6 minutes ago, crayxlp said:

this is a discussion forum and its totally inevitable (and normal) that ppl have difference of opinions. as for the fans base, question: I guess that most of the ppl born in 50's just loved Beetles.. can you imagine giving your folks "four exclusive Beetles minifigs" and expect them to look thrilled what a great collectors / reminder object to have? .. i just cant.. Beetles generation is now mostly in their 60+ and they just dont have much appreciation for stuff like this.. 

again, I could be wrong. So could you

I think Lego/Beatles is niche for sure. We got my father-in-law the Beatles sub last Christmas and he built it and displayed it for a while, but really he's more interested in getting every single Beatles book and recording that gets released. But I can't imagine every die-hard Beatles fan doesn't already have one of these if they wanted it. Wall-E was popular with older millennials (like me) who enjoyed Lego as kids and now are having kids and watching Pixar movies with our kids and thinking, dang, I want that Lego Wall-E.

4 minutes ago, Val-E said:

Perhaps the debate should be whether Beatles or Caterham will do better.

.. compared to.. ?

Just now, crayxlp said:

.. compared to.. ?

each other.

looking at the yellow sub sales   they look fairly good,will be a goer if retirement phase does not get strung out.

which I suspect it will.

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3 minutes ago, crayxlp said:

.. compared to.. ?

All comparisons are done to fire bikes around here 

thats a tough one.. most likely it depends on how many stores some of the most renowned UK members over here had a chance to deplete below the unthinkable sales price..  none of them attracts me much, but then Im not flipping

5 minutes ago, ravenb99 said:

All comparisons are done to fire bikes around here 

However, Angry Birds are making a strong challenge as the benchmark for turdy investments. 

1 minute ago, Val-E said:

However, Angry Birds are making a strong challenge as the benchmark for turdy investments. 

Did you break even or lose out on Angry birds?

Just now, richiej1979 said:

Did you break even or lose out on Angry birds?

bought a load of the ships when they were £15 at Argos and did ok flipping them,buy in price is king in this game if you want a quick turn around,

 

Actually bought a bunch of angry birds in closeout.  It actually has a following.   

3 minutes ago, richiej1979 said:

Did you break even or lose out on Angry birds?

I haven´t even got round to listing them yet, considering they are still available for 60% off or more on Amazon, it´ll be a while.

1 hour ago, crayxlp said:

this is a discussion forum and its totally inevitable (and normal) that ppl have difference of opinions. as for the fans base, question: I guess that most of the ppl born in 50's just loved Beetles.. can you imagine giving your folks "four exclusive Beetles minifigs" and expect them to look thrilled what a great collectors / reminder object to have? .. i just cant.. Beetles generation is now mostly in their 60+ and they just dont have much appreciation for stuff like this.. 

again, I could be wrong. So could you

I accept your opinion. I have just wanted to show that Beatles can have big potential and have some advantages in comparsion with WallE. Even the fans from Beatles age are old, they have still a lot of fans and it is a legend, maybe the biggest music legend. Its a Star Wars in pop music :-) WallE is just 1 movie from many similar. But the lego world has its own rules and even a bionicle or elves set can have bigger grow than a perfect AFOL set :-)

1 hour ago, richiej1979 said:

Did you break even or lose out on Angry birds?

Smyths cleared out the castles for £30, when the buy in is low even turds can make money.

Hell i've even made money on the 1 and only Rebel Combat Frigate i've bought. That in itself is a miracle.

There will be little to no interest in The Beatles Yellow Submarine when it retires so there's no reason to continue to discuss it & certainly no reason to purchase any.

31 minutes ago, dcdfan said:

There will be little to no interest in The Beatles Yellow Submarine when it retires so there's no reason to continue to discuss it & certainly no reason to purchase any.

1 hour ago, dcdfan said:

There will be little to no interest in The Beatles Yellow Submarine when it retires so there's no reason to continue to discuss it & certainly no reason to purchase any.

I agree!

Australian site
Architecture Burj 2.0 went from retiring soon to retired in the space of a few days, didn’t even see it on backorder.
Not sure if other regions have this available.

1 hour ago, mtchrs said:

Australian site
Architecture Burj 2.0 went from retiring soon to retired in the space of a few days, didn’t even see it on backorder.
Not sure if other regions have this available.

I'm hoping that Burj v2 does well as it's had a short(ish) run and v1 actually did OK.

On 05/12/2017 at 11:32 PM, dcdfan said:

There will be little to no interest in The Beatles Yellow Submarine when it retires so there's no reason to continue to discuss it & certainly no reason to purchase any.

It will not perform anywhere near as well as the Exo Suit so move along please..... NEXT! ;-)

Isn’t 42054 on the list to retire soon? Seems in stock everywhere

12 minutes ago, Brickbuilder.g said:

Isn’t 42054 on the list to retire soon? Seems in stock everywhere

It's already marked as retired in the EU (again).

Guess bigger technic sets linger more in US but either way I suspect it’s decent long term

Guys quick question. Is 10249 Winter toy shop scheduled to be retired in 2018?

Guys quick question. Is 10249 Winter toy shop scheduled to be retired in 2018?

I think so. Sigh. I've been trying to get I've for weeks in time for the holidays. Epic fail.

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1 hour ago, TANV said:

I think so. Sigh. I've been trying to get I've for weeks in time for the holidays. Epic fail.

I bought mine in 2008

1 hour ago, jaylay said:

Guys quick question. Is 10249 Winter toy shop scheduled to be retired in 2018?

its on this years retiring list .