How do you get most of your bricks?

Sir Terrance · Post by **Sir Terrance** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:15 am

Do you buy them from S@H, Bricklink, or just collect them from alot of sets?

J1A3L5 · Post by **J1A3L5** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:45 am

The bulk of my bricks are from sets. Lately I've been getting a few from S@H (GREY!) but mostly now I get pieces from bricklink. Only sets if their on sale cheap - I get pieces I wouldn't normally buy individually from bricklink. But I've just found that bricklink can get you only the pieces you want, in larger amounts, for less money than buying a set would that gets you some pieces you will likely never use.

Also, I have enough pieces to make most things I want to, so if I need to I make it using off-colour pieces and then bricklink the pieces in the colours I need to finish it.

AoErat · Post by **AoErat** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:59 am

I buy friend's collections, build any sets I don't have, and use the rest for whatever.

wlister · Post by **wlister** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 4:25 am

I used S@H for all the old light gray bricks I could afford and I use bricklink for all the other colored bricks I want. Sets are not a great source of brick, but some of the tubs are and I buy them when I can.

Will

Post by **architect** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 4:29 am

I buy most of my sets on sale

They may be online or at a store. I also buy on ebay now and then for older sets and bricklink occasionally for moc needs.

Ben

LEGO_KNIGHT · Post by **LEGO_KNIGHT** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 9:16 am

Hi

I got mine from BrickLink.

Sometimes I buy sets from retail stores and eBay.

Erwin
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What a day for a knight...and a knight for a day.

Sir Terrance · Post by **Sir Terrance** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 6:21 pm

What would you suggest for someone like to me, who doesn't have too many grey bricks, to get a good start. I will probably want to get the new greys, since I don't have much of the old, and will soon be unavailable to us. I was thinking S@H, since you always know they will have lots, unlike bricklink, and is fairly good with prices, since all colors cost the same thing. So, what would suggest?

Jojo · Post by **Jojo** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 8:47 pm

Hello!

Sir Terrance wrote:What would you suggest for someone like to me, who doesn't have too many grey bricks, to get a good start.

Try to get your hands on 6080 King's Castles, possibly from garage sales or friends or from your friends' older brothers. Buy the last remaining Castle Expander Packs 3732 from Shop-at-Home for old grey arch bricks. Be patient. When the older members here were younger they didn't have that big collections, either.

I will probably want to get the new greys, since I don't have much of the old, and will soon be unavailable to us.

New bricks in old grey will soon be unavailable. But on the secondary market there are millions and billions of old grey bricks from over twenty years that are much more than we will get new grey bricks within the next couple of years. (Erm, that turned out to be a weird sentence, I hope you get it nevertheless ;) )

Tschüß
Jojo

Snoopy · Post by **Snoopy** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 4:55 pm

I buy bricks from S@H and from lots of sets. I've never bought bricks on Bricklink although I was planning to a while ago.

Post by **Formendacil** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:00 pm

Sets. I buy sets for pieces. Although I may expand into Bricklink for a few fig pieces. Its just too expensive to buy a $100.00 set (plus GST and all that garbage) just for one golden centurion helmet. Although it probably works out to less per piece.

Gumby · Post by **Gumby** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 6:12 pm

Like Formendacil, I get most of my parts from sets. Sometimes I will go to Bricklink if shops are having sales.

Over the past few years, the set designs have become kinda lame so I mostly bought sets for the parts. But now with the colour change, I won't be buying sets for the parts anymore! The only set I'll buy now is one with a GOOD design - which is becoming rare nowadays...

(Latest purchase: 10152 Maersk Sealand)

Post by **rogue27** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 7:04 pm

Do you mean bricks, or lego parts in general?

For actual bricks, I get most of them in bulk packs from LEGO Shop@Home or from tubs I buy in town.

For parts in general, I get most of them from sets. I will buy multiples of any set I see (if the price is right) that has a good number of parts I will use, and then I will put whatever parts I don't think I need into my bricklink store.

I buy some parts on BrickLink if they are not easily available from sets in the quantity I want. Usually this amounts to various slopes in various colors.

Post by **Robin Hood** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 7:02 pm

Well all of my pieces so far have come from sets. I have only just disovered the magic of buying pieces online. Question, can you buy pieces at S@H?

Post by **rogue27** » Sun Jun 06, 2004 1:08 am

Robin Hood wrote:Well all of my pieces so far have come from sets. I have only just disovered the magic of buying pieces online. Question, can you buy pieces at S@H?

On http://shop.lego.com there is an Exclusives and Accessories tab at the top which has links to all of the bulk bags they sell. Generally it will be something like 50 2x4 bricks, or 100 slopes, etc. You can't pick exact quantities, you can only buy bags and the bags aren't always available the way you might want.

If you want hard to find parts or small quantities of a bunch of different parts, BrickLink is probably going to be better, but if you want large numbers of certain elements, Shop @ Home is pretty good.

JPinoy · Post by **JPinoy** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 12:38 pm

Most of my Lego now comes from BrickLink, but I'll buy from the retail stores when possible and if the prices are cheap enough.