Vindicare

A friend and I go a couple times a year, if not more, on release day. Best of all so we don’t have to wait for shipping. But then there’s the parts wall & minifig bins to look through and see if there’s anything good to find. Plus, it’s just fun going to LEGO stores.

Seeing as it’s creeping close to its retirement date, I would grab it now. Especially with double points going on.

Well shoot…I’m not exactly in a hurry either, but I hope it ships on the 12th. Gives me more time to find a home for it I guess… LEGO seems to be drunk though, it keeps shifting from 60 days to the 14th, back to 60 days…now it says Feb 8th. At this point I’m just gonna check daily to see where it jumps to next.

I have backorder question, and since it’s Barad Dur I’ll ask here. When I ordered it yesterday it said ship Feb 12th. Now it’s saying 60 days. I’ve never ordered a backorder set, am I right to assume mine will still ship on the 12th & the now 60 day is because they got more orders?

You forgot GWP’s are a scam born of greed.

The Calendar was the weakest so far to me. I like the torsos & even more that we got two. The builds just weren’t neat. The real world items were fun & could make for some good photos, but I liked them far more when we got scale builds to make a scene or enhance the castle interior.

We’re definitely getting the Baron. Unless they suddenly change tack & go in a different direction. With each large section we’ve gotten a common room with the accompanying House Ghost.

Just finished building Hagrid & Harry’s Privet Drive Escape & have been trying to see who those Death Eater masks are. One looks to be Bellatrix…but I can’t find a list of masks & who wore them, if they’re not all generic or unnamed.

Ha, I’m with you! We have a handful of classrooms that have nowhere to go. Once this system is finally done, may have to build our own empty castle section.

Something I just realized(and very well could’ve been mentioned pages back) is that with each castle section we’ve gotten a common room with their respective House Ghost(starting off with the best House, Hufflepuff) So we’ll finally be getting the Bloody Baron with Slytherin’s common room next. I’d also like to see a remake, and better, Whomping Willow. It would probably be too much to hope for just the tree & Anglia…but it would be nice if no castle part was added so they could focus on the Willow.

If they didn’t have budget for a full grown doe, then that would definitely be a happy medium.

Man! Since this post I have more than doubled my collection. 1064 and 531,739 parts. My rank is now 4961. when I look at how many sets I want to add to my city but don’t have the space…I realize I have a large collection. Then I look at the general state of my Lego room, unopened sets piling up, bags of parts, piles of instructions….I think maybe I have too much(but then I come to my senses, that’s not a thing).

Ahh, okay. I was looking at the small Architecture Castle set to see maybe where it went. Nothing I saw that didn’t have a gray roof. It’s nice to see them adding to that side of the castle, something for the lonely greenhouse.

I’d like to see a full building Grimmauld Place. The one we got is pretty nice, but it’s just a facade. I have had plans to enclose it…but if LEGO would do it, that would save me time & part buying. To the castle, where is the First Flying Lesson chunk meant to go? It’s at the back of the instructions as part of the system, but it doesn’t show how it connects.

Pretty sure I’ve said this before, but considering how much their mech builds have been improving these last couple years, a Gundam license would be awesome(G or Wing would be my preference).

When I went on the first to get The Goonies set I was hoping to grab the T-Rex set as well. But they only had a few sets, not on the shelves, but a little display square.

This is amazing! The creativity & ingenuity is very impressive. I absolutely love the dragon, but I might love this more.

Man…what happened to this theme? The location sets were by far some of the best sets they’ve done….nd they’re suddenly done making them? Did this theme get. Whole new design team? Neither of this years offerings, much like last years, do much for me. And only two mini figs in the bigger set is insulting.

That’s a good one, @Graupensuppe

I hope this is just them trying to appeal to device addicted folks. This set is one I was most looking forward to. I don’t buy Bricklink Designer sets solely because they’re digital. I only built one set using didgital, and that was the fully Venomized Groot. That was more than enough for me, I hated it.

I love the Workshops but a few things are taking away from it. As mentioned the minifig lineup leaves quite a bit to be desired. Two generic City torsos is pretty lame in this set. That chef is a joke & they could’ve at least Ninjago’d the construction worker like they did the cameraman in Markets. I appreciate the departure from the usual locales of the series so far but it doesn’t really work with the old world that the previous ones showed. Industrial & feudal Japan don’t exactly mesh well. The right side building looks great but the garage door takes away from that feel. I also love the Mech aspect of this set. It reminds me of the real life Gundam(which I sadly never got to see).

Built both of this year’s offerings. Both were very fun & par for the course for this theme. They’re still distinct enough to be their own build. Live the new toros on MK & Mei. Putting this out there too in case there’s others like me...I just learned all five seasons are on Peacock.

Couldn’t agree more! I sadly missed out on the Dronecopter. While I haven’t looked recently, all parts to that Mr. Tang weren’t available through B&P(and haven’t looked elsewhere for him either). I really hope this theme hasn’t reached its end. It’s given us such great mechs & locations. The minifigs have been fantastic & a fun lesson in Chinese folklore on the side.

When I was reorganizing my minifigs I noticed Hermione in the Hogsmeade & Express set has a reddish brown wand instead of her normal dark tan one. Found that interesting & decided to share. (Hopefully I’m not repeating someone else pointing it out, been away from here for a bit)

Oh man, I would love that. All these great characters & it’s hard keeping up! Who’s related to who....and how. And all these cool places we’ve gotten as sets. More content about this classic story, the better. If this is the end I hope we at least get a Bull Demon King bigfig. I know he has the set, but he feels like a pivotal missing piece in the lineup.