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Lucarex
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No worries, just taken aback a little. Sorry to hear my flippant assumption was correct, and yeah I think everyone’s tolerance threshold is much lower these days so apology really not necessary. On reflection, I’m slowly coming to terms with the fact that MK is priced as a licensed theme like SW. Which is fair enough if that’s how LEGO want to position it, but in that case, the retail exclusivity still annoys me on principle. To anyone who already has the set, have you used the waterfall stickers or left it au naturel as I saw in one review? Part counts are not always a good parameter to use. Not sure the actual variety of figs is especially great, although we all love monkeys. As for sales, here in Europe there’s usually a fair few to be had on selected themes and sets, usually between 15-25%. MK is not licensed from an external party, whereas in your example, there’s a big fat Disney fee to incorporate. -
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Bad day? Not sure what I said that was so controversial but that’s quite a rant at what was effectively a simple complaint about the TLFFM price. “Dramatically lowball it’s value to justify that to yourself”? Thanks for the psychological insight but errr no. It’s just sadly overpriced, as is the rest of the theme. Seems there’s a lot of justification by others defending price points that don’t even come close to equivalence with the larger more expensive (and expansive) Ninjago sets. My concern is in defending this, it sets a further precedent for LEGO and prices keep creeping higher and higher, with value lesser and lesser. It’s a lovely looking MOC-like set, great for display, but with little play value even with the multiple monkey minifigs, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to question the sales sticker. If this wasn’t an exclusive theme, vast majority of buyers would wait for a sale on this.
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Wrong plane selection for starters (I’d have preferred the gorgeous silver Electra in which she vanished, which arguably added much more interest in her legacy than her transatlantic crossing achievement). The Vega looks like a cropduster in comparison. Horrible bulky stand. Stickers galore.
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Such a boring build though. Would prefer something like the beautiful Chrysler at this scale.
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Great concept but awful execution IMO.
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Ok so I know MK sets have been price hiked beyond justification since launch, but seeing the price of Fruit Flower Mountain (a set which transcends the theme hence my interest) is still a shock and hard to swallow. Costs a chunk of change more than the Medieval Blacksmith! It’s a €100 max 120 set that’s priced at 170, jeez...
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The most obvious clue it’s fake is that massive concert hall is relatively unknown outside of Germany and classical music circles, and has actual architectural merit (albeit with controversial acoustics). It’s about as far removed from the dumbed down populist tourist attraction type sets we now see coming out of the LEGO “Architecture” theme. A rerelease of the Creator Sydney Opera House would be more likely than this hoax.
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As someone who loves adidas, whilst they are more understated than the outdated fad knock off look Hype gear (yeah you’re not missing much) there’s little else going for this range of kidswear sadly. Then again I was very disappointed with the September launch wave. Like comparing a Star Wars UCS with a Megabloks polybag.
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You say that but RZK has been instrumental in pretty much every Architecture set over the last few years but spent the last 12 months or more focused on the ridiculously flexing Colosseum set, not to mention his input on HP Diagon Alley. As for your resource suggestion, why would they backfill his role or contract out an external designer just to keep to a schedule of Skyline releases, particularly in a year when all international travel (a big part of impulse sales of these “tourist attraction” sets) has been suspended? It doesn’t make sense. Anyway, it looks like we’re getting some sort of Architecture set in August but subject is unknown at the moment. I only hope it’s not a rebuild of an older set like we saw with the Burj Khalifa or the White House. Some more creative imagination needed.
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Chasing the yuan of the affluent middle class Chinese market no doubt, who will gladly pay a premium for European brands like LEGO over Asian clones (Lepin etc.). Never discussed much but you’d think there has to be higher profit margins in the larger sets.
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Think TLG should do more to clamp down on scalping. All very well limiting purchase quantities of sets like this to 2 but I’ve seen eBay sellers with multiple items so obviously they’re circumventing this using different logins and VIP accounts. Maybe IP check would make it more difficult.
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Sold out within 15 mins? Sounds like they had about a hundred or so max which is ridiculous. What about all the sets supposedly they couldn’t ship to North America? Why haven’t they been reassigned to Euro VIPs ordering the sets. I think they had serious production issues here and just haven’t been completely honest about it. The last GWP that was highly sought after was the SW Carbonite Han metal keyring. No such supply issues there, and Lego honoured all orders.
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Says who? It’s the largest in capacity but architecturally it’s an uninspiring stepped bowl and like Old Trafford, the reality is it’s a tired old crumbling wreck of a stadium. I’ve been a few times for matches and each time, it’s worse. But then again, similar to Man Utd, Barcelona as a club is now in a very difficult place, crippled by debt, the Messi situation, an ineffective stopgap manager hired out of sentiment and ongoing ownership troubles. Not sure who the armchair football fan is in Billund, but my understanding is that OT was massively overproduced and sales disappointing. Not sure why they think Camp Nou will be any different at the moment.
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Might be helpful if those saying they’ve received with GWP actually specify their country and date ordered.
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What a fantastic MOC! The detail on that 4x4 is just superb as is the whole diorama. Just curious, how did you make the underpinnings of the bridge?
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No worries. Now showing as back ordered so I’m guessing that’s the last we’ll see of the GWP. Really disappointing tbh.
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