Lego Licensed Parts available from Bricks & Pieces

[eldiano]

18 hours ago, MAB said:

It was even better in the more distant past. Licensed parts were fairly frequently added by mistake and only removed after a couple of weeks so were quite easy to get hold of. And loads of pricing errors giving free parts or very cheap parts (5p for some torsos, and so on). And very fast turn around. 

I remember now hahaha, it felt dirty and guilty buying extra pieces for PaB back then because of how easy it was. The biggest thing I miss was the fast turn around on standard bricks. The shortest amount of time I remember was 4 days from Europe to Texas. 

Consumers like myself remember that, but 28 days omg, I can wait but I’m wondering what changed in the process from before!?

After weather delays my PaB order came in:

I’m just building up my MTS civilian population, I already have a bunch of knights! 10 is the sweet spot for me, but seriously 5 for 25 was too much, that was 3/4 of my order for these pieces either way! 

 

Edited July 11, 2024 by eldiano

[teamzissou]

Patiencely waiting for Wolfpack torso to restock. Anyone in US seeing them restocked? Curious if I'm just missing them

[zoth33]

20 hours ago, teamzissou said:

Patiencely waiting for Wolfpack torso to restock. Anyone in US seeing them restocked? Curious if I'm just missing them

Still out of stock just keep checking it's the only way to see when they come back in stock.  

[Lion King]

I wonder if orange Classic Spaceman will show up on PAB eventually…..

[Black Falcon]

5 hours ago, Lion King said:

I wonder if orange Classic Spaceman will show up on PAB eventually…..

Don´t give me false hope ;). Would love to get it from there, and sure the chance is there, but just as with other GWPs the chance doesn´t seem that high to me. Anyways, how long after the Blacktron Cruiser did the Blacktron torso show up?

[RichardGoring]

6 hours ago, Black Falcon said:

Don´t give me false hope ;). Would love to get it from there, and sure the chance is there, but just as with other GWPs the chance doesn´t seem that high to me. Anyways, how long after the Blacktron Cruiser did the Blacktron torso show up?

It was on PAB a couple of years ago though, although I never saw it in stock. I know that it was available to LUGs to purchase.

[Black Falcon]

8 minutes ago, RichardGoring said:

It was on PAB a couple of years ago though, although I never saw it in stock. I know that it was available to LUGs to purchase.

You mean the orange Spacemen? Interesting. Especially since the torso was exclusive to the small books back then, and those parts surely shouldn´t end up on PaB, well same as the licensed I guess, ;)

[RichardGoring]

4 hours ago, Black Falcon said:

You mean the orange Spacemen? Interesting. Especially since the torso was exclusive to the small books back then, and those parts surely shouldn´t end up on PaB, well same as the licensed I guess, ;)

Yes, the orange doesn't torso. Someone posted the link to the part number on PAB, but by the time I tried it, it was out of stock. I know that LUGs were able to order them.

[rebelpilot]

In addition to the orange classic space torso the orange helmet and orange airtanks were also available on Bricks & Pieces at a time when they weren't featured in sets as they have been since....

On 11/14/2020 at 2:31 PM, Grover said:

 

Sorry, missed these earlier.

Legs # 4120158
Torso # 6295181
Helmet # 6295184
Backpack tank # 6295186
Classic smiley head # 9336

But that was a long time ago and the way PAB now operates and what's available is quite different. One would assume there was an oversupply of the GWP Blacktron torso so the excess was put on PAB to clear out the inventory. It's anyone guess whether such leftover inventory of the orange CS torso exists after the production of the Space Diner.

 

 

 

 

 

[Lion King]

18 hours ago, Black Falcon said:

Don´t give me false hope ;). Would love to get it from there, and sure the chance is there, but just as with other GWPs the chance doesn´t seem that high to me. Anyways, how long after the Blacktron Cruiser did the Blacktron torso show up?

Oh i won’t give you false hopes….

[Grover]

4 hours ago, rebelpilot said:

In addition to the orange classic space torso the orange helmet and orange airtanks were also available on Bricks & Pieces at a time when they weren't featured in sets as they have been since....

But that was a long time ago and the way PAB now operates and what's available is quite different. One would assume there was an oversupply of the GWP Blacktron torso so the excess was put on PAB to clear out the inventory. It's anyone guess whether such leftover inventory of the orange CS torso exists after the production of the Space Diner.

Correct. It was on B&P for about 2 weeks. I called in a day after that and it wasn't on the website but they were able to manually add it.  Then a couple of weeks later, it disappeared entirely.  But it was briefly on B&P in 2020 to the public (I was not part of a LUG at the time), as evidenced by my order pic:

Edited July 14, 2024 by Grover

[YellowFrog]

Does this mean that prices on the dark bluish grey goat and the purple tax collector (from the Medieval Market Square), etc. will drop on Bricklink? What I'm saying is, should I wait for them to come back in stock on Lego.com, or wait for prices to drop on Bricklink? The current price on the tax collector is about $15 AUD on Bricklink, but I could buy the parts for the minifigure for about $5 on PAB at the moment (if it was in stock).

[Black Falcon]

34 minutes ago, YellowFrog said:

Does this mean that prices on the dark bluish grey goat and the purple tax collector (from the Medieval Market Square), etc. will drop on Bricklink? What I'm saying is, should I wait for them to come back in stock on Lego.com, or wait for prices to drop on Bricklink? The current price on the tax collector is about $15 AUD on Bricklink, but I could buy the parts for the minifigure for about $5 on PAB at the moment (if it was in stock).

You never know when they will reuse some of the parts in a cheaper set, so it is always possible that the prices will drop below the PAB prices. However if they stay exclusive to the Medieval Town Square, I doubt they would drop below the Pick a Brick prices, since that one will be the cheapest source for them. And obviously people will also have to make some money with it, so they will sell it above the price they bought them for.

That beeing said, I would say head and hair will have a good chance to be avaiable cheaper but the other parts likely won´t, as they aren´t really something usefull for City or any other smaller set that would come to mind.

11 hours ago, rebelpilot said:

In addition to the orange classic space torso the orange helmet and orange airtanks were also available on Bricks & Pieces at a time when they weren't featured in sets as they have been since....

But that was a long time ago and the way PAB now operates and what's available is quite different. One would assume there was an oversupply of the GWP Blacktron torso so the excess was put on PAB to clear out the inventory. It's anyone guess whether such leftover inventory of the orange CS torso exists after the production of the Space Diner.

Oversuppply sounds kinda unlikely to me. I mean they wouldn´t produce so many of them, if they know they wouldn´t use them, however I could still imagine overproduction to be a possible thing - but given how long it was avaiable and that people bought a lot of it apparently, that can´t all be from overproduction.

[MAB]

8 hours ago, YellowFrog said:

What I'm saying is, should I wait for them to come back in stock on Lego.com, or wait for prices to drop on Bricklink? The current price on the tax collector is about $15 AUD on Bricklink, but I could buy the parts for the minifigure for about $5 on PAB at the moment (if it was in stock).

Either way, you wait. So wait and see.

[rebelpilot]

15 hours ago, YellowFrog said:

should I wait for them to come back in stock on Lego.com, or wait for prices to drop on Bricklink?

Depends on a few factors...

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The current price on the tax collector is about $15 AUD on Bricklink, but I could buy the parts for the minifigure for about $5 on PAB at the moment (if it was in stock).

Keep in mind the tax collector has a black cape which is $3.52 AUD and in stock, the other parts (torso, legs, head, hair) total about $4.50 AUD. All these parts are a mixture of bestseller and standard so that's 2 x a service fee of $15 or 2 x $40 spend threshold to remove the service fees. In addition it's a $150 order threshold for free shipping to Australia. Fortunately/unfortunately I don't usually have problems meeting these thresholds, but I wait and make large orders once all the parts I want are in stock/restocked. 

[Sir Dano]

Goats, Wolfpack and Tax Collector torsos are back in stock.

[eldiano]

1 hour ago, Sir Dano said:

Goats, Wolfpack and Tax Collector torsos are back in stock.

Interestingly they removed the wolf pack and goats from the bestseller category!

[Classic_Spaceman]

11 minutes ago, eldiano said:

Interestingly they removed the wolf pack and goats from the bestseller category!

None of the new MTS torsos are in the Bestseller category, oddly. Maybe LEGO is trying to buy time until they can build up enough stock? 
 

[eldiano]

1 minute ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

None of the new MTS torsos are in the Bestseller category, oddly. Maybe LEGO is trying to buy time until they can build up enough stock? 
 

Maybe, I did get my Wolfpack and goats from the best seller category or maybe lego wisen up on finally using their main factory back home in Europe to replenish stock. They were a few MTS torsos and that was the existing green villager and the wolf, now it’s just the green one

[Classic_Spaceman]

7 minutes ago, eldiano said:

Maybe, I did get my Wolfpack and goats from the best seller category or maybe lego wisen up on finally using their main factory back home in Europe to replenish stock. They were a few MTS torsos and that was the existing green villager and the wolf, now it’s just the green one

Sand green and dark green peasant torsos are from the LKC, and all of those parts are Bestsellers. 
 

[teamzissou]

3 hours ago, Sir Dano said:

Goats, Wolfpack and Tax Collector torsos are back in stock.

Thank you! 

FYI there is a crab body for $0.37 in US. It's bright orange. Looks like the crab with shipwreck survivor from series 21 BUT without the eye print

According to Bricklink only appearing in Milky Way Galaxy 31212

CRAB, NO. 1

ELEMENT ID 6481505

DESIGN ID 69945

[eldiano]

Did Anyone notice the graphics overhaul of PaB on the US page? Everything is 3d rendered now, somewhat, from what I have seen anyways! 

My Standard orders from the first and 3rd of July have been Shipped!

[Clone OPatra]

8 minutes ago, eldiano said:

Did Anyone notice the graphics overhaul of PaB on the US page? Everything is 3d rendered now, somewhat, from what I have seen anyways! 

Yeah they had trialled this earlier in some regions - maybe six months ago? - but now seem to have rolled it out everywhere.

The best thing about it is being able to rotate part images now, which is exceptionally useful for the likes of dual sided Minifigure heads and torsos.

[Black Falcon]

11 hours ago, Clone OPatra said:

The best thing about it is being able to rotate part images now, which is exceptionally useful for the likes of dual sided Minifigure heads and torsos.

Yeah, very usefull indeed. I´ve ordered some Minifigure heads in the past, that looked really great, but when I got them I realised they were wearing deaf-aid which you didn´t saw on the pics provided. I also ordered some bare torsos - and when they arrived they all had a duckling tatoo on the back...

[Yperio_Bricks]

14 hours ago, Clone OPatra said:

The best thing about it is being able to rotate part images now, which is exceptionally useful for the likes of dual sided Minifigure heads and torsos.

Wow, thanks! I didn't notice it is possible to rotate the items now. I was just wondering why they changed all pictures.

2 hours ago, Black Falcon said:

 I also ordered some bare torsos - and when they arrived they all had a duckling tatoo on the back...

I feel you. Happened to me too when i was ordering some nice torsos only to learn about the back print after they arrived