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No sign of new sets in-store yet, but Smyths have a couple of the City Space sets (Shuttle, satellite launch) listed now on the online catalogue and Ninja-go is listed as a category (no sets listed yet).

...have started appearing in US stores. I'll let you know if I hear anything about when they'll be getting here.

And, as expected, there are no secondary barcodes for identifying individual figures.

James

I finally visited the new Tesco extra store in Naas today. I'm not sure if all Tesco extra stores are as large as this one but the Naas store had a much larger range of Lego than I've ever seen at a Tesco store. The largest set available was the fire station but unlike the other stores there was a decent range of star wars, city and some Atlantis sets. The prices vary a fair bit with the older star wars battlepacks under €11 and the newer ones over €14. The latter is more expensive than Smyths. Indeed I was surprised that Tesco was more expensive for most items. Emperor Palpatines stood out as a €96.99 item compared to €69 in Tesco.

Not the cheapest but a useful alternative for the mid-size and smaller sets.

lego.com released it today a day early. anyone got a idea when smiths or argos will have it.
Looking forward to it

There are reports in today's newspapers that Toys-r-US is coming to Dublin with two possible near-M50 locations mentioned (one north side and one south side). Might bring some competition for Smyths where prices have increased a bit this year (perhaps with less competition from Byrnes World of Wonder). My interest would probably be in any TRU exclusives e.g. chrome star wars minifigs as TRU doesn't have a reputation for being cheap. In fact I think for people like myself who buy a fair bit of Lego the new VIP LS@H programe combined with like for like pricing with bricks n' mortar stores has introduced more competition already.

Smyths Toys have dropped the PoP Lego prices - €10 for Hassansins (was €12), €16 for Ostrich Race (was €18), €32 for Fight for Dagger (was €38), €42 for Race Against Time (was €50).

Now, I just wish I had been stronger in resisting temptation to get Fight for the Dagger so soon!

I just finished counting... 735 old grey/brown for 10 pounds delivered. Keep searching all ; )

God Bless,

Nathan

Hi all,

First of all in case anyone isn't already familiar with it, the collectable minifigs will be on sale in Argos tomorrow (Saturday 1st) for €2.70 each.

What I'm wondering is if they will be available in Smyths or Art and Hobby? If you see them in those places can you post the news here?

I'll probably buy an initial random bunch from Argos tomorrow (half dozen or maybe even up to 10 or so), out of impatience if nothing else. However it would be nice if somewhere has them a bit cheaper or non-random (i.e. fill in the gaps in what I've bought by looking for the barcodes of the "missing" ones).

I've just bought my first Lego on eBay. For €50 I bought the old technic car 8860 with two little town sets thrown in for good measure. The seller is in Donegal so no mad shipping charges. When the box arrived it was a bit of a shock...
The outside of the box was taped with masking tape. When I removed some of the tape to open the box a lot of the print came off with the tape. And the original box was part of my reason to buy this lot.
I knew I was buying used, but didn't realise how badly chewed the parts would be. Then to top it all off all three sets are incomplete. In total I'm missing about 100 parts out of a total of 1000.

A number of price changes to S@H exclusives for Ireland.

First, as I don't yet have it, a very disappointing increase in price for Imperial Flagship from €150 to €175. Same for Grand Emporium.

Fire Brigade however is down from €175 to €125.

Medieval Market Village is down to €85!!

Tantive IV is down to €120 (from €175) and I think some larger exclusives are down in price (UCS Millenium Falcon for example).