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Hi there, I'm a New Zealander and still relatively new to these forums, signed up several months ago. I've played with lego since I was a kid, probably about 3 or 4 years old. Played with it till about 12 or so and then I moved on to other things. Several months ago, now at 21 years, I received a flier advertising lego at steep discounts. Thought, what the heck - for nostalgia's sake, and went and bought several sets including Brickbeard's bounty for about $30 NZ ($20ish US) Well I haven't stopped buying and have now dropped probably about $500 NZ on new lego, mostly on city sets. The problem I have is that I want to get into building MOCs as I find the normal lego city sets and such too simple and basic to keep me interested for a long time. The only thing stopping me from making nice MOCs is that I have no idea how to keep track of what piece belongs to what set. I want to know this because I want to be able to rebuild these sets sometime in the future (hopefully with my kids :)) and the fact that bulk legos resale value drops a whole lot. So I'm wondering, is there any way to keep track of this? cheers tldr: Want to make MOCs but want to keep track of what pieces belong to each set - if possible, how?

If anybody wants the big $180 pop set I can let one go for $130 (this is for a new one).

I got this for $48 a month or so ago. FANTASTIC value set. Four minifigs for $48! Helicopter is huge too. Highly recommend.

Wait, all lego sets have 20% off. Does this mean that if you buy 2 or more you get another 20% off? No discount seems to be added on if I have 2 or more city sets in my cart.

Do you have a good site to get them from? I had a look on ebay for the large sets like the emporium but the shipping was like $50 USD

Yeah I managed to get 5 but it was mostly due to sheer luck. Westcity warehouse had 20 in the morning, at 10am but when I came in they told me they had none. I had a look around anyway and because I was unfamiliar with the warehouse I missed the lego section. I was tracking back and on the bottom of a shelf I noticed 4 stray Brickbeard sets - I instantly piled them into my trolley with a grin on my face I reserved 3 in another warehouse but in the end they only put one behind the counter (which I picked up) Personally I wanted to pick up about 10 but considering how fast they flew out of the shops I am not too disappointed with 5. I would tend to agree with this. I saw two brickbeard sets in the back of the westcity warehouse which I think were reserved for staff. The person behind the counter blatantly lied to me, telling me that there were none left in the store. There was/is a few sets in the $60 and $70 range - several were snapped up pretty quick. I'd suggest if you want one of these buy them off TM now while there is still a glut in the market. These will go for over $150 new within 6 months because they are an end of the line product - not just this model but the pirate theme too - and everybody knows lego just gains value through time :) Here is several cheap sets on TM: http://www.trademe.co.nz/Toys-models/Lego-building-toys/Lego/Sets/auction-329235228.htm http://www.trademe.co.nz/Toys-models/Lego-building-toys/Lego/Sets/auction-329251289.htm http://www.trademe.co.nz/Toys-models/Lego-building-toys/Lego/Sets/auction-329377804.htm Also those 4 minifigure city sets were $5 today too - I grabbed one for myself.

The one for $30 is normally the biggest (until 2010) ship size available. The $300 imperial ship is a send-off gift from the lego team for the pirate theme (won't be produced anymore).

Bit late. I wouldn't call it a small ship, its a $170 RRP set.

Its the warehouse in NZ. I think they ship to Australia as well. edit: Online store just sold out

The Warehouse is having a bit of a "special" I cleaned out West Auckland and only got 5 :( Also the 4 city minifigure set is $5

Get it before they run out - Looked like they didn't have a whole lot of stock, maybe 4 - 5 boxes of each set. (Henderson)

I may have just went to toyworld and bought every single PoP set

All prince of Persia sets about 60% off in Toyworld 7573 $79 7571 $29 7570 $19

I like themes like castle, city and pirates (no more after this year :'() and western which appeared in 1996.