Re: What I bought today

by SnapLock Wed 05 Jun 2013, 1:20 pm

Kaila wrote:
Hey not bad, are they from Amazon by any chance?

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I bought them of off Gumtree and went and picked them up today. The palace cinema i also got from gumtree but cant pick it up now due to work until next week. legoskulltransform

lol
lol

by Kaila Wed 05 Jun 2013, 3:04 pm

SnapLock wrote:
Kaila wrote:
Hey not bad, are they from Amazon by any chance?
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I bought them of off Gumtree and went and picked them up today. The palace cinema i also got from gumtree but cant pick it up now due to work until next week. lol
lol

Not a bad price for Gumtree considering most of the stuff on there is a total rip-off these days legotounge

I saw a Maersk train on there for $260 which wasnt bad but he's in the ACT (Ya like who actually chooses to live there legotoungesmall

)
Saw another one just near me but the dreamer wants like $330 legorolleyes

Good to see you found something nice and at a decent price

by jigsaw Wed 05 Jun 2013, 3:33 pm

got this for $15 today

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by SnapLock Wed 05 Jun 2013, 5:58 pm

jigsaw wrote:got this for $15 today

Now that's a cool space set

by Kaila Thu 06 Jun 2013, 2:01 pm

Finally ordered another Maersk 10219. Why O why did I not buy 3 or 4 back when it was $130 >_< instead in that particular overseas order I bought a sopwith camel and stupid Olivia's house which are all too common and easy to find even now. So angry at myself for that. These days since focusing a lot more on trains those kinds of mistakes (especially regarding a beautiful set like the Maersk) are painful. Coulda had 2 of them for the price just paid legonothanks

by SnapLock Fri 07 Jun 2013, 3:01 pm

Kaila wrote:Finally ordered another Maersk 10219. Why O why did I not buy 3 or 4 back when it was $130 >_< instead in that particular overseas order I bought a sopwith camel and stupid Olivia's house which are all too common and easy to find even now. So angry at myself for that. These days since focusing a lot more on trains those kinds of mistakes (especially regarding a beautiful set like the Maersk) are painful. Coulda had 2 of them for the price just paid

The Maersk train is such a great set the locomotive is really impressive and just seems more powerful than other Lego Trains, i wish i had bought another myself before they jumped up in price, i think i paid around the $190 for mine that was a while ago now.

by SnapLock Fri 07 Jun 2013, 3:05 pm

Today i bought The Lego Grand Emporium from Ebay for $180 (local pickup)
So happy what a great looking building.

by Kaila Sat 08 Jun 2013, 3:54 am

SnapLock wrote:Today i bought The Lego Grand Emporium from Ebay for $180 (local pickup)
So happy what a great looking building.

Good price on a nice set Snappy.

by SnapLock Sat 08 Jun 2013, 7:14 am

Kaila wrote:Good price on a nice set Snappy.

Thanks Kaila, its been a while since i have gotten some great deals, i had almost given up legoscared

but then over the last few days i have found some sets i have wanted at good prices legohappy

by Kaila Sat 08 Jun 2013, 7:22 am

SnapLock wrote:
Kaila wrote:Good price on a nice set Snappy.

Thanks Kaila, its been a while since i have gotten some great deals, i had almost given up but then over the last few days i have found some sets i have wanted at good prices

Similar story over here, been checking everyday but sadly no good 80's trains appear to be coming up on ebay recently. legosad2

by timmyc1983 Sat 08 Jun 2013, 12:35 pm

SnapLock wrote:Today i bought The Lego Grand Emporium from Ebay for $180 (local pickup)
So happy what a great looking building.

Ooo that is a good deal for that set! Well done. I love the chandelier in the GE, it's quite a nice build legohappy

by **Free Spirit** Sat 08 Jun 2013, 2:46 pm

I like the Grand Emporium too and thankfully it survived one of the most traumatic misfortunes I had transporting it a year ago !!!

Unfortunately my Fire Brigade wasn't so lucky legosad

by Kaila Sat 08 Jun 2013, 3:02 pm

Check it out, forgot to post this one about the little hospital that came

What I bought today - Page 5 Img_3422

Get a load of the alternate models.. a boat, a plane, a house, lol!

(this gives me an idea for a new thread actually legohappy

)

by timmyc1983 Sun 09 Jun 2013, 11:02 am

Unfortunately no pictures, but today I made my last 3 Bricklink orders for my Green Grocer legoeyeshutlaughing

so excited! It cost only around $400 all up, incl postage, and that's still $200 cheaper than the cheapest BL'd set for sale and $300 cheaper than a used complete set, and the only brick substitution i made was 1 x 4 sand green bricks instead of the 1 x 8 sand greens (which are like $4 each, and you need 50 of them legounsure

) so i'm very pleased all up legoeyeshutlaughing

now i just have to wait 2-3 weeks for the parts to actually get here legoheadbang

by **peterab** Mon 10 Jun 2013, 11:02 am

I bought a couple more Medieval Market Village (10193) since they were cheap and they're a great parts pack. And you can never have too many cows. Or turkeys legosmile2

by Kaila Tue 11 Jun 2013, 11:51 am

peterab wrote:I bought a couple more Medieval Market Village (10193) since they were cheap and they're a great parts pack. And you can never have too many cows. Or turkeys

How much are you picking these up for again? Speaking of extra's I got my 2nd Maersk train delivered today. Still regretting not buying 4 of these when they where cheap..

by SnapLock Tue 11 Jun 2013, 12:46 pm

Today i got the Palace Cinema in the mail, i was going to wait for the weekend to build it...... legoeyeshutlaughing

like i could have waited that long lol legolaugh

so here's a pic of my latest 3 buys Grand Emporium,Fire Brigade,Palace Cinema.

by jigsaw Tue 11 Jun 2013, 12:54 pm

timmyc1983 wrote: and the only brick substitution i made was 1 x 4 sand green bricks instead of the 1 x 8 sand greens (which are like $4 each, and you need 50 of them )

i did the same thing for mine. prices for sand green 1x8 bricks is ridiculous.

mine cost ~$320ish i think. if you ditched the sand green all together, it would be easy to bring the budget in by $100.

by Ajax Wed 12 Jun 2013, 3:12 am

jigsaw wrote:
timmyc1983 wrote: and the only brick substitution i made was 1 x 4 sand green bricks instead of the 1 x 8 sand greens (which are like $4 each, and you need 50 of them )

i did the same thing for mine. prices for sand green 1x8 bricks is ridiculous.

mine cost ~$320ish i think. if you ditched the sand green all together, it would be easy to bring the budget in by $100.

Excuse my ignorance but which parts list/instructions do you guys use to build these older modulars? Where do you find/download them?

by **Paul B** Thu 13 Jun 2013, 1:57 am

I just purchased this:
http://www.brickset.com/detail/?set=8070-1

I had one a few years ago and then purchased one off a friend but he really wanted to buy it back legosad

This one is for me legohappy

by Red_Five Thu 13 Jun 2013, 5:55 am

Ajax wrote:

Excuse my ignorance but which parts list/instructions do you guys use to build these older modulars? Where do you find/download them?

I find Bricklink is the best place to get this.

For example, Go to bricklink.com, chose 'Catalog items' from the drop-down menu,
search for the set name/number,
when you have found the set you are after, click 'view inventory'. legohappy

by timmyc1983 Thu 13 Jun 2013, 8:55 am

Ajax wrote:

Excuse my ignorance but which parts list/instructions do you guys use to build these older modulars? Where do you find/download them?

It depends how old the set is, but there are instructions in pdf for free on lego.com in the customer service section, if it's an older set and they don't have listed anymore I use brickinstructions.com and just view it off the computer. But heap of sites have free pdf versions of most sets... legohappy

by Kaila Thu 13 Jun 2013, 3:40 pm

Managed to talk my dealer into selling me the clear plastic lid (which I was previously missing) for 7730.. so now it's truly complete legopartyhatsmile

by SnapLock Thu 13 Jun 2013, 3:41 pm

Today i bought The monster fighters haunted house from my local K-mart store. ,

Bit of a Bizarre story here When i asked at my local K-mart store a few weeks ago about when they would be getting The Lone Ranger sets in , the guy in the toy dept said, This K-mart has no intention to stock any of the Lone Ranger Sets but a new line will be coming instead in the next week. To my surprise it was the Monster Fighters Haunted House ( which isn't quite new), however i am still baffled about why my local K-mart will not stock The Lone Ranger sets while other k-mart stores around 50km away do.So any way i picked up the haunted house.

by SnapLock Thu 13 Jun 2013, 3:43 pm

Kaila wrote:Managed to talk my dealer into selling me the clear plastic lid for 7730.. so now it's truly complete

My 'Dealer' lol, but great find some of those inserts are almost impossible to get.

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