Lego gold mine - bubble top indicator?

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  1. bron suchecki

    bron suchecki Active Member Silver Stacker

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    Just the thing to turn your kids into little gold bugs - Lego's The Mine http://shop.lego.com/en-GB/The-Mine-4204 (my emphasis):

    "Dig for gold deep inside the busy mine!

    The Mine is a busy place, full of miners digging for gold! Break up the rock with the big drilling machine and transport it out of the mine with the train. Then load it onto the conveyer belt with the crane and haul it away with the truck! There's even a safe to keep the gold inside. Help the miners find even more gold by blasting with the dynamite! Includes 4 minifigures: crew chief, crane driver, driller and truck driver.

    Accessories includes 3 dynamite packs, (1 with a timer), 2 detonators, 2 rocks each containing 6 gold nuggets, 36 small rocks in a selection of colors, 2 gold bars, explosion warning sign, storage box, jackhammer, fence with hazard lights, wheelbarrow, broom, shovel, pickaxe, walkie-talkie and coffee cup."
     
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  2. TeaPot&ChopSticks

    TeaPot&ChopSticks New Member

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    I think it is a bubble when Channel 7 SunRise's Kochie is saying buy gold?! What do you think bron suchecki? Just checked out the link - yikes !
     
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  3. Silver Soul

    Silver Soul Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    LOL

    I can see bron having one of these in his office now! ( you have given a very good description on the Accessories ) :D
     
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  4. bron suchecki

    bron suchecki Active Member Silver Stacker

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    I don't think Lego knows what a hot item this could be with the goldbugs - they need to offer an accessories pack where you can just buy extra gold bars (and extra safes to go with them).
     
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    scone Active Member Silver Stacker

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    the fella driving the drilling machine looks very serious :|
     
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    systematic Well-Known Member

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    I can't wait for the Lego version of "The Fed" ..... a colourful box full of promises ... with nothing inside .....
     
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  7. Big A.D.

    Big A.D. Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    I'm soooo getting one of these...
     
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  8. bron suchecki

    bron suchecki Active Member Silver Stacker

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    Lego site doesn't allow purchase of this for delivery to Aust, one of our dealers who is a goldbug already tried. Maybe it is too new and hasn't been distributed worldwide yet?
     
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    It's a bubble if Michael Pascoe says sell stock and buy gold. But that's okay because we would simultaneously hit the bottom of the recession/depression too.

    Nice lego set!
     
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    Perhaps Maggie could organise a group buy :p
     
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  11. Big A.D.

    Big A.D. Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    That would probably be the best option. It's priced at 69.99 on the UK site and $139.99 on the Australian site.

    69.99 = $107.87 at the current exchange rate.
     
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    Ag Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    Oh I see what there's a big difference in price - so is this to cover the carbon tax?
     
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    I wish I had it on tape but I remember Richard Kranium getting excited when gold jumped $20 over night. This was pre '08. Can't remember spot but it was well south of $1k an ounce (maybe $800 :/ )
     
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  14. Big A.D.

    Big A.D. Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    No, that's the Dumb-Australians-Will-Pay-Anything Tax.
     
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    I thought it was the Poor-Australians-Forced-To-Pay Tax? :/
     
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    willrocks Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    When Lego place a safe full of gold in their houses, that may be a good bubble top indicator. Even better, a man burying gold in his back yard.
     
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    Lego is about the same price as gold, but waaaay more fun!
     
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  18. Nugget

    Nugget Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    I have Lego that's 30 odd years old and is still fun to play with :D
     
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    Just curious Nugget, what made the years odd? :|
     
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  20. Roswell Crash Survivor

    Roswell Crash Survivor Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    We talk about stackable bullion bars, has anyone ever tried to manufacture a bullion product with interlocking protruding nodules, like Lego pieces?

    *rushes off to the Patent Office*
     
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