#42172 ✅
100% must build for technic fans.
9/10 build experience
4/5 build difficulty

Hi - I bought this at Fk minutes at 899/- for my 5yo daughter. Good buy or waste of money?

L-R: Speed Champions Lightning Mcqueen, SC GTR-34, Bruce Wayne and the Batsuit, Spider Man vs AntiVenom, McLaren Lego city

I’ve been seeing this debate pop up lately: if you score a Lego set at a steep discount, you have no right to complain if the box looks like it was kicked down a flight of stairs. A lot of people argue that "packaging doesn't matter, it's about the bricks."

I strongly disagree. Even at 50% off, box condition matters. Here are a few reasons why:

The Gifting Factor: This is the biggest one. A massive chunk of Lego sets are bought as gifts. Handing a kid (or adult!) a crushed, re-taped box feels like you’re giving them a yard-sale find or a regifted item, no matter how pristine the bags are inside. The presentation matters.

The Retail Expectation: A promotional sale is a price drop, not a "damaged goods" bin. Unless a retailer explicitly labels the item as "B-Stock," "Open Box," or "Box Damaged," the standard expectation of a brand-new retail item still applies. A discount doesn't give a store a free pass to quietly offload warehouse-damaged inventory.

Structural Integrity: A severely crushed box compromises the factory seals. If the cardboard corners are blown out, there is a very real chance that smaller numbered bags or sticker sheets have slipped out in transit.

The "Just Buy Local" Fallacy: Telling people to pay full price locally ignores how modern retail works. We hunt for deals because this hobby is expensive. Punishing online deal-hunters by shipping them battered inventory without warning is a bait-and-switch. It shouldn't be a binary choice between "full price mint" and "half-price garbage."

A deal is a deal, but retailers shouldn't use sales as an excuse to ship battered inventory without transparency.

Ngl, was expecting the box to be way more cooked 🥲. But this honestly doesn’t look too bad to me (lmk if I’m missing something)

Feels good enough for my collection! (As could be seen from the video)

Always been a fan of lego, but bought my first and one of my favorite cars in the recent sale for 2700 bucks. Was quite a satisfying and fun build.

Folks who bought sets on BBD, are your orders also getting delayed/ cancelled? My orders are delayed by a week and one of the orders has been cancelled by the seller. I wake up to midnight emails from Flipkart citing my order is delayed due to logistic issues. Sad

Just saw that they are offering some coupons on top of the discounts.

This has been going on for four days now.

They're not letting me cancel my order but when i request for the delivery agent's number, the automated msg says I can only get it when the product is out for delivery. When the product is out for delivery, it simply says, no we cannot provide the number.

I couldn't find the customer care no. anywhere in the app, just automated msgs and every link leading back to the orders page. So fxcking annoying. I'm getting this as a small gift for a friend and kept their address, they've been getting sorry undeliverable msg for four days. Fxking idiots. Even my friend is frustrated.

If anyone knows anything, please let me know 🙏

Placed the order on 12 october and the seller is kay kay. From what I’ve seen on this sub, they’re great. The packaging is pristine and while delivery might take some time the orders eventually arrive in good condition.

Still idk why i have this weird feeling that I’m never actually going to get my hands on this set. I know it’s probably just me but i can’t shake the feeling.

Finished my second set.

Had so much fun building it & the pull back mechanism is just 🤌🏻

Didn’t care about the box. All pieces are intact. Happy. Period.

Rant:

Welps, I'll be moving out soon, needed to fit all my legos. Realised it filled up my suitcase... Now I realise the need for a dedicated trolley just for legos...

And I still have lego sets that are unpacked. Organising and keeping them in ziplocs like y'all recommended...

GETTING RONALDO LEGO SET OF 490 PIECE AT 1800 RUPPE GREAT DEAL?

What do you think of this set? With coupon discount and cashback i could get it for 2100

https://dl.flipkart.com/s/i7cdTLNNNN

Tried as many locations but seems like the seller just wants to build this himself!

Amazon cancelled my order 😭

Daisies are from Amazon and Bronco is from flipkart lol

(Bronco box is messed up 🤣🥲)

BBD sale and Amazon sale

Both at discount prices 🤩