Complaint Thread

[Darth_Raichu]

I have not bought LEGO for so long, S@H told me I have 11k points expiring in a few days

[vasp]

On 4/23/2025 at 8:12 PM, Darth_Raichu said:

I have not bought LEGO for so long, LEGO Shop at Home told me I have 11k points expiring in a few days

Do they email you about points expirations?

[Darth_Raichu]

On 4/26/2025 at 9:17 PM, vasp said:

Do they email you about points expirations?

Yes.  Email started 1 month before expiration date, then a few reminders as I got closer to the date

[oneknightr]

Same here. I have to make a purchase or use points by May 12th. 

[raindog]

I'm done with Rakuten!  They can french kiss my ass!

 

I recently purchased 4-18TB hard drives from Western Digital with 15% Rakuten rebate showing.  They insist that I am ineligible.  That's over $170 in rebates!  Over the last two years, I have fought and fought with them to get my LEGO cash-back.  I guess that they got tired and started disallowing everything.  They can do their market research without me.  If they can't pay then they don't get the info.  

[TheOrcKing]

It took 13 years and I just had my first casualty to the "brittle brown" epidemic of 2012-2017. Poor Bard the Bowman. I was organizing my minifigures, nudged his right leg, and it snapped right off going flying. I managed to save his legs, main torso, head, hair, & hands. However, the arms and waistline piece are dust in the wind.

I took a handheld power drill with the smallest drill bit I had and slowly ground down the peg extending from the hip's middle part (circular disk area between the legs, the "groin" I suppose) into the leg piece itself still stuck until said peg crumbled. (Repeated for the other leg because that snapped off too.)

I decided to drill out the stiff arms as well instead of waiting for either of those to do the same as what the legs did and/or crack the torso. There is a little bump at the end of the arm piece resting inside the torso, I started with drilling that bit down until it fell apart which loosened the rest of the arm to pop off mostly. The external section of the arm broke off while leaving some "armpit" in the hole. Once again, carefully drilled until that crumbled.

Walked away with a couple abrasions on the inside of the legs facing the "groin" area (of which only really show up under a light) and no cracks on the torso anywhere. Not sure what to do next. I may very lightly smooth down the inner surface area of the legs and arms to reduce any possible grinding should I replace the hip & arm parts. Ol' Bard will be missing his hip printing and have little in the way of pose ability but compared to the worst-case scenario, I think he will be alright. Well, mostly.

 

....And now onto my army of fourteen Uruk-Hai. Nothing broken or cracked there, only stiff thank goodness. I just have a bunch of bodies missing their heads & hands in a drawer. ....Well, that last sentence sounded wrong. Anywho.

I was thinking of picking up some plain dark red torsos from LEGO's pick a brick (if they ever get any in that is) or use some other dark red torsos. I mean, the Uruk-Hai minifigures are going to be wearing chest armor therefore any printing will simply be covered anyhow. Not sure about the legs; perhaps something dark brown. At the moment I am using a couple of the Hun Warrior minifigure as a new body. (Dark red torso with nice leggings that actually kind of work for the ork.) I am curious what other leg prints could work.

 

So that's what I have been up to. General organizing, building some armies, and.... stuff.