where to buy LEGO pieces?
You may soon notice that several pieces used in this book are hard to find in the latest LEGO sets. That’s natural—most LEGO sets are discontinued after two or three years of production, so many individual pieces go out of production as well. Some elements get replaced by something better; others are gone forever.
Luckily, finding these older pieces isn’t an issue thanks to the secondhand market. Countless international sellers have all sorts of LEGO pieces available for purchase. The best place to look is, of course, online. Other than obvious websites, such as eBay (http://www.ebay.com/), there are specialized online LEGO markets, most notably BrickLink (http://www.bricklink.com/). It’s Bricklink I am referring to ...
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