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Here's my haul from the weekend. They were asking $550, ended up getting it for $450. These are the larger sets, still have several smaller sets.

Don't stress about the stressed box young grasshopper. Just notate that on your listing.

Considering Brickpicker doesn't sell anything, my vote is for Brickowl on this one

21110 Research Institute back at shop@home!!!??????????

I popped into Wal-Mart where I've been watching some older sets for discounts. They have an entire 2-sided isle of legos marked down and an additional 50% off the marked price. I spent $2000, but scored 10 Lego 9398 for $45 each; 3 Millenium Falcons for $32 each; SW Jek 14 $15 each; and 5 Goblin Attack Sets for $22 each. I also grabbed a bunch of smaller sets for kid's Christmas gifts. I broke the bank, but I'm set for Christmas selling. The only set I left behind was TMNT Shell Raiser. I figure if they have to discount them when the new movie just came out than TMNT must be a loser. Now I have to bust the blow dryer to pull off the clearance stickers without damaging the sets.

I thought this was always referred to as the "Ex-wife set" in the collector's circle?

Blacula Bunny!!!

Bought most of mine for 11-12$, double sounds good :)

Finally received my exosuits. Seals 33S4 as many other european BP. These are not glued or anything (I'm talking about seals, not brickpickers). Maybe it's because of the seal itself ? Sort of "manufacturing defect" of the seals ? (my sets have been ordered a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...) I like it side by side with the white astronaut set. I'll definitely pair them together if I can, as planned since day one. Yes but unfortunatelly when you put a stock photo, some people think it's more appealing and "professional" so they are tempted to buy it. What's important is to specify that it's new, sealed and you put an actual photo (so people can't say "hey there's a little scratch on the front, refund me !"). An actual photo, but a great one (without an hideous kitchen tablecloth below). It's some psychological stuff but it helps because it's both good looking and serious.

That is the story of my life. But as a revenge I will flood the market anyway.

Lol, yeah otherwise it's...

Wait for someone to buy it. Wouldn't surprise me at all. It will be on Pawn Stars next week and Rick will offer a dollar for it.

I'm sorry but this thread needed to be resurrected for the following auction. This is awesome. Only asking $500 OBO. Hey, it just be a deal since AFA "U" graded it. Yes folks, someone mailed AFA an unopened Batman JetSki poly and paid them to open, build, grade,and encase it. Who the heck pays another person to build a Lego set. Jeez. Don't get me started... u grade. JOKE. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lego-mini-figure-vehicle-BATMAN-with-JetSki-were-graded-/301290180515?pt=Building_Toys_US&hash=item46264b4fa3 Update : I hope the flippers and flick missile heads fall off the BatSki. Oh, I'm livid.

I thought my last Death Star box was a little heavy, but it turned out ok after all.

Why put the add for buying lego? It usually attracts 'dump lots'. May look good but wait till you dig in. There are plenty of adds out there of people selling their lego because their kid got tired of it and it has been collecting dust since. I like the idea of some sort of business cards better. You go visit people that you buy some second hand lego from and if the lego looks decent, you give them a card. One condition, both buyer and seller need to have the feeling that they're actually making a good deal and not being ripped off. I encountered alot of soccermoms or families selling the lego of their kids. 2 weeks ago I met a Turkish woman that sold 4842 Hogwarts Castle for 85,5

Here's some pics of the bulk I got. Not the best, just quick shots from my phone. I can't wait to start building when they all dry. Last shot is the forest female torso. I was always partial to Forestmen sets.

Dear Lego, I actively love building sets. I love the detail of the minifigures. I love the creative licences. But the world knows you have been charging ridiculous premiums for your product outside the US. The international market has tolerated it for so long. As discussed previously Amazon US has been coerced (whether it be temporarily or permanently) directly from Lego into ceasing international shipping. In recent years Amazon has been a hub for many international buyers to score Lego at cheaper costs than their local retail prices. Yet now the screws are being tightened. Lego has been banning users, placing limitations and now this. I thought it was ludicrous early last year when I legitimately could not buy a couple of Minecraft sets for my son and nephews due to limits. Who would have thought that people might want to order more than 1 or 2 of something right? The lack of discounts for "exclusive sets" is appalling. Let's be realistic, if there was a licence involved there would at least be some justification, however picking and choosing sets is a poor business model. All of a sudden, stores with those sets are not "allowed" to discount? Even stores in Australia are beginning to exhibit "This sale does not include Lego" signs. The war you are trying to wage on resellers is the wrong fight you are picking. Never have I seen a company so determined to stop customers buying their products. It enables customers to purchase items that have been discontinued or unavailable in their area due to the ridiculous restrictions you put in place yet you seem determined to do nothing but obstruct. The irony being your own customer service representatives point to reselling sites like Bricklink and eBay to find obscure parts or sets. Meanwhile, the collectability of some sets continues to diminish as fake minifigures flood the marketplace. Now discontinued sets are beginning to appear. The same collectability you have marketed is now driving counterfeit products, yet what does Lego focus on? Stopping consumers from legitimately buying their product. This isn't about someone coming in and purchasing 100 of one set but restricting customers purchasing abilities. Soon people will prefer to purchase the counterfeit items as a much cheaper alternative. The very marketplace you created and procured with your own product you are now destroying as the counterfeiters pull out a suitcase with 200 Iron Patriot minifigures at $1 each and hock off... whilst Lego stop people buying their product legitimately. Call it a rant, a whinge, a sook. Whatever. The despotism on display is ironic considering how close the company was to closing not that long ago. You are only shooting yourself in the foot. When is pushing your own customers out the door and restricting them from buying a great business model? Clone brands are already beginning to infiltrate the shopping aisles. eBay is flooding with cheap knockoff minifigures diminishing your product. The quality will only get better as they refine their techniques. Perhaps you should be combating those as opposed to loyal consumers purchasing your own product and pushing it to further success. Heaven forbid people actually want to purchase your product.

Thanks! I was shaking when I loaded the sets into 4 very full carts. Associates were taking Falcons fresh from the boxes and marking them with clearance stickers. I asked them to just just put them into my cart. I tried to leave as fast as I could because I felt like somebody was going to say they were kidding and hadn't meant to mark thing down. I never use my credit card, but I did for this one. I couldn't help myself. I do have a couple of Chima sets that could be a gamble, but they were just so cheap.

Sweet mother of god... hell of a deal you got there!

It took my mother and I five minutes on the phone discussing this set before we realized that it is supposed to be a bat. At first glance it reads like a bunny. Then when you look some more it appears to be a cat. Then finally I realized it is suposed to be a freaking BAT. Great job Lego, you made a bat set that takes 5 minutes for Lego experts to realize is actually a bat.

I can't begin to describe how devastated I am to see that this abomination is the Holloween set for this year. Putting aside for a moment the ill-advised move from polybags to boxes for seasonal issues, this set is purely horrid. They had a chance to make something neat with 150 or so pieces and this is what they came up with? A Donnie Darko bunny? Seriously, this has been a bad year for Lego IN MY HUMBLE OPINION. I have really hated this year of Lego issues.

I wouldn't mind not seeing any Halloween stuff for a while, large ones anyways. Maybe the vamp castle will start to move. I'll hand out a few Blacula Bunnies to the best dressed trick or treaters on Halloween. Love that.

I don't have a good knowledge on Minecraft however I can tell you that there have been more 21102 Minecraft sets sold (new) on eBay UK this last 90 days than 76000 Arctic Batman (sealed) That tells me Minecraft is pretty big

Will do, Sifu. I will do as you say.

I saw this over on Brickset, so they should start showing up soon.

It should be retired by December with prices rising but why do you think it will hit such lofty heights so soon? Aquaman is rumoured to be in a JL set next year. Mr Freeze and Arctic Batman surely won't return Wolverine or Deadpool money. I can see it doubling by Christmas but struggle to see it making much more.

Damn. Make sure you get yours first then share to the BP hordes!! Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

Beat me to it, too busy ordering Estimated ship date: Oct 8th

Now we are on the same page. My post was about what was done to a sealed ploy set with the U grade. I was "livid" about the toy plus AFA U and not the auction itself. People can list items for whatever they want. Now if I was typing "Hulk Smash" then that's rage. Ha Thanks for rereading the post.

So I figure I'd post an update to my earlier haul shown above. I did a "Round 1" sort through it, where I generally group easily identified themes, brick types, and pulling Minifigs. I think I made out pretty good on Minifigs alone. Plenty of StarWars stuff (a lot that I have to lookup & identify). I figure I'll find a lot of individual arms & accessories as I get down to the bottom of the bins... Here's a few pictures of the highlights: It's a shame the guys at the bottom right have red marker on them: I think these are all from the Black Pearl set (not sure about guy on the left): Incomplete (Good for parts): And noteworthy (in my opinion) accessories:

IMO, for your 3 major mistakes, youre wrong. It all depends what price point you bought them at ... Mine: great profit maker if you had gotten them at almost 50% off ... a lot of people did ... EDB: why do people continue to put this set down? sure its still on shelves but it has a dragon, its a big set. If you got this one also at close to 40-50% off youre good to go to make profits ... Minecraft: although slow sellers right now, sell them as a set of 4 during the holidays and you should do good. get them at about $25-$30 a piece. Last Xmas I was selling the set of 3 for close to $150!

True and MISB or NISB should be close to the same. While I guess the symptom we have here looks more like the seal is being tempered as the seal slided a bit and leaving glue/dirt residue behind. Or I can always say the exo-suit can't wait to jump out lol.

Yeah, I saw this on RebelScum originally. Didn't someone make it? Where's GhostDad? We need this authenticated to see if it's legit :)

Ditto that. And if it isn't a real thing one of us needs to start production on it immediately!

Is this a real thing? I mean seriously I will freakin buy it right now. Affiliate links baby.

For someone with a small brickfolio, no interest in building the exo suit and an aversion to risk, is it probably a good idea to rid myself of my 2 exo suits (possibly returning them?). It looks like there will be ample supply of these and I'd rather have the money tied up in Santa's workshop, etc.

Why put the add for buying lego? It usually attracts 'dump lots'. May look good but wait till you dig in. There are plenty of adds out there of people selling their lego because their kid got tired of it and it has been collecting dust since. I like the idea of some sort of business cards better. You go visit people that you buy some second hand lego from and if the lego looks decent, you give them a card. One condition, both buyer and seller need to have the feeling that they're actually making a good deal and not being ripped off. I encountered alot of soccermoms or families selling the lego of their kids. 2 weeks ago I met a Turkish woman that sold 4842 Hogwarts Castle for 85,5

Pfffffff it's like watching a B-movie where the bad guy just won't friggin die!!!

I think you do not know a bit about the toys and injection molding business , recovering the investment for a new line it is never a matter of months and it is not only the investment in molds, but production lines, packaging development, marketing, product license, and a whole lot of other stuff that it is impossible to recover all that in less than a year..... Take it from me , I worked 5 years for Mattel and now I own and injection molding business....

Can you please document the Production Date Stamp Code on the Scotch Tape Seals from your box? We can perhaps isolate a batch that had this problem. This can be handy for you to avoid the ones with the wrong pieces, or heck even help folks who might want to chase a variation of the set Example if you see 12R4 that means the set was produced the 12th week of 2014.

For the last few years i have bought a couple of every set i have been buying - mainly smaller SW and superhero sets and flipping them quite quickly to fund my personal collection of lego. Now want to invest a little more and have been staring at 2 SSD in my bag on the UK lego site for the last few hours - just nervous about the out lay. Just need a bit of encouragement to hit the buy button. I know it is a good investment just a big jump for me.

You have some balls, my friend. Big balls. You may not want to order anything else for a while. It would be a shame for you to just be starting out and aleady be banned. Buy sets here and there for a few years, THEN get banned. You at least should get some mileage out of the website before you go out in a blaze of glory.

I am not too bothered by this. In reality, all bricks of a house aren't the exact same tone either. By all means, buy a Pet Shop and build it. Great set! Verzonden vanaf mijn iPhone met behulp van Brickpicker

I don't agree. There are a lot of good playsets and army building sets in the series. Attaching Helms Deep to Uruk-hai army, or the 2 Dol Guldur sets was inspired. I've bought 4 of the Mirkwood Elf army sets so that I can make a giant fort, and even bought 4 discounted Attack of the Wargs so that I can (1) have a Warg hunting pack, and (2) attach the trees to some megablock Halo green baseplates to make a forest to separate my Ewok village from my Endor bunker. The Mines of Moria, Pirate ship, Unexpected Gathering, and Orthanc are all fantastic sets on their own. Even Weathertop is pretty good and has some exclusive sets. I like the variety myself. This has been a fun theme for me to build as well as a profitable one to sell. Once it's done I'll need a new theme to complete my trifecta with Star Wars and Super-heroes. That will probably be when I get into modular sets.

Wait, I'm confused. If I am understanding correctly... it's possible to buy less than $100 from LEGO Shop at Home?! How is this miracle achieved? I've never heard of such a thing.

You did...and I quote... "LEGO is watching this and other sites like a hawk. The ban hammer will start to fall faster and more often in the coming months. They are protecting their brand so be cautious. Your friends may actually be your enemies." Please, do not make unsubstantiated comments like this. If you have some pertinent information to share and some proof to back it up...fell free to do so.

re Bricklink: around Jan when Lego had the VWC on sale for $80 I wanted one and had to call Lego CS as they had the call for availability tag on their website. Lady said that they were OOS, would not restock then she suggested I check a website called bricklink as they sell Lego stuff.

not leaving feedback is terrible. now lets move on. it is common courtesy

I have been looking for a place to post this lately and looks like I can do it here...........It absolutely makes my blood boil when someone doesn't leave feedback. I would have at least 50 more feedbacks if everyone left feedback like they were supposed to do. In my mind its part of the purchase agreement!! DAMN YOU LAZY PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!