ShilohCyan

I'm getting back into Lego the past year and a half after a semi-hiatus during the 2010s and I find myself lacking basic pieces in the colors I need since they just weren't plentiful when I was a kid, and most of what I've bought as an AFOL has highly specialized pieces in models I want to keep together #11022 Space Mission looks promising for filling out my collection but it barely covers dark red, dark blue, and dark green which I need lately. So which sets would be good for stocking up on BASIC bricks, plates, and tiles in those colors, without resorting to bricklink or pick a brick? also curved stuff in both light and dark grey?

idk, I've found myself trying to get sets I wanted but missed lately. Winter Village sets are gonna rise and fall in demand at the same time every year, and retire shortly after. So to buy a bunch up at that time would be bad. I feel way less crappy about buying a bunch of 501st battle packs in the middle of its shelf life than when it's about to retire and people are rushing to get it. THAT feels more like artificially affecting the demand far more than just getting several when they're still being produced but readily available

Obviously there are those of us dying to get our hands on sets we wanted as a kid and willing to pay the prices. But.... At what point does "collecting" mint sets bleed into scalping? The way I figure it, if a set's still on the market and being produced, it's not like a ticket where a limited number are available. The 501st battle pack and Bonsai eventually adjusted the supply to the demand for them. But still. I'm at the point where I should start saving and "investing" and I'd rather do so with something I love than play the stock market game which morally repulses me. But my thoughts on saving sets in mint condition isn't much better.

Does the moon featured in the recent promotional set use a sticker, or is it a print?

Hey, after building the May the Fourth homestead set and hearing about a rumored 2021 set, I'm getting into mini/micro builds. I'm ready to build a Death Star diorama for the original trilogy but I'm struggling with ideas for the prequels and sequels. Coruscant would be more grey next to the Death Star, and I don't need more desert if I have Tatooine on display as well. Christophsis would be just another city and trans blue would be hard to find in the quantities needed. As for the sequel trilogy, they don't stay put very much. Jakku and Pasaana are yet another desert on top of Tatooine and maybe Geonosis. Krayt and Starkiller Base would look a lot like Hoth which I might do. Takodana, D'qar, and the jungle from 9 I don't remember the name of don't have enough important events. So what are 1 or 2 planets from the prequels and sequels that would look different enough from Tatooine and the Death Star that would make sense to have battles raging overhead? and please keep your "prequels/sequels suck" comments to yourself. They're irrelevant and the OT is my priority anyway.

Finally have wifi and using it now. Or trying to. I uploded my bricklists but can't get to transfer to the shopping cart. Something about synchronization past 48 hours blah blah

YES!!!! Thank you!

Thanks for trying to help but this has nothing to do with what I'm looking for.

Disney Channel original series Phineas, Ferb, Perry, Candace, Doof, Kim, Ron, Shego, Drakken, Dipper, Mabel, Stan, Ford, Wendy.......... Todd and Riley?

Officially, a few 501st battle packs, the X wing, and the tatooine homestead from May the 4th. From Bricklink, bObA fEtT'S sTaRsHiP (I understand the name change and it always rubbed me the wrong way as a kid but still) that I got with no minifigs for $27! (I have Mando and prefer the older minifigs so have a Boba and carbonite han on their way)

Hey, I've been replaying Lego Star Wars 1 on PS2 for the first time in probably about 13 years, and staring at the superkit Tantive IV. If you don't remember, getting True Jedi status in every level got you a piece, and completing it would unlock the bonus A New Hope level. Anyway, I've seen only two builds of it outside the game. One looked like a digital render and the other was part of the massive Dexter's Diner MOC someone made. Anyway not the mini one that came with the UCS star destroyer, nor the one from the planet set, will do it for me. I want that chonky boi from the game anyone know what pieces I have to get/have instructions or do I have to meticulously take notes as I do another playthrough?

So beautiful. Nearly every day I lament how much Lego snubs the PT and attack of the clones specifically. Jango's S1 and the speeder chase haven't been released since the movie came out. None of Padme's ships, no Lars homestead, no Geonosis Arena or droid factory or Jedi Temple or Padme's apartment or Senate building. And yet we have so many T16 Skyhoppers, Imperial Landing Craft, and Flash Speeders that were in the background for a few seconds each. Anyway well done. it looks really great!!

Good to know it was out of stock. I suspect the dickens and mclaren sets returned only to make space for the UCS gunship and vidiyo stuff etc releasing 8/1.

title says it all. With the Christmas Carol set returning, and the McLaren polybag before that, having been mostly on the sidelines of Lego interest for the last 10 years, I was wondering what the chances of the Ideas Vintage Car gift with purchase are, and what the purchase requirement was last time. thanks!

right but I mean.. how would I know what I have and don't have afterwards, without counting every single piece yet again

But I mean on Bricklink, say... the doors someone mentioned. Will the bricklink list only consist of things like that that lego doesn't make, or will everything be on bricklink? maybe I should see how this thing works first.

Not sure if this is a good place. So I got the modular bookstore and the free Christmas Carol set in the recent sale (my store was out of the mini adidas :/ ). I was gonna stick Scrooge in the bookstore and had the idea to just fill it with classic literary characters, but the vague naming of CMFs can make this difficult. I know of "Mr. Good and Evil" and totally-not-sherlock Detective CMFs, the various totally-not-Frankenstein and totally-not-dracula, and little red riding hood from the Ideas book set. Totally-not-poseidon and some other greek myth characters. (The Journey to the West gang but I'll also have Flower Fruit Mountain on display so probably not). Who else is there? debating but might ultimately decide against characters like Harry Potter, Dorothy, Pooh, and Frodo since those are based on the movies rather than the books, but would still like to hear suggestions in that vein!

I've used bricklink before for retired pieces and minifigs yes, but trying to avoid waiting 6 weeks for some parts from 87 different sellers. I do have a bricklist of every modular but the bookstore, and every winter village set. but even if every piece is available that'll be easily a few thousand dollars, and difficult to keep track of each retired piece I don't have. I might start with the palace cinema and 50s diner if at all. pick a brick at my local store (which, I'm thankfully a 30-minute bus ride from the only one in my state) is pretty darn small. it's like.. steering wheels. carrots. yellow 4x6 plates. mixel eyes a lot of useless stuff tbh. I did it a few months ago just for the containers and struggled to fill one with anything useful. This is just what I needed! but I just moved and don't have wifi. Guess I'll have to head to a coffee shop to see if this works in the states but THANK YOU! Any tips on determining what to leave on the bricklist that isn't produced anymore? or does the browser automatically delete them?

Hi okay first post. I forgot what I originally joined to ask but here we go so after 10 years I got back into Lego, leaving as a bionicle geek and coming back as an AFOL. A few days ago I bought the bookshop, which I intended to be my only modular. But now I'm craving the full line, as well as winter village. and I don't have $800 to shill out for each one. I know not every part will still be made, but I honestly prefer Lego's Bricks and Pieces site to Bricklink since the parts still being produced are generally cheaper without a middleman, and come from one source all at once. but it troubles me just how long it would take to enter every part number from a brick list. Does anyone have experience doing this?