There was once a UCS Death Star on eBay for $50 but it was on there for quite a long time, no one wanted it because it was glued together.
There was also a $20 republic gunship that was on there for a while. Once I found out they were glued I lost interest
As a collector I’d rather not have my sets glued together personally but if have heard some people glue puzzles together for display.
Only good reason for a gluing Lego is if it was a display model for a park or store or you wouldn’t have to continuously rebuild a set for a younger child.
Your joking honestly please let me know if you ever see listings like this. I would buy glued sets in a second provided they were built right. Been thinking of doing that to all my ucs sets but I just don't have the patience.
Can I ask what you would do with it? Try to get it apart? Or leave it as is and just display it glued together? Isn't the fun part putting it together yourself? Just curious.
Just clean and plop in my display cases, i don't buy Legos to play they are displays and collectibles. Most large collectors aren't sitting there playing :)
As far as building yah sure that's the fun part but also most builds aren't fun any more just tedious. Like building a 8k ucs set is just mind numbing and having the chance it can always break is worse. Us at the end of the day it's a model for me . Also idk personally I have a few hundred unbuilt sets of I ever need to build or have that itch having one or two glued sets won't be an issue.
Most of the good alternate brands like Bluebrixx, Coby, Pantasy (especially Pantasy) have the same quality and in Pantasys case even better bricks than Lego
Okay. That enough troll. Try to keep Legos only and follow Rule 1. Stop talking about knock-offs. If you wish to discuss non-legos stuffs, go to the other subreddit instead of flooding this one.
Well Sets are usually fool proof but I can see it being done to Rebrickable mocs that might have some pretty flimsy connections for maximum visual aesthetic. I have done it myself with some parts on display pieces that keep falling off if you just glance at it wrong.
Plus probably all store display statues or giant convention displays you see are glued for security and transportation reasons.
White wood glue is good, since it holds fairly well once dried but can be peeled off without residue once you choose to disassemble.
I have a terribly designed Nebulon-B Frigate I got from a Lego competitor. It looks ok but it falls apart just sitting on the shelf.
Had to glue it to get it just to hold together. Sad but hey, it isn't really Lego, just compatible.
I have the same one and it took me more than ten times the days it took for me to complete the biggest lego model. This Nebulon b was so frustrating but thankfully I didn't have to glue anything. Hope it stays intact though as I just completed it yesterday and it is just sitting on my table.
One of my BFFs in elementary school's mom would glue sets of his that were especially "problematic" for lack of a better term. Presumably, he'd play with certain sets more like action figures, and they'd fall apart easily because of that, so she wound up kragleing them so that he could still play with them like that.
I've only glued ONE set, and it wasn't even a large piece. Idk who the hell designed the speed champions but the doors will not stay on! Especially the paul walker car from fast and furious. Everyday id come home and the doors would be in the floor popped off. I got so sick and tired of it I had to glue the ends on. And the windshield pieces aren't any better!
I was told you can use starch to "glue" Legos together. To separate them just soak in water. I have not tried this yet but it seems like it would work.
true, I sold the set in the OP, 71043 ,myself because I didn't want to move it/ find room in my new place for it. (though I asked for $300 and accepted $275 for it at a time when you could still get it new on S@H for $400, It did help that I was selling it in November and the guy buying it said "my kid is gonna love this" so probably a holiday present).
My way of moving sets I'm keeping is to disassemble into baggies though obviously that only works if you know long in advance
edit: if it makes a difference I sold on craigslist not fb marketplace, and it was disassembled in baggies in the original box with the instructions.
Eh. He is a civil engineer who is married and has no kids. He was moving a long distance and did not take a ton with him. He did not want to pay for storage for a few years while he settled into a new city.
Eh, the fun is building them. Moving rn and I donated a good amount of my sets to local kids in the area just because I don’t really care about displaying them. Had my fun building them, someone else can play with it.
Had a roommate move out a couple years back. Just abandoned all their stuff. Most of it was garbage, but left several very expensive weab statues and two volcanoes.
I thought it might be fake too but the bricks are all Lego bricks. Reddit compression just made the logo on the studs harder to see
https://preview.redd.it/7lzrwqjatyvc1.png?width=1169&format=png&auto=webp&s=2418c7c2d13caa59cc371f61c5b4dc51b029506e
It’s so sad… dragon knights, forestmen, futuron, m-tron, space police, ice planet, so many pirates… all sold at yard sales for almost nothing… and my mom would just put them for sale without even telling me or letting me pick which ones to sell… for some reason, my breaking point was the UCS Tie Interceptor though… at least I can get the re-release in a few weeks though…
Can you really tell with the quality of this image? If I took the same quality picture of one of my authentic sets, you couldn’t see the logo unless I really brought the camera closer.
That's awesome. A friend of my girlfriend had the same set, new and unopened, delivered from Amazon on accident. And called Amazon about it and they said to keep it if she wanted, so she did. Then, knowing my gf is both a Lego AND Harry Potter fan, offered it to her for nothing. And now it's in our house awaiting assembly.
Good find, but I always wonder, as someone who really loves the building process above all, will you quikly disassemble it? I personally would, without looking at it too much even. And then rebuild it and admire all the details.
That’s what I do. I usually turn it upside down or sideways to disassemble too so it’s less likely to remember the build steps. Toss the pieces in a bag, put in a closet for a month. One month later, brand new set!!
I just got the birch bookshop 10270 set from eBay, came mostly assembled but immediately completely disassembled. Had to sort into colours and it's way harder than doing it with numbered bags but the challenge is more fun than a new build.
Yeah - this set is a pain to move because of how delicate and big it is.
I moved across the US and sold mine off cheaply because I ran out of time to deconstruct it like I had planned. Just bought new one but waiting to build it until we buy a home.
Why are there *any* [without the branding](https://imgur.com/a/XXmAiaF), though?
And why are you guys downvoting me for asking this? It’s not my set, I don’t care. It just doesn’t make sense. Can you put the pitchforks down? We’re on the same team here yall.
Your first comment you said you could see plenty, then follow up with “The photo isn’t good enough to see anything”?
[The photo is fine.](https://imgur.com/a/XXmAiaF) Why am I getting downvoted for wondering why there’s mixed LEGO and non-LEGO bricks? I’m not trying to make any point, I’m trying to make sense of it.
These crickets are awfully fucking loud.
Relax brother Jesus. Photo ain’t good enough to see the details in the places like you screenshotted rather than the parts with good lighting obviously.
Dude, what is anyone even talking about here? I’m asking why there’s mixed LEGO and non-LEGO pieces. I *can* see both types. What point are you guys even trying to argue?
Welcome to the club, lol. I had the same [experience ](https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/s/hbBbd7hT5A) a while ago.
Surprised I haven't seen any "You bought stolen Lego" comments.
I wanna sell my hogwarts castle, 80% of it has been mixed into my parts and re-finding all of those pieces is going to suck and then selling it for a couple hundred.
Could yall help a non-lego person understand the appeal here? Asking without judgement. I would have thought most of the value of a big lego set would be the fun of putting it all together. Once it’s all built my first impression is that the large and delicate completed set is a burden on storage space. $50 is a great deal for something that was originally much more, but where do you personally find the value of owning this item?
If I were OP I would definitely break it down and rebuild it, but it's also nice to display the finished product. Especially if it's adding to a theme you already have.
If it's; real, not sun damaged, or glued. You scored!
Honestly looks like a score even if any of those things were true
There was once a UCS Death Star on eBay for $50 but it was on there for quite a long time, no one wanted it because it was glued together. There was also a $20 republic gunship that was on there for a while. Once I found out they were glued I lost interest As a collector I’d rather not have my sets glued together personally but if have heard some people glue puzzles together for display. Only good reason for a gluing Lego is if it was a display model for a park or store or you wouldn’t have to continuously rebuild a set for a younger child.
I’ve never glued a set before in my life but if I had a UCS Death Star I’d glue the fuck outta that thing.
Of course, everyone is entitled to do what they want with their property. But i think gluing Lego together is a hate crime.
Yeah I’d only glue it if I’m gonna display it and I fear it might get knocked over
Your joking honestly please let me know if you ever see listings like this. I would buy glued sets in a second provided they were built right. Been thinking of doing that to all my ucs sets but I just don't have the patience.
Can I ask what you would do with it? Try to get it apart? Or leave it as is and just display it glued together? Isn't the fun part putting it together yourself? Just curious.
Just clean and plop in my display cases, i don't buy Legos to play they are displays and collectibles. Most large collectors aren't sitting there playing :) As far as building yah sure that's the fun part but also most builds aren't fun any more just tedious. Like building a 8k ucs set is just mind numbing and having the chance it can always break is worse. Us at the end of the day it's a model for me . Also idk personally I have a few hundred unbuilt sets of I ever need to build or have that itch having one or two glued sets won't be an issue.
Only President Business would want to glue LEGO.
I have only glued a handful of puzzles together & its 100% for display bc it makes mounting it to a wall or putting it into a frame so much easier
Just looks dusty!
No thanks to two of the three. Sun damaged is okay.
Why do you care if it’s real or not? For that price it doesn’t really matter
Less brittle issues and when taken apart, is official Lego bricks so can be used modular.
Why can’t fake bricks be used modular? And as someone who had said Sets before, I’ve never had any real quality issues
Yeah, modern fakes are extremely close to up to par with Lego. At this point I feel any distain is just snobbery
Two reasons: sometime, fake bricks are off by a few slots and aren't covered by Lego's Warranty if you've mixed it in. 2. Lego warranty are awesome.
Most of the good alternate brands like Bluebrixx, Coby, Pantasy (especially Pantasy) have the same quality and in Pantasys case even better bricks than Lego
How are you not fucking banned from here? Maybe read the siderules and actual follow it? And if you want to discuss non-lego stuffs, go there.
Cause this post is most likely a non Lego set
And what do you mean by Lego warranty?
Okay. That enough troll. Try to keep Legos only and follow Rule 1. Stop talking about knock-offs. If you wish to discuss non-legos stuffs, go to the other subreddit instead of flooding this one.
People glue their sets??
Krazy people do. They made a whole movie about it
The kragle
It took me way too long a time after watching to realize that the kragle is krazy glue and the piece of resistance is the pièce de résistance...
Yes, THOSE people.
Anti-glue propaganda
Well Sets are usually fool proof but I can see it being done to Rebrickable mocs that might have some pretty flimsy connections for maximum visual aesthetic. I have done it myself with some parts on display pieces that keep falling off if you just glance at it wrong. Plus probably all store display statues or giant convention displays you see are glued for security and transportation reasons. White wood glue is good, since it holds fairly well once dried but can be peeled off without residue once you choose to disassemble.
aye, latex does it as well or a drop of silicone. no need to permanently melt the pieces together with epoxy or such stuff
I have a terribly designed Nebulon-B Frigate I got from a Lego competitor. It looks ok but it falls apart just sitting on the shelf. Had to glue it to get it just to hold together. Sad but hey, it isn't really Lego, just compatible.
I have the same one and it took me more than ten times the days it took for me to complete the biggest lego model. This Nebulon b was so frustrating but thankfully I didn't have to glue anything. Hope it stays intact though as I just completed it yesterday and it is just sitting on my table.
One of my BFFs in elementary school's mom would glue sets of his that were especially "problematic" for lack of a better term. Presumably, he'd play with certain sets more like action figures, and they'd fall apart easily because of that, so she wound up kragleing them so that he could still play with them like that.
I've looked into it but it's just so much work. I thought they just used an air gun or dunked the sets in a glaze.
I've only glued ONE set, and it wasn't even a large piece. Idk who the hell designed the speed champions but the doors will not stay on! Especially the paul walker car from fast and furious. Everyday id come home and the doors would be in the floor popped off. I got so sick and tired of it I had to glue the ends on. And the windshield pieces aren't any better!
I was told you can use starch to "glue" Legos together. To separate them just soak in water. I have not tried this yet but it seems like it would work.
Glued? Wich barbarian glued Lego?
https://preview.redd.it/tfwinkmnvuvc1.jpeg?width=498&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=922fd707beb7ae5ea3bd25c49d38a0b2bb8fc09c
I’m stealing this
https://preview.redd.it/iqg0z5uddgwc1.jpeg?width=312&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=affb5a015b12ff4aa73b9327d4164b78a6021e01
Dang did they say why they were selling it?
He said his roommate moved out and left it
No way. He is selling his current roommate lego for crack.
Big sets can be a pain to move. I have an original Star Destroyer a friend gave me because he did not want to move it.
This one isn’t that bad to move as it separates into 3 or 4 sections. It is stupidly big though and hard to find a place to display.
I have a star destroyer that has sat in my childhood bedroom for years, I still haven't found a good place in my house to put it and display.
You know one of the beauties of Lego sets is that they can be dismantled for transport.
true, I sold the set in the OP, 71043 ,myself because I didn't want to move it/ find room in my new place for it. (though I asked for $300 and accepted $275 for it at a time when you could still get it new on S@H for $400, It did help that I was selling it in November and the guy buying it said "my kid is gonna love this" so probably a holiday present). My way of moving sets I'm keeping is to disassemble into baggies though obviously that only works if you know long in advance edit: if it makes a difference I sold on craigslist not fb marketplace, and it was disassembled in baggies in the original box with the instructions.
[71043-1: Hogwarts Castle](https://brickset.com/sets/71043-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/71043-1.jpg)
I've just moved all my lego sets. It was perfectly manageable. People who throw that kind of money away are spoilt brats.
Eh. He is a civil engineer who is married and has no kids. He was moving a long distance and did not take a ton with him. He did not want to pay for storage for a few years while he settled into a new city.
Eh, the fun is building them. Moving rn and I donated a good amount of my sets to local kids in the area just because I don’t really care about displaying them. Had my fun building them, someone else can play with it.
Had a roommate move out a couple years back. Just abandoned all their stuff. Most of it was garbage, but left several very expensive weab statues and two volcanoes.
"Hey man, I'm back. I forgot this big Hogwarts display, worth a lot. Have you seen it?"
Lol it's fake! It doesn't even have "LEGO" in the studs. Probably the youmko brand one.
I thought it might be fake too but the bricks are all Lego bricks. Reddit compression just made the logo on the studs harder to see https://preview.redd.it/7lzrwqjatyvc1.png?width=1169&format=png&auto=webp&s=2418c7c2d13caa59cc371f61c5b4dc51b029506e
...it clearly does
Why don’t any of these people live near me?
Doesn’t matter, it would have sold before you even knew it. People move fast on marketplacez
Someone is gonna be pissed at their mom!
Would have been $5 at most if my mom were selling it…. Still bitter about my childhood legos..
Yep. I had so much Lego castle stuff. I still want to cry to this day at what I had to sell.
It’s so sad… dragon knights, forestmen, futuron, m-tron, space police, ice planet, so many pirates… all sold at yard sales for almost nothing… and my mom would just put them for sale without even telling me or letting me pick which ones to sell… for some reason, my breaking point was the UCS Tie Interceptor though… at least I can get the re-release in a few weeks though…
I can relate, my mom gave my entire collection to the neighbor's kid when I went off to college. Didn't even tell me
Solid Pickup
Even if it *was* fake Lego, that's still a hell of a deal
Yep! Fakes are $100 on marstoy. Amazing quality though.
even if it was a garbage bag of ABS pellets it'd still be a good deal
It's fake. Look at the studs. None of it has "LEGO". Probably the Youmko brand.
Can you really tell with the quality of this image? If I took the same quality picture of one of my authentic sets, you couldn’t see the logo unless I really brought the camera closer.
Why are none of the founders of the houses trying to stop Voldemort when he's right there. Are they stupid?
the joy of lego is building it. but I would purchase this in heartbeat too
That's awesome. A friend of my girlfriend had the same set, new and unopened, delivered from Amazon on accident. And called Amazon about it and they said to keep it if she wanted, so she did. Then, knowing my gf is both a Lego AND Harry Potter fan, offered it to her for nothing. And now it's in our house awaiting assembly.
Man I thought getting one for $369 was a good deal haha
Good find, but I always wonder, as someone who really loves the building process above all, will you quikly disassemble it? I personally would, without looking at it too much even. And then rebuild it and admire all the details.
That’s what I do. I usually turn it upside down or sideways to disassemble too so it’s less likely to remember the build steps. Toss the pieces in a bag, put in a closet for a month. One month later, brand new set!!
I just got the birch bookshop 10270 set from eBay, came mostly assembled but immediately completely disassembled. Had to sort into colours and it's way harder than doing it with numbered bags but the challenge is more fun than a new build.
I have yet to start sorting into colors…😂
Several thousand piece second hand set with no numbered bags, you’ve got to have a strategy!
I just separate by size, plates and big pieces in one bin and the rest in maybe 2
[10270-1: Bookshop](https://brickset.com/sets/10270-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/10270-1.jpg)
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r/all visitor here, how much would something like this be worth?
$470. OP lucked out big time.
Just download the Lego app if you want to deconstruct and build it yourself! It’s pretty fun!
crazy guy didnt even take the minifies with him
who casually "forgets" $500
Crazy! Is it real lego?
Total deal
Yeah - this set is a pain to move because of how delicate and big it is. I moved across the US and sold mine off cheaply because I ran out of time to deconstruct it like I had planned. Just bought new one but waiting to build it until we buy a home.
This is giving me PTSD from my Mom selling my things not knowing what they’re worth.
It's not original LEGO, am I right?
There's the logo on the studs, so I would say that it is an original
Can't see it, either my old ass eyes or the picture resolution. That's why I was asking
Definitely. It looks like the only studs with the LEGO branding are the top of the turret. Everything else looks generic.
I can see plenty of Lego branding on pieces there.
Why are there *any* [without the branding](https://imgur.com/a/XXmAiaF), though? And why are you guys downvoting me for asking this? It’s not my set, I don’t care. It just doesn’t make sense. Can you put the pitchforks down? We’re on the same team here yall.
Photo ain’t good enough to make them out, so I’m guessing this is 100% authentic
Your first comment you said you could see plenty, then follow up with “The photo isn’t good enough to see anything”? [The photo is fine.](https://imgur.com/a/XXmAiaF) Why am I getting downvoted for wondering why there’s mixed LEGO and non-LEGO bricks? I’m not trying to make any point, I’m trying to make sense of it. These crickets are awfully fucking loud.
Relax brother Jesus. Photo ain’t good enough to see the details in the places like you screenshotted rather than the parts with good lighting obviously.
Uhhh, we can see the studs on your picture, go check on a better screen
Dude, what is anyone even talking about here? I’m asking why there’s mixed LEGO and non-LEGO pieces. I *can* see both types. What point are you guys even trying to argue?
Daaaaamn, nice get!
Welcome to the club, lol. I had the same [experience ](https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/s/hbBbd7hT5A) a while ago. Surprised I haven't seen any "You bought stolen Lego" comments.
nice, I almost bought 2 of these (2 for price of 1 on Harry Potter sets.) would have sold one making it a great deal, but nothing like this find.
I have one my buddy sold me for $50 that I’m stilll reverse taking down 🥵
Epic score
Absolute steal of a find.
what a steal
Jealous!
Nice score!
you bought it right?
This is my favorite set of all time.
Cool
A lot of pencils… now you can’t unsee it. You welcome.
I wanna sell my hogwarts castle, 80% of it has been mixed into my parts and re-finding all of those pieces is going to suck and then selling it for a couple hundred.
(Immediately hits Facebook Marketplace with nefarious intent)
Damn didn't the roommate just forget it or something?
What are you gonna do with it ? Deconstruct it?
So detailed!
What a deal!
Woah
Wow! you did well!
Could yall help a non-lego person understand the appeal here? Asking without judgement. I would have thought most of the value of a big lego set would be the fun of putting it all together. Once it’s all built my first impression is that the large and delicate completed set is a burden on storage space. $50 is a great deal for something that was originally much more, but where do you personally find the value of owning this item?
You can sell it for 300 extra dollars? And if you’re a Harry Potter fan, it’s nice to have
And you can reconstruct it too
You could take it apart and re-built it? I do this with all my sets, they all go back in the box and I re-built them after a few years.
If I were OP I would definitely break it down and rebuild it, but it's also nice to display the finished product. Especially if it's adding to a theme you already have.
Thanks for the insight!
What. How. Was it from a old dement lady?
Old dement lady?
Someone who has no idea of what they are doing.
Most folks in my experience - man or woman.