Lego

[Gavster]

Any of you lot getting the £150 Lego Crocs?

[jamcg]

They look like some of the shit that 5 minute craft bollocks comes out with on Facebook

[Jobbo]

Any of you lot getting the £150 Lego Crocs?

Anyone considering it should probably build their own

Here’s another unwise Lego build:

[Jobbo]

Muppet theatre this week:

[DeskJockey]

Muppet theatre this week:

Where did you get that from? That's awesome.

[Jobbo]

The theatre is a Friends set from a few years ago which I bought intending to put Muppets in it. And I’ve finally done so. The Muppets were a series of collectible minifigures which again I bought a few years ago. They seem to be madly priced now so I’m glad I did; if you like some Lego buy it before it goes out of production and prices ramp up.

[DeskJockey]

That's a shame (for me). Minifig prices are silly. DJLet2 wanted some star wars ones and they were £10+ each, and nowhere near the most expensive ones either.

[Jobbo]

You had to be canny with what you buy. Most Star Wars minifigures are going to be available in multiple versions and probably included with some sensible priced current sets. Get them in the regular discount sales at Argos or Smyths - generally price-matched by Amazon - and that’s the most cost-effective way.

[DeskJockey]

That's what we've been doing, but for those ones he sweet talked grandma when she took them to a toy shop.

[Barry]

Picked up one of these at the weekend, haven't opened it yet and I'm not expecting Lego levels of inginuity but its a Honda innit

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[Jobbo]

I went to the Lego store to get an upscaled blue spaceman on launch day. Being a Sunday the Birmingham store in the Bullring opened at 11.00am, but I remembered there was another store at the Discovery Centre and that opens earlier. So I had my shopping done in a civilised way before heading over to the Bullring to see the queue

After being amused and going elsewhere, the big queue had dwindled enough for me to go straight in at 11.15. But the mania which leads to the queues outside stores is surely evidence of a bubble. Wonder when it’ll pop?

[Barry]

The adult Lego world does seem overly fanatical, but Lego are clearly capitalising while they can.

That said,I just don't get these new play brick sets, expensive and not actually much better than the usual sets tbh. Not including a brick in every set is just rude too.

[Jobbo]

Agree entirely with that Barry. One of the two other people I spoke to before the store opened on Sunday was a teacher who said he was buying one of the new smart play sets because he was intrigued about how it might help kids learn. From what I've seen it's basically a sound generator so not at all I think that was an excuse because he likes Lego. It'll be the same dead end as anything else Lego put out like that; Lego is a building toy, not an electronic game and even if they came out with something amazing now, their history of not supporting this sort of stuff for very long means it would be a hard sell.

[Jobbo]

Sorting Lego takes quite a while but it’s very satisfying:

[Barry]

I won't start the rabbit hole of how you organise, as that seems to set the AFOLs off too Si

Just watching Youtubes and the lists of retiring stuff this year is concerning, SW Falcon UCS and Venator

[Jobbo]

They are sorted not just by colour - though the sorting by piece is mostly in little bags in each one.

It might be easier if 1x4 SNOT bricks of all colours were in one compartment but there are too many parts now for that to work for me. I do keep wheels, windows etc separate.

[unzippy]

Do you not get any help sorting @Jobbo?