mscott71
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Packing up my winter village for another year and I have my first wish for next year's set: Better structural design than Santa's Post Office. It's the last of more than a dozen winter village sets that I'm packing up and it's the only one that's going to need a full rebuild next year because just trying to pick it up has it in pieces - even after remembering that none of the roof pieces are actually attached to anything.
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No sign of the new parts in Canada. Not sure why we're considered a separate market from the US since that's where the non-Billund parts ship from, but hopefully they'll show up for me one day.
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Our store still has the BAM tower as always but also has a selection of pre-built ones for people who are just looking for specific figures. Depending on whether the staff has time to put them together - the figure with the dark blue space torso seems to go as quickly as they can put them together.
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The nearest Lego Store in Toronto tells me that they finally got the accessories for the Q3 BAM figures in. Not the figures themselves, but if I want baguettes, butterflies, apples, etc they're in. I was in the day after they said they had the newest pieces in and the dark blue space torsos were already stripped from the BAM station but they still had them in the back so at least I got caught up on the current batch.
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The local Lego Store has the tower while the Legoland has the fountain. What I really preferred was when the nearest Lego Store had a set of drawers behind the counter with each of the pieces in the BAM tower in a separate drawer and when it wasn't busy they'd give customers access to it so that you could easily build a full set of whatever the current BAM figures were without searching through the random mix of things in the tower. But head office told them they had to stop doing that.
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Up until recently the local Lego Store had all of the new BAM parts sorted in a set of small drawers so if you wanted to just get a set of all of the new pieces it was easy as long as you didn't try to buy more than a certain number of any given piece. But apparently corporate told them they had to stop doing that because it's better to make customers search through the tower. At least they'll still go in the back to get the parts that I can't find in the tower.
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On the plus side, if the GWP isn't happening then I have no reason to spend more money on Lego this month and my wallet will be happy. ;)
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I finally found the black dachshund today in Canada, so I feel your pain. Still waiting to see if the 2021 parts will show up eventually.
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There's usually one in November for Black Friday and one in December.
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This year it's the Halloween Owl (40497) and the Spider and Haunted House pack (40493). They don't do the seasonal vignettes every year. It usually alternates between a year of vignettes and a year of buildable characters. Last year was vignettes, this year is characters.
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I don't dislike the chess set. Of the new sets that I'm unlikely to buy because it doesn't fit with what I usually collect and I'm running out of space, it's the set that I'm most likely to break down and get anyway. But that being said, it doesn't fit with what I usually collect and I'm running out of space so it's not on my must buy list. ;)
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On the topic of goats, I remember seeing a rumour that the goats that pull Thor's chariot will be in the new Thor movie and I knew immediately what set I wanted them to make. ;)
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On the other hand, if they wait until next year to release a Gringotts, Diagon Alley might finally have come back in stock... ;)
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I'm finding the app disappointing and clunky. The minifigs are what I'm most interested in so that's not really tragic, but it is making me second guess whether to get some of the beatboxes and bandmates for my niece's birthday since I don't think she's going to have the patience to use it much.
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This is the first Ideas set in a while that I think is better than the original submission - and I really liked the original submission. Happy to take the trade off of getting all of the new head moulds meaning stickers instead of printed tiles. I just wish that Pooh had some printing on his stomach to make him look chubby instead of just a raised shirt that looks like a crop top. But even that is a minor quibble and bothers me less than it did with the original leaked image of the torso.