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Hello! My best friend is manager of a comic shop in Chicago. I have collected over the years as well. I will say up front that the places that "grade" comics with AFA values are pretty much a waste unless you have something that is REALLY valuable. They will charge you a lot to grade and unless it is a rare item it usually doesn't help sell. On the other hand, it seems every person is different when it comes to determining the grades. Even my friend, who deals in comics, says when he gives someone a grade, they could go somewhere else and they might grade it totally different. Things to look for: 1. Is the cover in good shape? No tears, creases, or spots is best. 2. Pages - Any rips or folds of the pages? If not, proceed to next. 3. Are the staples firm and not loose? If your book meets all these criteria, then i would say you have a near mint book. I had my friend show me what constitutes a perfectly mint book. It was the same criteria i just wrote but he also checked for fingerprints and oils on the cover. Corners had to be perfect and the book should have been bagged and boarded the instant it was received. On that note, if you are trying to sell, it's best to bag and board them if you don't already. I have sold a lot in the past and i usually just say they are near mint in my description but that they have not been professionally graded. If you are using ebay then the pictures will do the talking. I just noticed you are in the Chicago area. You should give my friend a call. They just made a move of the store from Calumet City to Crown Point, Indiana. They are Amazing Fantasy Comics. They've been around for more than 20 years. They will be at the old location for a few more days then open next week at the new store. The old number is 708-891-2260 and the new number will be 219-661-1500. Ask for Dave. He will be able to help you with any questions you might have. I hope i have been of some help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9RVS8cjNN0

I picked up a Witch Doctor for my son, he's gonna go nuts when he opens it on his bday he loves the hero factory villains, the more evil they look, the better. I'm so proud.

Online only free y wing with htf sets. Added a ssd to my cart to see this...

First HR images to 79012 Mirkwood Elf Army & 79013 Lake-Town Chase all pics link to HR version +2000.pxl 79012 Mirkwood Elf Army 79013 Lake-Town Chase all images

Why are so many wondering if this particular set was overproduced? It doesn't even make any sense. You may as well ask if every other set that was ever made was overproduced. The real question is how many of these are put away for resale in the next few years. There weren't more of these produced in 1 year than are produced of plenty of other sets that were or have been available for 2+ years.

Hello. New LOTR project. Come support it at - http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/51716 Hope you like it and support it. http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/51716 Thanks!

Why does Emazers refer to himself in the third person? I thought it was obvious why you buy so many of each set, because you believe you might make money on them in the future.

Why does Emazers buy 40-50 sets or more of one set!!!!!!! Because he can!!!!

From what I can see you have some parts to a wide variety of sets: Angler Attack Link Passenger Plane Link you have the wings for the set but nothing else Fire Hammer vs. Mutant Lizards Link Aerial Defense Unit Link T-Rex Hunter Link Maybe Passenger Plane (different one) Link City Corner ( you only has the bus) Link Jungle Cutter Link (you are missing some pieces for it) That is all I can identify from the pictures. Enjoy.

I don't think ED comes off wrong at all. He has been selling Legos since 1998 or later and has a lot of experience and wisdom. I think he enjoys helping people out and believes what he has to say is meaningful. If I was confident in my lego inventment strategy I would be confident and consistent in what I said as well but I am a noob at Lego inventment so I keep quiet. Emazers, thanks for all your advice on these forums. Darrell

Haters are gonna hate! Ed keep doing what you do best.................stacking bricks of cash rather than bricks of Lego

Just reading this topic name all that came to my mind was.....because he wants to...leave the guy alone.

Ed, you owe no one an explanation of anything you do. Whatever works for you is great. If people like it, good, if people don't, its their choice. When you sell for $10 million, make sure you put something in the Brickpicker cookie jar.

Maybe MOS can do a write up on modestly......some of you have none.

Yes, there are 4 stores total all owned by the same guy. I believe either Lori or Garrett runs Tinley Park. All of the other stores originally branched off from the Calumet City store. It was the first. Kinda sad to see it close. But the area is just terrible now and sales dropped off significantly. So they either had to move where the money is or close up altogether. I don't know if the other stores will be buying as much back issues since they have been established for a long time. But Dave told me that since they are starting fresh in the Crown Point store, he would probably need some back issues for the bin. They are all great people. Besides being my friend since kindergarden, i have been getting my comics and books and collectibles with them for the last 25 years. Yeah, it seems digital has put a real hurt on the business as a whole. I don't think it will ever go away completely because there are too many old school people like me that would rather have a tangible book in hand rather than a digital copy. In order to survive now though, you have to carry a lot of other entertainment-related stuff to compensate. Dave says he makes quite a bit now off of the Heroclix gaming stuff and tournaments. If you try to rely on the comics and books only, you will sink really fast. When you call Dave, tell him John from Tennessee sent you. LOL Hope he can help you out!

If anyone here needs a part-time babysitter for your thousands of sets, pm me. I offer good rates and I promise not to open any more than 1 of each :)

reconsider my ban for what reason ? why all the hate

I am sure that Quacs wrote a blog article about that. It is in two parts. Here are two links. Part one. Part two.

Rise from the death... Welcome back !! Got crawlers? Hahaha....

Hi, I am not from Britain, but I live here If you have bits missing from those sets, you should be able to source them relatively easily as most parts back then were pretty standard.

WOW!!! Shocker!!!! Another bogus BS deceiving sale from TRU! Anyone figure why the hell they put the $399 price tag in their ad but don't include the $399 sets in the sale? Another big SHAME ON YOU TRU!!! Anyway....moving on....

in my country halloween which is not even our ''festival'' or party, is a just a drinking party with facepainting organized mostly by pubs etc.... I skip the painting and drink Whiskey since its American drink for American holiday party....

mmmm can't edit my original post which sucks! so here are some more! Remember all my pictures link to HR version which can be +2000.pxl or higher! 79011 Dol Guldur Ambush all images

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Most of the knights (parts) are from Knight's Kingdom 2000 (King Leo's knights, like this and this), but I also see two or even 3 (top parts) from recent Kingdoms sets 2010 (this and this and this). 3rd guy top row is partly Wolfpack knight . The helmet on him is from different sets, could be Crusaders. 4th guy top row is Black falcon (wrong helmet). 3rd guy 2nd row and 2nd guy 3rd row are from Black Knights, could be this set. But helmets are wrong. I just recognize torsos.

8092 Luke's Landspeeder 9455 Fangpyre Mech 3222 Helicopter and limousine

Very randomly picked up a 7346 Seaside House on clearance at my local Target for $15!

Welcome to BrickPicker. Nice collection!

The only reason I posted the Sale paper is because it has Lego sets up to $399.99 on sale for $319.99, so it says all Star wars sets, So we will see if that includes the Exclusive and Hard to Find sets, And with Lego telling Amazon, target and walmart no sales on Exclusives, we will just have to see what happens, And some Toys r us store do carry the Hard to find. Mainly the High end stores.and Toys R Us does have the Vampire Castle on sale Nov 3-23 For $80

Last row, 3rd column: Gilbert the Bad, missing helmet.

If you look back through old threads, there has been a lot of proof that the in store labels mean nothing. Its gone, there really is no other explanation. Its not coming back. It was overpriced and didn't sell well at retail. They cleared their stock and I am pretty sure will be done with it. Meanwhile those of us who have quietly stocked them such as yourself will be happy. This isn't gonna be a $1000 set. But I think it could hit $350 - $400 in several years.

Are there brick and mortar TRU that carry the larger sets? I haven't seen anything bigger than the $150 sets in all of the ones in my surrounding area.

$35 in shipping or so. I would say $40 to be sure. Then you add fees - if you aren't a power or top seller, the equation would be $400 / .87 + $40 = 499.75 So $500 is where you break even.

Pictures or it never happened.

Welcome!!

Nice sets. Welcome.

Welcome to the site, TravellingMan.

Welcome! :-)

Welcome! Beautiful Lego from the 60's, I'd never seen anyone face to face... Just like you, my mom threw the boxes away! If only I had a time machine......

What I can say is I got an email today with a lot of Walmart Warehouse items on clearance: http://www.walmart.com/browse/toys/lego-rollbacks/4171_4186_1155736/?_refineresult=true&ic=48_0&path=0%3A4171&povid=cat4186-env434412-moduleB101513-lLinkMS1LEGORollbacks

Welcome to Brickpicker.

Building the Haunted House and vampyre castle.

As many as you feel... if you FEEL 1 is too much then it is.... Its about how you feel not how everyone else feels.... Someone here wil lsay 25 is too much i will tell you 2 is too much.... because we all look from our own perspective and ideas.... Listen to your reason and logic how much is too much... There is no UNIVERSAL % spreadsheet or anything...

So I cant help but wonder why Mark is stockpiling so many crawlers. Here's a few ideas floating around in my head: 6. After a lifetime of searching, hes finally found a way to get into the Guiness Book of World Records. 5. He's looking for the crawler with license plate number 763, because thats his favorite number. 4. He was the runner up in the contest to create the limited edition model, and he just hasn't gotten over the loss. He wants to wipe them off the face of the earth. 3. He has a terrible case of OCD. 2. He has a diabolical plan to take over the world and the crawlers (after some modification) will be his army. 1. He's really Santa Clause and hes gathering crawlers to give out to all the good kids on Christmas. (The not so good kids get mega blox) Or, I guess its could just be a plain old investment strategy. But wouldnt it be cool if he really was Santa????

There is an awful lot of jealousy on this site. It's crazy. I could care less how much money he has or what he drives. What I care about is that he seems like a reputable guy who pays for what he buys. How about we focus on that? He is a really good buyer who hopefully won't see any of these silly posts or he will likely think we are all 12 year olds.