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  • Speedman29Speedman29 Member Posts: 2,311
    Really like the R2D2 polybag, but I can't justify £60 of SW sets to get it, theres only one Rebels set I want at the moment.

    Decided I wasn't going to go for CMF S17.... then dropped in to Smyths on the way home and got four of them!
    josekalelKingAlanIClutchPower
  • JooTogJooTog Member Posts: 945
    Not too shabby a day.

    Grabbed #76059 Doc Ock's Tentacle Trap 48% off @ my local Target store (the last one).

    Then, at TRU, (finally) found CMF Series 17; grabbed 10 at random and got:
    - Professional Surfer
    - Circus Strong Man (x2)
    - Veterinarian
    - Roman Gladiator
    - Connoisseur
    - Battle Dwarf
    - Retro Spaceman
    - Yuppie
    - Highwayman

    I find the Highwayman pretty cool; I will try to get a few extras. Need more Connoisseur for the dog. Love the Retro Spaceman and the Veterinarian (bunny!). Feel like a few extra Roman Gladiator are in order for an "army". The Yuppie's cellphone 1x1 parts should be useful for MOCing and the minifigure for some Miami Vice vignettes ;-)
  • sid3windrsid3windr Member Posts: 1,460


    Loot from a day of shopping in Oberhausen. Lego-related only, I didn't include the Dunkin Donuts box, the Double Whopper, the Lindt chocolates, the pink bamboo coffee mug and the pink fluffy unicorn :D


    vizzitorbandit778josekalelstluxClutchPowerLegoboyKerreLEGO_Dad77
  • Johnyk668Johnyk668 Member Posts: 73
    Picked up some great Star Wars deals online at a major retailer here, #75148, #75149 and #65153 for 40% plus another $20 off so brought the discount up to about 51% off.
    Now to get on [email protected] to pick sets to be eligible for the R2 giveaway and free shipping.
  • Johnyk668Johnyk668 Member Posts: 73
    Oops meant #75153, that would be great if I had got the 2002 Slave 1
  • legomentallegomental Member Posts: 370
    Completely bankrupt...... No deals for months meant I really couldn't justify any purchases on a tight budget since Christmas. And then April brings 3x vip points plus TRU offers and discounts resulting in 1 parisian restaurant,  1 assembly square and 2 brick banks.  

    Best month ever, can't stop smiling and am itching to get building tomorrow 
    piratemania7
  • KingAlanIKingAlanI Member Posts: 2,342

    Speedman29 said:

    Really like the R2D2 polybag, but I can't justify £60 of SW sets to get it, theres only one Rebels set I want at the moment.


    Even as a LEGO and SW fan I haven't gotten too far into LEGO SW since the end of my dark ages so I might have the same problem. This month I had a similar problem in picking out $20 of Friends for the tic tac toe set.

  • josekaleljosekalel Member Posts: 683

    sid3windr said:



    Loot from a day of shopping in Oberhausen. Lego-related only, I didn't include the Dunkin Donuts box, the Double Whopper, the Lindt chocolates, the pink bamboo coffee mug and the pink fluffy unicorn :D




    Great haul! 

    By the way, as a non-European, but as a Mexican-American...Dunkin Donuts and a Double Whopper? I'm sure there are better food options...are there??
    LEGO_Dad77
  • sid3windrsid3windr Member Posts: 1,460
    There definitely are, but neither are available in my country, so when I step over certain borders, BK is a definite go-to. The dunkin donuts were for my daughter who looooves donuts :)
    stluxdavetheoxygenmanLEGO_Dad77
  • catwranglercatwrangler Member Posts: 1,894
    Found Benny's Spaceship on Ebay for £49 - missing Bad Cop, Unikitty and Benny, but I'd guess they shouldn't be too hard to pick up elsewhere/I can live without if need be. I just really wanted to get this before it got priced out of my reach altogether, because I'm definitely never going to have one of those big Classic Space ships!
    Speedman29khmellymel
  • josekaleljosekalel Member Posts: 683
    @sid3windr I'm not a big fan of Dunkin or Krispy Kreme donuts, since there is a place called Shipley Donuts in the US that has (IMO) better donuts, especially when they're right out of the fryer and they're warm. As for burgers...my favorite franchise overall (price, quality, service) is Whataburger...but I prefer Mexican grilled burgers. 

    I just realized us Americans are spoiled with junk food.
    LEGO_Dad77
  • LobotLobot Member Posts: 1,029

    My UCS Snowspeeder has just arrived safely.  It feels surprisingly heavy, I'm looking forward to building it this weekend :-)
    MrGudzMegtheCatDeeC2_Joshbandit778Johnyk668ClutchPower
  • piratemania7piratemania7 Member Posts: 2,146

    sid3windr said:

    There definitely are, but neither are available in my country, so when I step over certain borders, BK is a definite go-to. The dunkin donuts were for my daughter who looooves donuts :)


    I wonder how the Dunkin Dounts there compares to the U.S.?
  • eggsheneggshen Member Posts: 600
    I was checking out the May the 4th sales on [email protected], I had a number of items in my cart that I was eventually going to buy. I noticed that one item was missing (there had been 3, but now 2). Clicked on the cart and noticed that #853687 Ninjago Accessory Set was missing. It now had a status of "Call for Availability". 

    So I called them, luckily they had a few left. I picked one up, and also the other items that had been in my cart (#853676 Nexo Knights Accessory Set and #853677 Stone Monsters Accessory Set) in fear that those would sell out.

    I was pretty surprised it was already selling out, the other accessory sets are generally on there for at least a year.

    I have a pretty strict LEGO budget, I hadn't planned on getting these until the end of June, so I had to bump them to the top and push my budget by a week.
  • All_That_RocksAll_That_Rocks Member Posts: 646
    Just picked up 50+ cmf's to add to my collection ( Have a lot of gaps:) ). One or two of them have the wrong head annoyingly but overall am very happy with them.

  • ateagueateague Member Posts: 171
    Received my 75144 Snowspeeder and 70909 Batcave today. Really impressed with the 30611 free R2D2 build. 
  • sid3windrsid3windr Member Posts: 1,460
    edited May 2017
    piratemania7 said:

    I wonder how the Dunkin Dounts there compares to the U.S.?

    I honestly have no idea, never been in the US :-) I must say the ones I had in a regular DD eat-in place in Berlin were a lot better than those from the shopping mall "store" in Oberhausen :-)
  • dspigeldspigel Member Posts: 478
    I was too late to pick these up from Lego at 11.99, however 9.99 will have to do.
  • KerreKerre Member Posts: 411
    edited May 2017
    May the 4th 2017 shall be marked as the day I gave in to the dark side of UCS sets. 

    I spent only 20 minutes in Wijnegem Shopping center:



    Something Star Wars-y turned out to be the Slave I I had my eyes on since I saw its beauty in the flesh. Wijnegem Store still had plenty of Snowspeeders but I'll wait until these are eligible for a discount.
    sid3windrstluxLobotbandit778ClutchPowerkhmellymel
  • RTORTO Member Posts: 87
    edited May 2017


    eggshen said:


    I was checking out the May the 4th sales on [email protected], I had a number of items in my cart that I was eventually going to buy. I noticed that one item was missing (there had been 3, but now 2). Clicked on the cart and noticed that #853687 Ninjago Accessory Set was missing. It now had a status of "Call for Availability". 

    ...

    I was pretty surprised it was already selling out, the other accessory sets are generally on there for at least a year.

    I just called regarding #853687 and they only had 10 left in the warehouse. I ordered two, so there are eight more for anyone who wants one at the last moment.
    eggshen
  • piratemania7piratemania7 Member Posts: 2,146
    edited May 2017
    Bought #75155 yesterday.  My first SW set, bought it for my nephew though...so I guess that doesn't count.
  • BillyBricks84BillyBricks84 Member Posts: 355
    I bought my first bulk lot from a local seller yesterday for $215. I've purchased groups of used sets before, but never a huge bin stuffed with random LEGO where I didn't know exactly what I was getting. Well, almost no idea what I was getting. What pushed me over the edge to reach out and negotiate were these four partially-built items that I noticed poking out of different areas of the 45-pound bin in the seller's photos: 
    I am definitely a novice when it comes to figuring out sets based on just a few parts, but I recognized these fairly quickly.

    Now to the task of sorting, which seems like a fun treasure hunt since I have never done it before, but I think it will get fairly old as I work on this off and on for the next couple of months. I'm not sure how @TheMaker37 has done it with his metric ton purchases that I have drooled over in the last year. 
    Bumblepantscatwranglerbandit778ClutchPowerkhmellymelsnowhitieUberbrick
  • mmozzanommozzano Member Posts: 417
    Ordered two #75171 Battle on Scarrif sets, not a set I was ever going to get but I couldn't resist on offer. 
  • josekaleljosekalel Member Posts: 683
    I think this is my biggest haul, counting number of sets, not money spent, from LEGO [email protected] and Jet. (ignore the stuff to the left, that's stuff I already had). 


    ClutchPowercatwranglerkhmellymel
  • BrikingBriking Member Posts: 768
    Called in at Lego store at Westfield Shepherds Bush today.  Picked up #21307 and got the #40252 freebie.
  • FauchFauch Member Posts: 2,679
    waiting for good deals on 2017 sets. amazon.fr barely has anything over 20% off, while it looks like amazon.com and .uk already have a bunch of sets at over 30% off.
  • DadDad Member Posts: 816

    Astrobricks said:



    redarmy said:





    Dad said:



     Just bought a full set of every series CMF. All sealed and an absolute bargain price. You know who you are. Thank you




    Dumb question: if they are sealed, how do you know you got them all, as opposed to a bunch of duplicates?


    Because I bought them from the only person in the world that I would buy them from!!
  • monkeyhangermonkeyhanger Member Posts: 3,169
    Bought a yoda keyring for the R3M2 freebie at Gateshead and spent 25 mins feeling up half the S17 CMFs with a member of staff, trying to get me and one patient mother a Vet. Got the Vet (mianly for the Rabbit as is the closest Lego representation to our all white blue eyed mini Lop rabbit "Lily".
    bandit778
  • KingAlanIKingAlanI Member Posts: 2,342
    Was looking to finish my chess set MOC - mainly needed 8 blue Slope, Inverted 45 2 x 2 Double Convex [3676]. However, that part is a lot cheaper in black, I already had 1 and I could get 7 from the same seller. I ended up ordering far more than that. 9 cheap minidolls, parts for 11 minidolls, a few parts I need to finish #41560 Jamzy, tiles to make my soccer field all regular green, and many bricks for my color collection (many of those were either rare colors, non-reddish brown, or non-bluish gray)

    BL Recycled Brick and Janet OBrien, both charge exact postage and nothing extra, managable minimum buy, quick invoicing
  • Jern92Jern92 Member Posts: 890
    Finally found an almost full box of the S17 minifigures and grabbed myself a Corn Guy, Rocket Boy, and Fairy Girl. The pricing has gotten rather ridiculous lately, with the blind bags costing as much as a pack of Mixels. Had to restrict myself to the ones I really wanted, whereas before I would have gotten quite a few more.
  • datsunrobbiedatsunrobbie Member Posts: 1,818
    Bought #75824 Pig City Teardown for $20, #75825 Piggy Pirate Ship for $30 yesterday at local Target. Built #75824, grandson is having a lot of fun playing with it. He particularly likes the boulder that drops into the box of TNT, and knocking over the hot dog stand.
  • stluxstlux Member Posts: 2,450
    What would keep me from buying Lego? Well, not being on holiday for 2 weeks in remote areas with iffy wifi:



    • Some Star Wars to qualify for 2x R2-D2.
    • A big dragon, because, well, it's a *big dragon*.
    • First time ever I have a new CMF series complete so soon after it's released, thanks to fellow bricksetters.
    • Some various other sets, getting me closer to 1000 sets owned. Yay?
    bandit778sid3windrKerrecatwranglerjosekalelYodaliciousMegtheCatkhmellymelsnowhitie
  • BillyBricks84BillyBricks84 Member Posts: 355
    My Walmart pick-up orders came in today, so I made a Walmart trip and ended up with: 
    (3 pick-up items)
    10-drawer IRIS Cart @ $32
    #21029 Buckingham Palace @ $28
    #21307 Caterham Seven @ $44

    #31050 Corner Deli @ $19 x3
    #41578 Screeno @ $1
    #75119 Jyn Erso @ $8
    #75120 K-2SO @ $13
    #75121 Imperial Death Trooper @ $13
    #75154 TIE Striker @ $35
    #75165 Imperial Trooper Pack @ $11

    Also stopped at TRU and picked up a Michonne statuette from The Walking Dead that was on clearance + 20% off clearance coupon + 10% off for credit card, which will be a gift for my mom's birthday. While there, I picked up 5 CMFs: 2 rocket boys, 1 highwayman, 1 yuppie, and 1 corn cob guy. 
  • JudgeChuckJudgeChuck Member Posts: 1,583

    SeanTheCollector said:

    I just bought an umbrella for LESTER. He feels so much happier now with his friends!




    Arrgh! You have a Minecon Steve! You lucky whatnot! ;-)

    May I ask how you got hold of one and how much is cost you?
  • JudgeChuckJudgeChuck Member Posts: 1,583
    edited May 2017
    I've been trying to hold off buying too much LEGO recently, due to the large number of sets that are going to be definite purchases later this year (Minecraft 2017 wave 2 (inc. The Mountain Cave, Ideas Saturn V, Carousel, Ideas Old Fishing Store etc.) but I did pick up #60142 Money Transporter, #60152 Sweeper & Excavator and #60107 Fire Ladder Truck recently, which has kept me busy building.

    My main recent purchase, however, was a BNIB #10244 Fairground Mixer, which I was kicking myself not to have bought before it went EoL, but I got a good deal on it off eBay, only paying a very little above RRP and with free P&P, so I'm very happy indeed!
    I'm about half-way through building it, having just started the flat-bed trailer.

    My final purchase was not something I specifically needed but, again off eBay, I picked up a nearly-new-looking #886 Space Buggy. The space logo on the minifig looks absolutely mint, as do the parts. It also came with the box and instructions, both looking in awesome condition, so I'm very excited to get it! :-)
    catwranglerMaffyD
  • SeanTheCollectorSeanTheCollector Member Posts: 765
    @JudgeChuck The #MINECON Steve cost me £35 on 31/Oct/2015 from a US seller on eBay, most of which was postage! I was lucky to find it since the listing was poorly titled and not classified as LEGO. I think I was searching to see what MINECON stuff was available.

    It was a used set which I've deep cleaned since the photo that i gave to @Huw was taken. Huw, I could give you a dust-free photo for brickset if you're interested? Anyway, Steve is the pride of my extensive Minecraft collection and I won't be parting with it! :D

    JudgeChuck
  • JudgeChuckJudgeChuck Member Posts: 1,583
    ^^ Heavens! I spotted the Minecon Steve and ignored the Mr. Gold! Real or faux?
  • SeanTheCollectorSeanTheCollector Member Posts: 765
    @JudgeChuck The Mr Gold is a reproduction but it is a very good reproduction. :)

    The #LESTER shown above is also a reproduction. However, I do have a real LESTER, number 229, but it won't be leaving it's packaging anytime soon! And I can't tell the difference even with a magnifying glass between my reproduction LESTER and the real thing!

    On the other hand, in the background, #COMCON035 The Collector is a cheap and nasty (very poor quality) chinese copy! :(
    JudgeChuck
  • JudgeChuckJudgeChuck Member Posts: 1,583
    @SeanTheCollector, many thanks for the reply! I've been keeping my eyes open for one, to complete my Minecraft collection, but not seen any on eBay / Bricklink etc.
  • SeanTheCollectorSeanTheCollector Member Posts: 765
    @JudgeChuck Keep looking and good luck! If I ever spot one for sale, I'll let you know.
    JudgeChuck
  • VenunderVenunder Member Posts: 2,659
    Half price Dimension Fun Packs at Sainsbury's.

  • empireempire Member Posts: 69
    Grabbed the 2 Audi's, Mercedes, and the Bugatti Speed Champions sets today. I really wanted the Porsche 911 set and the Corvette too, but they were sold out.
  • JudgeChuckJudgeChuck Member Posts: 1,583

    SeanTheCollector said:

    @JudgeChuck Keep looking and good luck! If I ever spot one for sale, I'll let you know.


    Please do and thanks! :-)
  • arathemisarathemis Member Posts: 604
    got the ferris wheel 30% off.
    Announcement of the carousel, made me do silly things.
    Addicted2Oxygensid3windrstlux
  • JudgeChuckJudgeChuck Member Posts: 1,583

    arathemis said:

    got the ferris wheel 30% off.
    Announcement of the carousel, made me do silly things.


    Quite understandable! :-)

    Now that I've got both the Ferris Wheel and Fairground Mixer, I'm going to *have to* get the new Carousel... Ah well... ;-)
    SumoLegoAddicted2Oxygenstlux
  • JooTogJooTog Member Posts: 945
    Today's LEGO haul.

    The few things on the right with #30449 Milano bought at my local LEGO store for the aforementioned promo.

    The loot on the left is from my local TRU 40% sale (polybags not on sale; $3.99 ea.). My second copy of #75096 Sith Infiltrator; could not pass the 50% off RRP.


    bandit778catwranglerDeeC2_Josh
  • arathemisarathemis Member Posts: 604

    JudgeChuck said:



    arathemis said:


    got the ferris wheel 30% off.
    Announcement of the carousel, made me do silly things.




    Quite understandable! :-)

    Now that I've got both the Ferris Wheel and Fairground Mixer, I'm going to *have to* get the new Carousel... Ah well... ;-)


    Well, I already had the Fairground mixer. Now I`ll just have to get all of them :(.
    Need to be strong and not get sucked into any more new themes/subthemes. Somehow I get into at least 1 new theme every year.

    Last christmass (mainly due to crazy discounts) got me into Ninjago. Now I ended up getting all of the big sets from the past 2 years, including Airjitzu temple, City of stiix, Final flight of destiny bounty, a bunch of dragons, etc. And I`ll just have to get the big ship and the new temple from the Ninjago movie sets (at least).
    catwranglerJudgeChuckstlux
  • xwingpilotxwingpilot Member Posts: 799
    How are people picking up #75167 from Smyths already? It's not on their website and it's not even available to VIPs on [email protected] yet...
  • bandit778bandit778 Member Posts: 2,379
    edited May 2017
    @xwingpilot
     Some Smyths have the new Star Wars sets on the shelves early.
    http://bricksetforum.com/discussion/5244/uk-smyths-deals#latest
  • xwingpilotxwingpilot Member Posts: 799
    edited May 2017
    @bandit778 I guess I'm just surprised that the summer Star Wars sets get early release at Smyths (before [email protected]) and there's no publicity of it.
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