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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?

And no wall of text from Emazers or cryptic comment from Ed.

I sold 12 via Craigslist at $65 and probably could have sold 20 more. I was averaging a sale a day from the first posting. People were thrilled to get them at that price point.

Wow no stickers, now that's a thumbs up for LEGO!

Thanks raven! I went to my local BAM and got 2 Fallingwaters, 1 for $40 and 1 for $80. I haven't invested or even looked at the architecture sets but I'm hoping at that price they are safe bets?

Do signature confirmation. That way when if they claim not received you have something to show.

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.

Hello Bill, welcome to the forum. 9676 will in my opinion not be the best of performers. I'm not sure if you should look at LEGO investment in a 10-15 year range if you want to make profit out of LEGO 1)Most of the profit on items are made in 1-3 years after they are End Of Life. After that, it will of course still rise but there will be other more profitable opportunities. 2)You don't know if in 10-15 years, there will still be such a demand of LEGO. 3)LEGO takes up space and space should be used in order of profit (1) 4)LEGO secondary market is getting saturated more and more. And a good tip. Don't buy everything that is marked off xx%. Some LEGO is extremely hard to sell afterwards for a small margin. Take time to read this forum. There is not much said about "buy this set now" but you'll see that when you follow conversations here, you'll find out the good opportunities. Succes and enjoy!

The dollar drops just a little bit and we get hosed as usual!

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As a fan of the entire series of books and movies I have let it cloud my judgement a bit with the LEGO sets. I still think there is hope for future performance and think that once the theme is gone for good people will realize they missed out on it. It's a theme that will likely never be revisited. As a fan, I just wish there was one more wave of LOTR sets to round out the Two Towers and Return of the King characters and locations that they never got to.

Don't listen to the hipster critics on the new hobbit movie, it r0x0rs b0x0rs. They found the "multiple storylines" confusing. I would image they also find tic-tac-toe a strategic quagmire, as the movie only had 2 major locations: lake town and the mountain. Almost no unnecessary dialog and loose ends were tied. Did a nice job foreshadowing what was coming in LotR. I loved the cameo of a LotR protagonist in his good form during the witch king battle. I couldn't turn off the lego investor as I watched. All I kept saying was "YES YES YES". May be too little too late, but hopefully the older sets get a nice bump from the closing of the series. I for one can't wait to finish my collection now and will enjoy a LotR / Hobbit marathon during Christmas break

good to know, i am new here, a few more posts to go

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

Out of respect, I've avoided your MIL's stomping ground. That's not the case for towns North, East, and South of her.

big fan as i've stated. could be as simple as colors but i think certain ones make for the coolest max mixel. example, i think yellow has the worst characters alone, but mix them together and the max mixel is pretty awesome. i think red of series 1 has the coolest characters. series 2, i'm also a fan of the brown and all the teeth and does make a cool max. the orange is kinda weak, blue is ok but Lunk has to be the worst of all mixels imo. flurry is very popular as is tentro and jawg. top 3 right there for series 2. series 3, purple are my fav max but scorpi is my fav solo. green kinda lacks for me. tan is cool aside from footi. he's pretty awful. series 4 the red coming back (increasing series 1 red imo) and especially the new glow in the dark ones are gonna be huge. the space ones look pretty weak. it will take quite a while for their values to increase as will series 3 but at $2 i don't blame ya's, i'd be getting hundreds as well. shame i don't have that deal around me. meijer seems to be a gold mine store!! mixels really are genius and the creativity is endless. it's a home run. still quite a lot of series 3 near me but i think by end of january i'll start seeing them going especially when 4 comes out in february. as for the nixels. they are ok. just a few pieces. i could see some people wanting an army of them. not sure it'd be worth it for lego to produce a bag of them. like 4-5 per bag. and i wouldn't say the ones that come with a nixel are selling for more, in fact because it's not listed on the package if i'm correct, i don't think most know or think about which come with a nixel. parents certainly have no clue. i think actually the ones that come with a nixel so happen to be the low sellers. i think lego chose them on purpose maybe cause they thought they were the weaker characters of each set. i really wish i had $2 mixels around me.

Killing me man. I want Lonely Mountain, just for the dragon. Don't care about any of the other parts. Would love to get it at that price. Best I've been able to get is $89 at TRU. Where did you find those deals? I'd buy out Benny's at $63, too. Great finds.

only if you want the BAN hammer

Can I ask what Legosteve thinks about other sets?

If there's no definitive source that it's not yet done, there's certainly no definitive source that it will be around another 18 months.

Yes, this is not a punishment for people. This has been implemented for months, but there was an incident in which a member was confused, so I wanted to bring attention to it so that future new members will understand why their posts don't immediately show up. By doing this, it has really helped in cleaning up the forum of spam and garbage.

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

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.

That's how Lego gets more product sold - you obviously need two sets - one to build individually, and one to build into a Max.

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.

Damn it...that my second biggest investment...missed that one too...

"Target BOGO on ToO" Damn it....I missed that. That is my favorite set and the one I have the most $$ in.

I will only like this post if you got their numbers.

Poor man's Rancor Pit...

There are plenty of legit buyers & sellers who won't agree to meet at their house. How would you react if a buyer/seller insisted he meet you at your house?