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There are cheaper 8293 offers from BrickLink, although none from the UK, so there may well be pain and extra cost involved in ordering them from abroad:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?S=8293-1#T=S&O={%22iconly%22:0}
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Ah, snap. Hope she enjoys it!
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I'm sure I'll enjoy, even if she doesn't...
Maybe won't make it part of actual birthday presents and introduce it at another point.
What I should actually be buying her is numerous base plates so the floors in her elaborate houses aren't made up of a patchwork of smaller bits, but that's far less fun to shop for.
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She would absolutely love Diagon Alley, but it's definitely way beyond her birthday budget. Will probably go for Hogwarts great hall as she has the Clocktower and loved building that. Unfortunately it's hard for me to get a look-in as generally I'm busy keeping her very manic 4 year old sister away while she's building anything.
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Her houses are great!
I know what you mean with baseplates, but has she actually complained about having to make a patchwork? Trying to streamline this sounds to me like a bit of an adult perspective. Also, the issue with baseplates is, of course, that they're floppy. I'm sure it's difficult to impossible to carry patchwork base houses around, but with base plates, you can easily ruin what's on them because you think they make things easy to carry, and while they probably make it easi-er, you can inadvertently destroy something by being too confident about the baseplate, e.g. walls fracturing.
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That's an older one - they've got bigger and more elaborate now.
She has complained a bit, mostly because she's so keen to get on with the interior decor she neglects the internal structure and then they collapse when she puts weight on them. I suppose rather than baseplates I actually mean a bunch of the bigger rectangle pieces, just so she's not trying to stick together lots of 2x4 pieces into an entire floor.
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Can wishlists be shared? If you come across 1 x Dark Red or 1 x Medium Azure let me know (although not sure how you would know) I can also raid my daughters lego boxes to see.
Right, sorry about the delay, I've only just got round to having a look. It turns out I have one of each. Let me know if you want them.
Of your earlier list ...
112 Dark Pink, 57 Earth Orange, 30 Light Purples
.. I think I have none in dark pink or earth orange (only a couple of round 2x2s in earth orange), but six in light purple, hooray. (That is, if I've identified the colours correctly, I should perhaps have considered that it's a lot easier in daylight ...) Confusingly, Brickset calls what I would call 'brown' 'earth orange' and BrickLink's earth orange 'dark orange', whereas BrickLink calls 'earth orange' what I would expect it to be.
I mean, just look at the number of colours in the category 'orange-brown'--27!
https://brickset.com/colours/family-Orange-brown
Bring back six-colour LEGO. :)
Anyway, PM me if you want me to put those two in an envelope, although I imagine you may have found them somewhere else by now.
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Ha, even more elaborate! Amazing.
she's so keen to get on with the interior decor she neglects the internal structure and then they collapse when she puts weight on them.
Bless. It's called 'learning', of course. :)
Baseplates are one of those issues that LEGO has still not quite got around to solving. In recent years, they've gone for the 2/3rds-thick plates in various versions, e.g. the ones with overlapping strips that your daughter has a few of in the house above:
https://brickset.com/parts/design-15624
https://brickset.com/parts/design-18922Most recently, they've come up with the 'road plates':
https://brickset.com/parts/design-69958
https://brickset.com/parts/design-73675The 2/3rds-thick ones are stable but not made in any sizes as good as base plate sizes. Then there are the 16x16 plates and 8x16 plates that have been in quite a few sets:
https://brickset.com/parts/6004927/plate-16x16
https://brickset.com/parts/4654613/plate-8x16
The 16x16 plates are reinforced beneath compared to normal plates, to make them sturdier, and as bases I think are currently the best option.
I'm not too sure I like the approach of making bases from the 2/3rds-thick plates too much. I'd definitely use them inside a build to make it sturdier, but for the outside, I'm not sure. In the case of city layouts (of which I'm not planning to build one, incidentally), it leads to the situation that the carriageway of a street is higher up than older baseplates or 1/3rd thick plates. OK, with traditional city baseplates, footway/built-up lot and carriageway were the same height apart from the studs on the footway/built-up lot parts, but you could build up the footway to be higher more easily. Now you'd probably need at least a full brick height layer or 4/3rds layers to create a footway.
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Thank you - I'm so out of touch with modern lego. Though am rapidly learning.
I feel like maybe I should just get her the lego equivalent of celiing beams and a load of long planks and encourage her to build them up properly. Got her to watch a youtube video on lego and architecture yesterday and she's now saying she wants to be an architect.
After getting slightly carried away on ebay she's got two harry potter lego sets and the car with motors coming for her birthday, so this will probably keep her busy for a while. Plus I have an extra Harry Potter Great hall I need to resell having accidentally bought two. -
Ah, sorry I was too slow. Those prices are horrendous! For 2x2s, honestly.
If the LEGO shops reopen on the 12th April, I'll have a look if there's something in the Brick Wall. Long shot and probably too late, but if you still haven't found anything by then, there's a small possibility to gun for. :)
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Ah - makes sense that you'd get them as part of a kit instead and that's why I was doing badly with searching.
Only problem is it's a bit too 'boyish' and suspect that will put her off. Doesn't need to be bright pink or anything, but she mainly likes building elaborate Lego houses and would want motors to add moving bits to them.
Already had some problems when lego club at school was full of boys and that discouraged her, though lots of lockdown Lego building has done a lot to counteract that.
That said I've just made a lowball offer on a used remote control racer on ebay... mostly because I want to play around with it.
There's a big box of 30ish year old technical lego at my parent's house I'm going to retrieve for her at the right moment, but want to work it in more slowly so as not to overwhelm her.