Hello from Portugal

[cesarcl]

I recently noticed the growing trend of LEGO and decided to take a shot at it. I have been selling other types of toys in ebay ( nick: sw.pt) and after finding this site I went out to ToysrUS and bought 3 building sets. I can understand how this can be addicted and hope to buy a few more sets in the next couple of months.

[stephen_rockefeller]

Did you buy the sets to build or to invest in? If you bought them to invest in just to give you a heads up TRU marks up their inventory from retail, that being said you can find a decent deal once in a while from them. You can get much better deals in other stores and websites. If you are interested let me know and I can give you a few suggestions on where most of us here get our sets.

[Ed Mack]

Welcome to the site. As Stephen stated, be careful with Toys R Us. They like to mark LEGO sets up and then off their specials.

[cesarcl]

Oops, it seems I did just that. I think in Portugal, the only other place to buy LEGOs is the LEGO WEAR shops, that carry a lot of big LEGO sets. But LEGO WEAR is even more expensive than TRU. I thought of buying them on eBay but them the shipping cost will aslo hurt me. Any sugestions ? P.S: Investigating LEGO sets to apply my money in has turned out to be a very fun way to spend some time, at first selling vintage toys on ebay felt just llike this ;)

[Ed Mack]

Oops, it seems I did just that. I think in Portugal, the only other place to buy LEGOs is the LEGO WEAR shops, that carry a lot of big LEGO sets. But LEGO WEAR is even more expensive than TRU. I thought of buying them on eBay but them the shipping cost will aslo hurt me. Any sugestions ?

P.S: Investigating LEGO sets to apply my money in has turned out to be a very fun way to spend some time, at first selling vintage toys on ebay felt just llike this

Have you ever tried AMAZON.COM in SPAIN??? Amazon is fantastic.

[cesarcl]

Just took a look at it and you're right, it's way cheaper than TRU. The only set that I found that it was actually cheaper on TRU was the Hoth Echo Base, that I can buy for 75 euros here. I'm planing on buying 2 of these, any comments/advices ?

[Ed Mack]

Just took a look at it and you're right, it's way cheaper than TRU. The only set that I found that it was actually cheaper on TRU was the Hoth Echo Base, that I can buy for 75 euros here. I'm planing on buying 2 of these, any comments/advices ?

I like the Hoth Echo Base. Solid choice. Good minifigure selection.