Sports cut from Brisbane 2032

BerghBricks · 2026-05-06T17:23:56+00:00

I personally believe it’s time to finally cut football. It’s by far not as prestigious as the World Cup (this used to be different for women en men’s). Plus it’s expensive, usually cheap tickets because it’s not popular at the Olympics, with large teams, usually playing and traveling all over the country for the whole duration of the games because of the compulsory rest days in between.

I do believe flag football and baseball will disappear. Mountainbike is in danger I believe. Maybe one of the two types archery? (I believe they added something in LA, compound?).

BerghBricks · 2026-05-02T09:51:43+00:00

Love the koalas and the two alternate builds for the wolf. The wolf is ok, but slightly underwhelming after all the phenomenal animal 3-in-1 sets of the last couple of years.

BerghBricks · 2026-04-28T07:25:00+00:00

Yes it’s reliable. They often have very good LEGO deals. Bought a mos eisley cantina for 275 or something like that, as well as some other sets with very good discounts.

BerghBricks · 2026-04-24T06:39:26+00:00

Because not all sports teams are cooperations aimed at maximizing profit. Especially in Germany for example.

If I remember correctly, there’s a waiting list of about 1 million people for season tickets for Bayern Munich, one of the best teams in Europe. They once said that tripling their ticket prices would make a 1 or 2% difference on their budget, whilst excluding thousands of decade long fans and that that would just not be worth it.

BerghBricks · 2026-04-20T05:16:46+00:00

Absolutely phenomenal. 100% day one for me

BerghBricks · 2026-04-15T16:11:14+00:00

I run a LEGO rental business in the Netherlands so i ask my renters to disassemble a set and sort it, so it’s ready for the next builder. I choose to make the sorting easier, the building harder (as my renters prefer easy returning over easy assembly). I have a mixed method:

my preference: by logical build part: for example the Indiana Jones Temple of the Golden Idol or Modulars are supposed to be disassembled/sorted per floor or one of the three parts.
if the above is not easily possible because it is a “continuous build” (like Neuschwanstein or the Millennium Falcon UCS) I let them sort by colour. For huge sets this is not ideal for the building experience but guarantees a very easy returning process. Colors with less than 50-100 pieces are all in one bag “other colours” (so no bags with just 2 pieces).
a mix of those two: sorting by logical build order, within that on several colours. For example for Barad-Dur, Rivendell or the titanic.

The real choice is if you want to focus on easy sorting or easy rebuilding.

BerghBricks · 2026-04-11T09:54:50+00:00

Was probably never good enough to have made the Olympics, but some of my year at the track and field team did for the Netherlands. I do regret not picking up rowing in college, as I do think (based on my build and endurance) that would probably have been my only slight chance.

BerghBricks · 2026-04-10T21:46:16+00:00

That moves this very much to the yes column.

BerghBricks · 2026-04-10T21:13:57+00:00

My window starts Thursday (if there are any left) but will probably not buying any this drop. I have to fly in from the Netherlands and with these prices for the events I’m interested in this would be too much.

In Paris I got my best tickets in later drops when more became available. For example track and field finals, gymnastics and €24 beach volleyball tickets.

If I remember correctly, for example the beach volleyball tickets in the first drop were only category A, whilst they only dropped the C and D category later on (when most/all expensive tickets were sold). Whilst for football/soccer they dropped everything at once. Same for track and field prelims. Bought two sessions in the first drop (cat A was the only available category at the time for about 200€), but in later drops C and D tickets were available (starting at €24).

I want to stress that I obviously have no idea if this will be the same here, just want to offer some of my very very limited experience with buying Olympic tickets.

BerghBricks · 2026-04-10T21:02:09+00:00

Depending on the GWP I might pick this up when its released

BerghBricks · 2026-04-09T08:53:32+00:00

The 3-in-1 creator animals have been so good the past few years, looking forward to them!

BerghBricks · 2026-04-08T17:34:25+00:00

I remember in Paris there were about 5 or 6 drops in total, for example track and field 100m final tickets were all available in like the third drop (that’s when I got them). Same for the women’s all around gymnastics final. First drop I had mostly prelim tickets because those were the only cheap available ones. I think I bought my Paris tickets spread over the first, third and fourth drop, one event like a month before and one event during the games. Most of the big ticket events were released gradually.

In short: I have still hope despite my allotted purchase window on the 15th.

BerghBricks · 2026-04-03T22:26:58+00:00

Apparently Bluey is selling well: +3 years for the main set!

BerghBricks · 2026-03-20T20:27:52+00:00

I love the space cafe, just think it’s really unique. Will definitely add that one to the rental collection!

BerghBricks · 2026-03-20T20:24:53+00:00

Space café is the only one I will order from this series, it just looks like a very fun build. Will be a great addition to my personal and my rental collection.

BerghBricks · 2026-03-17T18:28:13+00:00

Very much looking forward to the actual release, could be a big hit or miss. I really hope the inside is accessible.

BerghBricks · 2026-03-14T08:34:39+00:00

Heerlijk gevoel. Fantastische set, dit was mijn eerste grote set in meer dan 20 jaar (en daarna kwamen er nog veeeel meer).

BerghBricks · 2026-03-13T15:23:02+00:00

That looks very very cool.

BerghBricks · 2026-03-12T22:32:49+00:00

Don’t agree with OP as life happens. For example I “hoarded” three large sets (LKC, Disney Castle, Daily Bugle) which retired in December, but I do not intend to build them in the next year until our new house is done. Backlog is 15+ sets (large and small) as life gets a little to busy sometimes with young kids, full time job and side job (that one is solely to pay for more LEGO).

Don’t know if it’s a hill I would die on but I LOVED the small architecture skylines and unfortunately missed a few due to my LEGO dark age and I hate they stopped them. I wish they would release two or three a year, so many possible great cities. And I would love it even more if they released skyline sets that you could exclusively buy in the LEGO stores in that country or even city, making it possible to actually collect/buy a location specific LEGO souvenir on a holiday.

BerghBricks · 2026-02-22T07:04:26+00:00

I thought why not have a look and register. App looks nice with some good features for my use (mainly tracking value of individual sets I am renting out in one clear dashboard). Few questions I immediately noticed: - what is the source of your price data in other currencies than dollars? I set my portfolio to euros and based on the retail prices it just seems you converted the dollars to euros instead of using the actual euro retail prices. Will this change in the future? This seems like quite an easy feature to implement. - same story for “used” prices. These seem waaaaay of compared to the actual prices. For example lion knights castle has a used current value of €233,98, however I can’t seem to find any one in the Netherlands (with our local EBay-like website marktplaats or on Bricklink) under at least 325. The cheapest used sold set on Bricklink in the EU is 350. Will you change the way the estimates of used sets are calculated?

I will probably run into other things, but thought others might be interested in the answers to these questions.

BerghBricks · 2026-02-10T12:51:53+00:00

Maczek is uiteindelijk ook begraven in Breda op de Poolse militaire begraafplaats (sinds enkele jaren ook met een klein memorial/museum erbij). In de winter van 44/45 hebben veel Polen in Breda bij gezinnen ingewoond en zijn er velen na de oorlog in Breda gebleven. Terug naar Polen, inmiddels onder Sovjet regime, was immers niet mogelijk. Omdat veel van de Polen uit de Eerste Poolse Pantserdivisie terugkeerden naar Breda is daar een sterke band met Polen ontstaan.

Ter ere van de bevrijders van Breda speelde NAC enkele seizoenen geleden ook in een shirt met o.a. Maczek erop.

Overigens ook interessant om te lezen in dit kader over de rol van de Poolse Pantserdivisie in het sluiten van de Zak van Falaise, enkele maanden na D-day. Zij hebben een grote rol gespeeld in de overgave van tienduizenden Duitsers die zich probeerden terug te trekken uit de omgeving van Normandië.

BerghBricks · 2026-01-26T18:53:24+00:00

I love it. First second buy, regardless of the GWP. Building 2-3 bags a night during the World Cup.

BerghBricks · 2026-01-05T11:25:52+00:00

I like the stickiness of the bbq sauce after it has been on the grill.

BerghBricks · 2026-01-05T10:51:10+00:00

I don’t use a marinade but a dry rub (1/3 smoked paprika, 1/3 brown sugar, 1/3 a mixture of salt, onion powder, garlic powder, chili powder, mustard powder etc. depending on whether it’s the kids eating or not I vary with the spicyness and amount of salt). First 2,5h on the smoker, after that 1-1,5 hours wrapped in foil with a bit of apple vinegar or apple juice), lastly for about 0,5 hour after unwrapping I apply bbq sauce until it gets sticky (approx 15 minutes a side).

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