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Re: Castle and Tolkien sets for 2013

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 8:43 am
by andhe
Knight Man wrote: Utterly ridiculous! I mean seriously, if TLG keeps this up people might have to get a bucket to keep their brick separators in!
Someone said that it may be due to the 'plate on plate' building techniques, so a seperator is provided to avoid frustration or damage!

In other news Brickset is reporting that the 2013 Castle sets are in the wild!

http://www.brickset.com/news/article/?ID=6499

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Castle sets on the shelves by Brickset, on Flickr

Re: Castle and Tolkien sets for 2013

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 3:36 pm
by AK_Brickster
Oh Boy! Oh Boy! Oh Boy! Oh Boy! Oh Boy! Oh Boy! Oh Boy! Oh Boy! Oh Boy! Oh Boy! OH BOY!

Too bad we are about to cut back to one income as my wife is starting a graduate program this fall. Bye-bye discretionary spending :cry:

Re: Castle and Tolkien sets for 2013

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 5:49 pm
by SSchmidt
andhe wrote:
Knight Man wrote:
In other news Brickset is reporting that the 2013 Castle sets are in the wild!

I can't find them! I guess it's one of the cons of living in a rural area, we can't get anything new! As a matter of fact, I've only seen series 9 in stores 1 time when at least 10 nearby stores should have them!

Re: Castle and Tolkien sets for 2013

Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 6:04 pm
by caleb282
Is the Picture over seas or state side? cus i would love to get my hands on some of those sets!

Re: Castle and Tolkien sets for 2013

Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 12:49 am
by OverLoad
:D Time to go on the hunt!

Looking forward to getting some new generic faces to fill in the duplicates in my armies!

Re: Castle and Tolkien sets for 2013

Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 4:45 am
by friskywhiskers
caleb282 wrote:Is the Picture over seas or state side? cus i would love to get my hands on some of those sets!
pics says it's in TRU in the US. :)

Re: Castle and Tolkien sets for 2013

Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 3:07 pm
by AK_Brickster
We have them at our TRU here in the Seattle area. A new friend I made in the Lego aisle at Fred Meyer just went and picked up the whole collection last weekend (except for the dragon tower, which hasn't been released yet, apparently)

Re: Castle and Tolkien sets for 2013

Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 3:24 pm
by andhe
AK_Brickster wrote:We have them at our TRU here in the Seattle area. A new friend I made in the Lego aisle at Fred Meyer just went and picked up the whole collection last weekend (except for the dragon tower, which hasn't been released yet, apparently)
Wasn't nw9000 was it? He's used some in his GC4 entry.

Re: Castle and Tolkien sets for 2013

Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 4:19 pm
by AK_Brickster
Nope. A new member who was previously a lurker. He has a big army of Crownies so I'm recruiting him for Garheim :mrgreen:

Re: Castle and Tolkien sets for 2013

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 12:19 pm
by royalbrickcustoms
Yeah I saw set #70400 Forest Ambush on eBay here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/290916947584?redirect=mobile

~RBC

Re: Castle and Tolkien sets for 2013

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 2:31 pm
by andhe
royalbrickcustoms wrote:Yeah I saw set #70400 Forest Ambush on eBay here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/290916947584?redirect=mobile

~RBC
There also seems to be a couple of LOTR pirate ships for sale (genuine 'in hand' pictures by the looks of it) so guess they must be on the shelves somewhere as well. Or didn't quite make it to the shelves.

Re: Castle and Tolkien sets for 2013

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 6:29 pm
by AK_Brickster
Sheesh! $28??? Are people really in such a hurry to get these that they're willing to pay 2.5 MSRP just to have them in-hand a few days early? :o

Re: Castle and Tolkien sets for 2013

Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 10:21 am
by OverLoad
Castle 2013 sets are available at the Burlington LEGO store in Burlington, MA.

They seem to have every one of them in stock, from the Forest Ambush to King's Castle. The area they were in was really tightly compacted, I almost missed it!

Re: Castle and Tolkien sets for 2013

Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 3:21 pm
by Lego Enthusiast
I picked up the Gatehouse Raid and The Wizard Battle yesterday. The crown flags that come with the Gatehouse Raid are stickers. Bit disappointed with that aspect.

Re: Castle and Tolkien sets for 2013

Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 6:02 pm
by Falconer
Saw the new LOTR and Castle sets at TRU the other day, only picked up the Forest Ambush, decent little set. But I'll wait till they are available elsewhere to get any others b/c there is such a markup at TRU.