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Yes it is. Saying it over and over again will not make it disappear.

Found this little gem off of Craigslist May not excite most, but I am pumped.

I am super excited about today's retirements! There are 14 sets on that list that I have in mid to high quantities. And this is on the same day that I bought 5 Lone Ranger Trains, 11 Doc Ock Ambushes, and 8 Attack of the Wargs. When I bought this stuff, I didn't even know it was retired! I am not bragging here. I am just very enthusiastic! YAY!!!

I do have a favorite, but first here are some pictures i dug up from my instagram. These are most of the close runner ups. I'm a huge fan of the robber who was in the lego city video game. I also love the cops from Lego City especially Chase himself. All different variations of firefighters have always been awesome. The ones in the pic below are just some of my favorite fire fighters. It was quite an ordeal to find the original yoda minifig, but I love him so much more than the newer clone wars yoda. I love these Mexicans! Some people might consider a moustached man with a poncho, maracas, and a sombrero somewhat stereotypical.. I see a celebration of a great culture. The luchador is awesome as well! I wish I had a better picture of my lumberjack dude with his awesome ax. The axe he came with isn't one of the plain black one, it actually has a red and silver axe head. Very cool. But right here he's riding his bike past the residence of another one of my favorites: the bagpiper. I'm a huge fan of all of the guy in an animal suit figs. My favorite is probably the gorilla, but the chicken is great as well, and of course the panda. I've been a tmnt fan my whole life.. And i was blown away by how friggin cool these minifigs ended up being. Not a big fan of any of the sets, but I realize that's probably because I'm not a kid. The minifigs, though, are outstanding. I'm a huge super hero fan. I love Spidey and Daredevil the most, but when it comes to Lego, Cap is the best. I could probably create a whole new collection of all the awesome indigenous people lego has put out. The mohawk indian, the tiki man, etc. all awesome. But my favorite minifig is no doubt the clockwork robot. I don't see that changing any time soon either. He's just awesome.

Unless we virtually fall off the wagon and break the virtual seals on our virtual investments for our own virtual use. That would virtually suck.

You can already export your collection in excel: http://www.brickpicker.com/bpms/brickfolio_data.cfm

Last Walmart in town got me. (2) Galactic Titan $49 (my first Galaxy Squad sets) (2) Quinjets $49 (out of 10, only ones worth purchasing) (2) Cloud Cookoo Palace - Retail, but you can't find these around here, they are always sold out. (1) Unexpected Gathering $49 They had 3 Bag End sets, but one was re-taped, and the other was beat up. Actually, they had a lot of beat up sets, and this isn't really a bad Walmart. They also had all the Castle stuff on sale, but I just can't get into that theme yet, it just doesn't stack up to Kingdoms or the previous Castle line. Lone Ranger is long gone around here. I guess is has something to do with being in the middle of nowhere, folks identify with Stagecoaches and Steam Engines.

Scrub what I've typed previously, I now think the biggest threat facing us is the massive fees that are now associated with selling. If you add... Final value fee What a joke! At least listing fees are negligible..... for now. PayPal fees Close to credit card fee so I'll forgive that. Final value fee on postage WTF? This yet another seller expense, hardly profit is it? Packaging materials Correct sized boxes are expensive and only add to postage costs if too big. Bubble-wrap and parchment paper just won't do as today's fussy buyers now expect the item to arrive in perfect condition in a strong outer box. Tax With the seriously stripped out profit (if any) now in hand, we even have to part with more of it. Don't bury your head in the sand as you WILL get caught. Is it all really worth it? I know eBay argue that fees have risen to account for fraud and compensation but, doesn't PayPal cover that? Credit card companies do. In Summary.... I now need to sell a

I'm nosey.....how much? From where? Is it a 1st edition?

I bought my first 10179 MF and its 100% Mint unopened and still in brown cardboard lego shipping box. The Joy.

I would jump on them withou hesitation. Now having in mind that we are in Europe, I'd double check recent sales on eBay and do my math Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

Somebody needs buy all remaining Funhouse stocks at TRU so the REAL fun can begin

I just got into Legos last month, mostly as a collector. I'm glad I at least got one Batwing for myself! Sent from my iPad using Brickpicker

Wow Darren, why stop at 50? Why not make it 100? Lol. I envy you, sir.

I know there is a thread somewhere...but here is what I recall off the top of my head: Dynamic Duo Funhouse Escape Batwing Battle Over Gotham City Attack of the Wargs Riddles for the Ring The Orc Forge The Mines of Moria Goblin King Battle Vampyre Castle Fire Brigade!!! The Swamp Creature Constitution Train Cavalry Builder Set Colby City Showdown Spider-Man's Doc Ock Ambush That's all I can think of for now, but that ought to be enough to get you salivating.

This whole Bronies scene creeps me out...

I need a unique avatar. Most times I recognize people by their avatar more than their nickname. I was thinking who is the new guy using Doofy's avatar. Exciter's storm trooper stopped appearing for a while and I thought who is this guy. Definitely not as knowledgeable as the storm trooper guy.

Update: I guess the account merge took place and arock68 won the battle. Sorry Chino and Veegs, the Doofy Comeback Tour was cancelled.

They don't like to wear the glasses and will sit there with their glasses off suffering from a grainy/fuzzy movie.

Welcome to the site. These long names are tough on an old guy like me to type. LOL

This is too much intrigue for an early morning. Btw I liked the name Doofy Mcgee quite a bit more. I'd hang out with that guy.

I couldn't care less what any review says; I would go see this regardless!

Welcome, Gottabuildemall. Your member name pretty much reflects my own building attitude. Haha.

I finally sold my last Architecture studio today. For $400. Not a bad return, but if it doesn't come back I may punch myself. lol. Not a bad return on a set I paid $125 for though. In October.

Just saw on Legos website that the funhouse now says retired. I was lucky to grab 3 of these at tru for 19.99 . I made them match the legoshop price lol. The prices are gonna sky rocket on this set I believe Sent from my iPad using Brickpicker

Ok........todays pickups are as follows...... (1) 79111 LR Train.......50% off (1) 9471 Uruk-hai Army.....30% off and I did something of a first today....... (4) 3188 Heartlake Vet.......50% off...... This is the first Friends set that I have bought......

Paging willy431 willy431, it is safe to come out now

Also COnstituion train, Hoth Echo Base, Logging Truck, Goblin King, Mines Of Moria

21 by 11 inch boxes...."Stocking Stuffers"

1) Replicas - this is not a problem in my opinion. If there will be many fake minifigs, even sets, buyers will be more careful and will avoid purchases from risky regions, or BL shops without good reputation. Serious BL shops will supply from serious sources (toy shops, serious web shops, etc), so there would be just a minimum fake stuff. The most problem would be minifigures, but this just move the buyers from minifigures to buying the MISB sets. 2) 3D printing - The same as (1). Plus I have doubts that we can see products from 3D printers comparable with original stuff from TLG. 3) Economy - this is a global problem, which can affect every area of investing. The lego fans are collectors, and collector stuff is sometimes more stable during unstable periods. 4) TLG campaign against resellers - this is even more platonic threat than activities of publishing companies against the music piracy. If TLG ban some resellers, they can easy register themselves through their friends, family members, etc. This is much more easy in countries, when are brand lego stores, where you can buy as much sets as possible. More effective from TLG would be a) extending the life of sets, faking with EOL, c) reedition of popular sets. But TLG is limited with these instrument - they cannot extend the life of sets extremly, since they need to change their portfolio (they cannot produce 2-3 time more sets than usual, plus its hard to sell for example 10 modulars in the same time due the risk of canibalism effect). We can also react for such activity and buy these sets later, for example after 5-6 years from the release date. But of course, such things will decline our profits - because if a certai set is selling on primary market long time, more AFOLs would have a chance to buy it. 5) a grow of investors - this is definitely the most important factor. If the number of investors (and number of sets stored in their cellars) reach a critical level, this can attack the ratio of supply and demand. Because if many investors will clean up most of exclusive sets in a certain country, what TLG will do? They will see that there is a big demand for certain sets, and they will produce more and more sets (which normally wouldnt be produced). This can lead to a big deformation of the market. The critical time can be a year after EOL - there will be huge stocks in investors hands, but the demand should be very limited - since most of collectors bought such sets in normal way before EOL. The situation can be better after longer time, when more new AFOLs will come. The question is whether we can expect more new collectors than the number of sets in the secondary market. I dont know. I am still an optimist - because if I buy a set, which normal price is 100 usd, for discounted price 80 usd, even If I sell this set for standard price, I have a profit 25%. So I need just a small growth of the price, or be more patient and wait for a longer time. I think that the profit will be smaller and smaller, but still there will be some profit - for example 15-25% per year. The investors just need to be more careful and choose just the best sets as a investors targets. For sure there will be a solid demand for perfect lego models, such as Unimog. I cannot imagine that I can have a problem to sell such set, bought for 150 usd, for 200-250 usd. Or a big fan of hobits will become a AFOL and find, that X years ago there were lego sets with favourite characters - I cannot imagine that such fan will refuse to pay 200 usd for Helms deep - he must know that such sets will never be produced again. Certain sets are unrepeatable. We just need to be very careful and dont waste our time, money and storage place for crap.

I didn't want to post this in the respective threads because it's not my intention to call out or offend anyone. There have been a lot of posts in the "Daily Deals" thread that basically just brag about cleaning out stock and tell the reader how many of each set the poster picked up. I'd like to not have to wade through multiple postings of that sort of thing. It kind of belongs in the "What set did you buy today" thread.

Bummer, I still have to see his drivel when someone else quotes him. He apparently thinks people are upset about his bone-headed opinions. No, people are upset because it is incredibly annoying to read the same over the top, hyperbolic ridiculousness over, and over, and over, and over, and over.