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Just saw in the latest BigW catalogue 7208 Fire Station for $94 and 7207 Fire Boat for $58.74. 8077 Atlantis Explorer HQ was $57.72. The range of the new Lego games was also reduced.

If anyone in Melbourne's west is looking for Series 2 Minifigs, Target at Highpoint had over 20 boxes of them. Several boxes were unopened if anyone wants a full box. I was a little bit surprised to see that I wasn't the only person there using a printout of the barcodes to identify the MFs. Hopefully they will last longer than the Series 1 minifigs. Highpoint TRU was a little disappointing, the Public Transport Station was nowhere to be seen and the exclusive 7848 Truck had managed to sellout at the ridiculous $69.99. Watergardens Toyworld have the Kingdoms Advent calendar in stock and are expecting S2 MFs in a few days.

No, I haven't seen the impulse sets anywhere. TRU Highpoint has a space for the wizard but was sadly empty. Lots of series 1 minifigs, at $2.99 each. They had 4-5 boxes, several unopened. Bryan

Target are now stocking the Kingdom sets including 7949 which seemed to be missing from Toyworld shelves. This was at Northland which also had a couple of boxes of series 1 minifigs. I now have a full set after getting a zombie, clown, cheerleader and a few others. Bryan

If anyone in Melbourne is looking for 10197 Fire Brigade, Toyworld at Watergardens Shopping Centre had two marked down to $199.99 from $299.99. Bryan

Saw 8097 Slave I in Kmart for $144. Also saw 8093 Plo Koon's Starfighter, 8095 General Grievous Starfighter & 8096 Emperor Palpatine's Shuttle. This is the Kmart in Ballarat so I would assume that other Kmarts in Victoria have also got these sets on the shelves. Bryan

Photos of next years Power Miners set appear to have a couple of 1x3 tiles in lime green. It looks like TLC has been listening yet again. Bryan

The new minifigures look good in this set. The vehicle looks okay but the jail looks like it might still be a work in progress. What does surprise me are the new 1X3 tiles in lime green. These should make a few people very happy. There appears to be two on the drink dispenser. Bryan

The TLC finally charged my credit card a couple of days ago so all is good. S@H must have been pretty busy over the holiday season. Curiously my order is still listed as "in process", I hope this doesn't interfere with future orders. I guess time will tell. Bryan

That's pretty much what I thought. The bit that really surprised me was that the package was sent at all. The S@H website still shows my order as "in process". Bryan

I recently (Dec 26) placed an order with S@H worth a little over AUD$400 which I picked up from the post office today. Everything I ordered was in the box and in excellent condition. The odd part is this - my credit card has still not been charged. Has this happened to anyone else? It almost seems as if the warehouse worked over the Christmas break while the office workers took time off. I might have to give them a call to fix this up. Bryan

Count me in too, please.

I noticed this weekend that 7979 Castle Advent Calendar is already sold out (Australian Lego S@H). I hoped that it might have lasted a bit longer. The city calendar is still available. Oh well there is always Bricklink. Bryan

Please count me in. Bryan

Target in Bourke Street Melbourne has Agents Mission 7. Myer have the Mars Mission Ultra Drill Walker for $100. I thought this was a S@H exclusive but happily I was wrong.

Count me in.

I just picked up 7676 Republic Gunship for AUD$144 from Target at Chadstone. I finally get a Gunship after missing the earlier version due to my dark ages. I also got an email from S@H that my order for 7628 Peril in Peru is on the way.

The new SW Clone Wars sets are now available at the Chadstone Target for 20% off. The sets on sale were 7673 MagnaGuard Starfighter AUD$64, 7674 V-19 Torrent AUD$80, 7675 AT-TE Walker $120 & 7676 Republic Gunship AUD$144. Chadstone TRU also had the AT-TE and the RGS. The RGS was selling for th einflated price of AUD$190. They also had 7680 The Twilight for AUD$150 and 7681 Separatist Spider Droid for AUD$50.

Yes, the 7666 Hoth Rebel Base was AUD$99.99.

If anyone is looking for 7666 Hoth Rebel Base, I saw a dozen or so sets at the Chadstone TRU today.

These price increases seem to becoming a regular thing, well at least here in Australia. First Green Grocer and now the Death Star. It certainly looks like it pays to jump in early these days. I know I did.

Had a busy last couple of days picking up the following 10178 AT-AT 10184 Town Plan 7037 Tower Raid 7624 Jungle Duel 7732 Air Mail 7737 Coast Guard 4WD & Jet Scooter 7886 The Batcycle: Harley Quinn's Hammer Truck Also ordered 10188 Death Star & 7628 Peril In Peru My wallet might need a few months to recover after all that.

At work I saw a man whose name is Lego Brick. I don't know if he changed his name or was born with it.

Target also have the new Batman sets including the Tumbler although I didnit see Batman's Buggy. Well at least Target Southland had them.