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Hit some Meijer stores while visiting family today. 2 x Chima: Flying Phoenix Fire Temple - $60 2 x Lego Movie: Police Gunship - $54 3 x Chima: Rogon's Rock Flinger - $12 1 x Ninja Turtles: Turtle Lair Invasion - $60 1 x Ninja Turtles: Big Rig Snow Getaway - $42.50 148 x Series 3 Mixels - $2

Their mobile app sucks, and the markup is killer.

It's the new world Ed was hinting at. New stuff is retiring before it's even released.

I find all this chatter about big vs small a good read, but in the end it doesn't matter. I've got two R2s in my investment pile and that's one more than I planned on. I decided to snag one the last time they came into stock at S@H. I don't honestly know how people get their hands on so much stock and I don't really care. There are plenty of good theories out there and I'll bet there is an element of truth to most of them. This is the first Xmas season I've tried selling some of my investments and doing some QFLL and I was moderately successful with both. Fell short of my goal by about $1k (overall sales) but I also disappeared for the holidays to the Caribbean on dec 11th. That was worth more any last minute deals or sales. Besides, I have a day job that I find enjoyable and easy. Pays the bills too. Lego is a sideline that makes up around 5% of our investments. I won't try to compete or I'd go broke. :)

I'd be careful with these going forward. I know this is the hot item around here recently, but as previously mentioned, I'd be willing to bet these behave like the CMF series with Series 1 being worth a lot, then future series' becoming worth less and less as more and more people start hoarding them and more are produced. Not to mention that as soon as some of the rare parts become readily available from other sources, people will be able to BrickLink these guys for cheap.

Honestly, this whole last couple of pages is much ado about nothing. It is the Holiday season, please cut each other some slack.

that's 175 more mixels from Meijer!

At first sight, one can say that it is a decent deal. But when you think about it, it's not that much of a good deal IMO. First off, it's vintage, and if you want to complete any of the sets there, it can get costly as some vintage pieces are expensive. Second, selling vintage sets takes a long time, and from the sets in the listing, it seems to me that it would take a long time to sell everything. I don't see this lot being worth it because of these two reasons. I have dealt with these lots before and the older the sets are the harder it is to sell them because no one is looking for them.

I've got about a dozen of these put away. I think this one's done.

I agree. Just imagine... in the new SW movies they will sing songs? It is Disney now anyways.

Can we request that some member posts always require approval?

Was the guy's name Mark? So if by your logic, this guy knows LEGO investing better than us, why would he want your terd CITY sets? Just say in'..

Typical Canadian pricing...

I hate you all. At that price, I would be buying them to put away. Other than ToO and Helm's Deep, I have no interest in any of the Hobbit/LotR sets. I want Lonely Mountain because I want that dang dragon. He's just too awesome. I'm thinking Halloween Town, Vampyre Castle, dragon drapped over it.

I was told through Christmas. She said it might actually end Christmas eve in the system. The super heroes deal is good too just didn't have much luck getting the same price points to work out on the Bogo 50 deal to maximize the discount, and some of those are a little over retail. The 20% off coupon is good until the 24th and it is reusable (it says limit 1 time per store visit but I did 2 transactions at one store and the lady said it was fine to use it again). Also on your receipts you get a code for $15 off a $50 purchase online so you could get 30% off that way on some other stuff (not much selection though). That starts 12/28 and ends 1/3 and the code is the same on all the receipts so assume multiple use is fine. I will say this much more customer friendly there than B&****** and will try to make sure you've received every maximum discount you can.

Pretty much made the most of my drive back from Huntsville through B'ham by hitting about 5 BAM and 4 B&****** BAM 20 White House at $30 10 Farnsworth at $36 10 Empire State at $12 10 SOH at $24 1 Rockefeller at $24 1 MF at $120 30 Mixels 2 at $4.79 some random Ninjago sets at 50% off and then 20% off that B&****** 6 FW from 70-90 1 Rockefeller 1 Guggenheim some minecrafts too TRU 2 Cargo Terminals PM and Rewards got them down to $56 each TRU Express found some mixels 2 and had them price match there $48 eradicator mechs down to the $20. She goes dang we're expensive! LEGO Birmingham got some RI and cleared out the last 5 of the $5 bats, Snowman and Reindeer It was a busy ride home that might of taken a little longer than the normal ETA lol

Bought 2 farns and 2 Fw @ Barnes with 4 coupons in the same transactions and stacked with membership and discounted GC. No voodoo required

Amazing Boxing Day deals! Damn I`m heading over there right now!

I think the handful of people here who have it all figured out should go and start their own website......they are obviously wasting their time here with us idiots. It's been my experience here though that the ones who bark the loudest are the ones who know the least. Funny how that works out.

2014 Best Community Answer Brickpicker This was they year I really got deep into Lego investments with becoming a daily Brickpicker user. The best part of it? Deals? No I have made some really great friends on here. That is what has been most enjoyable about it. Thanks BP.

OK, who else here from Washington, Oregon, Idaho? (Could include Alaska I guess too) I know we have a few folks from the Seattle area, thought it could be cool to have a PNW thread to call our own for some of our regional stuff that doesn't fit in other threads broadly, like discussion of Fred Meyer or Bartell Drugs? Fred Meyer in particular has a good sale on right now, although they are getting cleaned out quickly: - Uruk Hai Army $19.99 - SW Planet sets $4.99 - 4440 Forest Police Station for $49.99 Lots of Hero Factory on sale as well for 40%-ish off. Anyone else want to raise their hand as a PNW'er?

It's decent, but not great. Based on the boxes, it looks like this person stopped buying by 1980 and wasn't into any of the highly sought after themes from that era (i.e., Classic Space, early Castle). I would ask for a list of all of the manuals that he has and judge its value based on that. From what I see there, I wouldn't waste my time. He thinks that he can triple by selling them individually, but clearly doesn't have a good grasp on the demand for the sets that he has. People would buy the Exxon station set and the Engine Co. 9, but the others would likely be harder to sell.

I was only able to acquire 6. Missed the boat.

No Gondor is unforgivable.

Buy now, sell in 6 months. (or now)

If you have top rated status (discounted 20% FVF), keep in mind that you just can't cancel the transaction unless the buyer agrees to. If they do not accept the cancellation, they can leave negative feedback, you don't get your fees back and it counts against your top rated (less than 2% defections). Just make sure it's tracked and add a signature if worried.

I take everything Tabby says with a boulder of salt.

Welcome, I enjoyed reading your background (-:

?You should have grabbed an at-at -if they had it- and built it

You only earn VIP points (or dbl VIP points) on money spent.

nice score there .

I was pretty lucky at a couple Meijer stores today while visiting family. I found 100+ and I know I have at least 2 full cases worth. If I head back to the big city after the holidays, I'll do some looking again. I stopped at 7 stores today, 4 coming into town and 3 when leaving, much to my wife's dismay. I'll post a pic tomorrow in the "Buy" thread, but I can't dig everything out of the back of the truck until my son is out of the house tomorrow. I found a few other good Meijer deals today, but mostly for personal use and not for investment (cough, CHIMA, cough).

3 Benny's for $63 each. 1 Lonely Mountain for about $75.

only if you want the BAN hammer

The problem with these sets for resale is postage. After Ebay fees and postage costs taken into consideration, you need to be selling for $25+ to make these even remotely worthwhile... money is better spent elsewhere. I really like these sets, and I have a few in my study at home, but for resale I'm giving these a miss.

How does any of that say that R2 will definitively be around another 18 months?

My kid loves these and has them all. I am still surprised it is hard for me to choose which character / colors will be most popular. For example from Series 1, I definitely thought the reds were the coolest, but yellows were the clear winner in resale value (though reds are catching up fast). Series 2, I like the Fang Gang... all those teeth... but the slow, frozen blues are the hottest seller. Series 3, I like the tans, especially Scorpi, but current word on the street says that purples will become hardest to find. I'm guessing it has more to do with childrens' attraction to favorite colors than the characters themselves. Given a choice between a brown, blue, or orange mixel, kids choose blue (a favorite color for lots of people). Maybe it's as simple as that. Anyone parting out Mixels yet? ... just kidding... but I was wondering... could someday the Mixel / Nixel packs become more valuable than the others? Could they be parted out? For those that don't know... each color set of three has one character that comes with one Nixel inside (Nixels are little black enemies of the Mixels). If you've seen the cartoon clips, or played the tablet app, you'll know that Nixels get together in large groups to fight the Mixels. It's possible there's some buyers out there who want to create an "army" of Nixels. I believe the current characters that have Nixels in the pack are: Krader, Teslo, Vulk, Balk, Chomly, Slumbo, Glurt, Hoogi, and Magnifo (correct me if I'm wrong... I just asked my 6 year old, and he listed them off in about 5 seconds.... he seemed quite sure of himself). On the same note, I think Lego is missing an opportunity to print more money, by not offering black Nixel-only packs. Just like those kids who don't care about Luke and Han (but want to collect ALL of the Sith and Vaders), I'm sure there are Nixel "dark side" fans. They could also offer a variety of "boss" Nixels, like those shown on the other media.

he's trolling and has no idea what he's talking about

Bought today: 3 x 4204 City Mine 3 x 70503 Ninjago Golden Dragon

The Cinema will be a big hit post retirement. It's currently the only modular I own. Most AFOL are also movie fans. It will also be the last $150 modular released which means a little more profit for reselling. I'm thinking about picking up the Detective Office as I think they will go together well.

No I don't mind at all, I've moved from Ebay to almost exclusively FBA after being told I was stupid for discounting it and then giving it a go this holiday. Ebay Utah # 801-545-1592

Welcome - Great Community here. I'm sure you'll fit in if you are nice and stay out of my stores in Atlanta .

The is my first year selling, so I am only selling on eBay.

it would help if people selling the series 1 stuck to their guns and stopped undercutting each other. i mean there's only a handful of full sets. it's not like there's a ton of competition. start bumping them up to $150 and if everyone does, people will have to pay it cause they aren't getting series 1 any other way. then series 2 will soon follow the lead. obviously i know how it works and just saying this more as a wish and not thinking it will happen because people want sales so undercutting is always necessary and goes with any product. haha. but it has dipped from $125 to $110 regularly because there's been more popping up. hopefully sellers stick to $125 and once most are gone and the people who have tons of sets on here can start slowly putting them out there for more. i believe big time in mixels...all series. hold on to them for a while longer. no rush to sell. i also think with series 4 introducing more infernites, that people will want the original ones, thus pushing series 1 up again. i also saw they were going to produce a game, is that the app they are talking about? or could there actually be a lego mixels game such like all the other xbox/ps games? i think there is potential for a great game like that. then sets would really drive up with that hype.

i see no reason why series 2 won't do really well. series 3 might not as there just seems like way more were produced perhaps. i think in a few months once the listings cool down series 1 will hit $150 regularly and series 2 will jump to $100 per set. i also have multiple sets. ya know i built my first mixels the other night. the purple set, then made the max. gotta say it's pretty ingenious. all 3 were cool in their own right and mixed together to make the super mixel, also very creative. i will say however, they were not easy to take apart and was time consuming, so once the 3 are built, and you then decide to make the max, that kinda stinks. it's almost like it's easier to decide if you want to make the 3 stand alone or the max right off the bat and go with that. either way, love the mixels all around and excited for series 4, especially the glow in the dark ones, i think those will be incredibly popular.

Hans getting a little long in the tooth, not as fast on the draw anymore.

The current EOL set market is dealing with being a victim of its own success. For any old timers or middle-aged timers even, the exact reason you (we) enjoyed the profits we did is why a lot more people are in the game now. Without those profits, we wouldn't be in this situation. How many people checked out eBay and saw a retired set's selling price and thought "Wow, I have to do more research into this....had no idea LEGO sets could be this valuable" That's exactly how I started, just so happened to see what a Cafe Corner was going for. That was before the days of BP too which has been a primer for any new investors to help avoid a lot of those early growing pains and has helped accelerate the field of competition. Not complaining about it though, I enjoy being part of this site. Historically, any industry that has a low barrier for entry is going to have to face heavy competition the older that industry gets. Let's face it, it doesn't take a scientist to buy and sell LEGO, just money, space and a decent work ethic if you want to have some success...we didn't have to go to school for 10 years to try and cure cancer, we're just reselling plastic.The barrier for this industry is fairly low. Now, that's not the end of the world, just a shifting of expectations. It will reach a point where the curve tops out and you won't have all these new sellers coming in. Unfortunately, this is also tied to profits, but this time it's because the easy money is gone and its not attractive to people outside looking in. You also will have some people leave for greener (true or perceived) pastures. I guess the only question is if we are near that point of "topping out". I would say with all these really nice exclusives just retiring, that this business will still be getting a lot of curious new eyes looking into it in the next few years, so there is going to be a good amount of competition still coming in keeping the Plastic Rush alive. Enjoy the profits that are still there in these middle years of growth, just keep expectations in check.

Well, the fact that for you LOTR and The Hobbit are the same is also your opinion (which is great, all opinions are welcome). I don't know for you but as for me I do not give my opinion only on sets, but also on movies (and books). Because these sets are licenced and it's very important. edit: to explain myself better, IMHO to compare The hobbit (movies) to LOTR (movies) is like to compare SW 1/2/3 to SW 4/5/6...

My strategy is keep around 100-200 set for inventory and sell all extras....ok...got 50 on sale - sell 50 for profit (50in...50out, like stocks, buy cheap sell high)....and buy bigger house with extra room just for LEGO, lol I mean use master bedroom for lego and sleep in guest room.....I know that wife will going to kill ya...lol. BTW keep it organazed, if its not looks ugly you can live with it better....