10246 Detective Agency

Bumblepants

Looking forward to picking this up tomorrow. Might even get motivated enough to organize the Lego/craft room enough to be able to build it as well.

CircleK

NickF22 said:

"Do you apply your stickers" becomes "do you remove your protective film" :)

I didn't start removing my protective film until I was happily married.

Pitfall69

^That is funny :)

oldtodd33

Just to be clear, I have removed my protective film before, I have 3 kids.

graphite

^ Time to reapply it then?

oldtodd33

I was told no more otherwise I would be having something else removed.

luckyruss

This is turning into the sort of thing Ace Brickman might be hired to investigate!

SumoLego

FYI, the Lego Retail Stores in Victor, NY and in South Carolina both had them available for purchase. (Got my two...)

oldtodd33

^ You sure seem to get around.

sweetness34

I saw them out in San Diego but decided to wait until the 1st so I can get the flower cart

Rainstorm26

Does anyone know if this set comes with the box and sausage?

AdeelZubair

The Brick Show's review:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHp7C1zcOx0

pharmjod

True story: A lady once came in to the pharmacy where I worked. She had a blood pressure machine she had purchased for home use. She told me something was wrong with it as it gave the same reading no matter who used it, 120/70. She was sure it was defective. I asked to see the monitor and without a word removed the demo film from the face that had a sample of what the screen looked like.

People are amazing sometimes.

Pitfall69

^I am not surprised. Oh my...

If there is a sausage in the box, you can wrap it in the protective film ;)

CircleK

I had a dumb ass protective film moment once. A few months after we bought our fridge, I noticed the buttons on the ice / water dispenser were starting to bubble up. I immediately went into my usual "gd foreign made pos" routine that my poor wife has to endure on a weekly basis.

I later noticed the "bubbling" was actually from a piece of the protective film that didn't get removed from the control panel and I felt like a tool. In my defense - our fridge is a gd foreign made pos.

dougts

Am I the only one disappointed by the continuous shrinking in size of the modulars over the past few years? Yes, we are getting a lot more detailing, particularly in the interior, but it's certainly coming at the expense of the sense of size and scale

BuriedinBricks

@dougts I was thinking the same thing when looking at pictures of people putting the DO in with their layouts. I appreciate the extra details, but I like having a little more bulk to my buildings.

I rarely design interiors for modulars I MOC, mainly because it's an added expense for something that's barely seen by anyone. I guess they need to offer some play details though, since at least some of these do end up in the hands of children. :)

ecmo47

It's 5:28 AM EST on 1 Jan and the Lego website still has DO as "coming soon". I wonder when the system will be updated so that it can be ordered.

piratemania7

ecmo47 said:

It's 5:28 AM EST on 1 Jan and the Lego website still has DO as "coming soon". I wonder when the system will be updated so that it can be ordered.

Just tried at 7:19 EST USA North America and its still showing that status. At least all the other new releases also show that. Hopefully someone "wakes up" soon and updates the system. :wink:

mrw

still 'coming soon' here in sweden at 2.50pm on Jan 1st. Got bored and ordered Palace Cinema instead. Now drowning sorrows in pub - if it not available by tomorrow AM will just get Pet Shop instead!

ecmo47

Now says "out of stock, will ship in 30 days" as do most of the new releases. Anybody get one or is this just another Lego technical problem?

piratemania7

I got the same message but I was able to finally place the order for DO. We will see when it ships...

bethemonkey

hi all new member here

Same thing with the tumbler... should be fine.

mathew

dougts said:

Am I the only one disappointed by the continuous shrinking in size of the modulars over the past few years? Yes, we are getting a lot more detailing, particularly in the interior, but it's certainly coming at the expense of the sense of size and scale

I suspect the detailing is to make the building process more diverse and enjoyable. I remember seeing the Parisian Restaurant on display and it just didn't wow me. It looked kind of "dinky" for the price. Whereas the slightly less detailed but larger Cinema did impress me enough to purchase it instead.

I'm kind of with you that I prefer a larger building with more room inside that I can add my own details. The Detective's Office modular is so small inside that there really isn't much room to play if you were a child. And details like the bathroom and kitchen don't really make sense when there isn't even a bedroom. Now a bedroom would have made for an interesting angle when it comes to classic noir storytelling. The detective and the scarlet could share a cookie in bed afterwards ;0

piratemania7

I'm not entirely following the diminishing build for greater detail issue. I thought the modulars were purposely designed from the beginning to be geared towards a bit of an older crowd? Sorry but I don't see my 7 year old nephew playing with the PR or any other modular and thoroughly enjoying it.

And what I mean by that is I assume the older crowd enjoys the build and display more than anything and that's what we have been receiving all along, and only increasing in awesomeness to this day.

This isn't CHIMA after all. :wink:

kooz

My 4 year old loves playing with my PR and is very careful not to break anything. He loves the details. But that said, yeah, it's geared toward adults.

MorkMan

Out of stock online. Same with Birds, going to the local store now! Don't want to miss these.

dougts

piratemania7 said:

I'm not entirely following the diminishing build for greater detail issue. I thought the modulars were purposely designed from the beginning to be geared towards a bit of an older crowd? Sorry but I don't see my 7 year old nephew playing with the PR or any other modular and thoroughly enjoying it.

And what I mean by that is I assume the older crowd enjoys the build and display more than anything and that's what we have been receiving all along, and only increasing in awesomeness to this day.

This isn't CHIMA after all. :wink:

the main issue with the tradeoff is because the older crowd is probably more geared towards building then displaying, all the interior details don't get seen or appreciated much at all. from a "shelf display" standpoint, the builds are smaller and less impressive. It's great that there is all this interior detail, but it is seldom seen or appreciated past the initial build. But the smaller size and scale is noticed every time someone looks at it on the shelf

lieslgee

It says out of stock for the DO and the Lincoln Memorial, but the order processed normally. Can they really be out of stock on these? On the first day?

Ladder19JTK

All are available from S@H as of now......

EddieDoesntMind

Adzbadboy said:

piratemania7 said:

NickF22 said:

"Do you apply your stickers" becomes "do you remove your protective film" :)

Becomes, "do you open your box?"

Heck if your not going open the box why bother purchasing it :D

For some reason, that had me thinking if there was another sub-group of LEGO collectors who open the box, but don't open the bags. XD

Bumblepants

Got mine today at the Dallas store along with a few other small things to snag all the promo polys. So which one of you was the guy leaving with an entire trolley full of Lego that needed 3 employees just to ring it up and bag it? I want to be your friend.

AdeelZubair

Bumblepants said:

Got mine today at the Dallas store along with a few other small things to snag all the promo polys. So which one of you was the guy leaving with an entire trolley full of Lego that needed 3 employees just to ring it up and bag it? I want to be your friend.

One day...one day...

Jern92

Got mine at the Dallas store too! And no, that wasn't me. I only got the DO.

madforLEGO

lieslgee said:

It says out of stock for the DO and the Lincoln Memorial, but the order processed normally. Can they really be out of stock on these? On the first day?

Because LEGO has too many lines running which means they cannot make the large number of stocks for releases. Then there is a promo going on, so there are those that are buying things multiple times to get the promo poly to turn around and sell for 15 dollars on eBay. Then they are new sets, so there are those that love to buy stuff when it just comes out. If it is an 'exclusive' in the US, you only have these chances when there is a poly or double points to get a 'deal' from LEGO.

Dougout

Does anyone think it is worth it to add a small friends set to get the mini golf set?

Chubbles

Made this my first modular, something about it just stood out to me. Maybe it's that there's a story to go along with it but I just really like the look of it.

Bumblepants

Dougout said:

Does anyone think it is worth it to add a small friends set to get the mini golf set?

It looked good enough in the store for me to grab the new Pizza Shop in order to get it.

Briking

Got mine at Shepherds Bush today. Cute in it's own way, but like the PR, it looks kind of dinky... And the interior detailing will not be looked at again.

Dougout

^Yea, I might grab the Pet Ambulance to get it. It's hard to pass up a free set, even if it is Friends.

Poisso3

Since my closest LEGO Store was closed today I will be picking this up tomorrow.

brickupdate

@Dougout I didn't even know about the friends promo! Wow - LEGO has like 3 or 4 promos going on right now (if you include the coupon from the calendar) I ordered earlier, so won't be able to get the Friends promo.

david325

mathew said:

dougts said:

Am I the only one disappointed by the continuous shrinking in size of the modulars over the past few years? Yes, we are getting a lot more detailing, particularly in the interior, but it's certainly coming at the expense of the sense of size and scale

I suspect the detailing is to make the building process more diverse and enjoyable...And details like the bathroom and kitchen don't really make sense when there isn't even a bedroom...

I'm assuming you don't, or never have, worked in an office, where we require food preparation areas and toilet facilities but usually venture home to sleep... :)

Dougout

^^Oh darn, I got the other freebies, but forgot about the calendar coupon.

oldtodd33

All done!

mathew

david325 said:

mathew said:

dougts said:

Am I the only one disappointed by the continuous shrinking in size of the modulars over the past few years? Yes, we are getting a lot more detailing, particularly in the interior, but it's certainly coming at the expense of the sense of size and scale

I suspect the detailing is to make the building process more diverse and enjoyable...And details like the bathroom and kitchen don't really make sense when there isn't even a bedroom...

I'm assuming you don't, or never have, worked in an office, where we require food preparation areas and toilet facilities but usually venture home to sleep... :)

Well I assumed that the upper floors of the blue building were supposed to be apartments. I guess the femme fatale is homeless and sleeps in the alley.

epyon396

Built this guy earlier before all of the new DC sets, and just finished the Slave I.
My brain and fingers are tired.

I'm officially out of room for modulars. Next January is going to be interesting.

dougts

^ I used up my last slot on the PR. Not sure what I'm going to do when I build the DO

oldtodd33

^ I have 1 corner slot left and I figure the next building is going to be a corner. After that I would have to do a lot of rearranging.

Pitfall69

I have a ton of room at the shop to display, but I need to build more Modulars. I just ordered the DO today, but going to find the time to build is the problems.