Lego announces Roller Coaster set

"Shut up and take my money!"

Just added it to the wish list of my Lego account. And set a calendar alarm on my phone for June 1st. They'll likely sell very fast to collectors and scalpers.

My son and I are in the beginning steps of rebuilding all of the sets that are currently in buckets. And it's a lot.

I'm very Lord Business about my Lego sets. They all return to the box in numbered bags when it's time to put them away. They're a lot easier to build when you go back to them, especially the big sets with 4k+ pieces.

I was always Lord Business with my sets, too. My 11 year old son, on the other hand, has multiple sets that he's built, rarely ever takes them apart once built, and the floor in his room is covered with completed sets, half-disassembled sets that he accidentally dropped or kicked over, and an abundance of loose pieces, the corners of which always find the bottom of my bare feet every time I walk through the door.

Jeff said:

I'm very Lord Business about my Lego sets. They all return to the box in numbered bags when it's time to put them away. They're a lot easier to build when you go back to them, especially the big sets with 4k+ pieces.

Yeah, "Yours" maybe, but your kids'? Hahahaha. I know all kids are different, but our son would build them, play with them "stock" for a while, but then they underwent all sorts of modifications. Now that he's 15, the more serious sets, like the VW's, the Millennium Falcon, etc, are on display, but the more playset type ones are all mixed in a bucket.

I'm just glad we thought far enough in advance to keep the instruction books.

My ultimate goal is to turn it all into some kind of model train set using Lego trains and track.

I just ordered the Ferris Wheel and Carousel as well, because they'll be out of stock soon and we already missed out on the Scrambler, which, IMO, is the coolest one of them all.

Honestly, I like the Ferris wheel better than the Scrambler. The wheel has a certain elegance and simplicity to it in terms of its "engineering." Also, the skeleton arms for the Scrambler lap bars break easily.

Only going by pictures, but I just think the idea that you can display the Scrambler in either ride mode, or folded up on the truck is pretty cool.

I signed up for the VIP club, so hopefully can buy the Roller Coaster on May 16th!

Look what arrived today!

Sweet! You got a blue question mark!

I want that small, empty, square box.

(To be fair, I’m overdue for an update)

It's the Lego Coaster. The Lego Coaster came yesterday. I don't know, it shows up on my computer.

I hate to say it, but it's kinda boring and repetitive to start out with. I mean, we knew it would be just looking at the pictures. You're pretty much just building supports over and over again.

We're about 1/4 of the way through, if that, but it's starting to take shape and we can't wait until it's built.

Mine came yesterday as well, but I'm not home yet to build it.

We did the first of the 2 books today, or the "right half" of the coaster if looking at the picture on the box. It's a big project for sure. The mechanics of the tire system installed along the top portion of the track, before the drop, is pretty neat. Not sure if we'll get it finished in the next 2 days before I leave for work for 5 days, but I'm sure our son will have it done when I get back.

It got a little more exciting once we started building the sign, the tire drive system, etc. I think the 2nd half will be more fun since it's more about building the trains, station, motor, etc, and not as much just building support after support after support.

Vater said:

I was always Lord Business with my sets, too. My 11 year old son, on the other hand, has multiple sets that he's built, rarely ever takes them apart once built, and the floor in his room is covered with completed sets, half-disassembled sets that he accidentally dropped or kicked over, and an abundance of loose pieces, the corners of which always find the bottom of my bare feet every time I walk through the door.

Your 11 year old sounds like my 9 year old. He has a lot of minecraft sets put together. However, his are not on the floor, but we have a sofa table dedicated to all of his sets. He gets any more and they'll have to go in the floor.

This set looks really cool for sure.

This guy is one serious collector and builder:

^Dude spent over a thousand dollars on legos in a week and he's got his eight year old kid in the video. Coulda gone into his college fund, just sayin''.

Why do you assume to know anything about the kid's college fund or the income of the father?

We finished our coaster set tonight! It's a lot of fun turning the crank and running it through the course. The gear system is really neat. And if you connect the 2 trains to make a 5 car train it looks even cooler

This guys collection is what I want ours to look like once we finish putting our sons old set back together.

I've still got bags 10 and 11 to go, but yeah, the station mechanics are pretty cool. I've got a motor to plug in to the lift, but I'm a little disappointed it doesn't also power the station advance, given the neat kicker wheel engagement mechanism.

Jeff said:

Why do you assume to know anything about the kid's college fund or the income of the father?

Because grown adults with families and children don't get to fritter away money like that. And I'm jealous of the ones that do.