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Finally built the sticker-EEE wasn't as bad as I thought it would be though. Looks great as a display piece.

Target - 2 Chima Temple 70010 sets, $28 & some change each minus 5% red card. Wal-mart - CMF 12 3 Unicorns & 3 hot dog guys for $21 and change. K-mart - T16 Skyhopper for $8 and change

Jeff, you should take a page from "Scotty". Multiple all of your estimated times by 4 so people think of you as a miracle worker. Example - "I'll have the latest update done in 8 days" and have it done in 2 Everyone else can chill out

I don't have any idea why you wouldn't have sold for 6K and just bought a new one for 4K. Safe bet to me. . .

^ I have to disagree. If you are purely in this for the money, then that 6K could have been put into a much better investment. Heck, I would feel better with 6K in the stock market than the MF at this point. If it is re-released, and the new one is better (Big if, I know) then I can see the price falling, and falling hard. Also you have to consider ho much higher will it go, and at what pace. Which would you rather have: 1 UCS Millennium Falcon or 28 X-Wings?1 UCS Millennium Falcon or 22 Ewok Villages?1 UCS Millennium Falcon or 35+ Modular Buildings?...I don't see how that is even close. Two years from now any of the three examples will have easily doubled in value. Will your Falcon be over $12,000 at that point?

pay no attention to the bashers of this set. it's all opinion anyway, no one can judge what the entire population thinks of it. one person hates it, another loves it. simple as that. i've stated before that this set has A LOT going on for it. this set has never been heavily discounted and rare to find discounts at all. i believe in it, but i'm just one OPINION. don't think you should horde them, but to get a couple, why not.

few 9493 $149.99 ea

Sold my first LEGO item on eBay today Winter Soldier for $15.00

The latest price guide update is still running (actually has a while to go). I always pick a few sets to go through and look at the data manually and run it ahead of time to see how the crawlers did. The price guide update will include all of May as well as June listings up to June 23rd. This will at least catch us up and get some of you a little more current than we were. I will update the other days next week sometime when the rest of June is available. Anyhow, the #10179 actually it the $4,000 mark last month and is still holding for June as well. I guess this could be because the latest version of the the Falcon is not a UCS killer. I also see that the SSD is creeping closer to the $800 mark. A few of the other sets like Town Hall, Haunted House, R2-D2 have not changed much. Maybe its summer time and as fall comes around, we will see more action on those. Hard to tell right now. It will be interesting to see if the MF will be able to stay at this level or continue to go up as the movie release nears.

So tempted to crack open another PC and build this looks excellent https://www.flickr.com/photos/f0nix/sets/72157647831463510/

honestly, don't even tell me, don't want to know, I am at work, and will not have time to look through it to much later tonight, i have a bunch of queries to run yet. I will try to remove the numbers. I need to change the process. I thought it would be somewhat helpful for people to see, but maybe not.

41099-1: Heartlake Skate Park. The vending machine in particular.

Actually, I built this set with my 4 year old son, and we had a lot of fun. The playability is quite cool. I like to think the building itself has its own value, with or without Smaug. Also to be considered, the Smaug maxifig won't live/last very long if played by children. It is way not as solid as a common minifig. People will certainly need a spare Smaug at some point!

How do you accidentally sell something?

It's an easy transaction. If you are comfortable w the profit go for it.

I think you are crazy I would have taken the $6k and said thank you have a nice day. $10k, well I will never say never, but I don't know about that unless you find "the one" (the one person that might have nothing better to do with their money and has no idea how to shop for a cheaper price)

That makes me feel better about having to pay up for my $400 used one that I got earlier this year

With the changes to selling new items at ebay requiring upc codes to list or relist items I thought it might be helpful to discuss the new policy and problems. These changes go into effect June 30th. Also if a member or group of members want to volunteer to start a master list of lego upc codes it could be very helpful to members...

I just updated a listing with new pictures today. I wondered what was going on there. I just selected "Does Not Apply", but I'm not sure if they'll eventually penalize for bypassing?

London Drugs presently has a 15% sale on all Lego. And until tomorrow June 30th, we get 25 CAD off for a purchase over 100 CAD when paying with Visa Checkout On top of this, you don't pay provincial taxes if shipping to a province where there isn't any London Drugs. Overall, it's not a bad deal at all, especially if you have some free shipping coupons (otherwise, free shipping is above 200 CAD). Better hurry though, the Visa Checkout promotion ends pretty soon.

I cannot imagine people forgetting about LOTR and Hobbit. Although me personally I would like to forget about them. This is not Lone Ranger we are talking about. These are quality sets.

I was shocked to find a decent in-shape box of a Jabba's Sail Barge at TRU. Used the 25% coupon and paid $90. Coupons didn't allow me to stack in any order... Ugh! Oh well, still a decent find

Probably not the best investment option available for long term investment. but if you can get them 40% off or better, you could still turn some decent profit in the shorter term (less than 1year). They have a short life span (3-6 mo) which is nice. The problem with them is they are hard to predict. S3 was way over produced and many are still available 3 months after retirement. It will likely be a while before they see any significant increase over RRP, if ever. However I am thinking that S4 may be a sleeper. Lots of people were scared off by the S3 over runs, including LEGO, retailers and resellers. Series 4 has sold out pretty quick in most places (other than orbitrons which are twice as common as any others). However with the early run on Series 5 we may again see an over production and hording in the long run.

heads are Gladiator http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3626bpb0603 and cole http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3626cpb0532 spares or sell as they are, tbh your not likely to get a lot for them.

I started the same discussion about this set back in March. I don't think that the surprise retirement in Europe does that much for this set. There was no demand for it before and I don't see much demand for it going forward other than for the Smaug minifig. I'm predicting a slow climb to $200 as soon as the patient resellers lock up all of the stock and price collusion is established. Even then, sales for this set will be a trickle. As the movies stretched out into three episodes, the interest level in the franchise waned significantly. I mean come on, even Lego got sick of it and outright cancelled the DLC for the third episode of the game and nobody seemed to notice or care. It's definitely worth buying a few sets and sitting back to see what happens but expectations should be curbed.

....somewhere in the LEGO IT headquarters: "Sven. Watch what happens to eBay when I click this button and make the Series 5 Mixles all switch to sold out!!" "Whoa...that's crazy"

Yes. The prices will be updated with information up to June 23/24 I believe. When Jeff gets the rest of June, he will run it again.

torso on the left is from GB Swimmer here: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=973pb1161c01 Military parts are probably from Brickarms.

Made it through bag 3 of The Tumbler yesterday. Only one missing piece so far. I'm not going to hassle the seller, I just replaced it with one of my own. Book 1 Book 2 Book 3

So who's gonna release me from my UCS Millenium falcon? It's on Brick-classifieds for only $3000,- http://www.brickclassifieds.com/products/10179-ucs-millenium-falcon-complete-with-instructions Extra pictures upon request.

For what it is worth... I just ordered 2 more. And... I am absolutely no Hobbit fan!

Welcome! You'll find that it's a disadvantage to be be an investor in SoCal with the price of gas and crazy high sales tax. Good deals at Walmart are extremely few and far between. I've actually never come across a single deal at Wally World. If you're near Legoworld Carlsbad, they do offer a 10% discount at all of the shops there including exclusives. That would offset the sales tax.

The mini-builds from all the Star Wars Advent Calendars might be a good place to start for ideas of little spacecraft to line up the board. Shoot, they could be having their own battles fighting while you do. That makes sense. Well if you do go with some type of base stand for each player piece, perhaps a slight variance of detail in the stand itself could be done to help signify the rooks for example from the rest. The stand idea I had was meant to be very simplistic (and cheap to Bricklink if you had to). It should be easy to dress up real fancy for display in a number of ways if anything to differentiate between the pawns, rooks, bishops, knights, and royalty (kings & queens). Funny how that was the one time the Stormtrooper could actually shoot something and multiple times at that!

Silver Skull Family - the youngest sister - the girl with the dragon tattoo by Minh Pham

"Please be brutal". Never thought I would hear a friend say that to me. Ha. ...Anywho, I do like how the main playfield has turned out and can see where you are going with all the side detail around the rim. I think the surrounding three-stud border should at least be tiled to completely smooth everything out nicely (maybe using white or black to further signify each half). I would agree with Locutus001 about "playing piece confusion" as other than the pawns, I can't really tell visually at a glance who is what aside from where they sit right now on the board in their starting positions. I understand the duo layout like Chewbacca with Han or C-3PO with R2-D2 though but right now the whole scene is confusing. Also slave Leia beside Luke is a little ...."not right". I mean being brother & sister, she should probably wear something warmer if you get my drift. Well since we are on the subject of Star Wars & chess (plus I just remembered), did anyone else play the Star Wars Chess game for PC and Sega-CD back in the day?

Nice. Having the box seems to really come in handy with this set for some reason. I have sold one with and one without for at least a $50 difference.

Glad I had one of these for a while, even if it was BL'd. Don't see myself ever owning one again at the rate it is still climbing. C'mon reissue!!!

I sold one of my $7 vulture droids (75041) for $25 on a local exchange today

Just my opinion so do with it as you like: Last year 10220-10229 with one exception (highly popular 10220) was retired. Would 10230-10237 be retired this year? With the possibility of an exception (my guess 10232). 10230, 10231, 10233 and 10235 have all been officially retired. That only leaves: PC, EV, SOH and ToO. I would also speculate 1-2 sets in the 10240-10249 range might get pulled as well. Everyone can guess for themselves on those sleepers.

Thanks feed! That is already helpful. Maybe this information will trigger his memory.

Anyone know who this little man is and from which set he originates? He was lost in the woods for about three years and he suffers fom amnesia.

kkkkkkrck. June twenty eighth two thousand fifteen...we have crossed into the profit. I repeat, we have crossed into the profit. Let us remember December seventeenth two thousand thirteen, the day when TRU ebay had these on a fire sale, as the day that we were so consumed with asking if we could, that we forgot to ask if we should. Full stop. kkkkkkrck.

Agreed. I have built each of the modulars since GE. PR wins. The details of the interior along with the roof. Slick. PC is a nice display piece, however. Gets a lot of attention from guests.

Just got Palace Cinema and am itching to build it. Will be interested to see how it compares to the other modulars. PR is definitely my favorite to date. An elegant design. Also, picking up a Giant Chess set Monday. I can't WAIT to build this one!

Personally, I try to buy him sets that are on sale. My son Max is 5.5 years old and is very smart and creative. That being said, he is also very destructive and completed LEGO sets do not last long in my house. He loves Hero Factory, Bionicle, STAR WARS and Chima sets, but especially the action figure like Hero Factory and Bionicle. Every kid is different and if your son is the type that takes care of his toys, then buy him the large sets. Mad Max on the other hand gets sets that can be ripped apart and put back together like some messed up Toy Story character. I won't waste my money on large sets. Those are for Daddy. LOL

I´ll provide an alternative prediction theory - Sets that have less than 5 pages of thread or no thread at all on this site before reaching SOLD OUT or RETIRED status are winners because they have flown under the radar of the horde. Case examples are Town Hall, Arctic Plane and Chi Lion Temple.

41053 -> Cinderella's Dream Carriage? Gone?

Have spent the last 18 months slowly ordering parts when I had extra money in the pp. Finally finished it today, no substitutions. Never built a modular before, it's really much nicer than I expected. Was thinking I would sell it but maybe not...

Edge & Son Modular Butcher Shop by Steve Price