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Let’s build the Lego Titanic

CaptainWinsor
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So I got the Titanic about a week ago and my son has been after me to start building it so here we go. It’s been suggested that I build the sunken version which may happen if my patience runs thin.

It amazes me that someone or a team was able to come up with this as what you start with looks nothing like anything at all.

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These kits are amazing. I did the Saturn V with my daughter and the level of details in this thing is great. Could not believe the robustness of the end build. That thing is solid after it’s built.
 
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Skrv Skrv
These kits are amazing. I did the Saturn V with my daughter and the level of details in this thing is great. Could not believe the robustness of the end build. That thing is solid after it’s built.
Yes and no. The pieces that secure the stages together are not a robust as I would have hoped. Ours comes apart pretty easily, so you have to be very careful when moving it; you need one hand on the bottom om portion and one on the upper stages. My son moves out about a month ago and the top stages separated and hit the floor. It was an exercise tracking down the pieces and getting it back together.
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Pianotuna
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These kits are amazing. I did the Saturn V with my daughter and the level of details in this thing is great. Could not believe the robustness of the end build. That thing is solid after it’s built.
Just ordered mine coincidentally, after obvious hints to adult sons were not acted upon.
The Saturn V was a product of my childhood, and I look forward to its arrival end of next month and a few hours indulgence during the build.
 
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Yes and no. The pieces that secure the stages together are not a robust as I would have hoped. Ours comes apart pretty easily, so you have to be very careful when moving it; you need one hand on the bottom om portion and one on the upper stages. My some moves out about a month ago and the top stages separated and hit the floor. It was an exercise tracking down the pieces and getting it back together.
I have not moved it much after assembly. But your right the one time I had to move it to shelf after assembly held both the upper and lower stages.
 
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I enjoyed building the Saturn V, and I did move it from where I assembled it to where it lives now - very carefully and successfully without dropping any parts. Perhaps they should make a Lego crawler transporter?
 
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That’s cheating, you have to build it underwater 😗
 
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My wife has a lot of the creator lego sets. On near completion of Tower Bridge, I lifted up one half of it, its quite big, and dropped it. The wife was not amused.
 
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I'm building the Saturn V right now. Just one more bag of pieces to go ... and then I have to find a place to display it.
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Good luck with the Titanic! That looks like an unbelievable kit. Keep the photos coming!
 
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I don’t have anywhere to put a Titanic sadly but have two nice lego walls set up, this is the one that is easier to photograph, the other is a dark hallway that’s a bit too cramped but similar layout.

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Damn hats off to you guys. I just don’t have the patience for those things but they look cool. I don’t know how much you guys are into these sets but I was reading an article that some limited Lego sets increase up to 700% in unopened boxes which has created a lot of “flippers” and collectors. I forget which magazine it was and they were saying 700% isn’t the norm but there is a lot going on with Lego’s I had no clue about.
 
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Yes and no. The pieces that secure the stages together are not a robust as I would have hoped. Ours comes apart pretty easily, so you have to be very careful when moving it; you need one hand on the bottom om portion and one on the upper stages. My some moves out about a month ago and the top stages separated and hit the floor. It was an exercise tracking down the pieces and getting it back together.
I’m sure the bottom stage is supposed to fall off first. did you follow the instructions? 😀
 
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I enjoyed building the Saturn V, and I did move it from where I assembled it to where it lives now - very carefully and successfully without dropping any parts. Perhaps they should make a Lego crawler transporter?
Excellent suggestion.
Having seen an original at Cape Canaveral I’m simply in awe that they made this thing stand upright let alone moved it in that position
 
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Damn hats off to you guys. I just don’t have the patience for those things but they look cool. I don’t know how much you guys are into these sets but I was reading an article that some limited Lego sets increase up to 700% in unopened boxes which has created a lot of “flippers” and collectors. I forget which magazine it was and they were saying 700% isn’t the norm but there is a lot going on with Lego’s I had no clue about.
What’s remarkable is that here in Australia you can buy a Saturn V set for $169 directly from lego (and have to wait admittedly) but on the bay $250 is the going rate unopened. Since lego let’s you buy five sets at a time online you can make an easy $400/50% on your money. Not allowing for commissions of course.
And we get wound up about Rolex flippers …
 
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What’s remarkable is that here in Australia you can buy a Saturn V set for $169 directly from lego (and have to wait admittedly) but on the bay $250 is the going rate unopened. Since lego let’s you buy five sets at a time online you can make an easy $400/50% on your money. Not allowing for commissions of course.
And we get wound up about Rolex flippers …
I remember the disdain and outrage at ticket scalpers back in the day when people went to live concerts with paper tickets. Seems they set the business model.
 
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I'm knee deep in Lego Jurassic Park due to my toddler. Building them has turned out to be a lot of fun. Maybe I'll pick up a set for myself.
 
Keith88lx
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Same here. Spending time with my son and his new Lego sets this Christmas has become a lot of fun. I’m now looking at some adult challenging sets.
 
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I’m sure the bottom stage is supposed to fall off first. did you follow the instructions? 😀
Ha, by the fifth or sixth time scrounging parts from under the side table you stop consulting with the instruction manual when you need to piece it back together 😗 But the stages hold together by four friction-fit unions, and it seems the 'female' ends get loose after a few dozen (hundred?) stage separations. This was a favorite thing to play with when my son was about 6 or 7.
 
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I remember the disdain and outrage at ticket scalpers back in the day when people went to live concerts with paper tickets. Seems they set the business model.
Some of the outrage was generated by one’s previous waiting in line for the ticket office to start selling tickets at (say) 9:00 with purchases often limited to four p/p, getting to the front of the line at 9:13 to discover you were 933 rows back and behind a pillar, and then getting to the venue and some sleazy a-hole is flashing a wad of front row seats! That the markup was in the 10,000% range was neither here nor there.
No doubt I’m moaning about exactly the same first world problem some Roman was 2,000 years ago when he couldn’t get seats to the coliseum 🤔
 
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Some of the outrage was generated by one’s previous waiting in line for the ticket office to start selling tickets at (say) 9:00 with purchases often limited to four p/p, getting to the front of the line at 9:13 to discover you were 933 rows back and behind a pillar, and then getting to the venue and some sleazy a-hole is flashing a wad of front row seats! That the markup was in the 10,000% range was neither here nor there.
No doubt I’m moaning about exactly the same first world problem some Roman was 2,000 years ago when he couldn’t get seats to the coliseum 🤔
Yup- sounds like the same shenanigans as the watch world right now. I see Eddie at Timefactors has started limiting quantity for that very reason, his store opens, he sells out in 5 minutes, he ships them out…and two weeks later, eBay is flooded with them at 1.5-2x price
 
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