My experience with summer Walmart clearance here in the states:
Deals are in store only.
Individual stores discount at different rates and different times.
20% is the base discount, 40% is a solid deal with decent chances if you get there early, and over 40% is rare as sets usually sell out before having to go higher.
Smaller stores often have better discounts because they have less shelf space for Lego and need to move product quick for the new sets coming in.
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so i should go by walmart every day on the day home, just in case?
there is a crappy little used walmart about 10 minutes from where I live. I need to start going there.
anyone else into Lego Masters? my daughter and I love watching it together.
Yes, you should, if you're a crazy collector like me. You can buy 5 of a good set, and use those to offset the cost of the next $600 set youbeant to buy this Christmas.
Of course you tondeal with kijijji or online sales
you can use Stocktrack.ca to check. It will show inventory levels and pricing for stores.
the inventory levels are hit / miss. For example, there was a Ninjago Tuner Car for $9 (Reg. $49.99) at Airdrie walmart, showing QTY of 8.
I got there and there were none, so my assumption is they lost a whole carton of it, hasn't been placed out, or they lost 8 to theft.....
We have brickseek down here and it is often pretty unreliable as well. Though normally you wont see a discrepancy as large as 8. I see stories on reddit all the time about having to ask store employees to go look. Sometimes trying with multiple employees to find one that actually puts the effort in is what it takes. It's all a huge YMMV scenario.
I have enough walmarts around that when the sales started I found who had good discounts on the larger sets and then went there first. I wouldn't worry too much about stock numbers just to see selection. Pretty much anytime I get teased by a huge discount having limited stock, it turns out to be false.
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This individual is not affluent and more of a member of that shrinking middle class. It is likely the individual does not have a high paying job, is limited on benefits, and has to make due with those benefits provided by employer.
We have brickseek down here and it is often pretty unreliable as well. Though normally you wont see a discrepancy as large as 8. I see stories on reddit all the time about having to ask store employees to go look. Sometimes trying with multiple employees to find one that actually puts the effort in is what it takes. It's all a huge YMMV scenario.
I have enough walmarts around that when the sales started I found who had good discounts on the larger sets and then went there first. I wouldn't worry too much about stock numbers just to see selection. Pretty much anytime I get teased by a huge discount having limited stock, it turns out to be false.
yeah, i had a number of other sets to look out for at that Walmart, so I was still able to come with away 3 sets (2 for kids, 1 for us). I was really hoping to find that Miner car for the kids, but looking at the stock history, it would make sense that the carton got misplaced.
I'm jealous of all of the US walmart deals that are happening right now. I wouldn't mind getting another Bonsai at discounted price.
anyone else into Lego Masters? my daughter and I love watching it together.
I have recently found myself with some unexpected time off on my hands, and realized that Season 2 is on View On Demand on CTV. I've not seen Season 1, but figured I'd catch up on S2 (the finale is this Tuesday, apparently)
I have some thoughts:
Spoiler!
Overall, it's pretty good. The builds are fantastic to see. I especially loved the Cliffhanger episode. That was just...wow. The "One Floating Brick" and the "60KPH Wind Tunnel" episodes were something else, too. But...there is a lot of work needed on the 'gaming' aspect of this show, as right now it's pretty dull.
First and foremost...while I do find Will Arnett good/funny enough in the role as host, he is seriously abusing his position as Executive Producer. The show should be about the competition, the builds and the building teams...It is not the Will Arnett Comedy Hour (with LEGO intermissions)
The current format (one large project) does not fit well into an hour, and I feel that part of the reason they are going with the Will Arnett Comedy Hour is that they are hurting for actual competition content. Either drop this show to a half hour (which I think would be a bad idea) or go with the more 'tried and true' 'one hour item construction reality' format. Have a small 1-2 hour "quick build" competition to provide a team or two with a slight advantage (+30 min planning session, say) in the 'main build' session.
While I like the possibility of a team that doesn't use the Golden Brick losing it, they suffer greatly (from a reality perspective) of having a single team hold on and hold on and hold on and hold on to the brick. They need to figure out a way to make sure that it doesn't get 'stuck' with a team that clearly doesn't need it (like it did this season). If you want to up the reality factor a bit, having a team with a possible out like the Golden Brick is a good idea. Maybe for this one, they need to put a 'timer' on the brick, so a team can only hold it for 2-4 episodes before it is returned/lost. Or maybe it could be used as an 'automatic win' in the 1-2 hour build, so you don't have to do the smaller build, but get a first place finish (which would be shared with the other team that did actually win the 1-2 hour build)
I also couldn't shake the feeling, especially for the last half of the Season, that some favoritism was in play, as well. While I don't wholly disagree with the Final 3...I do feel that one team probably should have had a much harder path there, and possibly not even made it there at all.
However, it's pretty amazing to see what some people can do with Lego
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I made an order from Bricklink this week. The person I ordered from remembered me going back to 2000, and we laughed cause back then there were like 5 people in western Canada on Bricklink (then called Brickbay)
Anyway.... I discovered i'm member number 200-something and that's inflated my sense of self-importance
When did they get up to 960k members?! Which leads up to me next question: how they only at 960k members worldwide after 20 years?
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I still have no idea where my King's Castle is. My folks think I might have sold it, but I don't remember doing that. Fingers crossed it shows up somewhere at their place, as I know my son will LOVE it.
Found the castle! Seeing it again brought back a flood of memories playing with it and building different things. We're probably going to build it this weekend. So far, it looks like only a few minor things missing. It's funny how different the instructions were back then.
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Found the castle! Seeing it again brought back a flood of memories playing with it and building different things. We're probably going to build it this weekend. So far, it looks like only a few minor things missing. It's funny how different the instructions were back then.
I was in the model train store on Centre Street South near Chinook last week, and they had a bunch of old Knights Lego sets on display, including a full castle. They must have bought a collection or something.
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