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He showered prior to shopping.

Just bought these from a lady for 430$, all complete with box, instructions and spare parts. I told her, she could get much more for them, but she just wanted to get rid of them...

I got you covered

Copy and edited an oscar acceptance speech on wiki =) Oh man. Oh man. I

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Stopped by my local friendly thrift store and got this for five bucks! A couple of opened bags the rest are sealed and ithad the instructions and stickers. I was shocked when I saw it. This is my first maersk train.

"Mr. Moore: Thank you for reaching out to me. Before deeming a consumer a reseller, my team does its due diligence in researching each situation. Our research indicates that there are direct ties between you and various online auction sites. LEGO

As mentioned new tracking, guesses and related contests when they occur will start in a new thread soon. Since this one is 99% done I will finish it here with this post and one final confirming post tomorrow. Thanks to toycrazedchris for his assistance with this behind the scenes! WINNING ENTRY - PENDING CONFIRMATION Lets go with Friday 1/30/15 at 12:27 AM EST as the time it went out of stock. I find it interesting that it was at 100 earlier tonight and went to 0. I can only assume some big Brickpicker buyers that remain silent bought up the balance quickly tonight or Toys R Us adjusted their inventory. From all the emails I have gotten the closest person (before or after) to this time wins. From my records I show that it should be newbiecollect with a prediction of Thursday 1/29/15 5:55 PM EST. I would appreciate if someone else would concur. I will wait to state it is final tomorrow. Now for the surprise. I like No More Monkeys suggestion to throw in a Red 5 T Shirt so I am going to do that as well for the winner. Once we confirm tomorrow morning that it is newbiecollect then please PM me your shipping address and your T Shirt size. I'll order one and throw it in for free too with the Microfighter X Wing once I receive it. It is the least I can do for everything that Brickpicker does for me. I just hope Red 5 continues the bounce at LEGO Shop at Home and then flies off into the moonset. Thanks everyone this has been a lot of fun. May the force be with you! Trek

TRU, kept it under control. 2 x Croc Swamp Hideout 2 x Helicopter Arrest 7 x SUV & Watercraft 1 x Ice Cream Machine 1 x Bad Cop's Pursuit 1 x Getaway Glider 2 x Newborn Lamb 1 x Jedi Cruiser 1 x Cargo Heliplane 2 dozen Crater Creepers, never thought I'd say that.

Only responding because you all asked... Some people go to college for 10 years, study geology and go to work for Nasa to spend 15 years on preparing and being part of a mars rover mission where they sit and stare for weeks at the same single side of a single rock remotely through a camera's pictures and video to draw conclusions about that one rock. To me as my hobby this is a lot of fun and exciting game. Yes I find this all exciting reviewing inventory levels and watching what store has what. Not saying you all are wanting me two but with two mods posting back to back If I need to start a new thread surrounding the contest and keep it out of this thread I will be happy to and we can move the last 48 hours of related posts over to it. Seriously I am fine with that. Of course we can all remember the Town Hall thread was really on track too and it wasn't even surrounding the town hall and went on for 100 pages or whatever. I am not proposing that. I certainly would like to have people discuss other things too. I can't discuss my personal copy because it is a pristine box not opened I proudly display and admire. I drove to get it on its first release day and was first in line at a store an hour and a half away. I am hoping to get another one some day for me personally that I can build and hang in my office next to the 9493, Quintet and the Indy German plane (whatever it is called). I have a Sopwith to build and hang with the mass well when I get time. I guess I like to hang planes over my head.

Paypal can still clear the payment so the money should be in there. Just refund the buyer and don't deal with it if ebay has kicked them off. They can't hurt your account at this point as you can't leave any feedback if you are not registered anymore. You can still ship and paypal technically would cover you but its risky seeing the customer isn't registered anymore so no point to chance it as its a higher amount of money.

You must live in the hub of the GS fanbase

And the thread is derailed. Didn't take long

newbiecollect you are the confirmed winner! please PM me your t shirt size you would like and your address to send the micro fighter and T Shirt! Thanks again everyone!

Its not like I am going to delete them, I will just disable the tracking of them (i can active them at anytime quickly if needed). For every set that we remove, its a boat load of cycles that go back to the other sets to get even faster alerts on those.

I imagin it's a bit of a love/hate relationship LEGO has with investors. As you mention, revenue is generated, but I am sure they hate a couple things - A: Product Shortages of hot selling products, because that upsets and drives away "normal" consumers, and inflated prices of current prices when out of stock as customers aren't always smart enough to differentiate between a reseller and a LEGO outlet. They just know they had to pay XXX dollars for a set above MSRP and they are pissed off. LEGO have a reputation of being too expensive as is. Similarly, I would say increasing resellers probably make it trickier for their R&D and Marketing department. Numbers aren't always accurate regarding supply and demand, since they have a hard time knowing what's being bought by customers as opposed to resellers in what volumes. Product cycles are planned years in advance, and skewed numbers can gum up the works. So, all things considered I would say LEGO more or less tolerates some/most resellers (Again, I am sure the vast majority of us could be banned pretty easily from ShopLego if someone cared enough) But again, for those complaining, remember those same policies are basically what allows aftermarket prices to stay high. So we can't really complain. And I aware of very few, if any people - who were marked by LEGO as resellers and banned who weren't actually reselling. So...

I say it IS all 3; Super (investment potential) Star(t praying there won

POOF!

Good thing I (somewhat) like you 1. Go to price checker page (http://www.brickpicker.com/brickwatcher/lego-stock-checker.cfm) 2. On the top of the page, click on "Setup Alerts" (red box, can't miss it) 3. It opens up a window for"Alert Notifications" 4. Choose the methods of receiving alerts (email, on site, SMS) and choose which sites you want to get alert for 5. Click "submit" 6. Under each set you see a box with "Alert Off". If you click them, they turn to "Alert On" 7. Set which set you want to get the alert for by clicking the box under each name changing it to "Alert On" 8. When a set is available at vendor of your choice, you get an alert Simple as that

Found some clearance left over at a couple of Target stores for 70+% off .... 60000: Fire Motorcycle @ 1.74 7012*: Lion Legend Beasts @ 2.54 70800: Getaway Glider @ 3.24 75004: Z-95 Headhunter @ 12.54 75042: Droid Gunship @ 12.54 76018: Avengers: Hulk Lab Smash @ 12.54 There was more Chima, but I passed on it.

That is why I said "IMO". The movies are good, that does not make them iconoc. Nor is this ship iconic. That word is easily used, but not easily understood. Certain images, characters, stand the test of time. Others do not. Super hero movies are already testing those limits. There are only so many times you can have an all earth/world annihilation barely averted before people do not care anymore. Again, I state that just because lego makes it, slaps a UCS on it does not make it gold. That does not mean people will buy it. It is expensive, money kids don't have. No big deal, not my thing. A wayne monor, or 5 or 6 story high avengers tower would have been much better, ucs bat cave etc. Carry on folks. Just for frame of reference i own all of the first captain america silver age books and have most of the journey into mystery other than the first two, most of the first avengers etc. I invest for a certain market amd.objective and this is not it.

Possible EOL is in sight. It is a commodity now, like soybeans - who cares about set itself? Btw, time to add customary "EOL speculation and other topics" to thread title

I think the set looks better than this I also think treks contest was just something to get the community involved in a slower time of the year. Maybe the thread derails for a day or so but then it will be back to normal. Not much different than arguing back and forth over if its retiring or not retiring like other threads did for multitudes of pages (TH, R2, and others)

If you remove the word "actually" from any sentence, the sentence still makes sense. Except of course a sentence like the above. The word should be banned from the English language. Try it... Be done with the word actually. You'll be much happier. (Learned this many years ago from an English prof)

The more people complain about how expensive this set is, the more I like it.

I am guessing they have a boatload of pieces and boxes for this set sitting in Mexico. Still holding out for May 4th 50% off blowout.

Many want a street But few want a fleet (Especially a fleet of green container ships).

After seeing pics of the microfigs included in the upcoming UCS Helicarrier, makes me wish Lego did the same with this set. 10221 is the perfect ship for the microfigs due to the size scaling... http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/12498-ucs-avengers-helicarrier-76042/?p=412716

Can I laugh at you for actually being #4002?

A fair point. I just miss the days of Batman fighting Bane, The Joker, The Riddler, and other arch-nemeses that are out to destroy him, our society, and the current human condition in general. I enjoy a great monkey fight as much as the next guy, but find the upcoming line of Batman Lego builds underwhelming: Batman Vs. Mid-life Crisis- Batman purchases a '97 red Corvette, in fair condition, and with reasonable mileage, from Craigslist Batman Vs. Elevated Blood Pressure: Batman battles steaks and goes on an all-salad/low-carb diet Batman Vs. his Alimony payments: Bruce Wayne works a second job at TGIF to make his child support payments As a true fan of Batman, I hope the well hasn't run dry. Only time will tell. And although I haven't stayed current with his storyline, I relay with full confidence that I believe he will defeat that giant monkey.

Jek's 14 Starfighter - $72 shipped Superman vs Lex - $29 shipped

Omg I hate you lol

What is this? Stuffing stormtroopers into it like a clown car?

Basically what Ravenb99 said. Since the buyer is no longer on eBay, they won't be able to leave you any negative feedback either

So their new business model is to cause panic sending real customers scrambling to pay inflated secondary market prices, then "flooding" the market leaving customers who trusted their word holding the bag? My BS detector is flashing.

I had a conversation with a senior lego public figure. Legos policy is to ban if you are buying multiples of large products, there may be exceptions but that's the rule. They admit they can't stop you buying from target etc but they really want to kill the secondary market, because they want tk make models available to all. The caveat though is before action takes place they need to tie your purchases to an online reselling business. Note the word business. Additionally the high level visible lego employee was pleased when we started discussing The Tumbler. They alluded to that being an experiment for them, in terms of announcing online that jt would not be in stock until after Christmas, all the time knowing that it would be. Essentially they leaned towards suggesting that they enjoyed watching 'investors' panic buy and then for themselves to reflood the markets, lowering the secondary market values. UCS MF....no specifics.....but that model came up as an example of something that they would like to correct, as they are pissed that people hoarded that one and are 5x msrp minimum.

If you love Star Wars too, it may get to you! Perhaps it is JJ Abrams making the new Star Trek 1 & 2 like a Star Wars flick the way he would do it. I actually really like all things Star Trek and Star Wars. The admiration for both is intense, equal and separate. Or I can walk and chew gum. Come on now that is my avatar but you have to be joking! What I would give for there to be Lego Star Trek and a UCS Enterprise (many versions) Now that would be a day. Perhaps Disney will finish the rumor of buying Hasbro. Then they can quadruple it in size and move all toy production to Hasbro plus keep Transformers and own it. Then they can discontinue Kre-O and move the Star Trek License to Lego because they bought them too. Then focus all production of Hasbro and Lego around their movie schedules. Now that would be absolutely terrible, Disney is big enough as it is and I hope it does not happen as I like Hasbro owning Transformers and Lego's Independence but it is one way to get a UCS Enterprise.

Just crested $300 on Amazon.

I am feeling all Veklempt after reading this thread. The Super Star Destroyer is neither: Super Nor a star Nor a Destroyer. Discuss.

Yeah, there are a slew of Warhammers everywhere (it is a cool mech even if lovingly borrowed from another series called Robotech/Macross) but I could barely find one of the other two although I could have sworn to found another Battlemaster but that may just be in hiding somewhere. Anywho in the meantime, I come across a nice Shadow Hawk on MOCpages.

I've seen this car in person. no joke

Agreed. That heli-plane is just plain ass weird. I bought four last summer from walmart for around $26 each, and I've only been able to move them by bundling them with other city sets. I know planes typically do well, but this one doesn't quite seem to have the "it" factor. I'm staying away from any more I come across.

Just loaded up on more city mines from TRU clearance. They had 20 but one had a big cut on the top of the box, probably from an employee cutting open the cases, so I came away with 19. Great price point when you stack the clearance, 20% coupon, and 10% credit promo. I've sold a few of these already this past holiday season, so I'm stoked to get a few more.

Thanks as soon as I saw "maersk" my jaw dropped

Damn you....

Hmmm

Brickset added some set pages that include new official images for the Avengers sets. 76029-1: Iron Man vs. Ultron 76030-1: Duel with Hydra 76031-1: Hulkbuster Rescue Mission 76032-1: The Avengers Quinjet Chase 76038-1: Attack on Avengers Tower

When people buy me $500 gifts I hope they got them at a discount.