from Muslims and Jews most likely) there are no more Santas in a Christmas calendar.[/quote]

By sheer coincidence, I got out the Christmas stuff today, and what did I find sitting right on top? The Santa magnet set I bought last year and completely forgot about. So Santa is in the house (on top of it, actually).

And the Castle Advent was only sold in the USA for one day several weeks ago if you called up LEGO S@H and ordered one for $30 plus $7 shipping and plus tax. It was lame and outrageous on LEGOs part. Just like the fact that Europe gets a Good Wizard Impulse set when the USA doesn't.
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How were we supposed to find out about this? I appreciate that they at least made it available in the U.S., but not when so many were left out of the loop.

I (well, my wife) had a weird shipping experience with LEGO last summer. She ordered the Green Grocer set direct for my birthday. As of a couple of days before my birthday, it still hadn't arrived. She called and they apologized profusely and offered to overnight another set, which arrived in time.
 
[quote name='Tybee']
How were we supposed to find out about this? I appreciate that they at least made it available in the U.S., but not when so many were left out of the loop.
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Unfortunately, I've taken to checking a few sites daily for LEGO news, otherwise it's easy to miss out:

http://www.brickset.com
Brickset is what I use to track my collection, it also has pretty good news, though it's based in Europe (England I believe), so they're a little slow on news for here.

http://www.brothers-brick.com
I'm not entirely sure, but I think this is an American blog. They are the most up to date blog, and they were one of two sites that worked on the petition and ended up with the "exclusive deal" for the Castle advent (the other site was classic-castle.com, which focuses just on Castle sets)

http://www.eurobricks.com
Eurobricks is another European site, it's got some interest creations and such, but I mainly read it for the message board, it's definitely the most active forum for LEGO that I've seen.

At least bookmark those (or better yet, add them to you rss feeds if you use them).

Another good site is http://www.e-klocki.com which focuses on Adult Fans of LEGO (AFOL), but is updated less frequently and focuses on the crazy creations people make.

I (well, my wife) had a weird shipping experience with LEGO last summer. She ordered the Green Grocer set direct for my birthday. As of a couple of days before my birthday, it still hadn't arrived. She called and they apologized profusely and offered to overnight another set, which arrived in time.
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I'm curious... did you ever get the 2nd one? :lol:
 
[quote name='lordwow']I'm curious... did you ever get the 2nd one? :lol:[/quote]

lol...Alas, no. I think they found out where it was along the route and recalled it.

Hoping for the motorized AT-AT or one of the other two city block sets for Christmas.
 
I asked for a couple of ~$50 sets, I'm hoping to get one. I asked for the Coast Guard Platform, Coast Guard Boat/Tower, Fire station, or the Police Tactical Truck or whatever it's called. We'll see what I end up with, but I'd rather have some other things this Xmas.
 
Wow... didn't even see the ~, I really need new glasses. :lol:

The big Pirate ship is kind of on sale at TRU, it's $85. I think they think that is the normal price, but that's TRU for you.
 
Yeah, I'm going to take my receipt to TRU and bitch about that, since it was $100 when I bought it last week.
 
Oh, and Target's Ad lists a sale for Lego City/Indy/etc. but I don't know how much of a deal it is. They listed the Coast Guard Helicopter as $30 which is $10 off, so maybe the Coast Guard Platform got similar treatment.
 
I did not get a Target ad, that would explain why they had so many IJ sets last week.

I looked up the sale online, the other City and Agent sets are 10% off, EXCEPT the exclusive. So the Coast Guard Platform isn't on sale.
 
I don't remember seeing this linked here; I'm pretty sure I would have remembered it:
Castle Town Square
Hope this isn't super old news to anyone, but THIS is the set I MUST have. All others have been stuff I felt pretty interested in. But this. I must have.
 
[quote name='GrilledWitOnions']I don't remember seeing this linked here; I'm pretty sure I would have remembered it:
Castle Town Square
Hope this isn't super old news to anyone, but THIS is the set I MUST have. All others have been stuff I felt pretty interested in. But this. I must have.[/quote]

wow that set is awesome.
 
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