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Maybe for QFLL purposes, but this set isn't dead. The Ecto-1 is definitely not dead. That one will be a post EOL winner big time. Just because a set cannot be flipped for profit while still in production and widely available at retail cost doesn't make it "dead... for investment purposes." It's just not a good flip.

I'm not sure what concerns me most about this purchase. 1.) Why someone would buy that bobble head 2.) Why he was removing the bras 3.) Where the stain came from Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Brickpicker mobile app

We have recently seen examples of items being in the catalog, but already gone including the spring catalog with the SSD. Also are you really from Antarctica? If so, is Lego's current Arctic theme a hot seller there? If so, is that dangerous?

Found one lone Series 1 Mixel at Target today and thought that was a good find but then I saw something I couldn't believe - a Horizon Express sitting on the bottom shelf!! Clearly it had to have been an online return, so of course I grabbed it, but when I scanned it, no price came up. I took it to the service counter and had already decided I would be purchasing it no matter what, but secretly hoping for a huge discount. After a few minutes, I was told it was $115.46, which was 30% off of an inflated original Target price of $164.99. After the red card discount, it came to $109.69, 15% below the true MSRP. Not a huge discount, but since this set is nowhere to be found at retail anymore, needless to say, I was quite happy with my find!

Got this for my own building pleasure today on sale.

On eurobricks today: "Okay, update on the rumored 10179 rerelease. I spoke with the informant over the phone today about whether there was going to be an updated 10179. My bud was at the toy fair in NYC and supposedly they had a private behind closed doors event for dealers that showcased a few products we haven't seen yet. There was a falcon on display that was different than 10179 that had lights and new features. However, according to my informant, this isn't the new UCS. They aren't remaking 10179. Period. Economically, lego felt it wouldn't work well with their intended market (children) and the price point would have made hard core adult collectors cringe. I sat there on the phone disappointed when the conversation took another turn. There was another model on display that lego was pitching as the next BIG UCS. As I've stated previously, my informant owns a toy shop and isn't an

To not be modest, I actually dropped 32lbs from June to mid September this year and I'm still losing weight in bits and pieces. My hockey team had a weight loss challenge that I won and made $160 ( bought the team round after the game). 2 key factors for my weight loss is 1) I drastically reduced my carb intake. I will usually get my carbs from fruit not breads. 2) I eat to not be hungry instead of eating to be full. This is the lightest I've been in over ten years and I have to say it feels great.

Hello All, Just posted pics of my latest MOC, here are some pictures. It is a large diorama of a Mecha base/hangar. Fun build, check it out. Here are some teaser pics, visit my MOCpages for more details. http://mocpages.com/moc.php/403418

In general, I'm in the 'if it hasn't appreciated much in the first year, dump it' camp. However, with the LR train there's a separate issue. Target clearanced these (again) several months ago for $70. I do think that messes with predictions a bit for this set, as there are lots of flippers out there who will take their $15 profit and move on. So I give the train another six months to show me what it can do. As for the others, if I had them, I'd sell them. Edit: True story. I bought lots of 10144 Sandcrawlers back in the day for $100 each. Thought I'd get $200 for 'em after a year. But after 12 months the price was more like $160. Awful appreciation off a $140 MSRP base. But I love jawas and I love sandcrawlers, so I held for another 2 years and sold at $350 - $400. It was worth the wait.

When you have an order and you are ready to ship it. You will change the status of the order from "in process" to "shipped", a window will pop up and you can pick from a handful of shipping vendors and paste in the tracking information. Your buyer will get an email that it has been shipped and include a link to the tracking on the shippers site.

Not iconic? OK...sure.

I found these in two walmarts....40 each....

One Wal-Mart 3 x 31021 Furry Creatures - $13 2 x 3817 Flying Dutchman - $17 3 x 76022 X-Men vs. Sentinel - $35 6 x 9493 X-Wing - $30 - I was going to leave a damaged one behind, until I scanned and saw this price. They were unmarked in the Lawn & Garden section. I might go back, lots of $54 Unexpected Gathering, 3 x $49 Family House, 2 x Lake-Town Chase MSRP, 3 x $40 Cragger Command Ship, 1 x each Republic Gunship & Sail Barge, both a little trashy. They had a red tag for $64 Bike Shops, none left. Lots more too... I can't believe how hard it is to find the City Tow Truck for the $13 clearance price, they disappeared quick.

Welcome to BP Ducky. Ciglione has a good point, you can only benefit from getting to know your product intimately. I know there are peeps that don't and still do well but they are far and few between I'm sure. The biggest benefit I see from this is being able to make decisions on your own (hopefully finding that sleeper set nobody else figured out) and not relying on others mis/information in the future. On the whole this a very informative forum and the community is willing to share helpful information as long as an effort is put to researching the forums before asking lazy questions. For your initial investment set I would recommend reading through some of the specific set topics and you'll read members pros and cons of that particular set. I'm sure you will come to a decision that you'll be confident with on your own. Good luck!

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Welcome to the forum Duckyluck! No additional advice from me. Except that in my opinion getting close with your product will help you make better business decisions. So maybe you can borrow some legosets from your wife's friend's husband just to build? I would recommend it. Good luck Duck!

I'm a big guy, 325lbs, but I am benching 350lbs+ and clean. Most guys at gym that lift that or more are juicing. Also ran first marathon this year. Don't know any other 300lb guys doing that Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Brickpicker mobile app

I just found this set 2015 at a Toys R'Us store near Charleston, West Virginia. I didn't waste any time building the model (without using the instructions) and writing up an article which describes the part selection, the build process and the finished model. The finished model is very detailed but pretty small. I enjoyed the build and think the finished model looks good. It is about average for a set in the Architecture series. It is a bit more repetitive and less engaging than some of the other models such as Big Ben, Eiffel Tower or UN Headquarters sets. The part selection includes rare and expensive parts, and is a great addition to a LEGO Architecture Studio collection of White bricks. The most noteworty part is 87994 (Bar 3L) in White, since the set includes 46 of them. That part is rare, and currently runs for 0.43$/part on Bricklink, so we should expect prices for that part in secondary markets to collapse. If you want to see more photos and learn more about this fun new Architecture set, you can see my blog post athttp://tomalphin.com Sincerely, ---tom

nope online, clear $40 per set at that price with our purchase price. We always offer the new larger / popular sets as we have customers that want them. It's not always about high % sales. It keeps people coming back and looking at your items when they know you will offer a lot of desirable sets. We also have a lot of exporting customers that buy stuff like this 5 at a time (tumblers and Volvo as well) Then it turns into a $200 profit per transaction with 1 shipping fee.

so...have some nice NYE presents for my fellow brickpickers around the world: 1. pretty concrete confirmation on many soon-to-be-official retirement of many sets including SSD, TH, GE, HH, Sopwith etc (wont list them all so not to spoil some potential surprises) -> Go to Sales & Deals page of the Lego Australia LEGO Shop at Home site AND also browse each of the Theme sections (especially the Exclusive Section) to see additional sets that were put on 'sale' even though long sold out. 2. heads-up on AWESOME New Year sale now on for Aussie Folk (208 items on sale, most at 30% off although many are already not available) -> Go to Sales & Deals page of the Lego Australia LEGO Shop at Home site. 3. heads-up on potential New Year sale for at least the European Folk (assuming the sets for the Aussie sale becomes live at midnight in your various regions) -> Go to Sales & Deals page of the Lego Australia LEGO Shop at Home site for a preview Happy New Years!! Looks like 2015 will be a banner year for those of us lucky enough to listen the wise 'old' men's advice and stock up on exclusives over the past months and years!

I just got a combo idea.. 21002 plus CMF series 3 Gorilla Suit Guy... Boom instant

4x MF: 71 euros a time 1x 42000: 48 euros 1x X-Wing: 31 euros 1 cargo terminal: 72 euros

My tru had the elsa castle out yesterday. They said they only got 6 in and I got the last one. Was going to qfll but it looks like they are only selling for $65 shipped on ebay and my local craiglist has them at $60. After taxes my cost being $45 just doesnt seem like much profit margin there. My 5 year old daughter already found it and is offering her unopened Olivia house that she got for Christmas. That might be my best offer.

You might get an R2 as they did have some still, TH not sure about unless they had new stock. If your only buying two then hit all of the stores as you shouldn't have any issues, they spread stuff around pretty well, they have a superhero's store, friends store and a hard to find type store, the "big one" has a bit of everything and sells all types of merch.

Maybe the thinking is that these are pretty much AFOL-only-ish sets that most kids aren't going to play with, so they might as well release sets that will be well-reviewed and impressive enough in scale to tempt folks in their 30s/40s that grew up on the show. I know I'd rather have a couple cool large sets than 3 or 4 piddly sets (I'm looking at you, some of the LOTR and Hobbit sets)

A set being in a catalogue or not does not mean anything. If lego did a last production run on let's say Benny's Spaceship this month (December 2014). They will publish it in the catalogue. Cause it can still be found in shops and on S&****.

Welcome chloe You will find we are not alone here in the uk far from it!!!!!!

Wheeee!!!

hold the presses - http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/12877-10249-winter-toy-shop/?p=395313

no wonder I can't sell any of these, exciter and trek are blowing them out LOL

$45 shipped would make it the lowest price on eBay

where's the jealousy, dislike, why didn't mine sell button? (free shipping?)

Just a FYI for some of the newer members. Some of them might even be reading this thread without posting. What I'm about to type is just my opinion through Lego and other investing. My experience is from the Toy Story, City, Monster Fighter, and Cars theme. You will notice that some members bought Lone Ranger sets at a very low price (say 50% off) and they don't mind holding onto LR sets. This is good advice but you need to see what works for your portfolio and strategy. Myself? I give pretty much all sets 1 year to appreciate from MSRP (aka retail price) and not the price I paid. MSRP is a far better indicator of growth since everyone will have one common baseline as a starting point. Additionally, the highest 12 month ROI % is 99% of the time during the first year. Then the 2nd highest 12 month growth period will be the 2nd year. Note: MSRP will vary by country. Now If I see good growth during the any set's 1st year after retirement, these sets will be held another 1-3 years. So what do I do with sets with below avg growth (from MSRP) during the 1st year? (For example, the 10227 UCS B-Wing which sold got $199.99 MSRP and appreciated to $215 (or so) after 12 months. ). I usually sell most if not all of these sets since the money can be used elsewhere (also known as opportunity cost of keeping something). ( I ended up selling all my 10227s which allowed me to buy 10224 Town Hall, 10226 Sopwith Camel, 10228 Haunted House, and Arkham Breakout sets. Thus... So please follow your gut and invest to match your strategy. Don't fall in love with sets or wait too long for them to appreciate from MSRP since "they are other fish in the sea). Happy investing and new year.

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Yep, just Google "blocked bidder list", or here is the link: http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/manage_bidders_ov.html#block This is a funny one, but not for you. Crazy folk!

Rescue Reinforcements, Olivia's Ice Cream Bike, and Falcon Microfighter + all 3 promos = $75.96

One of the fears on this set is it rides completely on figure exclusivity. the Aqua man is back out again now in a brand new set, and the batman is available in scary quantities as a knock off from China. It seems to me that exclusive figures have weathered the iniital storm of Chinese knockoffs, but it remains to be seen if that will always be the case. If 50 of us are selling Arctic Batmans loose on ebay, and 1000 Chinese knockoffs are also in the search on ebay, it might hurt things. Yes you can tell the difference in hand, but if ebay allows them to be sold its hard to not get lost in the flood

We don't have k-marts here. If you want advice about collishop, fun, intertoys, bart smit or carrefour, I'd be happy to help you.

Anybody take notice of how much a Slave I looks like a right angle grinder?

The wife gotta move out.. gotta need extra space for them UCS sets coming up

I'm all about ordering just before EOL, but I don't want to be caught, either. Look at the Research Institute set. TLG said they would make more of the RI, and oh yes they did, but I was only able to recently order one, and the next day it went to officially sold out. While there is a possibility that this Tumbler set will be available all through 2015, there's also the possibility that its availability will be very limited to most people (not everyone has a Lego store they can drive to), similar to the RI and the Exo-Suit. I rely on Toys R Us (shipping and local store) and LEGO Shop at Home for all of my Lego. If too many people continue to order this set, it will still be hard to get all the way through to its EOL. The real problem is, like with 41999 Technic Crawler, how many of the sales Lego has for this set are to end-user collectors/builders, and how many are strictly flippers/investors? If this set is selling like hotcakes at LEGO Shop at Home and 90% of those sales are to flippers and investors, what happens when EOL comes and now there are hundreds or thousands on the market? I can say from first-hand experience I've watched a collector's market go from what LEGO is currently at, to implosion, within 18 months. I'm not talking about some dinky figurine market, I'm talking about a multi-billion dollar market. 18 months ago most of our customers (90%+) were collectors, but overnight we experienced a surge of flippers. This irritated a lot of collectors, as they were not able to get the item they wanted before its price going up in the aftermarket, and it selling out. Flippers would even buy from other flippers in an attempt to corner the market. It all came to a halt this spring when the manufacturer started increasing the number of each item made, due to the "increased demand", which was actually artificial. Flippers are not end users (consumers), and therefore, do not add to the number of total consumers. An item that normally would have 5,000 made, but now has 10,000 or 15,000 made because 100 flippers who bought 50 each in an attempt to corner the market will never be able to sell those 5,000 pieces as the end users don't exist in those numbers. Not now, not ever. I see a lot of parallels between what I've seen in the market and what's happening with LEGO and what has happened in the market where I work. I wrote a bit of the same sort of commentary a year ago with regards to the 41999 Technic Crawler, and I still see it more and more each day I look. Based on the current sales and the supply of this set on BrickLink, 41999 will never be above $400 and is actually trending downwards at the moment. Look at BrickLink sales over the past 6 months. A total of 57 have sold in 6 months, and currently there are 252 for sale. Even at the steady rate of sale, that's over 2 years of supply that remains. I'm not saying Lego investing is a bad idea, but you do have to pick your battles, especially now. You have to be really smart about it. Sets like the Town Hall going EOL caught people off guard. There will be others. The sets that catch people off guard (the sleepers) will be worth the most when there are few investors/flippers who bought them up. But only if there are end-user customers for them. Locutis

Interesting experience today via CL. A good one actually. Very nice guy, met me at a Mickey D's and I sold him a SC. The interesting part was he mentioned brickpicker during the transaction. I replied with "oh I guess you know what kind of scumbag I am then" heh heh. Had a good laugh, he doesn't resent lego investors though instead seemed genuinely interested.

Don't even get me started on the "FDA".

I'm so anti pills and doctors and all that crap. I could care less is something is fda approved.... Do people reslly believe what they say is legit? Pills are horrible for u. I'm even weird about taking advil. All these big pharmacy companies do a risk reward estimate on possible risks. If they can make a billion dollars of of a pill regardless if it is safe or it it's coming to market one way or another. So what if they kill a few people.... They will pay out a few million to the families and still be profitable. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Brickpicker mobile app

I started my life/health transformation over 7 years ago when I quit my 2 pack a day smoking habit cold freaking turkey. Fast forward 2 years and 25 extra pounds... Decided to do something - was sick all the time and at my heaviest at 215 lbs on a 6'1" frame, so I cut out soda, sweets, junk/fast food and got on the old P90X wagon. That was just the start... Been through about 6 different informercial workouts from The p90x folks and I'm down to a lean 165# - maintaining under 10% BF in my late 30s. That's a first ever, and I lived in gyms from high school through my mid twenties. My diet is completely plant-based now (over a year) and was a pescaritarian for about 2 years before that. Quitting dairy changed my life - I have never been healthier. Diet is 80% of the game. Strength, flexibility, and range of motion should everyone's goal. How you get there is highly personal. Just don't skip your yoga, people.

I keep my diet very clean. Stopped eating meat ten years ago. Still eat fish but only wild caught salmon. No cheese, milk, or butter. I do eat yogurt. No soda. I run 3-4 times a week 4-8 miles a shot. I have two lakes nearby with beautiful trails to run at. Doc says bloodwork and heartrate are perfect. It takes a lot of willpower. Burgers still smell good to me and running when its 40 degrees and raining is not fun. Not for everyone but it's what works for me.

To me... this proves the popularity of this set.

From my perspective, J.J. Abrams gets the benefit of doubt. He has given us: Lost The recent Star Treks MI: 3 Super 8 (absolutely outstanding film) Cloverfield (another incredible film) ... and has focused his work on being LESS CGI-dependent, and more story development, character-development, and old-school filming techniques that feel much more authentic (ex: puppeteered Yoda (awesome) versus CGI Yoda (sad.). Thank GOD Michael Bay wasn't given this project. Honestly, I can't think of another director more qualified to handle this material. I believe he'll do for SW what Jackson did for LOTR, and what Sam Raime did for Spiderman 1-2. Here's to hoping.

Ha ha. This is the best trailer yet. The George Lucas Special Edition.

I see sets like this as an introduction for the masses towards the larger (and pricier) modular houses. It is bigger than the regular Creator houses of years past (yet fit in nicely with all those) but at the same time smaller than the $150+ designs; an 'inbetweener' if you will (and if the term even existed). This is what most will find in their local stores and possibly use to 'take the plunge' with into the realm of Lego reality. Sure spending $160 for a modular can seem extravagant but then again when you just spent half that on a significantly smaller house, that $160 doesn't sound like much of a stretch especially for what you get. I hope designs like this continue onwards into the future and judging by next year's Toy & Grocery Store, they will indeed.