75309 - UCS: Republic Gunship

[RightDwigt]

15 minutes ago, Goofball814 said:

Now, if only LEGO had a brain and had any set available that have clones!

They'll tell you they do now that they own Bricklink. Can't tell you how many times I've heard a LEGO rep say "have you heard of Bricklink?"

[$20 on joe vs dan]

6 hours ago, KShine said:

Well it is a Gunship, carrying soldier clones carrying guns, whose intended purpose is to kill.

In LEGO's world all guns are set to stun

[OCD_Chad]

I got an email about VIP early access to the Seinfeld set, but still nothing about the gunship.

[Vegito1338]

Is there a usual time these sets go up for sale?

[$20 on joe vs dan]

4 hours ago, Vegito1338 said:

Is there a usual time these sets go up for sale?

SAH says Coming Soon August 1st (I would guess midnight EST for US folks)

[OCD_Chad]

On 7/21/2021 at 1:27 PM, OCD_Chad said:

I got an email about VIP early access to the Seinfeld set, but still nothing about the gunship.

I got the gunship announcement email today at 8:26 AM.

[RightDwigt]

Were our euro brethren able to snag this one at midnight?

[RightDwigt]

11:03 CT can't add to cart. Sail boat showed for a minute, back to little polybag GWP

[thlien]

Gunship is up... order placed.

[scatttcat]

Just now, thlien said:

Gunship is up... order placed.

How did you get the add to cart button to appear... ugh dumb site 

[thlien]

Got the sail boat in my order.

For Discover folks... don't forget paypal 5% cashback.

I had to search:  republic-gunship-75309

 

[thlien]

We will see how this goes.   surprisingly smooth, but I've had midnight orders canceled on me before.

[scatttcat]

Tried to use $100 VIP... and broke it

[scatttcat]

13 minutes ago, thlien said:

Got the sail boat in my order.

For Discover folks... don't forget paypal 5% cashback.

I had to search:  republic-gunship-75309

 

Did you use Express checkout with PP or did you click the PayPal button within the main checkout screen? I am clicking it during final checkout, the popup opens, I sign in, and then it takes me back to lego to confirm address and just sticks me in this loop. I am never able to have PayPal push the order through

[OCD_Chad]

My order is in.

[scatttcat]

2 minutes ago, scatttcat said:

Did you use Express checkout with PP or did you click the PayPal button within the main checkout screen? I am clicking it during final checkout, the popup opens, I sign in, and then it takes me back to lego to confirm address and just sticks me in this loop. I am never able to have PayPal push the order through

seems like Express Checkout is the way to go

[Belac]

Ya , The sail boat GWP and $100 of my VIP points spent and I grabbed one even though I was going to wait .  Check out on site was fine at first, then glitchy, then good enough... Pretty much like every time. But I always seem to get my money spent just fine in the end. 🍻

[kumas]

The set is so ugly, I wouldnt buy at even at 50% off

[SLL]

not seeing a whole lot posts since last night.

nobody buying? 😁

[Vegito1338]

I got mine at midnight. 

[Sandwraith]

Got my order for personal collection, looks like it's still available this morning. There was lots of "chatter" online about this being the MF 2.0 selling out quick, low stock etc, glad to see that's not the case.

No interest in the sailboat, so will be a nice GWP flip to help cover the cost of this haha.

[OCD_Chad]

It's still available as of right now.  The lack of early VIP access made me think it wasn't going to sell out.

[cladner]

12 minutes ago, OCD_Chad said:

It's still available as of right now.  The lack of early VIP access made me think it wasn't going to sell out.

if anything i would have thought there would have been more  pent up demand since no one had gotten their hands on any.  this is really bad.   early indicators point to poop emoji hands rather than diamond hands my inner qfll was hoping for.   the promo and burnt vip points cushion the early stink.

i'm sure a $159.99 play set would have instantly sold out and flippable for $300+ but this thing no one seems to want it.   the other tip off was the shop at home website didn't crash for once due to anemic demand.

Edited August 1, 2021 by cladner

[Pseudoty]

Maybe if they had a set specific mini/Poly/BHZ  promo tie in, but no reason to buy this now especially with the $800 UCS AT-AT coming out in 4 months unless you want to build it. 

[OCD_Chad]

1 hour ago, cladner said:

if anything i would have thought there would have been more  pent up demand since no one had gotten their hands on any.  this is really bad.   early indicators point to poop emoji hands rather than diamond hands my inner qfll was hoping for.   the promo and burnt vip points cushion the early stink.

i'm sure a $159.99 play set would have instantly sold out and flippable for $300+ but this thing no one seems to want it.   the other tip off was the shop at home website didn't crash for once due to anemic demand.

This is good if you're like me and just like the set and want to build it.