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This is the mail I got from toywhiz.... Dear valued poor customer, We never would have noticed the pricing error on our UCS slave 1 if more people were like you and only ordered one. We aren't sure if it's because you didn't want to blow your cover as a reseller or your crappy public servant job only pays you enough to only afford one but nevertheless your order has been cancelled. We only realized our mistake after there was a huge spike in orders yesterday, most orders involving huge amounts of the set. Please inform your reseller scum friends that maybe if they were a little less blatant we probably would have not been made aware of our pricing error. This is why you guys over there can't have nice things. We now have a list of all the reseller scum and will be banning them from further purchases. (Maybe Y'all can have a toywhiz.com ban hammer badge now) In closing we would just like to apologize to you for being such a broke ass, this was never meant to hurt the little people, Toywhiz.com

Finished it in about half the time the Tumbler took me. IMO the Tumbler was a more challenging build. Even once the Slave1 was done I was like meh, but once you put it on the display stand it looks amazing.

Amazon UK sent me some inedible pancakes and a new Christmas tree today...despite my amazing decorating skills, apparently the wife is not really feeling the same Christmas spirit. Edit: whoa...somehow Toywhiz saw my post already and just sent me a rude email about my Cargomas Tree...crazy.

weekend haul wound up with 15 SOH for $30 16 Farnsworth for $45 1 opened but sealed inside Burj Kahlifa for $22 about 100 clearance keychains for $1.48 (R2, Chewbacca, C3PO, Lone Ranger & Taunto) A bunch more clearance 2014 holiday sets from $5-7 (valentines, easter, snowman) 5 Mines of Moria for $63.98 2 Palpetines for $55.98 20 Turkey Polys for $3.18

I think it's because it's from Toywhiz...Toywiz on the other hand is much more professional and loves resellers.

How about this? Olivia's Basement: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=64484 Perhaps the best part of the MOC is the wall shadowing behind the ladder. If you read the post that's what inspired the moc in the first place.

Packing peanuts/noodles... In all seriousness, I hate dealing with packing peanuts and have not tried the noodles. I use kraft paper or bubble wrap.

I picked this up last month for 140US and my fiancee and I built this over the weekend (alternating bags). It's nice and makes a solid display, but it isn't a noticeable improvement of the 7191 and I will take a pass on any for investment as there are better options out there. I came to post my bag by bag pictures and decided to skim through most of the thread and relive a lot of the arguments about value. It appears that new 7191s haven't suffered too much from the update but used ones (predictably) have. Have you built an SSD? It is an absolutely beautiful display piece and sits front and center in my home, at least until I acquire a UCS MF. Ewok village sits in my bedroom so that I may have nightmares. I like your perspective; it is very well composed. I'm still not buying 10240 for investment as I believe that there are safer, highly profitable sets to buy instead. Bag 1 Bag 2 Bag 3 Bag 4 Bag 5, including the "sled" Bag 6 Bag 7 Bag 8 Bag 9 Bag 10 - Finished Product

For all of you that are picky about how your boxes look (especially near EOL), take note.

Here's to Ed and Jeff for getting this live! CHEERS!

I just completed a detailed review of the brand new book "LEGO Architecture: The Visual Guide" by the popular DK publisher. The book is beautifully produced, and features all 21 sets in the growing LEGO Architecture series. Let's see what it has to offer, and find out if it's something you should add to your library! LINK: http://tomalphin.com/2014/08/book-review-lego-architecture-the-visual-guide.html I'd love to hear your thoughts as well. Do you love it or hate it? What would you have liked to see different? Sincerely, --- Tom Alphin

Yeah those three Architecture sets have really disappeared from B&****** fast (SOH, FW, FH) - almost as fast as Minecraft microworlds did. I missed out on some of the 50% goodness, sadly. I did happen upon a slightly squashed UCS R2-D2 at a TRU for "retail" (15% markup) last Thursday, and felt he really needed a new home. Then a slightly more squashed Creative Tower at a Wal-Mart for $20. First one I've seen this season, surprisingly. Next was a nice looking CHI Temple for $80. Scooped up some microfighters and legend beasts here and there for $7 over the weekend, and had to add a couple X-Men at $35. Last night I talked the ass't mgr into discounts for his last Mines of Moria ($44), Mirkwood Spiders($11), and Mirkwood Elf Army ($20). None of them beat up too bad at all, and I think the last pair would be a really nice sales package for any buyers who have seen the last Hobbit movie. There is some kind of sick pleasure in this bargain chasing... I just wish I didn't have so many stores to cover within a 45min drive. Mega-props to the mom&pop exclusive haul way below retail. /drool

Most of these were in Florida, some were in South ***. Atlanta should be pretty much done unless more come in or are put out from backstock. Most B&****** still have them. Not bad at all with 10% off there either. Was back "home" this weekend so hit all my old locations i used to frequent

I did well pairing the Lone Ranger and Tonto keychains, and my cost was around $3.50 each. You'll do good at that price point.

It was a joke.....laugh a little, you will live longer.

Get to work you Lego employee scum! I need my promo's to ship, I already sold them :-p..

I hate them.

Wow, that is hash. You need to keep this message so when Toywhiz comes up again in the daily deals you can prove to everyone they aren't a company BP members want to deal with. I only ordered 1 also because of this exact reason but I got the other less blunt message that someone else posted. A simple sorry, this was a pricing error would have been fine.

Can we give this man above the honour to become the first to get the "Crumbthief" icon?

But why You! Too late again...

As others have already said, DUPLO can do well but you have to factor in a few things: 1. The boxes are much larger than comparitively priced LEGO sets. This can result in larger shipping costs and requiring more storage space. 2. "Generic" DUPLOs fare far less well than some "Generic" LEGO pieces, so be extra wary of buying the Box O Duplos. For example, the LEGO Creative Tower is selling for 101.35 right now on Amazon, and the DUPLO tower just 55. Both could be had at the same price, of course. Now if you spent $30 on each of those, you'd still be making some money on the DUPLO tower, just far less than the LEGO one. Similarly, people are not likely to buy a themed DUPLO set for specific/rare pieces for use elsewhere. 3. Margins are definitely lower. Where as one can usually take a gamble at 20-30% off of a LEGO set, definitely look at 50% or more for DUPLO purchase - One exception, I have been purchasing the DUPLO Disney Princess sets at 20-30% off as I have found them, and some of the returns have been quite good. 4. Personally, I'd avoid the PLANES theme like the plague. 5. DUPLO sets seem to have a lower ceiling in general. While lunatic Star Wars fans will pay $700 for a Star Destroyer, in general it seems even the best and most expensive DUPLO sets top out in the $150-$200 range. And those are rare. Very few go higher than that. 6. DUPLO seem to have a longer product cycle in general, as they seem to require less updating. 2-3 years is pretty standard as opposed to the 1-2 years for most of the LEGO sets, which means if you get in too early you may have to wait a bit. In your example, Big Farm and Train at 30% are probably fine investments in that you will profit from them, though there's no telling when those sets actually will retire, and that money could better be spent now on other sets that are already disappearing - Most Walmarts are also clearancing Starhoppers, Malibu Mansions, Fire Temples, etc etc which may result in faster returns with smaller storage commitment. I personally think the Super Hero DUPLO theme will do quite well in the long run, and am definitely eyeing them. Most Target/Walmart are clearing out the Superman set now. So there are plusses and minuses, depending on your strategy, it could be worth fitting in.

The assumption is through Target once again but much like the time of release it is unknown unless somebody managed to found the second gift set online.

Still zero on ebay, so I guess no. BTW it'll be $3.99 : http://www.toysrus.com/buy/lego-dc-comics-super-heroes/lego-super-heroes-the-joker-bumper-car-30303-6102274-55543306 I really want one to offer it to a pal. Can't wait to get one on ebay.

Lord Business in his natural habitat. It's a massive, pretty impressive setup.

Totally off topic but thanks for this! That idea never occurred to me before! i always bring a larger Lego set for the family to build (while drinking heavily) on holiday vacations and your idea will come in handy. Over Christmas my cousins, brother, sister and in-laws all built the Tumbler together. Your idea would have come in handy.

Nice, I've marked mine for $100 and will wait for that price to creep up. My son got one for Xmas - Pretty cool set!!

Update your brick folio signature so it will show your 10179's please!

I don't understand the need to ask people how many multiple copies of sets they own (aka bragging - yes, it is bragging). It seems like the same people ask / posts all the time in different ways. Additionally, who really knows how many sets we own? I could own 6 or 26 R2s and nobody will ever know for sure unless they visit me. Please bring beer if anyone does visit. So I think if someone wants brag about the # of sets he / she owns, please include a selfie in front of the sets so other members can laugh at you.

I have been quite successful with Duplo. Just you have to be more selective on which sets to buy than with normal lego and buy them cheap (but that is a general rule).

It's never a slow day when you are posting...

I wouldn't communicate with the seller by phone. I would communicate through only eBay's message system so that all communication is documented and can be accessed by eBay customer service.

There's no way on God's green Earth that this is going to happen. The investor side of my brain wants so badly to order a million of them, but I have to trust the reviews. 1 star with 32 separate reviews: http://www.resellerratings.com/store/ToyWiz. A Google search revealed similar scathing reviews on other sites. I refuse to tie up that kind of money. If you guys get your shipments, good on you, but this looks shady as hell.

Search lego 75060 it shows a price of 104 and ships in Feb.

Didn't buy it but received a Slave 1 for my BDay from the lady.

I was able to find the hot dog suit minifig, yay!

A bunch of little emerald trains for $1.50 and some decorate the tree polys for $2.40.

Birds TIe prototype (sold the tusken raider for 15) snowspeeder micro flower cart and SW polys ( flirted with the salesguy) 4 super angry kitty 1 DD couch AAT flower cart poly Hailfire SW poly ( my sons purchase...he gave me the poly...love that kid!) creative suitcase 2 DD couch 1 flower cart poly I LOVE the birds set. I will have to buy some to sell down the road becase this one is MINE! I am trying my hand at parting out the DD couch set...it is a lot of work. Props the those that are hustling the minifigs. it is not easy money.

There's just really no way to talk about smooshing the Hot Dog Guy and not sounding completely immature, is there?

No more tru exclusives for me. Arctic sets or not.

If they make a Tilt-A-Whirl, they're obligated to finally create a vomit brick.

He says quietly while running to U-Haul to get a truck to fill up on all the Town Halls and Haunted Houses he's found..........

Kids' room from the 80s by LegoJalex

Spongebob is not an AFOL line, Simspons is.

1. Take apart 2. Wash & dry 3. Rebuild (bricklink any missing pieces) 4. Photograph 5. Disassemble and place in zip locks by floor (photograph in zip locks too so your buyer knows what to expect) 6. List on ebay for $1,000,000 (or going BIN) 7. Ship once it sells 8. Have a cold one 9. No one ever said this would be easy.

I really feel like this one is about to crash, too... easily lost as it is amidst the plethora of more desirable, more unique, more exciting exclusives already jumping on the new retirement bandwagon. Is it truly as poor of a seller as it seems? Why? Perhaps because anyone interested in it to begin with already has two or six other X-wings of some sort, all much cheaper and paid for? Stickers, huh? PPP, you say? There was already a UCS X-wing? What is the real draw here, exactly? Assuming some sort of truth in that assumption, my big question is whether the lack of interest will carry over into the EOL years to come, making this a poor to average performer... or if it will translate into a massive supply/demand imbalance due to the corresponding rarity of the set on the secondary market. A potential UCS TIE Fighter in the near future complicates predictions even more. It should raise demand for this set in its waning months (unless that time is now) and/or post EOL, . It would also demand shelf space, which conventional logic would dictate comes from the Ewoks. It might make more sense to try and sell this ship alongside a TIE... stretching its lifespan considerably. Or there might be no such idea at all. I have a hunch the Ewok Village is around a while, though, especially if 10188 finally bites the bullet soon. Episode VII and a new X-wing design? How quickly will Lego have to jump on that situation and what does it mean for this set? Honestly the way things are going now, they could have stopped producing it already and we might not know for a long time. It wouldn't surprise me if there are still a comparable number of R2's in B&M stores out there at this moment. With much more available capital I would prioritize this set pretty highly these days, knowing it could be a very high risk / high return venture.

I stand corrected. This collection is up to snuff!

Enjoy~

Just completed this morning. Comments welcome, just be aware I cry easily. Mods, if I break any rules along the way on these please let me know, as I'm not trying to sneak in advertising, I'm just a proud MOC-momma.