I don't know if I was dreaming or what but I could have sworn I saw a post where someone preordered a UCS falcon for a May the 4th celebration this year. I searched everywhere (here, shopathome) and came up with nothing though.

2 hours ago, Djmunch said:

I have the table to put the Falcon in (and plan to build around it), but not the Falcon....

The table was custom made, incredibly heavy to move and not cheap, but will be worth it once complete.

I can only wonder how your bedding might look like... 

2 hours ago, ravenb99 said:

You can buy multiple.  They are still pushing the whole we are getting into stores first to get some in hands of customers and the we won't have for release on 10/1 due to the vast amount of online backorders.  

It's the same calculated repsonses to the general public that they have used on pretty much every anticipated release the last few years.  

Good for flippers that is for sure 

Interesting. So you can buy as many as you want in store on the same VIP card, as long as you don't buy them at the same time (assuming manager says 1 per household.........)........

per transaction?

Store in Colorado (Park Meadows) had 6 this morning, getting 10 more Tuesday.

Store by me has 2.

I probably can't go today so if anyone else needs one. ONE. not ANOTHER to resell. then by all means go and get it

Got mine today.  Showed up at 7am and was 4th in line.  10th person (there were 10 falcons) showed up around 9:10 or 50 minutes before the store opened.

Only 6 of the boxes had wheels.

just phoned local, they had 6 today all gone but they are trickling in, second load this week. I don't see any point in rushing to get one, would be nice for my christmas build though.

9 minutes ago, Cbenioff said:

Got mine today.  Showed up at 7am and was 4th in line.  10th person (there were 10 falcons) showed up around 9:10 or 50 minutes before the store opened.

Only 6 of the boxes had wheels.

I guess the wheeled edition will be tomorrows first edition! ?

2 minutes ago, blocp13 said:

just phoned local, they had 6 today all gone but they are trickling in, second load this week. I don't see any point in rushing to get one, would be nice for my christmas build though.

At this rate I won't finish mine by Christmas (and I started a few days ago)!

With seemingly all of the stores getting regular shipments, has ANYONE had a backordered/waiting for stock order ship from SAH?

1 minute ago, winder00side said:

At this rate I won't finish mine by Christmas (and I started a few days ago)!

With seemingly all of the stores getting regular shipments, has ANYONE had a backordered/waiting for stock order ship from SAH?

Mine still is "waiting for stock", no change... But I'm really thinking about asking for canceling it right now and take my chances in Disney Springs Store next week...

3 minutes ago, winder00side said:

At this rate I won't finish mine by Christmas (and I started a few days ago)!

With seemingly all of the stores getting regular shipments, has ANYONE had a backordered/waiting for stock order ship from SAH?

Still "waiting", going to try and get one in store next week at my local store with their shipment...

8 minutes ago, Floriano said:

Mine still is "waiting for stock", no change... But I'm really thinking about asking for canceling it right now and take my chances in Disney Springs Store next week...

If you hear anything about this store, lmk if you don't mind.  I've still yet to get one and starting a plan of attack at Disney.

Just called LS store in London.
"we have received unexpected delivery today we didn't even know about"
more to come next week.

so stock shortage was just temporary but not permanent.
snagging 2x vip october with VIP polybag makes more sense by now.

Just finished all the bag 1's. Is this what everybody else has for extra pieces?

Just now, jimmyhlee77 said:

Just finished all the bag 1's. Is this what everybody else has for extra pieces?

I haven't started mine yet, but those 2x brown plates look suspect to having been missed...

26 minutes ago, blocp13 said:

just phoned local, they had 6 today all gone but they are trickling in, second load this week. I don't see any point in rushing to get one, would be nice for my christmas build though.

Which store?

3 minutes ago, jimmyhlee77 said:

Just finished all the bag 1's. Is this what everybody else has for extra pieces?

Everything but the brown plates look familiar, i'll check when I get home.

I haven't started mine yet, but those 2x brown plates look suspect to having been missed...

My thoughts exactly!

Almost all of the 1x2 brown plates in bag 1 are used to build up the structure to accommodate the technic support braces.  Worth taking a quick scan to see if you see an area that isnt symmetrical to the "other side".  In the end, likely not a big deal.

16 minutes ago, Klownicle said:

If you hear anything about this store, lmk if you don't mind.  I've still yet to get one and starting a plan of attack at Disney.

Sure. Apparently, Legoland Florida hasn't got any so far but expected to have some any time soon.

9 minutes ago, Floriano said:

Sure. Apparently, Legoland Florida hasn't got any so far but expected to have some any time soon.

Nope, I was able to reach the Retail store directly.  Heather is always soo hard to get in touch with... Lol  She took my number to reach out to me when they do.  She's mentioned in the past about holding sets when they come in.  Not sure if they would do it with this one.  But realistically, no VIP card, no points.  800 points sucks to loose and I want the VIP card.  So, I doubt i'd purchase from Legoland.

Edited September 22, 20178 yr by Klownicle

I just got mine today at Glendale, CA store.  I was 10/12 and got there 30min before open.

Person their told me that no more shipments will be coming to the stores and that they are pre-sold out through the end of the year.  They also said 15k falcons have been sold so far and that they need to fire up the factory again which takes some time. 

She also mentioned that they will be printing out more special VIP cards because of it.  She sounded pretty confident about all this info but who knows???  Just passing along what I was told.

Edited September 22, 20178 yr by eaglepowers
corrected VIP passes to VIP cards.

10 minutes ago, Klownicle said:

Nope, I was able to reach the Retail store directly.  Heather is always soo hard to get in touch with... Lol  She took my number to reach out to me when they do.  She's mentioned in the past about holding sets when they come in.  Not sure if they would do it with this one.  But realistically, no VIP card, no points.  800 points sucks to loose and I want the VIP card.  So, I doubt i'd purchase from Legoland.

Yep, she promissed the same feedback to me. I hear you but in my case I only have a 2 weeks time-window in the USA to get this beast back to Brazil. So if no VIP points is what it is needed... VIP card I wouldn't have anyway. Although we do have official Lego presence in Brazil (about 10 stores in the country) we don't participate in the VIP program. I have a VIP membership but Lego won't send to me a card because my billing address is in Brazil... Third world problems...  

2 minutes ago, Floriano said:

Yep, she promissed the same feedback to me. I hear you but in my case I only have a 2 weeks time-window in the USA to get this beast back to Brazil. So if no VIP points is what it is needed... VIP card I wouldn't have anyway. Although we do have official Lego presence in Brazil (about 10 stores in the country) we don't participate in the VIP program. I have a VIP membership but Lego won't send to me a card because my billing address is in Brazil... Third world problems...  

Lego Brand Stores =/= Lego Certified Stores

Stratford Westfield got 8 today. Again unexpectedly. All gone by mid-day. Seems to be a similar pattern across all stores (at leaf in London). Looks like their getting on top of the issues and another week or two like this, then supply will have caught up with demand. Window for QF for 50% above RRP is closing in rapidly.

Both San Diego Stores got 12 in today.  Around 8 am this morning, there were only 2-3 people in line at each store.