If anyone's interested Toys-R-us have 3 for 2 on all Star Wars toys including Lego Star Wars!
Not sure if it's in-store or just online...
Ay Caramba! Lego is never usually (substantially) reduced in these things!
That's what I thought. You could buy an At At Walker, Slave 1 and get an X-Wing free!
If only I hadn't just bought a new telly!
I'm astonished by the price of Lego, considering it's basically a kit and the consumer has to do all the construction work.
Have you lot seen first-hand the 2010 AT-AT Walker made by Hasbro? Pretty damn impressive, even if it's not one of my favourite vehicles.
Quote from: John Caliber on 20 March, 2011, 05:12:35 PM
I'm astonished by the price of Lego, considering it's basically a kit and the consumer has to do all the construction work.
Lego is
agonisingly expensive - the licensed variety even more so. It is however a very good quality product. My kids play with a large box of Lego started by my cousins in the late 60's, continued by me in the late 70's and my brothers in the 80's, with additons by my wife and I in the early 00's (-sigh-) and now my son in the 10's. All of it still works together, still fits together - a recent enthusiastic purge of broken bits from a rediscovered sub-box in my parents' attic revealed very little wrong bar a few stickers that had turned goopy. Even the electric lights and motors from the early 80's still work.
Even the perennial complaint 'modern Lego is all too specific, you can only make one thing' only applies to a tiny proportion of pieces, and even these can be repurposed. The No. 2 objection that having such a large range of parts takes away from the blank-slate imagination-driven play of yesterday collapses in the face of a kid dismantling any given set from its prescribed form about 5 minutes after completion.
While it has to be one of the most expensive toys by weight, I'd suspect that its long-term play value makes it one of the cheapest. I just wish I had the money to buy it any more - that AT-AT in particular!.
One of the biggest mistakes I have EVER made was when I owned every single SW Lego piece including the Death Star , original Star Destroyer and the Blockade Runner , and I had my own crisis and sold the LOT for the price of a Brothel wank. :(
Quote from: strontium71 on 20 March, 2011, 05:43:41 PM
One of the biggest mistakes I have EVER made was when I owned every single SW Lego piece including the Death Star , original Star Destroyer and the Blockade Runner , and I had my own crisis and sold the LOT for the price of a Brothel wank. :(
Don't say such things, Stront. I have a small collection of still-boxed Star Wars Lego from my solvent years which I had been saving for the kids when they're a bit older, including the aforementioned Star Destroyer, and I'm just about to put it on eBay to try to get cash for next month's mortgage payment. That's not even as much fun as a brothel wank (one imagines).
No , you should get a good price on ebay , especially boxed - I sold all mine to someone I knew for far far less than I knew they were worth , but I didn't go through ebay and regret that ever since.
Bastard I am trying to give up my Star Wars addiction.
Maybe I will start next month.
V
I've got an original Star destroyer Im looking to sell if anyone is interested :)
I still have waaaayy too much Lego, considering I sold 150 kilos + a few years ago. It is expensive, until you realise how exact the pieces need to be. Buy some MegaBlox and you will soon appreciate the extra cost is worth it.
Quote from: James Stacey on 21 March, 2011, 01:40:21 PM
Buy some MegaBlox and you will soon appreciate the extra cost is worth it.
Amen, brother.
QuoteI'm astonished by the price of Lego, considering it's basically a kit and the consumer has to do all the construction work.
They are expensive, but worth it also. Every once in a while, I go into a toystore and drool over the Star Wars legos.
I remember playing for hours with legos, my brother and I would incorporate legos in with G.I. Joe and He-Man. We would dump the large box out on the floor and have pieces scattered for days. Until Mom told us to pick up our rooms.
Any way, Lots of memories, and a great long lasting toy.
Well, this year's combined Christmas - Birthday present sorted.
I cannae wait! I've always wanted a Lego Millenium Falcon. The last one, with over 5.000 pieces, was £500 though. This will hopefully be less.
http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/7965_Millennium_Falcon
(http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/7965_Millennium_Falcon)
I've already emailed it to the missus. Twice. Just so she has a handy link.
This is only on line as I went in store today.
V
You want Death Stars?
(http://dorobou.blog.so-net.ne.jp/_images/blog/_2d5/dorobou/E9A082E4B88AE381BEE381A7E7B582E4BA86-a175f.jpg)
More Lego Star Wars offers at Amazon this week.
ARC 170 Starfighter
Jedi Starfighter
General Grievous' Starfighter
All with decent reductions.
not starwars but Sainsburys has a third off the City urban big truck and ship, sadly Mini-huffs no longer interested in lego and a very large box of it(1mx1mx30cm deep approx)sits forlorn in the Huff cellar :'( the Starwars lego is held in a seperate boxbut in pieces too.
Quote from: Proudhuff on 30 March, 2011, 12:28:11 PM
... sadly Mini-huffs no longer interested in lego
Result! All the more for you!
Nah, I dread the day myself.