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Spoken like someone who has never worked in a restaurant. ...

I can personally attest to the fact that the Death Star does in fact fall apart easily when dropped from a table. My three year old accidentally knocked our DS off an 18" high table and it looked like this..

Well...

It'll be like a LEGO store. There are lots of photos online you can see as examples. April 25. I'm not a Las or any other kind of Vegan. Off to make hamburger for dinner, wearing leather shoes.

You fellas and your finds. I would be one 'proud papa' if you were my boys. :crying:

Not really a "war story" but kind of an epic victory one. Had just gotten home from work and randomly checked Craigslist. Someone posted a curb alert for Games/Toys/Lego. Noticed it had been posted about a half hour ago and was about a 5 minute drive from me. Well, I almost talked myself out of going. It has to be a small bag of Mega Bloks or some crusty Duplo's, I thought. It had been a long day at work and I should relax....it's been a half hour...surely it is picked over etc etc. But I decided to go, just in case, and all I can say is wow. Scored: At least 30 minifigs (including Indiana Jones, monster fighters, star wars, Ninjago) I estimate about 9 lbs of LEGO and maybe 3 lbs of mega blocks/kreo-o Large grocery bag of Hero Factory stuff 9469 Gandalf arrives with instructions 79000 Riddles for the ring with instructions 9471 Urak-Hai Army 9443 Ninjago Rattlecopter with instructions and at least partials of: 6867 Cosmic Cube Escape 2505 Ninjago Garmadon's Dark Fortress 7785 Batman arkham asylum (Sadly the only minfig I have found is Poison Ivy) 7592 Construct a Buzz 7789 Lotso's Dump Truck 8097 Star Wars Slave one Couple of LEGO games many many partial builds I don't recognize and I am still going through it... All this for the low low price of free (well I factored in 5 bucks for gas ). I am still kind of speechless... And this my friends is why I check Craigslist every day.....even though 90% of the time there is nothing on there.

Only for this reason!

I think LEGO is just playing games with us and trying to spur sales of the SSD.

Another episode of "as the brick turns" today? ;)

If there is anyone with a Kroger in a "Tax-free Amazon State" there is a better "deal" Kroger has 4x Fuel Points until 4/19 on all gift cards $400 Amazon gc = 1600pts = $1.60/gal off up to 35 gal = $1.60*35= $56 So $400 purchase - $56 savings = $344 SSD

I always tip 20%, no matter if the service is good or bad. Just because someone is having a bad day, or someone called in sick so they have to take extra tables causing an extra 5 minute delay in getting my water refilled, they don't deserve to have their livelyhood taken away. I wish we would get away from tipping and just pay servers a straight wage, but until that happens I'll give them the 20%. If the service is truly horrible, I'll complain to the manager but still leave a tip. So my complaint.... bad tippers! Pay up cheapskates!

Plenty of places to eat & drink if you don't wish to tip...McDonald's, Burger King, Subway , your house. Pick up a sixer @ the gas station & kick back on your porch. A lot of people don't realize people who work for tips don't make an hourly wage. A tip isn't gravy on top of what I already make, it is what I make.

You got brass balls. I salute you oh captain my captain

Do i have to do everything for everyone!?! Some of you all need to pay attention. Aftwr seeing the palace get retired cause it's offensive for religious reasons then seeing the haunted hause be sited for devil toys I took the liberty to speed the process up for the ssd. Clearly we know it stands for something very inappropriate especially given its shape. I complained to lego and they told me due to my intimidating tactics the ssd will be retired by year end. You're welcome.

Sure, here is my own personal blend of a 2014 sets list. I keep adding to and modifying it as things progress.

It took a couple of weeks, but I finally built the three winter sets I purchased on Ebay. Only two pieces are missing and the seller substituted similar pieces (two basic 1x2 tiles).

Since I started the "Sets of 2013" thread as a way of cataloging every single set for this year, I thought to do the very same for the next one here. Anyway, here is what is currently known or rumored to be released in the year of 2014. Juniors Vehicle Suitcase - $24.99 House Suitcase - $24.99 Spider-Man: Spider-Car Pursuit - $12.99 Digger - $9.99 Construction - $14.99 Princess Play Castle - $14.99 Turtles Lair - $19.99 Fire Station - $19.99 Batman: Defend the Batcave - $29.99 Race Car Rally - $29.99 Pony Farm - $29.99 Police: The Big Escape - $29.99 Knight's Castle - $49.99 Creator Fast Car Cute Kitten Transport Plane Red Thunder - $4.99 Power Digger - $4.99 Emerald Express - $4.99 Sunset Speeder - $12.99 Highway Cruiser - $12.99 Forest Animals - $19.99 Twinblade Adventures - $17.99 Furry Creatures - $19.99 Turbo Quad - $24.99 Yellow Racers - $29.99 Roaring Power - $29.99 Mountain Hut - $39.99 Bike Shop & Cafe

So for this coming week, all Technic and Galaxy Squad sets are 20% off. Licensed storage and display cases 20% off. Select Chima sets 20% off.

Thanks everyone! My son may just get the Simpson house and his set out of this lucky find. We'll see how it goes, and I do have the receipt if these suddenly become available everywhere and we don't want to hold on to them. We've posted a fixed auction asking for $200 shipped.

this Sunday is wrestlemania.

Target is very reliable with packaging and shipping Lego. I would not be worried. Ex astris, scientia.

not that this is scientific, but if you just search under star wars theme at LEGO Shop at Home and group by newest to oldest and then look where the SSD is, the pattern would lead one to believe its the next one in line to retire - everything after it is SOLD OUT. if this pattern holds I would predict the overpriced previszla mandalorian fighter would go next (not hard to do genius since its already labeled retiring soon duh)...

Isn't there some kind of mania for any given set about every other week?

I need to buy a jump to conclusions mat. I'm confused without it!

I do tip at buffet restaurants, they're still clearing your plates, getting you drinks. I give everyone 20% because I know they're only making $2.75 an hour. I don't tip on pickup orders, gotta draw the line somewhere. As someone who used to work in the restaurant industry many moons ago, the people working the pickup counter make a straight wage so tipping isn't necessary.

Have a laugh? Where can I order one?

Unfortunately Isengard doesn't do parcel delivery. Verzonden vanaf mijn iPhone met behulp van Brickpicker

It must be getting late. I thought you wrote Orthanc on the title and was expecting a different kind of post

Easier to sell one than three for the same profit. Sent from my iPad using Brickpicker

i would have to say that based on 100% of every other set that has looked like this in no longer being orderable has not come back. Until it actually says retired product it is not officially, officially done.

If SSD really is done, then I predict some serious cash in the future of those who bought them. It is sets like these that definitely make me wish I had more dough to play with. There is just no way I could put $500 into 1 set, no way no how, I don`t have the luxury of that risk. But it will be a big money maker, and those who did think of waiting will be very sorry.

Despite the title, the word LEGO is only used exactly once in the entire song :D

my 30 yr old brick separator

Make sure you use the affiliate link if you are ordering SSD from Amazon or Target Look at it this way, w/o BP you probably wouldn't be even looking for one right now http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0050R0YB8/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&tag=brickpicker-amz-20&creativeASIN=B0050R0YB8&linkCode=as2

"I see your Schwartz is as big as mine". Mel Brooks classic. "What's the matter Col. Sanders, Chicken?"

I never did get one back in the day but, boy, I wish I had. Now that I have a couple laying around (very first one was from a Games set; can't remember which off hand), I always use them when building and/or taking down builds. The process goes so much quicker and my hands thank me for it everyday. Ha. Life before a brick separator, oh what sore fingers had I. :blackeye:

"Did you see anything?!""No sir! I didn't see you playing with your dolls again!" "Good!" Honestly, how many films are out there where a person could literally fill up an entire book with all the quotes, remarks, and gags? This and Ghostbusters are hands down the single greatest films made in the history of ever!

'The LEGO Book' states the seperators first came out in 1988. I would have guessed mid 80s myself because I thought were around forever! Everytime I go to the toy or LEGO store I see them available and everytime I think to myself "why do I want spend $3 or more for one?" lol!

When did these things come around, anyway? I'm fairly sure they didn't have them in the 80s when I needed them most. At least, they weren't included in any sets I had.

For years, I used these before discovering the Lego brick separator:

Hook, line and sinker....

You forgot one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNJj-PA8lKU

For my personal builds I never did, but once I started buying used sets to sell I think I could not leave without one. My fingers thanked me for it.

Meh. This is how you do a Kickstarter (not Lego but figure related)--fully funded within 24 hours: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1732159183/marauder-task-force-gaming-figures

10221 Super Star Destroyer is sold out at LEGO.com and is not available for backorder or add to bag. It is done me thinks. Following on the heels of 3185 this morning.

Not at all, I wish I'd missed the damn things! Don't bother buying them as I bought a 10 for

You are wasting your time convincing the downers to have faith in the theme. What they are chasing after is sharp increase right after EOL, fast profit, easy money. LotR certainly does not fit that. Just let them be.

not necessarily - they are not the same figure . small differences in eyes and painted on apron on Marge and Flanders and Homer has a painted out badge with the 71006 set. There are enough crazy Simpsons collectors out there who will want both.

You sound like this:

In France it has been retired from the lego shop since december 2013/january 2014 but it's still available everywhere at -30% RRP since about 1 year. I guess it's not a best seller set (at all)... The main problem with this set is the cover of the box. It's not appealing. Too bad it shows the back side, not the front. Great: Bad: