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A few weeks back, we posted a survey to help learn more about who the Adult Fan of LEGO (AFOL) is. Today I will be able to share those results with you in a nice illustrated format. Over the five day period, we received 579 replies and collected information from members at Brickpicker as well as help from other LEGO communities including Brickset, BrickFanatics and The Brick Fan. We would really like to thank them for helping to get the word out and collect data from different regions. It is a rather large graphic below and I tried to compress it has much as possible while keeping it looking nice. Let me know what your thoughts are and if you anything surprises you. I would like to thank TodorKolevDesign for designing the infographic. Please feel free to hire them if you need any illustrative work done. It was a pleasure to work with them.

I have bought RI and sold RI and flipped RI and flopped RI till the cows come home. I forget all the margin level $50 Set $30 Set $15 Set $10 Set $5 Set You name it I have hit it. Buy early buy late buy often. Sell high. Sell low. Sell often. I am not one of the multi thousand big dogs by any means but I have flipped several hundred RI since it released. They are super quick and easy to pack. Flip 40 out the door at $5 margin per and you can go buy another Red Five or something else. Right now I have lost 15 of them. They are somewhere hiding mocking me not wanting to be flipped. Fliperoonie Trek Out

Sold my HP lot on Brick Classifieds for 700 to Fcbarcelona101...thanks fellow BPer!

Sold a robie house for 440 euros!! bought it for 135 about 1 year ago...

Let's just say $250 shipped for NIB 7965 is not too far-fetched on eBay

LEGO Five Nights at Freddy's Animatronics by David Pickett Lego Five Nights at Freddy's: Golden Freddy by TheMooseFigs Lego Five Nights at Freddy's: Groupshot by TheMooseFigs Lego Five Nights at Freddy's: Updated Freddy Fazbear and Bonnie by TheMooseFigs

That is a point that Jeff and I have been trying to make for a long time. A large portion of the BrickPicker membership have no interest in "reselling" or stockpiling LEGO sets.

Oh, BrickRss. It took awhile to see the R not as an A and I couldn't figure out why I hadn't heard of or been to that site before.

The real story here is how good the graphics are... Well done! TodorKolevDesign

Cardpool has alot of Babies R Us at 9.5%.

If you use your CC for any part of the purchase, you still get the 8% back on the full amount of the purchase.

Old modular set + VIP points It doesn't suprise me at all that it's OoS, retiring or not.

Duplo Safari $90 OH $85 HH $55 (the non desirable HH)

100 space shuttle mini build polybags 50 robot mini build polybags

The site is legit. Here is a link to the website analysis.

A HP lot in the Classifieds and a SW Hoth lot on eBay!

I usually get walmart packages from UPS but sometimes Canada Post as well

Very cool infographic! Can we look forward to seeing this in your book (or has it already gone to print?) Thanks for sharing.

Very interesting, thanks ! However, the "AFOLS by country" numbers are completely wrong, because a poll available on english websites can't represent the real numbers of AFOLs from France/Italy/Germany/Spain/etc. (for example there are not 5 or 6 times more AFOLs in the UK (15.03%) than in Germany (2.76%) ) So no results (for this part) would have been better than wrong ones IMHO.

I'll trade you every promo for half of your discounts on exclusives.

Why was Walmart excluded while Target was included?

This is great and looks really nice! As a bit of a spelling nerd, I must point out a couple of typos. Under Professions there is a Director of Markerting and under favorite sets the Simsons House.

Infographics are the best.

Check out this display case for my Lego ornament. I used a large slider box for trading cards and double-sided tape under the ornament base to keep it in place.

new 8288 Crawler Crane $350 new 4797 Ogels Killer Whale $10 new 41999 4x4 Crawler $380 x2 new 5891 Apple Treehouse $75 x3 used 6721 Mosasaurus $35 used 6720 T Rex $35 used 6719 Brachiosaurus $35 new 7139 Ewok Attack $38 used 4806 Axe Cart $6 used valley baseplate $28 new 9509 2012 Advent $50 new 4111 Intersection baseplate $19 used 4707 Hagrids Hut $30 new 7467 International Space Station $80 new 7201 Final Duel 2 $15 x2 9V battery box $11 used TaunTaun & Han $20

My bad if it's legit, but it did seem phishy with the alternate URL that didn't appear to be coming from PayPal.com. Thanks...

If you want to set up a store and could use tips, just ask! I have shared some of my software (BrickSync) and will share more once it gets more user-friendly.

Yea, if I had more funds to spend at the moment, I would've gobbled them all up! It's crazy how much stock levels and availability vary between stores. Timing is a *****. Sometimes it goes our way and other times it doesn't.

they seem to have a never ending supply.

newbie good move I have 8 I am holding (I have so many things I am working on I can't have them all) plus the 15 I misplaced LOL

200 sets approx. $4400 is small time in one set huh! that's equivalent to 10X SSD @ MSRP

I sold my last Creative Tower for $75 on Craigslist.

These are spectacular! Thanks for sharing, as usual

Frankly, the regular job (I'm a software programmer) pays a lot more per hour. My wife is doing the order picking (25 hours/week or so), and we often hire a few friends to sort parts in short bursts over week-ends. I spend maybe a hour per day to pack orders and customer service. Most importantly, we are also a household of builders. The near infinite supply of parts is very handy, we pick whatever we need right from the store's inventory.

That's awesome, grabbed 2 Brick Bounties for 173. ????

Those are awesome models! It amazing that they encompass a variety of the sets over the years from the Space theme. I was disappointed that I didn't see a set based off some of the Mars Mission sets. Those were my favorite sets when they came out!

I do. Personally placed 40-50 orders for RI's. Just myself with my crappy logitech mouse and old laptop that hangs on some web-pages. And I'm a horrible under-achiever in life. I've no doubt there are better than I in the world and have no delusions of my significance. Delusions of grandeur, perhaps.

not as good as scoring 27.5% off modulars or the recent BigW clearance..but target australia 20% sale went live..and the 20% off coupon ILOVETARGET still works on top of the sale prices! enjoy

I generally make a new wanted list for each set I'm trying to complete - that way I can see how many pieces I need and what they are. If it's a set I'm going to sell, I search my wanted list by just those sets, thus giving them "priority." Once I narrow down a few shops by unique lots, I compare prices. Then once I pick a shop, I make sure to search the shop for my entire wanted list to be sure to pick up any other pieces I may need. It takes a little tinkering, but works ok. Don't forget to then delete items ordered from your wanted list or else you end up ordering again!!

i woudlve bought that troll boat from you ... i need that one ... shucks!

Mars Rover, $130 CAN. After fees and shipping still decent profit. Down to my last 2 (have to raise price a bit...had +40 at one point and as a small time reseller was a little nervous I would never unload them all I need to practice more patience.

The big sets came already built. There are books for about 30 more smaller sets. Spongebob, **** Potter, Indy. Tons of minis. Going to be some work but I couldnt pass it up. Kid was 18 and going to college. Entering his dark age... maybe see him here in 10 years or so.

Just so you know, that won't work. You can't deduct the cost of an item until you sell the item...otherwise, our tax code would give every business a path to reducing their tax liability to $0 through the acquisition of debt-funded inventory.

Wow I wish I had the profit to take a Vegas trip. I could really use one right now but anyway the smart thing would be to reinvest. If you really dont need to put the money back into Lego then by all means spend it on entertainment, alcohol and drugs since it seems like its extra money for you. Or you can do what I do and combine both options just remember once the minifigures start talking to tone it down a bit.

Reading the Millionaire Next Door and that's one of the #1 secrets of millionaires: minimize tax liability and reinvest in appreciating assets.

You might be right with the SOH, but I beg to disagree with the Mini Cooper. (And you probably meant successor.)

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

Depending on how big that tree lot was you could've made much more selling it in smaller lots. I've been selling my trees and bushes in lots of 4 or 5 for $11 shipped and they sold like hot cakes.

90% of what I sell are used sets pieced together from bulk lots. Even with some of the older stuff used will bring 70% or more of the sealed/new sets.

I know this: TLG has made a boatload of money with the TH retiring early. Sales for PC have gone crazy (can't stay in stock at Amazon or other retailers online) because some of us have worried about PC's possible early exit. I'm calling it the TH effect.