The adult LEGO Concorde, with 2000 pieces, is coming next month

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• MT says:

  13 Aug13 August 06:33

  Well I know what will be top of my Christmas list this year! To this day I still miss Concorde, by far the best way to avoid jet lag, equally however very easy to turn up to NYC at 10am quite tipsy!

  • James says:

    13 Aug13 August 10:38

    It was fabulous.

  • Andrew J says:

    13 Aug13 August 11:36

    You can turn up at JFK at 11am quite tipsy off the BA117.

    • MT says:

      13 Aug13 August 11:42

      11am is nearly lunchtime, you could get a late breakfast in NYC in the old days of BA001

• Nick says:

  13 Aug13 August 06:39

  Luckily no massive oil price risescurrenlty to scupper Lego sales, which I’m sure will be for over 10 models. Will Hesseltine be promoting it?

• can2 says:

  13 Aug13 August 06:57

  That is a first for HfP!

  • No longer Entitled says:

    13 Aug13 August 07:57

    Long time readers will recognise a link between HfP and Lego. It used to be very lucrative in the good old days.

    • JDB says:

      13 Aug13 August 08:55

      It’s not just the good old days – some of those Tesco Clubcard Lego sets have become very valuable if you hung onto them. Some £47.99 sets upwards of £1500.

  • Rob says:

    13 Aug13 August 08:24

    There are 107 articles on the site which meantion LEGO in some way!

    • Gordon says:

      13 Aug13 August 08:41

      Just like you would do with Lego Rob, Disassemble the word “Meanton” and reassemble it to read “Mention” 😊

    • Can2 says:

      13 Aug13 August 13:12

      Correction: that’s a 107th for HfP!

• Bagoly says:

  13 Aug13 August 07:34

  I have always thought the point of Lego, and similar products, was to create one’s own things (and then break them down and create something new). Yes, curved pieces as well as rectangular ones, offer more scope for imagination.
  But I can’t see why one would want to have what are effectively single-use elements just creating someone else’s idea.

  • AJA says:

    13 Aug13 August 07:50

    That’s exactly what I did. I had the basic blocks and built all sort of things though added to the set I had with sloping tiles and doors and windows which I then used to create model houses. I also created a 747 but it was a pixilated version. I wish I’d taken a photo of it.

    That said they have a lot of specific models – effectively a 3D puzzle, which is what this is.

    But there’s nothing stopping you doing the same with the specific set and creating something different. I’m assuming the pieces are interchangeable with all the other Lego blocks?

    • No longer Entitled says:

      13 Aug13 August 07:59

      It’s only a 3D puzzle if you throw away the instructions. More of an airfix equivalent without the painting. I loved airfix as a kid and can see the appeal.

      • Luma says:

        13 Aug13 August 11:59

        Bought a few Lego sets during lockdown and they’re great, if expensive. Love it when you’ve but a few anonymous pieces together and you suddenly realised what it’s meant to represent. The statue of liberty is my favourite if anyone wants a recommendation

  • AndyQ8 says:

    14 Aug14 August 22:59

    Check out the LEGO Ideas website, which has some amazing creations that people have made themselves. The best ones that get enough votes, are put in front of a panel at LEGO and the top few are selected to be developed into sets for sale. Amazing talent on there.

• HH says:

  13 Aug13 August 08:01

  If you ever land at Washington Dulles Airport, a mere 5 minute drive away is the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, with its own Concorde, Lockheed SR-71, a number of Boeing jets including the Enola Gay, the space shuttle Discovery and other historic jets. Easily one of the impressive collections I’ve ever seen, and free admission too.

  • HH says:

    13 Aug13 August 08:10

    Last summer I flew in to IAD at night, so it worked out great to spend the night 10 mins away at the Westfields Marriott (no connection to Westfield malls!), visit the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in the morning, then head into DC to check in to the Conrad for the rest of my trip.

    • Doommonger says:

      13 Aug13 August 14:50

      Hazy fantayzee!

  • Jimmy says:

    13 Aug13 August 12:08

    I visited a few months back and loved it. Seeing the shuttle up close was amazing.

  • Anna says:

    13 Aug13 August 22:40

    This was one of the highlights of our 2018 trip, we spent a full day there!

• Gordon says:

  13 Aug13 August 08:10

  It would have been poignant if the Lego group had delayed this for a couple of months and released this set on 24 October, to coincide with Concordes retirement on 24th October 2003…

  • Alan Vickers says:

    13 Aug13 August 08:19

    Even better would have been to release the set on the 26th November, which would have coincided with the 20th anniversary of the very last flight into Filton.

    • Gordon says:

      13 Aug13 August 08:31

      Yes, I had a option of either, but thought the retirement was fitting 😊

    • The Original David says:

      13 Aug13 August 08:38

      I assume you don’t work in retail – releasing something at the end of November will already have missed over half of the “peak” period where everyone makes their money for the year.

      • Alan Vickers says:

        13 Aug13 August 09:21

        “Work in retail” !!! Certainly not David, dealing with the general public is not my idea of fun 🙂

        • The Original David says:

          13 Aug13 August 20:29

          Plenty of lucrative jobs in management without going anywhere near the general public… 😉

      • AndyQ8 says:

        14 Aug14 August 23:01

        Releasing an exclusive new product for Black Friday isn’t such a crazy idea though, which is Friday 24th November this year.

        • Rob says:

          14 Aug14 August 23:17

          For context, in the book industry the majority of the titles aimed at the Christmas gift market are released on the same day – second Thursday in October.

    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

      13 Aug13 August 10:33

      The vast majority of people buying this kit care not one jot about dates of first or last flights or how poignant it might be to release them for sale on certain significant dates of which there are numerous when it comes to Concorde.

      • Gordon says:

        13 Aug13 August 11:24

        As you are so clever that you can see into the future, and also read people’s minds, would you mind looking into your crystal ball and see how many units will be sold so I can evaluate if I should buy one when they are released (Due to unprecedented demand) or wait and buy one at a discounted rate (Due to a glut of unsold stock!)

        • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

          13 Aug13 August 13:24

          That comes across as more than a little snide.

          The selling of these kits isn’t date dependent as it’s really not relevant. My Lego buying friends will be buying it because it’s a new Lego kit not because they are fans of Concorde. And that’s the market Lego are going for – the Lego collector.

          A few years ago they released a “starry night” kit. They bought it because it was Lego not because they were fans of Van Gogh.

          It’s not like a first day cover or a release of a specific memento such as a piece of the fuselage in a frame and certificate to mark a particular event when the date is very relevant to those that collect them.

        • Gordon says:

          13 Aug13 August 14:22

          Atm I see approximately 16 comments on here relating to Concorde and not Lego. Many have fond memories of this aircraft as do I and a great many of my friends and colleagues. So 16 comments out of around 46 relating to Lego is 35%, I don’t see that as a minority of people that don’t care about dates relating to this aircraft or have fond memories of it, that would ultimately make someones decision to purchase a kit.

          So I think I was just in posting my reply irrelevant if you thought it was snide or not!

• Andrew. says:

  13 Aug13 August 09:32

  I’ll need to carefully work out my buying strategy here.

  Wonder how limited the edition will be. I’d be gutted to pay over £150 for it only to find it turns up in B&M heavily discounted as clearance stock 6 months later.

  • Qrfan says:

    13 Aug13 August 09:46

    The Lego space shuttle is in the same range, same price and doesn’t seem to be discounted? I’ve never seen the giant star wars models steeply discounted either, though Amazon seems to have the Titanic at half price (albeit still way more than this).

    • Carlos Castro says:

      13 Aug13 August 11:44

      Amazon UK?

    • Alex W says:

      13 Aug13 August 12:00

      Nearly all Lego sets get discounted at some point in their lifetime, at one retailer or another. Lego sets have their own ‘retirement’, best time to buy if investing is just before retirement, but beware they can get extended. If you buy a set too early you might be tying up your capital for a significant length of time.

  • Travel Strong says:

    13 Aug13 August 10:07

    The real discount comes with the release of the aliexpress version

• Jet says:

  13 Aug13 August 09:45

  Do we have a hfp discount code for this one?

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