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Birds 2.0 by Poulsom has just been introduced at Lego Ideas. It goes without saying, a 2.0 version of this set will cause the original to skyrocket in value. Hence, I urge your support for this new version. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/98737

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Read this thread...this has been discussed.

Classic intentional misinformation campaign. Allow the enemy to THINK they've broken your code. ramp the TOO levels down to zero, show no no reorders, then.........UNLEASH THE HOUNDS. Crank production and have anyone that ordered more than one TOO in those months dragged from their mother's house and beaten with a bag of duplo. -taken from lego insider anti-reseller memo further detail [REDACTED]

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've been on an Atlantis kick. I bought a huge lot of 20+ used sets for about $140. As well as a NISB Portal of Atlantis for $55 and a NISB City of Atlantis for $90. I think I may have the whole theme now - lol. These are not for investment (that's probably obvious). My kids and I were watching some old Brickshow reviews and thought a lot of the sets were really cool (Portal of Atlantis and Angler Attack especially). New collectors should peruse some of the old forgotten themes. You can get some cool used stuff that no one else even thinks to looks for on Ebay auction. Also, completed my set of Dragon suit ninjago minifigs and my Vader minifig collection #allthevaders.

FBA Batman Freeze 76000 - $39 Batcave 6860 - $119 Daily Bugle 76005 - $64 Delorean - $74 Creative Tower - $98 (sold out now) Creative Suitcase - $75 Kings Castle - $174 Power Mech 31007 - $35 Samurai Mech - $49 Jek 14 - $90 Target Exc. Green Ninja - $17 City 3 in 1 - 66475 - $100 Dragon Mountain - $73 Ebay SSD $800

It makes sense, considering it's been around for a while and has relatively limited appeal compared to a DS or even Sandcrawler. I mean unless you're into very thorough reenactments of the Ewok Christmas special, which I am.

Made my first brick classified sale yesterday to a fellow BPer. Mixels series 2 blue tribe x 132 $835us shipped (My biggest sale to date)

He's dead, Ed. Alan's Dead.

If you are remotely a fan of Star Wars and/or the X-Wing vs TIE Fighter PC game, then you must check out this short animated film. I am dead serious. TIE Fighter

You'd be surprised if you do the math. TRU rarely had any sales last year. This is a wonderful start to 2015 comparatively.

According to a Jurassic World Game Twitter account; this will be a pre-order bonus from Gamestop/EB Games: Neither site seems to have been updated to reflect this, but it's a pretty cool polybag imo, beats getting another duplicate of a similar character. Will likely pre-order a couple. It also seems to contradict the above images of the Bonus Dr. Wu, maybe different retailer pre-order bonuses, not sure.

I found this on CL. I originally wanted the Technic set, which was $45. Then they threw in the Wild West set for $14, which is all I had left in cash. Decent deal?

2 x 10696 Medium Creative Box $20 from WM 3 x 76005 Daily Bugle $25 wm clearance. Hadnt seen these in this store in forever. They were really dusty and covered in stickers but the boxes were in good shape.

My reference to the small flat rate box is not about profit/loss but that it is EASY to ship and you can fill the form out online with USPS and be done with it. GSP is the way to go because the buyer pays all shipping fees and customs/import taxes up front, this USUALLY leads to a small increase for the buyer but I have been surprised to find that a few times, the shipping/import fee has been cheaper than I can offer on my own. If you use the GSP, then eBay takes care of customs for you and you limit your risk in the package getting lost or misplaced. There is an entire section on eBay about the GSP and I recommend that you read it as it is thorough. There is something wonderful about selling something to Europe, Asia, or Australia and simply dropping it off, postage paid, with no waiting, no paperwork, and no worries.

Haha. Everybody is zone 8 for me. But as mentioned above I add shipping to all my auctions but list as free shipping. That way it's covered by the seller. I still sell at my prices and make good profit. Just gotta know the weight and size limits in order to maximize profits. Grab free boxes when you can and order materials in bulk.

Ordered 660 (11 cases) of series 4 CMF and 180 (3 cases) of series 5 CMF @ ~$4/mini tax and shipping included

If you can fit it in a small flat rate box, you can ship cheaply to Europe but use the GSP if you aren't sure and let eBay take care of shipping it overseas and you are only responsible to get the package to Kentucky. Ex astris, scientia.

Re: The tumbler - Those big Batman sets don't seem to have long lifespans. I don't think it's retiring "soon" but I don't think it's "later" either. Once the Tumbler celebrates its first birthday I would recommend having at least 1 to be safe. It seems like production is really sluggish for that set too - maybe they don't have a ton of capacity for making those big tires - so you probably don't want to have to play the F5 game on that one.

AA $300 bought a PC and a PS with proceeds during double VIP

"I'm afraid 10188 will be quite operational when the horde arrives"

It's all good. It's just time to move on to the next set or round of clearance that will be coming up. The good thing is clearance sales and deals are still able to be had in the future. It's not a one shot thing. If you miss out on deals one time it makes the next time you find a great deal even sweeter.

I don't wear hats, but the grapevine is often a reliable source of LEGO information.

In my review of the set (hey, you should go read it!), I estimated that you could sell this set for over $1000 in 2016 and that it might reach $1500 in 2018. The first estimate looks like a sure thing.

Don't be fooled by the unites on the left column. They change according to figures. The sea cow seems to sell extremely well, but if you look closely the simpsons house do sell about 3 times better, which is not obvious at a first look. The parisian restaurant have about he same curve but the figures, again, have to be divided by 4 to be compared with the sea. (I said "sea cow" but of course it does apply to all lego sets) To me it just mean that: - the simpsons house had a huge run (will it be produced again ?) - sea cow (for instance), parisan restaurant, etc. share their production lines with some other sets Here is the funniest post of the day ! :D

So I have an opportunity to buy 10221 at $627 factory sealed. What do you think the price will be for this set during Christmas? What about another...year or two?

I'll get in line too. There's a Falling Water in my local store just STARING at me. Please let me know if anyone has a coupon they won't use. Thanks again totabolton314 for helping me out with a coupon last time!

Where is Alan Turing when you need him?

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There are various color charts (keep in mind viewing on computers can cause some color alterations, too) but if you do have any hint of color blindness I'd get someone else to verify your findings. If it's on a pick a brick wall, it's going to be a current, not retired, color. That'll narrow the choices right there. If you can post good clear photos, folks here can likely tell you what you have.

If I got a dollar for everytime I have heard that......

Tracking all of this stuff into a database would be good for retrospect analysis to determine some policies. Restock frequency, at which stock levels do they restock, behaviour before retirement etc. Lots of possible information here for the good statistician. I say almost too much if we can build a database at least for a year. This type of data is really good. Ed is right. LEGO is giving away too much info if they allow us to do this.

OMG!! That short movie was great!! Motto! Motto! (More! more! ) Heck yeah. I played X-Wing then "graduated" to TIE Fighter I have not played those games in a while. But, from time to time I feel the urge to dogfight / destroy a bunch of rebel scums so I load up my SW Battlefront II

Unfortunately does not look to be accurate. 10220 is showing zero stock but is available now limit 5 in europe. Only several 10188 lol? Back to the drawing board.

So I guess it was a bad idea to ship a case of "strike anywhere" matches with that liter of kerosene. (And not check the "hazardous material" box on the self-service USPS kiosk.)

I just got off the phone to several Myers and they have all told me the same thing. Take it as you will: Sydney City and Melbourne City are the only Myers that have the modulars, no other store received an allocation. Sydney only store with DO. PS all gone.

And then there were 468. Hopefully we see RI #2 make it past the next review. Could be a precursor as to what Lego will do with successor Ideas proposals.

I've been shipping to China for a year and I'm still broke. What's the catch? Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Brickpicker mobile app

I have one of these for my personal collection but as others have suggested, I'm not stocking up on these. The less popular OT ships aren't doing anything in the aftermarket i.e. Gold Y Wing, A Wing. I believe this one will be the same way.

I built this one last weekend and it's a really good build and it displays well. If you can catch it on sell for $20 it's well worth it.

IMHO, the best TRU Thursday buy remains Birds 21301. I really am a fan of this set. With the TRUTH discount, cost is just under $40. The few times this wasn't stocked by Amazon Prime, it was a nearly $70 set, and it should go away sometime this fall. Bank on this going above $100 shortly after EOL, and I think $200 is possible on this one within 18 months. Easy to store and ship as well. 3-5X MSRP possible on this set, and I don't see a downside; it will never sell for below MSRP. *one other data point. The Lego Employee-exclusive xmas set this year was also a Birds collection. That sold easily in the $250-$300+ range (I recall a few $400+ sales early one). While the Lego employee exclusives always command a premium, this one was quite a bit above the norm. I think this was driven in part by the theme, which has huge AFOL and even non-AFOL appeal.

Here's Tom the other day giving me lip.

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

I think you looked too quickly. Graduating college was 35% and Graduate school was just below it at 25%, "some" graduate school was 5%. That means 65% of AFOLs have at least graduated college and another 20% might even be in the process of finishing.

Looking quick, it appears that going to College doesn't really seem to be paying off.

Great illustration of the results, easy and fun to read. Thanks Jeff!

I have a pile of these from last years speculative EOL. Every time I look at that stash I say to myself "some day you will make me lots of money". I should probably being buying more because once it goes, it's gonna be a fun ride.