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lol bg2001, I've got over 60 of these...I think I can spare one. I'll do a good deed, and give it to you for $50 shipped. =) pm me if you want to work this out.

You learnt spacing from emazers right?

ended up giving a total of 5 of them for $50 shipped in that 5 mins, because I couldn't say no. lol

This sounds like someones significant other trying to sell their lego collection... I am going to go check my wife's computer history!

I'd say $739.

I'm already selling bg2001 one of these for $50. I'm feeling in a good mood. I will also do the $50 shipped (in US) for MOM, for the next 2 members who pm me. let's see how long this takes. lol

First tip, Don't expect to buy and immediately sell for a profit. You'll need to buy, hold, (BE PATIENT), then sell. The usual progression is: 1) TRY to buy near the end of an item's lifespan. This requires research, and nobody truly knows when an item will retire, its an art not a science. Typically 2 year lifespan for products, but it differs GREATLY from set to set, 2) TRY to buy on discount. (30-50%) Never pay Full Retail unless you already see the product has retired and is actively bringing big profits. 3) Decide what your needed profit margin is, and stick to it. Don't get greedy hoping for an item to continue to rise. Sometimes they plateau, sometimes they come crashing back to earth due to a re-release (Architecture studio, and Minecraft are examples) 4) Sell on ebay with great pictures, buy it now / best offer, don't accept returns (scammers abound), and try to stockpile shipping material AHEAD of time so you're not scrambling when something does sell. - Just my opins, many may differ. Finally, welcome! There's plenty of discount lego sets to go around (unless you're talking Amazon Warehouse deals). Hope you get to contribute a few tips along the way.

Might just be an illusion, but now that the lights are on and it's morning, it looks like that Falcon is carefully trying to escape.

I bought a big steaming pile of bricks to build Brent Wallers Ghostbusters Fire Station HQ. Hopefully in time for release of the new Cussoo Ghostbusters Ecto-1 and mini figures :-)

Oh yeah, I happen to lose my head all the time, especially since I discovered this damned site...

Pretty funny. Had to post it here. I bet my wife would say..."Yeah I could see you doing that".

I don't really think manufacturing in China is the great threat some of you make it out to be. The magic in Lego, the je ne c'est qoui, is not only in quality of brick, but also in the licensing, the packaging, the composition and thought that goes into making these sets. The builders putting these sets together are head and shoulders above and beyond their competition. You can't fake creativity, and/or imagination. As long as Lego continues to have the foresight to buy the right licenses and find the right people to put these wonderful creations together their competition can only copy. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Pile of Coach handbags and leather goods knocked off every year in China, yet Coach continues to post good numbers and continued growth. Lego is no different.

They HAVE to turn this down... BECAUSE I WANT A WHOLE FREAKIN THEME!!! I would buy the crap out of that train though.

I really need to slow down when typing from my phone, sheesh. Even i don't like reading it.

Message "darin" and tell him you want to have Chris Weidman's baby. He might cut you a deal.

Doubt they'll be able to read interactions on it.

I saw a new display today at Target. It's about 20 pages with lots of sets pictured including exclusives. I tried including a pic but for some reason it keeps failing.

Only if I can have it in bricks, volume of 1x1s

I just stopped by my local Kmart about a week ago ... and it was like walking through a "ghost town" ... as opposed to 3 of my local Walmarts ... which are total "zoos!" I'm surprised my local Kmart is still open! Funny Story Time: so last summer when I went to see the Superman "Man of Steel" movie ... towards the end of the movie there is a long fight scene / destruction / mayhem between Superman and General Zod ... and at one point ... General Zod throws a locomotive train at Superman that then crashes into and obliterates a Kmart store ... at that point ... my brother leaned over and said ... "I always knew Kmart was a train wreck!" I couldn't stop laughing for days!!

Here's a quote from Back to the future: Doc: Unbelievable that this little piece of junk could be such a big problem. No wonder this circuit failed. It says, "Made in Japan." Marty: What do you mean, Doc ? All the best stuff is made in Japan. Doc: Unbelievable !

lol....had a feeling I shouldn't have posted that. o well I just have some shirts, and a bunch of his rare cards...and almost forgot, a big mural of him on a wall at my shop. lol winning 60k will make you do, or buy some crazy things. =/ I gotta admit, pillowcase is kinda weird though

it's prob time for me to unsubscribe with the recent posts

I give up.

Make sure to never mention "hotcakes"....

I think it looks quite smart. I managed to get one 25% off before they all vanished. But I am not convinced on the long term return on city sets. Tesco were clearing 60004 Fire Station at 25% off, so there must be a new one of the way.

It's high time eBay stepped up on combatting counterfeit goods. They're quick to nail sellers with increased fees and taxing us on postage costs though. Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

Mehr Plastiksteinchen hat Lego vor allem in Asien, einem "immer noch relativ kleinen Markt" f

We call them all turtles.

Surely lego will be ok with a slow of growth. A slow in growth means that the idea of a bubble and the effects of a boom type effect would be negated. I said it before that Lego would rather 20 years of gradual slow growth than 2 years of boom growth, leading to an eventual bust. Also it is impossible to sustain a high level of growth like Lego has. It has been obvious sometime down the line they would grow, but at a slower rate. The marginal revenue will grow at a slower rate each year, but that is not necessarily a bad thing at all.

Haha, wow. They really do come across like the Star Wars answer to Mario Kart much like the PS2 game "Super Bombad Racing".

Yeah, just do what I did and leave all your crap at your parents house and hope they don't throw it all away!

I agree with donotinsertintomouth. Before you know it, you will be buying the sets back for more than you sold them. It happens all the time. Avoid this mistake, and if in 1-3 years you still want to sell them, go ahead, but give it a TON of thought.

You should have shipped the set he paid for and offered a cancellation on the second as it seems it was most likely an error purchasing 2.You could of cancelled even if he didnt respond after 7 days and you would have fulfilled your obligations by sending him what he paid for. It happens often a buyer may buy something twice "not knowing the fist time if it worked" Its your call what to do now and what feels right with you.

And people just passed as they have little patience...... There would be a fair list of sets like that recently too.

You need to provide a whole lot more info than that to accurately evaluate. Themes, sets, minifigures, instructions, boxes? Please elaborate.

Make sure it's stapled to the box. Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

Actually, you could very well be right. The funny thing is I had exactly the same thought about my stance! Enjoying the microbuild is a probably not mainstream. To your original point, I think not having full size Metal Beard in the Sea Cow ship will help Metal Beard's Duel's popularity. I have to believe that in the sequel Metal Beard will play a prominent role. If I had one tiny beef with 1, it's that Metal Beard didn't play a bigger role. His character intriguing and his backstory gives him a depth that wasn't utilized to its fullest. That said, you can only have so many well developed characters before they become either superfluous or duplicative.

So. Awesome.

I think it might be about the sets that were introduce in 2012 vs 2013. 2012 had Superheroes, Lord of the Rings, Monster Fighters, and Friends to give them the bump. 2013 had Legend of Chima replacing Ninjago...

Correlation is not the same as causation. For the change in policies to be the cause of the drop, you would have to accept the proposition that the only thing standing in between TLG and a hundred million in additional sales was the ability of retailers to discount a small number of high priced sets. Personally, I don't buy it. I'm not privy to any inside information, but I suspect that TLG's revenues are built on the back of smaller, more affordable sets to a much greater extent than larger more expensive sets.

Ooh, I remember that rumor. The guy pretty much posted a list on eurobricks then bailed lol

They have always released new sets in this manner. They don't need new sets to encourage sales in December, you need new products to encourage purchasing when people aren't already looking to buy. Also, I think too much weight is being put into the no discounting exclusives policy. Sure, people may not be buying as many exclusives, but they're still spending the money, just on different stuff. If someone has a $2,000 budget, they probably didn't stop buying sets because they can't buy exclusives, they just put that same money into other stuff they could get at a discount. Either way, most people weren't buying their exclusives from TLG directly since Amazon usually had bigger discounts on them.

Hi guys, I happen to be an economist. The numbers I posted above are directly from The Lego Group Annual Report which can be found on their website in the About Us section. In 2012 sales for the first 6 months were 9.1 bil dkk, and 23.4 bil dkk for the year, meaning the first half of the year accounts for roughly 40% of the total. Fast forward to 2013, first 6 months sales were 10.4 bil dkk. Assuming this will be 40% of annual revenue, this would result in annual sales of 26 bil dkk, meaning sales growth will slow from 25% in 2012 to roughly 10% in 2013.

They remind me of Mario Kart for some reason.

This to me is a typical media article. The title of the article makes it sound like sales are down. As noted when looking at the numbers growth has only slowed but as others have said it is still growing. The market is never happen unless growth is greater than the previous year. It sounds like the business is still very sound and still growing albeit at a slower pace. Technically sales havent slowed down, growth has. Those are 2 very different things.

It's important to note that GROWTH has slowed, but sales are still INCREASING. At least according to the article posted above, it looks like LEGO sold more sets last year (even if only 1% more) than the year before, so it's not like LEGO is going to be hurting (unless they way overshot their production/expansion in anticipation of continued growth). That being said, this is obviously an indicator of a possible bubble that some believe is coming. I've said a few times before, there is no way LEGO (or any company) could maintain 30%-40% growth annually. Eventually, any company would see that growth slow, or they'd be able to basically buy the world. On the plus side, I do believe the movie is going to help their sales a lot, at least in the short run, which should help their growth this year.

So my crane showed up today, unbelievable to me that a company would ship something like this. No box whatsoever, just bags and instructions thrown into a brown box. Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

I was thinking how this ship reminded me of the ships on level 8 of Super Mario 3, then I found that someone actually recreated one in Lego... '> Still, I think I'll be passing on the Sea Cow.

Happy dance indeed. I love the classic space sets. I wish I had more of them.

The Container Store. Multilevel display case, can adjust steps. Great for minifigure displays or a vehicle and some figures: http://www.containerstore.com/shop/collections/display/cubesCases?productId=10022884&******=233 Basketball and Soccer displays handle Funhouse with some mod and tiefighter: http://www.containerstore.com/shop/collections/display/cubesCases?productId=10001589&******=233 Doll Size Case handles Palace Cinema and other modulars: http://www.containerstore.com/shop/collections/display/cubesCases?productId=10001591&******=233 They also have a 24 section hinged acrylic case that holds a minifigure in each section. Just some ideas, good luck keeping dust bunnies at bay.