Vladek Dark Fortress Extras!

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Vladek Dark Fortress Extras!

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Gave in and snagged a second VDF today (30% off at Target). Imagine my surprise when I finished building it up and found a bunch of extra pieces. Somehow I must have gotten an extra baggie of stuff.

The highlights of the extras included:

3 Speckled Armors
3 Speckled Helmets
3 Speckled Axes
1 of each of the rainbow knight armor and helmets (no face plates though)
1 extra set of Vladek Armor and Shield
2 Striped Shields
1 brown disk
Plus a bunch of other assorted stuff

All in all a pretty nice surprise, :D

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SWEET!!!!! :D :D

I wish I had gone to Target... :evil: I'm not too sad your's didn't come with more rainbow armor, but the Elite Shadow Knight stuff is cool.
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Wow! That is cool. Definitely run back and see if you can get another one. When I got that mismolded mast in the little Viking boat set, I went back and bought another one. It too was a mismold, so maybe you will get lucky!

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Cool, lucky you. Did it come with any extra wall pieces? I don't mean to hijack the thread, but:

A similar thing happened to me (though on a much smaller scale). In my Fenris Wolf set, there were two of the bag that had the droid arms, axe head/shaft, pnuematic T's, and helmet, among other things. Too bad mine didn't come with two of both bag :wink:.

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That is awesome, my sets never come with any extras, (except for small parts), and I just got 4 Viking sets. :?
Maybe LEGO should just start putting extra bags in all their sets! That would also increase their popularity as well as us AFOLs (and TFOLs) getting lots of extra parts!!! :D :wink:
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Man, that's just plain cool. :)
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I picked up the second one today. No extra pieces... :(

Anyone want to buy/trade a couple of sets of rainbow knights? :roll:

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Post by Anubisconq »

Athos- Who would want to buy or trade for a Rainbow Knight!?! Nobody seems to like them, so you should use them as knights failing to takeover the fortress. If someone wants them I'd be surprised...
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Post by LEGOFREAK »

Anubiscong: I think the rolling eyeballs means that he knows that and accepts it..

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Seems like I almost always end up with a few extra pieces, mostly 1*1 round plates and the like. :D I've never had a complete extra bag though.. sounds like cool surprise though! 'specially to get the speckled armor!
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I also always get extras,doesn`t everybody?
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ZIGGY! wrote:I also always get extras,doesn`t everybody?
Yes, everybody gets a few extra pieces in every set (AFAIK), but it's rare that you get an entire duplicate bag. LEGO usually puts in a few extra small parts in case some get lost (at least, that's my reason why they do it). Unless, do you get a duplicate bag in every set?

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No I meant the one or two peices,and my reason for them is the same as yours,thats why they only give very small peices.
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Post by plucky »

Not to raise an old thread but:

1) There are always 'extra' pieces of certain parts. For example, 1x1 rounds - there will always be 1 extra of each color.

2) I found this post because I just picked up an 8877 for 50% at Target last night, and after building it today, I also had an extra of the 'little bag #1'! Woot! I was wondering if this had happened to anyone else, or if some AFOL who hates the jellybean knights stuffed it in some box hoping someone else would like it :)

The inventory in my bag was slightly different, which is strange though...

3 speckled armor
3 speckled hemlets
1 each of Purple, lt. blue, green, and Vladek dk. red armor (no 'Bear' red)
1 dk red helmet, 1 dk. green helmet (no visors)
2 Striped octagonal shields
1 Vladek scoprion shield

and for the random pieces:
3 speckled axes
5 black spears
1 3x3 inverted round dish, brown
4 2x2 round plates lt. blue
2 Slope Brick 33 3 x 1 royal blue
5 Plate 1 x 2 with Arm black
2 1 x 4 paltes black
1 Technic Brick 1 x 2 with Holes md. stone
1 Plate 2 x 2 Corner dk. stone
1 black Technic Angle Connector #2
2 Slope Brick 45 2 x 1 md. stone
1 Plate 2 x 2 with Towball black
1 Plate 1 x 4 with Towball Socket Short, 4 Slots, md. stone

Since I picked up the set mostly because I hadn't really bought any KKII sets and wanted some accessories, this was extra cool! Too bad there aren't more, so I could hope to get them at 75% off!

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Post by LewsTherin »

I Got the same extra bag as you Athos it was pretty cool when i realized i got an extra :)
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I think that I am going to have to make a trip to my local Target, ad hope I get lucky like you three.

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