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Lets see. The box promises 91 pieces. Iron Man, if I’m generous & count his helmet as 2 and include the trans blue hands/feet prices, makes up 9. Mandarin has 5 of the pieces, well ok 6 if I include the Minifig pistol attached to the uh... wheeled thing. Which means 91-15=76 pieces that appear to be a waste of plastic when assembled in this manner. We shall see once I bust open the box. IM3 is one of the few MCU movies I skipped over, so maybe the uh car? Is accurate, but according to the reviews it isn’t. Ah well, a small set, you can only expect so much for one step above a poly bag!
Really, given the likely design parameters, WTF else would you come up with actually? And yeah I kinda did go back over my set collection list and look at sets around a hundred pieces, & well, uh yeah some are better than others, but there’s only so much you can do with the price point that dictates the number of pieces. This set is far from the worst one I own in that range. :D. Anything really very much better in the marvel line comes in at the 200 piece size & corresponding price point.
In fact, the entire 'Age of Ultron' sub-theme was pretty much the pinacle of Lego's Marvel offerings. There's not a set in the theme (well, outside of the absurd late offering of the D2C Hulkbuster) that wasn't spot on.
how was the staff today?
Beautiful collection! I’ve always liked the look of these sets and seeing them all together is quite impressive!
1. Fire Fighter
2. Gardener
3. Mountain Biker
4. Shower Guy
5. Monkey King
6. Fox Costume Girl
7. Dog Sitter
8. Galactic Bounty Hunter
9. Video Game Champ
10. Mummy Queen
11. Pizza Costume Guy
12. Jungle Explorer
13. Pizza Costume Guy
14. Jungle Explorer
15. Fright Knight
16. Programmer
17. Fright Knight
18. Programmer
19. Mummy Queen
20. Video Game Champ
1. Fire Fighter
2. Gardener
3. Mountain Biker
4. Shower Guy
5. Monkey King
6. Fox Costume Girl
7. Dog Sitter
8. Galactic Bounty Hunter
9. Video Game Champ
10. Mummy Queen
11. Galactic Bounty Hunter
12. Rugby Player
13. Bear Costume Guy
14. Rugby Player
15. Bear Costume Guy
16. Fright Knight
17. Programmer
18. Fright Knight
19. Programmer
20. Galactic Bounty Hunter
(More boxes with loose parts elsewhere in the room)
So now doing this:
About 10% done.
Main observation: I will need more trays.
No funky filling nozzles back then, just a length of black cord and your imagination. Them were the days!
60p?!? I could have bought 12 Creme Eggs for that!
Not sure if that is leading anywhere dark?
Do all of the packs have the same 4 digit code on the back (expected), or does it vary?
Like 26S9, 25S9 and 24S9 for example?
Got access to a single box (with some difficulty) that appeared "fresh" and yet doesn't have all the same codes. Later on or with plenty availability I wouldn't even question it, but given the difficulty finding any stock it seems weird.
My box, which was deffo sealed/untouched, appears to be a mixture of 22S9 and 23S9.
Normally the code will be uniform for a sealed box, but since TLG took over doing their own packaging we've had box content errors and now we've got mixed codes it seems. The inner (display) carton used to have a code that matched the code on all the packs.
Makes it harder to tell if a box is new on the shelf and untouched than before.
Sorting all my loose parts years ago was the key for me in building MOCs. I have found the Akro-Mills drawer system invaluable--I got mine at Amazon but they sell them in Europe also.
Tom Alphin’s label system really simplified things also...
https://brickarchitect.com/labels/
So now I can update my fig to be exactly as the set
It seems I also have the new Trans Dark Blue nexo shield coming as well!
Instead of Akro-Mills I went for Papi Max StackX Drawers, as I preferred how deep and stackable they are. Tom reviewed them here.
In unrelated news, After collecting Lego since December 2015, today I reached the 2000 owned sets "milestone":
I was cheap when I did mine and printed the labels on paper, cut them out, and used clear packing tape to adhere... seems to have worked fine and no problems 4 years later... the sticker versions of the labels do look nice though
Found all sorts of forgotten items and half-finished projects. And spent three hours leveling two tables. Ends up a non-level floor and two non-level tables makes for a cranky @SumoLego. Ironically, only needed ONE shim to make it work.
(Labor Day Weekend's task is to address 'long-term' storage, where some tradeable sets have surreptitiously seeped in. Five Voltron sets is too many... or maybe not enough?)
Anything will take longer than writing with a sharpie. However the printer doesn't take significantly longer. To use: switch on, type your text, print. And much better result.