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Im looking forward to cleaning it up and rebuilding it. Alreaady wedged the sails in a thick book to flatten them just like i did in the old days. :D I'll post up the fleet and island once i've built them all up again. :)
 
Raymond Lin said:
Do Lego still make boats that actually float on water? I remember some of them did.
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That was the one thing i wished they had done with the pirate ships. Although to be fair they were generally quite tall so it probably wouldnt have worked out well.. :o;)

I'll have to pick up one of the lego city ones for my son for when hes old enough..

edit: According to Brickset there was one in 2015, and 2-4 in 2012-2014. Obviosuly not that popular these days?!
 
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In regards to the Technics 24hr car.. I have found a supplier in Holland through Bricklink, in US $ the total is $108.59 which includes fee's and shipping. That's just short of £75.00

They accept Euro or Dollars, I have $55 in my paypal account hence why I asked to be invoiced in that currency.

I received a customs note today for the Red Five X Wing I ordered from a USA seller, £13.93 and £8.00 handling, total £21.93 so that pushed my final total up quite a bit.
 
ristac said:
I received a customs note today for the Red Five X Wing I ordered from a USA seller, £13.93 and £8.00 handling, total £21.93 so that pushed my final total up quite a bit.
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interested to find out the condition of it, that's quite close to ebay prices if i'm adding it all up correctly
 
Mucky_Pup said:
Are there any sites which will recreate retired products from their individual parts? I know you can sit and enter all the numbers into the brick sites and come out with something, just wondering if there's a quicker and cheaper way? Would quite like the modular buildings, but the retired ones are obscenely priced, but I'm not that bothered about the box, and you can get teh instructions online.
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Can you not just use Bricklink?


TheSwede said:
Yeah, found the PDF too. Been randomly checking some parts and although most seems resonable there is a couple, like the yellow 4x4 90 degree corner piece, 16pcs of those cost a smaller fortune :eek: (Item no 4257699). The total cost for those 16 is roughly 1500SEK, compared with the Crawler Crane which has a price of 1300SEK. Not checked postage and such though but seems like those I randomly checked was all from different places so if one would try and build the MF through BrickLink the postage might be a killer. Or what did you use to obtain all the different pcs ??
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So the yellow technic 90 degree corner pieces you buy in black not yellow. You can't see them on the finished model so buy a cheaper colour. There are a number of ways of using different coloured pieces to being the cost down.

Some pieces may only be at one or two stores - check if colour can be changed to improve availability. Also look for Brickefficiency software. A little tool linked to your Bricklink wanted list that will find your wanted pieces from as few bricklink shops as possible. It needs checking before purchase as it's not always right but is a good tool.
 
EddScott said:
So the yellow technic 90 degree corner pieces you buy in black not yellow. You can't see them on the finished model so buy a cheaper colour. There are a number of ways of using different coloured pieces to being the cost down.

Some pieces may only be at one or two stores - check if colour can be changed to improve availability. Also look for Brickefficiency software. A little tool linked to your Bricklink wanted list that will find your wanted pieces from as few bricklink shops as possible. It needs checking before purchase as it's not always right but is a good tool.
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Thanks for that little tip, glad I'm still just looking around. :) Just had a recheck and those black can be had for a fraction of the cost compared to the yellow ones. I keep that in mind for a couple other pcs as well, that Mast Rigging one wasn't cheap either, hopefully a black one wont go amiss (just checked and it is at the rear, so it be visible but guess can't be helped, no way I'm paying the price for the Light Bluish Gray one! :p )

Just have to go through it all and add to My Wanted list. That software you were referring to, is it this one ?? Once all been added and I can see a rough price of it all I take the decision if I going to take on the challange or not to build it. :p

Mucky_Pup - You mean the Ghostbuster one ? Picture or it didn't happened ! :p
 
I have just done bags number 1

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So far it's a been a 50/50 build for me, some relaxing like doing the pavements and some madening like the instructions telling to put the name stickers (I HATE STICKERS :mad:) on the doors when the doors are already in place... would have been 10x easier if it said to put them on before, now they are a little wonky (did I say how much I hate stickers?)

Another problem I have is the backpacks wont stay vertical in the storages for them and fall out when the doors open, will be interesting to know if anyone else has this problem.
 
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