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I have mine ready to go out tomorrow...

Here is a well written article on those that make a living Building LEGO or doing more than the typical users. There is also a small section on LEGO investing and Brickpicker. http://priceonomics.com/life-as-a-lego-professional/

someone needs to change the title of this thread to show the countries this has happened in. I about pee my pants every day.

My parents donated all my legos to poor people .. was the worst day of my childhood life!

Ah hell, I'll put $20 towards that set as well.

I am in....just tell me where to ship....

Brickpickers, A local boy is battling a rare form of bone cancer and has been quarantined in his house for months. His aunt is asking the community to cheer him up with a special Lego wonderland at his school. He was scheduled to make a trip to the Lego world headquarters in Denmark but that has been postponed due to recent setbacks. Read more here: http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2014/03/12/Lego-build-aims-to-cheer-ill-boy.html I am planning to donate some sealed sets but I wanted to ask if there was anyone else that would be willing to donate? The aunt's goal is 10,000 bricks. I am hoping that we can get enough support to turn this into a LEGO Flash Mob. Imagine how awesome it would be if we could send him dozens of sets to build and create with? If you have a set or two you are willing to donate, please PM me and I'll provide the address of their home or school. I think this is a great way to give back and demonstrate the strength and goodwill of the LEGO community. Thank you for the support. P.S. If this is the wrong forum for this sort of thing, please move this thread.

Sold a few Unikitties from the Cloud Cuckoo Palace. I feel like she is the Boba Fett of The Lego Movie. Yeah...that's right, I just compared Unikitty to Boba Fett.

I didn't have any as a child - but it hurts me inside everytime I see some child getting rid of all his legos for pennies on the dollar. I have had several Craigslist deals I tried to talk people out of selling because when I went to pick it up I knew they will regret it in 5-10 years. Live and learn. Outside of incredibly bad financial problems, I will never sell my Lego sets I buy to build. I buy everyone with the intention of keeping it forever.

$50 to village (or whatever is next to buy)

I'll pass by and check at a couple more stores on my way home .

I know this topic is a few months old but thought I would share this. I enjoy trying my hand at most things, although I am not the most creative person in the world I thought I would try and come up with a nice way of displaying the Team GB set that I have managed to collect. So with a bit of measuring, cutting, printing etc I came up with this: I have had a play around and made a few different backgrounds. I actually have 3 full sets of figures, 1 set we will keep but I might sell the other 2 sets complete with frames depending on what a full set goes for on eBay.

I can agree to what some people are saying. There are more investors around so there is a possibility of flooding of sets. I believe this will temper the prices on retired sets in the future. There still will be profits made but not as much as on the Taj Mahal or Eiffel Tower. I believe these were less produced at the time and they were not available in all shops and had less lifetime. Now you see that every self-respecting town has its own lego-shop with exclusive sets. Years ago that was absolutely not the case. However, do not forget. There is still an economic crisis going on (especially in Europe). Alot of people simply cannot afford to buy lego, let alone those expensive sets! They would like to, but they can't! When the economy will go better in the coming years people will have jobs and more money on their hands and buy the good old exclusive classics. So I believe there are chances there. In this regard it is a must that lego retires SSD and DS. Otherwise people will have to many choices on the retail market and not buy our older retired sets. I just hope the new generations will stay interested in Lego. When I look around I see alot of kids who do not care for lego. They are to much into their smart phones and computer games. This I believe is the biggest thread to us lego investors. My advice: If you have money laying around... buy and invest in the bigger exclusive sets. And flip some medium sets in between to cover a bit for your investments done.

I did look up to find some of the stuff Character Building is coming out with this year for Doctor Who including a figure based on the latest Doctor. I can only surmise that although they still have the license; CB may have lost certain exclusive rights to the brand allowing a possibility for another company such as Lego to release items based on the TV series. Anyway, the CUUSOO project submitted by GlenBricker and Kaminoan has hit the full support milestone and received an official comment by Lego. I only posted the beginning paragraph since the rest is the usual 'song and dance' filler as with every other official congratulatory statement they leave behind. Via The Brick Fan Congratulations, GlenBricker and Kaminoan on reaching 10,000 supporters on LEGO CUUSOO! You

We are up to $130 towards the Ewok Village! Only $120 left to go! PM or post here if you want to donate to that fund or mail him a set directly. Thank you for the continued support! Here is a pic after Gavin arrived for his birthday surprise.

Sorry I am late to this as I just noticed it. As a father of a daughter with an uncurable disease, I know the struggles and stress of daily life. I'm willing to donate either money or another set. Let me know what else he needs.

Or they do not care how much they are worth. Next to the hospital bill's the family has to endure its nothing. Whenever I am in the hospital and a patient smiles, be it an adult or a child, it makes my day. I wish I could do more but sometimes all I can offer is a smile and a hand to hold.

For the equivalent of

I have a guy trying to extort a partial refund because I sent him a lego set. In new condition. That wasn't built. "Not what the picture shows". Let me repeat that for the people in back. I have a guy trying to extort a partial refund because I sent him a lego set. In new condition. That wasn't built. "Not what the picture shows". Yeah, the new defect thing has me scared because of people like this.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/55576/20-rare-and-really-expensive-lego-minifigures Crazy what people pay for these things. I'm happy to sell it to them

This takes on a new meaning when you realize that these are two independant statements.

I've been selling Rapunzel polybags, and Stephanie/Emma polybags (together as a set). I've also been selling minifigs that I've been parting out, mostly Star Wars Clone Troopers. Dropped off six packages at the post office this morning (a one day record for me), after making sales between yesterday morning after I got to work, and this morning when I left.

Someone just donated $100! I am speechless.

He is 10 right? Maybe sets that have more playability than show pieces like r2d2? Timing is off but the new sandcrawler would be great choice.

I noticed this on their website before for a couple months as a "Coming Soon!" design. Looks like they finished the design finally. Starlight Terminus Train Station

In 10 years the kids going to come looking for you to reclaim his lego collection. It would probably make a decent lifetime movie.

Palpie's arrest finally shipped, woot! wasn't expecting that

Grabbed 2 Garbage trucks and one Endor Rebel Troopers for 52.79 shipped. Not too bad using the 10 off 50 IMHO

If I find any tonight I will hook you up

The parks usually have a few random keychain type things that aren't everywhere, but for the most part they have all the same stuff. The only thing to look out for is the new miniland scale people set that should be a park exclusive. Not sure when it will be released though.

Not sure what you should buy, but fair warning: The shop at Legoland is not a LEGO brand store thus you cannot redeem VIP points nor gain them on purchases there.

I'm feeling better and better about this set, as I watch the most recent sales. It will test my patience to hold onto mine through all of next year.

My local TRU is giving 25% off select LOTR sets: 9496 Gandalf Arrives 9474 Battle of Helms Deep 9473 The mines of Moria Don`t know if they are worth it though.

Nice! It's great reading this thread with all the positive responses from members! (though you did mis-capitalize BrickPicker! ) Trying to +1 everyone whose contributing, but I ran out. I'll try to finish up when it resets...

Awesome exciter

Lol I stockpiled 100 because I got them for $9 dollars .. I wouldnt even have bought any if it was $15 or more .. the price was almost like 75% off its a no brainer. Same goes for those chima worriz tanks / gorilla strikers .. 70% off .. no brainer .. lego deals dont wait for you .. if you got the money go all in ... same thing with the tower of orthancs 2 weeks ago from target .. all in baby!

Very good point. The joy he will receive from building the sets is what matters most. Not to mention the memories that will be with him after he conquers this illness. A smile or hand to hold is sometimes all we need at the time. WE DID IT! Thank you guys for the support. This is an amazing thing you've all done. I'll send out a PM to everyone once I confirm we are going with the Death Star. I'm thankful to have found this site a few months ago. I never knew it would not only lead me on crazy road trip hauls but it would one day lead me to this. I couldn't have done it without each and every one of you. You have my word that the set will arrive safely in the family's hands. I'll be sure to share that experience with everyone on here. Please look for a PM in the next couple of days with paypal information. In the meantime, if you still want to donate by mailing a set, I can PM you their address. Or if someone decides we should make a run at the Ewok Village....I'm not going to stop them ... let's keep this going! :-)

VW Beetle and Vader's Tie Advance. Those are some serious gifts

I met Gavin's Aunt today. I can't begin to tell you how happy she was to hear what everyone is doing for him. She was extremely grateful. She did give me Gavin's home address so I'll PM everyone that wanted to mail him something. I told her to warn his mom that some random packages will start arriving over the next couple of weeks :-) I also told her about the Death Star. She couldn't believe that either! $65 more until we reach our goal! She suggested that I wait until after the event is over tonight before making the purchase just in case he receives one. I will send her an email to see if he got one. He did receive some bigger sets, but not a Death Star from what I could tell. Here are some pictures from the event. I think this will be a birthday to remember :-)

That's because most people who are really successful at something don't need to tell everyone in a public forum exactly how much money they are making.

I see a few reasons: 1. Some people have online stores that benefit from a breadth of product line and use it as a differentiator. 2. Small sets are easier to buy since they're not as expensive. 3. There are very few large sets from Super Heroes, TMNT, Friends, Ninjago, Lord of the Rings and Hobbit sets, popular themes for most investors. 4. It's easier for small sets to earn strong ROI since their cost bases are smaller.

I got the Vh covered

You will be ok.....it's not as big of a deal as everyone is making it out to be, same with the DUPLO zoo.

Hello - I can contribute the sets below spidey cycle might be a popular one so I could probably replace with something else. Keep me posted! Chima: -Ultra Striker Star Wars: -Corporate Alliance Tank Droid Super Heroes: -Spidey Cycle

Nobody has claimed any of these so feel free to pledge what you can and post here. You guys are awesome! I'm giving him a Millennium Falcon. Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

I can send a Captain America vs. Hydra and Doc Ock Truck Heist.

I'm sure you'll enjoy the build, it's one of my favourite sets. Only thing I would have liked is a way to get some of Haldir's elven archers to man the walls. Other than Helm's Deep (& Uruk-Hai Army) I think Tower of Orthanc & Unexpected Gathering will be the most sought after sets in the future.

Took me a good long while to but I finally managed getting the main post list updated with proper links, retails, set names, and even organized a little better. There should only be a couple loose ends needing to be tied in due time but everything we know of is there I believe. Well I'm pooped.

I'm not sure about handing out awards to flippers. They'll probably just turn around to "flip 'em like hotcakes". :mosking:

I am up to 5. I don't stock up in the double digits too often, but I think I will head towards 10 on this one. I think it is winner because Frank Lloyd Wright is a star of architectural design like Batman or Spiderman to comic book fans. This is a great model, and there are a lot of people that don't realize lego makes these models. As they see them, the early ones will be valuable like the first wave Batman sets. The Robie is the biggest to date, and is a sleeper because it isn't as well known as Fallingwater. I will continue to collect these if I can find them around $150. My TRU has them that cheap whenever there is BOGO sale. It think it has a good chance to hit $400 within 2 years. It might not be a quick flip, but I wouldn't be surprised if it went a lot higher. There has never been a large architecture set retired. We will have to wait and see. It hasn't seen huge discounts and sold out pretty quickly from Amazon. We will have to see how many are in the TRU and Barnes and Noble systems. Not many other places have them around me. The entire Architecture line is still a sleeper with most people, even after its performance this holiday season. Don't forget about Fallingwater. I pick these up below $75. I think it will have a higher CAGR than Robie House.