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I lied to myself for years about the prequels. I had an intervention, sought therapy, and finally accepted reality. They are abysmal.

This only helps our cause.

Used/Complete w/ box Batman Tumbler 76023 $155-$25 (discount gift cards) = $130 on EBay This is my builder...

Hi, nice to meet you.

Well first you ask the kids in the store if you can buy theirs, then when that doesn't pan out you go find the 14-16 year old kids smoking in the parking lot and give them $5 each to go in for the build. You can only do that if you've successfully ran & sold a multimillion dollar company though... otherwise it's sketchy ethically speaking.

Hello all! I am the owner (Ralph Pitcher) of the displays listed. I would like to thank Ed for putting this listing together for me! He has been a great customer over the years! As for shipping we have shipped alot of these. To be honest we rarely have a issue. When there is a issue its usually a piece that comes apart inside. All of these are hand assembled so they end up not all being glued the same. As far as space currently we have about 95 skids which we could combine to around 75. Thats roughly 3x 53 ft trailers Figure each trailer is roughly 530sqft so that means you would need about 1600sqft if I am doing the math right? Shipping from Ohio out west full truck is $1500 or less. Maybe a little less maybe a little more. Anything I can help you with just ask. Thanks Ralph

i was informed by the detective in charge of the case that the perp got arrested today.

Dagobah Set Exclusive at SDCC 2015 Yes, please! Actually, this will be just as impossible (for me) to get at SDCC as the Celebration VII set. I'll be BL'ing this one as well.

Sorry...the answer was hotcakes. Hotcakes.

or you pay off teenagers or something like that, forgot how it exactly went

I scored a winter soldier poly for $8.95 shipped on eBay today

First off if I am responding slow I have had a lot of interest. I apologize. However I have decided to offer 5 of the Vader displays for an additional $4500 to who ever buys this lot. Further more if you only want the Legos thats fine... Price is the same but you only need two 53ft semis (Which ship almost anywhere for $1500ea. All the small Lego displays would fit in one 53ft trailer (589/24 Skids). The other 315 (25 Skids)I am sure would fit in other truck. I need to confirm how much space would be left over. I also have alot of parts from these displays which we sell regularly available to the buyer as well.

Ordered mine and used $100 airmiles cash! Buyin was about $51

The Mad Scientist reminds me of a Minion...

Lego is the most powerful toy brand in the world... They employ people specifically to design sets. The Cuusoo/Ideas was a way for them to engage the community and it's been pretty successful regardless of the sizing of the models produced. Lego is also out to make money. We might think some of those big sets are cool but Lego knows that just because 10k people voted for the firehouse for example, it's highly unlikely that more that a certain percentage would fork over that much cash... Way less risk and way more people will buy the small sets.

41053 Cinderella's Dream Carriage (used, no box and manual), old Christmas promo set 40083 (new sealed) and Parisian Restaurant (used with box and manual) all for $109. gonna build and see if all complete. But look thought the box seems like every pieces are there.

I personally like the last half of Attack of the Clones, and can tolerate most of Revenge of the Sith. I actually enjoyed seeing Yoda fight Christoper Lee, and almost the entire battle of Geonosis. The prequels aren't horrendous, but they are not "legendary". The CGI in the Geonosis sequence was very well done. Right now it's just "in vogue" to rip and rant about CGI, but I think they pulled off something great in that sequence. I still think that's one of the best battle action sequence ever done.

I think it makes sense that the prequel sets will be the ones to get hurt, and everything else will do fine. Every SW fan I know, including myself, does not actually consider the prequels to be SW movies. Seriously. We're always quoting lines from the OT, but the prequels might as well not exist. They are pure garbage. Goofy battle droids running around saying 'Roger, Roger'. A talking salamander with a speech impediment. Argh.

My kid wants 75093 SW Final Duel for his birthday next week. I've noticed it's disappearing from stores so I picked one up at Walmart a couple days ago at full price ($79 + tax) just in case I could do no better. Then today... I'm driving by the only TRU in town (the one that NEVER stacks coupons, or partial pays on Thursdays or anything) and thought, "Let's just check it out... maybe I'll use the 25% off coupon...). There was just the one sales person working up front... no checkout lines open... had to pay at the service desk. I took my 75093 to the desk ($84.99 + tax)... She: "Using your TRU credit card today?" Me: "Yes I am!" She: "OK... you saved 10%... thats $76.49 plus tax..." Me: "Wait a minute... can I use this coupon on my phone... the barcode that says "Bold Arrow" above it?" She: "Sure!... OK that's $57.37 plus tax... just swipe your credit card there..." Me: <swipe> ... partial pay $10... "I'd like to use this gift card on my phone, too..." (-14% more) She: "No problem!"... <scan, click, click>... "Thank you for shopping today!" So I'm out the door paying $50.65 plus tax. ... if I only had the balls to tack on the $5 off coupon, I could change my name to "exciter2"

EV might not be TH, but it isn't Kingdom's Joust either... not to mention plenty derided TH before it vanished.

I think it's gone for good within the next few months, certainly by year's end. I also think there are better investments out there, including every SW exclusive (except EV) that's come out since R5.

Count me as disappointed. I feel like that figure should have been a general release, not a limited edition.

My first Parisian Restaurant from Toysrus.com for $95 after using some rewards and discount gift card.

Yes, they are in Ohio. Ralph said he would break it up into smaller lots, but he is moving into a new warehouse and these need to be cleared out by July 1, so time is of the essence. If a team of members want to put together a plan to unload all the displays at one time that would be picked up, I'm sure he would consider it.

Firing employees. I hate it, I've had to do it on many occasions over the years. Even with cause it never gets any easier.

why can't lego just make a minifig scaled version

Yeah! My LEGO "Karate Kid" dance chase/fight MOC will finally become a reality.

Thanks for the warning. All I am saying is 3 pcs of these sets for me is something I can manage if the bubble pops. For others it can be 1 or 10 pcs. Depends on your financial position. Just do not put your future financial position at risk by buying 20 pcs of something that you cannot afford or accept from yourself to loose.

Arkham is doing quite well. Lowest on amz is $315 shipped, nearly double mspr in 9 months after retirement. Thinking the Tower will double even quicker is very optimistic in the current climate. Plenty of people are going to be happy to make $100 on this set, just as they are with arkham. I think there are more Batman fans buying legos than there are lotr fans too. As far as less stored, who really knows. Tower has been getting mass horded for months now. Every time is comes into stock investors wipe it out. When like this on target and amz for months, now with LEGO Shop at Home. Arkham vanished pretty quickly, never really did the dance like this. If the tower lingers for a few more months it could really be heavily horded if it's not already. fwiw both are good investments.

Story behind the change.. http://news.lugnet.com/lego/?n=1791 in the pic below,the newer gray (bley) bricks are on our right.

"Old" grey was last used in 2003/2004 ish. New bluish grey has been used since. This is true for both light and dark grey. Old grey will look dirty, almost yellow compared to new grey that definitely has a fresher look to it. A most welcome change to lego grey if you ask me.

As we don't have a "What set did you take apart today" thread I'll put this here, today I disassembled and cleaned a 75% built QAR from a recent bulk lot, the rest of it is already sorted out. So I will put it back together tomorrow, take a few pictures, then take it apart again. I think this will be my eighth or ninth QAR, at this point I can nearly build it without the instructions. This is probably my favorite set that I have built, just a very well designed ship.

TLG bean counters may be smarter than us. By sacrificing a single set (TH) they have guaranteed a half decade of resellers and collectors buying the market dry afraid of missing the next TH. Bravo TLG, bravo.

Finished up the DS last night. I started it 6-8 weeks ago, shortly after I finished Robbie House. I did box 1 over a week, and box 2 over the next week. I was hugely disappointed and eventually stopped building completely. Last night I moved my desk and decided to trudge through the build over the next 2 weeks and get it done. Box 3 ... "wait, this isn't so bad". "Well, this is a cool feature". "Neat!" "WOW what a cool technique" (prison). Go to box 4. "OMG ITS ALIVE" "DEATH RAY!" "TRENCH RUN GUNS!" "That was a great build!" And then I realized something. Robbie House was such a soul sucking experience for a builder with OCD that is completely burned me out. Wish I had waited to start DS and I would have probably enjoyed the whole thing. O-well, I will always have floors 3 and 4 to remember fondly. I still think SSD has more WOW factor displayed, but DS is a great finished product. (No, I still wouldn't invest much into it)

Was fortunate to have the day off work today so I built the Ferris Wheel. Enjoyed the build, was repetitive but knowing that going into it made it OK and learned some new techniques which were cool. In real life the colors are more vibrant - especially the trans-clear yellow and orange pieces - and I am not bothered by the color scheme seeing it in real life. Took about 4.5-5 hours to put together and really pleased overall.

​Like this?

Built this little R2-D2 buddy. Very quality build, the head was definitely most satisfaction. Wish I could bring him everywhere with me. He's a noisy little guy. Constantly beeping sarcastic quips at our television. Also has a tendency to save the day. Meep!

Both are great suggestions - I am going to play around with some of those tomorrow. In the few hours since I first posted the set has been growing on me after swooshed it around my living room (never too old to do this once and a while) after watching the Belmont Stakes race. It really does look good in flight mode.

​I thought they'd keep the Delorean around because this year is the 30th anniversary of BttF and it's the year that Marty travels to in BttF II. I doubt the new GB movie will have any effect on the duration of the Ecto's license.

Winter solider? Pah. In the uk we get this!!! http://shop.lego.com/en-GB/LEGO-Friends-Free-Gift #winning

Here's a vid on how to make the piano if anyone is interested seeing it got denied.

I enjoyed the Kwik-E-Mart so much that I bought and built the Simpsons house last night/this morning. Has been fun binging on the Simpsons and watching the Simpsons World shows on the FX app while building....

We caught vandals on video wrecking our Christmas light display and breaking into the make a wish donation box (empty at the time). The cops came out for the report. Sent a message to one of the local news stations. At 5pm, all of the major network news stations were reporting live with their vans parked on the street. The video was everywhere now. A couple of weeks later, the young girls who were caught on video went to work and their coworker friends let them know about the coverage. They saw the news videos and turned themselves in to the police. The monetary damage wasn't great so the cops told me on the phone after talking to the girls that likely charges would not be filed but the girls didn't need to know this if he wanted to drive them over to my house and try to scare them straight with a restitution plea. So they brought them over and they each made a donation to make a wish and I got the officer to chuckle when I told the girls, "Since you clearly have experience in taking down the display, you can help me take it down this weekend." They did and they turned out to be decent young adults who just got way too drunk and lost proper judgement. I ended up hiring one to help put some display pieces together the following year. And one of the news stations ended up doing a follow up. So, never underestimate the power of the news stations in solving these cases. We have had package thieves as well in our area and one home owner caught them on video and the local stations ran it for a week. Having the media cover it also puts pressure on the local police to solve it. The day after our vandals were on the news, I heard a radio commercial for crime stoppers describing our case! And I wouldn't worry about retaliation. Afterall, they will know you have their picture and they would be suspect #1 if something should happen. They will want to stay off the radar and hope things pass and none of their friends rat them out.

Exo suit, B wing, Chima fire bikes. All great

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!!

The Bat-pod is a bit crude looking, but it's better than this:

​I was thinking the same thing....and Lego will have a short list of 750 people who won one.

​ EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE To be honest i was really dissappointed that the tumbler didnt have an option for this to 'pop-out' of it. Now i'm dissappointed i won't be getting one anyway 750 copies? Not likely.