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My big CMF order came today, all sealed cases and only a few opened outer factory boxes. 660 series 4 and 1080 series 5 for a total of 1740 minifigs!!

No. Perhaps the Snake Minifig may go for $25 to help of set the cost. Oh, and we call them customers.

It's funny how people forget that the Ewoks were 2 seconds away from ripping Han Solo's flesh from his face once it got nice and crispy on that fire spit. MMM, tastes like chicken. Cute and furry, my arse. I don't think it's a male / female thing. Its a question of age. The show How I Met Your Mother makes this case via "The Ewok Line". Personally i think the theory needs to be updated to curve back down as perhaps the current generation are not fans of the little cannibals.

There is one set in this collection that for some reason stands out from the rest lol

Expected launch date, if they release a new one is pretty much january. LEGO seems to get on a schedule with certain exclusives. January: Modular April: Simpsons May: SW UCS, carnival August: cars September: winter village

worked some more sorcery and found these little gems today

Ewoks blow. The original was fantastic, and it appealed to me, a 12-year old kid just fine without cutesy characters. I tolerated Yoda as the rest of ESB was fantastic and dark. Lucas ruined his own series with all the kid-crap. He claims it appeals to kids, but all the crypto-Floridian bunk in prequels certainly went over most kids heads. EV will no doubt make money. But it's no SSD or MF. Of the current sets, I think in the long run Slave 1, Sandcrawler, and DS are the current stars. Sand crawler isn't selling nearly as well as other sets at this stage of life, I think that's the sleeper here. IMHO.

Uhm... could you post a picture of your stockroom, LOL ?

It only appeared in the Original Trilogy, now that's a bad thing? I can't keep up anymore.

Buy her a present with some of your profits, she'll soon get off your back. Failing that you could try growing a pair.

Lego Stock Tracker for Target worked perfectly this time for me. 5 Dolphin Cruisers at 37.98, 6 Sunshine Ranch at 34.98, 5 Ariel's Magic Kiss medium sized set at 14.98, all at 50% off. Good trip!

1. You can have all the blaster rifles you want, if you can't hit the broadside of a sailbarge it doesn't matter. 2. A native force of jungle partisan guerillas, dedicated to their cause, protecting their home with a bunch of small arms and homemade booby traps could never defeat a technologically superior, much richer, better trained industrialized imperial foe. Just ask the North Vietnamese

Because.. George Lucas

who would have thought that some grown men might like my little pony stuff. yet there we go

I agree! Empire is my favorite. My favorite toy as a kid was a snow speeder. The poor family cat got sick of me trying to wrap the harpoon around its legs*. * no animals were harmed in these events.

My favorite is the Hoth Ice Planet scenes and equipment. I guess that is why I like Lego Arctic so much LOL. Can't wait for the UCS Hoth Base this Christmas.

Just wait for your first year to be up and you will be emailed the secret password to all your answers in condensed form. There's nothing to read. All you have to do is go down the list to see which sets to buy and when. It seems harsh, l know, but a lot of people put a lot of time into these forums and don't feel it's fair for people to just join the forum on day one and know everything.

I'm not Trek, but aside from exclusives I would start to look at some of the summer 2014 wave that is coming up on 1-year. The obvious winners are the ISD and AT-AT, though they could last another 12-20 months before they're done. I think the Cantina is a great set and could be helped by an earlier than 2 year retirement. My sleeper picks are the Grievous Wheel Bike and Coruscant Police Gunship, though the latter is a TRU exclusive and we all know how that could play out (prolonged shelf life and deep discounts for extended periods). If I had money to invest solely in Star Wars right now, I would go with the exclusives though. Red 5 and Ewok Village are prime candidates for retirement this year. There was a slew of regular sets effectively retired in late 2014 and I'm not sure if any more will be on the chopping block until much later in the year.

I pulled the trigger on one...

Kwik-E-Mart available at LEGO Shop at Home

E7 Trooptransporter by Raoulosos

I think we are already there.

I think the consensus is eventually.

The careful filing of topics into a relatively few number of threads is actually an enormous positive on this site. You don't have to wade through pages of different threads to find relevant topics on the set of interest, you just go to one place. Also, the length of this thread and the age is actually another huge clue if you care to think about it. And if you're observant, there's even more to be learned from that "old and irrelevant" info that you think no longer applies. Quite the contrary, that's some golden info that will tell you quite a bit about the future of not just 10188, but a number of other sets as well. If this was easy and obvious, many more folks would do it. It takes time and patience to learn the basics on both ends: the best way to acquire sets (and which ones), as well as the best way to sell sets (and when). We were all novices once, and we're all still learning. The suggestions you make are counterproductive and would harm the way many of us use this site. I appreciate your suggestions, nothing wrong with those. Understand that the reason things are done such as grouping comments into single threads by set is the result of many expert investors input, some serious wisdom on this site, and the result of many mistakes made by others before you. You're benefitting from all that. You'll come to see why things are done the way they are here, and hopefully recognize the value they'll ultimately represent to your investments.

I am announcing that over the next few days there will be a sections of the site that will updated and certain parts of the site may not be available for short periods of time. As early as later tonight, I may try to run the forum upgrade. If any of you are out there in the web world, you may have heard that Google will be starting a new standard for search results based on mobile usability. Certain parts of this site are not passing their test and I have known that for a long time. I have been working on updating parts of the price guide for a while and will hopefully make those template updates live in the next few days as well. The forum is not passing the tests too well either, so at this point, I am going to take the time and do the upgrade toutilize their new template that does pass the test. With this update certain parts of the forum may not be available for a while, moved elsewhere or be replaced with other things that do work with the new template. I have certain plugins that were made just for this site and have been talking with the author of those to update them shortly. Other sections that "may" be affected will be the Brickfolio area and the Brickpicker Forum Mobile App. So if you see the forum is down for a bit late tonight or over the next day or two, please be patient with me as I get everything squared away. I will make sure I do plenty of backups Thank you Jeff

No one can steal Trek-Fu's clearance thunder absolutely, as long as we win BF trivia this year...

OK ravenb steal my clearance thunder as usual! lol

I can't get my brain to accept that little furry stone age guys beat down the emperor's elite stormtrooper battalion. In, um, 'reality' the battle of Endor would have gone down more like the conquistadors versus the Aztecs. Slingshots and spears just don't beat blaster rifles and AT-ST's. On the other hand, EV looks really nice. It's on my list as 'buy around 10, starting after 10240 disappears from LEGO Shop at Home'. I think Sandcrawler is a much better bet long term. The last one nearly tripled before being undercut by sandcrawler 2.0. Jawas were around $40 each on eBay at one point.

Y'all missed the Master Assassin sneaking in behind the girl in blue

Yeah, I keep looking for Vader there...

I don't think the appeal of the EV lies in the Ewoks themselves, but rather that it is a reasonably faithful and complete re-creation of a scene from the original trilogy. That alone will power that set, IMO.

OK here goes jaxman - I think EV will be a great set to own because many people are skipping it IMO. If they skip it its rare. If its rare it is worth $. This does not always work but with Ewok I think it works. mos eisley - I always love your posts! You have a whit second to none. ciglione - Too early for me. Flip some of these and then get that one later. biking tiger - exactly. Oh I want the Ewok Village. But right now I will get the other sets more and the less expensive sets more. I can always get that later. BOOM. Town Hall effect on the EV. Not as quick of as climb and not saying it will be the TH but the effect. No one bought the Town Hall but many wanted it. But it cost more so hey get it later get the other ones now.

I think the Ewok Village had more screen time than the SSD, just sayin'...

Why is no one mentioning Sandcrawler in their investment lists? Where I live it is becoming very rare in the wild.

It may still be around for the next dbl VIP in the fall. If not, just to be sure just go and get one.

Double VIP!

As others have mentioned, these are the items that most frequently go unscanned for me as well. I've never had a problem getting reimbursed for anything that wasn't scanned in though - just have to stay on top of it and open a call when you discover it. I believe that they start an investigation at the fulfillment center and look at video that was recorded during receipt. I don't do anything special to protect them, or even label them as I do with everything else, but I do put them on top of everything else in the shipment with the barcodes up to make it as likely as possible that they will be noticed, scanned, and caught on camera. Also - if you haven't already, sign up for a professional seller account if you are going to be selling a lot of polybags. That extra $1 per order really impacts the margin on each sale.

Another dragon to add to the collection.

I came across this video on YouTube and thought it was pretty cool. Enjoy.

I built all Legend Beasts from Legends of Chima except the gorilla. What truly awesome organic designs. I dig how each look very much like the creature it is meant to represent well as being quite poseable in a number of ways. Trying to find enough display space for the Eagle was the toughest since that wingspan takes up so much area. The Lion and Wolf are exceptional but my personal favorite of the lot is without a shadow of a doubt the Wolf Legend Beast. She is totally bitchin'. I can say that because the build was exactly that and she is a girl wolf. In other news, I finally tackled in building my very first Mixel mech design using the Series 1 Infernites. It took at least three hours I believe to design and build but the results are smoking. I used just about all the pieces the three critters in the tribe gave me leaving maybe ten parts I didn't have a use for. I even managed to make a small scout vehicle to go with the mech so that was cool. Hopefully I can take some photos in the next few days of my Mixel mech with scouter and while at it get a few shots of my spite cottage too.

Yes. I highly recommend doing this. Just did it today, coincidentally.

Here's my thoughts ... Thank you. I am able to get them at about $360 through legitimate methods. Prefer not to discuss where I am buying them but I am doing things by the book. MSRP in US is $399.99 and no one generally puts it on sale. I may be making a bad move but I really feel good about this set and that the time is near. I could be wrong. It appears to me that they had the Mexico plant do one last big production run on this thing and that will be it. I have no inside information, just lots of rumors seem to be swirling, I am just guessing that is what happened. It has disappeared (again) from Toys R Us and Walmart. I wonder when Target, Amazon and LEGO Shop at Home run out of stock. I predict it (ok I will be burned horribly I am sure) that it goes out of stock for good in the US in June. There

Concensus is that this set will retire.

The model looks really good. The build itself looks pretty lackluster though. Stick a bunch of plates together, and plenty of repetition since the model is perfectly symmetrical.

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Too much volume required for the casual seller, to achieve the margins. This is my personal opinion, of course. I might need to try it.

No pics regarding the interior. Personally, for a smaller modular type building I would care less about the interior vs the exterior and whether it looks good with the other buildings/street. If the real creator or someone sold this building for a 'reasonable price' with all the bricks/instructions in bags I would buy it for sure. There's many other customs builds online...the Chilli's Restaurant is my favourite I don't have a big collection of bricks myself or ever ordered before so simple kits would be useful for buyers like me. As a side note, my 5yr old loves using the spare brinks we do have to build his vehicles and things...it's funny/scary because I tell friends/family he's a Lego Weapon's Specialists because he loves to custom build prison's, attack mode looking vehicles, weapon's, etc. I know all parents say this but I'm amazed by what he builds everyday...sometimes I don't want him to break apart his creations so I can use the 'kragle' lol. But he needs to break stuff apart to build new things and will fuel his imagination.

if we did this, it would make it easier for investors to get into the market. many of us spend hours reading topics that are years old to see how the speculation pans out. this is great information. so read on, and maybe in a few weeks you can grasp which sets you should buy. have a good one!

All my packages arrived today. Was at Florida Legoland last week. If anyone doens't know, you can buy LEGO and ask them ship to your home from the LEGOLAND. for over $500, they only charge 5%.