Ideas #029: 21321 - International Space Station

[brickolodon]

On 1/11/2020 at 10:58 AM, beatpoppa said:

Space is cool.

Seconded. 

yep, 3 kelvins

p.s. no stand?

Edited January 14, 2020 by brickolodon

[thebrickdad]

20 hours ago, Phil B said:

21 hours ago, thebrickdad said:

Ideas sets (afaik) have all had printed parts only.

Not entirely true. Some IDEAS sets have had stickers, for example Old Fishing Store for some door prints.

Good point. That's the one set I haven't built yet. I've only got the one and that's signed as well so may well not get round to the pleasure of building that at all...

[OrangeChiliPeP]

20 hours ago, Phil B said:

21 hours ago, thebrickdad said:

Ideas sets (afaik) have all had printed parts only.

Not entirely true. Some IDEAS sets have had stickers, for example Old Fishing Store for some door prints.

also Central Perk.

[thebrickdad]

14 minutes ago, OrangeChiliPeP said:

also Central Perk.

OK. I'll admit defeat. :-)

Central Perk was one that I would never buy anyway. I'm one of the few that's never seen a single episode.

[HandyHand]

 

 

[thebrickdad]

Swap the supports out for the transparent Technic beams and it will look excellent.

Or wait until Wicked Brick come out with one which will be even better.

[$20 on joe vs dan]

1 hour ago, thebrickdad said:

Swap the supports out for the transparent Technic beams and it will look excellent.

Or wait until Wicked Brick come out with one which will be even better.

anyone know of a great source for the transparent technic beams?  they make great stands

[Belac]

4 minutes ago, $20 on joe vs dan said:

anyone know of a great source for the transparent technic beams? 

theres a bunch on Bricklink. https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=32278#T=S&C=12&O={"color":"12","iconly":0}

[MusiKyle]

I'm in for 2 (one to build, one to keep).  There's a nice thing going with the Ideas ISS, Ideas Saturn V, Ideas Women of NASA, and the Creator Expert Lunar Lander.

It's interesting how this compares to Central Perk...

[$20 on joe vs dan]

1 minute ago, MusiKyle said:

I'm in for 2 (one to build, one to keep).  There's a nice thing going with the Ideas ISS, Ideas Saturn V, Ideas Women of NASA, and the Creator Expert Lunar Lander.

It's interesting how this compares to Central Perk...

I'm not seeing a correlation in the table

[thebrickdad]

It's the Lego 'This is going to be a very popular set' tax.

[MusiKyle]

Just now, $20 on joe vs dan said:

I'm not seeing a correlation in the table

I'm not either.  I feel like they either underpriced Central Perk or overpriced ISS.  Usually a set with a license costs more than those without.  Usually a set with more pieces (not always) costs more than a set with less pieces.  Was trying to also point out that Central Perk includes a full 7 minifigures and still comes in $10 less than ISS.  Both are Ideas sets there shouldn't be any difference there.

1 minute ago, thebrickdad said:

It's the Lego 'This is going to be a very popular set' tax.

That's probably it, I suppose.

[BricksBrotha]

Lunar lander, women of nasa Saturn V all great sellers.  The big bang theory, insta-discount.  Smells like lego trying to predict the market to maximize profits.

[Darth_Raichu]

1 hour ago, MusiKyle said:

I'm in for 2 (one to build, one to keep).  There's a nice thing going with the Ideas ISS, Ideas Saturn V, Ideas Women of NASA, and the Creator Expert Lunar Lander.

It's interesting how this compares to Central Perk...

What is the conclusion? The nerds will pay more for fewer bricks ???

[melting]

 

[Sauromosis]

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-012120a-lego-international-space-station.html

[Val-E]

17 hours ago, MusiKyle said:

I'm in for 2 (one to build, one to keep).  There's a nice thing going with the Ideas ISS, Ideas Saturn V, Ideas Women of NASA, and the Creator Expert Lunar Lander.

It's interesting how this compares to Central Perk...

My conclusion is Friends is a no-brainer buy in the US as in Europe the price points are exactly the opposite with ISS being cheaper.

Interestingly, ISS is cheaper in some other countries than Germany, the usual lowest  RRP marker.

[elmaslıefendi]

1 hour ago, Val-E said:

My conclusion is Friends is a no-brainer buy in the US as in Europe the price points are exactly the opposite with ISS being cheaper.

Interestingly, ISS is cheaper in some other countries than Germany, the usual lowest  RRP marker.

I think it'll be key to just get them as cheap as possible. Both will do fine.

All 70€ IDEAS sets were great if bought at a discount. 21313 is my best performing set right now (a waaay overpriced set imo). And I think these 2 are way better sets at 70€, can't go wrong with a 35% discount.

[HandyHand]

2 hours ago, Val-E said:

Interestingly, ISS is cheaper in some other countries than Germany, the usual lowest  RRP marker.

France: €59,99 ?

Spain, Portugal: €64,99 ?

Germany, Ireland, others : €69,99

Netherlands, Slovenia: €74,99 ?

[MusiKyle]

This picture of a patch has been floating around.  I still have two patches from the Lunar Lander, this will be neat to add to the collection.

I think I'm planning on getting three of this ISS set on Day 1 (unless qty 2 restriction applied).  One to build, one to keep, and one for a birthday gift.

[Migration]

What is the conclusion? The nerds will pay more for fewer bricks ???

More like “all those prints are expensive “.

[Darth_Raichu]

10 hours ago, MusiKyle said:

This picture of a patch has been floating around.  I still have two patches from the Lunar Lander, this will be neat to add to the collection.

I think I'm planning on getting three of this ISS set on Day 1 (unless qty 2 restriction applied).  One to build, one to keep, and one for a birthday gift.

Is it just me, or that text on the lower left corner read "ASSED"

[Phil B]

47 minutes ago, Darth_Raichu said:

Is it just me, or that text on the lower left corner read "ASSED"

I can only read part of it .... so I think it reads half ASSED

 

[Belac]

This is live with patch, In case you spaced it.

[keith1833]

5 minutes ago, Belac said:

This is live with patch, In case you spaced it.

Patch appeared in my cart even though I didn't have this in it.  Hopefully it'll come with the order.