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LEGO Sci-Fi Ongoing - Rumors, Speculation, and Discussion
jusvans replied to Lyichir's topic in LEGO Sci-Fi
I'll end up buying it first go around rather than secondary market for the sheer reason that I really want to get it as a CS fan. If it was something like the moving truck or flower pot from 2 years ago where the demand maybe wasn't the strongest, definitely second market but I think everyone is going to want one of these. I got burned a couple times missing out on promos I really wanted so if I know what I want I'm getting it and living with no regrets. Also, this year I have a very large wishlist already so there's no shortage of sets to buy. If there isn't a x2 VIP I'll be miffed by missing out but still spend the money and have Xmas gifts put away. It's not often Lego does a space GWP/CS set. -
LEGO Sci-Fi Ongoing - Rumors, Speculation, and Discussion
jusvans replied to Lyichir's topic in LEGO Sci-Fi
After looking at these sets some more, one minor nitpick I know I'm going to have is the mix of visor styles. Okay the yellow molded mining helmet from the #12 CMF Space Miner is fine in that role, but I'll probably have to bricklink enough to make sure everyone has the same style since they all have the same helmets. -
LEGO Sci-Fi Ongoing - Rumors, Speculation, and Discussion
jusvans replied to Lyichir's topic in LEGO Sci-Fi
Which one is that? I know of the larger Perseverance Technic set from last year but this is the first time I'm hearing of a polybag sized version. -
LEGO Sci-Fi Ongoing - Rumors, Speculation, and Discussion
jusvans replied to Lyichir's topic in LEGO Sci-Fi
My first reaction is wow, the new City Space sets look amazing! (before I take a long stare at them) While I can understand the discussion around whether these should live in City (more realistic) or be their own theme (full scifi), if you step back I think they actually serve as a nice bridge between the realistic space sets we're used to seeing from City or ye old Space Port 1999 and Classic Space which is full on futurism. There's even a bit of M-Tron homage thrown in with the crystals and mining. In the past we've seen Lego take a lot of effort to launch a new theme that may end up petering out early whereas if you slot the sets into an existing theme and they do poorly, just don't make more. If they market well instead, it leaves the door open to expanding a few more sets in a wave 2 to hoover up a bit more sales before fully retiring the line without a lot of marketing commitment. How I've canonized the setting that I think fits the best is this wave exists about 100 years in the future where we can travel to the moons of the Outer Planets or asteroids where these alien creatures were found to live. That explains the NASA influenced near future scifi, whereas Classic Space et al exists hundreds of years further along with hyper drives, huge bases, etc. Maybe these crystals serve as the technological breakthrough that enables the Classic Space timeline. No matter what, as a space fan who enjoys both realistic models and a nice hard scifi setting, I couldn't be more pleased since I'm young enough to have missed most of the early 90s space waves. Also, I'm not sure how much this applies to fans but man am I so tired of "conflict", implied or otherwise, creeping into most themes it feels like. I am so, so,....sooooo very happy this wave seems to be based on cooperation, exploration, and science rather than conflict among factions or humans vs aliens. -
Technic 2024 Set Discussion
jusvans replied to Ngoc Nguyen's topic in LEGO Technic, Mindstorms, Model Team and Scale Modeling
I think it means a modular connection system between 2 loose objects. At first glance, the holographic orange piece with the 4 technic holes is the new modular connector introduced with the space station set last year? -
LEGO Sci-Fi Ongoing - Rumors, Speculation, and Discussion
jusvans replied to Lyichir's topic in LEGO Sci-Fi
I just saw the Technic sets a couple hours ago and they all look awesome. Unless I'm mistaken, aside from the Perseverance rover, we haven't gotten much Technic Space before. I remember being really surprised when the set names first leaked. The orrery is right up there with the dropship as my favorites so far. Out of the 4, I'll most likely get the orrery, dropship, and small rover. The larger rover is cool, but perhaps a bit too big for my shelf space and kinda "bland" compared to the others. Ugh, I can't stop thinking about that dropship, it is the right amount of futuristic scifi for me . Next year is going to be hard on the wallet for sure but as a space lover I know it's feast or famine. -
LEGO Sci-Fi Ongoing - Rumors, Speculation, and Discussion
jusvans replied to Lyichir's topic in LEGO Sci-Fi
I was super excited to see this set revealed a few days ago as a "young" classic space fan...now with the details being a $190 GWP on Jan 1st, ouch. Ouch. Lego.com is sold out of a fair few items and there really isn't much in this first wave to justify buying. Yeah its a high piece count so I knew the GWP price would be higher, but good gosh Lego. Why? First time I'm actually highly considering skipping a self-desired GWP. *Sigh* -
Lego City 2022 Rumours, Leaks, Information And Discussion
jusvans replied to Powered by Bricks's topic in LEGO Town
Promobricks has official images via the Lego building instructions app for the Moonbase, hospital, and police sets. LEGO City 2022 What's New: First Pictures of Hospital, Moon Base and More! (promobricks.de) -
10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery Discussion
jusvans replied to Vilhelm22's topic in Special LEGO Themes
In case anyone is interested, here's a fan made model of the probe most of us were not able to receive with a parts list: We’ve built the more beautiful LEGO Ulysses spacecraft and give you the instructions for free! | StoneWars- 310 replies
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10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery Discussion
jusvans replied to Vilhelm22's topic in Special LEGO Themes
I read somewhere this morning, and I cannot confirm this, that each region had something like 3000. Either way, totally inadequate.- 310 replies
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10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery Discussion
jusvans replied to Vilhelm22's topic in Special LEGO Themes
Very true too I guess. I only found this address thing out when I stayed with my parents for a bit due to covid and we both buy legos and had a couple orders cancelled because of shipping to the same address before I called customer service.- 310 replies
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10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery Discussion
jusvans replied to Vilhelm22's topic in Special LEGO Themes
I have a theory and someone please correct me if this is completely off base, but could it be that there are a lot of fake/duplicate VIP accounts creating this excess demand over previous years? Maybe it's me, but it feels like the last year perhaps anything VIP related from set releases to rewards just go in a snap. Sets used to sell out after a couple days/a week but now it's hours. Lego does order limiting based on addresses and could scalpers/resellers be using next door addresses, etc. to bypass the system thereby gobbling everything up before the rest of us?- 310 replies
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10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery Discussion
jusvans replied to Vilhelm22's topic in Special LEGO Themes
Same thing happened to me in the US. Been waiting since 7:30 am central time and about a minute before it was set to go live, whole VIP section went down. By the time I finally was able to get in 20 minutes later, sold out. Then I find this: Guess how much the LEGO Ulysses Space Probe is already selling for on eBay (brickfanatics.com) Come on Lego maybe not make what seems like every VIP exclusive these days super rare? I understand event exclusives that were supposed to be in person last year, like the Nebulon B, but not these general rewards. Same thing for the classic space coin. Both are selling as a bundle on ebay for hundreds of US$, PREORDER.- 310 replies
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Lego City 2019 - Rumours, Speculation and Discussion
jusvans replied to TheArturro's topic in LEGO Town
I really like the people pack and was looking forward to the other sets in the series until I saw these images. I don't know, something about them doesn't look or feel right. Maybe it's the printed cockpits or the "inspired by NASA" stamped on each. The colors will take some getting used to but I think they'll work fine. The new minifigs look great. The set designs seem...forced...I don't know. Like a combination of the Martian and stylizations of planned hardware (my stomach dropped after the rocket research base, aka SLS). Perhaps I spend too much time looking at these ideas at work so when they're transferred to bricks they look weird.