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My first sale! Series 3 Gorilla Suit Guy $20 shipped. Found 16 Series 3 minifigures at my Target in Nov of last year for .06 each. Of those 16, two were this guy. Not a bad return in my opinion.

Am I addicted to LEGO? Ummm....no?

Don't know what this is, but don't think I should google it.

Gratitude is something I need to work on so I'll give it my best try here: Thanks to edgecrusher for the heads up on a Death Star. http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/13718-daily-lego-deals-3252015/?p=443498 Thanks to 33Lego for the heads up on Ewok Village at TRU. I had some TRU rewards expiring and a gift card to burn. Timing was perfect. http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/13718-daily-lego-deals-3252015/?p=443787 Thanks to Quacs for helping me sell a Mobile Heavy Cannon. Thanks to minicoopers11 for answering my questions on International Shipping. And a very special thank you to Legodog and Bold-Arrow for recent trades. I had the pleasure to meet both of these guys in person. They are friendly, knowledgeable, and just overall good guys. This should come as no surprise to everyone but I wanted to make sure they were recognized for their willingness to help others and to also work a trade that was a win-win for both parties. I'm starting to feel part of the community here and it's great to have resources like these fine gentlemen to help me get my small business rolling. I couldn't do any of this without Brickpicker. -BrickLegacy

If Mixels Series 2 prices stagnate, I'm blaming Canada.

Let me put it this way - if you have $500 to blow on a toy then an extra $1500 is not going to be worth alot to you. I don't think I am unique with my budget of $10k-$20k per year for my personal toy collection. If I needed a Town Hall I would not baulk at paying $2k for it if that was the cheapest available. I think we are long past the point of Town Hall being bought by those scraping by financially.

Those who cannot afford a high priced collectible were priced out many months ago so I don't see that as being an issue going forward. At least for me there is no difference spending $500 or $2000 on a collectible. I either have the money to be wasteful or I do not. I don't see a price stall until much higher. Just MO.

7 JOR El Polybags from the keychain deal for $63 shipped

Buy 7965 off the shelf now and go back with receipt tomorrow for price guarantee. Beat the wave this way.

I bought three 60057 Camper Vans that were on clearance at Target for $9.98 each, marked down from $19.99. I don't normally invest in City, but for 50% off I thought what the hell.

Heads up! Fred Meyer will have a 16-hour sale on April 4 where they will have Chima, Super Heroes, and Duplo 20% off plus there will be a 10% off Home in-ad coupon.

That's right - i just got my mail order tickets for this summer's top alien pop music festivals - jizzapalooza and jizzaroo. MRB will be headlining the dagobah stage - mudpit saturday night at both. The Grateful Bith are headlining friday night. so you don't have to google it yourself: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jizz

Classic Space 928 http://www.brickpicker.com/bpms/set.cfm?set=928-1 Bought two Benny's with the proceeds

my next project is the market street. But I have to let the dust settle with my wife for at least a month. Since Christmas I've done the two brickbuilds, bought the entire pirates line, bricklinked the blue conversion for the brick bounty, bought my daughter the elves tree house and all the 2015 princess sets , the valentines and Easter set and detectives office. And that's all for personal build. My chequing acct is in shambles. Also the tax-man cometh soon.

Was it the one next to the washboard and banjo with the 3-legged dog in the background?

Man I wish I could find that picture of someone on here who was going after a Craigslist lot that had the Town Hall displayed on an ironing board.

With a budget of $10k-$20k a year, I think you're in the top 5% of this community. Mine is around $2k, if that. Don't get me wrong. I'm not hating on you, just jealous.

Buy! $40 off retail is a no brainer, this set is a winner in my opinion. Smaug goes for around $60 right now alone.

4th model (Macross) for the 31034 set

Citadel of the Loud Curse by mihaimariusmihu

I originally thought he was daft but now I think he was deft.

4 x 60057 Camper Van sets from Target... US$9.98 each. For once, the Target Inventory thingie worked for me!

I just got my Lego Fire Brigade from ebay paid $330 including shipping. Its for my sealed Modular collection.

Neither do I. I'm on the slow-accumulation plan. As an Ideas set, I'm expecting the normal 9 month +/- lifetime, EOL perhaps sometime this fall.

yup, and just moved into larger house because of it.

Too many people tend to compare everything to exclusives where they tend to get 2x value right after it's EOL. Well, this is the only true exclusive in the LOTR/Hobbit line. But not everything is a HH, or SSD. Ive beaten this horse a few times now, but I really think the ToO, The LM, HD, & UG are going to be the "premiere sets" where you will get about 3x above retail a couple years from now. I also think Shelobs attacks, Council of Elrond, Wizard Battle, Black Gate, Mines of Moria, and Lake Town Chase have potential to go in the 2x to 3x range. Shelob is already in the 2x range. The pirate ship ambush is a weird one... i'm not sure how that one will go, but lately it seems to be popping at retail rates on ebay, and I just scarfed a few of those below retail last month when I stumbled onto them at clearance in a walmart. So, that set has yet to truly go dry yet (you can still get them in various TRU's), but it might also have potential, and it's one of the last LOTR sets you can still find at retail, other than the ToO, and perhaps the Black Gate. But have no fear with the tower. I really do think it's going to do very well. Now, if they will only take that one "Ideas" concept of the Minas Tirith that's currently under review and make it into an exclusive, before they retire this line, i'd be absolutely jazzed about what this series produced. I personally, don't hate on the Mines of Moria, and some of the other sets. I think they did a good job, considering they presented a range of price points for sets, and a variety of sets. Not everything was a castle, but there are a few good castle type sets in this series. I think it's a good line.

About the only hobby I enjoy more than Lego Investing is sports cars. And I only recently realized that my Lego collection would trade for a very nice Corvette. That thought has had me awake at nights.

Yes! I made the last of my BL orders this afternoon, for both The Ghost and Voltron. As soon as I get the parts, I'll do the builds and post pics up.

Thanks for the suggestions! I think my husband thinks I'm a little too into Lego. It didn't help that when we were out, I mentioned that I thought a woman we saw had minifig hair

Alright everyone so I finally finished my $400 ucs millennium falcon (10179) and boy it was by far one of the most stressful builds that I've ever done, But the end result was worth it lol and it was only missing a handful of pieces, the Han solo and Chewie minifgs as well as the stickers so I definitely lucked out! Now All I have to do is inventory and build the ucs Batmobile (7784) that the seller threw in for free with the falcon

That's Canadian dollars so it's like $1.50 US. ;)

From days of long ago by Fleebnork

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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.

Actually I was buying, listing and sorting lego! Didn't get a chance to check back until now. I think I will list this for 99p and see if I get any bites.

I ship most of my stuff to the US. It's still cheaper than sending in Canada for smaller sets and the 20% currency difference right now more than justifies the effort. However I am abandoning other international sales other than polybags because I get too many complaints about how long it takes to ship by surface (the cheapest option that most want to pay for). Polybags can be sent by airmail for very little additional cost.

http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/13484-myrtle-beach-craigslist-add/ i think this is the one

If rich people couldn

I have never bricklinked a set but have bulk lots which I bricklinked the missing pieces and it was quite time consuming finding the best prices with as little vendors as possible and keeping track of everything. I just think a whole set would be too time consuming and I personally would hate doing it. I love building and displaying lego.

It does kind of resemble the UCS Vader's Tie stand. Well, the 2nd 1/2 of it. I kneel before Orc. This is awesome.

I think even if the movie flops, Original Trilogy stuff will still go up in value. The movies will just bring new people out of the dark ages.

Welcome I'm new here as well

Awesome design! put on Ideas, achieve 10,000 votes! I would buy this immediately.

The Tower of Orthanc is quite interesting in design and build, and a lot more famous than the lego HH. I think it's going to do quite fine. I tend to shy away from listening to the naysayers on this site very when it comes to the LOTR/Hobbit lines, because they seem to be wrong. Shelob Attacks, like someone mentioned is now more than double retail, and it's been out for what 6 to 7 months? Attack of the Wargs is also now flying higher than retail. You can't buy this under retail anymore, and same can be said for many other sets that are now OOS. Sure they may flatline in growth for a few months here and there, but all of them are rising to where they were around Christmas time. I"m also noticing that many sets are getting scarcer in numbers on ebay than where they once were a few months ago too. Let the fun begin with this series.

Good to know somebody here may find those instructions useful. I hope you post some images when completed with the model. ....Pretty please?

When I first became a Lego investor, I was able to manage my addiction by buying off CL and then flipping the set for profit. It gave the the satisfaction of success and I got money in the process too.

Did you and Jeff figure out some way to make the day 36 hours? lol

Apparently series 2 can still be found out in the wild...

I do not know for sure. I read several blogs and one of them (queenbeecoupons.com) gets Fred Meyer ads ahead of time (I can never seem to find them and she just posts a picture of it). I have used the Home 10% coupon on Lego in the past, but I don't know what the fine print will say on this one. Let's hope it doesn't exclude Lego!

Please everyone by all means avoid this set thank you LOL