eldiano

I agree, that canon has to go! One of the other roofs has a canon space that’s perfect but it’s facing the crane. This set is so modular that the manual is legit split into sections, like the first book is just the ship, the second book is the main entrance and front wall, the other book is the rear turrets, etc, like you can start off on random parts of the fort if need be!!! I stocked up on imperial soldiers any chance I got a while back, but now I need to build my other pirate sets to see how they fit with this one hehe. The next four months are going to be brutal waiting to see if they do pop up or not!!!

This is why I had to build the set first I think, when you combine it and look at it in person, I saw ways to expand it. It's a technicality because they were going for the modular design, the main focus of this set is to be modular when you connect the rear wall to the top of the governors office, the canon doesn't give you that's much room for him to be there anyways, my logic is to move the cannon more to the right and expanding the balcony because there's more room and actually giving him a chair and a victorian statue or bust. What I love about that specific rear piece is that the balcony and room at the bottom can be expanded like 1 or 2 more studs. I'm leaning towards getting a second one soon just for add more rooms but a total surprise to me was that in the manual it tells us that the rear portion of the fort is a pier for the 21322 Barracuda bay and the front pier is for the imperial trading ship lol This set is meant to be displayed in its modular form, I think a second set would fix this bad boy into recreating a more accurate fort: Poor governor can’t plan anything in this room The base of that specific section can be completely saved with the amount of room still available though

I share your same concern, I’m the type of consumer that voices their opinion when companies like amazon stick a shipping label to the actual box of lego sets and arrives beaten up and damaged. Like I mentioned Lego will take care of you said anything happens to it in between but generally they arrive in good condition. I know some lego fans throw out the boxes but not me, I keep them because they are beautiful, especially this one, My lego store knows me so well they keep my sets boxed up so I can buy them with the shipping box, included. For me it’s extra storage protection that keeps the cardboard scratch and dust free. For me to be honest shipping boxes are my GWP, this is why I like to buy them when they get released since it’s one of the few times I can buy one closed like that.

I posted a picture on my previous message so you can see the comparison above!! to be honest the cardboard on this set is thinner than 10305. I feel that this one can be damaged easily during shipping, but to be honest one of my barracuda bay sets was damaged from shop.lego and they managed to send out a new one with cushions inside the box that time 🤣 El Dorado has some interesting building techniques but the more I dig deeper into set, the hope of building an extra imperial trading post, is fading to the sea. I am happy extremely happy building a new pirates set from 2023 but it’s sad that we have to put up with paying more for less, like F1stzz mentioned the printing quality or lack of any printing is noticeable, I wanted to defend it so bad BUT once I saw that the imperial hats had no prints, I went over board. MIND you if you don’t have the previous wave you really won’t miss anything but if you compare them side to side, I am soooo glad I stocked up on imperial officers from the chess set and buying a bunch of sets around this time. Haha look I’m loving this set, but the minifigures feel like they were made by bootleg company. Yes they are different but imperial clothes are not as shiny/reflective as the 2015 line up, even the armada flag has no gold trims. What I mean is that the other figures had more details in the clothes than these ones. I just want to say that I’m extremely happy with a new imperial set, I love it, but I’m just being nit picky with stuff that I could possible change in the future. That governors office had me in tears, I thought I could fix the door but that doorway is 3 studs wide only haha BTW Roebuck mentioned that lego has locked the admiral torso/admiral hat and admiral flag as an IP so we won’t be able to buy them directly from PaB ever or for a long while.

The shipping box has no cardboard blocks, it’s a bit loose on the sides and a snug from front to back. Definitely not like 10305, when I was carrying this set around I felt the box moving aside from the bags of lego

Wait, but why? It makes no sense, they could markup the prices by 50% and I would buy it, why didn’t they do this with 10305 lion knights castle? as I currently build I’m currently build the el dorado fortress, I am happy with the xtra red epaulettes though 🤣

Patience is a virtue!

I knew I wasn’t crazy, i remember those prices, but I thought it was a victim of the price increase because it’s 99.99 currently.

This sucks, no wonder they haven’t placed the galaxy explorer on clearance yet, it’s sad they are holding the classic torsos hostage as well for that reason!!!

Thanks for the heads up!!1 Did they ever sell the classic space red and white torsos from 10497 galaxy explorer on PaB?

Snagged one last pic before leaving the store. This is in Texas

I quoted it directly from the manual 🤣🤣. Either way Lego’s turn around time for BaP is six months now, There wasn’t a line but only like 3 people were there at store opening, but managed to snagged a boxed up one 😭. i don’t think that Lego stores had much room for display anyways This is hilarious, I wish they still put them up before release date like before

What terrified me was minifigures, bricks i can swap out easily but the other day I was adjusting my collection and moved around some figures to my horror a couple of them had stiff arms around the joints, but I thought they were just stuck because they were new, i hardly use my figs and nope, the torso and arm snapped and broke off in pieces. I noticed that if the arm is super tight, if you force it more it will break, so far I did the dumb thing to apply some wd-40 and it kind of helped since it's smoother but plastic in general is not as strong because of complaints about it's lifecycle. As of late gorilla glue is my best friend.

So Lego's storyline of this fortress is that it's an older version of it, it's seen it's battles, similar to barracuda bay. It's continuing the story. 6467652.pdf (lego.com) Existing parts are up already: LEGO® Pick a Brick | Official LEGO® Shop US I can't to purchase a few imperial and admiral hats and those red epaulettes.

It's live on Shop.lego on the US. limit is 3 per person.

I don't want to give you a wrong answer but stateside goes live at midnight EST, I don't know what time zone it could piggy back off in europe and the people I asked on different lego forums haven't given me a straight answer period, check it around that time, the good news is that this is not a disney set that's set to fly off the shelves but lego could make lower quantities of this set and sell out, it could go either way to be honest.

I’ll get the majisto GWP but I literally did just win a blacktron auction for 25.99usd 🤣🤣 a great price considering the others were 70 and above!!! I’ll head on over to the Lego store tomorrow morning.

One more day!!!

Currently owning the 2018 hog warts express and thinking of getting the 2023 one, is there a preference over the 2018 over the 2023 and viceversa? What’s the general consensus on it? To be honest, the only selling factor for me is the hogsmeade station because I think the train looks barebones compared to the other one but I can’t compare both yet, thanks

Well Indiana Jones is neck in neck with this one, websites are making it seem like the flash flopped hard but yet when Dial of Destiny made 5 million more than the flash did on opening weekend, they are saying it’s a victory. One of the industry accurate websites are saying that Indiana Jones is cursed but because audiences are discerning between watching movies on the big screen and screening. I just think it’s funny how polarized reviewers now, there’s no in between anymore.

Makes me hopeful of the upcoming el dorado set figures being bestseller in their future as well

I've never done it, but I was curious.

That price tag helped out a lot as well, people didn't like the 399.99 at first, lego is unpredictable either way because GWP can sell out super-fast. I mean, to be honest I have heard you can purchase random sets, return them and just pay for the price of the GWP but we shall see. The Disney 100 GWP sold out from shop lego already...

I wanted to be there Tuesday day 1 for this set but I missed out on the Blacktron set and i am conflicted on really what to do, do i wait until the following week or what? Will this set fly out of the shelves and be backordered the moment it goes live, I have no idea what to do, but as usual lego likes to release GWP in the middle of the freaking month for who knows what reason and it sucks.

I’m conflicted on waiting until July 11th to purchase El Dorado. I mean at this rate the Blacktron promotion is only running from July 11th to the 15th 😭😭