Road plates

[chillgoose]

As im building up my town I realize I need a few road-plates. Looking at lego.com the road-plates for sale seem to be always backordered and for every straight road I want, I need to buy a curved one? How does that make any sense? They are also a tad expensive in my humble opinion.

Anyways I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions or could point me in a direction to buy road-plates.

Thanks so much.

Im looking for the road-plates that look like this.

[wooootles]

I visited the stores last week in Lawrenceville GA and Hoover AL and they're stockful of both. But that's too far for ya.

And yes, it's a ripoff, I hate it, but what else can I do? (yeah, tiled plates, but not sure I'm ready to commit to something like that)

Also, it's 5 years old and I'm a bit wary of buying them since they may be replaced soon by newer roadplates.

[lgorlando]

If you are committed to your city, you really have no choice but to buy them. They are pricey but almost totally essential to a city. If you join Lego VIP, you earn points for every $100 you spend. You get $5 for ever $100 so if you buy a lot of Lego then you could get "free" road plates with every $300 you spend. I believe that only Lego.com com sells these so you are pretty much stuck buying these from them. What I do to water down the cost is add a set of each type of plate pack to each order I make from Lego.com. Basically an additional $30...YIKES! But it helps spread the cost out over each order. I actually bought tons of the straight/cross pack and I regret now not having enough t/curve plates to turn the city at dead ends and break up the monotony of a grid city. An investment of $300 will get your city fully equipped for daily life (that's about 20 packs, get 12 straight/cross and 8 t/curve for a cost that is basically the cost of two Green Grocer for a total of 40 plate!. Add in your common Lego Production Town Buildings or buy some additional 10 x 10 green plates and you fill a 12 x 12 sq.ft room. You will never need any more road plates again in life! trust me!

P.S. don't underestimate the cross plate, use it at each end of a stretch of two straight plates that are facing end to end and you have a common size city block two base plates wide at each intersection!

Edited May 27, 2010 by lgorlando

[chillgoose]

Thanks. Yea ill have to join the VIP. I usually just buy from toys r' us because my local one always has the sets I want in stock.