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I know a lot of people are into Legos for the the money, but what Legos if had no investment purposes? Would you still buy them?

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As of two years ago today, Daniel Jezek, the founder and creator of the website, BrickLink, had passed away at the age of 33. Here is the link to the "In Memoriam" page. Whether you love it or hate it, there is no denying the kind of impact he and his website has had on the brick community as a whole. From buying numerous sets (brand new or discontinued), to purchasing individual parts and/or minifigures, even rare exclusives given at LEGO stores 'grand openings

I'm in NYC this week for a quick 2-day trip, staying right in the middle of Times Square. I hit the LEGO Store at Rock Center and TRU in Times Square today. Some thoughts: 1. They're both full of idiots that are milling around and generally in everyone's way 2. For those of you who whine about TRU prices, you should see the markup at the LEGO Rock Center store 3. 6857 The Dynamic Duo Funhouse was notoriously missing from both. There wasn't even a place on the shelf where it should have been in either store. That the 6857 The Dynamic Duo Funhouse was MIA could be meaningless, as in DFW we seem to have plenty of these available. I wasn't looking to buy any, because …

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https://www.informationweek.com/cloud/why-lego-went-cloud-and-serverless-to-handle-traffic-spikes/d/d-id/1339742 Much like others in ecommerce, Lego sees extremely spikey traffic patterns, said Nicole Yip, engineering manager in direct shopper technology at The Lego Group. She discussed how the team behind Lego.com deals with sudden increases in demand for its services, usually tied to product launches and sales events that encourage throngs of customers to access the site at the same time. “Imagine trying to tackle all of that spikiness and year-on-year growth with an on-premise monolith tied to back-end systems with limited scale,” Yip said. Sometimes such mon…

I have been pretty active on Instagram over the past few years. I just started a new one for Lego related posts. My names are: @LegoBrick27 @Amato27 (Personal) @AppleFixDFW (Side Business) Feel free to post your so that we can follow eachother.

http://thebrickblogger.com/2013/07/lego-fan-casting-call-for-tv-show/ The BrickBlogger just posted that "super LEGO fans" are wanted for a LEGO TV show! Interested? Quote fro the BrickBlogger: Those interested to be part of this LEGO TV show need to meet the following criteria, so please read carefully: LEGO super-fan Completely obsessed with all things LEGO Have an impressive personal LEGO collection, or Have a collection of rare LEGO memorabilia Between the ages of 18-35 Lives in Southern California

I saw this topic on Eurobricks and I thought it would interesting to ask it on here. Below is the original post by Bonaparte of Eurobricks.com. Here is the link to the quote/topic below on Eurobricks.com. (In the last question I changed Eurobricks to Brickpicker and I removed "regulator (indexing, ...)" since we don't have that here on Brickpicker. I then added "writing blog articles" instead. I also bolded and underlined some words.) If anybody thinks a poll would be better please let me know so I can add it. Recently Hispabrick Magazine interviewed Jan Beyer, LEGO Community, Engagement and Events Team, in which Jan stated following:

I'm thinking about re-entering the stock market. I have been considering this for a while and I'm leaning towards energy companies and mostly DJIA stocks. Anyone else invest in the stock market? What do you include in your portfolio? What are high risk stocks you consider?

I had an interesting thought after hearing how many people dislike lego investors, be it companies or lego collectors. Without lego investors there would be little to no chance that people would be able to get an older set they may want. prices for older sets (having less stock around years after they EOL), would be through the roof. Point being that lego collectors should thank us. I enjoy selling on ebay and giving people things that are harder to find. So yeah...we should all pat ourselves on the back, because we are all making someone very happy when we sell them sets that are no longer available. On a semi-related note...I know this video is kind of old, but it is…

Hello BrickPickers... Over the past several weeks, there has been a lot of discussion about NON-LEGO reselling methods and products. At times, the NON-LEGO discussion would take priority over LEGO topics on a LEGO based website. Now, Jeff and I appreciate the forum activity and posts, but it was becoming quite difficult on the Moderators and Jeff and I to monitor all the activity. These NON-LEGO discussions sometimes took on a more mature nature, far more difficult to manage on a website designed around a "toy." The Moderators and Admins had to reign in and limit discussions to protect the integrity and PG rating of this site. So Jeff and I came up with a possi…

IrishGuy66 says that he reads BP for about an hour a day from the sidelines as a guest. What torture! Withdrawal from BP would be the hardest thing in the world! }:0

I'm going back to my country and would like to carry some with myself. Just wondering whether it's allowed to be carried on the plane. I think there shouldn't be a problem but just want to make sure it's allowed so that i don't have to throw it in the bin Thanks for the helps!!!

I invest a lot in sealed sets but also have a used collection that I build for display. But I noticed before I got into Lego I was thinner, exercising more at the gym, etc. Now after several months of building Lego I've spent less time hitting the gym and more time building Lego and have gained some weight. Lego is so fun to build and addictive that I find myself a few hours each day/night building sets instead of exercising. In fact the only time it seems I'm getting any exercise now is walking down the Lego toy aisles. :-) Has this happened to anyone else or just me?

Happy New Year All Well the answer is 'yes' of course but...... A possibly sacrilegious thought for this site, but at the risk of Ed & Jeff throwing large objects over the Atlantic

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/03/minecraft-pc-sales-at-12-million-franchise-at-33-million Just a theory. With Minecraft hitting amazing sales records, is it possible that this game is bringing people out of the dark ages? I am actually thinking of writing my first article on this. Looking for thoughts on the topic.

Do you guys know of any good site to trade Lego? Back in the day I used to trade some TCG cards in one forum, wondering if there's something like that for Lego.

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So this may be more of a general build and lego philosophy question rather than an investing question: Question #1: I really want to Bricklink a grand lego EOL set like the Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal, or the Statue of Liberty. Seems to be a pretty common desire for many builders. Do you believe something like this is a worth it in pure dollar sense, or is there always some piece or something that makes it a wash compared to buying it used online? Example on the Eiffel Tower, piece 3633 a Dark Bluish Grey fence piece is probably the biggest obstacle since you need 255 of them and they typically sell for .40 - $1.50 depending on your seller. (And who want to pay $300…

Here is something I found proposed by IrishGuy66 while digging through Site Improvements and Questions a while ago: "Something that could be useful for brickpicker is online auctioning on here. Just think some investor gets a deal on a QAR so to speak, and he wants to make some quick cash, but also wants it to go to a good home. And there's also a collector on here who's been looking for that, so he goes in the auction, and bids against other collectors. You could really make a bit of an income with this for site improvement. All you have to do is charge less than eBay. Members on here are always complaining how eBay is always taking too much of their hard earned do…

Ok, so I bought a Golden Dragon from Walmarts site to store along with a bunch of other sets back in January. Problem is the GD came in a freaking bubble mailer while everything else was shipped in boxes. Well guess what the GD box was damaged... not insignificantly either. I meant to return it, but got lazy and forgot. So my question is would it be unethical to buy a new one mint from Walmart and return the one they carelessly shipped with that receipt? Im torn.

Check out the custom Lego set I found for sale on eBay today - This is Spinal Tap! While was highly amused by some of the movie references they included, they missed the best one - the mini Stonehenge. Could have been a knock out, but for some reason it just misses the mark for me.