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Haven't post in a while because life has been kicking my butt but I couldn't resist this one: Amazon just reduced over 100 sets by 25% (20% for Friends) from loads of lines including lots of new ones. Full list at brick badger: http://brickbadger.com/region/UK On top of all the 30-40% discounts over the last couple of days this has been an expensive week for me!!

Amazon is price matching Lighthouse and Hillside House.

That Elrond looks great. Was going to pick up the game anyway, but this is the icing on the cake. I like that supporting characters like Elrond are getting good figures... to me it suggests a bit of dedication to the theme with more cool stuff to come... that may be wishful thinking!

Nice find Marty. Might grab the Lighthouse. I suspect Amazon is price-matching but including the postage, which is why they're a little more expensive on these. Not "sales" as such, but Amazon is finally stocking both Lord of the Rings and Monster Fighters so they're both up and running on Brick Badger. No specials yet, but occasionally there are some early deals.

I caught the first picture out of the corner of my eye as the page was loading and thought it was an actual reference photograph! That's big... and impressive. Amazing work.

That's really cool. I love the clever use of a lot of the pieces. My favourite has got to be the plain minifigure head storage box.

Thanks for the review. I quite like the look of this set, especially the base. But yeah, way too expensive for what it is for me. Maybe if it's on sale one day.

Also of note Amazon is price matching Tesco for 75% off 8076 Deep Sea Striker, my favourite atlantis set. Even if you don't like the theme that's 2p a piece! And there's a lot of cool pieces in there as well. Lots of gloss black "shell" pieces. If anyone fancies some neo-blacktron mocs they should pretty much just buy all of these. I bought 3! Out of stock Might be back at some point though. Sometimes these ones bounce around for a bit. Also it's still in stock at Tesco Direct at that price.

Millennium Falcon currently 36% off at amazon. Only £85 is a huge deal I've never seen it cheaper. No problem. Hope you enjoy building it! I'd love one but don't have the room.

Son and I built and played with the Samurai Mech over the weekend. I feel in love with the set while building it and fell out of love with it while playing it. The build was just really cool and interesting. Lots and lots of really cool pieces (especially SNOT hinges) and the torso and legs are really solid. There's just some really clever and interesting build techniques and some older pieces put to really original uses. But for play.... it's a bit too delicate. Despite the huge feet it doesn't balance really well and I found several bit were prone to falling off when you looked at them wrong: specifically the shoulder armour and head. Kid was very diappointed and frustrated and didn't actually play with it that long. It's still and interesting and original set though.

Tower Bridge currently cheap again on Amazon.It... same price as last time, around £125 shipped.

While the official opening isn't until August the store is actually open now. I went today with my son and we had a great time. I took a few pics if anyone wants to check it out: http://brickfanatics.co.uk/a-visit-to-the-manchester-lego-store/

It's been discussed many times before. Basically it's the same reason a can of coke is cheaper in America than it is in Germany. Companies price their products to maximise profit in the market they are selling in. You probably buy stuff every day that's cheaper in America or elsewhere, you just don't notice or care about it because you're don't have as much awareness of international pricing as you do with Lego.

For UK (and maybe some other countries) people still waiting for LOTR Amazon.es has a few reasonable discounts at the moment. In several cases it works out cheaper than the listed Argos price by a couple of pounds and considerably cheaper if you buy several sets and combine postage. It was giving me a delivery estimate of 18th of July (a lot of the Spanish stuff is sent form the UK anyway and gets delivered fast). So yeah earlier and cheaper than Argos! I crunched some numbers and made a blog post about it here if you want more details.

Tower Bridge back up to a less spectacular price MMV still a good deal though. Here's a little one I like. Amazon.co.uk has 9440 Ninjago Venomari Shrine for £4, down from £6. It's a nice little pocket money/stocking stuffer set. It's got some interesting pieces and a fun little play feature that actually works. Of every set I've bought my son, including a few more expensive Ninjago sets, this is actual his favourite.

I was just coming to post that, thought I had a scoop! That's crazy cheap. Also Medieval Market Village for around £60 delivered.

Thanks! 21st July at Argos looks like the best bet for LOTR Meanwhile.... Hillside House has joined the creator sets on sale. 33% off at Amazon

Some good new specials at Amazon.co.uk Apple Tree House, Light House and Sonic Boom are all 35% off. Oil Rig Escape is 40% off. A few City Forest Police sets are 30-40% off. If only there was a site that listed all of them

Me too :D Not sure how long it will take to get here but it'll be a nice suprise for my kid. Thanks for the review.

This happens. But there are also Lego fans who are dismissive of other toys and hobbies. There's even Lego fans who are dismissive of some things other Lego fans do that they don't like. Some people are just like that.

I'm not complaining! We got a nice bump in traffic. Feel free to spread the word any time! It blows my mind how much traffic the big established (not just Lego) discount sites must get given the bump a single post on a single thread on a site that posts hundreds of deals a day brought in. Then again BrickBadger tracks like 1000 prices, CamelCamelCamel, for instance, tracks something like 5 million.

Well that's just all kinds of Awesome. I love massive epic mocs with this level of detail and all the little in jokes and easter eggs. Great stuff.

Earth Defense HQ No contest. Just get it. You'll be able to get Shelob for ages yet. Earth Defense HQ will slowly get harder and harder to find at this point. It's also awesome. I mean really cool. Great fun to build. BTW there is a specific thread for these sort of posts so this will probably get locked or merged or something. I can't remember where it is though.

I like the idea. The scenes kind of double as a nice display environment. It could easily apply to other licensed themes as well.

The do seem to go a bit overboard on both the make-up and the waist-line thing at times. It doesn't really seem nescessary, but I guess some people prefer them like that. My favourite recent female minifigure is Helena from Pharoah's Quest (http://brickset.com/minifigs/?m=pha010). Minimal naturalistic make-up, freckles and a slightly cinched waist without going overboard. In terms of detail it fits both the theme and the character and is about the same level of detail and customisation as the male characters in the line without going out of their way to make sure it's clear to everyone that THIS IS A WOMAN. There's a bit of Marion Ravenwood from Raiders about her. Same minimal natural makeup etc. Which is kind of ironic because Marion's minifigure looks like she's been shot with the makeup gun out of the Simpsons. I mean I'm not losing sleep over it or anything, but given they made the effort to match the costume pretty well you've got to wonder what they were thinking with that face.