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Yes, my finger keeps hovering over the buy button at lego.com to pick up double points on ninjago city markets. But an expensive modular coming up? Ugh. Maybe I’ll win the lottery in the next few months.

hmm, so I can either get double points now OR pick up this when I make my Jazz Club purchase. Decisions, decisions.

Hah! Glad it works for the Toastie family. Unfortunately my wife has a similar fabric buying habit so neither of us have a leg to stand on with the other. It’s both good and bad! Sticking to a strict monthly or annual budget is the only way to go for us.

I jumped on Costco.com a couple of days ago when I read this and was disappointed they didn’t even have it listed. Then I forgot all about this until I just happened to be shopping there today. Yep, a whole shelf of the helicopters at USD $169.99. I don’t often see price breaks on full retail in a US shop.

hmm, I thought that was directed at me.

Thanks for sharing. I like it. I particularly like the two floor apartment and I love the spiral staircase!

I was building a set with my 9 year old grandson this afternoon and he was struggling a little bit as he’s color blind. I’m not so I don’t know what all is the issue. I assume it’s a small percentage but I wonder if helping out those who are color blind is also driving the color vomit.

I have the mechanical aptitude of a ... well, I don’t know, but I don’t have any (Penguin with oven mitts on?)! Pretty cool looking build, though, very impressive. Large, but probably not very shrinkable without special purpose parts. I am looking forward to the new helicopter coming up. i mostly just had to comment on your “inordinately gleeful” comment. It completely tickled me! Great turn of phrase.

I will admit to being a “hoarder”. I could build for a long time out of the unopened sets hidden away in what my wife feels is every room in the house(!). But, I’m doing that because I’m retiring soon and enjoying slow builds at that time is one of the things I’m looking forward to and don’t have the time to do now. I’m aware that if I don’t buy in the first year or so of a model’s availability, it will be hard to get later. So I buy and hide away for the time a few months from now when I’ll crack open the Old Fishing Store and finally build it. Then move on to the next one. Just yesterday I went to the local Lego Con. I don’t think MOCing is going away any time soon. Was very envious of the skill and creativity in the awesome builds I saw there.

Just got mine in the mail, so excited. I was noticing in Sariel’s review and his build video that he was gloved up. I’m not likely to follow suit, but was wondering if that was a reflection of concern over lead in the parts. I’ve heard that expressed as a concern for non-Lego out of China.

Just finished getting through all 23 pages of this topic, which I bookmarked a while ago. Got together some spare cash and bought the motorized version. I can’t wait for it to arrive; I’ll be like a kid in a candy store!

Yikes on 42146! And this from somebody actually considering picking up the Titanic set (if it’s ever in stock again). C+ just doesn’t do it for me, I have no interest whatsoever. I was very interested in the Osprey with the “dumb” battery box, hope 42145 may have something similar (I’m a sucker for aviation Technic!).

I’ll admit I’m a little slow. I didn’t see any announcement when Lego recently changed their list format on shop.lego.com so I was a little worried that my wish list was gone! But now that I’ve figured the change out, I am having some new trouble. I’m trying to add 42128 to a wish list, and it won’t add it no matter what I’ve tried. The web page brings up my list of wish lists, and then when I check the one I want it briefly says “Added to Wish List” but then removes the coloring of the heart and doesn’t actually add it. Anybody else experiencing this problem? I tried 42123 and it added it just fine, I’m just having the problem with 42128. It doesn’t appear to be that it’s Out of Stock because I tried another set that’s also not available and it added it (would be a strange wish list if you couldn’t add out of stock items to it). So is it just me? What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Alas almost everything on my wish list is out of stock.

I’m just hoping some day it comes back in stock in the US.

My oldest is 5590 Whirl and Wheel Super Truck. Still have box, instructions, and all pieces.

I don’t want to disrupt the ideas discussion so this will be a quick question and out. I’ve been seeing this term “constraction” a lot the last couple of days for the first time. Is it a portmanteau of construction and action, as in a toy that is user constructed (Lego) but played with as an action figure? I assume it’s in common use in the Bionicle themes. thanks!

What an interesting stat to compute. I popped over to Bricklink to do the same and discovered that I joined Bricklink 15 years on this very day! What a coincidence. I should celebrate the anniversary by placing the order. I won’t actually, but I did just get in the mail today an order I placed a week ago. My numbers show only an order every couple of months on average.

Oh my goodness!! Thank you for doing this. Was so enjoyable to look through catalogs that advertised some of my very first Technic sets. what fun!

I’m late to this thread so I’m only this far into it so far. I occasionally peruse ebay for a chuckle. Just did it right now and I’m beyond even chuckling. What are people thinking? I see completed sales (not just offers, but they actually sold) for just the golden Wu for $75, and even one for $99! And multiple completed sales of the minifigs EXCEPT for Wu for $160. How in the world does this happen? I can buy the set right now online from Lego and get it for $300 with free shipping. Is this driven by blood in the water feeding frenzy? People in countries who can’t order from Lego right now? An extreme case of the gotta have its? Simply amazing

I must admit I missed out on most of the these themes, not because I wasn’t into Lego at the time, but because I foolishly(!) had too much of a focus on Technic. So this grouping does confuse me a bit. Classic Space, Space Police, and Blacktron all look pretty similar to me, except for colors and probably the stories. Same for Classic Castle, Lion Knights, Black Falcons, Forestmen, Wolfpack, and Black Knights. It does seem like it would split the vote quite a bit. i completely missed out on Pirates and have thoroughly enjoyed Pirates of Barracuda Bay and would love more pirate ships but even more some competition for them. So Imperials will get one of my votes. if a vote for Time Cruisers means we can get some cool steampunk designs, I’m for that. And I really like my Johnny Thunder minifig, so Adventurers will round out my vote.

Oh man, this! I got into Technic in the 8880 and 8480 era. This new Technic stuff yields some beautiful models that I enjoy building and playing with (hmm, I’m 57. Let’s say inspecting and examine instead of playing!) but most of the time when I’m building them I have no idea what I’m building. Just built 42040 Fire Plane (yes, I’m a little behind) and had a blast. I suspect that nothing short of a saw will ever get this model back to its component pieces, and most of the build I was pretty convinced I wouldn’t be able to come up with something similar with the beam and pin Technic techniques. This is a limitation on me I recognize. And studded Technic won’t come back, but I have been doing more System building lately because it is more understandable to me.

How does Lego accumulate parts that go into each bag in a set? I’ve seen videos of individual pieces being made in the molds, videos of the boxes of individual pieces going to and from the huge stock wall of parts with the robots, videos of minifigs being painted and put together, and videos of bags dropping into boxes to complete a set. But I’ve searched and never found any presentation on how the hundreds of parts are gathered, counted, and weighed to be put in a bag. How does Lego do that and are there any behind the scenes videos of that? I have a sneaking suspicion it’s a trade secret and that’s why I can’t find anything on this anywhere. I have a huge curiosity about this step because it seems like a little bit of magic to accomplish and would love to see it. Does anybody know of any behind the scenes videos of this? Thanks!

I’ve never watched a single Ninjago show or movie and don’t really know anything about them except they must be Ninjas that Go (??). I’ve largely been a Technic and Creator Expert (modulars) builder. I did pick up Ninjago City, Ninjago Docks, the 2017 Destiny’s Bounty and a few of the dragons because they attracted me as great models even without knowing anything about Ninjago. Now with City Gardens coming up that also appeals to me, but as a 10th anniversary tribute as it appears to be, I’m thinking it might be nice to know some of the Ninjago history (like who is this Lloyd or Floyd guy?). What would be your recommendation to get some knowledge in? I doubt I’m going to watch 10 years of shows, although who knows, maybe it will grab me. Would The Ninjago Movie give me a background or does that assume I already know it? How far back on the show (are there multiple shows - I really know nothing here) should I start, and where can one even watch Ninjago these days? I just realized maybe there’s even a web site (some wicki or something) that might give me the backstory. tldr; Where should a Ninjago noob start? Thanks!

Yes, happened to me too. Irritating as the only reason I’d bought the set at the time I did was to get the GWP. Otherwise I would have waited for a sale. Oh well. Tried for an hour and half and managed to get the police station and car. Whatever the IT people did while having the site offline for half an hour or so worked like a charm.

I was recently building POBB and ran across this part selection when building the rudder: this section has multiple 1x4 plates yet they stuck in a 1x4 with only outer studs (don’t know the name of it). I build very little of my own creation but I’m always curious about part and design selection so I can learn. The only reason I can think of to use this piece instead of another full 4 stud piece is that the bottom part of the rudder is easier to remove. I haven’t finished the build, perhaps that’s why. But I’m assuming Lego including an entirely different part comes at a cost so there must be a good reason for this piece. Anybody know the design reason for this part selection? Argh. I can’t figure out how to delete the picture below from my post!