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Take a minute and think about how dumb the average person is. Then, consider, 50% of people are even dumber than that.

$30 in gas...have you been following me on my trips to the local Walmart?! Freaking me out man....guess my truck is hard to miss though:

Detective Agency added, and it is way cool...I probably only have room for one more!

Why would you ever have let that much pile up???

So I had a great weekend building all these pirate ships: Black Pearl, Sea Cow, Queen Anne, Imperial Flagship and Brickbeard's Bounty. I tremendously enjoyde building both POTC vessels, great builds!!

It's not about throwing money at anyone. It's just about finding the time. If you do want to throw some money at me, I will give you my address and you can drown me in it. I won't stop you. The iOS certs expired. I had to make all new certs and push files. I have to look at the Android stuff to see if that is working or not. Took almost 12 hours for it to start pushing the notifications again. Should be fine for another year at least.

If I found the right cloth part, the set it goes to is much better than the Emerald Night. From my search, I think that the cloth sail that is pictured is from..... 10196 Grand Carousel

Well I will get destroyed for this one but I am asking in terms of if I am alone. Does anyone else feel the same way... I love the UK. I think they are a great ally. I do not think we treat them very well. I think they deserve a lot more respect. I know the Tower Bridge is iconic. But I just do not see the Tower Bridge doing monumental things in the US. I am not all excited about it. The 2 I had I got rid of for a 10% profit and moved on. Is there anyone else out there that feels that way?

Happy day today...I had a brick link buyer bail me out on all of my 9450 epic dragon failures...errr...battles. He bought every one I had. I only made $6/set after fees and shipping, but man am I glad to see those go. I'll put that capital into more tumblers and slaves. I only have two ninjago and one chima set left (1 temple of light, 1 mechdragon, and 1 croc swamp) and then I am completely out of those themes. I also sold two hot dog carts for $18 each shipped. eBay.

..And any serious replies are considered "food": The troll thought AA was coming back and it didn't. Now he's an angry troll. AARRRRRG!

Hey gregpj, I know it's cold up there so this is an easy one. Is this what I think it is? If so I realllly like this lot.

http://www.fastcompany.com/3040223/when-it-clicks-it-clicks Good read.

OMG! I just got my 1st push notification in weeks! Fingers crossed it stays!

This is where being a recluse really pay off. We take occasional stay-cations, but Mr. Frog and I aren't generally interested in the discomforts of travel.

Definitely? Hmmm feels like we've been here before!

^For anyone not the OP who is reading this, that's the question. The Bank of TLG is NOT a safe place to hold your money. Don't keep it in there any longer than necessary. I use up my VIP points with almost every purchase except in rare circumstances like Double VIP month.

You are being insulting much to us. This can be prooof of the profiling of raciality. Please to be providing I with Security Social number and also surname of mother prior to arranged marriage.

I want a Neuschwanstein castle.

Firstly, can I just say, I absolutely love this site. I am fairly new to Lego investing, and I love actually seeing my Lego collection grow in both size and value. One feature I would love, and I sincerely apologize if this has been discussed and I missed it, is to be able to indicate on each set added whether it is for investment or personal. I understand that the site is focused on the investment side of things, but I like using it to track my personal collection as well. Just a thought

I don't feel any yes any lego set will ever produce returns like the older sets. But I see a very easy 500-600 on tb. I have 18 right now not including the one I built for myself. My average price paid has Been 167.00. That is a win in my book. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Brickpicker mobile app

I don't care for it either. I haven't bought any and don't plan on it. Don't care if it breaks $700 or more.

I think we just need to drop 2 grand to end this conversation.

Sounds to me like a bold statement should be backed up with if the Pet Shop outperforms the Tower Bridge you should have to assemble all 30 Tower Bridges into one lifesize scale tower bridge. Then you can put your deloreans on the bridge and smash them all.

Strange I flipped about 20 or 25 I can't remember R2's at Christmas for 275, 2 Fire Brigades for 330 and 1 SSD for 700 or so. I let those go from my inventory to generate some early profits to help support other things. I am not sure what you mean by very few are going to pay. I just drove 2 hours on New Years Day at 7:30 AM EST to pay $200 for a Slave I that I am never going to open and is for me and is widely available. I expended not only the cash for the Slave I, but Gas for 4 hours of Travel, Food, the entire day with my family with me and stopped by a Museum and spent money there. I would pay $2,000 for a 10179 Millennium Falcon in a heart beat. Would pay under $3,000 and would drive 6 hours one way to pick it up in person and would never open it. I hope to find a mint new boxed one I can find one for me one day that I would buy and keep. I would also never open it. Why? Not to have it appreciate and sell it down the road but to actually enjoy knowing and not caring if anyone else knows that I have one. You are misguided on what people will pay. I sell but i also pay considerably to add to my collection. I agree please join in or move on.

The Tower Bridge and Pet Shop will not come close to their ancestors I'm afraid.

have a backbone dont refund and let the buyer keep the item free when you delivered exactly as described and they re the ones who admittedly made a mistake...I agree a return for refund if it is unopened but all the people who are scared and give full and partial refunds for the slightest issue make buyers even more entitled and demanding in the long run...And you can still easily get a defect and or negative feedback even after refunding and you will be out the money the item and get a penalty...Horrible advice IMO

I don't even know how to answer ^.^ 1. Which Brickpicker Member would you like to get? 2. How seductive can you be? 3. Do you have any treasure, jewels, money or valuable wisdom to give? 4. Learn the (important) difference between "to get" and "to become" But as I can see you already are a member by now... All that's left to say (if you don't actually want to GET a Brickpicker ^.^) is welcome! Oder auf meinem besten Hochdeutsch: Willkommen bei Brickpicker!

I can't think of a single bad call you have made and you have made some nice, more against the grain of conventional buy this buy that speak. So a big *high-five* to trekgate who I think can be brought before the jedi council. Let's see, mil falcon of course, tie fighter, you were all over r2-d2 when everyone thought "no way it gets the axe before the new movies".

Teenagers ? I thought you have your mom to do your dirty work ??

very nice display. I like how you've added more supports over time. That's lots of weight now

excellent, can l come pick your trash?

A million thanks!

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I heard an interesting conversation on radio Pet Shop this is Red 5 over My navigation system is malfunctioning I am going to have a hard landing and I am headed straight for your location Please evacuate all Pets I want to save all the animals but I am afraid that the Pet Shop and my ship will be going down in flames I will eject shortly before impact wish me luck Over Then there was static

Lego already told the market that they would have considerable supply issues for this past Christmas season. Well we are only a few days past that period, so the fact that something is out of stock means nothing. Once supply issues are rectified we will have a better lay of the land in terms of what is really having stock issues. They have still not "officially" retired the 492 items that are "Sold Out", which a pretty good chunck of those 492 items will come back once supply is brought back in line. I am also speaking of the US only. History has shown that the various markets are way to far apart to draw any reasonable conclusions. If you want Pet shops you should be buying them simply from all of the other "indicators". It could hang around for quite a while. Many of the recently "Sold Out" sets have been around for quite a while. In my own opinion Lego has not really altered any way of measuring this stuff as it was never really clear to begin with. They have piles of new sets coming in and they are the "only" ones who know what to move out or what was a slow seller. They do not publish individual product guideleines as they are a private company. Anyone on this site who says something is a slow seller is basing that on absolutly nothing. One Lego store making the statement also means nothing. This is a massive company!

Sold about 50 of them since they came out. Timing is a factor. As is availability. Also the buyer. 90% of my sales are to exporters. Exporters cant get the quantity through normal online retailers. They will pay over retail as they will export and sell for more in there country. If availability comes around long enough then they will slow down on ebay as well. Still a few sold the last few days in the 250-280 range. You also have to realize most people dont check every website daily to see if its in stock. They go on ebay and see it right there and decide to buy then.

Anyone else think they might just be in L.A. by then? http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/12133304/city-leaders-say-st-louis-rams-owner-return-our-calls

I am late to the party but I just created my account, store and posted my first product and moved it to unpublished for now. Site works very well. Posted a R2 D2 NIB as my first item for $289.95 (matches eBay buy it now low price). I have it turned off but I will probably put it up and a couple of Sopwith's at reasonable prices in the next couple of weeks. I know there is a million things to do to improve it but I just wanted to say I think it looks great and I am excited. I was leaning to expanding out from eBay to Amazon. I think I will be changing gears and expand to brick classifieds instead of Amazon. Appreciate it.

Suffers from the name Mixer too (sorry). just like Star Wars Rebels Sets I thought the Ghost was a terrible set and now I love it. I'll be joining the Fairground Mixer bandwagon soon enough I think.

I had this problem when I ordered my first item. The shopping cart kept telling me the item won't ship to the United States. Try entering your shipping address again under the Settings tab. Choose Shipping Addresses and add a second one. Save and then go back to your shopping cart and choose the second address from the pull-down menu. This worked for me. Then I deleted the first address and have not had any further issues.

Very true. That's what makes it interesting

eBay buyers really don't make sense to me sometimes. But I'm more than happy to take their money.

Target Tumblers - 46R4. minty fresh. tying up capital for a long time never looked or felt so right.

When it is so cold outside you eat ice cream just to stay warm

I'd rather have a diverse portfolio of equally performing sets. Sure, it's easy to say after the fact that buying 50 of set x would have been better, but bobody knows exactly how any one set will perform compared against an equivalent set.

The Hoth Base UCS rumor, along with a UCS AT-AT makes the most sense to me. A 7965 would fit nicely in the bay of a large Hoth set. The Falcon play set rumor has been around a long time and this comment refers to it once again.

Sometimes, you have to sell for political reasons. Sold a SSD 10221 for $725. Long story: Managed to get a couple of SSDs last month, below RRP. I had to spend some political captial with the wife to make the transaction happen. Since these were taking me over my target number of SSDs, wife insisted that I try to flip one before the end of the year. I agreed to it, and it sold last night. Once she heard what we cleared, after taxes/fees, she was a little disappointed (which is a good thing). It reminded her why we're holding onto to some of these sets. So, I politically won the battle, cleared over $200 for holding onto an SSD for a month, and everyone's happy (more or less).

A little project I've been working on. I have a second Viper almost complete. I have a couple minor tweaks to make to this one, but I'll get all the parts to complete both when I start ordering the parts for my classic Cylon Raider I'm building to go with them.

Lol not a bad idea except as much as I love my Lego, apart from look great on the shelf it doesn't do much else:)

OK, Here we go. Dimensions Height: 6 9/16 inches Width (at bottom holes): 5 9/16 inches I've attached a PDF and PNG of just the cloth top/sail so people can print it out and cut/trace their own. Below, I've added Dropbox links to high resolution (300dpi) scans with horizontal/vertical rulers in PNG, PDF and PSD formats in case people want to play with them. All the files are larger than the 10MB max upload size so I have to use links. Top/Sail itself PDF https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5834740/LEGO%20Grand%20Carousel%20Sails/Sail.pdf PNG '> PSD https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5834740/LEGO%20Grand%20Carousel%20Sails/Sail.psd Top/Sail with rulers for reference PDF https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5834740/LEGO%20Grand%20Carousel%20Sails/Sail%20with%20rulers.pdf PNG '> PSD https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5834740/LEGO%20Grand%20Carousel%20Sails/Sail%20with%20rulers.psd Sail.pdf