Agreed.  This makes a lot of sense. I've been buying a few here and there for the last year, so I'm not worried.  It seems a lot of people are a little paranoid after the FB seemed to vanish from one day to the next.  

I'm worried about this, but it seems that it is not likely to happen. Maybe the GE will disappear around Black Friday, like the FB did last year.

Harrods has the GE on sale. 119 GBP

Spring catalogue 2014 the grand emporium is in there.

I checked the catalogue of Jan-Jun 2014 (3 times). There are no exclusives shown in the catalogue. Maybe there is another catalogue for more expensive items??

 

I think it's a wholesale catalog; not the catalog you find in a toy store over here in Europe.

I think you are right. In the simple catalogue for us poor europeans it is not in there.

John Lewis have restocked. 25 available again

John Lewis have restocked. 25 available again

I don't understand why people buy them from John lewis with no discount when you can pick them up from lego with 5% vips and a mm

Because John Lewis don't care if you order 25. And they occasionally price match across an entire range I.e. if someone has 10% off Lego, they will match it, even on exclusives.

The only ones that discount exclusives are lego themselves, you still pick up the vips with the discount.

Would you really try 25 GE from John lewis, ive had some shocking packaging from them.

No, John Lewis will also discount exclusives. FB and VW were 10% off before Christmas. Some people prefer to have the raw cash off rather than VIP discount which ties your capital into lego.

Has anyone tried ordering more than five of the same set at a time from Lego UK? I'm curious to know what I can get away with before they consider imposing a ban

No, John Lewis will also discount exclusives. FB and VW were 10% off before Christmas. Some people prefer to have the raw cash off rather than VIP discount which ties your capital into lego.

 

I like the John Lewis 10% discounts, knocks a fair bit off when you're buying exclusive sets. Anyone know roughly how often JL offer this?

Has anyone tried ordering more than five of the same set at a time from Lego UK? I'm curious to know what I can get away with before they consider imposing a ban

I've ordered 4 GE's from Lego LEGO Shop at Home without a problem. 

John Lewis have restocked. 25 available again

Looks like they will be still available for a while.

If trend is anything to go by GE will be around till the end of the year

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The only ones that discount exclusives are lego themselves, you still pick up the vips with the discount.

 

GE's and FB's were 33% off in all major toy stores across Belgium last September.

Hey. I went in both of the Lego store of my town (Munich) and in both of them the GE is out of stock. I asked if it will be back and they both answered that they don't expect it and that, if I want one, I should buy it on the Lego Online store...

Last time they told me something like that was about the FB... and it got retired soon after!

Let's see...

Where you do find the modulars on the lego site?

hard to find

Hey. I went in both of the Lego store of my town (Munich) and in both of them the GE is out of stock. I asked if it will be back and they both answered that they don't expect it and that, if I want one, I should buy it on the Lego Online store...

Last time they told me something like that was about the FB... and it got retired soon after!

Let's see...

Store staff have no idea whether a set is getting discontinued anytime soon. The set (according to trends) should be available until Oct-Dec this year.

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Store staff have no idea whether a set is getting discontinued anytime soon. The set (according to trends) should be available until Oct-Dec this year.

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i know that store staff tell a lot of trash, but i wonder why 4 different stores (2 in austria, 2 in germany according to the german member viscontia) plus the lego hotline tell exactly the same thing: they won't get a GE anymore. The fact that european amazon sites are out of stock too tells me that EOL is near. (just my feeling) 

I think EOL will happen much earlier compared to FB in nov / dec 2013. 

Store staff have no idea whether a set is getting discontinued anytime soon. The set (according to trends) should be available until Oct-Dec this year.

It is easy to tell if the staff have no idea on when a set is going to get discontinued when various stores are saying completely random things compared to other sources. When the sources are saying the same thing that a set is going to be retire soon, it probably means that it will retire soon(ish). 

The majority of sets retire in the last three months of the year, they always have. If this set goes against the grain of modulars before it then I'll happily refrain my thoughts. Until then John Lewis are stocked and Lego UK have the option to order 99. I will be ordering a few of these over the next couple of months but I don't expect it to disappear for a while yet.

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I think this is going to be my first set to buy a few of (just dipping my toes in lego investing, more a fun hobby and an offset to some of the cost from buying sets for the kids as they are now huge Lego fans .  Looks fun to build and hope for a good return in a few years!