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Hi All, Don't post often (ever), but I just got to the infamous steps 267 - 269 on my Porsche GT3R and found something very interesting. Bit of background; I'm from South Africa and we only received our stock of the Porsche GT3R in the last 4 days or so, meaning we've most likely received the last version IF TLG made any changes to the build. (As a side note, TLG seriously underestimated the interest and stock levels for SA. I spoke to several specialist and mono brand stores about 6 ago and all had already sold out on pre-order. They tell me that TLG had only assigned a case or two per chain. I eventually did find a national chain that had "1" left yesterday. They received 3 sets in total across their entire chain, and other general toy store chains I spoke to are only getting max 2 per store on request only. There will be no more stock coming into the country after September of the GT3R. TLG really need to get their act together, same thing happened with Ghostbusters Firehouse here in SA) Back to the gear box story; I just finished building the gear box about 15 minutes ago, making the changes that have been recommended on various blogs and forums to get the gear selection into the right order. I though I'll test out the drive speeds on all 4 positions using a PF motor attached to the drivetrain. Lo-and-behold, the gears went 1st-3rd-2nd-4th with the correction! I double checked this a few times, then decided to put the gears in steps 267 - 269 back in the right order and re-tested with the motor. The gear change occurred perfectly and in the correct order! Obviously the change TLG has made is in the gear box in undercarriage of the car and not the transmitting gears in steps 267 - 269. Looking forward to hearing if anyone else has seen this on GT3R's purchased recently?

Not sure if this has been posted yet, but descriptions of the three wave 2 sets with some interesting tidbits, especially the figures on 70815 70814: Swing the twin wrecking balls of the massive Construct-o-Mech!. Prepare for the ultimate battle with evil Lord Business! Join creative forces with Master Builder Emmet to make this massive Mech. Open up the cockpit and place Emmet in the driver's seat. Knock over anything that gets in your way with the swinging wrecki Swing the twin wrecking balls of the massive Construct-o-Mech! 70815: Pursue Emmet and the Master Builders in the awesome Dropship! Lord Business' Robo Police have invaded Cloud Cuckoo Land in their high-tech Dropship and are in hot pursuit of Emmet, Batman™, Green Ninja and Johnny Thunder! With a pair of Robo SWATs at the controls in the dual cockpit, fire up the rocket boosters for Pursue Emmet and the Master Builders in the awesome Dropship! 70816: Count down for lift-off in Benny's dream Spaceship! Benny may have spent too much time in space with a lack of oxygen, but this wacky character is also a Master Builder. Help him construct the Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP! of his dreams then help the heroes to evade the Robo Police interceptor. Open the Count down for lift-off in Benny's dream Spaceship!

Hi CopMike, I actually double checked now, but never received a mail saying the goods had shipped (only order confirmation and an invoice). The two most frustrating part of this are: a) S@H clearly stated 22 Aug ship date - which I then took to me it would be perfectly safe to ship as I knew there would be someone to receive it in the UK. b) Nobody (and by that I mean both LEGO and TNT Post NL [who shipped the package]) put any effort into assisting - just kinda kept passing the buck back to one another and both said there was nothing they could do at multiple points along the way. TBH, the reason I'm posting here is I had no joy out of LEGO customer service, and I'm hoping somebody at TLC sees the post and tries to assist.

No. The issue was with the shipping from S@H to my friend

(FYI The Title was My 41999 returned to sender accidentally, no stock, so order cancelled) Hi, First time posting (been driven to it by a very fustrating ordeal with S@H). If this is in the wrong forum Bit of an introduction - I live in South Africa and LEGO locally were not going to be receiving 41999 Exclusive 4x4 Crawler. I subsequently ordered from S@H UK to be sent to a friend in the UK, who would then courier the set to me. When ordering (1 Aug), the ship date was 22 Aug. The friend receiving was away the week 5 - 9 Aug, so this was no issue. S@H actually shipped 1 Aug, no one was there to receive so the courier sent the package back to LEGO without contacting myself or the friend receiving. Called the courier, they were unable to reroute the package back to delivery address. Called S@H customer support to assist - feedback was that they are unable to send me a new set because the set is not discontinued, and are unable to send me the set originally intended for me as this is not allowed by their system! (Therefore order cancelled and money refunded). Personally I find this very unfair and extremely due to the fact that I'd ordered in time and the issue was caused by a miss-communication on S@H's part

Hey guys, My first time posting - been lurking around for too long. Anyone know when the DC sets will be available in South Africa (and the rest of the Winter 2011/2012 lines for that matter)?