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This was from the tub I bought last weekend. Took forever to find all the pieces in the tub but I finally finished it tonight. It was worth it, much cooler than I expected. I ordered a manual off bricklink to make it easier to sell but I kind of want to keep it now

stop Raptor time...

that was me. Thanks for the fast shipping and quality packaging. I finally decided to finish my Lone Ranger collection. I was too late in getting back in to Lego to buy these all at the nice clearance prices.

Now they are just messin with us Man!! I looked on there a minute ago, and it said "Still Sold Out". And right after that: "Nah, just kidding." And finally: "Got your nose."

I've seen this bit posted a few times about licenses on the license for individual sets within a licensed theme. I highly doubt there are license agreements for every set within a line. I would imagine that as long as TLG has the license to a produce sets for Star Wars, they have the ability to decide how long they are going to produce a particular set. Otherwise it would have gone something like, " Hey, George, it's Mark over at LEGO. Yea, about that UCS B-wing, it sucks. Do you mind if we pull the plug a little early on that one?"

The best way to eat it in front of the computer or if you're on the go.

And that's the key. As long as you follow an strategy with the sets you like (say, I'll buy 5 TOO by the time it reaches 2 years on the shelves or whatever), retirement talk shouldn't matter too much. The idea is to have your target amount before the thing goes, and once you really believe it is about to be retired, make the decision to try and get more if you can. The difference is that once you reach your target goal, whether you get more or not shouldn't matter. Buying more would be a positive, but failing to would not be a disaster. As with any investment, you can make tactical deviations from these. If you believe RE will be very unique or whatever, then buy some and be comfortable with the risk. I'm not the first to say this by any stretch of the imagination, but it's good to bring it up every so often.

The motherload. These 10 have been lingering for about 2 weeks now.

I couldn't resist opening one and building it (I ordered two) and it is a great little build - the stand for the plane is awesome! Lots of stickers but very unique.

So... I can never fly Lufthansa. If my kid got one of those, I'd have to make a deal with him... "Do you really want to open that?... I'll give you an Ezra's Speeder Bike when we get back from vacation, if you just give that to me now..."

My wife's brother and his family have lived in Poland for the last 7 years. They are currently visiting and staying with us while they are here. Their flight was Lufthansa from Germany, which handed this poly out to the kids on board. Before I knew my niece had this, I've been building Lego with her, and gave her a 30188 Cute Kitten, and a 30285 Tiger to take home. She then surprised me with the Lufthansa bag as a gift. Lego is always the best universal gift to give.

Or maybe the brick separator is retired?

Built the Shuttle Tydirium last week, and it's now my new favorite non-exclusive Star Wars kit. All it needed was a stand, so I bricklinked the parts I needed so the stand is as new and shiny as the rest of it. Beautiful kit for those of you (like me) who do not have the UCS version.

Didn't we collectively decide that TMNT was an investment flop.......someone didn't get that memo I guess?

Well now I want one. ;-)

So.. you know. Thought I'd build it and make a little scene

I have to admit, after watching each review I was getting more and more excited about this line. The other nice thing is you can display all of these together with one of each of the gang and it'll flow nice as if it was a single scene from a movie.

Annoyed these still aren't showing up on TRU.com. I want to use my 25% off coupon combined with my 10% CC discount with the big sets this coming TRUTH. Hope they're in stock still.

Put me down. Ill play again. Need to redeem myself.

Want to build the Maersk EEE?

Indeed. I still have the originals in those big boxes PC games used to come in. I shall try to find more of the little guys then.

I think all the 2014 sets are going to fare well. My personal ranking of the sets for investments are as follows: #1 The Cave- enormously popular set. Lead off set for the minifigure theme. I just saw a kid walking out of walmart with one today. These are almost never on shelves. I always take note when I see actual end users buying stuff. On sale right now at 25% off at many retailers, use GC and rewards to boost your discount. I have 50 The Caves and would love to have another 50. I am optimistic giving the continuing growth of minecraft that this set will get to $75-80 within 15 months of EOL and possibly even quicker than that just because of inherent demand. Because of competition at this price point with the new set, part me thinks this is done soon. still, The Cave is so popular its almost stupid to kill it too quick. i think when the first wave does get retired, this will be one of the first to disappear. #2 Crafting Box - 8 different builds. great reviews @ shop at home. seems like it will be a must have and the type of set that people might want multiple copies of post EOL. see this easily getting to $100-120 within a year of EOL. i try to have 1 of these for every 4-5 caves. Not sure that this one is going anywhere anytime soon - price point is unique and seems like it could be around for another year my gut tells me. #3 The Mine - flagship largest set. hard to know how well it will do but if it retires early 2.5x MSRP is not an unreasonable goal but I would have at least 15 Caves for everyone 1 Mine. this one has mediocre demand because of its price and is in stock everywhere even with discounts. i don't think this one is going anywhere anytime soon. no replacement on the horizon. #4 #5The Farm and The First Night - both of these sets are about equal in my mind - I would have 1 of each for every 5 caves I have. I'm not sure which of these will get the axe but there are similar piece count/price point sets in the 2015 wave coming out so wouldn't be shocked that these get the axe. probably these will have slightly better medium term performance compared to the Mine, especially if the Mine lingers. 3-5 are about the same prospects to me - they will do well post EOL. #6 Ender Dragon - this is the real standout loser of the series. you could still get this set all throughout the holiday season last year at msrp. its been discounted throughout its life and still is a sales loser if you look at the brickpicker stats. I would not touch this set for anything more than $35-40. you can take the contrarian play but past performance and demand predicts this will be the loser of the first wave. your better off putting your money in more Caves than this set.

PANIC!!!

MFZ - 41515, 41516, 41517 (alternate model) by Wm Bryon Duncan

so they also suckered you into this set? I also picked up 3 more using $20 in VIPs. Ha I know the Raptor molds costly to make but $40 for this set is insane. So small. Think about it...for another $10 more, you get the Raptor Rampage (2 raptors including Blue, 2 main movie chars, bike, etc...). That is one of the reasons I'm not buying many of this set. Currently, I think resellers are the main reason for the spike in-demand and we might be stuck with these sets 2 years down the road because resellers won't be wanting more (ala Orc Forge and most other recent Walmart / target exlucives)

It was limit 5 at LEGO Shop at Home about 3 weeks ago it changed to limit 1.

It was hard to resist. I backed out of the final checkout twice before I committed.

I had to buy a snicker bar, a PAYDAY bar and a pack of gum so I could disguise my 17 RE on the belt. I proly lost money on the trip.

So yesterday I got my Meijer credit card bill. With the Meijer promotion for spending way too much money with them I got a 15% off all General Merchandise coupon. You have to spend $1500 on your credit card to get one of these coupons. You have to use your Meijer Credit Card to cash it in. You can probably see where this is going... Oh, and it stacks with the 15% mperks discount they are giving through tomorrow on all general merchandise ... Oh, and both offers stack on top of Clearance items... That is the good news, the bad news is I am now $500 closer to my next award because I went "investing" today. As I tell my wife, I am buying Legos for investment purposes only. :-) Three 79018 (The Lonely Mountain) - $79.83 each Retails at 129.99, Meijers Clearance at 110.49. 15% mPerks discount to 93.92 , 15% discount for CC purchase $79.83 - There are still some at the Mt. Clemens and Fraser Meijers at 110.49. I bought the best three I could find at Fraser as this set is basically disappearing from the retail stores around Detroit. (walmart and Target have none, Meijers is mostly out and TRU has some at TRU prices). They also had the 75032 (x-wing) and 75030 (falcon) clearing at 15% off so final price was $6.14 a piece on these (with additional discounts). Bought the last four falcons and two x-wings they had. Next up was the Battle of the Five Armies - 79017. This one was clearing at 44.99 with additional discounts and coupons it was down to $32.50. LAst one they had and the only one I have seen in eight Meijers in the area. I went to the Fraser store because I thought I remembered them having one of these from a week ago. They did and now I have another. For the heck of it I threw in a Ninjago 70727 x-1 Ninjago Charger. Not a big fan of the Ninjago series but I do like to have them in the annual garage sale. The final price was 21.67 and I don't have any so now I have one. But One I will flip at some point for a 25 to 30% profit (I Hope) Next on the list was a 60035 Artic Outpost. I did not have one of these so I added one to the collection so I can start working on the complete Artic set. I already had base camp so for a total of $30.70 I have expanded the collection and made a step towards completing the Artic subtheme. With all the hobbiting going on I had to add two witch battles (79015) at $9.20 each. For under $10 and with the three figures in the set I don't think I can go wrong by adding a few more of this set to the collection. And last but not least, have to add some Star Wars Rebels to the collection. Meijers lists the 75078 Imperial Troop Transport for $12.99 but had $3.00 off that price today so with discounts, etc. I was getting those at 7.22 each. I know it is early in the run for these items but when I can pull Star Wars at 40% or more off retail I have to make the buy. I bought three because I was pushing the limits already. I left a few on the shelves. I had to put some stuff back. AATs, Guardians of the Galaxy, small artic sets. There will hopefully be better opportunities in the future for these but at this point I had to let it go. I got the three Lonely Mountains I came for and the rest was just gravy. Too much gravy can sometimes ruin the meal. I think three lonely mountains at 38.5% off retail is a pretty good meal (er... deal)

Brickset shows $349.99 for Canada, $299.99 for US

7965 MF for $230 shipped ...

I see you forgot to factor in the saturated fat in that snickers bar which is gonna raise cholesterol and expenses even more with doctor copay, prescriptions, and lesser quality of life. These lego shopping trips are just plain tearing you up financially and medically:)

No i dont let an oil change factor into my decision to buy a lego set that has doubled in price. Or the snickers bar I ate on my trip. Do i deduct for taxes yes. My bank account says it is making me money, that is all I facfor in. But I only owned the set for 2 days so it cant be worth money unless i let it sit on my shelves for 3 years like all the other exclusives that never retire.

I definitely agree with holding on to these. I know Amazon fees are better because I can ship a box of 20 of these to Amazon FBA for $8. That's .40 for shipping. That is the big difference between Amazon and eBay. I don't factor gas and all that because it is fun. It is definitely a gamble to sell now or wait it out but either way they will be worth it.

Where I live I sold 10 in one day for 75+ thats definitely not $5 profit per set. Dont know if the exchange rate is different where you live but 40$ set selling for 75+ is not bad.

Got 2 for 582 taxes in... Actually got to leverage that free prime membership! I wonder how many they got left...

Amen brother! All newbies pay attention to this.

ok back to sold out and theme gone again. it's pandemonium!! until a set officially says "retired", i'm going to stop caring and watching.

Got this from ebay today. Am really surprised to see the pilot minifigure torso is actually a sticker and not printed - is that common? Regardless I love this polybag. When I was a kid my family lived in Europe and we flew Lufthansa often and I remember loving the long plane rides from California and they always gave my younger brother and I cool toys and flying kits.

no need to be sorry. i was just making a general statement. my example of 10188 could have been a placeholder for pretty much any set available currently.

Lays night a cashier I've had once or twice before saw me and said "Ahh, it's lego day!", which I initially wrote off as being a comment about the 3 boxes I was buying. Then she said "have your rewards card? of course you do!"....hmmm...getting more familiar. Then as I was leaving, "see you next Thursday!" Seems as though she has me pegged

Maybe the two pieces just did not fit in the new smaller box?

Looks like there are close to 100 sellers on amazon for this set... It's going to be a while before this one does anything, I think. But this is the first exclusive of the year that I think is officially "retired", because once they removed the Lord of the Rings link from their site, that was a telling sign that it is not coming back, and I suspect it will get a retirement tag soon. This set did have a nice slow phaseout though, but it will be interesting to see how many resellers are still on ebay and amazon by years end. If there are still 80 or more, then I think it's going to be one of those sets to stash deep in the closet. Personally, I think this is the coolest set lego has done and by far one of my absolute favorite sets made.

same size box as original - I saw these in store a while back with new expert logo - definitely in store before all of the glitches. (London store)

Agreed - the F40 is the cleverest, tightest build I've ever assembled from Lego. It is pure magic the way the designer has aligned so many separate surfaces that are adjacent yet connected to different parts of the set. And this set looks so much better than the box art. All around, a beautiful model and a great build. The designers should be proud. Agreed - this needs to happen.

Built the F40 last night. I know that it appears many here dislike it but it is a very nicely thought out build. Lots of clever use of clips to connect panels and pieces and building in multiple directions; made me think of paneling techniques used in the Blue Power set's jet. The air ducts on the hood are cleverly designed - they are clipped on to a horizontal bar inside the section after being built inwards facing each other

What do all these young kids call it, TBT. 6195 Neptune Discovery Lab (picked up for $30US)

Built the F40 today, as other reviews have stated there are some really interesting building techniques and I really enjoyed putting this together. I think it looks pretty cool as well.

Local Walmart had 5 SW Cantina's on the shelf for $49 and I asked if they had anymore - manager came out - showed me how many they had left. I bought all 20. Told me there is 14 more at the Walmart across town, i'll stop there on my way to work in AM. 2 quick pics. Pics are of the box ones, loose ones still in back of truck.

79107 Comanche Camp79108 Stagecoach Escape79109 Colby City Showdown$99 shippedshipping cost me $6.88 Priority Mail