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Wish my store had those LBG jumpers. Would you be willing/able to ship a cup full? Check out the Lego Pick a Brick Wall Exchange group on Facebook. We do this regularly when members have parts other stores don’t have.

Lego generally updates their walls once a quarter so we should be seeing an update this month. There is a Facebook page where members can exchange cups with one another with parts not available at their home stores. "Lego Pick a Brick Wall Exchange Group"

Where are the double VIP point promotions lately? I see they have them for specific sets for July, and previously for Star Wars sets, but what about other purchases? I remember last year they did the double points promotion at least once a month. Very disappointed; I've been holding off on making many purchases lately because of it.

Jangbricks did a great video on how he deals with dust.

I was reading one of my Lego books the other day and that's exactly what it said. I think the average life span for individual molds is about 2 years.

I've noticed this too, but as Davee said we're not even halfway through the year just yet. I've also noticed the "quality" of themes declining. Maybe it's just me. Instead of Castle, now we have Nexo Knights (not a big fan). No more Space themes, Western, Res-Q. All of those themes were Lego's golden days. Just wish they'd bring back another "awesome" theme.

Came out of my dark ages a few years ago and only had the building skills I had when I was 12 years old. After spending plenty of time looking at MOCs that others have built, and building the modular Expert sets produced by Lego, I now have a pretty firm grasp on building techniques. I found tons of inspiration from Jangbricks by watching his various videos, most notably his custom shopping mall, fire station and most recently, hospital. It's just nice to see how others employ their own techniques to build things. I recommend that you do the same. Besides, the whole joy of Lego is building it yourself, not having someone else do it for you

This is absolutely fantastic. I've always loved MOCs built in the early 1900s-era. This one really hits the spot. Great work, hope to see more from this era.

While not exactly what I would consider to be a UCS set, this is still something I would probably buy if I had the desire to purchase SW sets right now despite there being certain design flaws with it. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Don't buy it and then complain about how terrible it is. There's plenty of reviews out there. Jangbricks did two reviews on it. It definitely is a little bit pricey. I would have preferred more of a "complete" Echo base rather than just a partial hangar. Contact Lego and pass along your dissatisfaction. The reviews on the S&H site are pretty bad. Lego will realize this and I wouldn't be surprised if they did something to rectify it. But for the love of Brick, stop with all the "I just bought it and I hate it" type of complaints.

My fiance holds a master's degree in mental health counseling. I wonder if I could recommend some Lego to her and some of her clients. I would be very interested in seeing the difference in therapy outcomes of patients using Lego versus those without.

Did you follow the pattern exactly? I went on Sunday and filled my cup with 169 following the video's pattern exactly down to the brick. It is a very tight fit on the bottom layer but just gotta push them down. It will bend the cup a little bit but no long lasting damage. 157 or 169 either way is indeed a great price per brick ratio.

Sure is! I was researching this in depth because I'm planning on building a minifig scale cathedral. As it stands right now I'll be needing at least several thousand 2x4 bricks. Here's the Youtube video I found the other day showing how to pack 169 bricks in a cup:

I've seen 169 2x4 bricks fit in a large cup. Not sure on 2x6.

Got back late last night from my NYC trip. Those stores were a MADHOUSE. Three bins of sand green were completely cleaned out at Rockefeller Center before I even got a chance to grab more than 10 pieces each. I filled up a cup for myself of the other parts that were not empty (lightsaber hilts, 1x1 clips and 2x2 curved slopes) then ran over to the Flatiron store. Their bins were all full, but were quickly emptying with all the people standing around the wall filling up their cups. I managed to get a total of four cups, two for myself and two for a couple other folks I had gone shopping for. Looks like word got out to the entire north east of the United States and everyone flocked to NYC to get their hands on some coveted sand green. I'm very happy I got what I was able to, and even more so that I was able to help out a couple others get some.

PM sent. For anyone else who is/was interested as well, as it stands right now I have five people requesting a total of six cups. I told everyone so long as no one gives me a hard time at the store I will fulfill their requests. I'll be stopping by the Rockefeller Center store and the Flatiron store, so worst case scenario I'll send my fiance in to get two cups from each store, and I'll grab two cups from each store for a total of up to eight cups. Should be okay and not arouse any suspicion. So for now if anyone else is interested, keep replying here with specifics on what you want and I'll do my best to take care of it all. USA folks only, I ship flat rate padded USPS envelope, $6.80 I believe is what it'll cost me. I will use my own cups as refills so you will all get the 0.50 discount. Edit: Please consider my poor 25 year old back when making requests. I have to walk around NYC with a backpack and 8 full cups so far. LOL