Tavis75

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  1. Although, you can see in the film that there is artificial gravity within the bomb bay anyway, with the falling launch control button etc. so doesn't even need that explanation (although I guess the bombs lower down the bay would not be falling for long before leaving the ship, so might need a little extra push).
  2. In the UK, my AT-AT and gifts just arrived a few minutes ago, separate boxes but both delivered at the same time by DPD. Likely to be similar for others, although I remember my Star Destroyer and gift came as two separate deliveries on different days, so might be a slight element of chance, if one of the parcels gets delayed somewhere or something.
  3. Yep, the price suddenly dropped a few days after it first appeared. Don't believe there's been any official comment on it, so don't know if it was a mistake or they just responded to negative feedback.
  4. In the UK, got up just before midnight to order the AT-AT, went to the page before the AT-AT became available and waited, got put into queue just after midnight but then was less than a minute before I was back on the page and able to order, which went through smoothly. Looking now I see it's still available (along with the lightsabre) so not as much of an initial rush as I was expecting.
  5. I'm more of an OT fan, but I would love to see a UCS Ghost, thought Rebels was great (preferred it to most of Clone Wars TBH) and really liked the design of it. Imagine it will be pretty unlikely we ever even see another regular version of it, let alone a UCS, unless, as mentioned, it suddenly crops up in a big role in one of the upcoming series.
  6. Thanks for the advice. One thing I've found out, is that if the buyer has the item forwarded by a third-party (as happened here), they are no longer eligible for eBay's Money Back Guarantee, so seems like the worst I could end up with is some negative feedback (as long as eBay stick to their policy). So that puts me in a stronger bargaining position when it comes to getting things resolved.
  7. So it has! That's a pleasant, and very unexpected, surprise!
  8. I sold a Lego set on eBay recently and the buyer has now got in touch claiming that the wrong piece was included (I have been partially expecting this since day one, as after shipping it turned out they weren't UK based but actually having it shipped to Hong Kong via a third-party, and they were overly communicative). The piece in question is a 4x4 round brick that fits onto a turntable and they've sent a photo showing an older version of the part, which has a different underside and therefore wont fit onto the turntable (obviously they've done their research). Now, I know that the correct part was included, I assembled the set once and later disassembled it and immediately bagged it up for shipping as I was doing so, so there is no way the wrong part could have slipped in. So now trying to work out the best way to proceed, I have some spare of the correct part so if I thought they were genuine I'd quite happily stick one in the post (only actually costs a few pounds to ship to Hong Kong), but as they're obviously trying it on they could just claim to never have received the part (then I'm down one Lego piece and the postage on top of whatever else), them returning the set is obviously problematic due to their location (and who knows what I'd get back). Could potentially offer a partial refund, though whether they'd accept that I don't know, and if they did they would presumably ask for a large amount. So, any thoughts? Anyone dealt with this sort of situation before? Generally I get the impression that eBay will side with the buyer in most cases, so not holding out much hope, just trying to work out the best way to try and minimize the loss. Not sure what eBay policy would be in a case like this, I guess probably just a full refund, though don't know if it helps my case at all that the buyer has complicated things by shipping the set out of the country.
  9. I'm certainly intending to get it (unless they absolutely mess up the model, which seems unlikely), it's a pretty iconic vehicle that's in a number of famous scenes ("These aren't the droids you are looking for") and I would say it likely has more screen time than almost any other vehicle in the original Star Wars (the Falcon may beat it, definitely if you count interior scenes, but it's going to be pretty close for external shots I would think). Should work well at the large scale I would have thought. Admittedly, I tend to buy pretty much all the UCS sets, only one I haven't bought over the last 8 or so years is the Gunship, as I'm not a huge fan of the design and I think the model looks fairly ugly due to the large open troop bay with all the anti-studs, would have preferred that to have been done differently (possibly the floor the other way up so the anti-studs were on the outside underneath), or even just having the version with closing doors.
  10. Just got a delivery notification, rushed to the garage where it had been left to find a very small box :( Just the Hoth set, though tracking on the courier and Lego website seemed to suggest that the whole order had been delivered. However talked to Lego and they gave me an additional tracking number, seems like it was split into two packages but the one containing the Star Destroyer seems to have stalled in the system (in Belgium I think, I'm in the UK). Seems a bit weird that there's no indication on the Lego website about the two numbers and even weirder that the main number just seems to track the free gift. Hopefully the Star Destroyer will turn up at some point! Anyone else experienced this or actually received both parcels?
  11. I'm no expert, but if you don't mind second hand bricks then job lots on ebay may be worth a look, I've bought a few and although I've got some duff parts (heavy yellowing, old grey, a few megablox pieces etc.) it also got me a decent range of standard pieces and also a few rarer pieces that, based on the prices listed on rebrickable, would pretty quickly cover what I paid for the whole lots if I chose to sell them on. Though obviously you have to spend lots of time sorting!
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    REVIEW: 71043 Hogwarts™ Castle

    I guess with the bridge that there's an awful lot of build between the two anchor points for it, so quite a potential for slight variations in positioning to creep in, which maybe explains why some people see it and others don't. Obviously Jang's mock-up removes some of that so maybe there is an issue with the geometry when everything is lined up exactly but in the castle itself the size of the build allows that misalignment to be spread around a large number of joins, removing the stress, and whether or not you see the issue when trying to fit the bridge simply depends on the exact geometry of your build, which I think could easily vary by a few millimetres.
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    REVIEW: 71043 Hogwarts™ Castle

    Bit late to the party, but have to say that I didn't notice the issue with the bridge that Jang raised while building the set and I'd watched both his videos before the build so I was expecting it, but the parts seemed to fit fine to me. Only "issue" I did have was an apparently random flower stem piece in the bag that contained the vine pieces, couldn't see it in the instructions and it was the only piece of that type within that specific bag, did I just get a rogue piece or have I missed something? Had all the flower stem pieces I needed to make the trees so it hadn't come from one of the other bags without me noticing. Did anyone else get the piece?
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    The Toys That Made Us

    The first half of the series are available on Netflix UK (Star Wars, G.I.Joe, Barbie and He-Man) so I would hope the second half of the series will appear as well, hopefully at the same time it goes up on Netflix US. As well as Lego there will be episodes on Transformers, Hello Kitty and Star Trek.
  15. Can't say I'm exactly overwhelmed by the "poster", looks nice enough but only A4, so not really a poster. So nearly half way through the year and the black card offers have been IIRC one double points offer and a disappointing poster. Hopefully there'll be something better at some point, early access to the autumn UCS set perhaps.