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Here's the same effect with two identical PS boxes--one with 15R5 seal codes and one from R4. Boxes are exactly the same size in real life.

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​They can still be purchased separately. Including them only drives up the price and makes it less accessible to buyers, so I can see why they wouldn't do it.

I think it's a huge mistake not to include Power Functions on this set. If any set requires it, it is this one.

41, married man, 3 kids: 13+9+7. Computer Professional and University Lecturer. recently Interested in Lego innovation and I wish to do some cool technic ideas and also Lego Mindstorms + Matlab projects. I'm also trying to establish a Lego business for my wife but it is not so easy to start. But never giving up. I'm currently collecting more parts, practicing with Technic and reading few books. My oldest daughter is a Lego fan, this is here first house after buying a pile of white bricks and roof slopes (with other parts we already have)

The June calendar shows a picture of the Ferris Wheel and says build the Ferris Wheel the star of the Fairground. So it does appear that Lego is planning a fair theme.

​The best rates you'll get for shipping are Expedited Parcel with Canada Post. I'd love to hear if someone else has a cheaper way (that isn't borrowing from your company's corporate rate). The key to shipping is to get the right size boxes. Since Canada Post uses dimensional rates for anything larger than a ring box (or so it seems), don't follow their advice to have 4" of empty space on each side. Shipping a full size set like a modular should cost between $22-$30 depending on how far it's going. Following their recommendations you'll be about $40-$50 for a box that size. The good news about that is that shipping box sizes like the SSD isn't really much more than shipping Pet Shops despite them weighing a ton (or tonne).

Both HH and GE have - and will - perform fantastically well. It's a fool's errand to try and pick which one you "should have" invested in with 100% hindsight. Each of these sets is a clear winner, and you didn't make a bad choice in investing in either. You'll drive yourself crazy in this game if you try to retroactively question your portfolio with "what if" questions". Heck, with what I know today I wish I had invested every dollar I had in NIB sealed Market Streets. Worth about $1500 today, with an initial buy-in of $90. Percentage wise, they've done even better than the holy grail Millenium Falcon and Grand Carousel.

"De Spar" supermarket with apartment upstairs by aloisvonesterhazy

Wow, are we hardcore fans or what...this box size 'comparison' pic might go viral like that silly blue vs gold dress thingy on youtube lol. Soon all the talk shows will be discussing this

Everyone be like "buy buy buy" and I'm over here like "build build build".

10030 was a 2002 set and was available until at least some time in 2005 (I'm not sure what Brickset has it listed as). Light gray was replaced with light bluish gray in 2004. The set was produced in both colors. It was actually fairly common during the switch to find sets that had both old and new versions of the replaced colors in the same set.

Also got some bricklink orders in the mail, just 4 more pieces and this baby is done.

10244 - Fair Ground Mixer Damaged box @ the Lego Store Regular Price + Regular VIP Points + 500 VIP Points for box being damaged + 2 Free Kai Drifters

​You need to be familiar with GDad's posts to understand his particular take at sarcasm.

I heard that TLC is now banning LEGO Shop at Home accounts based on how frequently users check the in stock status of PS and PC. More than once a week raises a red flag. Twice a day = ban, or so a little bird told me this morning...

While I wait to apply elements to smooth out the dome (been sitting in a bag for 6 months), here's a "quick fix".

No mentioning of power functions on the box. If you look closely at the picture provided earlier, you can figure out that that are 2 wheels on each side driven by one single main axle to rotate the ferris wheel. The mechanical structure (90 degrees joint to connect the vertical axes with horizontal ones and of course gears) is on the right, beneath the wheel on the ground floor. I bet you can rotate the wheel by hand at the right back-side but I also think that it will be possible to apply technic power functions to motorize it. It would definitely be a big plus in my opinion :-)

​Did you try filtering on "Topic" instead of "All Contents". I believe those are older blog posts that have been reindexed

I don't where the $250 came from but any source I've read said closer to $200 (US) and €250. That seems reasonable considering all the Technic gears & pins included and should place it in the same ballpark for what all the Fairground Mixer came with.

You mean if you wanted to purchase a new set from LEGO's website which time zone do they adhere to generally? I've never really thought about it but now I'm curious.

Kinda sorta what I expected--the box size "difference" is a optical illusion created by the camera angle (the owner of the photo states they are the same size). The other differences are attributable to language. Not sure how meaningful this is.

I think now would be a terrible time to sell it. The time to sell was when the movie was at its peak but now wait for the 2nd one to be released. It looks like they peaked at about $800 but now going for about $400.

​That will be the one I sent back to lego shop europe as I just got a refund from them after returning the set more than a month ago

​Wow, congrats on the R2 shipping notice. Keep them in a safe place

@ Locutus: Schön, mal wieder etwas von dir zu lesen. Meinen Post, den Ensche bezüglich May the 4th meint, findest du übrigens hier. Falls du noch mehr wissen möchtest, dann gib mir einfach Bescheid. Ansonsten bin ich ganz Ensches Meinung: Da ist nichts Spektakuläres dabei. Ich werde wahrscheinlich aussetzen. Das neue Layout ist mir relativ egal, weil ich eh immer über diesen Link ins Forum einsteige. Alles chronologisch sortiert, man kann bei jedem Thread direkt zum neusten ungelesenen Post springen - für mich perfekt.

​I guess the Fat Lady didn't sing.....yet.

So this thing may not even make it 2 years. I have been ignoring it and getting Tower Bridges. $320 is a tough pill to swallow but if it's going this soon it should do very well. In for my first one. Damn this site...

Awesome! I've been unloading most of my bulk. I don't know why. I've has lost the will to sort.... I'm cherry picking some stuff to save though.

​Shipping a full size set like a modular should cost between $22-$30 depending on how far it's going : DEPENDS also form which Province you live in .. nearer or not from the border, to the State or Country your shipping to , Cheaper Quebec to Ontario than to BC .. Cheaper from BC to ship to Australia than From Quebec add also the provinces tax... just my 2 cents ... Yes Canada Post is the cheapest "highest" solution, yes size of the box need to be just ok ...

The seller is obviously not being truthful. The legs come in white. There's no way that came out of the package with bkack legs.

Mail came today, but it seems that purolator has misplaced a box with 10 x 60074 bulldozer and 10 x 60075 excavator and truck. Hopefully it just got delayed :/

​depends on where you are ordering from. but following have been my experience: a. if one orders quantities closer to the listed limit (its likely that one is going to be short on the count). for example if the seller has 2X4 black 3020 available 120 and the order is also 120. its fairly possible with likely outcome that its going to be short. b. high volume items like pins mostly will be shorted. eg. if the order for 3000 parts. then its fair that it would be short few numbers. but not always. some sellers have actually sent me few hundred more on 1000s orders. overall in my experience mostly they are short than over :) last but not the least i have found a lot of sellers (more than 10 so far in my purchases from over 200+ sellers) that they would ship the item short on count and some tell you and refund you. some don't tell you anything but refund you the same day you receive the item. very few actually (only 1 of 200 so far) who sent me a message saying hey we are short the count does this change anything on the order... i have been buying from that person ever since. have ordered over few thousand worth of parts.

LEGO might send you the correct piece or replacement Chicken Suit Guy.

Placed 3 orders with SaH to maximize free drifters. 1 Exo Suit + handful of discount S3 Mixels (to gain free shipping) 1 PC (already updated as backorder) 1 TB

And it still has the correct leg printing? I'm pretty sure something is amiss here. Even the fake ones don't have black hips.

By the way, it is in the site rules that if you win a Bat-Pod, they are automatically awarded to Ed and myself. It's just the way it is. I will say Thank you in advance!!

​I'll pay to watch that

Sorry to hear that. Here's a bit of advice. I rarely use my debit card. The only time I use it is if I need money from my bank's ATM. If there's fraud on your debit card, it takes directly from your checking account and getting reimbursed is a little hard. I use my credit cards for everything. The cc's fraud department is very good about reversing fraudulent charges right away, and since the cc isn't linked to your checking account, you're not out any money while you wait for the charges to be reversed. Back to the complaint thread: Why are Magna-tiles so damn expensive!! I found a super deal on craigslist a while back and both my kids (7 and 2) love them and play with them the most out of all the toys they have (even Lego). I want to get more but have yet to see another deal on them.

It`s a huge risk, not a discouragement, just something to keep at the front of your mind. If you`re supporting yourself/family/etc and of course need a guaranteed income, you`re going to need a much bigger initial investment portfolio to begin with. When you do this part time on the side as perhaps supplemental income, you`re basically risking extra money, when you attempt to do this or anything similar for a living, you`re risking your livelihood. It shouldn`t be taken lightly, not saying anyone is, just saying though. Very rough estimate (very rough, really), but if you want to bring home $60k in a year in profit as income, you`re going to need to sell in the ballpark of at least $200-250k in sales. Your numbers of $80k are not realistic if you`re referring to sales. Remember, you have an initial investment of (X # of $) that must be recouped as part of the sales. Then you have selling fees (round up to 14-15% for Ebay and Paypal for example). People overlook this, it`s a common mistake, but a very dangerous one to make all the same. If you buy $50k worth of sets and sell them on Ebay for $100k. On paper, you might say you have doubled your money. Not so fast. Here is what it would actually look something like: $100k sold - 15% ($15,000) in fees = $85,000. $85,000 - 20% (for example) in taxes ($17,000) = $68,000 There, you`ve got $68,000. Oh wait, not so fast, remember you put in $50k to buy those sets, so we must recoup the initial investment. $68k - $50k = $18k You`re left with $18,000 cleared after an initial input of $50k. The general number tossed around here on BP and in this thread already is that 30% return is realistic. I agree, it absolutely is. You can see that right here, little bit more, but the above doesn`t take into account packing material or anything like that, so 30% is pretty close. Sure, you doubled your money in gross sales with 50K invested, but you have fees and taxes to account for. Not to mention any packing materials, tape, labels, printer paper, boxes, etc, etc. Very rough analysis but you see the issue. If you want $60k cleared after fees, taxes, etc, you`re looking at 250K a year in gross sales at a minimum, actually $350-400k or more, because you are not going to sell 100% of your initial investment. It doesn`t happen, sets will sit and sit at times and not sell, others will move very fast, you have to account for this. And that assumes you make 100% (double) off of your initial investment (which would be $125k) using the above analysis. It`s by no means complete, there are other factors to consider, and you could do it with less investment and a higher ROI instead, but if you want to quite or day job and be successful you`ve got to take a very long hard look at the numbers. Read what is written here and on the site, plenty of discussion around this topic of going solo/full time. You can be very successful, but it`s not easy, and you have to be very careful, otherwise a slight oversight could end up costing you quite a lot.

​that number of capital is way over estimated for what is needed to hit 60k a year in profit. Our LEGO sales for last 90 days 2234 items $85,779 sales we run right about 20% clear after fees / shipping. LEGO is only a small portion of our overall business but we never run anywhere near 500k in inventory. Not even a 1/3 of that. just for that quarter the estimated profit would be $17,155. For ease of numbers if those numbers stayed the same for all 4 quarters you'd be at $68,620 in profit before taxes. Obviously 4th quarter will be much higher, usually double to triple the slower quarters. Biggest issue you will have is sourcing that many deals / sales to keep the inventory up for a solid year. This month we actually tried a more wholesale volume based experiment and hit 890 items with $51,643 in sales for the last 30 days. Personally being one person I could not keep that level of purchasing volume up with worthy deals being harder and harder to acquire to keep that pace going year round. The inventory is always flipping so your overall capital is not readily rising much. You're constantly buying as you are selling. You would need at least 100-150k though to have any legitimate shot of doing these numbers. You will need help of others to achieve that much volume of sets to reach those sets. Most people will not be able to come close to doing it out of one area. I have a few good friends on BPer and without them I would not achieve the volume of sales needed to make it worthwhile on a larger scale

​Hey! I'm only half as sensitive and twice as dumb as most Canadians, so if you need to say it, just do it. "Hey thirsty you dumbA$$, what kinda retard buys 70k in Lego without actually testing his home market out?" Well Migration, I'm glad you asked. I am Albertan, which means I have way more $$$ than brains and twice more ballz!!! But seriously, I just love Lego that much and bought a good pile of it on sale at Target for like half off or with gift cards from Sears, etc... Ya ok. Nobody needs 10 Grand Emporiums, but those are kind of obvious... So anybody sell 6866's on Amazon for big chesse or what? Or maybe a whack of Orc Forge's??? What about 70702? I got five of those for like $9 and change. Where would my fellow Canadian brickpickers get rid of those?

Back on topic, the Ferris Wheel is purty.

It is motorized. You can see the drive wheel here...

New item to hit the sales/flip goal. 79003 - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Gathering - EBay free ship - $110

​I was busy buying my 25 back when they were at MSRP. How many have you purchased at 100%-200% MSRP like you you've done with SSD, TH, etc.

Here's what our shop looked like 2 years ago. Much more crammed in now!

Just looking at all those stickers makes me anxious. I suck at putting on stickers.

To me, the ban seems pretty arbitrary & random based on the stories read on here in the past. No definitive pattern on what triggers the initial warning, other than the obvious blatant over-purchasing by some. If the multiple promos were a trigger, I should've had at least a warning months ago. I mainly only purchase from LEGO Shop at Home to get the promos & I've done the 2 purchases in a row that DNIIM mentioned on more than one occasion & not a word from them (knock on wood b/c I do like the promos!). What if I have 2 or 3 kids (only have 1 at the moment), are they supposed to share one Darth Revan? Maybe this thread will help decipher a pattern, but the fact that Lego is spending money (man hours) to track customers down to prevent them from spending money is a head scratcher for me.

Ha great work Ed. Got something to shoot for now.