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I searched for a thread for this set but didn't see one. Mods, if I missed it then please feel free to combine them. With the recent clearance of this set at Target and Walmart, and the varying opinions on it's potential value and seemingly over abundant supply (at Target at least), I thought it would be a good idea to have a thread to discuss. Personally, I am a big believer in this set. It has five figs, four of which should be popular, a so-so bat-plane, and the very unique steam roller that the Joker drives. The steam roller is what caught my eye at first when this set was released. I think it fits the Joker to a tee, and I doubt we will ever see one again. This set should pair well with the funhouse and yet to be released joker land. I currently have 27 of them all bought right around the current $35 clearance price, and the chance to buy several more. At 30% off I think this set is a no brainer, but the abundance of them at Target intrigues me. Why do they have so many, as compared to other retailers like walmart? My walmarts have been out of this set for awhile, but target keeps bringing them out to refill the shelf every time it's empty. Since it appears that many of us are loaded up, this set may take awhile to see any solid gains, even if you are patient and roll the dice to try and score some at 50% off or more. Has anyone parted this set out with any consistent success? What are some other opinions on this set's potential?

We share information. They get ours, we get theirs. We will also send new members their way with links on the set guide page and visa versa. We will pick up new members and the Classifieds could benefit as well. Their sales can increase if their prices are lower. We become the Ultimate LEGO Price Guide.

Look at what came in the mail today. Thanks to trekgate for running this small contest to make things interesting. What I am also impressed about is the nice packaging in addition to him coming through.

DadsAFOL, I am going to hijack your initial post here to put what I had written up but couldn't post because I had no idea my internet just went down, but you still get the credit for finding it first Today, Ed and I are very happy to announce that the BrickPicker Price Guide now includes current pricing from BrickLink. This has been a request that we have been asked about MANY times over the past few years and there wasn't really all the much we could do. We asked and while there was interest, not much could be done with the old owners of the site. A few days ago, I received a note from the COO of BrickLink asking if we interested in moving forward with what can be considered a information partnership between the two sites. BrickLink is also including a link to our price guide on all of their catalog pages. The BrickLink price values are based on a rolling six month period, so make sure take that into account when you looking at the prices. Newer sets that have just gone EOL will see a greater discrepancy until the time and average catch up. We are also including BrickLink marketplace information with a direct link to their catalog to look at and purchase sets. I hope everyone here enjoys the access to have the values for the two largest marketplaces all in one spot. Hopefully this will be the first of many chances to work with BrickLink moving forward. There will be an opportunity to add different features with currency and different regions. I will be looking into those options soon. At this time it has been announced on BrickLink and honestly, I have no idea why some Bricklink members are so upset. They will have the opportunity to earn the business of people that are serious about buying LEGO. With the Bricklink set prices on every Set Guide page, there is now the opportunity for BrickPickers to check out prices and sets on Bricklink. This is added exposure for Bricklink sellers that they didn't have before. As we always say, price your items correctly and they will sell. This applies not only with Brick Classifieds, but with Bricklink as well. I am not upset at all by some of the reactions, Ed and I have come to expect it. Let us know your thoughts!! DadsAFOL's original post I searched but didn't see any forum post about this. The BrickLink catalog pages are now linking to Brickpicker. That should drive lots of new traffic. Example: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?S=10182-1

Yes I will have an announcement post on this but I am having a bad day. Verizon fios is down for me. Server issues. Etc. we also have their price guide info on our price guide pages

Just read their forum posts in response to the announcement. Their haters are too funny. It's like they'd prefer to live behind the Berlin Wall or something. I just hope those people don't come over to our forum

More information and crossover is always good in my opinion, as a seller and a buyer. BL forums are among the most drama-filled I've ever witnessed, even after 20+ years on the internet and even including gaming sites populated with hormonal teenagers. I wouldn't let knee-jerk reactions there faze me a bit.

For one Scooby has been around since 69 vs 84 for tmnt. I think both were cool abd I grew up with both. Scooby has more appeal I think with the older group as so many watched it growing up. It also has Halloween appeal which is a large grossing holiday for retailers. While I can see where you are comparing the two being franchises geared towards kids turned Lego, I think the tenure and Halloween feel of Scooby and gang will out perform tmnt by far. Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Brickpicker mobile app

Thank you Target Inventory Tracker. Day 2 . Wife took over for me today. Did an excellent job. 6 Sentinels 3 Benny 4 Dropships

Creating a new Topic for Walmart in store since the other one was created for online. So today was like Christmas/Black Friday and Boxing Day rolled into 1 at my Walmart. Hope some of you get lucky and find the same 3x 70814 - Emmet

The last 2 pages of the thread mention sets purchased with codes from week 51/14 3/15 and now 5/15 and I guess they pack more than 1 box per day or it might be because I am dating a girl whose friend works on the production line - choose whichever seems more coherent

Town Hall just sold for $505 shipped on EBay.

My last 3368 Space Centre gift wrapped with a BDay card for $115+ shipping.

Free shipping doesn't really skew the cost of business much more if you build it into the price correctly. Always play it on the high side and then reap the rewards if someone buys the item in the same zone as you. It also gives you more room to work with if you have "Best Offer" enabled. If they are in the same zone as you, it gives you more wiggle room to negotiate.

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I snagged a used, complete with instructions (no box) 10189 Taj Mahal off ebay a few days ago for $600 - 10% ebay bucks = $540. It arrived today. Super stoked! I have nowhere to actually display it, so I will probably just build & then flip for profit.

just got hold of a Ninjago Fire Temple 2507 set from a department store with lots of shelf wear today. Not sure how come it was still on there after such a long time!!!

That's what my kiddo is for! ;)

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Most of mine don't either. I just took the picture to screw with my wife. She was not amused when she thought I would be coming home with another stack of LEGO.

I have updated the title and starting post of this thread. I did not want to create another topic since it is already here. Don't worry about the negative comments. We have heard it all before. The sellers and members that know its good for them don't really care. They welcome the business. Everyone here can welcome the data. That is why it is all good. We are happy and the people working at BrickLink are happy. The rest will unfold.

that's pretty much what baseball is all about man, thanks for sharing =D just glad it wasnt the pine tar incident, lol

The first time I went to Kaufman was in the 70's as a kid. George Brett was my favorite player and he was manning third base. I still have his rookie card.

I think it's a great set for building and playing for kids. Heck, I just purchased two at $36 each (sealed bags but no box) for my son's upcoming b-day and extra parts. I'm just not investing in this set even at $35 each. Why? The Super Hero theme is saturated and there always seems to be a new kid on the block or flavor of the month. i rather spend the money elsewhere in themes where I don't have to worry about refreshes every year with vehicles and / or minifigures. I can only imagine the prices this set would have fetched if part of the Batman 1 theme...

I'll trade you 2-3 Targets for your 1 WM with the Xwings another 2-3 Targets for a Meijer I'll send you the ones closer to mykingdom if you don't mind LOL

So now that that is out of the way can someone explain WHY changing box is a valid reason to stop making a set that has been out for less than a year??????

hope Floyd gets destroyed... but its never happened. This should be an incredible fight, glad its finally happening (May 2nd).

I was bidding on that 505 TH, I stopped at 495. Not ready to pay over 500 yet...maybe I should reconsider.

His name is Mike Brito. He is one of the best talent scouts in the game. Did you talk to him?

No I was talking about the Slave 1 retirement talk.

The concept of Free Shipping in the US plays a huge role for us north of the border when looking at the value. Our shipping costs are much more. Also, some sellers still charge high shipping rates in the hopes of making the buy price more palatable. This helps boost international sales because the import taxes are paid on the purchase price and not the shipping. And lastly the GSP program also skews shipping because it might cost the seller $7 to ship to EBay but the buyer might be paying $100 for shipping, taxes and brokerage. To say it doesn't work at all is a bit of a stretch. Tracking the number over time and comparing monthly gains is a huge positive. But if you don't check recent sales for an item you could easily be leaving money on the table for some sets and losing on others.

This is why topics have pages and pages of useless nonsense. Someone tries to be funny and says the Slave 1 THAT JUST CAME OUT is retiring and then a bunch of newer members start panicking and asking questions about it and it's no fault of their own. Can we keep the nonsense to a minimum please?

Wow this is new to me, the lord business' evil lair that I site to stored at Walmart last night for $21 got canceled BUT they're rush delivering one to my store for me!!!

This was the first exclusive set I ever built. Bought it used so the elements were mixed every which way. It's pretty cool how everything comes together.

Agreed 10190 is Factory not Creator or in the modular line. I wonder why Lego included it in http://brickset.com/sets/10230-1/Mini-Modulars

Am I the only one left with 0 orders shipped from the late night party? Still in Processing...

A glut in certain places doesn't worry me too much. This is one of the better Batman sets - it kinda reminds me of Batman & Two Face in that it is a little better than a $24.99 generic set and certainly looks pretty cool. Plenty of sets that have been on clearance at some point in their cycle have gone on to do just fine EOL, and I think this will be another. I'm stocking up on them this week from the TRU.CA sale + coupon which puts the buy in around $42, tax in. Considering the current exchange rate to USD, it is pretty competitive and I doubt I'll get a chance to get these with a better discount. That being said, most sets that are clearanced from B&M seem to sometimes stick around several more months online. I'm hoping this set doesn't make it through the entire holiday season this year - but that might be wishful thinking.

Whoa - Brick Classifieds is totally down right now. Saw a BL forum post and didn't believe it, but its correct.

It's because the prices come from average ebay sales and this set was pre sold on ebay before it was released for higher than msrp. It will come back down when the the price guide is updated. Whatever the price says is the average price ebayers are paying.

I think this set has the potential to do extraordinarily well. It should be the centerpiece of every modular display, unless they come up with something that can overshadow it.. I think it has the potential to be one of the top performers in that line of sets. I wish I would have backed up the truck on this one!

I would gladly take them off your hands at that price!

It's not cheap to bricklink old sets.......it's is however pretty inexpensive to bricklink some trees. People are gonna buy EVs because they like Star Wars not because they like trees made out of lego.

Hey hey! spoiler alert!

OK from what gregpj said on the one mscheaf mentioned that was not a box change that was a different product. There is a difference between a obsoletion and replacement (those are not our terms but they are printing and fulfillment terms) and updating the box art under the same sku. It makes complete sense that it would be easier to obsolete the part and replace it with a new upc and product than trying to refresh the old one (even if all contents are identical). But I will stay with that I am wrong and mscheaf is right. Hope that makes him happy. He can get back to telling us the town hall and r2 and everything else is not retiring.

Seen at a local tru...two dudes booking out the front door, each with two star destroyers and two other large sw sets under their arms. Manager gave half hearted chase and stopped at the parking lot. I did get him their tag number Sent from my SPH-L710 using Brickpicker mobile app

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If people following a few pages back, yes a full set of 9 mixels fit in a padded flat rate envelope. $5 shipping anywhere in US makes shipping pretty decent and you don't have to worry about a surpirse Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Brickpicker mobile app