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Thanks, certainly will, I've already got that one on order (also in blue just for the fun of it) - because I was missing some blue lift arms that I had to order as well. Although most likely I won't change the model that is for sale.

Thanks for the advert then.

Thanks. How about a diorama with the 42042 crane?

Thanks - indeed, if you look at 8042: it uses blue vehicle with yellow light. Possibly dark orange light would have been better just for the sake of change. Selling this is a cost recovery operation, I've spent 600 euros in parts - mainly for this project, but I do have some left over parts. But I don't think I have to justify the price to anybody. This eBay auction is not for Eurobrick forum members, who make awesome mocks and frequently order large quantity parts. It is for somebody who does not have the time to thinker with that. For sure you might be able to build it for less, but how do you value your time? It is a major logistics exersize to get the 700 parts and the right parts. Factor in that I had to ship all BL orders to NZ, which adds significant postage costs. After you've managed to build one, I doubt you'll be able to offer it on eBay for 50% of my asking price considering the eBay, Paypal fees and the risks associated with the site. So please stop worrying about it. If anything, I am a little unhappy that you've used my image without permission and listed this for others to copy my idea. I didn't advertise it for sale here, so there is no need to comment on the price, if you don't want to buy it, close the auction page and it is gone!

Thank you for the mention, the 8455 in yellow used to be super collectible and very expensive. It cost me quite a bit of money to get these parts together, not even mentioning the amount of time it took to arrange the orders and build this. I won't build any more of these - that is for sure. The reason I swapped some dark grey to light bluish is that the original yellow was overall lighter color than the blue, so the lbg helps to lighten it up. In hindsight I should have ordered orange light, the blue light is just too over the top, trans light blue, perhaps?

Hi Lenny, I think I may have bought the last one on eBay! I've been following this thread from the beginning, but then almost missed the middle that you are selling them. It is unbelievable design, just the right size with the studs and scaled to the excavator. A certain company should offer you a job with these skills! Thank you and regards: Robin

FYI: the rules were clear on that: no military themed vehicle on rebrick.com!

I agree with Jim. I think it is fair to discuss the competition rules and judging process in general, but time has come to accept that the judges decision is final. Jim has gone above and beyond to assist us to gain closure, he has demonstrated that all judges acted in good faith and done their best to be fair and impartial. I personally feel that Lego as a company has let us down, they have provided too little guidance and clarity in their rules. Watch the again, they spoke about a dream car, but then mentioned that any historical car, existing or future cars qualify, entirely up to you. I've misinterpreted the criteria and concluded that an original car design would rate higher on 2 points and didn't realize from the rules that digital models receive a mandatory mark down. I feel that if I had taken the time to build, photograph and upload an entry, it should have been formally assessed, scored against all 4 criteria and I would have liked to receive a score back to know, how to improve in the future.“In the beginning I looked around but couldn’t find the car I dreamed of, so I decided to build it myself.” - Ferry Porsche Now you can go in the legendary footsteps of Ferry Porsche and build the Porsche of your dreams using LEGO bricks. We are giving you complete creative freedom to build within the Porsche brand design and LEGO Technic look and feel. Whether you prefer to build a sports car, a race car, a historical Porsche tractor, or another Porsche model we invite you to build the Porsche of your dreams with no limitation to a specific era or model type. The judgement will be done in two stages, where first a panel of 3 expert LEGO Technic guest judges will select 20 semi-finalists, and later a panel of judges from LEGO Technic and Porsche will select one grand prize winner and nine runner-ups from the 20 semi-finalists. In both stages, the judgement criteria will be: Overall coolness and originality (25%) Most inspired details and functions on the model (25%) Understanding of the Porsche brand design and competition theme (25%) Overall LEGO Technic look and feel of the model (25%)

A bit disappointed that dream cars never had a chance compared to prebuilt and existing models, but I don't think it is fair to expect consolidation prices for also competed: Lego has been already extremely generous to offer prices to 9 runner ups - a total of 10 winners!

Thanks for the info, interesting. It is a difficult job, because there were lots of great entries and the stakes are high... So there bound to be disappointment either way. I've also noticed that TLG themselves call this competition an AFOL build competition, the uploaded picture of the price is named as such. I'll probably buy the Porsche regardless - although it might be a while until it becomes in stock here in NZ.

I've really liked the unique usage of an element as a gear for the headlight. But in all fairness, the Porsche 914 is modeled after an existing vehicle, not as original as the 6 wheeler racer: OTR-666 for example! That one should be a top 5, if not the winner. The OTR-666, V8, Cayenne concept, Mission E, Black & grey Prototype were my favorites, but I am not a judge. For the sake of full disclosure: my entry was the Roadster - completely different from the others, but still carrying the design elements of a Porsche - original, demonstrating an understanding of Porsche brand design, fitting the competition theme and have a Technic look.

Another question for Jim,if he is allowed to disclose what was the judging process? Selecting a top 20 list or evaluating each and every entry on the 4 judging criteria and coming up with a score? Then the 3 judges scores combined calculation would bring up a semi finalist list?

Yes, strange. The focus of the theme from the video was supposed to be a new design, a car that does not actually exists. If you go through the semi finalist list, most of them are the usual 911 (2x), 906 (2x), 917 + 918 and 919 (4x) variations. Great models, but not very original. Certainly not something that I am skilled enough to build from scratch within the time frame allowed for the competition. Entering an existing build gives an unfair advantage of more time allowed, because the rest of us only had 8 weeks to build a car. The judging criteria was published in the rules: Overall coolness and originality (25%) Most inspired details and functions on the model (25%) Understanding of the Porsche brand design and competition theme (25%) Overall LEGO Technic look and feel of the model (25%)

Congrats to everybody, who has made it. There were more entries than I've expected, although the 119 contains several duplicates, in any case, there are lots of great entries. I've completely misunderstood the purpose of this one and thought that a Dream Car is preferred, not an existing Porsche. I've thought that the flying cars and the 6 wheeled racer would be in the top. The tractor selected is one of my favorites, if Lego made it, I'd buy it. But I am not sure about the overall Technic look, ie, if Lego made it, it might be a Creator model?

I hear you and you've have more experience with this as you've opened one. Then again, why did the internal boxes get crushed from the weight of the manual? Shouldn't the parts in them prop them up as internal support? There seems to be lots of empty space the way the tires are packed.

While I did enjoy the 41999 special packaging, I rather dislike the Porsche oversized box for multiple reasons. Hear me out, this relates to pricing. TLG has sent a press release years ago, about how sustainable they will become by making the product packaging smaller. Sounds great, except the boxes are ever growing. For example, the 42030 Volvo had to get a deeper box to accommodate the large bucket. OK, but why not reduce the footprint of the box while increasing the depth? The 42030 box is half empty, you can shake the Lego in there. When the Arocs came out, which does NOT include an oversized bucket, they forgot to go back to the normal sized box. Sure, it has tons of parts, but the box is not chuck full, there is lots of room. All the parts could easily fit into a normal sized flagship box like the 8043 had. The 41999 box was actually quite nice fit - might even been a bit smaller than the 9398 box, with higher parts count, beautiful box indeed. This Porsche box should not be any deeper than the 41999 box... It is as if marketing is trying to justify the large price by showing how big the box is. My objection is not only as an environmentalist, but as a smart customer. Transporting these large boxes around the world must cost a fortune - part of this is the very reason for the high asking price - here it is 600NZD (which appears to be the highest cost around the world: equals roughly $563 AUD, $419 or USD 368 Euro), I'd consider buying it in a small box that is filled to the brim, if it was 30% cheaper - if they decided to pass the needless transportation overhead cost back to the customer. I think that in the old days, most boxes were the same sized as the built Lego, so you could neatly pack the built item away. You can't do that with the Porsche anyway, not only because you don't want to hide this masterpiece display item, but also, because it won't fit, but you still have to store a needless large, beautifully artwork box... Also amazing that we had all this discussion about the price per part, but there are plenty of people, who are happy to pay a hefty premium to be the first to buy this off eBay instead of waiting to grab it from a local toy shop at normal retail price. I also feel that I'd only buy a 2nd hand or a well-reduced sale Porsche - no rush to buy it at full price even if there is a chance that I miss out.

Toyworld in Wellington also has the blue crawler crane (42042 - $220), Ideas Big Bang Theory ($110). These are also available online. I was told that they could not put them out during the weekend, because the product codes were not set up in the computer. They also had the full line up of Star Wars Ultrabuild (Bionicle-style) figures. I was a bit disappointed in the pricing, those start from $35, $45 for Obi and $60 for Darth and Grievous. I was planning the buy them all, I've also got the complete set of Super Heroes similar styled figures. I'll try to wait for a sale though. I was advised not to wait for a sale for Weall-e - out of 12 they've already sold 4... So it is not going to last long.

Unethical, maybe criminal? It might be fraud to offer a low value like this. That buyer has a pattern of asking for buy now on recently listed items - I guess it is a worthwhile pursuit. Then again, the seller didn't bother researching and most likely would have been too lazy to sort them out, even if advised the individual set values. Was only interested in local pick up, so that also eliminates lots of potential buyers... So I guess it is just a lucky purchase - outsmarted all other bargain hunters. It will take days to separate the sets, complete the missing pieces, so of course the buyer should be compensated for all that effort with a handsomely priced modular building!

I wonder, if Lego Shop@Home uses some sort of bulk container shipment - so that the orders are then possibly packages or at least distributed by the Lego NZ? I haven't ordered from them lately, but I'd try to stick to the $400NZD limit unless it is otherwise guaranteed or confirmed. They might have sorted some logistics out, I know that in the first years the items would travel from the Netherlands via DHL. I don't think you can order from the USA shop@home due to credit card fraud issues, official Lego statement: "In an effort to protect personal consumer information, LEGO Systems, Inc. has elected to no longer process shipments to Third Party Shipping Vendors." http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=82234 Besides, the YS volumetric shipping would make it prohibitively expensive, Lego packaging itself is already large, but then the Legos in an oversized box are a recipe for disaster. Your shipping costs will negate all savings. In the worst case scenario, Lego would ship multiple packages which are then treated separately. YS will charge you customs fees up front, I don't know, whether they've got any clearance fees, but Prezoom also used to charge extra fees for acting as an import agent - allegedly passing a cost that Customs charge them. I've got hit by that once and the Legos ordered were more expansive than local mrsp...

I was too a bit disappointed when I saw one sold Friday morning at 9:15AM and being told that it is all sold out. However when I went back Monday morning, there was one sitting on the shelf - so turns out they sold each day 1! That is not bad, I doubt there is much profit for them at 30% discount... Also interesting: they didn't have the same policy on the EV3 - there were 4 on the shelves both Friday and Monday... It was tempting, but hope to buy a slightly used one instead. There were no Ewok Villages on Friday and also no Parisian Restaurant.

In all fairness, a couple of his sets are brand new... With that said - as a lot it is overpriced for my wallet and your advice is solid: brickpicker is a better price guide than what he bases the values on. On the other hand, bp is the average of US domestic eBay price, your mileage may vary after shipping them here. I don't think the buyer has the right to comment on the pricing unless perhaps in case of a genuine offer. The best way to beat high priced sellers is to advertise the same item 50% cheaper - but I only have a couple UCS sets and I am certainly not in the position to import all these sets for resale without any profit. It doesn't sound like you want to part with your collection either. I remember that there was a big collection of many 4-5 UCS sets and lots smaller sets from Wellington that sold for $1700 years ago on TM, but that is one of the few amazingly lucky deals.

http://www.karorirotary.org.nz/events/lego-expo/

The Wellington show was great fun for little kids. As far as I can tell only 3 person's collection were displayed: 1) The local Toy World manager had most of the large UCS, London Bridge, Tower Bridge and Eiffel tower on display along with 2 Lego store displays (2013 Star Wars figure line up and another with 2 smaller EP3 sets). 2) There was another person with a MOC train and building combo plus a line up of some of the most impressive Technic larger sized cars (2x Silver champions, 4 x 4 and the red car) plus some tractor (including a very early and the modern red with the green attachment) and backhoe loaders plus motorized bulldozer and excavator. And the original Technic space shuttle, very nice collection, although some sets were dusty. 3) There were a couple MOC Yellow Cranes including a really interesting MOC fly-jib (?) attachment on the latest motorized Mobile Crane - very cool. About 1/3rd of the school gym was fenced off and had tons of Lego parts for kids to build and enter into the National Building competition with a streamlined photo process - every entrant received a Lego Movie promo polybag. Some age group (7-8 year old) speed building competition had mini police helicopter polybag handouts. Those 2 events were run by 2 Lego employees? There was also a Ronald McDonald show - but I didn't see that, but noticed the actors. The event was ran by Rotary club and the entry fee was $2. I was also impressed by the huge collection of Lego advertising sails displayed - Bricklink calls them retail display flag - there must have been 50 of those... ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************ Unfortunately lots of TM novice sellers use the Amazon Market Place asking prices as valid sales data. More realistic would be to use the Bricklink completed sales information. I bought high-priced UCS X-Wing and Star Wars Technic sets from non-Lego-fans that were missing lots, had damaged (cracked or faded) pieces (plus modern color replacements) - but were priced according the international standards. I intended them for my collection, but was shocked at the bad condition... I am not saying that the UCS collection is in bad condition.

That will be the only one sold this high in NZ... A huge number of them are available in various Toy Worlds. Some of those are already on TM for $500, but, if the competition keeps up, they shouldn't sell for over $350. :) I've passed on the set from Lego.com, but saw some cool reviews and got caught up in the excitement of it selling out. Now I am the proud owner of #17162 and I've also built up a 9398 for good measure...

Must admit that I've managed to order one last time around along with a Nerf gun only to find my order canceled a day later - due to out of stock for both items. Disappointing and didn't even try to order this time - it was out of stock anyway....