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I just wrapped up another Hobbit set. My favorite part of this set is that two sections of the castle explode.

Based on the writing style, Trekgate is being assimilated to the emazers collective.

You exchanged perfectly good money for a couple of plastic bricks in a cardboard box, in the hope to exchange that back, but for more money.

That's how the Americans play football, the rest of the world adopt tactics

Better believe it. 28 unnumbered bags with bags inside of those bags...still I would not trade the experience for anything. IF you build it(and I recommend you do) separate all the pieces by color as well as flat vs regular pieces. Also build both towers simultaneously. It will help out as well as looks pretty cool as you slowely complete the project. Also do this when you are done (add a bat signal as well!)

What did I say? Is this set out of stock? Jeesssuss. Just trying to help a member. I have always told members that if they want a set, pull the trigger. With the Double VIP points and a quality promo, now is the time to buy this set.

Target 2x Town Hall order arrived today. Expecting the factory LEGO box and seeing an oversized Target box with collapsed sides was disappointing. I open the box, remove a TH, very minor damage to the top, not bad, then what the hell is that? It's a Tower Bridge. I suppose I should be happy getting a set worth $40 more, but that set was never on my radar.

so is Ed Mack the new lego investing deep throat of bricks? who said anything about "insider info" ha that's it. i'm gonna start my own lego speculation web site named, "deep brick" and ed mack will be my single "man on the inside".

All I originally posted was..."Maybe the Town Hall retiring had nothing to do with sales." Then people started talking about Oz, fat men and Hamlet. Go figure.

This is a tough consideration still because that 5% is all profit in reality. Its not affected by COGS (other than offering the returns). Last year my fees were about 3500$ for all of November, dec, Jan. 5% of that is $175... ... ... Lol I can't say any of this with a straight face. No way in hell I am doing extended returns.

"Chaos", Town Hall retiring out or order, "Big changes for some"... Maybe LEGO has just decided to retire their products in an unpredictable order. The modulars somehow are/were a symbol for retiring in order - what came first, went first and nothing newer before the older ones. TH is the first modular to break with that rule. And so maybe LEGO is going to apply the "chaotic retirement" rule to its whole line of exclusives. Why? One main reason could be to scare off resellers who were able to buy close to EOL because retirements dates were predictable enough to wait until the end - resulting in mass buying and other logistically inconvenient events for LEGO. "Some", in Eds words, could be the ones who only stocked up close to EOL. The others would then be those who started buying early enough to never be caught without any of the set(s) they wanted. The consequence for LEGO would be that the buying will be more balanced over the entire line of sets - not primarily the older ones. The biggest effect of this might be that all the small time investors with very limited storing space will turn away from investing because they never know when their stock will start to gain value. The big players with sufficient money and space will stay where they are. I guess this is just a first strategy LEGO applies, if this doesnt work they will come up with something else. But it will not be re-releasing sets. This woul be totally against their policy of keeping their portfolio fresh.

Yes, our future is in Chima and Duplo.

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Bring on 15 more pages of guessing

Well, I can conclude for myself 2 possible scenarios: 1. The complete modular line will vanish or 2. Modulars are coming back, pain in the ass for investors. Or we will live and invest in the golden age of Lego, or we get screwed :-P

Here was my last build. It was a challenge but in the end it was worth it

Lego hunting is so much fun, even when I miss the deals by minutes. So exciting. Congrats to those who got in on the deals, but I'm hoping that next time I get lucky too

When people start undercutting on eBay and it drives prices down. Keep the prices up people!

Do me a favor. Bookmark this post and come back to it in 2 years when you start selling those TH, PS, GE, etc on eBay or any other online venues.

Here is a graph I made for myself. The 12/31/14 end dates aren't actual, that is just what I plug into current sets.

1. Rumor 2. ZOMG FREAK OUT PANIC BUY BUY BUY HOLY SH*T EVERYTHING IS RETIRING GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH 3. See it's out of stock so it is obviously retiring. 4. New batch BUY BUY BUY!!!!!!!! 5. See it's out of stock so it is obviously retiring. 6. Repeat for 1-12 months until it actually retires. 7. See I told you it was retiring!!

So after reading many pages, I can conclude that Lego is releasing a new promo Dr. Oz minifigure in a gladiator costume. Everything is AWESOME!

I think that the sheer number of other large/exclusive sets being released changes things up big time. With several lines getting big sets there is limited shelf space, and the modular series may be coming to an end (nothing lasts forever, and we both know hearts can change...and November is just around the corner). Another key to my line of thinking is not only is there the Creator Bike Shop 3 in 1, but the next creator wave also has a similar set (although smaller, probably to boost sales)...it is the Toy Shop if memory serves correctly. Seems crazy to offer lower price point modular-type sets as well as rolling out larger ones, too. That and having a huge line of modulars really makes it tough for TLG to roll out creative new big sets. Maybe the success/demand of the Tumbler is telling them that it is time to change things up. That an it seems a slam dunk that the new SW films are going to result in plenty of focus/new/big sets...only so much shelf space, production capacity, etc. Bottom line, I'm not waiting forever to start adding to my modulars...I'm getting a couple more with double VIP

Time to fire up Dark Side of the Moon.

Got first order of 4, second order of 4, third order of 4, and fourth order of poof

Watch Ed say something cryptic in the most obscure thread with last post from 2010 - it'll get to 60 pages in a day!

Great news. So I believe the math is: Standard fvf .10 TRS fvf .08 TRS fvf (w/ext returns) .076 That's not much of an incentive for me anyway.

As far as I can tell, here are the "rules" for modern Lego Trains: There will be two motorized play sets in production at any given time: one introductory and one advanced. For the past several iterations the introductory set has always been a passenger train, and the advanced set has always been a cargo train. There is generally one motorizable train in production for AFOL train fans. The most recent of these have been Emerald Night, Maersk Train, Horizon Express. Themed sets may contain a train independent of the above rules. Hogwarts Express, Constitution Train Chase, and Ghost Train are the most recent examples. These will start and end along with the rest of their theme. Accessory sets like train stations and crossings seem to be related at introduction to the "core" introductory and advanced sets, but EOL is harder to predict. For example, 7936 went out EOL unexpectedly. Parts sets like tracks and switches seem to be effectively immortal. For Duplo Trains there are generally three in production at any given time: A basic motorized set with engine, one car, simple track, and a few bricks. Examples: 10507, 5608, 3771. An advanced motorized set with engine, two cars, advanced track, extra play features: Examples: 10508, 5609, 3772 A push train: Examples: 10558,5506,3770 Themed Duplo trains are less common than themed Lego trains, but they do happen. Examples: Toy Story, Thomas

why do we care how many 10224s other members have? i use to ask in the beginning (2012) but then the light-bulb turned on. seriously, why should i care to even ask when my focus should be on MY collection.

Absent another explanation, I'll just assume all this churn using affiliate links made the Macks some money.

At first, I was thinking Town Hall was retiring for a few reasons already stated: price point made it the slow seller of the group, too much shelf space, etc. Then I started to think about production costs, part number reduction, etc: according to Brickset, Town hall has several "rare" bricks... part numbers used only in Town Hall, or used in only a few other sets (many of which are already retired, or who's days are numbered). If they dropped the Town Hall, they could drop quite a few part numbers. Looking at part numbers shared with less than 3 other sets, I found: 6000644 shared only with Arkham Asylum 6022319 shared only with Santa

Did it also have 2 instruction books?

at least 2

As for the HE, I don't see it being retired (sold out) before the end of this year/ beginning of 2015. Why? Because there still are lots of them in the stores and I have the feeling that those bad nasty people who are responsible for the vanishing of HH, GE, TH, SSD, etc. decided to invest in those sets and don't have money or are not yet interested enough to invest into HE. (That's why I think it will stay some longer... it highly depends on the investors though... if I had to decide which set to buy right now with about 100

There could be an entire thread devoted to speculation or interpretation of Ed's posts.

Is that a clue? A traveling carnival? Reduce the number of modular themed sets running concurrently and increase the number of some-other themed set marketed at AFOLs

I'd say the point of "complete modulars" collection applies to less and less people as time goes by. I mean how many people could ever complete their collection buying all - a CC, MS AND a GG? So, I think what more and more collectors will say is: "Well, I could'nt get Cafe Corner or Green Grocer, so, I doesn't matter if I get Town Hall either, because in the end it is ugly anway - I'll go buy a nice GE." The percentage of NEW collectors starting now who will be able (or financially willing) to get a complete collection is close to zero. So for me the "complete collection" argument is not valid anymore. You also have to take into consideration that people want to feel good after buying, they like to be "proud" of what they spent (much) money for. Cafe Corner might be "ugly" too, but it IS a LEGEND. People buying it can be proud of owning the legedary CC - so they will invest that much money. As for TH - it is NOT a legend by any means and there is not a big chance it will be one some day - meaning it will solely remain scarce but unappealing. In my opinion what counts more of today is what modulars look like beacuse NONE of them will get to that legendary status of CC, MS or GG anymore.

Well.. Cafe Corner was also regarded ugly, but in the end collectors do want the complete modular line. What is a (modular) city without a TH? Think it will be a very desirable set in the future. Think people don't have this feeling with UCS models, that they want to collect them all. But that's just my opinion.

In a shipping package therr are 3 in it

they were showing up about every hr since about 9:30CT for me but I was only quick enough twice... So 9:30,10:30,11:30,12:30... Maybe again at 1:30??? Lol

It is painful to use Target site. 2 out of 3 times, I will get "technical difficulty" error msg.

I'm really surprised nobody is discussing the "LEGO Batman: Batman Be-Leagured" episode that aired tonight on Cartoon Network. Black Manta, Captain Cold, and even Lex in his Power Armor were featured.

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i am not trying to be offensive here but that's called seller protection for sales ... . enables one to avoid all those " dog ate the package and i didn't get it claims"

I think ufema could get some "real" press from the LEGO community for these videos.

Did your buyer use paypal? If so check the shipping address in paypal as that may be the correct one. We always match the ebay shipping address against the paypal shipping address and call the customer if there is a discrepancy. The cryptic ebay name and zero feedback suggest this was a guest checkout. Personally I would call the customer and let them know what is going on. I would also reship the item for free if the customer still wants it. Eating $15 in shipping may lead to many hundreds in profits down the line. You cannot go wrong providing superior customer service.