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The Emperors Throne Room is a Diorama recreation made in LEGO pieces of the scene of the original movie: Star Wars, Episode VI,

Hi Fellows , this one is also part of my collection ! just wanted to share it ! The Hangar 327 Escape (Collectors Edition) is a Diorama recreation made in LEGO pieces of the scene of the original movie: Star Wars, Episode IV,

well, hundred bucks per hour is a decent wage...

Yeah, purely bad luck. I got it refunded super fast by a very nice guy and it was gone then too. I didn't even need to give him the screenshot. I just said that it was on sale this morning for $96.22 and he took a couple of minutes and said YOU'RE RIGHT! then processed my refund. Maybe pull the plug on that guy and try again with a new representative?

Or just lets be blunt - how much of the upsurge is darin-related?

Yes, but I'm letting everyone get it out of their system first.

You're welcome. Now contribute or be exiled. You have an hour to find me tower bridges for 149. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Brickpicker mobile app

Success on price adjustment. Me:Are you telling me the lower price will be honored and I will receive a refund for the 2 thatI ordered? Nandhini:The price difference will honored for you. Me:Will I receive Amazon credit or credit back to my card. Nandhini:The refund will be credited to your original payment method. Me:Is it possible to send a record of this chat or something to verify a refund is due? Nandhini:Sure, Andrew. Once our chat conversation is over I'll send you the chat transcript. I am a newbie here and appreciate the help from these forums. Under 200.00 for two HE's...Thanks to this website my new "hobby" is off to a great start!!!

Until TLG is out of business which- after an incredible re-tooling and new vision in the 2000's- will likely never happen, the modular line will continue to grow, expand, and draw more adult fans (buyers). This means that modulars are still in their infancy as a "set". The Town Hall is, up to this point, the most expensive/highest piece-count of the modular line. Lessons learned possibly by TLG: Folks are comfortable in the $150-$160 range, but $200 is a rather large bite. Thus, the slower sales- and unexpected departure- of the Town Hall. It is reasonable to speculate that, ten, twelve, fifteen years from now, when we are that many modulars down the road, we will see more amazing sets- but likely none that reach this purchase price or piece-count. TLG may likely consider a $200 modular set a slap-on-the-hand from buyers. Any die-hard fan will consider this a "must"; the largest, most expensive mod ever produced. And one that the majority of the investment community missed, due to the surprising departure it received. Hold. Hold, hold, hold, hold, hold. There are many, many thousands of future modular collectors (on top of the current ones) who don't know anything about this set, or even the line in general. They are coming; Lego is only growing in popularity and likely will continue to do so. Once they discover the Lego modular line, do some research, and determine what's out there... the TH may well become the centerpiece of any true collector's display.

Might as well rename the thread title. something along the lines of "train wreck" :-)

The Falcon is a hard set to do in Lego, it has a very odd shape and a lot of curvature. On top of that, it's so iconic that it needs to look pretty close to what appears on screen for fans to accept it. That's why the UCS version looks so good, it's like Lego told the designer to throw piece count and production costs out the window, make the thing look exactly like the ship we see in the movie. 7965 had the very difficult task of looking like the Falcon, falling within a piece count and price point constraint for a retail set, and the need to have play features. With that in mind, I think it's a great set. It comes with the core cast of episode 4 minifigs, it's very sturdy, swooshable, and in my opinion looks just fine if you remember that it is a Lego set and not an exact representation. The bottom looks like junk, but would you sacrifice pieces that give the top and interior detail so that the bottom can look more "finished"? In terms of scale, no Lego set is going to be to scale, that's the nature of medium. The cockpit is large compared to the rest of the ship, but you can fit both Han and Chewie in it so I think it's worth the sacrifice in scale. I consider 10198 Tantive IV to be in the same category as 7965, it's a playset model that looks like the original ship, but has scale issues and sacrifices some accuracies for play features. I don't feel like 10198 gets the same hate, but that's probably because the Falcon is more well known and loved. The guys over at fbtb seem to be very hard to please at times, a lot of their reviews need to be taken with a very large grain of salt. I think they forget that they're reviewing Lego and not some perfectly to scale, screen accurate model.

My 70810 Sea Cow was looking lonely on the shelf. So in the last few weeks, I've picked up some company for it from craigslist & ebay. All used with boxes & books: 4184 Black Pearl $155 (bought and sold several of these when I was just starting a few years ago, but didn't think to keep one) 4195 Queen Anne's Revenge $190 And finally, today... 10210 Imperial Flagship $310 Let the ship building commence!

kunfuzd, did they guy you talked to say "Yuuup!" every other sentence?

Spanish 42000's just arrived from January 5th Order. Tracking info still has them in Surrey.

Sold a HH for $350 + shipping on ebay the other day. Put up another one at my next price step of $400 + shipping thinking it would take a few months, but someone took me up on it today. So we can now say HH has cracked $400 on ebay. Of course the buyer has zero feedback but they paid right away. And I'll do signature confirmation and insure the package to reduce the likelihood of any funny business.

7823 container crane depot for $100 shipped. Complete, but no box or instructions. I bought it for $24 a couple months ago as part of a bulk lot off of my local Craig's. Also just sold a 6990 space monorail and 6921 monorail accessory track bundle for $400 shipped. Both used complete with instructions but no boxes. Bought them for $100 also off of my local Craig's a couple of months ago. Both sales were eBay.

Unlike at the beginning of this thread I shall not go on with a thousand posts about potential retirement from Ed's comments. So here is my one prediction and I have no inside information to substantiate my guess. I have learned on brickpicker that one of the best things to see what is going to retire is to watch stock levels bouncing in and out and having no stock. I believe Ed will post soon in the Red Five thread that this thread is about to get interesting. Unfortunately I only have two of this set and I want to have at least ten. I need to get busy with Target but I have just been taking a break from buying. I think the next set is Red Five. That is my one and only guess.

Nonsense. I gave people plenty of hints it was retiring. Some of you chose to ignore it. Others figured it out and bought 10 or more of the set. The next set to retire is....

Ok, wait for it..wait for it! Magnetic track so it DOES float. BOOOM! Main magnets to hold it off the track and rotating ones that come down at an angle at push by polar oposites. Rotating ones should be stronger

Sale on tumbleweeds, aisle 4...

Excuse me, but it's not me who needs to go back to the real world. I don't know about you, but In my world,

this was my hardest price match ever !!! but after 50 minutes succes !!!

I hope the new one has an updated bathroom. Chewie needs some room to maneuver.

On pretty much any build we do, my son just hands over the flick-fire missiles and says he doesn't want them. He's either tired of picking them up, or doesn't want me hounding him to pick them up.

I'm sure there are a variety of buyers contributing to the run... 1. Certainly some old investors are piling in. 2. New investors are created by the Christmas season... people who had to pay $80 for an advent calendar decide, "I can do this!" 3. There's folks who got their first or second modular at Christmas and decide they've got a new hobby now. 4. More seasoned modular builders who were hoping it was coming back, ... now realize it's not, so they'd better get theirs now. 5. Other's with Christmas money, gift cards, and ebay bucks to spend... It adds up to a perfect storm. Certainly it will not continue on this trajectory, but it is a very nice early "ramp up" for those who are holding. I doubt it will go back down.

A lot, when see some guys here who jump on $400 "deals".

They will come in the original lego boxes. 2 to a box. All boxes will be sealed and taped together and wrapped in plastic to keep them together in a single shipment.

I do find it strange how as much crap as new-sealed received from the investigative forces of BPer on where they get there merchandise and how they sell it cheaper than Amazon that no one had any concerns on where the 259 Family Houses that were sold in less than 5 days came from LOL. The seller has an autoparts name and only had 4 active auctions for auto parts. Then comes up with online retailer like numbers of Family Houses but that's normal and accepted. Has no history whatsoever of LEGO sales (not much auto to begin with but a lot of Apple product). Gets a whopping 4 feedback per month consistently for a year. But has a random BLOWOUT sale of LEGO Family Houses. Glad people are getting what they paid for just find it all kind of odd.

Has anyone mentioned that these were available for $99 nearly 2-years ago?

Ok, I will try an explain. If you are attempting to measure the performance of an investment over time,or a theme, or whatever you can only measure that along with future opportunities with readily available information. Well be definition what you "paid " is not readily available information. I can only measure what is known. RRP is readily available information, along with official retirement date. If all lego sets could be purchased for 1 dollar, then the 1 dollar could be used as your standard starting point for measuring performance. In that case every set value over a dollar could be measured, and a reasonable assumption of return and risk could be forcasted. Since everyones "basis" is different, you must measure return from the RRP. This will tell you how good an investment is (A vs. . If you use some random "I got it for 50% off" then you have no way of comparatively measuring investment performance. Your individual total return will be much better than the average UCS total return if you purchased any of them below RRP. SSD is outperforming the mean of the UCS line based two aspects, time from official retirement and RRP. For SSD to hold the MEAN for the theme two years after retirment it should have a value of $772.00. That makes it a good investment with reasonable assumptions going forward to hold, rather than sell. If the theme holds true, SSD should have a value of $2,075.00 5 years from now. A key note in this particular theme. The 10179 drastically skews the average MEAN return, so investors should adjust for that. Many of the sets are doing quite well in retirement though. Outside of a formalized methodology for forcasting and measuring returns you are shooting in the dark. December average number for the B-Wing is $209.00. So far it is an under perform by a factor of 88%. SSD is $648.59, it has been retired 1/3th of a year, it is overperforming the theme by a factor of 147% on an annualized basis. I expect SSD to stay flat until end of year 2015, I am good with that based upon the understanding I laid out above.

Sweet! Found a 9493 X-Wing Starfighter for MSRP at Wal-Mart today!

I'm going to start listing these as $88 on ebay.

This is not related to the Birds set, but thank you to all above that expressed concern about our cat. I haven't been back on here since then to post. Unfortunately, we had to put her to sleep last Saturday, so it's been a rough week and a half. Again, I appreciate it, and please give all of your cats, or pets of whatever furry kind, a hug and appreciate them while they're still here.

I'm not even a technic fan, but this is a must buy and build for me.

Moving. Ugh. So I'm migrating about 3 miles from where I live now (wifes idea I finaly caved) the real fun is that we're building and our new house will be done mid May, barring any SNAFUs. Problem is our current home closes early February, so we get to move twice. Everything is awesome! On the upside I'll have an eBay/LEGO room of my very own, no more building in the garage for me!

We did??? Conspiracy theories can commence

The imperial shuttle has doubled in price. Some people need to get their expectations in check and join us in the real world.

The brick show guys are an excellent source for upcoming sets. They go to all the toy fairs and know many people in the industry.

I don't like to say names...but... At $400, this set might be a deal...or....maybe the $400 was better spent on two Tumblers.

I really like ours... but it's the only one we own. My two complaints are the that the legs don't fold up somewhere when you're swooshing it and those stupid flick fire missiles underneath. The kids are always knocking them out and losing the red cones. Otherwise I think the design is pretty ingenious even if it's not perfect. Looks like a Millennium Falcon to anyone that sees it.

Same here. He is adjusting the price now. I have a screenshot if anyone needs it. Edit: Refund processed.

Sounds a lot like Mark buying the 41999 ar $400.

Just saw Battle of the 5 Armies and what a great ending to the hobbit series. Sad to see the final Tolkien LOTR/Hobbit book turned to movie. When the trilogy extended gift pack gets released I'm gonna try to do the Hobbit/LOTR run. A wonderful series and a sure to be timeless classic! Lego wise, that Gandalf returns set paired with UG for Bilbo's home is sure to be one to hold onto! IMHO one of the best scenes in the LOTR.

Two more Series 1 Mixels for $123.

Umm, because George Lucas wrote it.. ?

Has so far, for the folks who bought $64 Malevolences.

Now those sound like a few city sets that I would get excited about.

Just grabbed 5 Research Institute! Sice I discovered lego investing (Always been a huge lego fan) I've spent like 1000

Take off your tinfoil hats people. There's been a lot of interesting speculation here about Lego manipulating the market with Machiavellian strategies. The Town Hall is retiring because it was the slow seller of the theme and that is that. For it's entire life it sat on the shelf at $200, right next to the beautiful Grand Emporium, the fun Pet Shop, the romantic Parisian Restaurant - all of which were much cheaper, and were more emotionally attractive. Do you want to dream of having your own pet shop one day? ... or dream of having a bureaucratic job at City Hall? It was always peoples' 2nd or 3rd choice, so it didn't sell well. Mystery solved. I made a list of about 2 dozen "rare" part numbers for the TH (parts used in the TH which were unique, or shared by no more than 2 other sets). I was interested in the "eliminating rare parts" theory ... but even I don't buy it. If the Town Hall was a hot seller, it would still be available today. Eliminating a dozen or so part numbers is a small, small bonus for Lego, but in no way a deciding factor. A similar list of "rare" parts for the Detective's Office would have over 40 part numbers on it - many of which could have been substituted with more common parts... but obviously, the design team wanted "that certain shade of blue", or unique new hair on that minifigure... clearly part number proliferation is not a big concern for Lego. And resurrecting the Town Hall? That ship has sailed. Lego recognizes this "after death demand" for what it is. If they produced another batch, investors would snap them all up. If they went into full production, and continued to carry this model for another year or two, many investors would be very hesitant to buy more exclusives. They would be shooting themselves in the foot. Last year, Feb 4th, 2014 was Retirement Apocalypse Day... dozens of sets got their "Retired" tag that day, even though most had been gone for months. I expect TH will earn it's badge within the next few weeks.

Finally Finished building This monster. This is Designer Han low lowloader. Full remote and PF + pneumatics. This is probably the most expensive set in my collection to date.