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I am 100% sure the SSD will retire thats why I have gotten 8 with the Double VIP Points, and will get 2-4 more May 4th if Lego has a 10-15% sale on them and that will bring me up to 30 of them. So Lets see how many people miss the Boat on this set, So instead of buying hundreds and thousand of dollars worth of clearance and sets that just came out you should be getting the SSD, and anybody thinks that the price will not rise fast and with the new Movie next Dec will be sorry that they didn't load up on them. Ed

In regards to our news segment regarding the SSD retiring, here is the information we obtained to make this news. The manager of the store told me. Everything that particular manager has told me so far, has been true. The way it works in their world is each week they get their stock in. They noticed when particular sets stop showing up on their trucks each week. It's been 6 weeks since a SSD has shown up on their trucks. They did note that the T1 Camper Van has also not been on trucks for awhile. It makes business since for all of this to be true since we are at the end of April and they need to make room for the Sandcrawler on May 3rd. They didn't even have room to fit the Winter Village Market set on their shelves. Once I bought their last T1 Camper Van, they filled that open space with the Winter Village Market sets again. When the summer sets hit stores and the few LEGO exclusive sets hit (Mini Cooper, Sandcrawler, Carnival, etc..), sets will need to be retired to make room for new sets.

Over $300 million might be a bit high - you might want to at least offer a best offer option.

Can we move the debate to a "what i'll make thread" and keep this retirement focused. I keep pulling this up thinking a new wave of retirements has hit etc. Too many opinions on this site, who cares how you do it, place your bets and move on. Help others where you think it is appropriate. Many people can be right at the same time. The problem to an internet site is nobody ever tells you how much they lost and their negative cash flows or yields. Only the wins. Ed has nothing to prove, thus taking a bet is a waste of time. Best of luck to all.

I just wish they would go public. to own stock in Lego

Maybe I'm crazy, but that would be a $200 vs. $1700 return. 23 smaller sets would take approximately an hour or two to package. You could sell all of this under 1 listing by simply changing the quantity. So basically one would be making $1500 more off of smaller sets for maybe 2 hours more of work. I love both big and small sets, but in that example 23 smaller sets sounds much more appealing to me than one $400 set.

Booking trips through airmiles proved to be a pain for me. So I just spend the airmiles on giftcards and merchandise. Good for getting midrange electronics without spending actual cash!

I have some time to wait before my new son will be able to help me build. Many who have read my responses now know I am a proud pappa. I have wanted a child more specifically a son for mor ethan a decade. We were blessed with a son to adopt just 10 weeks ago. I left this house this morning with a warm heart....When I said goodbye to him this morning he gave me a heart melting smile. Teary eyed just typing it. Go ahead poke fun...I am cream puff and wear my emotions proudly.

Whaaaat? you are on the internets and not going to get into silly argument?

Exactly $75 worth of bricks and pieces for the Taj Mahal from the LEGO PAB Website (these are only pieces that are cheaper on PAB than on BrickLink), which I've procrastinated in BrickLinking. If any of you remember, I started this over a year ago. LOL... Once this shipment of pieces comes in, I'll be 1/6 of the way there! In hindsight, it was a bad idea to choose the biggest LEGO set ever produced for my first BL experience.

I make all my statistics up several days before I say them as a fact. (78% again!)

Don't forget the internet. Nobody would ever lie on the world wide web, you know? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdD206eSv0

I just wish they would go public. to own stock in Lego

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away.... Darth Vader had a third illegitimate kid that is ugly as sin.

Ask if they are willing to meet at the police department parking lot. That is usually a great way to weed out scammers.

About $700-800 each seems fair. This set will rival the 10179 soon I think. (Disclaimer: This information may be biased by the author having 18 of these sets sitting in his closet)

ci

This sounds a LOT like the Warren Buffett $1,000,000 bet against Prot

Isn't hxckid88 always laughed at? Sorry...I couldn't resist. Just be nice. I don't want to have to pull my Patrick Swayze video clip out! Sorry, I couldn't resist...

Everyone on here is a lego scalper. If sets get that much it only helps the rest of us.

If you are a big time airmiles collector like myself then you might want to consider a few LEGO sets that came up in the airmiles rewards. There are 3 sets and it seems quite rare that you can get LEGO direct through airmiles: Ariel's Magical Kiss- 700 airmiles Metalbeard's duel- 750 airmiles Kingdom's Joust- 1600 airmiles Best bang for the buck by far is the Kingdom's Joust when you consider 95 airmiles is about $10CDN so 1600 for the Joust is about right. 700 and 750 for the other 2 sets is a pretty inflated price.... I have enough airmiles for almost 5 Jousts so I think I will pull the trigger

Its temporarily out of stock on LEGO Shop at Home and available from amazon and target. Not retired.

Find 4.33333 more people who can lend you 75$ each, and buy SSD

I'm 100% sure every lego set will retire.

It's a gray area, but if you're honest and keep good records you can make it pretty black and white. Proving intent is difficult so the IRS will give you some leeway and assume you're being honest, up to a point. If it becomes a track record that you're driving 90 miles and bringing home $30 of inventory regularly, they won't be amused. I like to stay honest - if the trip is intended for business and pleasure 50/50, then I split the costs, including mileage, 50/50 and document why that's true. If it's 90/10 in favor of pleasure, I take only the very specific additional expenses for the 10 percent business (the mileage from my aunt's house to the nearest Target, rather than from my home to my aunt's nearest Target), and ditto if it's 90/10 in favor the business, I don't count the 10% of mileage to get from the four Kmart blowouts to meet my friend for lunch, but I count the other 90%. Documenting how you do things and showing that when things should go in the IRS' favor they do, will keep you in good odor in the event of audit. When every mile on your car was, "Well, I was thinking about LEGO part of the time so it's a business expense", you're not going to find the IRS a sympathetic audience and they're going to move on to the orifice probe portion of the audit and spend a lot of time there.

Everything is and should be cost effective. Make the most of it. Time = money! Once you start the flow and understand the how, when, where and why concept for LEGO investing you'll start to pinch your wallet.

I count all business mileage as an expense, whether I'm successful in finding books and LEGO on a buying trip or not, but my failure rate is very low - most of the time I set out to buy books in a location, I buy books; ditto LEGO. Forget about mileage for a moment and consider - it's a huge waste of time to drive around unsuccessfully too much - especially when it's so easy to find online deals requiring no driving at all, so I'm looking for pretty sure things if I get in the car to go hunting.

Just stumbled upon 16 Simpsons CMF for $2.97 each at a walmart. No time to smoosh in store, so I will have to wait until I get home to see what I have. Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

You could have done what I did - BL'ed the Mini Modulars. Nothing like trying to put together a 1200 piece set that's made of up a whole lot of plates and tiles that are *really* tiny.

I was originally going to go on here and post the question of had anyone actually tried building the inspirational model shown in the back of the original instruction manual but after some heavy browsing I found this Brickshelf Gallery, a Eurobricks thread with an LDD file, and someone else's own alternative MOC. Actually, I still feel like asking has anyone tried building this at all if anything just to see how it would look in their own city. Soooo ....have you?

This information is definitely too important for a memo. This would be in a TPS report I believe. I like all the information, speculation is part of the fun. What I want to know about is this UCS Tumbler that was mentioned in an earlier video.

Maybe I should clarify. When good deals abound I may take on a little debt. I do use CC for all Lego purchases. It is rare to carry a balance. When the deals abound I may have to sell a set or two to offset the extra debt load, otherwise CC are paid off regularly. Carrying debt does nothing but eat into your margins. I am aware, but I also know some of the deals to be had like the recent Technic sale at Meijer's is nothing but money in the bank. So I may purchase a bit more and then unload sets that have already appreciated. Backwards...a little. Unload first buy second when more funds are available. I get it. But there are times when cash flow is tight and credit allows for faster expansion. When used properly it is a great tool. Alternately when abused, you seriously each into your profits. Thank you for the great responses.

Lol, "Everything that particular manager has told me so far, has been true" - this sounds like hxckid88 line. Is it same manager? Look, nobody is arguing with statements "SSD is probably retiring" or "it makes sense for SSD to retire, so maybe it will". But you can't claim that something is retiring as if it's a fact, while not being on the board of members of TLC. P.S. Architecture Studio was not seen on trucks for a while as well some time ago (i know, i know, different case...)

Be carefull !! That's exactly how I got hooked into Legos..... now I am 15K deep into it..... hahaha, Welcome !!!

I'm not believing this, mainly because 78% of statistics are made up on the spot. (Oops! That makes it 79%)

Since we're being grammar/spelling d*cks, I guess you meant Pre Vizsla.

I'd also like to cross post a tip I saw on another thread somewhere on this forum regarding shipping labels. USPS (and Fed-Ex? I forgot...)offers free label "sleeve/pouches" that you can slip the shipping label, printed on normal paper, into and tape directly on the box. OP cited its better use in better protection from shipping damage, as well as waterproofing. I can't provide a link to the original post or where on USPS's website it is because I'm on mobile right now, but I believe at USPS it's labeled like "Customs Label Sleeve", or something similar. Probably wrong, but do take a look.

FYI guys, from inside Lego itself: 2-9 key chains May possibly be retiring in the next few days to years. I am 100% sure this is possibly 75% true. BUY BUY BUY.

Shoot, I forgot it also works as an initialism for Monster Fighters or Minifigures. At least with the Collectable Minifigures I'm used to seeing "CM".

Don't forget there should be another bump in interest when the dvd/bluray comes out.

Like peanut butter!

Certainly. I spend nearly all of my scholarship on these sets (yeah, I am a good student...). All the more it turned out my girlfriend likes LEGO more than partying or any other activity. She didn't use to, she got addicted because of me. It is like a disease. I swear I am going to marry her.

This is a thought that seems obvious, but a lot of times you have to think what it does to Legos brand to have limited production runs, exclusives, etc. It is just good business practice IMO. You have to keep people interested, on the edge of their seats, etc. Having limited production on stuff keeps people interested and coming to your sites, etc. How many companies have lived through massively overproducing items? Think about how bad it is for someones brand for them to have tons of the same stuff sitting and rotting on shelves? If I owned a toy business, this would be a big strategy of mine as well. Obviously having a good product is important, but things like this drive popularity.

Yes, the way to ship first class without having received payment is to use the "Ship Now" option. The easiest way to access it is to log into your paypal account. Then type in www.paypal.com/shipnow into the browser bar. This will route you to the shipping option where you can manually type in the address. And yes, free delivery confirmation is included. You can also do this at USPS.com, however they do not give you the option to ship first class online, so if the package is 13 ounces or under, you're better off using paypal. Hope that helps!

While I must say I am deeply disappointed by LEGO LOTR releases (overall) I do think if it ends with wave 2 all sets will perform quite outstanding.... I still want third wave with Gondor stuff though..... Hoping on getting a last 6 set wave or something close, that covers Balrog, Witch King, Gondor soldiers/rangers, Faramir, Eowyn and a nice Gondor vs Orc battle pack... preferably even Olifont......

I bought gold when it was $1900 oz and now its worth.... oh wait, that's backwards.

the new 75055 ISD seems smaller than 6211.

Man, I seriously need to figure out how the heck you guys can stack storage upside down!Anywho, wowsers!