Horray for the minifigs!Author: jawapro
Date: Thu 27/05/2010 11:56 AM
Been waiting for these guys.
Got a phone call from Toyworld yesterday morning to say they were finally in stock, and would hold them out the back until I came in and had first dibs (nice people at Toyworld).
For those who don't know - these minifigs are what Lego calls 'collectable minifigs'. They come in sealed packets and you don't know which ones you'll get.
Well - I don't like the sound of that - so I found the list of barcodes on the net. Each fig has 2 barcodes - one is the barcode for 'collectable minifig' and is the same on all of them. The second barcode is unique and does not have a number, just the barcode. This means it's jolly hard to tell them apart.
That's where my secret weapon comes in - a barcode scanner!
So I rocked over to Toyworld armed with a barcode scanner and a list of barcodes from the net ready to start hunting through the box until I had one of everything - but I hadn't counted on Richie...
One of the new blokes from work, Richie, is also into Lego and decided to come along. That was fine - but what I didn't expect was that he'd decide to buy the entire box! That's 60 minifigs!
He talked them into a decent discount, and said he'd sell me a set at the discounted rate. So with an entire box to search through at our leisure, we headed back over the river.
The scanner worked perfectly - so we proceeded to label every single packet in the box with it's contents. We had 3 full sets (1 for me, 1 for Richie, and a spare) plus a heap of extras.
So my advice? If you're going to try and collect the entire set, take a barcode scanner if you can - and better yet, take a Richie!
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