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Yeah this was a great set for me as well in the end. A lot of squinting and double checking during though. Lol

Starry Night, hmm, this one is very interesting, different and challenging. It is more like a rebrickable MOC and definitely is an IDEAS set. There are mistakes in the instructions on pages 56 and 62 which makes you think that you are missing pieces but once you realize it and go back and fix the build with a color swap it just gets brutally harder with the Night Sky Wall. Dark green and dark blue look very similar under yellow incandescent lights. They give you 2 extra 1X4s in all of the colors knowing mistakes will be made. I built a temporary stand to make building the wall more stable. The final product looks amazing with the 3-D depth effect and the ingenuity used for the tree build is definitely next level. Build 8 Display 9 Play 1 because it does come with a minifigure. Value 7.

Prices are up for the Round 1 Pre-Sale 2/7/24 https://www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-1/main.page?

Built the orchid 10311. The pot build was great. The flowers and stems were a little repetitive, but the finished product is great. Wife approval factor is good too so I shouldn’t have to take this down anytime soon.

Couple of recent Ebay purchases and builds. All prices include shipping and tax. 7936 Level Crossing - $33 after a BL order for missing parts 7997 Train Station - $66 after a BL order for missing parts 8386 Ferrari F1 Racer 1:10 - $96 42125 Ferrari 488 GTE AF Corse #51 - $119 (this was a purchase from 2022) 42000 Grand Prix Racer - $103 Sent from my SM-A326U1 using Tapatalk

Built several sets over the holidays. The 76911 DB5 was a gift from my boys. This was my first of the larger Speed Champion sets, which I think I like a little more than the smaller ones. I've been watching some Jang reviews, so I may be more sensitive to the sticker issues because of that, but the color match of the stickers is not there and the two on each side are large and stand out. The 75890 F40 was because my youngest really didn't know I sold Lego and had a bunch of sets in storage. When I showed him, this is what he picked out. I don't really enjoy building these smaller models. The 76237 Thanos ship thing was half off damaged box. It's fine. Pretty good for swooshing and you get a Captain Marvel figure that you can beat up on. The 753118 Baby Yoda was more than half off damaged box. The build was good, it was what I expected, but the finished model looks good on display.

WH back in stock at amazon RRP

80032 Chang'e Moon Cake Factory Retiring set. 30% off, limit 5. $48.99 at LEGO.com https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/chang-e-moon-cake-factory-80032

My vision isn’t great nowadays and it’s getting harder to distinguish certain colors in the manuals. That gives me a good reason not to buy this set despite the finished product looking so nice.

Got a new in box Concorde for 40% off from a local seller. Happy with that for a build.

Waiting for feedback, "My minifigure was kragle'd."

I saw on Reddit or something about a guy using an endoscope to look in the boxes and thought that was kind of hilarious and brilliant. I already had a little one for ear cleaning that I bought on a whim - it connects to your phone via wifi. I bought a single series 25 figure the other day for fun and checked it when I got home, and found I had a detective before opening it. It left a little bruising around the corner hole, but nothing big enough for parts to fall out. I probably wouldn't use it in a store though, as that's weird. Here is a still from a video and a link to the reddit thread: