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would harry potter be close enough

that looks amazing!!! time for me to trial and error!

That’s and amazing haul!!! I’m still happy we can order any pirate and castle pieces!! Any chance I get I’ve been stocking up!!! But it’s fantastic! So I noticed that Pick a Brick has a turnaround time of 3-4 business days versus the average 22 days from brick and Pieces, I must have ordered the same pieces before from BP yet I’m surprised at how my 200 brick order from PB!!!

That’s an insanely clean build!!! fun fact did you know the normal horse mantle fits in the new style horses? The head armor piece is the only one that doesn’t haha, I’ve been toying with the idea of changing my old horses with new ones and got curious haha

To add on what childe_Roland said, they also have a digital pre screening process when you submit it through their website, if it passes you can get your licensed piece no questions asked but we don’t know the threshold since it’s random, I’ve done from 1 to 3 pieces and still got it denied. I did it from the Lego Mario sets when my kids lost actual parts from some sets and I was trying to be the good dad by replacing lost Lego so I ended up bricklink them. If you really really miss an important piece calling them is the best option since they have the magic tools to grant your request. If they don’t have it they will replace it with a generic piece, etc.

I’ve also did a minor MOD to the 21054 White House, I hated how they used the grey bricks just for variety’s sake but not really accurate, I just tried to match up the windows on the ground level LOL Due to the scale could only fit 2 windows The real White House has symmetrically 2 more windows from the center, both versions only have 1 on each side, I think in lego form they did the best they could since making accurate makes it out of proportion, I’m really split if I should widen the windows, another pet peeve was how the side windows never aligned with the front and back so i also made them match up, it’s an easy fix, don’t know why lego never bothered for symmetry at least North Portico To my horror you can also add the east and west wing to the 21006!!! This is just to see how they would look like but it’s more accurate to size versus the version we see in 21054 I took the set you see in the pictures above apart because I wanted to modify it again, ended up ordering more bricks from bricks and pieces for the windows

Amazing set!! I always wondered what’s the big Nono mixing up blue coats and red coats? LOL

Uuuu sticker prints!! I’ve watched her do some work on cups and do shirt prints and I was like huh, what’s stopping me from trying to do prints on the machine i know it’s possible to cut sails since she has cut fabric before but i was curious if I had to be a graphic designer to make the machine learn the imperial pattern design, but I know the stickers are quality and would look almost identical to the original since they are expensive! I was curious to see if anyone has done it before but for sure I think it’s doable to print designs on sails since I’ve seen her make custom made t shirts for clients and a lightbulb turned on in my head! Just wasn’t sure about the stickers

Anyone attempted to try doing sails or printed stickers for flags on a cricut machine? I have a bunch of empty flags I got from lego I would try to print something on it. I'm confused on the whole deal but I know my girlfriend has a cricut and now I'm wondering if there's any templates for that matter. Thanks for your time and patience!

Just type in a random set with minifigures and look for the design Number, a torso for example is 76382 type that in the item number or element ID box from there you will pull up every single torso ever sold in the B&P from there, you will see out of stock and what's in stock also, you can also sort them by color, making it easier to go right into the Dark Green Torsos! Clicking the picture of the item will give you a detailed information regarding the color and description. If you have a hard time finding something you can easily go back and forth between bricklink or brick owl for older parts or same pieces with different ID's because some lego bricks are in a totally different category for example a 1x2 brick, you can find all the solid colors for sure but the transparent 1x2 has a different design id all together. So to recap, the Element number is the specific piece you are looking for, like a white 1x2 brick, this is found in the back of manuals, the Design ID is the number of said brick or mold but it will show the entire catalog available in all colors. almost everything, some licensed pieces are off limits unless you request them via missing pieces or broken piece section. They are more lenient because they used to ask for the serial number off your manual but now they have a process where it automatically knows if your lying about it or not. You can get like maybe 1 licensed piece if you are lucky but if you were looking for them in Build a Minifigure good luck they are pre made in my store at the moment because of covid, I have to check and see what's up now but would be curious to see if they still sold them over there, but with that said though, Bricks and Pieces is completely different from Pick a Brick | LEGO Shop which is what they have on back walls at their stores and from what I can see you can buy some Mini figure parts as of now!!!

Thank you so much, since I have no original plans I will change the towers completely, I just was not sure what I wanted to do other than to extend the pier with a mini fort or base, now that you mention it they do look repetitive, now I understand why both original sets have different styles!! Thank you! I used Pick and brick and went to town with their brick selection to make something out of both sets!!! I feel that all they need to do is open the sets in their museum and bam they can create molds all of a sudden hahaha

You are making me hope LEGO smartens up and does a POTC saga, now I want another Black Pearl and maybe with better building techniques as seen in the 21322. I just watched the first pirates of the Caribbean and currently playing TT games Lego POTC game haha

In my experience of collecting action figures especially Japanese die cast and regular figures from the 1980’s ABS has weakened colossally, for example a vintage figure from 1988 will be sturdier and last longer than the ones produced today, the biggest problem with action figures is joint breaking, they remade the figures using the same mold and the knees broke and warped easier than the old ones in less than a month. Nothing lasts forever but it’s been known Lego to have higher quality ABS than most. Something changed with regulations that made them change the ABS compound to last less, I’m guessing with the whole plastic environmental concerns but who knows. I just know in my experience heck even with NECA figures I can’t tell you how many pegs break just changing hands. Hence why I’m focused on LEGO the only toys that not only triple in value but also last longer than your regular usual toys. Some action figures are better off just being statues because broken pegs, joints and wrist pegs make them super fragile more than anything.

My only problem with lego is humidity, the clear lego pieces have turn to ABS Yellow out. Easy fix but time consuming to say the least

Thanks!!! I was paying attention to members here post about the torsos being in stock! Although I got lucky since I managed to snag a couple of helmets with them in an upcoming order also!! Don’t give up and religiously check the Bricks and Pieces everyday! It took about 20 days though for me Horses are back in stock including the helmets and Black Falcon shields for the time being!

Brick Fanatics quoted LEGO as saying"Australia/New Zealand: 12am BSTEurope, Middle East and Africa: 9am BSTNorth America: 2pm BST im in CST and by 8:00 it still wasn’t on the website, but around 8:05am it finally popped up, it was nerve racking but didn’t know they sold out that fast! the other coins have a future chance of being attained due to Lego saying they will reissue them but the date is TBD like you I missed out on the first run but I had my eyes set on this one!

This is exactly why you can’t please everybody, the biggest backlash I have seen on Lego Social media account is not transphobes but not including disabled mini figs. Lego shot themselves on the foot with this set by saying “everyone” which of course made a lot of people feel left out, but this is exactly when things turn political. I mean granted disability is not only physical but still mental also they want “wheelchairs”

We know they can do it a POTC Saga collection if they deemed so, same thing with Indiana Jones I have a feeling they completely might take advantage of possibly the last movie in the series just for that reason to be honest!!! With that said though my Dream would be to own at least another copy of a Black Seas barracuda just because my original was left in another continent and had no way of thinking it would be big back in those days

😭 My biggest regret is underselling this set at the time, now I see the value of the ship and the Queen Anne’s Revenge pre owned and omggggg I’m pissed at my self for doing so, someone should had talked me out of doing it in the first place. It was a fun set, but the QAR was the best!!! Quite frankly I’m hoping with an upcoming POTC we can get our wish and have the TLG release a new version of the Black Pearl given how it was restored after Dead men tell no tales to be honest so you must understand my disappointment whenever all we got from that movie was just the Silent Mary… With that said though also regret not getting the entire POTC line up when I had the chance because I remember seeing them on the clearance aisles But I was like nawww I’m good I’ll get them later, little did I know that Lego Pricing on retired sets doubled if not triple afterwards hehehe. Back on topic I wish I can another shot at the original Black Seas barracuda, like I’ve been preaching up and down on these forums Lego would make bank re issuing older sets as they were considering how they have backups of them in their libraries… a feat not every toy maker or company does but who am I to complain to

Thank you managed to snag one!!!

My only question is why lego piece 3626(the mini head) on the bricks and pieces keep being out of stock from all colors, this set just might help me with that and those awesome hair pieces

I saw the light when I was 12 lolol. Looking back at some old catalogs is astonishing how many smaller sets I had but back then they felt huge. I wish Lego would re issue older sets the way they are not do remakes or reimagined versions for once, they could literally make bank on the older sets granted some molds don’t exist but my understanding is they literally have a museum and store every single LEGO set ever made so was the problem lolol Castle, Pirates and Space please!

I always loved the design and style of the White House, I managed to mail(at the time) former presidents about it and got different post cards directly from there also, I must have designed thousands of sketches of a version of a White House I would love to live in and did the math on how much it would to build a real one(after a Chinese Billionaire built an exact replica of it in China) so whenever LEGO made both sets of a White House with the 21006 and the 21054 of course I jumped at both releases to get one, I love the sets but always felt they were off in proportion and back in 2010 when the 21006 got released I bought 2 just to make an accurate at the time but it always felt off and incomplete. With the release of 21054 I completely fell in love with the new style and design and addition of the East and West wing but also the redesigns of the south and north porticos IMHO, granted it’s not perfect but beggars can’t be choosers and it’s an easy fix. The trees, bushes, I love it all so I took some ideas from 21054 and went back to 21006 to make some additions and touches, I got the order from Bricks and PIeces but I ran into a colossal road block that I didn’t see and was the fact that 21006 relies on hollow blocks than system blocks for the windows so I had to go back and change up how the windows looked, granted It’s a hit or miss for me but I ordered 2x1 bricks in trans brown for more of a see through design I think, please let me know what I can improve upon, this is somewhat the final version of it since I must had change it up like 5-6 times since the south portico wasn’t really trying to fit the way I wanted. I changed the north portico roof to match the overall color of the roof as an alternative look: Hope it’s up to your liking!

I thought we were getting a working elevator when I saw the doors but nawwww, the good thing is that they placed them in the back so maybe it’s do able to add your own later on!!! I for one is kind of disappointed we didn’t get an Electro figure but that’s about it

Wooooo my Harry Potter roofs for the new sets came in!!! I completely forgot I also squeezed in some Black Falcon pieces in there as well hehe, ordered around April 23rd, marked as shipped around May 11th, Delivered today!!! (It’s laundry day sorry for the mattress !!!!)