kiwiatlarge

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    Mine arrived at our rental house, where my mrs' son and daughter in law to be live. (getting packages to our rural address is a pain)... Funnily enough, the mrs had to take them to hospital as their baby daughter had just been born in their dining room.. , Fortunately their flat-mate who shares the place with them was home.. Seems right to name the Falcon after their daughter, as the name works for the ship (I think at least) ... although the lego delivery will be heavier than the baby delivery..
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    My shipping status hasn't changed since it made it in to Auckland... and I've realised there is no 'signature required' for it. Yet another reason why I think I'll stick to getting my lego either shipped from Mighty Ape, or bought locally from Toyworld.. Mighty Ape reinforce their packing, and I can request a package not to be left unattended and still not pay anything for shipping. I'm not a great fan of having parcels delivered by the Post Service..
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    NZ... the tracking number even now appears on NZ Post as well
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    Mine has finally made it into the country and past customs, after being one of the early successful online purchases... A good sign..
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    You think that's a painful wait. At this stage I don't know when I'll be able to make mine... could be months, could even be a few years depending on how much of a stalemate the mrs and I have on the matter.. Quick summary of our situation. We currently own our own house (well two if you count her old place, but we'll never move back to that house). Fairly typical 200m2 4 bedroom home. And I have a plan in mind for setting up the least sun exposed of the 3 small bedrooms one day.. But the kicker is, we don't live in it. My work provides me with a rent/power free house to live in, so we rent our place out trying to shorten the mortgage. But the other kicker is, it is a pretty modest 3 bedroom place probably not much more than 100m2. I'm struggling to find places to display even the snowspeeder I just built, and each new sixth scale Hot Toy figure I buy. With two new young kittens also in the mix, I'm just not sure where and how I can find the space to assemble it... .. But there was no way I was going to miss out. So, I'm thinking at least, if it was like the 07 model, I can at least take some pleasure in sorting the peices out.. for the time being.
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    I'm wondering about the customs charges here myself now too. I buy a few Hot Toys and quarter scale statues, and usually if it's over 500 I get stung. The only quarter scale HT Iron Man figure I've bought cost me an extra couple of hundred for them to release.
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    Likewise.. International Post can be a drag. I've had CDs take a couple of weeks from Aus, and much longer than that from Amazon. I was given a 3 day freight option with the MF, but the price was pretty high. I agree, but then in saying that, we have friends who buy through a single account who were talking about getting one each. And until I created an account we had talked in the past at home of asking them to order certain UCS from Lego for me.
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    I was lucky. It was early evening here and the site was one of many I had open, and I was periodically refreshing it, and wham it came up showing "add to cart" and my whole checkout process worked perfectly. Woke up this morning to finally get the very slow Lego confirmation email. And.. Toyworld is my goto place usually. The staff that remember you even know to adult UCS builders that little details like mint boxes are important. Mighty Ape are also good because of their specials and they pack well.. Don't think I'll be queuing up for the new iPhones, but the X is a nice looking phone, albeit an expensive unit..
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    Same. If I check the site in another browser not logged in it still says Coming Soon on 1 October. Is the stock that is Sold Out, just the early numbers for VIP access?
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    If it doesn't, they better reimburse my credit card...
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    Yep.. getting the same "In Warehouse" to the order status, and it's on backorder when you look at it in the Wishlist... a bit like trying to get tickets for the last World Tour that The Eagles did.. probably with equally bad scalping afterwards too.
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    Can't believe when the orange box refreshed I took ten seconds to check with the mrs... "Do I or don't I?"
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    No email confirmation yet, but my credit card shows the transaction pending... so that's a step in the right direction :D
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    I had the checkout option of express delivery in about 3 days, for an extra hundred and something :O .. I'll stick to the free 9-10 delivery thanks..
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    My experience with their emailing when it comes to account sign in issues is.. they are slow.. no email confirmation for me yet, so I'm not panicking, but I have created a print to pdf of the receipt..
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    Just ordered mine.. First ever Lego NZ order.. $1499, omg, lol.. :D
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    Hopefully I can unlock my account to check by then.. lol
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    Seeing as it is the 14th here now, I thought I'd log into Lego to see pre-orders are a little earlier in our part of the world, and the site locked me out at work... c'mon Lego, only two password attempts?
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    NZ site has been showing a limit of 3 ever since the announcement..
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    Well, to be fair the last time I checked Amazon and ebay, the old Falcon was going for much more than that.. and if you are comparing the RRP of the old Falcon at release, you have to consider 10 years of inflation. I know my salary was $12,000 less than what I'm on now 8 years ago when I was promoted, and although my current job responsibilities have increased in the last two or so years, technically my job description hasn't changed, nor has my contract been altered.. (just to compare apples with apples, as it wouldn't be fair to compare my pay rate with 10 years ago)
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    For me, I'm intending on paying not only to have the set, but to one day have the experience of building it. I don't build often, but when I do, I enjoy it... I started with the last UCS X-Wing, and have the B Wing, Tie and Slave-1.. plus R2-D2. Each one of them has given me at least $200 enjoyment of the $399NZ price tag (give or take for each, but all of those sets have been around that price, with 1300-2500 pieces each). This set will cost me $1500NZ to buy. I'm catering for several hundred dollars worth of building enjoyment in that. My other "do I spend it, don't I? the money would be better added to the mortgage to reduce it!" geek hobby is gaming memorabila and Hot Toys figures. Neither of which provide any form of entertainment other than sitting on a display shelf. That hobby I have had to learn to curb, due to the sad reality of life's expenses, and I'll be the first to say that as much as I like spending money on things I enjoy, I also do like saving it too.. My brothers and I are all in our 40's. One flies up and down the country, to Australia, to the US... to various "retreats" with like minded people of his lifestyle. Good on him for doing his thing, but all he has for his money expenditure on it are memories and experiences.. and as you get older, the memory of those fade.. (trust me, to anyone in your 20s, they will fade! lol) The other brother spends money on vehicles, driving them and changing them.. Again, there is no greater money drain than a vehicle. And once you've changed it, you don't even have the great big money pit, just the fun of having once owned it. Hundreds of dollars of plastic? yes it is, but one person's hobby shouldn't be thumbed down any more than anothers.
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    I'll be looking to buy it.. I'm in a pretty flexible place in terms of what "wants" I can spend money on, on top of my "needs", but the frustrating thing is I can't see me being able to assemble it in the forseable future. We live in a company farm house for work, which is good for saving money, but it's not so good on the display space. It's not particularly good on the storage space either for that matter. I also want to be sure that when I do build it, it can be kept covered from the dust. Just looking at my UCS pieces up close the other day, the Slave 1 in particular is due a bit of a clean. But, to tide me over, on the plus side I picked up the Snowspeeder on special today.. almost 100 off.. :)
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    Which UCS Star Wars to buy?

    kiwiatlarge replied to FactorXa's topic in LEGO Star Wars

    I don't buy play-sets, but I have all the ships since the B-Wing and X-Wing v2.0 came out. Slave 1 is a very good set. Tie Fighter is by comparison a simple and repetitive build, but I wouldn't not have it in tandem with my X-Wing in my collection..
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    75095 TIE Fighter

    kiwiatlarge replied to Bob De Quatre's topic in LEGO Star Wars

    Half way through the build (one "side" done and attached to the cockpit), and I like it. It's not the most exciting build. Very repetitive due to the symmetry. I have half the model left to build, and everything left I've done before. But that's part of it's charm. The high school mathematician in me from 25 years ago can appreciate the symmetry and shape, and the child who first watched Return of the Jedi at the theatres in the early 1980s gets to appreciate being able to display it when finished across from the UCS X-Wing. The fan in me couldn't turn down having the F-16 and Mig 21 of the (original) Star Wars universe..
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    75095 TIE Fighter

    kiwiatlarge replied to Bob De Quatre's topic in LEGO Star Wars

    Bought it today (well, the mrs bought it for me for xmas), with $100 off. I'm pretty happy with that. That gives me a UCS collection of the X-Wing (v2), B-Wing, R2-D2, Slave-1 and Tie Fighter