March 28, 20159 yr Guys, I'm having a 'serious' problem at hand... I partially think of this forum here as a support group. Our poison being ouchy-when-stepped-on plastic... A local toyshop is going out of business or moves to a different location or whoknowswhat. Anyways, they are offering a 20% discount on everything. And they have a quite well equiped Lego compartment... Aaaand they have all the new Pirate sets! What to do, what to do, what to do... Every answer to this post should include at least one of the following phrase suggestions: No!; Hell no!; OMG; Be reasonable!; You are stupid; I said don't!; WTF, dude?! But now for real, do you think it would be a at least good idea to buy some of the larger sets (ship, bluecoat base) and wait till this wave has passed, then sell when prices rise? Like many did with the 2010 Imperial Flagship? Anyone experienced in this? WTF, dude! ^^ I buy every year out of production sets in Blavant Danmark when I went there. The shop is more or less a tourism racket, but they have allways old sets 20% off. This year I bought 4182 Canibal Escape. I bought all they had (3x). Because of the fees at Ebay and paypal I only made 37,16 € Profit. ( I just looked at my "Lego trading excel" Profit= money to invest in Lego I will keep). I also bought a 6242 Soldiers Fort new for 55,90 € last year at "Ebay Kleinanzeigen", it was hard to sell: I got 84,21 € but after fees it had only 17,66 € profit. You see it is not hard to make some money, but it will be difficult to find someone who want the old sets for the price you want and you will not get rich. It is even easier to buy old sets at ebay and sell them on amazon, where the people pay horror prizes.
March 29, 20159 yr WTF, dude! ^^ I buy every year out of production sets in Blavant Danmark when I went there. The shop is more or less a tourism racket, but they have allways old sets 20% off. This year I bought 4182 Canibal Escape. I bought all they had (3x). Where is that? I'd love to stumble across a shop that has old sets like that.
March 29, 20159 yr @ Hive, Matthias: Thanks guys, for the input. Yeah, a little 'hobby money' would be nice and blicklink revealed some quite high prices. Hmm... the selling platform seems to be an issue, hadn't considered that... Let's see.
March 29, 20159 yr Just bought the new Soldiers Fort and Treasure Island. Now I'm only missing the Soldiers Outpost, the chess and the Juniors set for my collection to be complete! Although I'm not sure if I will get the chess set, but the other two will be mine eventually
March 29, 20159 yr Where is that? I'd love to stumble across a shop that has old sets like that. Blavand near to Esbjerg. But I was there over the year changing and bought all good stuft. They may have a lot of Atlantis huge sets that are a few nears old. I remember the sets was allways be there, in the past years, nobody wants them. If Atlantis is intresting the sets are 20% off, if I remember right.
March 29, 20159 yr Friday was a good day for me. First my Lego Shop order arrived. I got all the new pirate sets (including the Junior set) except for the chess set. My order from a BrickArms vendor arrived. I got enough silver U-clips and bayonets to fully equip all of my soldiers. Finally my order from a BrickLink vendor also arrived. I ordered enough "painted" shakos to fully equip my older soldiers. I also got enough backpacks to equip the 2009 soldiers. I think the BrickBounty is in trouble: Fully equipped soldiers ready for battle:
March 29, 20159 yr Lately I've bought all the new Pirates sets. I've also assembled a Black Seas Barracuda through many Bricklink orders. I just made an order for the sails. Hope they are in an okay condition. The only thing missing now is another big flag and the female pirate heads. I've bought way too many ship parts lately. I built the Imperial Flagship from Bricklink orders. Then I've got a spare set of Imperial Flagship sails. I've also got 4 of the Brickbeard's Bounty sails without skulls and the small sail from the same set. And a white prefab hull. I've got to stop buying lego until much later this year. I've also bought the 2009 Soldiers' Fort and about 10 redcoat guys.
March 30, 20159 yr I just received 4/5 of the new Pirates sets by mail today, and am now waiting on a Bricks & Pieces order that (among other things) includes the rare parts I desire from the last set, The Brick Bounty - such as the pirate captain and cook torsos.
April 6, 20159 yr Finally got in my Brick Bounty that I ordered during the double VIP points event. Only need to pick up the three medium sized sets within the next month.
April 6, 20159 yr Bought today the 70409,70411 sets,those two really do a great combination.Can't wait to buy the Brick Bounty,I'll finally have my first lego pirate ship
April 7, 20159 yr I bought all of the Pirates stuff last week, my Lego store was overflowing with lego pirates, I did my research and thought the chess set was sold out just like online but they like 6. Only built the chess and the cheaper Lego sets, still trying to keep them underwraps
April 8, 20159 yr Recieved 70409, 70410 and 70411 as slightly early birthday presents yesterday. About to start building them now.
April 9, 20159 yr I've been picking them up slowly over the last week and I finally picked up the Brick Bounty, which is now sitting beside my Brickbeard's Bounty. I have to say, while I love the new ship and some of the changes that they made like the anchor and the way they did the stern, I'm kind of disappointed seeing the two ships next to each other. The colours are just too similar for me to feel adequately impressed. Why couldn't the Brick Bounty have black and white sails, or green instead of red, or anything other than slightly brighter BBB colours? It's a shame, because it's otherwise a lovely ship, and I should feel happier with it. Maybe once I have the Imperial Flagship built between them and I can see a bit more diversity... Another thing I've heard people unhappy about is the white epaulettes on the soldiers, but I have to disagree about that. At first it looks odd, like they should have red epaulettes, just to be more like the Classic soldiers. But then it gets difficult to distinguish the red/blue soldiers from the blue/red soldiers. Having one side blue/white/red and the other side blue/white at least makes them look slightly more visually distinctive. Edited April 9, 20159 yr by David Thomsen
April 9, 20159 yr I finally got the sails for my Black Seas Barracuda yesterday. Now it is complete! All I need is some black string... The only thing missing is another one of the female pirate's head... It even holds its own against the Imperial Flagship! Edited April 9, 20159 yr by Sigolf Brimabane
April 10, 20159 yr I finally got the sails for my Black Seas Barracuda yesterday. Now it is complete! All I need is some black string... The only thing missing is another one of the female pirate's head... It even holds its own against the Imperial Flagship! What a Nice Acquisition!...Congrats! I can see this is the 10040, the Remake Set from the Shotgun Version type BTW, You got the best Ship Lego Ever made ( IMO ) I have ordered NIMB which is on the way! Edited April 19, 20159 yr by Kolonialbeamter Removed quoted pictures
April 11, 20159 yr Just Got NIB Lego 6285 Black Seas Barracuda, USA First Version with Shooting Cannons, and guess what, Just for $350 ;) I couldn't tolerate so i opened the box to see what it has.......Now i have the 10040 ( Remake ) and this Original One......and yeaa,,this will be built one Day! 20150411_161618-1 by lego4ever79, on Flickr 20150411_161650-1 by lego4ever79, on Flickr 20150411_161354-1 by lego4ever79, on Flickr Cheers!
April 11, 20159 yr Congratulations on being the luckiest person alive! :) Thanks Mate....ohh Yea,,,,,i am Very Happy to own this set as i never had it before!
April 13, 20159 yr Ah, the Black Seas Barracuda .... (sigh) that was a ship... and it came in a wonderful box, obviously - and I never had it too. I had 6289 Red Beard Runner and I still have the box!
April 16, 20159 yr I gave in to nostalgia and got me the 70412 Soldiers Fort and 10679 Pirate Treasure Hunt. Now I'm contemplating getting me a second Soldiers Fort, and two 70410 Soldiers Outposts for modding/moc-ing purposes. As a kid I never had any of the blue coat buildings/ships, I did have 6270 Forbidden Island, 6285 Black Seas Barracuda and a bunch of the smaller pirates themed boxes. So now I'm going to try building something that goes with those sets :)
April 18, 20159 yr At this point I'm just waiting for wave two of Pirates 2015. The current wave is unappealing to me especially the BB. The blue coats without hats makes them look like the soldiers from POTC 4 and that's fine but I guess I can live with that.
April 19, 20159 yr Despite the obligatory new sets, I managed to get about 35 of the 89'er blue soldiers including several officers and even some "Broadsides" :) BotBS, I am ready to start!
April 19, 20159 yr What a Nice Acquisition!...Congrats! I can see this is the 10040, the Remake Set from the Shotgun Version type BTW, You got the best Ship Lego Ever made ( IMO ) I have ordered NIMB which is on the way! Splendid acquisation, VintageLegoEra I'm only a little bit jealous I edited your post. Could you please refrain from quoting pictures in the future, especially if they appear just in the post prior to yours. Thank you. Oh, this of course goes for everyone
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