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Is that handcuffs on the table?

Pics!!!! Box has 6 numbered bags and small plaque sticker sheet.

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AMZ Glitch BB and PC this week.

Completed the last steps of the GE today. The build brought back some fond memories from when I built my first GE back in 2012. Next in the queue is the FB.

Michaels has 70% off Belmont Shadow Boxes for you exhibitionists. http://www.michaels.com/search?q=belmont%20frames

We're talking about company leaks this around. Not KOs. Nearly every leaked image of Lego, Apple, etc... product I've seen have been from camera phones in manufacturing plants or warehouses. Nothing hacked. 60 mins did a nice piece on this. Factory workers get paid more for one leaked photo than 6-12 months of salary.

Hey Folks. Here is the write up of my first show. It covers a few different topics. I will put summaries of the shows in blog form once the new site is up a running. --------- Big Lego Boxes Welcome to How Big Is It. Are you a Lego Collector? Are you a Lego investor? Then keep on reading. Have you ever picked up a lego box and thought, wow this is big? Have you ever tried to wrap a lego box and thought, I can’t believe it takes a whole roll of wrapping paper? Of course, kids will always want the set in the biggest box, but adults can also be swayed by a big box. It is a key marketing decision. For the most expensive adult oriented sets, Lego has started to make a few smaller and denser boxes. Why? I don’t know. Some possible reasons are shipping costs, display space, or using less packaging. The last 4 modulars are all about the same piece count and weight, but the box has been shrinking. This is good for the investor since they are easier to store. 2013 Palace Cinema (10232) 0.89 cubic feet 2014 Parisian Restaurant (10243) 0.78 cubic feet 2015 Detective Office (10246) 0.78 cubic feet 2016 Brick Bank (10251) 0.70 cubic feet I started thinking about box size when I received my 76042 SHIELD Helicarrier in March 2015. I opened the shipping box from Lego and couldn’t believe how huge the box was. At that point it was the largest set that I owned in the largest box. I didn’t realize the size before ordering it because I had never seen it in a store. I had only seen it online. I would guess many of these large sets are ordered without the purchaser really knowing what they are getting. To prevent more surprises, I have collected a variety of sets for comparison. So how big is it? How big is the SHIELD Hellicarrier box? Helicarrier (76042) - 52041 cm3 or 1.84 ft^3 Star Destroyer Microfighter (75033) - .027 ft^3 - 69x smaller Star Wars Battle Pack (7655) - .038 ft^3 - 49x smaller Avengers Quinjet City Chase (76032) - .427 ft^3 - 4x smaller Indomindous Rex Breakout (75919) - .701 ft^3 - 2.5x smaller Ewok Villiage (10236) - .885 ft^3 - 2x smaller Sydney Opera House (10234) -1.67 ft^3 - a little smaller Taj Mahal (10189) - 1.34 ft^3 - a little smaller Death Star playset (10188) - 1.72 ft^3 - a little smaller Death Star II (10143) - 2.20 ft^3 - finally a box bigger than the Helicarrier Now I am am really curious. What are the all time biggest Lego boxes? I have done my research, and now I present to you: The Top 10 Biggest Lego Boxes Before I start, you should write down your list and see how many to get right. Top 10 Largest Lego Boxes by volume (cubic feet)* 10. 1.72 - 10188 Death Star 2008 6. 1.84 - 10221 Super Star Destroyer 1.84 - 75827 Firehouse Headquarters 1.84 - 76042 SHIELD Helicarrier 1.84 - 75195 Death Star 2016* 5. 1.86 - 3290 Scala Big Family House 4. 2.13 - 10179 Millennium Falcon* 3. 2.19 - 10030 Star Destroyer 2. 2.20 - 10143 Death Star II 1. 2.46 - 4785 Duplo Black Castle *Data taken from Brickpicker.com if I didn’t have the box. Not all online data agree with my personal measurements. My personal measurements take precedence. Side Note: 10030 online data 58.8 x 50.5 x 21 (cm) my measuement 58.7 x 50.2 x 21 10143 online data 58.7 x 50 x 21 (cm) my measurement 58.7 x 50.5 x 21 Here is a photo of the top 10 minus the Millennium Falcon (waiting for sale) and Death Star 2016 (morally opposed) in 4th and 6th place respectively. Well, were you surprised? How many of the top 10 sets were on your list? If you have any other cool comparisons you want to see, let me know. According to Lego, the new Millennium Falcon (75192) box will be 96228 cm^3 in size (3.40 ft^3). That is the same size as the Helicarrier box plus the Sydney Opera House box (see comparison above). Until next time, Lego on! ID Name Year Volume (cm3) Weight (g) Price ($) Pieces Box Length (cm) Box Height (cm) Box Depth (cm) 4785-1 Black Castle 2005 69647 8000 99.99 380 57.5 47.5 25.5 10143-1 Death Star II - UCS 2005 62251 6811 299.99 3447 58.7 50.5 21 10030-1 Imperial Star Destroyer - UCS 2002 61882 9093 269.99 3108 58.7 50.2 21 10179-1 Millennium Falcon - UCS 2007 60389 10214.9 499.99 5179 64.4 47.6 19.7 3290-1 The Big Family House 1997 52709 6590 150 270 65 47.7 17 76042-1 The SHIELD Helicarrier 2015 52041 5300 349.99 2996 58 48.5 18.5 10221-1 Super Star Destroyer - UCS 2011 52041 6965 399.99 3124 58 48.5 18.5 75827-1 Firehouse HQ 2016 52041 6416 349.99 4634 58 48.5 18.5 75159-1 Death Star - {UCS} 2016 52041 6350 499.99 3903 58 48.5 18.5 10188-1 Death Star 2008 48807 8060 399.99 3697 58 49.5 17

I read that without the "r" and my reaction was "Did TRU screw up the release date again ???"

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music makes everyone happy, I usually don't post here but here you go...

seeing all the new sets in the new catalog and how much money these are going for i've been unloading them all. jw and scooby doo are the unquestionable winners in the last year. The only set that might not be remade would be Irex. pretty much a guarantee you will see another T-rex and raptor, pteranadon. maybe another diplosaurus. the demand for this theme is strong and you can sell through 4-5 Irex's in a day for $250 if you have the buy box. pretty good return for the irex's i was topping off with in January from TRU for $91. ended up with 30 at EOL. down to 12.

Excellent , I loved their frustration free packaging... in for one more...

Thoughts Overall, it is a very solid build. Every thing locks in nicely. It is basically the gimmick mechanics surrounded by technic bricks with all of the sides attached. Head is attached with one technic pole. Contains mostly white plates of varying sizes. Has quite a few of the 1/4 circle flat tiles in the set in white. I don't have R2 anymore (otherwise I would have posted a photo), but this build had the same sort of feel, but was definitely more streamlined. I found the head assembly on BB-8 more solid than R2. Granted it is smaller but all of the pieces are locked in much better. The thumbs up gimmick is smooth and works great. I wish the blue arrow tip tilted just a little more outwards like it does in the movie but that is a nitpick. Head gimmick is good. Hard to control it since the dial on the side operates both rotation and up and down movement. I guess the idea is for his head to bob around a little like in the movie. Uses a single yellow elastic to achieve it. I am not a fan of the stand. It is basically a cross of plates with four slope bricks "holding" BB-8 in place. BB-8 is super solid standing on his own and the stand is really just decoration. No spelling errors on the sticker as far as I can notice this time. I always found display stands with name plates for anything to be quite silly. I mean if you spent all this money on the item, I would hope you would know who the character is. Would have preferred the specs in the manual like the other UCS sets in the last few years. The stand is probably only 50 pieces or so not a big loss, I won't be displaying it. Could have been cool if the made a sand Jakku base to go with it instead. As far as I can tell, it is the same BB-8 minifig as the Force Awakens set. I think this one is going to be very popular with kids and collectors. R2 was a great set, but this one is half the price and will be available at more stores (In Canada I could only get R2 from shop at home or Toysrus.ca). It also has the luxury of coming out in between two huge movies where as R2 was only riding on the Clone Wars cartoon at the time.

the angry mob is assembling...

At 60% off, it will be even nicer.

Those Jawas are gonna need a bigger Sandcrawler

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Saturn V has been available all morning on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Ideas-Apollo-Saturn-Building/dp/B071G3QMS2/ref=sr_1_77?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1503578157&sr=1-77&keywords=lego&refinements=p_89%3ALEGO

This.

I think a UCS Gunship will happen one day, and it will be a huge seller

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Not sure what the exact policy is at the moment, but at various times they have either been given to employees or broken down and sent back to Enfield to be used for various LEGO community events.

What was the limitation of the first UCS MF? Months? # produced? And how long/many? Just trying to gauge what to expect.

next time, made your dumb list here, so we can go the opposite

SOmetimes it´s better not to know. It´s low season and most prices are falling or stagnating anyway.

Kids love BB8 and more than a few adults too. It´s the only desirable set that isn´t a rehash and the price point and play features are attractive.

I'll get two.

Love it! Can't wait to get one. This will be the hot seller this xmas?

It's a knockoff...It will be missing pieces and full of asbestos dust.

Oh boy here we go.

#JamieFixed.

Let me help you with that.

What if this ISN'T the Falcon (based on dark stone grey / brick yellow), but wreckage (Star Destroyer / AT-AT) on Jakku? Surely this is just to show volume of bricks and we're still getting a Falcon (and hopefully not a cheese-wedge remake w/ 'extra' bricks). Hmmmm. It DOES show use of the new curved tiles.

It did look like some sort of bird shape, lol

Aren't you keeping up on your BrickPicker YouTube? The answer is out there at minute 11:56.

Friendliest looking T-Rex ever. Please don't be purple.

Poor photo quality but here are some recent builds: My wife built the brickheadz and supervised, by leaving me alone, the other builds. I am indifferent towards the brick bank and it seems like a miss to me. The white exterior doesn't go with any of the other modulars (use rustic or tan to show age) and it's far too short for a corner building which forces me to break open a second set to compensate. I understand the trend of smaller and more detailed but this took it too far. The mismatched exterior color is a poor choice as well because it forces you to buy other sets to hide it and the laundromat is a throwaway section. There are some nice design characteristics but it's a general miss. The GBHQ was built from a used set with all of the pieces sorted by color. This took forever to build but I really liked all of the references to the movie and I really enjoyed seeing it come together. This is a well designed set particularly with how it opens up to show the interior and the back wall is easy enough to hide. I don't expect this set to have huge value for resale after retirement but it's a solid piece.

Finally got around to finishing up the Porsche! Life gets busy!

Last show of Metallica's 2017 NA tour and it was in my town. Saw it live but you guys can watch it again! Great footage!

Double Gutted 76057

My son just really started to get into Minecraft, so we built our first Minecraft set. I like the flexibility and creative options. I can see why kids love the game and the sets.

knope.

I just finished the Silent Mary and really loved building it. It was a very satisfying building without the premade hull. Most of the ships using the big hull pieces are so stubby and cookie cutter the same. This ship felt like a UCS Star Wars build with the internal technic frame and partial cladding and a lot less tedious than the Death Star II. This allowed the designers to make a slender tapering ship that seems to have much better sailing ship proportions. Obviously none of the sailing ships are to minifigure scale, but on this one nothing is minifigure accessible except the deck. I think that is ok since is allows the other features to be smaller and more to scale. I love all the gold. I have uploaded a comparison with the Imperial Flagship which is the biggest Lego sailing ship. You can see the Silent Mary is much shorter, especially since so much of its hull is out of the water by comparison, but it is only a few inches shorter. The real questions is whether it can eat the Imperial Flagship. As you can see, I think the Imperial Flagship is little to big a bite. Maybe just a bit off the flank.