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No honey, I'm really sorry but no room for groceries this week!

One more graph for fun. I'm looking for patterns. This is a graph of the age of all Exclusives since 2007, excluding the following: - All Star Wars (since I think they have a separate release schedule than the rest of the themes). - All Factory - All Seasonal (Winter Village) What I like about this graph is it shows a relatively steady rate of exclusives being introduced, and it helps pop out which ones are getting old and which ones may be retiring prematurely.

Hey Guys! So a couple months ago i started the long painful process of brickbuilding the 10179. I had many of the parts already from having a very large collection of light gray pieces, and i had been starting to really see the imperfections and scale issues with my 7965 Falcon on display (granted it's not a display model by any means, but it was better than spending thousands for the 10179). 7965 was also the set that brought me out of the dark ages. After trying for month to get a used one on CL or Kijiji, i caved and decided to start. Once finished i realized it was much larger than i thought, and had trouble finding a spot to display it. When i finally did find a spot to display it flat; it really didn't seem to do it justice and i began researching other ways to go about displaying it. Typically i'd use 2x4 clear bricks to prop ships up into more interesting angles, but 10179 would just be too heavy for that. Sure enough there were a couple search results of people mounting it on the wall, and one specifically on YouTube that had it mounted in a way that gave it mobility by using a TV wall mount. I decided this is what i was going to go for vs. a static mount as it allowed it to move into many angles, and the user had a YouTube video with great images of what i'd have to do. This took a good few weeks to complete as there were countless issues that arose. The YouTube video does not give exact details, and finding similar/like parts he used wasn't possible. In the end my mount construction resembles his, but is certainly a bit different. While the 10179 has a very strong inner frame; there are many parts i had to reinforce with more technic liftarms and even rubber bands (i'm looking at you rear underside section). I do believe i was able to find close to the exact same mount he used, but my brackets and the LEGO part of it have been constructed differently. I also added an RGB strip to the back engines to add some flare And no it has not fallen yet haha, but i do check it every so often to see if anything is bending/giving. The first night of it being up i was dreaded of being woken up by a terrifying crash I intend to paint the LED power cord the same colour as the wall to hide it. Anyways i thought some of you might be interested in seeing it. I think this really does the model justice (or at least saves some space!). ** Edit: forum upgrade seems to have lost the pictures... go to this post for new ones. **

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

I just sold a vampyre castle for 200 Shipped.......(Going to Mexico) and 9 assorted Lego Promo sets for 158 Shipped.....(Going to Holland)

Happy Hallowe'en! Had this forwarded to me... (contemplated posting this as an ethical topic, but decided not to )

Make it a load-bearing poster!

Give em the ole "Target special" and they will fit right in with room for an ssd on top.

Sold a 50+ set lot. I'm hoping the sets fit in two 26x26x26 boxes. It wasn't so much about the profit on this sale. I wanted to free up space and funds for my recent TH and HH purchases. All the sets and polybags avg $34 cost. I sold for about $44 plus postage.

You just gave me the creepy guy at the swap meet feeling.

10226 SC is back in stock...'limited quantities' With import fees (from the Global Shipping Program) + shipping I think the cheapest to get in Canada is around $200 USD (except for that seller in Hungary) so getting them at MSRP seems like a slam dunk. No guarantee they'll actually ship, but I just ordered two and hopefully they ship well (or at all)

Starter fluid and a match. I guarantee you'll get a flame. . . . . . . . . Disclaimer: Don't actually try this at home, kids.

Smart companies always think ahead... usually years ahead. I highly doubt LEGO ever has the "OMG we sold 10x TH last month, we better fire up the TH machine tomorrow and make more" discussion. They're a smart, privately held company and don't have to bow to shareholder pressure (Apple's real problem, imho, coupled with the need to be on the leading edge--that's a lot of pressure). LEGO is smart, and they hold the cards. They know more about their global sales and what works/doesn't than any one of us--or, likely, all of us collectively.

When it comes to people saying a set will or won't be a winner I'm a bit confused. It depends on your buy in. I have x wings.... I paid 20.00 for mine. No way I can lose. Any see can be a winner. What might make me a ton of money may not for you as everyone's buy in is different.

re: Five armies amazon "deal". after 20 minutes of back and forth with amazon chat CS, I finally got 2 5 armies for $15.99 each. what broke the camel's back was the links showing the incorrect 5 armies link (original order), the new 5 armies link (with the regular price), and then my invoice showing that I ordered 5 armies. had me re-order the 5 armies using the "correct" 59.99 link - sent the new order # through chat and then got the new order price reduced to the original price - YAAAAY!!!!! winning!

Does Walmart make profit on them??

Don't normally post what I sell, but this morning sold a lot of 10 HP The Lab 30111 polybags for $85 and free shipping. Very happy about this purchase. Bought them for $1.10 each over a year ago. Saved quite a bit on shipping too, since they all went to the same person!

Use it to cover the hole you are spending the next 20 years making, using a spoon, so you can escape the life you are unfairly chained in.

My 7 month old daughter built her first Lego set 10553 and she developped a taste for it. Her review was, plenty of nice colored pieces. The little bear is most easy to chew on and the window boxed is most useful to poke mommy's eye out. Brilliant set imo.

I've been sitting at $114.95 for awhile now. 124.95 has a better ring to it. Or better yet $149.95. Up, up and away!!

My girlfriend has been moaning about getting a VW caddy. Perhaps worth thinking about it were it not that I love my old people's vw jetta so much.

Please, work with me here.

There's a reseller for that.. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=rosetta+stone+hindu&_from=R40|R40&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR2.TRC1.A0.H0.Xrosetta+stone+hindi&_nkw=rosetta+stone+hindi&_sacat=0

I've found the labels peel off the boxes reasonably well. I had to remove labels from 10 Olivia's Treehouse and only one box had any sticky residue, so I was surprised/pleased.

Just sold my last Power Miners 8961 Crystal Sweeper for $180+shipping. I got 2 at $54 a couple of years ago from a local toy store clearance room. I think I could of got more for it but I have to clear out lots of sets. The lady noticed the piles are getting bigger, not smaller.

2 Five armies for $15.99 each to replace the incorrectly sent witch king have shipped from amazon.

Doesn't hurt to vote - it might show TLG that there is significant interest in the line & they may devote more effort into it's initial release, rather than a few ho-hum market testing sets. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear...

I'm impressed, I would never have thought he was talking about his avatar.

Our neighborhood, I kid you not, is like in ET - there are tons of kids. You can't drive down the road, because it's so busy. There are some houses where you can go through 4 bags of Costco candy, and still no make it past 7pm. It's nuts. There aren't really any subdivisions near us. It's at least 15 minutes (or more) in any direction. So kids are literally bussed into our neighborhood. Dropoffs begin about 5 PM, and things go until 9 PM. And that's just on a regular night. This year, with it being Friday, we're thinking it's going to be huge. We live in a cul-de-sac, so we're roping it off, and all of us neighbors are planning a big potlock and drink fest after the kids go to bed. Should be a good time.

Case in point they had a whole lot of people clamoring to empty their wallets to buy lego bricks at full msrp. Throwing money at them as quickly as they'd take it. Lego does not need to discount. Believe whatever they are doing is winning the retail battle.

How crazy would it be if Lego retired 10 exclusives then followed that up by lifting their no discounts on exclusives policy in January? That would be some chaos followed by some wicked sweet deals.

I wonder what 6212 sold for at Christmas 2011, when it had been discontinued and 9493 hadn't been introduced yet? I also wonder how many "slots" in the product line up TLG wants to use for episode 7? 9493 isn't going to be a 5x set, but it might be a nice flip sometime soon.

which one? gunship, x-wing or both?

They took mine back and gave me a $5 coupon

When I send a bag, it would be flaming and it would not contain rocks

that's what was said about the tie-fighter and look where its going

Assuming the set you are looking for is the set in your profile picture, the set is 315-3 European Taxi.

Anyone else not seeing 40106 when they hit $99 in your cart? Looks like they finally ran out unless it's just a glitch.

Update: Called GCM and was told the reason they had zero balance was because ebay/paypal had contacted them and asked them to cancel the transaction. So, apparently it's not enough that ebay ensnares HTTP proxy users in their Site Interference Policy screener and threatens their accounts -- they also try to cancel your current orders. OK, that's fine -- from ebay's point of view. So, I ask the GCM rep if they had cancelled my paypal charge as a result. To which they assert "that's something to resolve between you and ebay/paypal since they asked us to cancel it". Ha! OK, call ebay and tell them what happened and I get a face of ebay I haven't seen before. They were so eager to open a case against a "seller". Since GCM has given me the cold shoulder, I had no qualms with ebay doing this. So ebay opened a Not As Described case for me and asked for "replacements". Being a moderately-sized seller on ebay myself, I know GCM will hate this, but they may be big enough not to care about one case. But it will be fun sitting on the side and watching how this plays out. I'm sure there are no fewer than three ebay departments that have no clue how to talk to each other involved now due to this fateful October 21st transaction. And now a huge seller, GCM, gets to deal with them. On the state of my "appeal" regarding the alleged violation of the Site Interference Policy and my 14-day buyer suspension -- I was told by multiple CS reps yesterday that these actions are "non-appealable" even though an appeal had been filed and I had an appeal #. I asked what would happen on a third violation -- would my buyer account be permanently suspended without appeal and they said, "yes, but rest assured that we have made notes in your account." I asked, "what good do notes do me if you can't appeal." They didn't have anything to say. The appeal process is definitely a black hole and their CS reps have no power to do anything to an account. I'm half-tempted to drive to San Jose and see if I can get into a shareholder's meeting to ask them a couple of questions about their customer treatment...

Perhaps try putting ads on the bulletin board at your place of employment? If that doesn't work, you could try selling out of your trunk at the local large toy store parking lot.

The most exclusives on amazon.europe are also gone

Still false....

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

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.

I hate when people send stuff with signature required. Yeah, hi. See I have this thing called a 'job'. That 'job' description does not include sitting on my a** all day at my house waiting for UPS to show up at whatever random time they are coming that day (anywhere from 8AM to 8PM is my local UPS deliveries).

Well, orange is the new black, you know.

Well I did it... I sold an SSD for $800 cash locally. My cost on "this one" was $430 (I'm doing FIFO out of my stash) so I feel pretty good. I would have had to sell it for approx $950 before shipping on eBay for the same return - I'm not a top rated seller. Pays for three of the snow tires I need for my new car!

Just finished the Technic Bulldozer. Its pretty sweet. Well worth the entry price. Just an outstanding selection of technic sets this year. I love them.

derailment and trains don't mix

The 50th Anniversary UCS Millennium Falcon First Edition is the pinnacle of all collectible LEGO sets. There cannot be another made. How about a 60th Anniversary? Not quite. Maybe 75 or 100 years. Point is, the 10179 is more than just a large set. It is an 50th Anniversary set, just like the Town Plan. So whether or not another watered down version is made, it will not be as good as the original and not as valuable and wanted. As for the new UCS X-Wing, I'm disappointed in the set. While I do have a MISB 7191, that is not what bothers me. What bothers me is the overall lack of creativity...almost a laziness...in this design. They could have easily made this set an "iconic" set. Maybe a 3000 or more piece set that was a good deal larger and more detailed than the first version. There is NO BIGGER FAN of STAR WARS UCS sets than me and I really like each one, but this could have been a great set, just not a simple remake. I can list 30 different UCS sets they could have done, but this is another money maker for LEGO and that is the bottom line.