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Also picked up some collectable minifigures from them. 240 Series 5, 2 sealed cases in there 119 Series 7 51 Series 9 106 Series 10 83 Series 11 And a couple of open packets ~100 Series 3 and a few misc. from other series's.

Found a few older sets at a mom an Pop shop: 3818 Bikini Bottom x 2 6864 Batmobile and Two-face chase 7964 MF x 2 8083 Rebel trooper battle pack x 5 9492 Tie Fighter x 6 9493 X-Wing x 2

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This is so true. Specific people who really want sets to build. Additionally, some of the money spending pain can be removed if anyone wanted / needed a Town Hall 3 years from now and the price was over $1,000. We can always sell something to help purchase it and you also view it was an investment. I was able to post build threads with 10196, 10181 10194 and 10179 using money earned from selling other set. That really took the sting out of the overall purchase price. At the same time, I consider these as my "conservative" investments. Sure, they won't grow 50%-125 % annually for the initial 2-3 years after retirement but at least 10%-20% growth is still achievable and demand is still high in-case I ever need to sell. However, best of all is I get to build these AWESOME sets I missed during my Dark Age. I would also def say recently retired sets like 10221 SSD, 10224 Town Hall, 10225 r2, 10226 Sopwith Camel and 10228 Haunted House are among the batch of 'newer' sets that AFOLs will look for after their Dark Age are done. Plus like other sets mentioned in recent posts here, we shouldn't need to worry about refreshes for a while.

AFAIK, PC is the only modular with stickers. DO had a glorious amount of printed parts, including fantastic printed *windows* for both the pool hall and the Detective Agency itself, and piles of small printed parts all over the set. Also, the first set with a real mirror. IMHO, PR and DO are the best modulars yet, and my 2 favorite; I've owned them all. Regarding piece counts: GE: 2182 PS: 2032 PC: 2196 PR: 2469 DO: 2262 I don't see a major trend, and if there is one, it's an *increase* in pieces in recent sets.

I Bricklinked the 2014 SDCC Batmobile exclusive. It was pretty easy and fun. The minifigs are the same as the ones from the Juniors Batcave set. I want to do another set. Maybe a bigger one this time.

Hey guys! I came across a very talented Japanese builder, who makes videos of his pop-up building creations. From what I can gather they require more than 10K pieces and take him more than a year (200 hours) to make. What I'm more interested in though is how he generated the instructions and got the piece numbers at the end of this video: Did he use the Digital Designer to do the entire thing first? Take screenshots of each layer? Figure out the piece numbers for each? Is there some other tool he used to do this for him automatically? Quite an amazing monumental effort either way. Thanks in advance for any info, Jay

I do not think negative or neutral feedback is warranted as long as the item arrives within the estimated time.

Wow. To me, that's just dishonest. You are either meeting the deadline or not. If you can't meet it, then live with the consequences. I sell plenty and always make it a priority to process the postage immediately. And if I don't then my bad.

Dungeons and dragons anyone?????

I always leave them behind when I don't find any candy inside.

If rich people couldn

Age of ...what? btw, what is a Google? Are Legos good investments? Anyone have a new seal code for R5? How about R2? F5? How did I get here, exactly? Has anyone seen my pants?

I hate it when eating my legos produces risk events!

Oh c'mon, he just wants to make sure that even though you buy online, you are still buying the items from the Comic Book Guy

Is that really you? I think you have a way cooler hair style than Niko. You should get a studio too!

wish i was doing this when the motorized at-at was retail. that thing is super cool.

2 x 41055 Cinderella's Romantic Castle @ 50% off MSRP + free 40086 Easter Bunny 70503 Golden Dragon @ 30% off MSRP + free 40086 Easter Bunny

Not forgotten - My delivery guy mentioned he would try to print some out for me (we will see). I would have liked to have 20 more Hulk Poly's

Being my first exclusive build it was pretty fun and I was pretty impressed with it. 5 movies and 4 episodes of "Gotham" later she was done. Had friends over 2days after completion and they were taking pictures of it. B)

Looking good there my friend ... Keep that camera rolling

My goal target # for these is much smaller. I'm treating the Simpsons Series the same way. Too many unknowns...

Buying via TRU is a gamble. Sometimes the items arrive well packed, with lots of filling material in their shipping boxes and the Lego boxes are in fine condition, sometimes there is lots of space in it and the Lego boxes look pretty beaten up.

ToysR'us is not known for their best shipping I am not going to buy there anymore

I know what you mean. I think Town Hall looks great, but for $550? I'd buy two Sea Cows and build me a Super Sea Cow. Which Is actually not a half bad idea. You'd get the hull pieces to make it a reasonable length so it doesn't look so top heavy, a whopping 12 cannons... I wonder if anyone has posted pics of something like that...

Some good points there. Regarding stickers, I was unclear in my post. The stickers are popping up more and more in exclusives generally (10240 and 10241, for example), and builders seem to hate them, but I'm glad to hear they aren't showing up more in modulars. As far as modular piece counts are concerned, there was a drop of about 10% from 10197 to 10218, but they do seem to have come up since then. So I stand corrected.

Currently TRU has 20% off, if you like I could order for you and send it to spain, just drop me a message.

Picked up a couple of camper vans at Target for $6.98. The inventory tracker had them at $5.98, but I'm not complaining for a dollar more .

Scored another 40120 valentine's dinner at Ross. Box was mangled and open, but went for it anyway. Complete with three sealed bags, plate, and instructions. I think this set was bound to meet the same fate as a duplo there...built complete and left on shelf...I guess the kid was pulled away before that happened!

Should i buy this one for

Bought 31036 Toy and Grocery Shop. I've been wanting this, just didn't want to pay retail. Found it on AWD today for $31. Happy with that price. I wouldn't be surprised if we see this go on sale at some point. But for a personal build, I'm happy with the price.

Wollte nur kurz meine Erfahrung mit QIPU teilen, also wenn man Online bestellt einfach nicht vergessen immer

Citadel of the Loud Curse by mihaimariusmihu

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

I had the same issue, only solved thanks to a windows restore point. Die aliexpress, die.

I think in about ten years, all the modulars will be MSRP $200. Heck, if Lego follows the CMF pricing trend, the modulars could all be $300 in the next five years. Lego's been reaching on price more and more. Inflation is just about zero in their major markets (EU and US), but Lego set prices are heading up fast while price per piece falls. Anyway, I don't think we'll ever know why TH got chopped. Lego went right on producing the $200 ToO, $200 Simpsons House, $200 Red 5, the (ahem) $400 Death Star, and since TH left we've gotten the $200 Tumbler, $200 Slave 1, and $200 UCS Tie Fighter. Are modular buyers especially stingy and unwilling to pay $200? I somehow doubt it. After all, they're now happy to pay $550 for TH on eBay.

Still rising fast. One BPer sold one for $585 shipped on ebay yesterday. Cheapest listing at the river is $580.

2x TH for 285 euro at bol.com (Dutch "Amazon")

Want to look into the future of America look no further than Sprawlmart. If you are not willing to buy your neighbors products or services at a cost that allows them to live a decent middle class life, then how will they afford to buy your goods and services that affords you the same. You may as well fire yourself right now. In the tech industry we have a thing called H1B and it lets those wonderful "job creating companies" drive down wages by claiming they can't find a local to do the job, when really what they mean is they can't find a local with the skills who will work for peanuts. So you know what happens Fortran coder can't find a job, so they take C coders job, who takes Matlab coders job, who takes high school math teachers job, who takes retail persons job, who takes fast food dude's job, who is now unemployed. And then we get the jobs numbers for the month in and they are great, except all these praised newly created jobs pay min wage with no benefits. So who's the biggest employer in america now its Welfare company, and they offer great benefits so who would ever want to leave. I wonder what will happen to interest rates once the Fed stops buying most treasuries, oh I guess social security fund will still buy, cause if we circle the debt wagons enough maybe we will all be safe. Without debt and dollar reserve currency of the world propping this place up its sunk, and guess how long the average life span of a reserve currency is. But hey this stuff probably won't implode during my lifetime and China's pollution hasn't quite made it to my shore yet, so I will just let the future generation deal with the problems I and my parents and their parents created, because it's easier that way.

Far as straight up characters go, I am going to get Comic Book Guy, Groundskeeper Willie, and Bartman. The rest I will pick up only a select few for parts to be used as regular pedestrians in my cityscape. Homer's suit is nice along with Marge's dress and his Valentine's Day heart and her clutch purse have other uses. The dresses of Patty and Selma look good too. While White Fang said Martin Prince's attire is very suitable for school uniforms, I say it looks more like the outfit for an office supply store employee. (You can see I will acquire a few just for that reason. Ha.) What caught me with Professor Frink's flask is the 'fluid' is opaque and not translucent like all the others so I may get one of him for that plus his torso reminded me of Bill Nye the science guy. Haha. Hans Moleman's shirt and tie makes me think about "Shaun of the Dead" and a bit of Dilbert so there's another. I have a few Mr. Burns from the first series because I liked his suit so maybe I will get Smithers just for the heck of it. Also his attire in LEGO form is like one of the Doctors (the time travelling kind). I think this Lisa like the former's torso can make a nice dress for a grownup character. Last thing for some reason I want a bunch of Milhouse as Fallout Boy and don't quite know why. I feel compelled to make an army of biohazard henchmen or something. Eh, I shall collect then worry over the details later.

should be easy to assemble an army of angry Scots armed with toilet plungers.

70808 Super Cycle Chase Alternate Build by Pete Corp

Nothing revolutionary that I could see with this update. Just more of the push towards auction instead of BIN. I am a little surprised about the surcharge for short auctions. I thought ebay would like short auctions, turns the money over faster. I guess they determined that they don't get enough views of short auctions and it keeps the prices down. This is probably true in most cases but with hot items, a short auction would work well.

Here are some more cool MOCs from Eurobricks.com. Designer: Lego Junkie Name: "Welcome to District 9" Link. I have never seen the movie, but I still think it looks cool regardless. Designer: Lindon Name: "Small house from fairy tale" Link. It looks sweet and I like the "smoke" coming out of the chimney. Designer: markus1984 Name: Episode VI - "The End" Link. This is awesome! It has a lot of detail.

Just finished another RoboChicken - Lieutenant Shadow. I apologize ahead of time for the lighting levels that are less than ideal. Here's the crew so far, with a link to the full gallery below. Enjoy!

Thought I would share with everyone a fairly ridiculous MOC I just finished up. These MOCs are titled "RoboChicken", and I just finished the first character General Cluck. As you can see, he's a no-nonsense kind of fowl and a demolitions expert to boot. Enjoy!

Just messing around with the new photo options...

Why isn't this set more popular. It seems like a ship that would be more popular. Maybe it's because no one ever saw it in action in the movies though I thought it was mentioned enough for people to be interested.