The "brag" thread: Post your recent great finds!

WesterBricks

^ I’ve built as much as I can today. The Fire Brigade was exactly as I deduced, missing the top floor, minifigures, and some other parts. Somehow I had two gold fire helmets in my collection.

The train was more complete than I expected, so I was able to fill in most of the missing parts, including wheels, buffers, and electrics. My wallet will feel it when I order the color-correct battery box.

MattDawson

S21 stranded island guy (with the crab) - normally £3.50 in Tesco, down to 90p

WesterBricks

Picked up #7191 for $75 tonight. Missing a handful of parts and there are no stickers anywhere on it, but the plaque sticker is still on the sheet. 🤷🏻‍♂️

WesterBricks

^ Correction: missing over $150 worth of parts, oof. Several parts from the wings are obscenely expensive, as is the windscreen.

Quick and dirty reassembly:

gelkster

Not a find/brag per se (has that ever stopped me here before? 😉😜) but my Lego connection gifted me a small belated birthday lot.

#2129
#6020
#6537
#8207
2 spare minifigs 

Astrobricks

^ That’s an interesting wind-up motor. I didn’t know those existed.

gelkster

Astrobricks said:

^ That’s an interesting wind-up motor. I didn’t know those existed.

It's "Technic"ally pull-back but not a self contained module; it works using a Technic reel & a large loop of elastic string. According to BL there is another similar Dragster set in yellow, a pair of choppers, & 1 more Competition set (5 sets total contain the loop).

The 2 dragsters are subcateogrized as Race sets. This one moved about 10 ft so there's still a little "oomph" in the elastic. 😄👍🏻

missourimike

I have the yellow dragster but sadly, the elastic is as old and tired as I am. 

gelkster

missourimike said:

I have the yellow dragster but sadly, the elastic is as old and tired as I am. 

I have it too, maybe I'll build & race em today 

Hey @missourimike if you're into Technic & ever want to trade sets LMK! MO to MN isnt too far for sets to travel via USPS.

WatfordScottyM

#4002019 for £99!!!  We shall see when it arrives in the post...

todler

WatfordScottyM said:

#4002019 for £99!!!  We shall see when it arrives in the post...

Was that the one in Bristol. Was watching it but then suddenly sold

WatfordScottyM

todler said:

WatfordScottyM said:

#4002019 for £99!!!  We shall see when it arrives in the post...

Was that the one in Bristol. Was watching it but then suddenly sold

No, from Birmingham.

WatfordScottyM

As expected, that was too good to be true.  I've just had a message from 'The Brick Store' on eBay telling me that the set I bought is out of stock.

They have offered me a £1 discount on anything else from their eBay store and asked me to give them a 4+ star review.  My recommendation, DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM THE BRICK STORE on eBay!

Astrobricks

Irrational Lego exuberance :( 
It’s not a brag until it’s in your hands.

CCC

WatfordScottyM said:

They have offered me a £1 discount on anything else from their eBay store and asked me to give them a 4+ star review.  My recommendation, DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM THE BRICK STORE on eBay!

So they offer £1 discounts in exchange for good feedback after not fulfilling an order? I think I'd be leaving feedback, but not what they ask for.

WatfordScottyM

CCC said:

WatfordScottyM said:

They have offered me a £1 discount on anything else from their eBay store and asked me to give them a 4+ star review.  My recommendation, DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM THE BRICK STORE on eBay!

So they offer £1 discounts in exchange for good feedback after not fulfilling an order? I think I'd be leaving feedback, but not what they ask for.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to provide feedback on an order where the reason given is 'Buyer requested to cancel the order'.  That's what they said when they cancelled it!!!!  

flightrisk

@WatfordScottyM - That happened to me once a little while back.  I called eBay and asked if they were allowed to cancel my order like they did and explained the situation as I saw it.   The rep said no and ended up giving me a 75% discount on the same exact set from a different seller.  Then he went after the original seller.    

The only hassle was the wait for a customer service rep to answer the phone.  Hope this helps. 

jonboy2000

They mark it as "buyer requested to cancel" or "problem with buyers address" so that it doesn't effect their seller rating for cancelling the order. As for the £1 discount for feedback, that sounds like the are trying to "buy" or increase their feedback score.

PDelahanty

WatfordScottyM said:

CCC said:

WatfordScottyM said:

They have offered me a £1 discount on anything else from their eBay store and asked me to give them a 4+ star review.  My recommendation, DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM THE BRICK STORE on eBay!

So they offer £1 discounts in exchange for good feedback after not fulfilling an order? I think I'd be leaving feedback, but not what they ask for.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to provide feedback on an order where the reason given is 'Buyer requested to cancel the order'.  That's what they said when they cancelled it!!!!  

Sounds like fraud.  Contact eBay.  Offer to send screenshots of any messages they sent you proving THEY cancelled it.

WatfordScottyM

I've had an exchange with eBay now and they've said they take this very seriously.  They can't tell me what they will do to the seller.  They offered me no compensation either.  Oh well, live and learn.

Bobflip

Not necessarily fraud, but definitely trying to cheat the feedback system. The reason they should have selected is "out of stock". Putting it on "buyer requested" is used to avoid a defect being added to their account for the stock error. After a few you lose some of the business seller account perks.

FollowsClosely

Not a steal, but two sets I love to have duplicates of.

Switchfoot55

Great find! I've always thought #10193 would make a great addition to my Winter Village layout. I keep the hope alive that I'll find one eventually!

sipuss

I'd love to get my hands on the villager minifigs, at the very least. It's not easy getting figs for medieval layouts that aren't knights or royalty... or at least, not cheap.

Toc13

Not really a find but a donation to help raise funds for a primary school.
I started going through this last night, trying to identify sets, etc. Seems to be '97-'02

Spotted so far:

Tie vs Y-Wing, X-Wing, Falcon, Mos Espa Podrace, Snape's Class, Alien Avenger?, Wolfpack Outpost, Qui-Gon/Maul duel, Gungan Patrol, Football pitch (& a bunch of players), something Paradisa 

Enough Battle Droids for a MTT/Battle Droid Carrier

Classic Space, Pirates, Castle

That's just the immediately obvious

I may outsource the sorting, cleaning, & building to a nephew & pay him in Battle Droids

Astrobricks

I see a green Eeeewwwwww! plate in the upper right 🤢

PDelahanty

Astrobricks said:

I see a green Eeeewwwwww! plate in the upper right 🤢

Looks like a lot of those pieces need a good bath.

If only there was the equivalent of a dishwasher for Lego.  (Yes, I've heard of people putting Lego in the dishwasher.  DO NOT DO THAT!)

Toc13

Yep, there's a bit of dusting & cleaning needed.
Have since manage to identify some more small SW sets, some flying ninja, Alpha Team, HP....
The minifigs have been a little bit mixed up, so I've been putting the right heads, torsos, legs, & hands back together

WesterBricks

Toc13 said:

The minifigs have been a little bit mixed up, so I've been putting the right heads, torsos, legs, & hands back together

I understand why kids do this, but I hate it. …Says the guy who buys individual minifig parts to make custom minifigures for his own MOCs.

FollowsClosely

Switchfoot55 said:

Great find! I've always thought #10193 would make a great addition to my Winter Village layout. I keep the hope alive that I'll find one eventually!

I paid 400 for the two; more than I wanted to, but yeah.

WesterBricks

Monday afternoon I found a Classic Space lot on eBay. 13 pounds for $80 shipped. Today (Wednesday) it arrived. Twelve baseplates and a ton of classic goodness.

Of course I had to start with the OG spaceship. It’s missing a couple of small parts, and there’s a fair bit of yellowing and playwear, but it’s so nostalgic.

PDelahanty

All that for $80?!  WOW!

oldtodd33

^^ That's awesome.

FollowsClosely

Only 19 easily replaced parts where missing or broken. Onto the MMV.

MaffyD

@WesterBricks - that antenna has all it's prongs! That's a bloomin' miracle!

WesterBricks

^ There were two antennae in the lot, one is whole and one is only missing one spoke. The forklift for #487 is also intact.

560Heliport

I bought a bag of loose LEGO at an antique mall, gallon-size bag for $12. About a dozen non-LEGO bits, random toy pieces- not even clone-brand bricks. Nothing special... except the one piece that grabbed my attention:

560Heliport

Yes, the Trans Neon Green quarter-dome that only came in #6989 Mega Core Magnetizer! I have the set, but I couldn't let this piece get away. It's about as scratched as mine, though mine has an arc of scratches from the steering mechanism.
I have driven that M-Tron awesomeness around the living room more, perhaps, than an adult ought to. (I was 21 when M-Tron came out in 1990.)
On Bricklink, that piece averages more than $30 used.
Another bag had one of the huge space wheels from #6989. 

WesterBricks

^ My only negative feedback on BrickLink was when I sold that set 15 years ago. I missed a hinge tile when bagging it up, he wrote that in the negative feedback, and never retracted it. That was also after paying the wrong amount to the wrong email address. He’s not even a member anymore but it still counts against me.

WesterBricks

Story time!

Last Saturday I woke up at 7:20am, because I’m old and unable to sleep in. I checked eBay because I’m addicted, and saw a listing simply titled “broken down star destroyer” for $100 with $10 shipping. One photo with a bunch of gray parts, ok whatever, but I checked the instruction book and realized it is #75252 the newish UCS Star Destroyer.

I mashed Buy Now as hard as I could. He asked if I wanted the original box too, I said great, if you can manage it.

He printed the label and sent the tracking number, Media Mail which was a little concerning for a 20 pound Lego set. I waited and waited and it never got past “Accepted at the post office” so I got worried that it was being held for more postage.

But this morning, it updated to Out For Delivery, arrived on my porch with a thud while I was making lunch, and I carefully unpacked it.

It will take some time to organize the parts and find out if anything is missing, and then of course I will need to build it. I hope the plaque and minifigures are here, and they’re just buried. Some dust, but it’s not discolored. He said he enjoyed having it, but needed to make room for other things.

There are several instruction books for other SW sets, but no evidence the bricks are here.

WesterBricks

After a very quick sorting, I have more questions than answers. No plaque or minifigures, the seller confirmed he couldn’t find them hence the cheaper price.

But, so far I have found:
- Pokemon cards
- a pack of gum
- a Zippo lighter
- AirPods Pro
- a sword of Exact-0
- a license plate from the big Porsche 911

Switchfoot55

Sorry about the missing bits. Hopefully the rest of it's there. Maybe you can get some money back reselling the gum?

pxchris

You can probably sell the AirPods for close to the $100 you paid for the lot.

WesterBricks

I asked the seller if he needed the AirPods back, and he said “ Nah they were fake 😂 U can have them“

Still calling the overall transaction a brag, just an odd one.

lowlead

^ Cool Zippo!

560Heliport

I hope you didn't lose any blood in finding the Sword of Exact Zero!

WesterBricks

^ Thankfully no, I was treading pretty lightly while sorting. I’ve come across lots of interesting things in used collections, but today set several records.

Astrobricks

No cat poops 👍

WesterBricks

And here is the UCS ISD. All told, it’s missing the plaque, minifigures, the dome on the underside, one engine, the micro blockade runner, and a couple of small parts that I didn’t have in the right colors. I supplemented about 50 parts from my collection. It included the instructions and box. A fantastic deal for $120 and a few days of free time.

Astrobricks

Now, time to add a room on to the house for it :)