Australian General LEGO Update

[Contrails]

Target Perth city had 5 R2s sitting on the floor as of this morning.

[Bosstransam]

Target in Castle Hill NSW has about 30 Simpsons house and 40 R2-D2's and they're going down quickly!!!

I bought 5 of the R2's

[Alucard1982]

Charlestown & Kotara (Newcastle) had a nice stash of R2-D2 (left them, Star Wars works against me :/).

 

On a side note, has anyone noticed a slow down on processing times on the LEGO website. I've had a few orders that were "Shipped" on the 04 November and I haven't seen much from the tracking side (Initiated & Picked-up). Only had these problems since the introduction of the new inventory system.

[Jules_K]

On a side note, has anyone noticed a slow down on processing times on the LEGO website. I've had a few orders that were "Shipped" on the 04 November and I haven't seen much from the tracking side (Initiated & Picked-up). Only had these problems since the introduction of the new inventory system.

 

I've always found Lego postage slow, usually 2+ weeks, stuff from Amazon in the US and UK even arrives a lot quicker.

[Alucard1982]

Thanks, just received an posting update (Parcel Tracker App) one of my parcels is apparently on route. Hopefully the others are as well.

 

I've always found LEGO to be pretty quick, with Amazon UK being crazily fast (4 days once).

[Jules_K]

I noticed Australia Post just opened up a freight forwarder in the US:

 

http://shopmate.auspost.com.au/?ilink=mm-shopmate.auspost.com.au-1

 

Rates looks quite reasonable.

[Ted]

I noticed Australia Post just opened up a freight forwarder in the US:

http://shopmate.auspost.com.au/?ilink=mm-shopmate.auspost.com.au-1

Rates looks quite reasonable.

That might be the case, but don't think we have any chances of buying from US lego LEGO Shop at Home. Their numerous barriers stop them from shipping to forwarder.

Maybe buying from the Walmart or Target stands a better chance?

[Out of the Dark Years]

I noticed Australia Post just opened up a freight forwarder in the US:

 

http://shopmate.auspost.com.au/?ilink=mm-shopmate.auspost.com.au-1

 

Rates looks quite reasonable.

24.95 + 5.95per 500g sounds good but weight is measured by cubic weight not the true weight of the item.

 

I don't think this form of measuring weight is ideal for lego boxes within brown packing boxes with bubble wrap and/or air pockets.

 

It's going to work out very very expensive.

[Alucard1982]

Cubic weight is only calculated once the item surpasses 1kg (which would be all the sets that would be purchased). To put it in perspective, a Haunted House box is 6kg Cubic.

[Jules_K]

Cubic weight is only calculated once the item surpasses 1kg (which would be all the sets that would be purchased). To put it in perspective, a Haunted House box is 6kg Cubic.

 

So by my calculations that makes it bloody expensive then! 

 

On another note, it looks like the Amazon US saga continues, nothing in my cart is shipping to Australia once again. This is a bummer ahead of the Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals.   

Edited November 13, 2014 by jkaesler

[Ted]

I just ordered 2 Rancor Pits on Amazon and they delivered to Australia. I think its a hit and miss kind of thing with Amazon.

[mlionel20]

anyone seen any SSD in TRU Victoria?

[Jules_K]

Picked up 2 more R2's today from the first Target I checked, seems to be quite a few of these still in stores from everyones comments.

[Ted]

Myer one day sale. Buy 2 toys get the 3rd free. Work out to be 33% discount if you get all the same price sets.

[Simbon2009]

Myer one day sale. Buy 2 toys get the 3rd free. Work out to be 33% discount if you get all the same price sets.

Hi, we're abouts did you see this?

[Alucard1982]

It was an email sent out to myer one members yesterday. 12 hours only today, ends at 9pm

[Simbon2009]

It was an email sent out to myer one members yesterday. 12 hours only today, ends at 9pm

Cool thanks a lot. Do you have to be a myer one member to claim it? Thanks again

[Alucard1982]

No, open to everyone

[Ted]

Oops thanks to Lucifersfury for providing more info. Yah it was sent out to Myer one member but will be available to all.

[kishidan69]

If anyone's still after Town Halls, spotted 4 at Myer Chadstone half an hour ago as of this post. They currently have buy 1 get 50% off the 2nd toy, includes Lego. Palace Cinema and Parisian are also available.

[LegoPizza]

Just had a great experience at my local Myer. Went in store to see if they had Town Halls so I could take advantage of the instore buy 1 get the 2nd 50% off offer. Sadly they didn't have any. A member of staff piped up and said all stores can order the stock in and have it delivered to your house. The stores have ipads where they can log in to your myer one account, they select the items, the ipad brings up a bar code, they scan it and boom 50% off my second town hall. Happy days.

[Simbon2009]

Hi, do you know if the sale is still on tomorrow? Thanks

[LegoPizza]

Yes. Its for five days. Either ends sunday or Monday

[Simbon2009]

Awesome, thanks

[wceagles]

long awaited modular sale at myer online just started. GE @219, TH @269 etc. not as good as the B1G1 50% (although most stores pretended not to have modulars for that sale) but still good by australian standards.

 

will be interesting to see how long it lasts!