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:thumbup: For me it's the overturned apple-cart is what makes the whole scene lively. Absolutely love wave foam too.

4. Dix - 3 Corner design is awesome, the interior looks great as well, would so love to have this Inn in my Winter Village! Great job!

Hi CF, hope you had nice holidays. Just registered at Kiwi Bricks as well, it's great for the Kiwi Lego community to have a dedicated forum.

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Thanks. I only check out the stores occasionally so unless there's a 30% sale mailer you have nothing to worry about. Sorry to hear about your funds i.e. lack of those... Well I guess the thought that you can't afford your hobby is itself a motivation to search for a job intensively. Yeah, sometimes it's hard to tell with Amazon, you kinda dwell on the price until it's too late and its gone. But if you just have the item in the basket (panier) or saved for later (mis de côté) keep an eye on it, sometimes it suddenly comes back in stock, like Death Star did recently. If it does, also check Amazon.es & Amazon.it, these two seem to be somehow parallel when it comes to items in stock, with Amazon.es generally having the lowest prices among all three. But then there's always the problem with ES and IT not shipping most sets to NZ (some weird random selection which changes through time, usually simultaneous with the change of pricing on the item), so it's worth taking the item through the checkout occasionally just to make sure. That Tower Bridge on TM has such a shiny box, I keep looking at it with envy... But it is stinging, isn't it, when you know it's not worth that much atm but you would so love to grab it. Well you can always snatch it in a few months time when it reaches this value if you don't get lucky searching for it elsewhere in the meantime.

I see, I definitely missed it then at the time somehow. Good luck with the Tower Bridge, you might as well consider getting it off TM in the near future, while the value is still below RRP, it never hurts asking sellers if they would do a reasonable price but you know that as being one of them. I got mine from French Amazon a few months ago but the box was so damaged (torn in fact) that I'm quite reluctant getting any more of these heavier sets off Amazon. But if you can get it for a good price it's certainly worth it, although I can't see them listed on any Amazon atm so maybe its days are counted... Yup, might be seeing you while scouting for Lego deals You have five of those?? Wow I really need to check out Farmers sometime to see what else they've got. Seriously, still? I was so desperate that in the end I got it off German Amazon. Btw, there's 20% off on selected Lego in Toyworld atm.

Yup, Lego is most of the time overpriced there (and it hilarious to see people on TM sometimes advertising those prices as retail ) but its worth checking it out every now and then... I've been looking for City of Atlantis and Fishpond had it for $100 with free shipping a couple of months ago, which I thought was a good deal. The only other shop I could find it at the time was ToyPlanet... Does anyone know how come some sets aren't supplied to physical stores? I asked at Toyworld Dunedin about it, can't remember what they said though, probably that they will receive City of Atlantis sometime this year, but it is peculiar that they stock Portal of Atlantis released in 2010, which has been 50% off for a while now but that there hasn't been a trace of City of Atlantis yet (or maybe it is already sold out and I missed it, but I doubt that) - why are some sets delayed and others not? For instance, a few months ago they received Pet Shop (2011), Imperial Shuttle (2010), Tower Bridge (2010) and Imperial Flagship (2010) all at the same time...

*Waves back*

Same here. We get one of each set at least one of us likes so we have a shared collection. It's also great to share the building experience, especially of larger, repetitive builds (e.g. Tower Bridge ). I was nuts about Town sets when I was a kid, then forgot about Lego for a decade or so... But realising they started designing AFOL sets made me jump right back into legomania.

About NZ$3500. Would have spent more if I could afford to though. Knowing I still need to get Eiffel Tower and UCS Millennium Falcon gives me a headache.

JUSTICE LEAGUE So far only watched the first season on blu, loved it! Also, ROBOT CHICKEN: STAR WARS SPECIAL (I & II) Awesome portrayal of Palpatine

Indeed. There's something weird about S@H pricing - charging full RRP which supposedly includes a 'sales tax'... Got this reply from them when asking about pricing: "In each country we have to pay Taxes on products and it is not about LEGO. This is about the Government issues. We wish we could refund the Sales Tax but we are not allowed to do so." Jeez, they so DON'T care about customers... Not to mention that they included a wrong invoice with the shipment, stating a lower price than was actually charged with all of contact details on it being false! Still don't know what happens when you buy a set worth over $400, do you pay customs when it arrives to NZ or not - does anyone have any experience with that? I would think not, as it seems to get repacked in Auckland before it is actually shipped to your address. I wish there was a proper NEW ZEALAND Lego online store Guess I'll have to stick with Toyworld p.s.: Hi guys

You people are hilarious! Anyway, I was tempted by this kind of ads too (knowing I don't really have $2000 for this awesome set atm, browsing online for a bargain and seeing those cheap prices on diytrade.com... boy it does look inviting) but had no idea this existed on eBay as well, jeez and I thought eBay trading and paying via Paypal was safe! Well, good luck to everyone who fell for it, hope you get your money back. I guess I'll just have to grab a Falcon locally if I can locate it for a reasonable price, at least I'll know what I'll be receiving.

Same here. I got fairly excited reading rumours this would possibly be released as a Large Scale Model, so a bit disappointed. Great for Architecture line though, I think it's awesome that also non-US buildings have been designed for this lately.