Reporting in super late for new home! lol!

Managed to snag this for a fellow bro here at BV2 last night, lucky I checked my pm before leaving.

As for myself I spent my remaining vouchers on a Lone Ranger Silver Mine Shootout @ 30%, not so lucky to get it at 50%...

So fast you put your hand up! lol!

Yup! It's for you! You were very lucky because there wasn't any on the shelves. I asked the ALJ staff and she went up to check for me. I walked to TRU to get some pressies wrapped and when I returned she had already brought down the few remaining sets of 42005 and 42007, and have already picked the best box and set it aside for me. Benefited a few other AFOLs too as they quickly grab them!

Time stamped on my receipt is 8:53pm. I was there in the afternoon around 3:30pm and also didn't see this set. I was there again around 8pm and asked the ALJ staff for it and she was helpful enough to help me go upstairs to check in their store.

10197 Fire Brigade officially discontinued. RIP 31st Dec 2013. Of course production of the set would have stopped months before that... Having said that, you can still find it in the open market at decent prices... Don't think you can get it below RM700 anymore but RM800-900 would be a good price now me thinks.

With Modular Buildings, unless you have deep pockets my advice to you is don't look back! Buy what's available now and make this your starting point in your Modular Buildings collection.

My guess is 10211 Grand Emporium will be discontinued end of this year. So if you need to plan this will be my suggested list in order of priority:

10197 Fire Brigade (must buy in 1st half of 2014)
10211 Grand Emporium (must buy before 3rd quarter of 2014)
10218 Pet Shop (Preferably start shopping for it in last quarter of 2014)

Once you have the above you can take a breather and slowly buy the newer Modular Buildings one by one each year if you can tahan... lol!

It will reach Malaysia, don't worry about that part. Worry about the price only, at over 2k pieces this is Modular Buildings territory...

I am getting this set for sure, one set can complete an iconic Simpsons family collection already.

Damn!! My 2014 shopping list suddenly got much longer! Initially quite safe with only the 10243 Parisian Restaurant in my list. Then heard about the new trains and now this!!


My Groupon order also received this morning. Got a heart attack when I saw the "packaging"... I hope the boxes are in good shape, can't wait to inspect them later.

This post has been edited by Lego_Jason: Jan 6 2014, 04:44 PM

Still, it doesn't mean they can be tardy with the packaging... I am all for reducing waste and if the boxes are in good shape (and they do look okay in the photos) then I'm more than happy that they are shipping it like this. However, if my boxes ended up crushed and creased then I won't get the satisfaction of hugging mint boxes...

I just like to open fresh crispy boxes.

Opening creased boxes makes me feel like I bought a second hand set.

Does anyone know anything about CMF Series 13 or CMF Simpsons Series? Product number is 71005. (71004 is Lego Movie Series)

I can see it in my list and wonder what it has to offer when the sets already includes the main characters? Maybe that's where you will find Itchy and Scratchy? haha!

It is scheduled for May 2014 release. Strange that not much publicity on Simpsons sets so far...

I'll most probably only get that Simpsons house but now that I am collecting all the CMF series I have fallen into that trap and there's no turning back. Every CMF series must buy! Doh! Doh! Doh!

Don't wait till June, price of 10197 Fire Brigade will be higher than now. You know what they always say: "Buy now, regret later".

Yeah, but the prices in that list is not always that attractive...

Haha! Slow down on BO this year as I don't have that many sets in my "buy list". In fact, hoping new distributors will save me the trouble of self importing... The problem with self import is I always buy too many, end up jamming up my $$$ and storage issues... Wife nag...

Anybody interested in CMF Series 12? (aka Lego Movie Series?) I'm going to order myself a few boxes, maybe I will do a bulk for that if people are keen...

I just checked last night, from my supplier before shipping and tax the cost is already ~RM750... I leave it to you to work out how much is the final landed price in Malaysia...

I also considered the Ikea Detolf based on what I read here but after checking out the real thing I changed my mind. Like what bro maxilife1 said, it is not completely sealed so dust will still go in but to me the deal breaker was the build quality. It is not a very sturdy shelf, held up only by the four skinny metal rods. It is wobbly when you gently push it and the glass is very thin and flexes too much to my liking. I can't have that in a house with kids running around...

That will be the best solution.

I also have that smell, I supposed once you have enough of those boxes in one room the smell becomes very obvious. I even had charcoal in the room but that doesn't seem to work. In the end I spread them all over the house (wherever I can find space to stash my loot) and the smell is gone from the room. I also use those cling wrap films to wrap the boxes (opened and unopened ones) and that may be the solution...

Zaman yang terlepas...

Wow! This person has so many of the same set!! Army builder! For a moment I thought it is yours!

Haha! Don't wait for my spares because I have not open 90% of my CMF series 1-11... Best to keep them in original bag until I figure out how best to display them...

From what I heard, HK is a very good place to hunt for those retired sets. Do check out bro cute_boboi's blog on HK Lego shopping before you go.

Hi everyone,

A quick announcement before I dash off for lunch. Pls check my signature and sign up if you are keen to join the next bulk order. Cheers!

Haha! Thank you for clarifying if not others might think you and me had a thing together...

I didn't receive pm from you yet, pls send again ya if you intend to join this BO.

Duty for Lego is always 10%.

Agree. Kastams at LCCT is not for the faint hearted not to mention the distance. Best to let the professionals handle that part.

Very true.

My incentive for self importing is usually not because it is cheaper but because I want it in the brown Lego carton box.

I like my boxes mint...

Bro mryellow19 bukan pengerusi, he's the club setiausaha. Presidents come and go, the secretary stays put.

Which pm ah? I'm so disorganised I don't even remember what's going on! lol!

Oh! Sorry! Usually it is the other way round, people are waiting for me to reply!

BO can also read "Banyak Order" if you are in taikun club.

Hmmm... I supposed there is never a "best" time because Lego releases new sets every year and older sets are discontinued...

Here we live by the motto "Buy now, regret later".

Mati la...

I only have one thing to say: AWESOME!!!

Since this was brought up I share the following photos taken hastily at Viewnet, Low Yat Plaza on Saturday:


Nothing else to report beyond sharing the photos above, just took some photos to share here. I didn't check out what's available and prices. (they have some sets there) I'm not interested with these KO products even though I would love to amass a Stormtrooper army...

Hmmm.... I have yet to build mine but I would say chances are you did something wrong. I doubt Lego designers would make a mistake like this... Perhaps someone else who has built this train can share their photos to compare?

Reporting in from my office, I'm with you bros...

lol! Yeah, good to know I'm not the oldest 30+ here!

I bought mine last April around RM1.5k... I think it is "reasonable" to be around ~RM1.7k today gua....

If it is not a transparent sticker, maybe you can try this crazy idea of mine? Peel off existing sticker and stick it onto double-sided tape, then cut the outline of your sticker to remove the excess double-sided tape. Just an idea that I had while reading your post, applying glue won't work and will just make it worse...

Take the above with a big disclaimer ya because I have not tried this before!! Best to experiment first before attempting to repair the real thing...

I can recommend where to get good double-sided tapes: Daiso. I find the adhesive in their double-sided tapes to be very strong.

Jelly betul!!

Hello AFOLs,

Here's my contribution to Monday blues... Finally got my hands on one of this!


Boring pose...


Weeee!!


Dip in a hot tub after a long day... Forgot to 'switch off' the thrusters...

Wow! Thanks for sharing, if I saw this earlier may have considered getting from this shop...