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Well potentially you may regret adding the figures, but that's what I'm trying to find out. Yeah the tracking is confusing at first glance. Having placed many orders with S@H over the years I can say that the tracking changed recently to include the Oldbury reference. Although it says Parcel this undoubtedly seems to just be when info is sent to the UK to say the parcel is coming - if you follow the tracking on DPD website, they don't even have the parcel at this point. As for the notice on the Lego website, I'm afraid I don't trust it as it goes against everything I've read. If Lego was shipping the parcels to us from UK warehouses then the items would already be in the country and customs would be nothing to do with us, but they're not and are still shipping from Belgium. They wouldn't be the first company to have a notice like this on their website only for customers to find out at their expense that the information is wrong. If it's true, then that's great, but I can't afford to chance it with a larger valued item. I hope you don't get any extra charges. :)

Not sure if this is the right thread, but I couldn't see where else to put it, so here goes. Has anyone in the UK bought from Shop@Home after Brexit and spent more than £135 in one order? If so, did you get charged the 20% VAT by Lego at the checkout and did you get charged any additional import duty and a courier fee? From my understanding of the new rules any purchase my from S@H now that's over £135 could incur both customs and courier charges which could significantly add to the price of an order. If this is the case then that means I will no longer be able to buy large sets from S@H and in many cases probably not be able to make an order to hit a promo threshold. As we all know, £135 is not a particularly high threshold in Lego terms so it limits purchase options significantly. My latest purchase is the Ideas Blacksmith's at £134.99 and I do have to wonder if Lego purposefully made the UK price a penny under the threshold for this reason. I would appreciate Lego making the situation clear on their website for purchases, but seeing as the onus is on the buyer for £135+ they probably don't want to advertise the fact that you could get hit with an unexpected and potentially large bill pre delivery. Any info would be most appreciated.

Thanks for the clarification.

@Guyon2002 told us that his source believed that there was potentially a couple of anniversary sets coming this summer, although whether they were retail or gift with purchase sets was unknown. So anniversary sets are a possibility and like I said, I can totally see them doing the same as with the SW anniversary sets and throwing in a yellow figure. But there is no proof four sets are coming; this IG leaker is unreliable anyway from their profile activity, plus he edited his post to change it from four to three sets, so I wouldn't expect too much.

I can if they are specifically anniversary sets, even if they aren't all yellow skinned, but a 'special' extra figure just like the Star Wars 20th Anniversary line.

If it is true, I see yellow skinned minifigures incoming. Considering I was a child when these were new, this would make me feel very old.

Ah I see. I agree the Boga is far more likely to appear in microfighter form than fully realised especially considering the dual pack microfighter pattern as you say. But then again pairing it with a wheel bike would logically mean including General Grievous and Lego really don't like putting him in cheap sets. I certainly wouldn't see them putting Cody in that set - they must know fans want him so why put him in a cheap set when they could make us all buy an expensive one to get him. If they did do Boga vs Wheel Bike I'd say we'd get Mustafar Obi-Wan and maybe the new Airbourne Clone now that it's been in an expensive set for a while. Or even a plain Phase 2 or 212th (would make many people buy multiples). Good mod. Looks much cleaner. Only thing I disliked on first glance was those dark grey joints.

I think that would be a good set, but why would it be an obvious choice for 2022? Also, this is Lego and they don't do obvious choices anyway.

That is just beautiful. The hair cascading down the side is really clever. I wish I had the same creativity and parts to create such a masterpiece.

That is unfortunate. The order limit isn't 200 pieces total, but 200 pieces of each part in one order. I've never done it, but theoretically you could order 1000 pieces 200 of 5 different pieces or more even. It must be the fact that you've ordered the same part by the sounds of it over and over that's flagged - must look like you're restocking a store. But I did the same thing once when I needed some tiles for an MOC - well I say the same, I bought 100 2x2 tiles on about three separate occasions. Tiles don't go far when you're creating flooring. So I think it's absolutely ironic that they're penalising you for buying parts directly from them to use for creative purposes and MOC exactly as their product is supposedly intended. Sounds like you'll have to go to BL from now on, but who knows, you might get parts cheaper and faster in the long run and help out the little person at the same time.

Ouch. I have heard of bans and that a ban really does mean a total website ban, but mostly it was for people abusing B+P repeatedly for free parts. I've definitely read small print before somewhere on the B+P site warning that the parts are not for resale, but then there was also a form or something you used to be able to fill in if you wanted more than 200 pieces of a particular part which seemed to me an acknowledgment that people may want to buy bulk for MOCs and such. I think you may have had to provide your reasoning on the form though. I can't seem to find any of that info on the site anymore though. Even so considering that B+P allows you to order up to 200 of each part at a time that's quite a lot of parts they allow you to order. Just how many parts have your ordered if you don't mind me asking? There's one user who regularly posts their B+P hauls on the Licensed Bricks and Pieces thread and from what I can see they regularly order a whole lot of parts too, often the new and interesting parts as well which could seem like the patterns of a reseller (not saying they are just what it could look like to Lego). Yet they've not been banned as far as I know. All you can do is ring Customer Service, but I haven't heard good things about getting accounts reinstated. :(

It's a good figure. I think it's the smile or something, nothing major just something feels a little off. But like I said, I think in person it might look a lot better than at weird camera angles.

Piglet minifigure just leaked. Looks a little off in the face to me, but it might just be the angle of the photo.

I know, but that stands for most UCS sets yet the standard minifigure inclusion is more often that not the pilot even so - A-Wing, Y-Wing, Snowspeeder, etc.

Huge mound of salt applied, the amount of figures seems totally believable, but a UCS Gunship without a pilot minifigure does not seem plausible to me.

@icm Don't worry I did this yesterday. Difficult when you're working from a translation and like you say you consider them trustworthy.

No I don't visit the site unless steered there from elsewhere, but I know in the past they have interviewed designers including those of HP and thought they just posted solid stuff unless it's April 1st. Well never mind.

That's the thing, I thought they were reliable and also I'm having to work from Google translate not being able to read German and couldn't see anything suggesting it was in jest. Won't be going there for news anymore!

Is it? Ah sorry I didn't know. Can't say I see the humour myself. That's good anyway - apart from Myrtle's bathroom I can't say it interested me.

Scabior was on the bridge in the film yes, but Greyback was somewhere too as you say because he enters the castle and attacks Lavender. I was just thinking of a figure they might reuse in that set when I mentioned Fenrir.

@Tommy269 I'd say Neville might make an appearance - Lego seems to like him - and he does have a pretty memorable role at the end of the movie with Nagini. Seamus also has a fun part along with Neville and McGonagall - 'Bow it up? Boom?' 'Boom!' Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics.' I could see a bridge set perhaps with those two and Fenrir. I think and really hope we will get Narcissa Malfoy and would also love a Kreacher and Bogrod.

That is true, although there are always fake leakers anyway. Thankfully we have a couple of members on here who are usually able to give us a nod as to whether a list is credible.

That is true, although even so there was some discrepancies and translation problems which left room for errors. A lot better than nothing though. However, as the toy fair is online and open to anyone to view like the main toy fair we don't know if retailers will be getting their open separate 'back room set' viewings separately as fair as I know. Lego may not be willing to risk showing 'secret' sets online - people could screenshot their screen for example to take product photos and after the catalogue leaks they're probably feeling less than trusting - although they could just give retailers descriptions to counter that. Just thinking out loud,

Me too. Nuremberg was a bust last year for HP. And speaking of busts, that was pretty much all that was revealed for Star Wars and Marvel, the Iron Man, Stormtrooper and Boba bust and D-O. Very little license theme sets were on show.

I thought it was ... somewhere. ?