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and I saw a review of it on youtube. Lego sent the guy the set just for the review. Looks fantastic to me, I would want to figure out how to make it a bit taller as well. I have other books I can put in it too because some of the minifigures have them. EEEEK! take my money!
I love it and I am getting it day 1 regardless.
(It's also A$250, for those curious.)
I like it as it is. My obnoxious side miss a small bathroom and the smallest kitchenette (like, 4studs wide: no need for oven, could be just hot plate on top of drawers 2studs wide x 1 stud deep, and a sink 1-2studs wide x 1 stud deep)....wait a minute, even i can MOC that!!! Yey!!!
I wonder if i can make a bathroom too with my nonexisting MOCing skills...
I dont know why i want complete interiors - while I enjoy building interiors and the sometimes ingenious ways they are designed, i rarely take the modulars out from their shelfunits to admire the insides.
That door on the middle floor looks kinda odd.
To be fair, we've had little to complain about for the past few months, at least in terms of what Lego can control. Between taxes and currency conversion, we're actually paying anywhere between $10 - $25 American less for this set than the US. It's not like the worsening exchange rates are making things any cheaper, but at least Lego now have a relatively good justification for their prices.
It does seem to suffering on space and detail like the pet shop did (not as much though) due to the split design. I do prefer the single building per 32x32 baseplate. The detectives office was the exception.
if I had space for a city, I could see me getting a couple of these sets to have 2 houses next to each other and modifying the bookshop to be a full baseplate.
I absolutely loved the concept of a bookstore being a huge bibliophile and overall book nerd, but this just leaves me feeling quite meh!
In the UK the set is £150. Go figure.
All this time I've been thinking "crikey, Lego in oz must be really expensive", expecting sets there to be about 50% - 75% more than UK RRP, and the 'reasonable' oz price to be equivalent to about £180, when actually the Bookstore is cheaper than the UK RRP.
I'm never going to listen to an Aussie moan about Lego prices ever again. ;)
£130 + VAT is £156. So does the Australian price include local taxes or not
Trust me, we usually do pay quite a bit more, but things have been not so bad lately. This may even be an experiment by Lego to see if lowering the (relative) price will entice more Australian buyers.
Yes. Australian prices almost always include taxes. Our goods and services tax is 10% on non-essentials, so stores will tend to price their items at round numbers and then take out 1/11 of that for GST. That's why it's easier to confirm whether it's Lego's doing when we pay more, since before-tax prices can be found easily. In this case, it's not, because we're paying less!
Looking at Downtown Diner and Assembly Square, the Australian RRP for those is actually around the German RRP, which is the cheapest in Europe. Most other European countries pay more for those sets.