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Buying loose bricks in Germany? @nickie postage for bricklink or brickowl should be very close to the actual costs. Therefore the first thing you do is look for sellers in your home country :).@kevin_hyatt Yes, it's terrible value and a fantastic selection. If there's something there you really want and would have trouble finding in quantity elsewhere then it's worth it but a car boot full of bricks is going to cost more than your tickets. I feel like we just bought a handful of translucent purple starfish because we could. There were a few other pieces but I don't remember what. The build a minifig was 5 for 10€ and had a great selection though, my daughter had a lot of fun with that. We bought our 48x48 blue baseplate there, I kind of wish we'd bought more. Thanks @Jenni , the bam sounds like good value at 5 for 10€.After talking with someone who did it before am now looking at doing the triple of Windsor, Billund and Gunzberg in one holiday! @Kevin_Hyatt We did Billund and Gunzberg in one trip staying at the hotel in Billund and a cabin in Gunzberg.
It was fun but my daughter, 10 at the time, was kind of done with LEGOland by the end. Fortunately she's recovered now :) I've heard that you are limited to 100g of any one element. I could easily buy 100kg if it were unlimited :) @DadsAFOL I don't remember any signs to that effect but don't think I bought more than 100g of anything. Most people just dump stuff in altogether so I don't see how they could possibly enforce that. Also at 9 euros per 100g what element could they not be making a ridiculous amount of money on? I love that LL Fabrik attraction which is more akin to a warehouse than the PAB wall in your LEGO store. We were asked to use separate bags in the LL Fabrik attraction last weekend to help staff monitor the 100g per element per day rule (not sure that it applies to the more basic pieces). It does help to maintain stock levels somewhat. Lots of useful plates, tiles, plant pieces etc. in rarer colours. If you get a Merlin premium pass you'll get a voucher booklet that will allow a one time 20% discount on the price - otherwise its 10% with the card.
Useful place to pick up rarer 32x32 brown and grey and 48x48blue baseplates. The discount tent's loose bricks were priced at 9euro per bag which the sign said could take up to 500g. Lots of unprinted Chima wolf heads on top of lots of smaller pieces of various colours. @Jenni way to go seeing more than one LL park on a trip to the EU!! I combined Billund and Windsor with a few days general sightseeing between them, and it worked well. With round trip flights to Europe now priced between 1000 and 1500usd, it is a great way to see more for less. Except for a few rare parts, bricklink seems to be more cost effective than all the LL parks for buying parts in the US. But the parks surely are a helluva lot of fun! @legogal Thanks, but I was actually living in France at the time, we drove on that trip. The year before we visited Windsor, three Brickset friends and four LEGO stores in about a week :). I miss being close enough to hop on a plane to go see friends at STEAM for the weekend, but I'm glad to be back in a town with a LEGO store.
In my defense though, the year before we moved there my daughter and I spent 4 days in England attending a Brickset picnic (right off the plane) and visiting @legonut80 (by train) before moving on to check out France. Hence my reputation for insanity in certain circles (and legonut80's for letting us stay with her).Most of my loose bricks come from the PAB wall. That is kind of funny to hear. About the wasps I mean. Not the fact, that your daughter was stung by one of course, but that there were so many in the first place. Because when we were there in August a couple of years ago, our daughter was also stung by one while waiting at the 4-D cinema and I also felt there were enormous amounts of wasps everywhere.This year we went in October and thankfully there were hardly any wasps (thanks to the cold temperatures and rainy weather). And by the way, concerning the shopping experience, one has to remember that LL is not owned by Lego any longer and therefor can't really be compared with the Lego stores elsewhere.