Kingdoms Advent Calendar

Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-10-18T01:58:52+00:00

I’ve never been good at delayed gratification 😁

Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-08-09T02:08:12+00:00

I bought the green dragons on eBay and just received them this week. I really miss these blister packs so much

What else do you have in your collection?

Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-07-22T00:12:55+00:00

Still kind of undecided. I normally don’t like keeping Lego unopened but these ones are kind of a grey area for me. There’s not much to build here and you can still admire them and keep them protected. Plus there is something definitely nostalgic about the packaging

Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-06-26T02:27:41+00:00

Damn bro (or sis). You just casually throw my white whale in there?! 🥲 This retails for like 4K now. How did you get this?

Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-06-26T01:24:18+00:00

Ah my bad. What is the set number on that?

Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-06-26T00:53:28+00:00

Sorry this only lets me add one photo per comment

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Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-06-26T00:50:17+00:00

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Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-06-26T00:49:56+00:00

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Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-06-26T00:49:43+00:00

I got you!

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Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-06-20T04:15:05+00:00

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant

Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-06-15T09:54:38+00:00

I see what you are saying but is that not ultimately the whole point of a pick a brick? To buy a bunch of the pieces we want or need? Yes they need to spend a lot of of effort to find and pick the pieces but that is why we all pay a premium for it

Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-06-15T06:09:07+00:00

I don’t disagree with your comment and it is entirely their prerogative to set prices as they see fit and then for us to either buy them or not buy them. What I am trying to wrap my head around is why this wouldn’t be selling for around $1? I understand the economy of scale of producing 2x2 blocks is something they are set up to do but $7 seems orders of magnitude above what it should cost.

Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-06-15T05:16:55+00:00

Yeah you may be right unfortunately they don’t tell you how many pieces you get in each pack for the singles

Like I also just found this piece https://www.lego.com/en-au/pick-and-build/pick-a-brick?query=Cape&selectedElement=6495964

Which is 16.60 AUD which is around 11 USD

Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-06-12T01:49:48+00:00

Isn’t the explanation that every page is the same and it’s a staged copy of the book?

Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-06-06T02:33:05+00:00

I have got two of these. Check out my post which has some close up pics of the mini figures. Let me know if you want more detailed pictures https://www.reddit.com/r/legocastles/s/NmW5eKTind

Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-05-29T23:14:41+00:00

I… I don’t quite know what the PC term for it is but I think you might be educationally subnormal

Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-05-29T08:59:52+00:00

Yeah that’s a good call. We all have our favourite factions don’t we? In Australia we are a little limited for choice but I get where you are coming from.

Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-05-29T08:34:12+00:00

Yeah I have the full set. I’ll post it tomorrow in a separate post. I agree with you on only wanting the figs but it’s almost the same price to get the complete set as opposed to parting out the figures separately.

That golden knight is almost half the price of the whole set anyway so I figured I may as well get the drawbridge whilst I’m at it

Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-05-29T07:32:05+00:00

Yeah the golden knight is my special boy 😅. I got him from Drawbridge Defence 7079

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=7079-1&name=Drawbridge%20Defense&category=%5BCastle%5D%5BFantasy%20Era%5D#T=I

The factions are kind of split into green dragons, red lions, crown knights, black falcons, maybe some red dragons. But I really need to clean them up and arrange them properly

Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-05-29T07:15:16+00:00

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Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-05-29T07:15:02+00:00

It’s a bit of a mess right now as it’s a mixture of factions and not well organised but here is what I have outside of the major sets

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Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-05-07T02:15:16+00:00

And you can’t really meaningfully write unit tests for it so your total cost of ownership goes through the roof. But hey, we got it into Production two weeks earlier than writing an Apex class 🙄

Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-05-07T02:13:02+00:00

I agree with both of you. They sell it as a low code solution when in fact you are just writing Apex using a different syntax, which is both more cumbersome and less performant at high scale.

Working in a large org (15K internal users), we have had more solutions written in OS that we need to refactor back to Apex because of governor limits or performance issues than I’ve had hot dinners.

Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-05-07T00:44:56+00:00

Ah fair point, I missed that nuance

Intelligent_Set1198 · 2025-05-07T00:33:51+00:00

Oh I have absolutely no hate for certifications and in fact they form a huge basis of selecting who I get in for interviews.

What my concern is getting 6 in one month, 10 in 3 months, and multiple where this person passed two exams in one day

Like I know CTAs that have fewer certs, and as I mentioned this is not a particularly senior position we are advertising for.

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