most lego sets bought in one go

HaleAFOL

What has been your biggest lego haul in one go? 

CCC

480 sets in one order, if you count CMF. Otherwise, I think for other sets 142 in one order.

ryjay

I think around 75 once from a Walmart that was dumping sets at almost 50-75% off.  I had four shopping baskets full.   At the time my two boys, who were around 13, didn't think I was serious when I started filling baskets...I just said get more carts.

Vindic8ed

Wow...I think the most I've gotten at once is probably 40-50...

SirKevbags

Placed one recently for 150+ including 13 Ferris Wheels and I'm dreading the delivery. 

pvancil27

probably around 30 when I bought most the the last 18 months worth of Star Wars sets from Amazon when they were all 20% off or more.

AdeelZubair

16 Collectable Minifigures or 4-7 normal sets.

davee123

Biggest haul I ever had was in the ballpark of 150 sets... because they were between 75%-100% off (yes, someone actually had one that rang up for $0.00), at the LEGO Tent Sale back in 2004.  I bought about 120 for myself, and roughly 30-ish for prizes.

This isn't my car pictured, but to give you an idea what the sale was like:



More images:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=98600
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=101980

DaveE

SirKevbags

^ Reminds me of @drdavewatford and his car at STEAM 2012 or 2013, possibly both ;-) 

namzep

Picked up a lot of 40+ sets off of eBay recently.  Some decent older Star Wars stuff (Tie Fighter Collection, older Sandcrawler, etc) and various other stuff (Exoforce, castle, etc).

Fauch

are you guys normal? :o

ZooMotorPool

My biggest LEGO hoard is just 4 sets. All of them Mindstorms, during a LEGO event in Singapore.

Fauch said:

are you guys normal? :o

I would guess that it is mostly American (US) thing.

Back during the days when he was studying in Eugene, Oregon, my friend hoarded a lot of car parts during sale events, because when an American store discount things, they are outrageously and honestly cheap. So I can understand. Another thing we managed to hoard is video games, just come to USA and you'll understand everybody's propensity to shop in compulsive manner.

Norlego

I bought around 100 sets from the 80s from an elderly couple not so long ago. There was everything from 12V trains to Town, Castle, Pirates and a few Classic Space sets. Everything was stored in separete bags/boxes, which was quite handy when building the sets.... Becasue I was kind enough to buy the Lego, I was given loads of other 70/80s toys for free, like g1 transformers, Britains farm tractors and Dinky cars. It was a struggle to fit everything in the car... It days like that, that I think about getting a larger car...

TheBigLegoski

Wow! And I thought I went a little overboard last Thursday at Lego [email protected] when I bought eight discounted sets, which I already got delivered yesterday, among which an Exo-suit!
B.t.w. the exo-suit set kicks ass! So happy I managed to pick up a second one for only €24,99 which is €10 cheaper.

This was not my biggest and most expensive order ever though, but that never amounted to anything near the amount of sets, and probably also the amount of money involved in those purchases as posted above here by some other members.

TheLoneTensor

SirKevbags said:

Placed one recently for 150+ including 13 Ferris Wheels and I'm dreading the delivery. 

Wha, 13 Ferris Wheels, how?

Pitfall69

SumoLego

Must have used the Mind Stone!  Or won the dance-off, bro!

And I'm not letting any of my minifigs ride any of those Ferris Wheels.  Very unlucky - don't like the negative mojo.

You'll probably end up with Winter Soldier faceprints on the boxes...

As an aside, mine was about $4k in retail, but I got it for much less.  I think that was 75 or so individual sets.  Lots of army-building Star Wars sets from a few years ago.

EvilTwin

You might find this difficult to believe, but once at the Lego store in Milton Keynes I bought four sets in one go!

dannyrww

WOW! The most I've gotten is 5. It Was Avenger's tower, two of the Elf sets and two CMFs. And this is around Christmas and my birthday when I have extra
money for that.

mrbigz8657

Two pet shops two palace cinemas 2 Parisian restaurant 1 detective building 4 jokerland and twenty carnage sets is my biggest haul so far 

pharmjod

@davee123 I have to ask, do you remember how much the Statue of Liberty was? I would have been in trouble at that tent sale! That was one of the few sets I actually passed on at RRP. Then I saw one with the custom base that completed the set and realized I had made a mistake :) Oh well.

davee123

@pharmjod - The Statue of Liberty was $50 (I remember explicitly because it was one of the few sets that was only 75% off instead of about maybe 80%-90% which seemed average for the sale).  I bought one intended to be a giveaway prize that's still in my basement (because I dare not open it or give it away, now that it's worth $1000-$2000 or so).  As I recall, they had a pallet of Statue of Liberty sets that still had a dozen or more at the end of the sale-- and one that was still chock-full of Minifigure sculptures.

DaveE

BrickDancer

^ :'(

davee123

Ahh, there we go-- there's a picture of the pallet of Statue of Liberty sets, off to the right:

Early in the sale:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Hazy/NELUG/TentSale/tent_02.jpg

A bit later in the sale:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/alfredjr/Millyard/TentSale/dscf1130.jpg

DaveE

CCC

Can you imagine a sale like that now.

SirKevbags

Or maybe just start the rumour of one on say Brickpicker ;-)

TarDomo

I bought about 15 SW sets (the new Sandcrawler, UCS Slave 1, the new UCS X-wing etc.) + a few baseplates.

SapmiSatan

In 2010 I bought the Death Star, Slave I and three smaller Clone Wars sets at Legoland Billund, and in New York in 2011 I filled the gaps in my Harry Potter, and Pirates of the Caribbean collections with sets like Diagon Alley, London Chase, Cannibal Escape, Quidditch Match, [Battle of] Hogwarts, and of course Ewok Attack, which neither collection would be complete without.

BACbrix

As soon as I am done with my time machine I can pick so sets up for you guys. Any requests? Also maybe change a few things so that a prenup was part of my first marriage.... 

Brickaholic

BACbrix said:

As soon as I am done with my time machine I can pick so sets up for you guys. Any requests? Also maybe change a few things so that a prenup was part of my first marriage.... 

Very kind, would you also mind going forward 3 - 4 years as well please while your on with it ?  :D

BrickDancer

^^And while you're at it, can you pick me up a Sports Almanac?

GothamConstructionCo

^^^ And could grab us Pepsi Perfect, while your at it?

SprinkleOtter

150 is the most anyone here has gotten at once? You all are lightweights :P The latest Bionicle lot I got had over 2-3 hundred sets in it.

I'm glad I wasn't in a car that day- there wouldn't have been room for all of it. As it was, I had to strap a big box to the back of my dad's truck.

BACbrix

Does Bionicle count? Lol 

SprinkleOtter

The topic says "lego", and Bioncile is made by LEGO. :P

paul_merton

800 sets if polybags count!