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Exclusives approaching or exceeding 2 years old (by age): 6.4 yrs: 10188 Death Star 4.7 yrs: 10211 Grand Emporium 4.1 yrs: 10214 Tower Bridge 3.5 yrs: 10218 Pet Shop 3.1 yrs: 10220 Volkswagen T1 Camper Van 2.8 yrs: 10223 Kingdoms Joust 2.7 yrs: 10224 Town Hall 2.5 yrs: 10225 R2-D2 2.4 yrs: 10226 Sopwith Camel 2.3 yrs: 9398 4X4 Crawler 2.2 yrs: 10228 Haunted House 1.8 yrs: 10233 Horizon Express 1.8 yrs: 10937 Batman: Arkham Asylum Breakout 1.8 yrs: 42006 Excavator

***Immediately starts doing situps to "Eye of the Tiger."

This might be old news, but have you guys noticed the new items with the "retiring soon" tag at shop@home? 9493 X-Wing 75019 AT-TE 75018 Jek-14 41008 Heartlake Pool 75041 Vulture Droid 75039 V-Wing 75003 A-Wing 75022 Mandalorian Speeder 3185 Summer Riding Camp And others. Several of these look interesting to me though.

Awards Labels are mostly given on november and december, no ? Who knows, maybe you should try to explain that your life as a reseller would be better if they confirm it's retired. Lego can't stop to argue that they are very nice people.

My bad. Somehow my search pulled out those big Technic sets as well. Here is a graph of the current vintage of exclusives.

Right here: http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/10400-assumed-date-codes-for-production-runs/page-27#entry347889 If I cared to speculate (and I do), I would predict 13-14 major sets are going away (or are already gone except for vapors): TH, GE. HH. SC, KJ, R2, HE, SOH, WVM, ToO, R5, EEE, AA, and maybe it is finally time for good old DS. Ones that I don't think are going away (that others have speculated will) are: TB, PS, 4x4, T1 Just IMHO, YMMV, etc, etc. P.S. - 60% of the time I think I'm 100% correct, or 100% of the time 60% correct, or I can't fool all of the people some of the time, or something like that.

No biggie...Just don't want to give false information. Might be 11. LOL

Hmm, so, at least, Ed did not invoke Newton's flaming laser sword, which is good I guess. In its weakest form it says that we should not dispute propositions unless they can be shown by precise logic and/or mathematics to have observable consequences. In its strongest form it demands a list of observable consequences and a formal demonstration that they are indeed consequences of the proposition claimed

Occam's razor (also written as Ockham's razor and in Latin lex parsimoniae) is a problem-solving principle devised by William of Ockham (c. 1287

I am here...just watching...and waiting...

Because that's what we do when there is nothing we can do about it!

Sleep is costly

Dear Lego friends, For all you Dutch investors (perhaps also other countries with Dutch contacts): Intertoys.nl will have upcoming sunday 2th of November a 15% discount on their entire webshop collection. It is from a highly trusted source. This means TH's for 153 euro and GE for 135 euro. There are now more than hundred in stock, let's buy this **** saturday night before the 'normal' people can buy one, so we can sell it with big profits later on to them :-p Good luck! I will also make a specific topic in the 'european deals' area of this forum.

This past Febuary, I found a lone 10212 Imperial Shuttle sitting on a shelf in TRU. When I asked an employee about it, he said they had just found it in the back room.

That's because 70% have limited to none of the TH in hand at the moment. Myself included.

I'm reassured that 70% of brickpickers still say TH will be out at least until 2015. For Lego to retire it before that would be downright undemocratic!

I've been attending the BrickCon Public Expo in Seattle for years, but had never displayed my models before or participated in the longer 4-day Private Convention. I just completed an in-depth write-up that goes "behind the scenes" at one of the largest and oldest LEGO conventions for AFOL's. Some of my highlights: Seeing large LEGO models get re-assembled was really interesting. I loved playing the LEGO games like the "Blind Build" shown here. Displaying my models for the first time to the Public was really cool. As always, there were impressive new models on display at the Public Exhibition. LINK TO LONGER ARTICLE AND MORE PHOTOS: http://tomalphin.com/2014/10/brickcon_2014_behind_the_scenes.html I hope you find this behind the scenes look at BrickCon to be interesting. If you got to attend too, what was your highlight from the show? Sincerely, ---tom

What are scripts and how do they work? I like many of us are looking ways to score deals which are only available for minutes.

SOOO happy for you..../sarcasm good snag!

no joke, thanks for the advice

Looks like there are two listing for this on AZ. One is price you mention and other is $23.99 direct from AZ. Not saying it isn't gone (since I don't follow these) but seems to be avail everywhere.

Occam's razor (also written as Ockham's razor and in Latin lex parsimoniae) is a problem-solving principle devised by William of Ockham (c. 1287

Friends Bakery is Call for product availability on LEGO. Already going for $38 on Amazon. It could be done

As a new poster McLovin may be on to something. Not the golden tickets but Shipped & Sold by Lego Only. NMM keeps talking about how he is interested in the renewal of the Exclusives pricing policy in January 2015 so that nothing goes below MSRP. What if that ties to those products and Lego would decide not to renew the agreements specifically in the US where they have a great distribution channel of their own as opposed to some other countries. What if Lego sells all exclusives direct only. That would solve NMM's problem and that would be the Chaos that Ed the Chaos Bringer is discussing. That would make the value of the Town Hall and many other sets as far as us owning them rise significantly over time as the aftermarket resellers have lost their easy sources for more exclusives. Ed is watching and waiting for the other shoe to drop and I have a feeling we will see it drop before Christmas. OK I am probably wrong again but that is another track it could follow.

I'm going to poop my pants.

I started reading that wiki and my brain started to hurt.

There is more to come...Hope you all are prepared...

He is/was around. He is probably just crafting some cryptic texts to post in succession on SSD, TH, HH, and Daily deal threads. :D

I can just see beavis and butthe@d......"LEGO [email protected] he he he he he he"

I'd be happy with one.

I think there are plenty of people who are complaining about not getting HHs that already have 4-8 of them, but rather have 14-18, given how fat this gravy train is assumed to become.

Ok then.....seems fishy to me but condition definitions are a whole other can of worms. His inventory is weird, like you said nothing really flashy.

I think ps goes mid 2015 and the we have 3 modulars out... If u have expensive sets like the modulars its better to have only 3 different and not 5 or 6 at the same time

I had no idea that section was up. It really needs some way for people to easily show where they are and you should make it mandatory to specify.

Almost there...

No problem.......................after a secret loan from my wife's savings account.

I think I'm going to cry...

Haha, before reading a single word past the title, I was thinking buy both. To me it depends on whether you're a minifig collector as well. If you love those little plastic figures, go for the 10188. So many cool scenes you can make with the figures. If you're not partial to the minifigs, I suggest you check out a fellow BP'ers thread about 10143. It's a very cool set and is generally considered a better display set. http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/11670-bricklinking-the-10143-death-star-ii/?hl=10143

Even better when in

Hey guys just an update on that HH I got of ebay that turned up wet ect. It is all sorted the seller was really good and is sending me replacement and sorting out refund ect with delivery company for himself. There is some brilliant sellers out there.

If you truly think this (I don't think you do) then it would be completely ridiculous of you to stay in this business. You should Sell off off your stock and jump ship if you think this way (you don't).

I think that Ed's message has been consistent. 1) TH is a goner. 2) The reason it is retiring sooner than most thought has nothing to do with sales or box size. 3) We can no longer count on predictable retirement dates for large exclusives, even modulars. This may be a strategy to avoid wild swings in inventory.

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.

Time to just start reading the BP daily updates and save myself sifting through 100 new pages of insane ramblings each day...

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.

I read that as you were saying you buy stuff with BA's wife's account.

Ordered Parisian Restaurant today. Will build it next weekend. All because of people posting here how great it is. Hate you guys... Could have spent the money on an extra TH

Well, orange is the new black, you know.

Please add SSD to the list. yay!