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Those of us who were at AFOLcon were treated to Mark Stafford's preview of the new Alien Conquest sets, which are awesome. They are officially available from 1st June.

However, a rumour then emerged that Toys'R'Us already had them on the shelves, so an expedition was formed to seek them out, and we located them in a Manchester branch. I picked up several of the sets.

They may well also be available in the Northern Ireland branches.

James

Just a heads up that pricing for PotC Lego is now up on the Smyths website.

Also for comparison, (S@H Ireland) [Amazon.co.uk]
I've included rough euro price for the latter €1 = £0.85 - accounting for VAT/Credit card charge/rate, rounding to nearest Euro.

Queen Anne's Revenge 4195 - €119.99 (€119.99) [£102.99/~€121]
Whitecap Bay 4194 - €89.99 (€89.99) [£71.99/€85]
The London Escape 4193 - €59.99 (€54.99) [£49.99/€59]
The Mill 4183 - €49.99 (€49.99) [£40.99/€48]
The Cannibal Escape 4182 - €31.99 (€31.99) [£30.99/€36]
Isla De Muerta 4181 - €24.99 (€24.99) [£20.99/€25]
Aqua De Vida 4192 - €24.99 (€24.99) [£20.99/€25]
The Captain's Cabin 4191 - €12.99 (€12.99) [£10.49/€12]

In summary at full initial prices, Smyths are a good buy for Cannibal Escape and about the same as Amazon on the others.

Hello People,

This is really premature as series 4 has only been released so I will get to the point.

In series 5 - coming in the summer there is a grenadier guard figure. I am working on a project where I am going to need a few, please keep your eyes out for them when they arrive.

Obviously I will trade or pay for them,

Regards,

Paul.

I can confirm Tesco in Limerick (Crescent Shopping Centre) have Series 4 in stock as of today. €2.49. Great news!

Please post if you see them in stock anywhere else!

Is the big crane truck 8258 still in a shop somewhere?

Talking about a blast from the past. Today I picked up two 9v switching track sets (4531) in Art & Hobby Newbridge! They were full price but given their scarcity these days I succumbed and added them to my 9v stock. Other stock fillers seemed to be Duplo train track - there were lots of the straights and curves (6 packs) for 6.99.

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