What are some other ways you can/have saved money while building your army? Sign up for Rakuten and get a $40 sign-up bonus*: www.rakuten.com/r/MANDRP15
Buying the parts of expensive figures works well too. Instead of spending $200 on a p2 Rex, by the head, torso, waist cape, legs, cloth, and helmet. It is significantly cheaper and very underrated
Asking friends if they have minifigs they don't want anymore is really helping ! During the year, friends gave me the 2016 Quinlan Vos and Luminara Unduli, 2013 Count Dooku, Poggle the Lesser, a geonosian, Savage Opress, clone wars Yoda, 2013 501st troopers, a geonosis clone trooper, Jar Jar Binks and some other random minifigs and pieces, and I only had to pay a bit for Dooku ! So go make friends, it's very stonks.
The credit card tips specifically is one of the easiest to implement and the most worthwhile long-term in my opinion. I switched credit cards about two years ago now and I’ve been able to get almost $4000 CAD in cash back on purchases I would’ve made anyway.. I’m using my rewards to pay for my BrickWorld hotel haha
I was too young to get the AT-OT and drop ship when it came out but I’ve always wanted one. Over the past two or so months, I’ve pieced one together and it was so worth it. It still costs a bit but 1/2-1/3 of the price for even a used set
Yeah picking out sets especially if you're using personal collection pieces and even getting the oices on sake or cheaper than usual is a great way make sets you've always wanted...or atlesst the main ship/build
I actually managed to get the 2022 AT-TE on clearance, perfect box, last one on the shelf, 80 dollar price tag, 60 bucks off from the original price. Insanely lucky
Thrift stores are great! I’ve come along bags of dozens of mini figs for like $5 each. Sure, they won’t all be clones or exactly what you want, but getting 3 or 4 in a bag with a bunch of other random figs for $5 is still a great deal
Recently over the past year I’ve been getting into decaling and made around 100 clone troopers. If you can get good at decaling it can be a very cost efficient way to basically get any clone you want.
I always go through bricklink sellers in my region and then search clone, sometimes its cheaper to grab parts like torso's and bodies and such then buying the complete fig. Always taking some with my already existing orders. Also a fun way to make custom figures like jedi's or figures to fill up your star wars city or moc
I did the same thing with the 442nd clone with green markings, unfortunately the legs are glued, and you have to disclose that when selling, and on top of this the figures have magnets in the torso and they stick together, don’t get me wrong it’s great for showing off in an army and Mocs but not idea for reselling because the value just isn’t there with the flaws
Don't have much interest in building an army, although I'd defo go for a Seperatist force if I did, since I got tonnes of droids from the MTT I was lucky enough to buy fairly cheap, some B2 battledroids from online sales, and Dooku, Grevious, Pong Krell, Nute Gunray and a custom Wat Tambor I put together all from sets I've bought over the years! If I ever get enough space, might try set it all out for a laugh actually!
It is 11:21 pm on Saturday night 5-27-23 and Ryan I bet you are going nuts right now... I am also amazed and happy! looks like playing tip-21 as a wee little lad paid off BIG TIME for the Boston Celtics!
Tip 5. I heard if you work for Lego and do any reselling and caught, you are fired. I heard this from a trusted employee and another time from a friend who wanted a job there but had a Bricklink store. They declined to hire him.
It is very worth asking! I bought 2 original 501st Battlepacks from my cousin for 20 bucks TOTAL. He said he bought them for 20 each but because they were opened he would give them to me for half price, absolute bafoon.
Parting out lego sets is something I’ve done before w the Christmas x wing and even getting incomplete sets and getting the rest of the parts saves a lot of money
I bought a green 442nd magnet clone too! Love finding sneaky bricklink stuff that most people either don't know about or are too dense to put in the effort on bricklink lmao 😂
It's bizarre to me how often stuff goes on clearance and gets price drops in the US and other parts of the world. Here in New Zealand (at least where I live), it takes like 5-6 years for something to eventually go on clearance. Up until then, you're still expected to pay full price. That being said, the only store that holds things like LEGO or Transformers (my main hobby) that I've really seen do actual clearances, is Farmers (which is a department store). After like 5-6 years, those old items get shifted to a clearance section, and the price usually drops a fair amount. Meanwhile, our main store that is made just for toys (Toyworld), will literally hold onto an item for almost 10 years, and still expect you to pay full price. Again, this may just be around my area, but I bought Transformers figures that were like 8 years old at the time I bought them, and still paid full price for them. I've also witnessed The Warehouse (another department store), sneakily put old Transformers stock from 5 or more years prior that had been stored out the back due to not selling the first time around, put back on the shelves at full price. As a collector, I knew how old the items were, but the kids and parents wouldn't have, and would've unknowingly bought old stock for full price, which kinda feels a little scummy to me, but eh, I suppose the store is still making money off of the products, even if it is several years too late. Speaking of The Warehouse, they sometimes have a clearance section, but again, stuff has to be fairly old to eventually wind up in there, or just defective, which is more common (by "defective", I mean, some kid has torn into the packaging and pulled all of the items out, leaving the staff to throw some tape onto the packaging, with a 50/50 chance of everything still being included).
Good video! Something I've done is have family members who work at stores that sale legos use there employee discount to buy packs. Some family get discounts up to 40% on all items, so legos :)
Dude… Rakuten just gave me $30 back when I bought 2x 501st specialist battle packs. This is fucking awesome! Now I can buy another 332nd battle pack and something else aswell!
Fun fact if you want a retired set go to an old toy store seriously there is a little toy shop in my area that stills sells Ashoka vs darth mail or the Mtt
I think you should have mentioned that the Rakuten member who gets you to sign up to Rakuten ALSO gets a bonus too. I presume MandRproductions gets that bonus if one uses the MandR link. Better for a person to find out if a friend has Rakuten. That way they are you can share in the ADDITIONAL sign-up bonus that goes to the link provider. Even if you don't have a friend who is already a member, having them sign up and then send you the link saves you more money than following the MandR link. Or is MandR going to share any kickback you get with the person following your link? Am I missing something?
Waaaait. You get 50 percent off LEGO sets when you're an employee? There's a store about 40 minutes drive from me, I might see if I can get a job there haha.
I'm not really a fan of the prequel or sequel stormtroopers but I definitely want to build an army of the original trilogy stormtroopers. I love the basic white and black pilot stormtroopers. Thanks for the inspiration! 👍
U should make a video showcasing your clone wars collection In a Separtists Vs republic format maybe not with every Vehichle but every character including Jedi Sith Droids Bounty hunters And clones just to see The scale of your clone wars minifgure collection
Thank you! I have been needing a video like this! Also what is the best way to msg you privately. I have tried a few different apps but you never saw them, thanks!
Working at a LEGO store sucks, don’t do it… Their company doesn’t treat their customers nor their employees well! Also the employee discount is still 3 months of 30% off and then it goes to 50% after those 3 months. Unless it’s changed in the past week, I could be wrong? The cap is $2,000 per year…
Bro my cousin gave me all of his old legos, and he had a bunch of clones, and he had commander wolffe and queen amidala, seriously just ask people if they have old legos, you could get lucky
What are some other ways you can/have saved money while building your army?
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Sorry, I can't sign up because I'm not old enough 😅
I have decaled some of my clone army and they costed me less than 4 dollars each. and i was able to have clone variants that lego has never made.
Buying the parts of expensive figures works well too. Instead of spending $200 on a p2 Rex, by the head, torso, waist cape, legs, cloth, and helmet. It is significantly cheaper and very underrated
@That really Good channel about how much would it cost to do it like that?
@@EastonSzulwach no clue, but you save a good amount of money through it
Seriously, "just be rich" is the best advice! Not only for clone troopers, but for any Lego set.
😂
every single one of these videos are like that lol
It’s also good life advice! 🙃
‘’just be rich‘’also allows you to buy the entire Lego company！！
@@yeahoh9438 Still on my To Do list. 😄
I don't know why I'm so obsessed with making an army of plastic space soldiers
Orange space soldiers*
Blue space soldiers
Bro’s literally me
Lol
Thank you Ryan for making sure to talk about the downside of credit cards
But it’s also good to get one to build that credit.
@@viperson9818 Yep I didn't do that! I don't think I was negatively affected by it in the end but I'm about 3 years behind where I could be on that.
The first thing you need to do is build a Lego Kamino. After that, in 10 years you'll have 200,000 units ready, with a million more well on the way.
And you will hold the world record for the largest clone army with 30 years
@@Jessie-wk3ri all great things come to those who wait
Asking friends if they have minifigs they don't want anymore is really helping ! During the year, friends gave me the 2016 Quinlan Vos and Luminara Unduli, 2013 Count Dooku, Poggle the Lesser, a geonosian, Savage Opress, clone wars Yoda, 2013 501st troopers, a geonosis clone trooper, Jar Jar Binks and some other random minifigs and pieces, and I only had to pay a bit for Dooku !
So go make friends, it's very stonks.
The credit card tips specifically is one of the easiest to implement and the most worthwhile long-term in my opinion. I switched credit cards about two years ago now and I’ve been able to get almost $4000 CAD in cash back on purchases I would’ve made anyway.. I’m using my rewards to pay for my BrickWorld hotel haha
I was too young to get the AT-OT and drop ship when it came out but I’ve always wanted one. Over the past two or so months, I’ve pieced one together and it was so worth it. It still costs a bit but 1/2-1/3 of the price for even a used set
Yeah picking out sets especially if you're using personal collection pieces and even getting the oices on sake or cheaper than usual is a great way make sets you've always wanted...or atlesst the main ship/build
Cool!
I actually managed to get the 2022 AT-TE on clearance, perfect box, last one on the shelf, 80 dollar price tag, 60 bucks off from the original price. Insanely lucky
Thrift stores are great! I’ve come along bags of dozens of mini figs for like $5 each. Sure, they won’t all be clones or exactly what you want, but getting 3 or 4 in a bag with a bunch of other random figs for $5 is still a great deal
First step: money
Step 2-7: repeat first step
How convenient I just finished building my 501st battle pack
I just finished building my republic fighter tank
@@queryquery1232same 🗿
@@queryquery1232 lol
Old or new?
You and me both 💀
let’s get creative with our army building and start robbing lego stores at gun point for battlepacks, thanks for the advice mandr🤟
Not great advice guys. I'm now looking at 10 years in prison. :\
Recently over the past year I’ve been getting into decaling and made around 100 clone troopers. If you can get good at decaling it can be a very cost efficient way to basically get any clone you want.
I always go through bricklink sellers in my region and then search clone, sometimes its cheaper to grab parts like torso's and bodies and such then buying the complete fig.
Always taking some with my already existing orders. Also a fun way to make custom figures like jedi's or figures to fill up your star wars city or moc
This was a really great video! And thanks for encouraging financial responsibility.
Gotta say the setup looks great! Way better than before
I did the same thing with the 442nd clone with green markings, unfortunately the legs are glued, and you have to disclose that when selling, and on top of this the figures have magnets in the torso and they stick together, don’t get me wrong it’s great for showing off in an army and Mocs but not idea for reselling because the value just isn’t there with the flaws
can the glued green magnet troopers still bend their legs & arms like a regular mini fig? or are they completely stuck in place?
Don't have much interest in building an army, although I'd defo go for a Seperatist force if I did, since I got tonnes of droids from the MTT I was lucky enough to buy fairly cheap, some B2 battledroids from online sales, and Dooku, Grevious, Pong Krell, Nute Gunray and a custom Wat Tambor I put together all from sets I've bought over the years!
If I ever get enough space, might try set it all out for a laugh actually!
When you just finish your AP Exam and get blessed with a video from mandy and see it 4 minutes after the end of the exam
I heard that making friends with an employee at the Mexico factory is also a good way. 😂
That shelf set up has so many amazing lego star wars items
thanks your awesome I love the outro music
Thank you for doing this video it's very helpful for my army
Brickli will appreciate this to get his world record
It is 11:21 pm on Saturday night 5-27-23 and Ryan I bet you are going nuts right now... I am also amazed and happy! looks like playing tip-21 as a wee little lad paid off BIG TIME for the Boston Celtics!
I love the fact that I just got a job at a Lego store, and we do have clone troopers.
God I love mandr
That one nerd
@@BigBoss-ForRealyour name is literally Cody’s number tho. You’re a nerd
I know I’ve been selling my extra stuff. Great tips Ryan. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
What do I do if I live in Brasil we don´t have targets or promotions and the price of the lego is like 3x bigger (sorry for bad english)
Tip 5. I heard if you work for Lego and do any reselling and caught, you are fired. I heard this from a trusted employee and another time from a friend who wanted a job there but had a Bricklink store. They declined to hire him.
It is very worth asking! I bought 2 original 501st Battlepacks from my cousin for 20 bucks TOTAL. He said he bought them for 20 each but because they were opened he would give them to me for half price, absolute bafoon.
This is a great video Ryan, would love another version of this maybe with Imperials or the separatists
These pretty much apply to all army building
I purchased Jango's Slave One set, with Jango, for 45. I removed Jango for keeps & resold the set for 45 again. Nice 👌🏻
We all need a room tour video on mandrvlogs
I’m waiting for 41st battle pack so I can start an army. The addiction is real.
Parting out lego sets is something I’ve done before w the Christmas x wing and even getting incomplete sets and getting the rest of the parts saves a lot of money
Thank you! Very helpful! I used one of those tips and I got a phase 2 rex for 50 from a friend.
bullcrap
How is it bull crap 😂 my mates would probably just give them to me if they had them from childhood still
Wow what a great friend you are scamming your friend
@@lolno1547it was a joke, he knew the value but since were good friends he didn’t care this is also when the figure was worth like 90 and not 250.
Thanks this information is useful❤❤
I bought a green 442nd magnet clone too! Love finding sneaky bricklink stuff that most people either don't know about or are too dense to put in the effort on bricklink lmao 😂
You can also use the key chain figs and screw of the top.
**sighs and looks at credit card** "I'm sorry little one."
Happy new year guys
It's bizarre to me how often stuff goes on clearance and gets price drops in the US and other parts of the world. Here in New Zealand (at least where I live), it takes like 5-6 years for something to eventually go on clearance. Up until then, you're still expected to pay full price.
That being said, the only store that holds things like LEGO or Transformers (my main hobby) that I've really seen do actual clearances, is Farmers (which is a department store). After like 5-6 years, those old items get shifted to a clearance section, and the price usually drops a fair amount. Meanwhile, our main store that is made just for toys (Toyworld), will literally hold onto an item for almost 10 years, and still expect you to pay full price. Again, this may just be around my area, but I bought Transformers figures that were like 8 years old at the time I bought them, and still paid full price for them.
I've also witnessed The Warehouse (another department store), sneakily put old Transformers stock from 5 or more years prior that had been stored out the back due to not selling the first time around, put back on the shelves at full price. As a collector, I knew how old the items were, but the kids and parents wouldn't have, and would've unknowingly bought old stock for full price, which kinda feels a little scummy to me, but eh, I suppose the store is still making money off of the products, even if it is several years too late.
Speaking of The Warehouse, they sometimes have a clearance section, but again, stuff has to be fairly old to eventually wind up in there, or just defective, which is more common (by "defective", I mean, some kid has torn into the packaging and pulled all of the items out, leaving the staff to throw some tape onto the packaging, with a 50/50 chance of everything still being included).
Do a 2010 Lego Slave 1 review next!
Can you maybe make a stormtroper army?
As a kid trying to build a huge clone army this vid helped.
Good video! Something I've done is have family members who work at stores that sale legos use there employee discount to buy packs. Some family get discounts up to 40% on all items, so legos :)
Askmandr what editing software do you use?
Dude… Rakuten just gave me $30 back when I bought 2x 501st specialist battle packs. This is fucking awesome! Now I can buy another 332nd battle pack and something else aswell!
Thank you for the tips
Thank you. I am definitely taking notes. 💰💳
Thanks for the tips
Here’s a good tip, when you buy a couple or a lot of the new 501st battle pack, just sell the 501st officers.
also looking at different, smaller selling websites that less people know about there are usually some great deals if you look around enough
Fun fact if you want a retired set go to an old toy store seriously there is a little toy shop in my area that stills sells Ashoka vs darth mail or the Mtt
Cheaply seems like a funny thing to say when collecting anything Lego Star Wars. The stuff has gotten so expensive
Finally. I have waiting a long time for this
Hi MandR i think your really cool, i like your clones
What do you think about gcc?
I always wanted to creat a clone army . Now I’m 23 and I have my money . The dream will be true now 😊
Would this advice work for imperial stormtrooper army building?
I got the only tip you need, The tip is MONEY.
That tip trumps every other tip ever.
When s the next time you are making a clone army video
Awesome advice man! I will be sure to use rakuten on my purchase!
Thank you for the rakuten reminder because I had 42.40 that I never spent
I think you should have mentioned that the Rakuten member who gets you to sign up to Rakuten ALSO gets a bonus too. I presume MandRproductions gets that bonus if one uses the MandR link. Better for a person to find out if a friend has Rakuten. That way they are you can share in the ADDITIONAL sign-up bonus that goes to the link provider. Even if you don't have a friend who is already a member, having them sign up and then send you the link saves you more money than following the MandR link. Or is MandR going to share any kickback you get with the person following your link? Am I missing something?
Question: I thought the reason lego dosent sell lego star wars minifigure polybags was because hasbro has the rights to lego star wars action figures?
Waaaait. You get 50 percent off LEGO sets when you're an employee? There's a store about 40 minutes drive from me, I might see if I can get a job there haha.
thanks I have been working on my army it is lead by phase 2 rex and neyo
Love ur videos dude
mnr do you think you can take the legs off of the clone magnet and put reg legs on it?
I found my local walmart on the last month of the 501st battle packs being on the shelf for 14 bucks it was a steallll
I'm not really a fan of the prequel or sequel stormtroopers but I definitely want to build an army of the original trilogy stormtroopers. I love the basic white and black pilot stormtroopers. Thanks for the inspiration! 👍
Their aren't any prequel stormtroopers and black pilot stormtroopers don't exist
Dope shirt Man!!
U should make a video showcasing your clone wars collection In a Separtists Vs republic format maybe not with every Vehichle but every character including Jedi Sith Droids Bounty hunters And clones just to see The scale of your clone wars minifgure collection
Thank you! I have been needing a video like this! Also what is the best way to msg you privately. I have tried a few different apps but you never saw them, thanks!
FOR THE CLONE ARMY!
off 7 grams of shrooms binge watching mandr rn this shit fire
Nice tips Ryan
Working at a LEGO store sucks, don’t do it…
Their company doesn’t treat their customers nor their employees well!
Also the employee discount is still 3 months of 30% off and then it goes to 50% after those 3 months. Unless it’s changed in the past week, I could be wrong? The cap is $2,000 per year…
501st battle packs (new) are about $11usd here in Aus at target currently 👌🏽the entire countries targets are now sold out haha
do the magnet green marking clones have swappable legs? or will they always have the magnet inside of them?
I just found the newer 501st battle pack on a crazy deal bc normally they would be £18 each but you could get 2 for £20
you need acoustic panels in your video room, has that empty room
echo :P
Do you know of any good minifigure display cases?
“be rich” is the best idea i ever heard.
whats the best army to start building rn? storm troopers or clones?
1. Buy LEPIN clones for cheap
They don't look good and aren't offical
Thank you
BRO SPENT 88,000 ON LEGO CLONE TROOPERS???
Also, a Good Tip Is Having Credits On The LEGO Website.
The Credits Save Money, i Think.
Seen some crazy deals on mercari too its an app for second hand selling anything and everything
A local charity shop near me does a kilogramme bag of Lego for £10, that was my way of snagging a phase 2 captain Rex
Bro my cousin gave me all of his old legos, and he had a bunch of clones, and he had commander wolffe and queen amidala, seriously just ask people if they have old legos, you could get lucky
Where did you get that shirt from its awesome
Love yournt-shirt, where did you get it?
I bought some 501st legion sealed sets for $12 a few days ago
“Just be rich” that’s some great advice I should have thought of that 😂
you can get discounts with points from lego vip