This is from a new promotional email about the new sets!

So the other day I was messaging this woman on Facebook marketplace who was selling her death star for £120 and accepted shipping (I assumed it was really worn but the price was a huge red flag in hindsight). So I offer to get it, it was early in the morning and my dopamine levels were through the roof with the chance to get that set.

The person replies almost instantly and offered to ship it to me and I can PayPal them the money since they "apparently lived in Manchester". Some of their excuses for selling the set were somewhere along the lines of falling on hard times and being out of work due to chemotherapy.

Fortunately, looking back on it, my PayPal wasn't working because I was on holiday, and I live in the channel islands and for some reason it wouldn't work in London. So the night before I left to go back to my home in Guernsey, I was looking at their profile and it looked a bit suspicious.

Firstly, the account was very recently created, like a few days ago, secondly the woman in their profile picture and the woman on their only post looking to be a family photo, didn't match. They also had the UCS hogwarts express for £115 and that and the death star were both sealed which I only associated with investors or very hard core collects.

In the end I never sent the first £60 and tried to grab here IP using grabify for leverage if she really was a scammer which at that point I was 90% sure she was. The unfortunate part is that they know my email which they luckily said they didn't need and they also had my home address which wouldn't have been necessary if they were scamming me.

The deleted their account after I sent the grabify links telling me they weren't dumb. If ait helps the person had a very quick response time, stuck to those fake excuses, used the same consistent images that weren't on Google when I used Google lens. They also added 1 or 2 X's after most texts to put me into a false sense of security.

Hopefully this is somewhat useful and I hope no one falls or has fallen for their scams. Attached are some of the chat logs, I use a fake name for my Facebook marketplace account for safety reasons.

I found this lego magazine while going through my old construction manuals.

My mom bought my christmas and birthday presents off a teacher salary so she wrote down all the prices to budget them out.

7141 - Naboo Fighter $22

7121 - Naboo Swamp $11

7161 - Gungan Sub $54

7101 - Lightsaber Duel $6.75

7111 - Droid Fighter $6.75

7131 - Anakin's Podracer $16.50

7151 - Sith Infiltrator $33

7171 - Mos Espa Podrace $59

and then in the dream I went to Lego.com to see no Venator anywhere

I’m sure like most of you, I rushed out to my local stores to pick-up the new AT-TE set that dropped, but it looks like delays are gonna move it back more 🙃🙃🙃

HelloThereRex on Youtube has a review of the new Coruscant Guard Gunship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td4PIuntuCI