World Record Bricks

 Hello everyone, and welcome back to World Record Bricks! Here are my hauls for the week of October 10, 2022. Part I: BrickLink and eBay My BrickLink order for the week was from Bionicle's less profitable successor, Hero Factory. Now, I did not get into the constraction themes until later in Bionicle Gen 1's lifetime, so I ended up with a lot more Hero Factory sets than Bionicle ones. However, there were a few sets from 2010's initial wave I did not get, including 7157-1 Thunder and 7162-1 Rotor, both villain characters in the 2010 storyline. Now, sealed Hero Factory sets are extremely hard to come by these days, so, while I managed to find Thunder on BrickLink for $50 with a dented box, I had to resort to eBay to purchase Rotor, which cost $75. Part II: LEGO.com Next, I also placed an order on LEGO.com, which took longer to ship due to The LEGO Group receiving a lot of orders. This consisted of sets likely or confirmed to retire in 2022, including the following: 31108-1 Ca...

 Hello and welcome back to World Record Bricks! Firstly, I would like to apologize for the lack of posts, which I will be making up for retroactively, by making posts for each skipped week's haul. Part I: BrickLink and LEGO.com (Previous Week) In the last post, I mentioned I had two more BrickLink orders arriving soon, plus the second shipment of my LEGO.com order. This consisted of 75319-1 Mandalorian Forge from LEGO.com, and 60222-1 Snow Groomer and 31086-1 Futuristic Flyer from BrickLink. The latter two sets cost $23.00 and $14.99, respectively. .  My Remaining Sets from the week Beginning Sept. 26th. Part II: Barnes and Noble On Friday, September 30, I went to Barnes and Noble to buy the last of the Retired sets I planned to get there, 60306-1 Shopping Street, which cost $79.99 and retired at the end of 2021. Part III: BrickLink That same day, I ordered three sets from BrickLink. They were 40273-1 Thanksgiving Turkey, 31074-1 Rocket Rally Car, and 60242-1 Police Highway Ar...

 Hello, and welcome back to World Record Bricks! Today I wanted to share some of my recent hauls since the first post. On Friday September 23rd, I went to my local Barnes and Noble. Now, as Barnes and Noble is primarily a bookstore, their LEGO section is often overlooked. But about a month ago, I noticed when I was there that they had a bunch of sets that had retired either at the end of 2021 or, less commonly, 2020. So, I gradually began buying one of each of those retired sets. My most recent trip, I spent a subtotal of $80 (Combined MSRP), on two City Sets that Retired last year (2021), 60264-1 and 60290-1 , which, despite the fact that they were technically  slightly cheaper on BrickLink, I would have had to pay shipping in that case, so the cost evens out.  Speaking of BrickLink, I also received a BrickLink order last Saturday, September 24th, containing set 42031-1 Cherry Picker , a Technic set from 2015. This was one of the sets on the first of my two "Priority Li...

Hello, and welcome to World Record Bricks, a new LEGO(R) themed blog by Jarod Reichel aka MCAdventureCity. But what is the purpose of this new blog? World Record Bricks is my goal to chronicle my journey towards growing what I hope to eventually be the world record for the largest LEGO(R) set collection. The current Guinness World Record belongs to Vitalii Solovev of Minsk, Belarus, with a verified total of 5,416 sets as of May 25, 2021. I, however, am currently at a collection of 457 unique sets, according to collection management site Brickset.com. Therefore, I have a long ways to go, so welcome to the journey! On this blog, I will post pictures of my set hauls and finds, among other collection-related topics such as organization, hopefully around two or three times a week. See you soon, Jarod