The most powerful rocket ever flown is blasting off in LEGO bricks this June! #LEGOApollo

 

"Backorders accepted, will be shipped by 9 Feb 2018"

44 minutes ago, richiej1979 said:

"Backorders accepted, will be shipped by 9 Feb 2018"

As expected! ;-(

Tempted to hop on board this one.

With the promo (probably £25 after fees), £10 voucher, £10 VIP and 7% cashback it seems a good buy in.

I guess this will be around for a while though so will be hard to resist the temptation to build it!

Tempted to hop on board this one.
With the promo (probably £25 after fees), £10 voucher, £10 VIP and 7% cashback it seems a good buy in.
I guess this will be around for a while though so will be hard to resist the temptation to build it!

Forget temptation, just get on board [emoji3]

Where are you getting the £10 voucher from?

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Careful though. If you add the £10 voucher it takes you below the £100 min spend by 1p and the free gift doesn’t get added

so you add a cheese slope and with luck they will ship separately.

45 minutes ago, thebrickdad said:

Forget temptation, just get on board

Where are you getting the £10 voucher from?

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and where's the £10 VIP points? It's £5 surely?

Also... definitely worth building

and where's the £10 VIP points? It's £5 surely?
Also... definitely worth building

7% cashback stopped on Sunday as well. Good job it’s AFOL day on Saturday.

15 minutes ago, Cheese said:

7% cashback stopped on Sunday as well. Good job it’s AFOL day on Saturday.

Nope, still going.

What do we get for AFOL day?

19 minutes ago, andyposterfan said:

and where's the £10 VIP points? It's £5 surely?

Also... definitely worth building

£10 voucher from the catalogue.

I meant £10 VIP points in my bank.

20 minutes ago, Cheese said:

7% cashback stopped on Sunday as well. Good job it’s AFOL day on Saturday.

2 issues with Lego cashback:

1 - It's pre-VAT, so 7% is actually 5.8%.

2 - Actually receiving the cashback. I've got transactions from early October that are still stuck in pending.

Just for info

both my Saturn Vs from Lego’s arrived in mint condition along with the 60 year promo. 

Packaged correctly with the promo down the side rather than on top.

On ‎31‎/‎01‎/‎2018 at 9:08 PM, Captain_chaos said:

2 issues with Lego cashback:

1 - It's pre-VAT, so 7% is actually 5.8%.

2 - Actually receiving the cashback. I've got transactions from early October that are still stuck in pending.

Cshback from Lego not normally not paid until the 90 day return period has elapsed.

4 minutes ago, Cheese said:

Cshback from Lego not normally not paid until the 90 day return period has elapsed.

October 10th was a lot more than 90 days ago and it's still pending.

Such payments probably happen in a monthly basis. Multi-national companies typically have a set schedule for such types of payments which maximises their liquidity based on geography, currency etc. Hence it won’t be 90 days on the dot. If 120 days have elapsed and nothing, then would be worth chasing

Lego usually take a lot longer than other companies to pay over, can be 5/6 months, wouldn't bother yourself chasing it or worrying about it. You'll get paid eventually.

29 minutes ago, Sprocket77 said:

Lego usually take a lot longer than other companies to pay over, can be 5/6 months, wouldn't bother yourself chasing it or worrying about it. You'll get paid eventually.

I hope so, I'm waiting on about £100!

I was shocked to see this today in a local toy shop (Intertoys). A bad sign if you ask me. Not even to talk about the fact that they’ve put these sets below the Nexo Knights. Maybe that’s a sign/forecast for the possible gains for Ideas sets here in Holland from now on.. ?

Here in the Netherlands Ideas sets were, from what I’ve experienced, exclusive to SAH. And now they’re apparently also available to ‘the public mom and dad who has no clue about the existence of SAH’. 

Now I feel a little less confident of my SAH orders (4x) for the Apollo from the last couple of days. 60 years sets makes the pain a little more bearable, but nonetheless.. ?

2 hours ago, Pietsma said:

I was shocked to see this today in a local toy shop (Intertoys). A bad sign if you ask me. Not even to talk about the fact that they’ve put these sets below the Nexo Knights. Maybe that’s a sign/forecast for the possible gains for Ideas sets here in Holland from now on.. 

Here in the Netherlands Ideas sets were, from what I’ve experienced, exclusive to SAH. And now they’re apparently also available to ‘the public mom and dad who has no clue about the existence of SAH’. 

Now I feel a little less confident of my SAH orders (4x) for the Apollo from the last couple of days. 60 years sets makes the pain a little more bearable, but nonetheless.. 

Whoa.. you have MEGA duur LEGO speed sets!!  That Ferrari Scuderia car for 24 EUR?? Seriously? Somebody buys it at that price?

59 minutes ago, crayxlp said:

Whoa.. you have MEGA duur LEGO speed sets!!  That Ferrari Scuderia car for 24 EUR?? Seriously? Somebody buys it at that price?

Intertoys is often selling LEGO with a mark-up to RRP. Compare from the picture:

Detective's Office at €163,99 (RRP: €159,99)

Brick Bank at €183,99 (RRP: €169,99)

VW T1 Van at €109,99 (RRP: €99,99)

Intertoys is the only nation-wide toy-store in The Netherlands, so they have a monopoly there. Of course there are some local toy stores selling LEGO as well, but they are limited to a regional presence at most. If you're not living in that region you're out of luck and limited to the ubiquitous Intertoys...  

2 minutes ago, Haay said:

Intertoys is often selling LEGO with a mark-up to RRP. Compare from the picture:

Detective's Office at €163,99 (RRP: €159,99)

Brick Bank at €183,99 (RRP: €169,99)

VW T1 Van at €109,99 (RRP: €99,99)

Intertoys is the only nation-wide toy-store in The Netherlands, so they have a monopoly there. Of course there are some local toy stores selling LEGO as well, but they are limited to a regional presence at most. If you're not living in that region you're out of luck and limited to the ubiquitous Intertoys...  

Well yeah, but e.g. Detective's office is like 20x bigger than Ferrari car - and still in your words only like 4 EUR more expensive.. that car costs here around 14-15 EUR give or take the exchange rate and on your photo the "premium" is even bigger than that of modular. .. bijenkorf or mediamarkt is not selling anything? I remember from living in DH that these used were the ones I usually went to when looking for something (of course in that time I paid no attention to LEGO at all    )

 

1 hour ago, Haay said:

Intertoys is often selling LEGO with a mark-up to RRP. Compare from the picture:

...

I also saw this. Both Ideas sets, however, are RRP..

This was the first time I saw Ideas sets at Intertoys. And from the Apollo I’ve expected it the least. Not a pleasant surprise.

@Crayxlp; Mediamarkt isn’t selling LEGO. If you’re lucky you stumble upon a lost Dimension set, that’s it. Bike lord is only selling the standard stuff so not very interesting.

Edited February 2, 20188 yr by Pietsma

Toys R US online has 21309 for $119.99.  Not sure if that's more indicative of current supply in the market or Toys R US coming to their senses with some of their financial issues.

Is this  done?

Walmart Canada has reduced these to $119.89 (about $90USD)...usually a decent indication that these are on the way out. At least from my experience.

I dropped it. It broke in half.  ??? It's a long story that started with me not wanting to be tackled at an airport. And ended with 1 missing structural piece that caused the whole thing to break apart as I was holding it. 

I'm beside myself at the moment. The only major sets I have are this and the UCS Slave . Anyways, so long story short, I originally picked up the Saturn when I was visiting my then long-distance girlfriend 1,000 miles away for a couple weeks about a year ago, and I built it there. It had just come out and I hadn't been able to find it in store anywhere and then I bought it on impulse when we went to a ToysRUs and they had it. 

Cut to me preparing to fly back home and I have this 3 foot rocket projectile looking thing. So I decide to be on the safe side and not take it on board, fearing I'll be tackled down, them thinking I have a bomb. And if not, it'll be destroyed when they search my bag and dismantle it. But maybe I was being paranoid. So I left it in the car of a family member that lived nearby that drove me to the airport. Planned on them mailing it to me later. 

Well, needless to say, I got busy with life and my sister's mother-in-law didn't get around to sending it till now. But it had spent a year rolling around the back of her SUV. And of course she put no bubble wrap or anything and just tossed it in a large flat rate box with tons of room to spare. 

So I get it and a couple hundred pieces are loose, mostly the exterior. About a dozen or so pieces got knocked off at some point too and were totally missing. Again mostly exterior. Mostly

Anywho so I spend a couple hours rebuilding it, and had to totally take apart one section as a piece had got lodged inside and was clanging around. But finally got it back together save for a few outside pieces I planned to order off Ebay. Except for 1 of the 8 small red clips that connected the sections halfway through.  I hadn't thought it'd make that much of a difference as I had 7 of the 8 arranged in the circle, and planned to order it on Ebay later too. Well it did make a difference. I had stood it up vertically and picked it up horizontally to admire the size of it again and I guess it caused a weak spot, and either that weak corner of it was at the top or bottom of it as a held it, and in a split second the whole thing split apart into the floor, leaving me holding half of it. I picked up the pieces and they've been sitting in a container over a week now, I'm too depressed to try rebuilding it a third time. 

I'm ironically reminded how one tiny seemingly insignificant faulty part caused the demise of the Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters too. 

Edited August 25, 20187 yr by Stud-Flipper