All Things LEGOS a.k.a. Bricks Anonymous Group (BAG)

[Droid747]

It sounds like the U.S. will be participating in the black falcon vip card promo. I wonder what deals holders of that card will get next year. I am tempted to buy this falcon early to try to get one of those special vip cards

 

[BurningRage]

Hello I have seen the new Lego falcon on the Lego shop but it's says it's not released until 1st October 2017. There is no option to preorder it and as I have never bought anything from the Lego since I was a kid could some please explain how the Lego store works for new releases. Does the new stuff go live at midnight and will sell out in seconds or does it go live at 9.00am when most shop open? Also I have seen on eBay people selling it already and saying they are getting theirs on the 15 September. Does this mean it has been released sooner elsewhere in the world first?

In the US it will go up for Lego VIP members Sept 14th. They usually go up online in the morning. People will be camping out at Lego stores the night before though. General release is October 1st.

 

[SwedishHeat]

So, you can see here, it's pretty good sized. This is the most recent Pirates ship for scale, the Brick Bounty. I used to have the Black Seas Barracuda, or whatever the "first one" was, I don't remember if it was bigger,

And here's all the bags



The instructions are almost as thick as my car's manual.



And of course, the stickers, just a few, they add some personality.



I remember way back in the day, when the bags weren't labeled, and you just dumped them all out and had to hunt for the pieces. Kids these days. . . they don't understand the struggle.

Okay, I will (hopefully) be back in a few hours with more pics.

 

[BurningRage]

I have the brick bounty The creator VW camper van didn't have number bags. Imagine if the UCS MF didn't have number bags

 

[magmax]

Thank you BurningRage at least I'll be able to go to bed that night I had visions of waiting and constantly refreshing the webpage until it showed it was in stock and by the time I login it would be sold out. When buying do you put it in the basket or do you have to go through clicking on all the road signs or shop fronts like some sites for limited items to prove your not a bot
Does anyone think it will be an instant sell out

 

[BurningRage]

If you're a Lego VIP you need to log in first and then go to the product page for it to be available. Rumor is that there will be limited quantities available. There's a lot of hype for it even with the $800 price tag.

 

[Droid747]

I really want this but I keep leaning towards the lepin falcon due to the price, but my wife got a new house end of last month so I guess I can get a new lego falcon. Plus I have about $500 cash back saved up from my credit card I could use towards this beast.

 

[screamingmetal]

So, you can see here, it's pretty good sized. This is the most recent Pirates ship for scale, the Brick Bounty. I used to have the Black Seas Barracuda, or whatever the "first one" was, I don't remember if it was bigger,

I still own my Barracuda. I haven't seen mine in 27 years or so, but it looks similarly sized. I think the Bounty uses the same pieces for the hull actually. I remember distinctly that it uses one large piece for the bow, three pieces in between and one large piece for the stern.

 

[SwedishHeat]

Okay, WIPs. . . apologies, around hour 6/ bag 5 I stopped taking pictures, haha. I had anticipated it would be around 4 hours or so to build it. When I finished the roof, there were still three bags left for Step 7. So yeah, it's a pretty monster build. Three bags for just the "lighthouse tower"

































The set has about 2000 pieces, I'd wager about 500 of them are just the teal tiles for the for the siding. It's nuts, you pretty much go around and build the walls, and then put the tiles on after that. It's pretty tedious, but damn, it's packed with detail.

I remember a few months back when I was building the Brick Bounty, I just thought there was so much more potential to pack in some detail. And this set almost makes me regret wishing for those details. There is a LOT of stuff going on in this set. There's tons of fishing/diving gear. In the hallway entrance you have breathing gear hanging up, with clear "heads" and then the diving helmets go on top of that. 1x1 squares make up the checkerboard tile in the 'office' room, there's a spider web thing that's at the bottom of the set that you barely even see even when you open up the wall.

It was the craziest thing, I was putting this little clear 1x1 tiles in the chest and I was like "This is just filler, what the heck is this?!?" Then I realized it was supposed to be ice cubes for the lobster. And then I was like "That's genius!" So yeah, when I say it's packed with detail, it's packed with detail.

Anyways, I think it was about 8 or 9 hours altogether building time. Way more than I had anticipated. Pretty fun set though. I still really dig the hap-hazard construction of it all. There's lots of wood 'slat' pieces that you can turn any which way on the roof, so it provides a bit of 'flavor'.

 

[DrewYojimbo]

Very cool looking set. Crazy amount of details. Looks like it would be great for parting out as well.


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[BurningRage]

Lego online shop has 2 limit on Falcon Take that flippers

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

Lego online shop has 2 limit on Falcon Take that flippers

Good. I'll be trying tomorrow night to get one online. Never had a problem doing this before, we will see.

 

[DioramaMaker]

I managed to snag the Ultimate Batmobile on clearance for $74.69 after taxes - I had been hounding it for weeks waiting for the price to drop on the clearance shelf.

 

[screamingmetal]

It must be nice to have a large table to assemble things on SwedishHeat! All I have is a TV tray.

I bought a complete Lego TIE Striker without minfigs for $34 on Ebay, not a bad deal for the real thing. I'll use the TIE pilot Minifig from the microfighter to put inside. It's an inexpensive way to get complete sets and bricks cheaply, I've done it for the First Order Transport and two First Order Snowspeeders without any issues.

 

[Darth Lam]

So will the Falcon go up tomorrow night, or do we have to wait until sometime in the morning on Thursday?

 

[TurdFurgusonsHat]

So will the Falcon go up tomorrow night, or do we have to wait until sometime in the morning on Thursday?

No guarantees, but usually they go up at 12AM eastern time.

 

[BurningRage]

 

[SwedishHeat]

That is just ridiculously large.

It's hard for me to justify $800 on that though.

I have a hard time with the Lego sets of 'realistic' things, they just end up looking simplified and cheap. When it's imaginary sets it's easy to see the Lego style, but something like the Millennium Falcon in Lego vs the Bandai model that's realistic, I'll always side with the realistic version.

 

[Luminous]

So this thing happening tonight? Do I need a specific link or should it show up for VIP members on the standard product page?

 

[aeseven7]

I'll be checking the actual product page, it's been a while but that should just change over and be order-able for us VIP members. If anyone knows different, please speak up tho, lol.