76042 UCS Helicarrier

Chewybricks

Wow, that custom carrier with 6700pieces is incredible. Want to buy that carrier instead, lol.

Chewybricks

Agreed about power functions. The lights just are not well done. Not really worth it imo

johnhenz

Ray1204 said:

This is very disappointing that the uk will get winter soldier polybag pre order and not the US also. After spending so much with this set it should have been included already in the set.

What's disappointing is how much more we pay for our lego than the US does. It's not like you lot haven't had an exclusive before, just let us have this one thing. You guys will get it later in the year anyway no big deal.

BrickDancer

Don't blame the US, we are at parity with the EU on this set ($349.99 USD/€349.99 Euros). In fact, the US is even more expensive now because our tax (VAT) is not yet included, which is between 7%-10% more on top of that USD number.

johnhenz

BrickDancer said:

Don't blame the US, we are at parity with the EU on this set ($349.99 USD/€349.99 Euros). In fact, the US is even more expensive now because our tax (VAT) is not yet included, which is between 7%-10% more on top of that USD number.

Good to know

CCC

It'll be interesting to see what happens if the euro drops further in value like it has been doing recently. If rrp are set in advance, then buying from Europe may be a good option for UK and possibly even US.

johnhenz

If you work it out we pay more than you, simple. It's £270 over here which is what? $415 or something surely even with tax it's not even close

BrickDancer

^Oh i do realize the UK is paying more than the US when converted. With my tax (9% for Los Angeles county), we will end up with a final cost of $381.49 USD. So you're still stuck with about an extra 9.5% premium versus the States.

What I was pointing out is that we (the US folks) are not receiving the nice global discount anymore and now close to same as everyone else in the EU. So that argument is now out the window in general when it comes to our dislike for Lego's high pricing. It only offers a small bit of consolation to our friends in UK, Canada and Australia.

@CCC i'm quite worried about the health of the Euro in total, there's a good chance we might see 1:1 on it soon (<3 years) with the dollar. We've begun adding currency stipulations into new contracts to be proactive in addressing this potential crisis, as half of our corporation (as well as customers) is based in Europe.

It's difficult to predict what TLG is going to do though, since so much of their revenue comes from the US. If they ratchet up the RRP on us much more, it may greatly impact their total sales volume here in whole.

binaryeye

johnhenz said:

If you work it out we pay more than you, simple. It's £270 over here which is what? $415 or something surely even with tax it's not even close

You pay more for LEGO but you pay less for other things because of the taxes you pay on the LEGO.

VAT in the UK is about 20%, correct? What is USD $350 with a 20% tax, converted to pounds? Oh, about £270.

Ma1234

BrickDancer said:

Don't blame the US, we are at parity with the EU on this set ($349.99 USD/€349.99 Euros). In fact, the US is even more expensive now because our tax (VAT) is not yet included, which is between 7%-10% more on top of that USD number.

Sales tax in the U.S. is between 0 and 10%.

LEGO is still cheaper in the States, but with the dollar being so strong and the Euro and Canadian dollar doing especially bad lately, it's becoming relatively much more expensive.

Funny to see if many who fail to understand basic economics continue to complain about pricing now.

BrickDancer

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EddieDoesntMind

Can anyone confirm what Captain America's hair color is?

Ray1204

Hair color is Carmel blonde

Ray1204

I'm half through the set. So far the set is easy to build and not as big as I thought it would be.

Adzbadboy

Finally an option for a Galactus minifigure! LEGO could include the Minifigure Trophy of the heroes in a set and have Galactus as a regular Minifigure. Similar to what they done with the Ant-man set.

EddieDoesntMind

Ok, so his hair is new. Great.

monkey

Chewybricks said:

Wow, that custom carrier with 6700pieces is incredible. Want to buy that carrier instead, lol.

Maybe they'll release the LDD file once it is rejected, and people would then be able to bricklink it instead of buying the official one. I'd definitely do ;)

Drmnez

Adzbadboy said:

Finally an option for a Galactus minifigure! LEGO could include the Minifigure Trophy of the heroes in a set and have Galactus as a regular Minifigure. Similar to what they done with the Ant-man set.

My only issue with that is the scale. Galactus is significantly larger than a micro fig. I'd be cool if he was a buildable fig

EddieDoesntMind

Drmnez said:

Adzbadboy said:

Finally an option for a Galactus minifigure! LEGO could include the Minifigure Trophy of the heroes in a set and have Galactus as a regular Minifigure. Similar to what they done with the Ant-man set.

My only issue with that is the scale. Galactus is significantly larger than a micro fig. I'd be cool if he was a buildable fig

I think he means Galactus would be a normal minifigure, and the regular sized people would be micro.

samiam391

^, ^^

Or just make your own.

graphite

EddieDoesntMind said:

Drmnez said:

Adzbadboy said:

Finally an option for a Galactus minifigure! LEGO could include the Minifigure Trophy of the heroes in a set and have Galactus as a regular Minifigure. Similar to what they done with the Ant-man set.

My only issue with that is the scale. Galactus is significantly larger than a micro fig. I'd be cool if he was a buildable fig

I think he means Galactus would be a normal minifigure, and the regular sized people would be micro.

I think he was saying that a minifig isn't "significantly" larger than a micro fig. So the proposed solution still wouldn't have been well scaled.

monkyby87

graphite said:

EddieDoesntMind said:

Drmnez said:

Adzbadboy said:

Finally an option for a Galactus minifigure! LEGO could include the Minifigure Trophy of the heroes in a set and have Galactus as a regular Minifigure. Similar to what they done with the Ant-man set.

My only issue with that is the scale. Galactus is significantly larger than a micro fig. I'd be cool if he was a buildable fig

I think he means Galactus would be a normal minifigure, and the regular sized people would be micro.

I think he was saying that a minifig isn't "significantly" larger than a micro fig. So the proposed solution still wouldn't have been well scaled.

Yeah, I think this is what he's saying. The scale is still wrong, unless they came out with some new mid-size scale that wasn't a big fig. Even then, though. That custom one though is fantastic; I don't know how Lego could do any better.

Adzbadboy

Yeah, Galactus would be a minifigure and the heroes would be minifigure trophys like seen in the Helicarrier.

I think LEGO would just release Galactus as a buildable figure like Groot or Hulkbuster, but what I said first it's a better choice in my opinion!

matticus_bricks

Um isn't Galactus significantly bigger than Earth? He eats planets. I don't think any appropriate scale would really be achievable in LEGO.

monkyby87

matticus_bricks said:

Um isn't Galactus significantly bigger than Earth? He eats planets. I don't think any appropriate scale would really be achievable in LEGO.

He's been of various different sizes throughout the comics, so it really depends on the source material. His appearance in the Lego Marvel game isn't ridiculously big, while some comic versions do have him as big as planets. I'm guessing they would go with their game version as inspiration if one ever happened, though it won't lol.

bobabricks

UCS Galactus would be interesting...

matticus_bricks

bobabricks said:

UCS Galactus would be interesting...

Well, they used to do big UCS models of characters, like Yoda and R2D2. So it's really not impossible, just highly unlikely. 

VorpalRyu

Hmmm, I might have to hit LDD later & see about designing a Galactus constraction figure to go with my Helicarrier....uhhh....yet another Lego Ideas project, like I don't have enough concepts to finish already!

VorpalRyu

Has anyone else bought more than one Helicarrier from LEGO.com? I was curious if it would let me add one to my cart....which it did, now contemplating clicking through to buy. Or have TLG lifted the purchase limit?

Pitfall69

http://www.bricksetforum.com/discussion/18534/76042-ucs-helicarrier#latest

VorpalRyu

I've ordered one already from [email protected] (complete with Bucky), but for some reason while on the site this morning I tried adding one to my cart, I expected it not to work with the purchase limit that was there when I ordered it the first time. I won't lie, heard it might end up like the UCS MF value wise, so I've been toying with the idea of getting a second as an investment for a rainy day...

LegoTT

Why not just try and see? They can't take the one you already ordered back. The worst that could happen is that they cancel your order. I've heard horror stories of people losing their VIP Points, but I find it hard to believe that they'd do that for trying to order two Helicarriers alone. Just a hunch.

VorpalRyu

Thanks for that LegoTT, my wife just read your post & now I've been told if I don't try it, she'll high-jack the comp later & do for me... :smile: 

1265

^^
Sounds like the perfect wife.  When talking Lego of course.

Ray1204

I know we have a winter soldier but a Bucky minfig would be awesome...

VorpalRyu

When I said Bucky, I was referring to the Winter Soldier, but a Bucky Barnes mini-fig would also make for an awesome extra.

I would like to see a few sets with the heroes & villains alter-egos, at the very least, the ones in the video game such as Bruce Banner, Peter Parker, Thaddeus Ross, etc...

CCC

Even if there is a purchase limit, it is done per order. So if you try again, it will work. Then if you order too many of a popular set early on, they will flag you as a reseller and possibly ban you.

CCC

PS I'm sure it will rise, no chance of being the next ucs MF though, and not for a long time.

VorpalRyu

Was only considering an extra one, keep it as a rainy day investment, if I do, wouldn't be looking to sell unless we vitally need cash...

cheshirecat

^^ Yep, surprised no one else pointed out that there's no way this ends up a similar value to #10179. close to half the piece count, not anything like as iconic, and about a million times as many resellers keeping them MISB.

VorpalRyu

Not as iconic?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicarrier

Nuff said...

CCC

VorpalRyu said:

Not as iconic?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicarrier

Nuff said...

The lego one doesn't look much like the one in the wikipedia article you linked to. Whereas the MF is the MF, they haven't changed the design. If you show any picture of the MF to just about anyone, then they'll know what it is. This, I'm not so sure. So, I'd agree it is less iconic.

Geddes

Try comparing the helicarrier set to this 

Geddes

The set imho is based on the video game helicarrier

Pitfall69

Walk up to anyone on the street and most of them would not know what the Helicarrier is; in fact, I didn't even know what it was until I saw the Avengers. I'm 43 years old.

VorpalRyu

For Gen-Xer's like myself, yeah, the MF is pretty iconic, I was born in '76... Amongst Gen-Y's, many have never seen a SW movie & wouldn't know what it is without prompting, even then at least half would guess its the Serenity... Around school kids my son's age mention SW, you might get two or three kids who know anything, but mention superheroes & some even come out with stuff I have to Google...

The scene in Avenger with the Helicarrier lift off, that took me back to my childhood more than all of Ep-I (Ep-II & III were awesome), I finally saw Nick Fury's Helicarrier, that insane feat of engineering, finally realised on a movie screen...

SuperTramp

Pitfall69 said:

Walk up to anyone on the street and most of them would not know what the Helicarrier is; in fact, I didn't even know what it was until I saw the Avengers. I'm 43 years old.

This

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA

Isn't the LEGO Helicarrier based of the 2012 The Avengers film version?

  As far as iconic goes - Falcon hands down - 38 Years to burn itself into our psyches! Personally, the most interesting thing about that Wiki link is the fact that the Helicarrier (albeit not in its current form)  is actually twelve years OLDER than the Falcon (first appearance '65)...

CCC

MAGNINOMINISUMBRA said:

Isn't the LEGO Helicarrier based of the 2012 The Avengers film version?

 

That is the problem - there are different versions of the same thing. So how can it be iconic, when it changes so much. Whereas the MF, whether in the movies, books, cartoons, etc is always depicted in the same way.

VorpalRyu

My wife was born in '88, while she had never seen a SW movie before we got together, back then she was more of a DC fan & she was almost hyperventilating at the announcement that the Helicarrier was going to be in Avengers... Yet she couldn't readily identify the Falcon. Heck, mention the 'Falcon' to most of the 5-7 year olds that my son hangs around, they say either they like Sam Wilson or who their favourite superhero is...