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Ok. Also done with this. A bit tedious at times. But I would love a nice coffee table book to go with the Technic Ferrari book. And I also would want an upscaled Lego “lantern” lamp !!! Probably a few of them to hang in my “pirate 🏴‍☠️ cove”… 😊

That one will get sold I think. I’m with you, I look at it and like it, but not enough to order it. I was on the fence for Snack shack and Train Shed, but that decision was made for me… 😜 I have the Fortress to look forward to now as that’s great. And then the station in the next round of course !!!

So the Fortress’ bar on the US website is now at “max”, but the order button is still available ? I'm surprised to see that the sets lasted this long ? But it all seems to be working fine now. 😃

Love the castle, and it would be great to put next to the LKC; and it looks awesome. But it’s too much money I think for what you get. The train shed is lovely too, and I’m debating that one. Parisian street is nice on the outside but the build is plain and too simple in my eyes, no steps inside to different floors, half the depth of a modular building and not all the details. I would buy the new Modular Museum over this one I think. A lot of decisions in the last few days. I know history told us; you only have a few hours to decide come Wednesday, a lot of the other sets didn’t last past a few hours only. 😬

Winter Chalet arriving Monday, and Studgate arriving Tuesday. I carefully notified the wife that two sets would be arriving over two days… 😉

Correct. My Venetian Houses has number 23O2 on the tape tabs. I think they are more a packaging date indication then a “serial” number… Here is an explanation I found on other eurobricks forums… The first two numbers are the week of the year… The letter is the Country of packing (O is for Billund, Denmark)… The last number is the last number of the year of production. So a 2 means 2022

So far so good. I’m now at the end of bag 9 out of 17; and the smaller building is up and the larger building footprint is started… I’m liking all the detail, with the canals, the birds, the brickwork and the façade details and of course the roof.

Ok. So tonight I will start building this Venetian Houses set. I got Red Bull set aside to assist me, and I’ll keep an open mind to “missing pieces” maybe being in the next numbered bag ? I did open the set, it comes with an inside box for extra strength (and that obviously didn’t work too well 😉), and bags numbered to 17; most of them having around three bags per number… I’ll let you know how it goes… 🤞…

Venetian Houses got delivered. The box was famously packed by LEGO, so it did come out of the shipping box with a little damage. No holes (😮‍💨), but the front top left corner slightly pushed in, and a crease in the bottom middle of the box. 🙄 Not surprised by that, because that’s almost always the case with shipped sets from them; especially since the shipping box is from a thinner cardboard than the actual set itself. 😂 But I’m stoked to have it. Now we can start building it… But maybe not tonight because “Survivor” is starting a new season !… 😃

I ordered the Venetian Houses, and the set is currently at a FedEx hub about 70 miles from my home. Maybe I get lucky that it will arrive today, but it is planned for tomorrow… 😃

Maybe some good fortune after all ?… Two days ago I got charged to my credit card for the Venetian Houses set. And yesterday evening an email showed up that my set is shipped. Now my only worry is that it will arrive in one piece and the box not be damaged,… like other sets from LEGO do often when they ship them to you. I’m getting excited, but I still can get let down by the shipping fiasco of a damaged set ?… 🥹

I only ordered the Venetian Houses in the second round;… and I don’t have anything yet. 😔

Yes. Correct. Europe is getting sets first. One of the reasons I guess that I already got about 10 emails telling me “just a bit longer”…. 😡

Same here for my set of Venetian Houses. I wonder if LEGO is playing a game of chicken here; see who would cancel first,… the customer or them ?… 😡 Every week another email with the exact same text, but then a new date. I ordered the set in November, I’m predicting they won’t sent it by then… 🤨 I’m also predicting that LEGO will never do this again; since it has been a real downer on everybody. LEGO majorly underestimated the amount of dedication and work that this takes, and customers are thoroughly disgusted by the “being lied to” emails every week. I ordered three sets in total, over the second and third round. Located on the west coast in CA; I’m doubtful I will see any of these three sets in real life ?…

Not to scare you into anything but read this post from one of our Europe members:… Posted August 4 I'm absoutely gutted. I ordered the Lego Store, Venetian Houses and the Retro Bowling Alley during round 2 of crowdfunding. I got really excited last week when I got a notification that my items had shipped only to receive a package which only contained the Modular Lego Store. When I queried this with Lego Customer Service they told me that the package should have included all three sets and they would now just refund the two sets that didn't get shipped as they do not have any to ship to me. I have asked what happened to the sets that I ordered but have not received any response. I'm really mystified as to what happened to the sets I ordered and Lego haven't provided any explanation.

Same here. I get a new email about every 8 days that puts the new shipment date out to the current date, plus two days. Now it’s set at September 3rd. I’m waiting for my Venetian Houses to be released ?… I’m starting to think that people in the US might lose out to a lot of sets because of “overselling” their sets and honoring European orders first ? Totally with you on the fact I’m going to be very upset if my sets out of both second and third round are getting cancelled/ignored ?…

Me too. Expensive it may be, but look at the proportions of engine and tender. So much better in the big model. it will be on the list now, maybe just wait for a nice deal or something.

So here’s my thought… I like what they did for Harry Potter, everything is ok with me there, except the adult Hermoine and Ron missing. Love the train, the car, the three movie scenes, it’s all good. The Kings Cross section should at least have featured two full pieces of the wall sections I think. As a train enthousiast, and LEGO train enthusiast as well, this is a let down because it can’t do anything traon buyers want. Why not make it so that it would run on Lego track ? I know R40 is too narrow for this but there are lots of track brands where you can go much wider radius scale to make this work. But here’s my cool thought. There is not a lot going on on the LEGO VIP section, ever, to spent points on. If you have points for $200 in coupons (like me), or even more, then it could be a whole different situation where the price is ok for having this as a “show piece” only ?…. I’m thinking about this last option… 🤔

Well, it makes sense why the passenger carriage doesn’t have bogies; because if the track is of different size we won’t have anywhere to run it anyways. I’m quite a large fan of Harry Potter, bought all three big sets this far, Castle, Owl and Diagon Alley,… but if the train just sits there, and looks pretty, but doesn’t do anything else than collect dust;… I will put it very low on my buying list for now. $499 US (around $540 after taxes) is a lot of money for an oversized paperweight with three tiny lightbulbs… I love Harry Potter, but I’m also a straight thinker and get to see the “waste” in buying this set over other ones on my list. (BTTF, Camaro, etc.) 😕

I am very sorry for you. That really sucks. Because LEGO updated my shopping day every day with the next “current day” date; I called them and asked them when the sets would be shipping for us here in the US. The answer I got, from a very helpful and friendly lady on the phone, was that it would ship at the end of August. After all the horror stories from everybody, and now you, we’ll see what happens; IF it actually happens. And then we’ll see what I’m actually getting,… if anything at all ?…. 😔

Congratulations ! I’m from the Netherlands as well, but live in CA, USA… It was my understanding that European countries are first with the deliveries, and then later the US will follow; so this is not surprising me, nor upsetting me. But it would be very nice to get my Chalet and Studgate Train Station. 🙂

Just got a new email again. Item still on Backorder, and will ship on 07/28/22. I’m on the USA west coast, so it will be at least another month of these updates.

That’s great ! I’m happy for you guys in Europe. I’m just hoping that for us in the US it will mean that not all hope is lost yet and there might the light coming at the end of the tunnel… It has been long enough, and the notifications are totally insane; they change by day to the next calendar day date !….🙄

I just got an email telling me the “Dispatch Day” for my set is 07/20/2022, and I know that will not happen and then it will be the week after,… maybe ? 😉

Thank you ! I don’t do Instagram but found the same message on Facebook. I guess I have to wait until maybe September, since I’m on the USA west coast.