***The Official OcUK Lego Thread***
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Uhhh ohhh...
I bought the LEGO Technic 42000: Grand Prix Racer set from amazon for £60 delivered, built it and displayed it for a year and sold it on ebay 8 months later for £55. Some kits even go up in value, so the cost is high but it's not money down the drain.
Ive got a huge box of it upstairs from when I was a kid. The thing is, back then there were about 20 bricks in total and 10 of them were the same one in 10 colours
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The most expensive set is a few hundred pounds, pocket change compared to lots of other hobbies. These sets are not really targeted at children, even though Lego is a toy.
So tempted to buy a flagship Lego Technic set - used to love building them as a kid, but have been in the dark ages for about 20+ years since. Anyone felt the need to scratch that Lego itch but then regret it ? For those wondering, I'm pondering set 42009 ( mobile crane ), set 42043 ( Arocs truck ) and set 42030 ( Volvo wheel loader ). Quite like the new blue crane crawler too ! Not that I'm thinking of buying all simultaneously ... but that would be cool 
Came back from New York last week, saw some pretty good lego models when I was over there, the usual empire state building, rockafella centre, statue of liberty etc. there was a really good one of USS Intrepid including the planes on its deck at the Intrepid museuem.
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I adore Wall-E. This Lego shall be bought.
So tempted to buy a flagship Lego Technic set - used to love building them as a kid, but have been in the dark ages for about 20+ years since. Anyone felt the need to scratch that Lego itch but then regret it ? For those wondering, I'm pondering set 42009 ( mobile crane ), set 42043 ( Arocs truck ) and set 42030 ( Volvo wheel loader ). Quite like the new blue crane crawler too ! Not that I'm thinking of buying all simultaneously ... but that would be cool
Mobile Crane Mk II is an awesome set. haven't built the wheel loader, I do have the new crawler crane on the way to me at the moment.
I mostly buy Lego technic, though I do mix it up every so often with the odd creator set.
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Came across this Halo 2 Battle of New Mombasa Loving the plasma swords 
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Nope, they look very different from the Mega Bloks version. They custom moulded parts for the figures.
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I have Wall-E sitting on my desk. In fact i have 2 of them here John Lewis if anyone is interested.
John Lewis if anyone is interested.
bargain. Anyone know what the stock levels of these are going to be like? Will they be around at Christmas?Impressive but whenever I see these sort of builds it makes me wonder why they didn't go down the proper model making route. Good quality ship models can fetch a lot of money and could possibly be cheaper to construct than forking out a fortune on Lego.