Must. Resist. Temptation.

Initially I thought the TOYS20 discount code only applied to those that said it, which was bad enough for the wallet. Once I was corrected and that it applied to anything with the Black Friday banner too... I had not intended to be buying lots of LEGO today.

I wish this was in Canada!

Got me the latest MillF for £80 :)

Thanks @Huw

Boba Fett's Starship for only £30 - that's almost 5p/piece!

Picked up Hogsmeade for £36.80. Gutted they had sold out of Winnie the Pooh.

@Judgeguy said:
"Boba Fett's Starship for only £30 - that's almost 5p/piece!"

£24 with the code TOYS20 though, so even better

I miss Argos from when I lived in the UK in the late 90s. I remember filling out the card with the catalog numbers, taking it to the window/counter and waiting in anticipation of my next Lego set for a few minutes, hoping it was not out of stock when the worker returned.

I especially remember getting 6090. That box looked huge.

It’s out of stock everywhere near me :(

Wow, those prices sound amazing. No such luck here.

Vader helmet, Boba Fett’s spaceshipthingymajig
and Ecto-1 ordered - Ooft! Wasn’t planning on buying anything with the AT-AT release imminent :-/

+4.75% cashback (£2.04)

@hapcibeno said:
"+4.75% cashback (£2.04)"

You are supposed to use the links from Brickset after all they brought it to your attention and the site is only free because of use of those links.

Bagged Hosmead for my daughter at virtually half the RRP. Amazing day!

@AustinPowers said:
"Wow, those prices sound amazing. No such luck here. "

Unfortunately prices is pretty much all they are. Unless you live in Barrow-in-Furness or wherever that one copy of the set you want is located, you might as well be in Germany for all the good it does you!

The best thing about Argos sales are Amazon price-matches.

@Minifig290 said:
" @Judgeguy said:
"Boba Fett's Starship for only £30 - that's almost 5p/piece!"

£24 with the code TOYS20 though, so even better"

Yeah I got the same deal! I was glad I did cos I was feeling bad about spending £30 basically just to get the Boba fig. I looked at Bricklink and saw I'd be looking at around £15 to get the fig on its own though so I decided to pull the trigger on the Argos deal. Picked it up half an hour ago at the Argos store which is only a 2 minute walk from my flat!

@MisterBrickster said:
" @AustinPowers said:
"Wow, those prices sound amazing. No such luck here. "

Unfortunately prices is pretty much all they are. Unless you live in Barrow-in-Furness or wherever that one copy of the set you want is located, you might as well be in Germany for all the good it does you!

The best thing about Argos sales are Amazon price-matches."
Don't know.
I tried the Winnie Pooh set for order and pickup at a local Argos, gave the postcode of the place we used to visit in the past (Bebington) and got the option to get it at Argos in St Helens, about 16 miles away. Not too bad, especially if you order one or two other bargains as well.

An amazing price for an amazing set. I paid full price for mine earlier this year, but managed to pick up two as gifts. I could quite happily buy more, but I don’t want to take all the stock. Thanks for the heads up!

Yeah so it's a 54+ mile trip to the nearest store for me (and I'm slap bang in the middle of country so hardly out in the wilderness) meaning it's just not worth it. Tbh it just reminds me why I never bother with Argos deals for pretty much anything as they're impossible to actually find.

Great deal! A pity that I don’t live in Europe or the United Kingdom but this wasn’t really a set I wanted either so it doesn’t matter that much to me. The set does look great imo, as is usually the case, but I just don’t have much interest in it.

Thanks. Couldn't get a Hogsmeade sadly, even with 3 different stores fairly easily within reach. But I did get Fluffy and Fawkes at something like 42% off overall. Not going overboard for the new stackable HP sets but Fluffy and the bathroom aren't bad.

Now I know Hedwig is a bad one to motorise as the crank to flap the wings is anything but smooth. So I'm wondering if I link Fawkes and Hedwig together with just the right rotational offset, will one movement balance out the other and make it a smoother operation overall..?

Managed to get an Infinity Gauntlet for £35, which I was surprised about, as usually my local Argos are already sold out of any of the good sets, so thanks Brickset! :)

Got Fawkes Dumbledore's Phoenix, McLaren Senna GTR, Central Perk, and Daft Ada's Helmet for £106.40 plus £3.95 for same day delivery. That'll do nicely!

(Not interested at R.R.P., tempted at Amazon prices, bit at another 20% off from Argos)

I think this set is awesome and yet I always kind of forget that it exists. And it's the only set that I do that with / for. Weird.

Awesome surprise stacking codes for our UK friends!

Given my local Argos (Bath) has recently moved from it's own large dedicated unit to what was the cafe in the smaller of the two Sainsbury's on the edge of the city it's no real surprise they have no stock of any of the reduced sets.

Though even when it pretends to search further afield - covering Bristol - it still finds no stock to collect or even deliver.

It still amazes me how Argos hasn't gone the same way as Woolworths, Debenhams, BHS, etc.

@ShinyBidoof said:
"It still amazes me how Argos hasn't gone the same way as Woolworths, Debenhams, BHS, etc."
I would imagine it would have done if Sainsburys hadn't bought them.

I got two copies of Pooh when it came out. Built one, and used the other to put Pennywise in a Pooh-suit. It needed to be done.

Out of curiosity, what is an Argos equivalent to in the U.S.?

@B_Space_Man said:
"Out of curiosity, what is an Argos equivalent to in the U.S.?"
I'm not sure the U.S. has/had any equivalent. It was a catalogue shop. People would have catalogues at home covering everything you'd find in a large department store, with catalogue numbers for each item. When you wanted to buy, you'd go to the shop with your list of item numbers and they'd be picked from the warehouse for you. Only minimal stock was on display, most was 'out the back', so not really a shop to browse.
A bit of an old fashion model, that's dying out now. A lot of dedicated shops have closed, sometimes replaced by small sections of department stores (Sainsburys, who bought Argos), but largely by standard online shopping.

@sjr60:
Right across the street from my condo complex is an empty building that used to be a Sears outlet store. They had major appliances on display, I believe, but otherwise they were mostly a place to pick up catalog orders. They didn’t warehouse the inventory out back, but they probably dated back to a time before internet sales, and using a single location for local pickups would have simplified logistics in a time before everyone expected everything from vehicles to groceries to be delivered to their doorstep. Running an outlet store like this would have saved people (especially those without personal transportation) from making a long trip to a shopping mall where a full store would be located. I think my hometown used to have one as well. Go back long enough, and their main competition was Wells Fargo, at a time when both were paper catalog companies, and people living out west would have to come collect their deliveries from the local train station (and the previous year’s catalog would be “retired” to the outhouse, where they’d grow a few pages smaller each time someone visited.

@PurpleDave said:
" @sjr60:
...dated back to a time before internet sales"
Yes, Argos started in 1972, long before home internet, let alone internet shopping. Main competition was mail order catalogues, where the standard disclaimer was 'Allow 28 days for delivery', so picking up catalogue items in store, on the same day, was quite revolutionary!

@sjr60:
I meant that specific location probably goes back before internet sales (and closed because of them). Sears as a company predates electricity in homes.

Awesome, got voth the Pooh set and passenger train set for only £100!!!!!