Not sure how long this will last for. Works out at $115 delivered within 2 weeks.
Items: GBP 56.04 (87.67AUD)
Postage & Packing: GBP 19.30 (30.18AUD)
Lego City 7938 Passenger Train $117 Delivered Amazon UK
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rockpeblar on 17/10/2012 - 15:35 amazon.co.uk (831 clicks)
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The site has exchange rate 1.6261362802? Doesn't it comes to ~122 ? I used 28deg to check.
The exchange rate is what Google has calculated. Sites may vary ie. (PayPal) does not give the full currency rate.
These actually have more reliable arrival/departure times than Metlink.
The Chinese company, Enlighten, has produced compatible track that sells for approx 1/3rd the price of lego brand name. The cheapest I found was on Aliexpress (search for enlighten train).
It is of a good quality, almost equal to Lego, with the same designs, except in brown instead of grey.Interesting, all the knock off lego I've seen in the past has been really poor quality but I guess they've stepped it up
Hasbro make knock off lego pieces under the Kree-o line and they are very high quality.
We bought some sets during Targets great big toy sale and you can hardly tell the difference if it weren't for a notch that they purposely put into each piece.
So are the enlighten stuff compatible with Lego (ie the bricks, etc work together)?
The track is 100% compatible.
The other sets vary slightly. They have some custom pieces that lego don't make, but it all fits pretty well.
The plastic is about 99.5% the same. It has the same feel but slightly different glossiness. The 'clutch' (how well the pieces grip) is very lego-like. The colours are not an exact match.
Note this is based on half a dozen boxes of track and 3 or 4 little single vehicle etc. kits my kids got from a market in Asia. One the whole, I am happy to toss the pieces in with the big box of lego, something I would never do with mega-blocks or the free soft building blocks McDonalds sometimes gives away with happy meals.
how much are these normally?
quick google search shows up to be around $145.00 without P/H althought Amazon US have it for $125 w/o p/h
I think the one from Germany is about $140 delivered and the last time I looked at this set in the UK it was about $140 delivered as well.
About $200 in Myer, $155 on eBay.AU
I have never bought off amazon
How do you guys estimate shipping cost?
Where is the calculator?
How did you calculate GBP 19.30?
Cheers
Proceed to checkout. On the right upper-hand side there Postage Amount in GBP.
This will be shown also with the item cost.
does it get delivered by train?
Call me old fashioned, but I don't see how $117 for a Lego train is a bargain?
Shrug. I wouldn't pay the extra for an SS v8, but it is about 40% off the RRP in Australia, and these sets are rarely discounted.
To the contrary, as a little kid in the 90s I wanted a Lego Train set very badly but they were very expensive (around the $300+ mark), had to make do with Tomy trains (which weren't bad, but as a hardcore brainwashed Lego fanatic from birth, it wasn't the same).
One day I will get one of these…
FYI Lego is often restricted for delivery… not sure if anyone has actually purchased this, but I know from previous checking that everytime I have tried to ship to Aust they decline (US, UK & Fr version of Amazon). I recently had to send a Star Wars kit to distant relatives in the States, to then be forwarded on to me in Aust.
I received two of these sets last week as part of a larger order from Amazon UK.
most of the amazon sites I see have now got the "AmazonGlobal Eligible" option on the left pane.
Click on that and you'll see what can be shipped here.
That was quick, my order arrived today!
Looks pretty good, although the track looks pretty miniscule!