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My five year daughter old mostly just wants to build castles, so if there was a less-expensive way to get large number of 2-peg width bricks (especially in pink
by jkingsbery 9y ago
My five year daughter old mostly just wants to build castles, so if there was a less-expensive way to get large number of 2-peg width bricks (especially in pink and purple, which she reminds me daily are her favorite colors), I could see that being useful.
- mtu9001 9y agoYou can order them. https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Pick-a-Brick https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Pick-a-Brick Order all of them.
- throwanem 9y agoBricklink has a much wider selection and better prices. https://www.bricklink.com/catalogTree.asp?itemType=P https://www.bricklink.com/catalogTree.asp?itemType=P
- pavel_lishin 9y agoIt seems wild to me that there's someone with a single black 2x4 brick in their inventory: https://store.bricklink.com/Teo.92&itemID=119350903#/shop?o={"invID":"119350903"} https://store.bricklink.com/Teo.92&itemID=119350903#/shop?o=...
- throwanem 9y agoTesting, maybe? I might do likewise to get a sense of the UI, markup, sales flow, et cetera, before sinking a bunch of time listing everything.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoMaybe, but they've got 213 other items for sale.
- throwanem 9y agoOh - didn't see that. If I'd decided to sell out of my collection instead of giving it away, I'd have had some parallel cases - any large enough collection is liable to include a small but significant proportion of one-off parts. I'm not sure a 2x4 black brick is likely enough to sell that it'd be worth listing alone, but I suppose someone with a sufficiently completist bent might go to the trouble.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoI wonder if they bought some sets, and are selling based off known contents - since they're technically pre-sorted.
- KGIII 9y agoWatch out, they are modern day caltrops. My son really enjoyed them and I bought him obscene amounts, after he learned to stop leaving them on the floor. Initially, after stepping on one in the middle of the night, any that I found left on the floor went right into the trash. I assume he dug them back out, being a kid and all. However, he learned. Eventually, he amassed a giant collection. With his permission, I gave them away to a kid that lives nearby. There were six large tote boxes and several dozen box sets. That kid now wants to be an engineer, though my son went into biology. So, they are really great and it's even better that the old blocks still work with the new blocks. Just look out, they're caltrops, on par with a four-sided die.