Lego - The Simpsons!

[ShaunB-91]

Oh how I wish I was a little'en again, just came across this.

Quote from cnet.co.uk;

Ay, carumba! Feast your eyes on the first Lego set celebrating The Simpsons. The first family of Springfield are immortalised in brick form in leaked photos of a new line of playsets inspired by the long-running animated TV show.
Lego fan Carlos S at Eurobricks claims to have revealed what appears to be the first Simpsons set, ahead of a reported Lego Simpsons TV show.
From a skate ramp and the astonishingly hardy pink family car to a stray plutonium rod, the 2,523-piece set -- if real -- looks packed with extras.
The roof comes off and the two-storey house opens on a hinge, revealing the rooms inside: including Lisa's bedroom where Bart barges in, the kitchen where Homer hatches his latest schemes over bacon and Duff beer, and the garage where the pink family car repeatedly startles Homer in the opening sequence. And of course, the living room contains the famous couch.
The whole family is here: Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart and Maggie appear in Lego minifig form, with, as an addley-added bo-diddly-onus, neighbourino Ned Flanders. The characters appear to have fully sculpted heads, so no putting Bart's hair on Lisa's head, but Matt Groening's creations do make a good minifig fit -- after all, they're already yellow.
There's no price or release date as yet -- or even official confirmation that this is the genuine article

 

[hmmblah]

You have to be little to buy Lego? Pfft. Lego is why I'm still sporting an i7 930.

Back of the box.

Edit: Shouldn't this be in Serious Discussion instead of Humour?

 

[ShaunB-91]

You have to be little to buy Lego? Pfft. Lego is why I'm still sporting an i7 930.

Back of the box.

Edit: Shouldn't this be in Serious Discussion instead of Humour?

It looks so good! Might be worth buying just so it may be worth something in years to come, or does that not really work with this type of thing?

I'm not sure where it should be to be honest.

 

[SPS]

Lego is a serious discussion, moved!

 

[hmmblah]

That bit was a joke, but I'm moving this to OT.

It's hard to say value of sets. I have some sets that I purchased for under $100 that now go for $500+. It all depends on how much Lego produces and how much the speculators buy up.

 

[ShaunB-91]

I wish I had all the lego from when I was little, probably not worth anything since it's not based on movies or TV shows. Isn't the star wars stuff super expensive?

The Simpsons stuff does look really cool though.

 

[hmmblah]

I wish I had all the lego from when I was little, probably not worth anything since it's not based on movies or TV shows. Isn't the star wars stuff super expensive?

The Simpsons stuff does look really cool though.

Yeah, Star Wars sets can be super expensive compared to other lines. I try not to buy at full price. I usually wait it out for clearance prices or when Lego runs a double or triple VIP point promotion.

Depends what sets you had as a kid, but some of them are extremely valuable. A crazy expensive set now is the UCS Millennium Falcon. Unopened sets go for $3,000+. Some of the old classic space sets are highly collectable as well.

 

[SPS]

I wish I had all the lego from when I was little, probably not worth anything since it's not based on movies or TV shows. Isn't the star wars stuff super expensive?

The Simpsons stuff does look really cool though.

Hmm I don't know in comparison to other franchises, but it does look super cool. A Lego Millenium Falcon or X-Wing make awesome shelf displays!

 

[ShaunB-91]

Yeah, Star Wars sets can be super expensive compared to other lines. I try not to buy at full price. I usually wait it out for clearance prices or when Lego runs a double or triple VIP point promotion.

Depends what sets you had as a kid, but some of them are extremely valuable. A crazy expensive set now is the UCS Millennium Falcon. Unopened sets go for $3,000+. Some of the old classic space sets are highly collectable as well.

No I never had any of that sort of lego, mine was more pirates, there was an island with two towers and a bridge, surrounded by tree's with tribal men and monkeys, I had a Harry Potter castle but can't imagine they'd be worth much. When my Mum and Dad went shopping every Friday I'd get some lego, they used to do a little box, probably no more than £5 and you'd get a few figures or something, I ended up with a big deep tub over the years though, it all just got mixed up and then given away. :\

I think I still have my action men, and all my wrestling figures though, (I hope) funnily enough at weekend they came up and I was told they'd been binned, I was shit shocked that the wrestlers had been binned but my Mum must of got mistaken of her sorting them out with my Dad, but it was actually me that sorted them out a few years ago, so fingers crossed they are still in the loft!

Edit: Okay so the kit is now officially being released in February for £180! It also says that extra figures will be out in May to coincide with the special Lego Simpsons episode that will air for their 25th anniversary.

Here is a little video.



Edit: I actually feel tempted to buy this, something tells me it could be worth a bit of money one day, what would you say? I won't lie though, it'll be hard for me not to open the box and build this!

 

[SPS]

Ha that's pretty cool

 

[Wraith]

Oh how I wish this had been around when we were kids although we had the best of toys back then which was Meccano, spent hours constructing monstrous contraptions I distictly remember building a helicopter using the provided motor and rigged my mains powered hornby train track speed controller to it (didn't end well)

 

[ShaunB-91]

Had a quick look on eBay to see if there are any that sell for at least say £1000, there is a LOT of Star Wars, the millenium falcon actually had loads of bids and was £1000! Loads of Harry Potter castles on their for big amounts but no bids, thankfully, because I had that castle once!

 

[SuB]

FYI: I got this for christmas..

Star wars lego is massively overpriced for what it is, you're paying for a franchise.. nothing else.

That said, I wish I'd bought one of those Falcon's.. god damn that's nice

I managed to pick up the notoriously rare Silver Champion Lego Technics kit for a cracking price of £54 just before christmas.. quite the steal that

 

[hmmblah]

Yes, the licensed sets can be massively overpriced. I rarely buy a SW set at full retail price, always looking for clearance and/or damaged box sets. I've gotten some amazing deals in the last 2 years of collecting. Be careful though, once you start it's easy to spiral out of control. I'm sitting at about 60k pieces now and that pales in comparison to people who have been collecting for years.

It's hard to gauge how much a set will be worth. It all depends how much Lego makes and if speculators hoard the sets for later resale.

 

[SuB]

You say that like you think I don't want it to spiral out of control.. This christmas was only the beginning

FYI 42009 pictured above is amazing!! Loved building it over christmas

 

[SPS]

That's cool as hell Sub.

I much prefer the Technic stuff, here's my rather large F1 car.

 

[SuB]

very nice, i have this to clean and build, got a second hand one really cheap (as above) looking forward to it, will need some replacement parts but for £54 it was a proper steal.

 

[hmmblah]

I don't have too many technic sets, just a few. I'm in love with the modular line.

http://forum.overclock3d.net/showthread.php?t=40677

As for this Simpson set, it goes on sale Feb 1 for $200. At 2500 pieces its a steal for that price.

 

[SuB]

god damnit blah, now i'm looking for 10212 and the B-wings.. I'm gonna be so freaking skint

 

[hmmblah]

god damnit blah, now i'm looking for 10212 and the B-wings.. I'm gonna be so freaking skint

LOL, the Imperial Shuttle is lovely. Sits next to my PC. I still have the B-wing in a box in my backlog. Last May the 4th Lego ran a sale, UCS B-wing was 50% off.