What's your LEGO 'status' today?

eMJeeNL

Feeling a bit worried about the deal I did on a #10197, via this forum and the guy’s BL-shop (located in France). He last send me an update on the 6th, asking if the shipping address was correct, which i acknowledged. No word since then. Also, i did get rated as a buyer on BL, and the status of my order is stuck on ‘Packed’. 

Hope i’m not being scammed. Anyone else on here did buy the Pet Shop he offered? This was his offer: https://forum.brickset.com/discussion/29859/fs-fire-brigade-and-pet-shop#latest


Otherwise, as it was a deal via BL, i have his name and address, so would be weird to use that as an means of scamming?

glad i used Paypal/MasterCard, as i provides some protection might it turn out to be neccessary.

Switchfoot55

Thanks @stlux!

Recce

Just recreated Emmet's Triple Decker Couch Mech from the official photo. :-)

PJ76uk

SprinkleOtter said:

PJ76uk said:

Playtime with my 6yo son as we attempt to answer the question: "who is the best billionaire, Bruce or Tony?"!

Uhhh... Batman. Duh...

Gravelly voice: "Iron Man sucks!"

It all comes down to Batman being the better superhero but all the cool toys he has cannot compete with the Iron-Man armour! Had high hopes when I saw the trailer for BvS and the Bat-armour suit but the reality was a letdown. Of course when the bat-mobile is brought into the equation it becomes "...Tony who?"

KLOKRIECHER

Found a place for Ninjago city in my new city layout:

stlux

Happy Valentine's Day!

Russell844

Happy birthday to me!

HugeYellowBrick

Status is annoyed and frustrated - there's a #10232 Palace Cinema for sale on Facebook marketplace, still sealed, £120, but i don't have the money for it just now.

datsunrobbie

Impatiently waiting for the shop to get finished with my truck so I can go pick up my TLM2 Brickheadz at Target. It was so cold here that the tires started leaking air, shop says they have to re-mount the tires to fix the seal.

SumoLego

--Which Target?--
I'd be happy to keep them warm until you arrive...

nexander

When a bricklink seller claims to list defects on used parts and has a general 'may be some nicks' clause sends a part that looks like it's been given to a rabid toddler.

Polyphemus

So last night I found out Sydney is finally get a LEGO store (of sorts), and this morning these turned up. And a catalogue! Sorry boss, not getting much work done this morning...

VorpalRyu

^ A Lego Certified Store, so no VIP points & no guarantees that they'll have the same stock as [email protected] or get the GWP promos... Upside, Alceon apparently wants to set up LCS's in all major cities across Australia & NZ, downside, they won't be actual Lego Stores...

Polyphemus

VorpalRyu said:

^ A Lego Certified Store

Yeah, better than nothing I suppose! The Alceon thing sounds interesting, I hadn't heard about that.

Jern92

Russell844 said:

Happy birthday to me!

Happy birthday @Russell844 ! Hope you received lots of Lego presents!

Odeinoichus

Having too much fun anticipating the new Jurassic World based sets just revealed. So many fun looking builds.

datsunrobbie

SumoLego said:

--Which Target?--
I'd be happy to keep them warm until you arrive...

Thanks! I made it down there last night, thankfully the giant stickers peeled right off the boxes. 

SumoLego

'Thumbs up' on the Led Zeppelin and Origami reading materials.

josekalel

Once again, I'm out of a semi self-imposed 'dark season' (dark times is too long haha)...

What better way to come back from the dark season than with the arrival of the LM2 Minifigures box from Minifigures Plus...and some polybags, which I enjoyed building but didn't make it a must-have.

PJ76uk

My Sainsburys had a fresh box of TLM2 collectable minifigures out this morning so was able to pick up the last one I needed, Watermelon Guy, to complete my set. Also picked out a spare Giraffe Suit minifigure for a future MOC...

sid3windr

Not a lot of building going on in the last few days, but last weekend I did finally move my city tables a bit to fit 2 more in. Plenty of room for a good few modulars that have stayed unbuilt for now!

And more importantly, going to the avant-première of TLM2 later today! \o/

gratefulnat

Checking out pictures of new sets from the New York toy fair on Zusammengebaut.com

Plus he has a nice review (in german) of the Flintstones Ideas set with some great pictures.

As well, over on eurobricks some nice box shots of the Ford Mustang, looks pretty sweet.

redarmy

datsunrobbie said:

SumoLego said:

--Which Target?--
I'd be happy to keep them warm until you arrive...

Thanks! I made it down there last night, thankfully the giant stickers peeled right off the boxes. 

Not fair..I'm having a huff!

MegtheCat

Unexpectedly received two identical boxes from [email protected] yesterday & wondered if they had split my order for some reason (though it only had one tracking number). When I finally got around to opening them in the evening I found my order complete in the first box - yes, sewer babies!

In the second box was my Lego FORMA kit, complete with a regular packing slip. So, for anyone in the U.S.who's waiting for something from Indiegogo, be on the lookout for a package sent from Romeoville, IL.

Also received my set of TLM2 CMF's from @MinifiguresPlus so it was a Lego-rich day all around.

snowhitie

Whatever happens today, I'm doing some building. Haven't done any all week since finishing the tower bridge last Monday night and my hands are itching.

It's now on the Internet so it must happen.

Shib

eMJeeNL said:

Feeling a bit worried about the deal I did on a #10197, via this forum and the guy’s BL-shop (located in France). He last send me an update on the 6th, asking if the shipping address was correct, which i acknowledged. No word since then. Also, i did get rated as a buyer on BL, and the status of my order is stuck on ‘Packed’. 

Hope i’m not being scammed. Anyone else on here did buy the Pet Shop he offered? This was his offer: https://forum.brickset.com/discussion/29859/fs-fire-brigade-and-pet-shop#latest


Otherwise, as it was a deal via BL, i have his name and address, so would be weird to use that as an means of scamming?

glad i used Paypal/MasterCard, as i provides some protection might it turn out to be neccessary.

@eMJeeNL - did you get this resolved? I see they've put up a new marketplace thread. 

eMJeeNL

Should arrive tomorrow - Will update eod.

Redbullgivesuwind

Wondering why I decided that I wanted to organise my lego collection by parts, and lazily never oragnised any of the sets that I took apart and added to my sorting pile. Instead of organising them by sets if I wanted something I could just grab the set and rebuild it. Rather the root through a load of parts.

SumoLego

snowhitie said:

It's now on the Internet so it must happen. 

I found three boxes of polys that aren't in my inventory... er... collection database.  And I managed to lose and find... and subsequently misplace a bag of CMFs three times in two days.  

But, all but one of my trade packages are out, so I'm still ahead!

datsunrobbie

Received the Forma set and built it Saturday. Nice display piece, hope that Lego will decide to make a production run and some more skins for it. I'd like to try to make a school of fish running from a single motor...

snowhitie

snowhitie said:

Whatever happens today, I'm doing some building. Haven't done any all week since finishing the tower bridge last Monday night and my hands are itching.

It's now on the Internet so it must happen.

It happened. Ergo everything on the internet is true.

Fun set, and feels pretty true to the source material. My son was waiting with a glint in his eyes so he could play with it as soon as I finished. Always a good sign...

truck730

Booked a holiday so no more purchases,even though the lego I've bought is deals i see as presents for others, the stuff I buy myself is funded by floor change (money i find on the ground) which really was the 10Euro sets

stlux

If you want to order anything from Chris McVeigh's store, you have only until early morning Feb 25 to do so: he's moving to Denmark to join Jamie Berard's Creator Expert/Architecture team.

snowhitie

^ Ooh that's nice to hear. His designs are really great.

FowlerBricks

My status: apocalyptic

Speedman29

stlux said:

If you want to order anything from Chris McVeigh's store, you have only until early morning Feb 25 to do so: he's moving to Denmark to join Jamie Berard's Creator Expert/Architecture team.

I read that yesterday on his Instagram, be interested to see what he brings to the company. Fingers crossed for a new theme of bricksketches in Creator

SumoLego

(I'm sure they'll start him on Hot Dog Stands/Cart, Lighthouses and Helicopters.)

Aanchir

SumoLego said:

(I'm sure they'll start him on Hot Dog Stands/Cart, Lighthouses and Helicopters.)

A LEGO Architecture lighthouse or LEGO Creator Expert helicopter would certainly be an interesting change of pace…

klinton

Yay! The rest of my Sewer Babies arrived! They're now a full on gang! :D

piratemania7

When your child gets into your LEGO and the phone...

SumoLego

Huh.  I usually find 100 or so selfies and pictures of the sky.

snowhitie

Got up to date with sorting my spare pieces today.

terfsten

Never imagined how much I would enjoy the new ninjago spinners. Never had the previous ones but now I am collecting all of this years. They work just like old fashioned tops but with attachable add ons that look really cool. The translucent colors and the add ons look really cool when you spin them. Most fun I've had with my Lego in a little while :)

maniac

I saw a load of Series 16 and 17 minifigs (£1.50 ea) at a WHSmith Branch in early Jan. Was tempted but didn't bother.

Went past today and they were still there. So I bought all they had left of these two series'. (26 in total)

stlux

Ars Technica had a short article about the recent New York Toy Fair. Nothing new, however they have this lovely picture of a life-sized Ultrakatty:

Aanchir

terfsten said:

Never imagined how much I would enjoy the new ninjago spinners. Never had the previous ones but now I am collecting all of this years. They work just like old fashioned tops but with attachable add ons that look really cool. The translucent colors and the add ons look really cool when you spin them. Most fun I've had with my Lego in a little while :)

Agreed, they're great! I had a lot of fun with the older types but I think these are definitely the best yet!

• They're the first spinner sets to have the kind of tornado-like appearance that Spinjitzu's always been described or depicted with in the story.
• They each use just one specialized spinner element, rather than five even more specialized spinner/launcher elements or a pre-assembled element with a weight ring and ejecting minifig housing.
• Because of the above, the amount and variety of buildable contents and accessories included at a $10/$20 price is much more generous than previous types of spinner sets.
• The design of the attack/defense/speed mode attachments really encourages customization and experimentation, since it's very easy to come up with new ones that look just as cool and powerful.
  
• Even the tornado piece seems really versatile — besides being usable as literal whirlwinds (whether natural or magical), many of the colors could also make great thrusters/exhaust on a sci-fi vehicle.
• The buildable gadget that appears in sets like #30534, #70667, #70670, and #70680 offers a much more controlled way to play with the spinners in a role play/storytelling scenario than any previous spinner sets offered — again, without requiring expensive or highly specialized new parts.
  
• And of course, this is the first time a single wave has included spinners for all of the theme's 8 most prominent Spinjitzu users: the six ninja, Wu, and Garmadon.

So far @Lyichir and I only have the Lloyd vs. Garmadon Battle Set and Nya and Wu Training Set, but we hope to pick up the rest of the current wave when we either see a good sale or can add them on to other, bigger purchases.

Rumor has it that the next wave of sets will have more spinner sets with some kind of launcher mechanism. Excited to learn more about that!

Basty

eMJeeNL said:

Feeling a bit worried about the deal I did on a #10197, via this forum and the guy’s BL-shop (located in France). He last send me an update on the 6th, asking if the shipping address was correct, which i acknowledged. No word since then. Also, i did get rated as a buyer on BL, and the status of my order is stuck on ‘Packed’. 

Hope i’m not being scammed. Anyone else on here did buy the Pet Shop he offered? This was his offer: https://forum.brickset.com/discussion/29859/fs-fire-brigade-and-pet-shop#latest


Otherwise, as it was a deal via BL, i have his name and address, so would be weird to use that as an means of scamming?

glad i used Paypal/MasterCard, as i provides some protection might it turn out to be neccessary.

I bought the Pet Shop, it was suppose to ship Monday but hasn’t as far as I’m aware. The guy isn’t great at messaging and doesn’t really say much apart from excuses. I believe we have both been scammed so avoid this seller at all cost. Will most likely be filing a charge back with my credit card. 

msanders

Basty said:

eMJeeNL said:

Feeling a bit worried about the deal I did on a #10197, via this forum and the guy’s BL-shop (located in France). He last send me an update on the 6th, asking if the shipping address was correct, which i acknowledged. No word since then. Also, i did get rated as a buyer on BL, and the status of my order is stuck on ‘Packed’. 

Hope i’m not being scammed. Anyone else on here did buy the Pet Shop he offered? This was his offer: https://forum.brickset.com/discussion/29859/fs-fire-brigade-and-pet-shop#latest


Otherwise, as it was a deal via BL, i have his name and address, so would be weird to use that as an means of scamming?

glad i used Paypal/MasterCard, as i provides some protection might it turn out to be neccessary.

I bought the Pet Shop, it was suppose to ship Monday but hasn’t as far as I’m aware. The guy isn’t great at messaging and doesn’t really say much apart from excuses. I believe we have both been scammed so avoid this seller at all cost. Will most likely be filing a charge back with my credit card. 

I really hope you guys get the sets or your money back. I feel that something should be done to protect people on here - the person joined the forum at the beginning of Feb likely with the intention to sell/scam someone straight away. May be the admins can prevent people from selling within the first X number of months after joining? Certainly, I`m always cautious when seeing new members selling stuff on the forum, especially retired and expensive sets. 

Have you contacted Huw about this as well? 

Good luck with it all.