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>>5612747
>>5612747
Step your game up, senpi.
>>5612814
Your move
Realistically attainable but premium enough.
>>5612818
also realistically attainable and premium enough.
half scale though. I'm quite pleased with my purchase
>>5612814
>dropping $100 at McDonalds
Not a bad set for something I bought for £80 or so.
>>5612892
>dropping $3 at Mickey D's and getting 97 $1 bills for the strip club later
>>5612894
not trolling, just curious: Aren't Lego Sets basically unrare if unboxed? You could recreate ANY Lego Set with exchangable parts anyways.
Like, i could rebuilt this entire cloud city set just by buying its parts seperately, right?
>>5612930
That's true, which is also the reason why the exclusive parts go for a hell of a lot of money.
I'm pretty sure the Bobba Fett and Lando are exclusive to that set and that makes them really expensive.
>>5612894
Fuck man, I tried so hard to find this thing when it was rereleased a little while back. I was just too slow.
I'd still rather go for the monorail sets though, I've wanted those ever since I first saw them as a kid at a train convention.
>>5612931
Nope boba comes with the slave 1 aswell.
>>5612747
I got this yesterday senpai
>>5612930
They're much rarer with box (and sealed) But most sets still retain value because of the figures.
In this case, the Cloud City is fairly cheap to make, but more or less all of the figures are exclusive to this set.
The ebay price on this is unbelievable.
Hyper Hybrid Model 1/24 RX-78-2.
3k on eBay right now but I can't bring myself to buy it.
>>5613003
>I can't bring myself to buy it.
I'm guessing because you don't have even $300
>>5612992
Really? With most imported figs going well over $50 before shipping, you can't shell out $40 for your "grail" toy.
>>5613022
That one is $100 shipped to where I am, but I'm seriously considering it. Last time I looked they only had the one $70+ one, which was $50-odd shipped on top of that.
>>5613035
1. Stop living in a third world shithole.
2. Step it up, senpai.
For less than a month's rent in price
>tfw the rush for hunting was better than the grail itself.
Can never find for sale. There was going to be a model kit of same character but different build at WF last year according to sculptor's twitter, but it wasn't for some reason.
>tfw no dragon quest
I got my grails.
Daigunder and the old medabots peppercat toy from hasbro. They took a couple years to get too.
Daigunder was luck due to the korean toys flooding ebay for a bit.
>>5612930
It´s always surprising to see which parts are rare or even exist in Lego sets.
The flower stem part you see there next to the stormtrooper, it was only available through this one set in brown and costs on average over 5$ (used condition). One would think it would be as common in brown as in green, the latter being included in over 450 sets, costing 5 cents on average.
Another example would be one of my holy grail parts, picrelated. It´s very common in nearly all colors lego ever produced except tan. It only appeared in one set in tan, the 2004 release of the Star Wars Snowspeeder. It goes for prices between 5,50 and 24€ each on Bricklink. Depending on where you live it might be cheaper to get an incomplete Snowspeeder on Ebay than buy the part alone. And it still begs the question why it came only with Snowspeeders of all things when all other toys based on it are grey or white and never have a single ounce of tan in it.
The full set of these, even though they break eventually and are severely overpriced. They just look so damn cool.
I do try to acquire my grails and I have most of my most-wanted. There's still some others I really want, mainly stuff I missed out on due to being in highschool or college. Some older 3A stuff, , Hot toys, MP-4 Optimus. Recently I got Threezero's Shield Liger for a decent price.
>>5613233
That part's on for less than 60p on Bricklink
>>5613236
>They break eventually
Don't we all.
>>5613252
I said in tan. Lowest one is 5,89 and I need 9 matching pairs (this is the left version, and I need right versions). Most sellers only have one available.
>>5613233
Hm, isn't it very easy to make money out of these rare parts my simply painting them yourself? I know, it would be a knock off then, but still.
>>5613253
Dude...
Since we're mostly talking about LEGO grails, this would be mine. The Modular Green Grocer....and to a lesser extent (as in, I want the Grocer more) Cafe Corner.
Both of them, used, go for upwards of $700~$1000 complete, used. And that's each. Brand new in a sealed box, the Cafe Corner is closer to $2000~$2500, and the Green Grocer is closer to $1200~$1300.
I've considered piecing the Green Grocer together, but the problem is that the sand green color bricks are pretty rare. The modified 1x2 bricks with the notch in them (of which the GG has around 50) go for about $3~$4 each. The regular 1x4 bricks go for a buck or two each, and it has almost 50 of those as well, and the 1x6s go for about $4 each too.
Not too many sets used Sand green (especially in large quantities) other than the Green Grocer, the Haunted House from Monster Fighters line, and one of the big Harry Potter sets. A couple of other sets have used some of those pieces, but they come with all of 2~4 pieces, which isn't nearly enough.
Just buying all the sand green pieces for the set would be about $300+, and that's not even taking into account all the other pieces in the set.
Some people substitute sand blue, or another color, but I just couldn't do it. I would want it to be the original colors...
>>5613267
You would need to build the model and then paint the spots of the parts that are visible when finished. I find that kind of removes the magic, feels more like building a model kit and then you can´t disconnect on the fly again.
Lego Designers do that very often though. The designer of the UCS Bobas Slave One made a Jango version for his office and painted the pieces that were needed for the blue colorscheme. He wants to include the missing pieces for a blue version in his future sets so people could make a purist Jango Slave One in the future without tweaking his design.
>>5613280
Green Grocer was another one of my grails as well. My first Modular was the Fire Brigade and when I wanted to order Green Grocer just after Christmas 2009 it was sold out. production run got cut short, most sets had 1,5 to 3 years but GC only a bit over 1 year.
When I sorted my collection I saw how many parts I had for it but also ran into the problem with sandgreen bricks. Luckily it was 2014, Haunted House was still available and I figured I should just buy it. I never truly liked the Haunted House because of the green colorscheme. I went on to switch out the sandgreen of the Haunted House for light grey and then put all sand green parts into the Green Grocer.
Had to substitute a number of things. Dark red bows instead of blue, white curtains instead of dark red, tiny details. The 1x2 bricks with notches I just ignored and made into normal bricks, still don´t get why they had to use those modified versions instead of basics.
Haunted House had more than enough sand green bricks. Biggest problem for me were the 1x4 sideways hinge plates, windows, skeleton legs and 2x2 black roof pieces which I could order for 30€ on lego.coms Pick-A-Brick.
Sadly Haunted House itself is just as expensive now, 400$ lowest price instead of 180.
>>5613231
Dang son, I have to say I'm jelly. Medabots doesn't have much of a Western audience so it's hard to get these things.
>>5613319
you just reminded me, is the old Jango Fett Slave 1 (first release) still worth something? i have it flying around. + building instructions
>>5613319
>Green Grocer was another one of my grails as well.
Yeah, Honestly, I think it is one of the best looking modulars, next to maybe the Parisian Restaurant. I only have about half of the Modulars, so it is an upward battle if I ever want to get the first five or so that I missed. Though, I don't really have a huge interested in Market street (which I think is just ugly) or the Town Hall, which is just kind of boring and plain to me.
I actually just recently missed a guy selling a Green Grocer on craigslist that he pieced together using sand blue instead of sand green. He also substituted a handful of other pieces, like the curtains and awning and a few other things, but he only wanted $300 for the whole thing, but by the time I contacted him it was gone.
>>5613094
I have one.
Skybound Negan. Nigga went up like 200 bucks since I bought em. Feels good.
>>5613354
Idk which sneak to get though...
>>5613354
MGS1 style Solid Snake with good articulation. I really want a figure of him but 400€ play arts kai, the cartoon version looks bad. MacFarlanes also has shit articulation, doesn´t it?
>>5613333
Prices look great, original price to double of that.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&LH_Auction=1&_nkw=7153+lego&_sop=13
The biggest draw were the figures but they released redesigns of Jango and kid Boba in 2013 so it´s only for nostalgia goggles and dark blue slopes now.
>>5613345
Market Street was really ugly and a shit build (staircase perfectly centered in the 16x16 studs floor, really?) I don´t shed a tear for missing that.
Isn´t sand blue just as rare as sand green? I think the modular Pet Shop crunches the prices on Bricklink but that should go out of production any moment now as well.
>>5613370
>Isn´t sand blue just as rare as sand green?
Huh. I didn't think it was, but now that I look it up, it really hasn't been in a lot of sets.
The larger parts have only been in 3 or 4 sets, and even the small 1x2 modified/notch parts have been in 7 sets. Pretty much all of which are retired and are/were seasonal sets.
That guy probably used sand blue because as of right now, it is pretty readily available until the Pet Shop is totally off the market.
Someday
I have a few grails, but this is what I'm currently hunting.
>>5612747
NECA Cherno Alpha, SAS Killer Queen and Yoshikage Kira 2nd. Not so much a grail as it is peoe scalping the fuck out of them.
>>5613632
People*
Both of the RIO:bone Canti figures.
>>5613444
IM with ya bro, I wish i had just caved and bot the game set when the chance was there
>>5613632
Aren't there a lot of Chernos on EBay? Or are those bootlegs or something
>>5613370
damn man you really made me think. just looked what lego star wars stuff i had in my basement. i also have the Obi Wan Jedi Starfighter that was released at the same time with the Slave 1 (unfortunately without the Obi-Wan fig..) and a complete Dark Developer Mindstorms Kit (that AT-AT one)
>>5613783
They're all from China. Take no chances.
>>5613823
A good list of all sets is on Brickset.com with easy to search for tags. Check if sets are truly complete with partslists from bricklink.com. Lego buyers a fickle beasts and can get bitchy if you say something is complete but is missing a tiny part or two, maybe include a line in the description with the exact part and you are good to go.
Anything licensed should fetch a nice price.
>>5613826
it'll probably be on the same level of quality, being Neca and all
>>5613890
Please don't let your autistic shitposting spill over into other threads.
At least contain the cancer to the NECA generals, if you want to shitpost.
>>5613632
Those SASs aren't too expensive on Mandarake, just a bit uncommon depending on what color you're looking for. Don't get me wrong, they aren't cheap, but it's way better than dealing with scammers. Unless you mean the clear KQ, which is just crazy expensive by nature.
>>5613890
I'm more concerned about potential lead and mercury in the packaging than the quality of the figure
>>5613010
I have 28k in the bank right now. The real reason is I can't justify spending 3k on a toy.
>>5612892
>not being American
>>5613772
You missed both re-releases?
>>5613826
That doesn't matter if there are no bootlegs.
There is a large collector demographic in HK/China, naturally there are s lot of shops too
>>5613040
>just move out bro xD!
Fuck off it's not as easy as it sounds.
>>5612815
It's like you people don't even know how to use Bricklink
>>5614210
I wasn't collecting when it came out or when it was re-released. I'm relatively new to the hobby.
>>5612747
>Post your grail
What do you mean by this?
Post rare toys?
Or just your favorites?
>>5614389
Grail = rare coveted item
Your = you
Post = a message
>>5614239
Yeah, it's REALLY hard to set a custom search on eBay that notifies you via email when your precious meme-bot is up for sale.
Now go cry yourself to sleep in your shack because you're not living in glorious Freedom Land.
>>5614439
I think you made that more confusing. lol
My local place has a few coming in this month or next. I'm hoping to be able to snag one of those for walk-ins.
It's either this one or Mach or Chaser.
>>5613212
I want that...
One fucking day I will.
Really too difficult to choose just one...
>>5614672
I don't think so...? The toy is Starcastle from Trendmasters. You can look through the different collections at
http://www.ghostofthedoll.co.uk/starcastle-disney.php
Although I wouldn't be surprised as some of them did different things. Like the one that is also used as a tea set, or the one that is compatible with stardancers.
>>5614680
Bubbles as in one of the spires it had a bubble wand. Thanks for the link, that stuff is so nostalgic.
>>5614690
Could be possible then ! The gem castle is one I had as a kid so the nostalgia is huge for me in that one. But I like a lot of the Starcastle designs
>>5613352
How much did you pay for it?
Someday I will get this new with box unopened.
I guess this might be grails to some Amiibo collectors
Since this is the first time Nintendo made an NFC figure, but only lasted on the market for a month.
Making them impossible to find.
If only it weren't obcenely expensive
>>5612747
feels so good man
>>5612775
I hope you're joking
>>5613003
I hear it's pretty shitty.
I've already got my lifetime holy grail, but I have a few less major grails. This is my main grail at the moment. It's a blind box chase figure, and the only person I know that has one bought 30 boxes to get it. They don't sell it anymore, so who knows how many are actually being sold these days.
>>5616298
Is it new? I've never seen that card before. I know some were stupid rare, like that one warrior woman card from long ago. They might have reprinted her though.
>>5615556
Those are pretty neat. I always passed them up at Gamestop. How rare were the shiny figures?
>>5617036
It would have been nice if I included a picture. Most of my other grails are (stupid rare) chase variants in blind boxes.
The red RIO:Bone Canti.
>Six
>Hundred
>Fucking
>Dollars
>also no one ever seems to have all his parts in stock, and shitlords in eBay want to fucking sell him for new-in-box prices despite sitting on their fucking shelves and covered in dust/jizz/smoke/whatever
>>5617036
>Those are pretty neat. I always passed them up at Gamestop. How rare were the shiny figures?
The shiny ones go from $80-$100 each.
The non-shiny ones are about $20 each.
That's aot since they used to be worth $3.99 each.
>>5617048
Just buy the knockoff + new hands, honestly.
>>5616298
Reading the description, is this card even legal in Japan?
$160usd or more? no way, I'll never get it.
>>5618368
It is, but nobody uses it because it's too hard to meet the conditions.
>>5616298
Why do you want the jap version?
>>5618393
it's only in japanese :(
>>5618451
Isn't there supposed to be an english version coming out as a jump promo?
>>5618390
>it's too hard to meet the conditions
That's like 99% of yugioh cards though, is that even a surprise?
>>5618467
>That's like 99% of yugioh cards though
lol no
>>5618467
No that's only 99% of intentionally OP monster cards. Most OP gamebreaking cards people actually use are made OP by accident because konami is retarded and get banned within a year.
>>5618485
Reading the effects of the three Gods, I assume Ra is what makes it so difficult?
Ra is retarded with that no special summon rule.
I've had the rest of the team since last September. Still need her.
I have all the other variants but for some reason this fucker evades me...
>>5618529
There's one pre-owned on AmiAmi for 5980.
>>5618538
With the next "Food animated movie" comming
maybe food fighters could get a spin of with the movie licence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VoNgLnjzVg
>>5618384
She's really cute.
Side question: Was there ever a line of articulated Guilty Gear figures? I'd fucking love a Faust one.
>>5618553
You can get them new on Amazon for 60-70 dollars last I checked so I'll just wait. Thanks though
>>5618675
>she
>>5618723
You do realize that's one of the oldest jokes in the book, right?
>>5618466
really? source?
>>5613444
>tfw found sealed Gravity Daze CE at Animate at retail price when visiting Japan back in January, but scared of hamhanding Kat
I've never been more careful with a figma.
>>5618504
It's a pain in the ass to get the means to summon all 3 god cards at the same time, and have Hora ready in your hand. Then there's the high chance your opponent would have beat you by then. It's not impossible, but it's more effort than it's worth, and you might as well play Exodia at that point.
>>5615556
That shiny eevee
Based
In lieu of any decent toys this would be nice to have.
>>5619197
competitive player here.
Hora decks usually rely on getting all 3 gods to the grave very fast, then use soul charge to revive all 3 (yes, that is possible) to tribute them for horakthy.
yes, its not even close to being reliable, but still the best method out there.
also, magical merchant is a good card for this combo.
... I dont even know how the GKs are, but damn, I really want that Wonfest Minerva.
>>5619923
You mean this one?
https://order.mandarake.co.jp/order/detailPage/item?itemCode=1034504977&ref=list
>>5619973
....YES.
... Odd question, never used Mandrake before, so whats the better shipping, DHL or EMS?
>>5620073
I hear they're roughly the same shipping speed, but DHL is more likely to get you hit with customs fees. I've always used EMS so I just stick with that.
>>5613444
FUuuuuuuck. I didn't even know this was a thing. AND now I must have it.
Damn it.
My current grail.
Buying the actual boat it's based off of would be easier than finding this treasure.
Just one, even under $100...
>>5624840
Holy shit if that is 1/6th scale how do you even see it?!
>>5613212
Anon I just put mine up for sale in the BST thread.
>>5612747
I literally bought that with the cheeseburger and fries in the narita airport two days ago. It's super fucking magical!
I finally got my grail last year. I've felt dead inside ever since.
Stop being a faggot and rerelease it.
Varna gashapon. This picture doesn't really do the sculpt justice.
>>5628516
i still have this guy stored somewhere
