***The Official OcUK Lego Thread***

dannyjo22 said:
I don't think the numbers would be worth it, Star Wars isn't really ever about chasing adults that will drop £400 on a lego set. It's the £80-120 falcon that just about every kid I know owns, that was a xmas or birthday present.

Even the Death Star at £275 there are very few kids that will actually own that, I imagine. £400 Falcon wouldn't sell in high enough numbers to be profitable against a £120 set.
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The Death Star really proves your point in a way, but its dependent on the kit. Its at an Adult price point, but is designed as a children's play set. A lot of parents wont spend that much for their child and it wont appeal to most adults. It really doesnt interest me at all, because it looks nothing like the death star, other than being globe shaped. I would however buy the 10143 Death Star if it was ever re-released.

A Falcon at UCS would really be an Adult only kit, which as you say is not what they're aiming for.
 
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Can we stop referring to the falcon as a £4k set? There are sealed ones on Bricklink for half that. Complete used ones for around £1300 You can pay less than a grand if you're prepared to do some legwork replacing bits from an incomplete one.

It's crazy expensive enough without exaggerating the price.
 
I spent half hour in asda feeling the minifigure trying to get a figure my son would like. I was 99% sure I'd got the dual weilding spaceman and I had located his guns. What I was actually feeling was the roller skates of the singer :(

He's decided he would like 10 of the 16 and I think it's better value than the Rebels sticker book he will never finish so I'm going to pick one up a week for him if he's done well. What swap sites to people recommend for duplicates?

We should set up our own FB one :)
 
Ideas Birds set arrived at work yesterday - its going to sit above my desk at work once all assembled.

Really nice, and the birds are a decent size. I've assembled the hummingbird and robin, and the blue-jay is sat under my desk tempting me for Monday.

Very clever builds, I'll get some pictures once I'm back in next week and have assembled all of them.
 
Its all gone a bit quiet on the Big Bang Theory front, and that set was approved at the same time as Birds :(.

Lego have released some new pictures of the Speed Racers range. For those of you with kids into cars they look brilliant. I think they are a little bit too play orientated for me though. Might get the P1 however, just because its orange! :)

http://brickset.com/article/13825/more-speed-champions-images
 
Skeeter said:
Its all gone a bit quiet on the Big Bang Theory front, and that set was approved at the same time as Birds
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With something like birds they can just get on and develop the set however they see fit. With stuff like big bang they need to agree licensing terms and probably go through various third party approvals during development and potentially go through a couple of revisions before they can release anything.
 
Finished Slave 1 tonight. It was enjoyable to build but i'm not sure if I like the end product, it's a bit.... short and squat.

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That Slave 1 looks better in those "real-world" pictures than I have seen through reviews and press release shots.

Still not a set I'd buy though as I'm not a fan of the ship itself.
 
dannyjo22 said:
I spent half hour in asda feeling the minifigure trying to get a figure my son would like. I was 99% sure I'd got the dual weilding spaceman and I had located his guns. What I was actually feeling was the roller skates of the singer :(

He's decided he would like 10 of the 16 and I think it's better value than the Rebels sticker book he will never finish so I'm going to pick one up a week for him if he's done well. What swap sites to people recommend for duplicates?

We should set up our own FB one :)
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Swapfig is what I always use.

You got a Lego store near you? They can feel the packets for you if you get the right member of staff.
 
Thanks I have registered with swapfig, no store near me. Although I'm going to go to the MK one next saturday with my son, I may see if they can help.
 
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