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Alrighty then. For anyone remotely curious about the mini Voltron design in the other topic, here are instructions for each section based on the original and what I came up with in LDD featuring a Bricklink XML inventory file type of listing for creating a "Wanted List" down below. Just copy the text in the code box under "Inventory list" and paste that data into Bricklink to verify. I used the site's spoiler feature to help make focusing on each area of building easier. If any image seems small try clicking on one to enlarge. Inventory list: TOTAL: 138 pieces (including 'flame sword') LEG LIONS ARM LIONS TORSO LION Ready to form Voltron. Activate interlock, dynatherms connected, infracells up, megathrusters are go. GO VOLTRON FORCE! Form feet and legs! Form arms and body! And I'll form the head! Note: All pieces used and listed are readily available except one slight (annoying) snag towards the end. The 1x1 plate with a vertical clip in green apparently does not exist which makes no sense considering the video and gallery showing off the original model has four of them clear as day plus I am pretty sure somewhere I have a couple in my own collection but Bricklink is telling me otherwise. The closest hue I think listed was maybe lime green. If the part truly does not exist in regular green after all these years, that seems ridiculous really. Maybe we can finally get some through the Mixels, eh? A personal side note towards aesthetics, if you want the lion legs (1x1 tooth pieces) to really shine then use flat silver instead of light bluish gray.

You really should stop claiming this. It's one reason why BO doesn't enable it. Consumers expect something they order to be delivered. All online marketplaces own the responsibility until it reaches the customer. Can you imagine if Target or Amazon said "Sorry, not our problem"? Anyway, on BO add $0.30 or whatever to all of your postage bands. For the 1:1000 order that gets lost, cover it and resend/refund. If it's something valuable, buy 3rd party insurance when you ship (funded by the aggregate charge on every order). In other words, build it into your operating cost.

I think I would have taken the negative feedback and kept it.

just for Alpine I bought 30 more Joker Bumper Cars 2 Pet Shops also

Sold off most of my Craigslist lot from 2 weeks ago ($200 original purchase price); another sale on eBay today. All were built, no box or instructions. Prices don't include shipping, which was charged at cost. Here's the breakdown: 42006 Excavator (with power functions) $99 8547 Mindstorms NXT 2.0 $189 4505 Millenium Falcon $119 9398 Crawler $160 7676 Republic Gunship (missing 2 minifigs, some parts substituted) $50 8043 Excavator $289 (pending) 9786 Mindstorms RCX $60 (pending) misc unbuilt parts in bulk $40 - (traded for credit at local toy store) Total: $1006 Decent gain from the original $200 purchase, but not spectacular. I undercut prices a bit just to move the lot. The best part was sorting, identifying, and building the various kits. I love that part!

6860 Batcave for $94 shipped Another Republic Gunship for $169 shipped I just passed the 1/2 way mark for total sales from last year...and it's not even the end of March!

Thanks for the heads up. Now I am currently involved in winning an auction for a complete 2005 edition #10144 Star Wars Jawa Sandcrawler on ebay.

I think this is what you are looking for: https://cuusoo.com/brands/cuusoo-brick

Some folks seem to know exactly how eBay, Lego, and the rest of the world works, despite the contrary experiences of others. My ex-wife was like this. Anyway, it doesn't hurt to keep in mind that for the most part, you are dealing with other PEOPLE in this business. Like eBay CS reps. Case in point: I spoke with one weeks ago, very distinctive voice (difficult to understand) and personality. Despite being somewhat formal, this person helped in removing a shipping defect from my selling account and told me, at the time, that another could be removed (low "item as described" rating) if I could get confirmation from the buyer that it was entered by mistake - which I suggested, considering that the buyer had left enthusiastic positive feedback. A while after I got the (friendly and helpful) buyer to reply that it had indeed been an error they weren't aware of, and the item was "perfect in every way", I called back. A different CS rep looked at it and told me the defect would be removed. After two weeks, it wasn't. So I called again and talked to the original eBay CS rep (in this story) again. Guess what? I was told, quite firmly, that there was no possible way to remove that low rating, because it was tied to the buyer's feedback, blah blah blah... I could tell I was simply being stonewalled. I didn't bother pointing out the conversation from weeks prior, I simply asked for a manager because I did not feel like I was being assisted as a customer. This person attempted to argue with me, quite strongly, for several minutes, professionally, but very stubbornly. I had to ask about four times for a supervisor, was put on hold, then quite a while later, told they were too busy and I could expect a call back. They refused to give me a time frame. I shrugged it off for the time being. The NEXT morning, I get a call from a supervisor. I was busy at work and told them I didn't have time to talk but could try to call back in about 15 minutes. Paraphrasing, I was told, "I just wanted to quickly let you know that the defect you called about has been removed from your account, and please let us know if there is anything else you need. Thank you for using eBay." I also told a story earlier in this thread where I dealt with negative feedback left because the buyer decided AFTER their son opened a polybag that it was too small for the price. Despite being told over and over that honest feedback can not be removed, you certainly won't find it on my profile. Be persistent when you know you are right. Be as polite and professional as possible. Don't assume you know everything, or that everything you are told is correct. That said, I do agree that eBay is set up to hose the seller when buyers behave poorly in general. But it certainly is not the 100% all or nothing dead to rights swear on my grandmother's grave scenario that some here make it out to be.

Anyone ever see Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back?

Well you've got their address...........

I posted about 75019 ATTE retirement four days ago and even put the links to S@H page. :P

...but, but, but, he has 6 broken legs.

http://brickfanatics.co.uk/star-wars-force-awakens-lego-set-names/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+brickfanatics+%28Brick+Fanatics%29 Posted on 07:58, 25/03/2015 by Luc Star Wars Force Awakens LEGO set names. Force Awakens spoiler site makingstarwars.net has unearthed the set names for the first wave of Episode VII sets. The set numbers and prices have been posted previously but the set names give us some insight into what the sets might be, depending on how much you do or don

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Here is a cool MOC using 10123 as inspiration. Very nice! http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=94595

Over the last 3 months I've bricklinked both the Cafe corner and the Imperial flagship. For Cafe corner I dropped the 5 white windows for red, and the black front door for blue and the dark blue pillars for reddish brown. I think it's definately good enough to add to my modular street and for the kids to play with. For me it was a no brainer. White windows average 10$. Red were .50cents. blue pillars average 2$ r.brown were 20cents black front door would have been around 15-20$ and blue was about 5. Imperial flagship I swapped the 6x16's r.brown plates for pairs of 6x8's because the design allowed for it. I also swapped the 2x2x11 pillars for 11 2x2 round bricks. since they're all centered with a 32m technic axle the integrity is solid. Everthing else is legit. I haven't taken a decent picture of it yet. All in all, if it's for selling, I wouldn't sub any pieces out, and would definately do my best to make sure the colors are accurate. For personal collection/play with the kids then I say do as many subs as your conscience will allow. You'll know they're there. and they'll likely bug you. For no real useful reason.

I am also eagerly awaiting the Ferris Wheel. I am also hopeful it will have the option of adding power functions. If this theme continues, I really want a roller coaster - preferably one that you can combine multiples of to create bigger, more elaborate roller coaster layouts.

Haha, Walmart you crazy. They must have like.. stumbled upon an ancient warehouse or something... so many old products coming back out of nowhere at once. Now i really think TH was in stock at one point today..

I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express, but, in my opinion, the people who keep prognosticating that every set is about to retire because they're cross-referencing the seal codes, online and physical store status for every retailer, make believe license lengths, how a certain set must stay or go based on an upcoming movie release or not, mixed with a little gut feeling, are making every large set appear to be done. It only creates more problems and fulfills their prophecies in their minds because stock keeps remaining low. No retailer can keep anything in stock because so many believe that all these sets are going because some random person on the Internet wants to be the first person to call their retirement shot. Sorry that I'm not sharing the same opinion that everything is going away as soon as this production run is done. Or is it the next production run and then it's gone?

4th mine this month for $100, for all those that think the set will take forever to sell, it should be in a great position by xmas

People, bottom line, meet your quota and move on. If it's one and you don't have one yet, then get on it. If it's more then one then ramp up your efforts and go get em now! If you're an F5 kind of person and like the challenge, then rest those fingers up and oil that F5 key cause there's gonna be action soon.

You get an R5 and you get an R5 and you get an R5

I only partially agree that the movie was for kids. Have you seen it? There is an AFOL element there for sure.

He's got a little honey hole, just like I have for AT-DP polys. Maybe raven should sell me one at cost to keep me quiet. ;)

Normally twice a year once in the first quarter and once in the 4th quarter usually around October/March. Anyway back on topic I just bought a load more TB'S and ecto-1's, maybe because I'm British but Just love the TB and I think it has great potential, and ecto-1 just speaks for itself.

PEE - $19.94 shipped Sandtrooper minifigure from 75052 - $20 shipped (to Canada) 10695 580 brick box - $45.28 shipped

One NISB was sold on Monday for 25 euro on Ebay Germany. The seller made a harsh mistake by putting 25 euro instead of 250 euro. Lucky buyer who caught it.

Two TH actually weighs almost as much as four R5. I think the Slave 1 (more pieces, more minifigs, same price) is a tacit admission by Lego that 10240 is overpriced by $50. That said, if I could trade one of my TH for three R5, I would do it. Perhaps I should just call Lego and propose the swap?

Ecto-1 at Lego, Amazon, and Target is still $49.99

AT-TE was discounted for quite some time and pretty widely avail. 144 resellers on amazon now. I'll be curious to see how this performs, but I am not extremely optimistic.

There are several City Space sets coming out later this year. While they may or may not as grand as the 10231 it can have the effect of renewing interest in this set. On the flip side the new offerings could limit the growth. Either way proceed with caution.

Awesome.

was outbid on a mostly complete 2005 sandcrawler on ebay a short while ago. sorry but I'm not gonna pay original retail let alone more for only a partially completed set.

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Referring you to Ed's list and the VW Camper Van. http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/13088-top-brickfolio-sets/?hl=brickfo

You can always try to list it on ebay. The different colored falcons sell. Personally I'm ocd in this matter and want all exact pieces. I will either go all out on cost or won't purchase at all. Or you could resell parts back on bricklink.

I don't know if this is new but they appear to have Star Wars advent calendars in stock right now.

March 13.

I told Amazon.ca to block any 'Jeff' or lose my account lol. Weird. I know once you create a seller account...you can go to 'inventory' and add products, there you can search for existing sets to copy or just classify a new set as toy. Hope this works. Maybe other CAN sellers on Amazon.ca can assist. Probably just a sign that you shouldn't be selling on the site and stick to eBay, kjijiji and Craigslist ;-)

As it appears no one was hurt... Someone should have know better than to make 20 hulks angry.

Red Five in the (ware)HOUSE!

They told me there were 1,138 left and then asked me if I was a reseller. Makes me feel like this guy being proded by the LEGO police:

I just sniped a complete 2005 edition #10144 Sandcrawler on ebay. I bet someone is kicking themselves over letting that one get away!

And two more brown horses from PaB for. $7 shipped. Will make the cup about a $40 value and I get to keep a ton of filler bricks Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Brickpicker mobile app

Duplo safari 6856 for $90 shipped, happy it is only one state over too For those that got these 50% off or more you might consider listing them Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Brickpicker mobile app

Like I said before the Sea Cow is a great set, I have gotten 5 this week and will have 5 or more by the end of the year, remember the Lego movies will be watched years from now and there will always be people wanting to have this set, so stop debating if this set is a winner. Pick a few up when you can, and if you wait you no whats going to happen when its to late, Why didn't I get some of these. Ed

How about some REAL retirement news for once: 75019 http://shop.lego.com/en-US/AT-TE-75019 7939 http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Cargo-Train-7939 6862 http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Superman-vs-Power-Armor-Lex-6862 (HALLELUJAH!!)

Zooey?

Sorry about that... Rob