***The Official OcUK Lego Thread***

[Diddums]

I don’t disagree. All those stickers, and technic doesn’t appeal to me these days.

The Sian is down to £200 on Amazon at the moment.

I don't like any of the cars apart from maybe the entry level ones to get young minds on the Technic ladder. Technic should be for making stuff like the cranes, diggers, that excavator thing, etc. Gears, sprockets, pneumatics, motors, all the cool stuff. Not only is Technic seriously selling itself short by building cars which all do the same things, they also don't do the cars justice as Lego doesn't lend itself well to the shapes and forms of the cars they're trying to emulate. The Porsche RS was the worst, it looked terrible.

I see Lego has now started to remedy this by just making unique pieces for each car.

 

[timmy222]

I picked up the Star wars cantina three years ago for 70.00.
Unopened to this day.

 

[pepp77]

I ordered the Ecto and a few little bits and pieces to get the two GWPs. the teal brick is okay, but I think the Dickens thing will look cool once built.

Was gonna potentially use the VIP points to put towards the Nintendo, but as they dont get added until the Ecto ships (9th December my date was) and Nintendo had it for 15% off I decided to order it from there instead.

Not sure if there is anything I now want in the BF sale

 

[b0rn2sk8]

Well Lego black Friday was a bit of an anti-climax as usual. I did pick up the VW camper van before it disappears, I think it's the only one of that range which I don't have and apparently its EOL now. According to brick watch its been £4 cheaper at some point, I can live with that. Had £25 in points saved up so ended up costing £43

Looking at what's in the sale, I think most of it is now EOL and probably could have been had cheaper elsewhere.

 

[pepp77]

Pile of from Lego, Argos and even zavvi have better offers.

 

[b0rn2sk8]

Not a chance. Lego.com Black Friday and sales in general are terrible.

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Any decent lego discounts happen elsewhere like Smyths, Argos, Amazon(check all EU stores) and John Lewis.

 

[pepp77]

So whilst Lego themselves were a blow out I did grab an AT-AT from Argos for £93, I always considered getting it but not for £140.

Add the Ecto-1 and the NES and its actually been a fairly expensive month for me.

 

[b0rn2sk8]

Haha yes, I got the treehouse, bat wing and the camper van. Though they have all been confiscated for a month

 

[413x]

New Ferrari in January...


https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=311936959806515

Not keen on that. Too many stickers. Looks messy


The lego black Friday.. As said.. Is garbage

 

[theone8181]

Haha yes, I got the treehouse, bat wing and the camper van. Though they have all been confiscated for a month

Where'd you get the batwing from, I've only seen it for full price.

 

[Boge]

Not keen on that

Me too.

Currently working on converting the Sian into a remote controlled 4 wheel drive with motorised doors and spoiler thang.

I'm getting there... Slowly.

 

[jellybeard999]

Hi everyone. I've dug my lego out of the attic from when I was younger (I guess it's all 1990-2000ish) and

This got me thinking - there look to be more efficient battery/motor setups than in my sets.

I have https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=2847c01 and https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=5114-1 6xAAA batteries

Are the newer battery packs/motors backwards compatible? The motors are pretty compact, but the battery packs are massive and take loads of batteries!

I think i'm going to build this set up over Christmas

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=8485-1

 

[Boge]

Cool thing.

Are the newer battery packs/motors backwards compatible?

I think you might need a cable to convert them to use with modern power functions battery packs etc , but I'm not 100% sure.

The price of power functions stuff has gone through the roof since it was discontinued and costs silly money on rebrickable now.

I use Mould King stuff. Their 2.4 Bluetooth battery box and Black Furious motors are much more powerful than the latest Powered Up App controlled stuff from Lego.

Also prefer using a remote control operating unit rather than using a phone like Lego do now.

 

[theone8181]

Not sure what voltage new motors are I guess they might be 6V (old ones are 9v hence the 6 AAs).

 

[mjt]

Pirates of Barracuda Bay came up at a local online shop for £155 so I thought it’d be rude not to!

 

[a1ex2001]

Pirates of Barracuda Bay came up at a local online shop for £155 so I thought it’d be rude not to!

Good deal, I just built the new 3 in 1 pirate ship with my eldest and it took me right back to building the original lego Barracuda I’m sure we I’ll be adding that set if it is ever at a decent price.

The 3in1 ship is a great build for anyone interested my sons loves it too.

 

[mjt]

Good deal, I just built the new 3 in 1 pirate ship with my eldest and it took me right back to building the original lego Barracuda I’m sure we I’ll be adding that set if it is ever at a decent price.

The 3in1 ship is a great build for anyone interested my sons loves it too.

Picked that up for 30% off as well; will add it to my 5-year-old's Christmas pile. Thx for the tip!

 

[Ugley_Matt]

Good deal, I just built the new 3 in 1 pirate ship with my eldest and it took me right back to building the original lego Barracuda I’m sure we I’ll be adding that set if it is ever at a decent price.

The 3in1 ship is a great build for anyone interested my sons loves it too.

I'd really want to have 3 of those models so you could build all 3 versions and keep them.

 

[Building Candy]

Im tempted by the technic Land Rover, £130 at Iwoot and Zavvi, is that a good price?

 

[swillsy]

It was on sale for significantly less a little while ago

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/lego-technic-42110-land-rover-defender-at-costco-leeds-3612342