Wanna Be Brickman

[Rusty Vandura]

@Brickman posted these two kits two weeks ago and I ordered them both for myself. I performed the same wingtip mod that Brickman did. I had to buy the orange bits from someone on Bricklink. They were $0.015 apiece and $4.67 for postage. I dig the retractable landing gear on the jet. I like to display my aircraft on the flightline.

The Ferrari was awkward. The nose, in front of the front wheels, has a fair amount of mass and is barely held on. Any amount of playing would make it fall of, or tilt forward. So I glued the nose together. Heresy, yes, for some... (Testors liquid model cement works well with LEGO...)

@ttyymmnn @awesomeaustinv @Shop-Teacher

[Shop-Teacher]

@Rusty-Vandura The price to shipping ratio, is why I always end up going through the sellers inventory and buying a bunch more stuff

[Armith Vala]

@Rusty-Vandura said in Wanna Be Brickman:

$0.015 apiece

is this a typo or can you sell and buy for less than a cent? i thought thats as low as it goes. I have a feeling that i will be proven an idiot yet again.

[Brickman]

@Rusty-Vandura
Wanna be Brickman? You gotta be broke ...oh

Strange the ferrari nose pieces are weak. must be some loose clips in the manufacturing process

[awesomeaustinv]

@Armith-Vala You can indeed list prices for a fraction of a cent, and this is a common practice on Bricklink. The reason is that when you're ordering parts in bulk, those fractions of a cent add up. So if you were to order two of that orange slope piece for $00.015 each, that would come out to 3 cents instead of two, which doesn't seem like a huge difference in this case but definitely matters if you were to buy, say, 20 of them.

[Taylor Martin]

@Rusty-Vandura Did you fly it around a little? Maybe make a few airplane noises?

I know when I was a kid I built a lego cargo plane. This one in fact:

Played with it for about 10 minutes, fiddling with the cargo bays and so forth, before throwing it across the room to see it fly.

Never rebuilt it. But damn that was a satisfying throw.

[ttyymmnn]

@Rusty-Vandura

How are the wingtips different?

Back in the day, the boys had a lego spaceship they liked to play with, but it kept falling apart. So I, too, glued it using the brush-on Testors glue. I also glued the boy's older X-wing model. The problem what that, though, was that when it fell off the shelf the wing bent and cracked, where it would have just broken apart had it not been glued.

[ttyymmnn]

@Taylor-Martin

My son has that very set. Like yours, it fell victim to the Lego scrapyard. During the pandemic, however, we made a family project of going through the two massive bins of Lego and sorting them by color. Then, my son found the instruction booklet and sifted through the sorted boxes using the parts list and pulled all the pieces to rebuild the plane. I don't think he built the support vehicles, though. It's a great model.

@ES0905

[Rusty Vandura]

@Shop-Teacher said in Wanna Be Brickman:

@Rusty-Vandura The price to shipping ratio, is why I always end up going through the sellers inventory and buying a bunch more stuff

Yeah, but I didn't have anything else I wanted. There are some wheels I want for my die-cast-to-LEGO conversion project that are like $0.36 apiece and he has an $8 minimum and his store has nothing but Harry Potter crap that I have zero interest in. And not very much of it at that.

[Rusty Vandura]

@Armith-Vala said in Wanna Be Brickman:

@Rusty-Vandura said in Wanna Be Brickman:

$0.015 apiece

is this a typo or can you sell and buy for less than a cent? i thought thats as low as it goes. I have a feeling that i will be proven an idiot yet again.

Nope. A penny and a half each.

[Rusty Vandura]

@Brickman said in Wanna Be Brickman:

@Rusty-Vandura
Wanna be Brickman? You gotta be broke ...oh

Strange the ferrari nose pieces are weak. must be some loose clips in the manufacturing process

Poor design, IMO. Even though I'm not much of an F1 fan, this will be a fun car to play with the grandkids with.

[Golden_Auto]

@Armith-Vala you probably can because no one will just buy one 0.015 dollar piece. People will buy like a hundred or so pieces

[Rusty Vandura]

@Taylor-Martin said in Wanna Be Brickman:

@Rusty-Vandura Did you fly it around a little? Maybe make a few airplane noises?

I know when I was a kid I built a lego cargo plane. This one in fact:

Played with it for about 10 minutes, fiddling with the cargo bays and so forth, before throwing it across the room to see it fly.

Never rebuilt it. But damn that was a satisfying throw.

That's a $500 kit.

@ttyymmnn

[Armith Vala]

@Rusty-Vandura yeah, i meant the "and a half" part of that.

[Armith Vala]

@Golden_Auto yeah

[Armith Vala]

@Rusty-Vandura said in Wanna Be Brickman:

That's a $500 kit.

@ttyymmnn

jesus, thats alot of money for a old lego city set.

[Rusty Vandura]

@ttyymmnn

[Rusty Vandura]

@ttyymmnn Check @Brickman 's original post:

https://opposite-lock.com/topic/40564/lego-supersonic-jet-show-n-tell?_=1648601790110

[Taylor Martin]

@Rusty-Vandura There's no way my parents spent that much on the set... this was a long long time ago.

[Rusty Vandura]

@Taylor-Martin said in Wanna Be Brickman:

@Rusty-Vandura There's no way my parents spent that much on the set... this was a long long time ago.

Inflation. A measure of how much more you deserve to be flogged today than you did then. LEGO abuse.

[Shop-Teacher]

@Taylor-Martin said in Wanna Be Brickman:

@Rusty-Vandura There's no way my parents spent that much on the set... this was a long long time ago.

No they didn't. It's an old out of production set, and this is one in a sealed box. It was probably a $50-75 set when it was new.

[awesomeaustinv]

@Armith-Vala Sealed Lego sets retain their value unbelievably well. Some claim they can be a better investment than gold... There are lots of desirable old Lego sets that you'll have to pay thousands of dollars to get an unopened copy today. That cargo plane in particular is one which I know a lot of people remember fondly because even though it's fairly simple, Lego hasn't really made another large cargo plane like that, so the set is unique.

[ttyymmnn]

@Shop-Teacher @Rusty-Vandura @Taylor-Martin

463 pieces, so $50 is about right with a 10¢/piece average.

[Armith Vala]

@awesomeaustinv yeah. even if they did now, it would still be stupid expensive, because of inflation and all.

[Rusty Vandura]

@ttyymmnn so how much for the one you have, un-sleigh price?