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Did something a little different. I purchased one of the kits designed by Chris McVeigh. I asked if I could do a video of one of his sets and he graciously accepted. Enjoy.

Did you have to blow into the little slot before putting the game in? Always worked for me.

Some people have $600-$800 a month to live from. So do not worry.

Picked up another 20 AT-AT 75054 today. got a nice shipment of XMAS legos today too -- this is just a quick picture 2 rows deep. mixed

I had someone ask me for some pictures of my 10179 wall mounted and directed him to this thread, but he told me the pictures were broken/not found.. and so they are! Maybe the forum move broke/lost them or wherever i hosted them from (can't remember) had a problem. I've taken a couple new photos as i can't find the old ones. I have not touched the thing in almost a year now. It shows no signs of warping or anything. Still the best display piece i have imo. everyone we have over loves it. I can't edit my OP to re-include them; so i'll just add them here. If a mod wants to/can move them to the OP that would be great (not sure that's possible).

http://www.boredpanda.com/lego-figures-photography-samsofy-pardugato/ haha

Hey guys just checked Smyths toys and their having a clearout on click and collect only so they might have some sets in your local store. Mainly on Movie sets and Chima, I just picked up 5 Phoenix Temple's £50 each, another 4 Benny's spaceship at £50 (they have been cheaper but still a descent price) and a set I never thought I'd buy but for £30 each I picked up 4 Movie dropships. So check the stock in your local store and worth a punt if there in stock. Oh and be quick it's not on Hotdeals yet!

I think that's the main reason prices have dropped is that lego is showing a release date in the near future, so it's a current race to the bottom until it hits RRP. For how long, and how much new stock is the unknown, but they'll probably be around the lego stores, lego shops, and trickle in and out of retailers through the digital release of the film, i'd suspect. I've already boxed up and sealed a majority of the extras I bought and placed them deep in my closet to let them sit for a few years. Simply, time to move on to scooby and episode 7 and forget about it. I'm convinced, while these could be very popular over christmas, that battling with the undercutters all looking to score 15.00 on a set isn't worth the hassle, as they will be worth a lot more in the future once these retire, which i'd suspect will have about a year run and by next year will be gone.

whoa whoa whoa, those hold times are reserved for one member and one member only....

You still have yet to greeble the wall to look like the back of the bridge of a Star Destroyer. Tsk tsk.

Wow, It's the first time in a while I had to scroll down a couple of pages to find this thread...

10181 Eiffel Tower, open box-sealed bags.

I like the tractor.

Shot through the heart....and raven is to blame.

To me, Slave I trumps Tumbler, but I think they're basically a tie. Boba Fett is uber popular and this Boba is the best made. If I have to choose, I'd say (because of the rabid Batman fan base and the whole Heath Ledger angle): 1. Tumbler 2. Slave I 3. Red 5 But if we're talking about investing and investment strategy, Red 5 moves to the top. It's going to be done sooner than the other two no matter how you slice your bananas. While it won't see the same % return, you'll (likely) be able to sell for profit and roll your $$ into one of the others.

Pic #2 is my favorite. Some of the studs are cut off near the front of the ship.

and if the pictures are correct the pictures were taken in Oct 2014 and amazingly all of them at 9:00pm (not one minute off)

sold 2x 75919 for $207 @ Amazon and buying 2x 75919 @ MSRP 5 minutes later

SSD on amazon for $961.99. I needed a little extra Santa's workshop and new Minecraft working capital.

That's how I play the game. Too much worth for small margin for me right now.

We're actually debating moving within a year or two closer to the city (and my work) so I've put off any projects or anything that will mess with the walls and create more work for us down the line to cover up heh. Hey it is a piece of art after-all really! certainly just an expensive (if not more) than some good ones too...

Is it retiring or isn't it retiring?

Nah, it still lacks celebrity name drops

no pic then it didn't happen! that could be a lyric out of Pitbull song

Or... Stolen credit cards and they use Lego to launder money- most likely the case for some of these sellers

I think you answered your own question there

OR, Force Awakening sets may be retiring. Well played, Lego. Well played.

Tumbler all the way. No discussion needed.

Man, that all sounds waaaay too suspect. I'd get your money back as soon as you can...don't pass go, don't collect $200 collect it ALL!

I'm giving Amazon a fair shake now as well. I think it's a balancing act, but it's nice to have 2 large marketplaces to sell from. They are comparable and for established sellers, one could work better, depending on the sales methods. Some stuff sells higher in different instances on both EBay and Amazon, so it may or may not balance out in the end. If you have large quantities and volume on Amazon, it's advantageous during price spikes. For the casual seller, there may not be much difference. For FBA, I can definitely see how it's nice when Amazon starts fulfilling orders and you can just see the money rolling in, as long as there isn't too many returns to stifle progress. It's not a quick and dirty process to send stuff off to FBA, but I'm sure seasoned FBA'ers have a pretty good system put together to make it as efficient as they can.

Like others have said, it depends quite a bit on the distribution within a case. I also can see quite a few of these having additional demand drivers: 3 Zombies - people love zombies. Plenty of people collect them (e.g. I myself have every Lego zombie minifig) and plenty of people build armies of them for display#10 the Gargoyle - would be great for MoCs of castles or other haunted house type buildings. Having a few as statues would be excellent.#4 the witch - not sure about the figure itself but the black cat accessory may prove a hit.#8 Zombie cheerleader - because it's a zombie cheerleader! But also I think those pom poms will have some great uses (make your own cheer squad, or actually use those pom poms for landscaping small trees and bushes etc)#11 Skeleton - mainly for the Halloween pumpkin#2 & #6 - do the pirate zombie and fly guy have unique hands (hook and claw)? I'm not sure. They could provide demand if they are unique. Overall a great series. And I'll be picking up a box or 2 for sure.

oh from you my buddy, like a dagger in the heart

10 new sealed Lego Rockefeller Centers at msrp. They are inbound so no I cannot take a photo.

Volume vs. Margin. Good thing we all play the game a little differently. What else would we have to argue about?

Did I miss something? Is the 75054 gonna be an AMAZING investment?

Neat build! Pretty accurate as well, which is nice to see. Thanks for sharing, as usual

Well done!

Tell your friends they can pick one up from me when this retires at a slightly higher rate

+1 for truth. Waiting for a deeper discount could mean watching the show from the sidelines. There's a reason for widespread 50% off some sets, and that reason is a reason not to invest in them. Deadpool might be the go-to for the Chopper, but Wolverine is no slouch among the X-Men faithful. Toss in an exclusive Storm--a very nice minifig--and I think this one is a winner.

Heh... my 7 year old is the same way. We were watching the original on TV a couple weeks ago, and he had to keep getting up and leaving the room... he would go back into my office (which still has a long distance view of the TV) and sort of walk back and forth by the doorway, glancing at the TV, but trying not to be seen. I'd say "Hey Buddy! What's up? Is this a little too scary?" He'd say, "I'm NOT scared!" "Then what are you doin' in there?" "Nothin'. I'm just a little tired, that's all." Poor guy. I remember when I was a kid, the scarier the movie the better. But when I was 7, about the scariest movie I ever saw was "The Birds". And if I saw a movie where I guy got eaten by a dinosaur, it was probably like One Million Years B.C., and it was so fake and puppet-like, it was laughable, even for a kid. Movies are just scarier these days. I've decided I need to be a better dad, and be a little more sensitive... he's just not ready for some things yet.

Breaking up the daily deals every two weeks will just do what the previous setup did and remove all the people that want to get emails on the current deals of the day. Right now, the daily deals is working out really well in my opinion. It is keeping on topic pretty well and I don't think the mods are needing to go back and clean up posts. I am not sure how many people go back days and days. The timing on the posts is off due to the caching setup that the forum has. It holds the data a bit so that it does need to query the content on every page load. It's built into the system.

My son (he's 7) noticed me packing up some Jurassic World sets yesterday. "Don't sell these daddy, we need to build them." I do have all the sets put aside for him, but he doesn't need to know that. I keep telling him he has to sit through the original "Jurassic Park" before we build any JW sets. He had me turn it off during our last attempt.

I have to correct myself, she is a banshee, (banshees are classified as female spirits). The other one is the spectre/wraith.

Lincoln Memorial and Trevi could be around for a few more years. Returns on small sets like Lincoln and Eiffel won't be much to write home about. Trevi is a money doubler at that price, but you'll need patience.

Lovin' the fly. I may just freeze one of them into an ice cube.

We've seen most of these already, but this appears to be the official checklist.

What about building the set inside the box, kind of like those ships in a bottle? I think that would probably help the resell value, as you could state that the seals are not intact, but the set was never taken out of the original box? Just a thought...............

Carpet was just for the quick pic, and I don't own pets. I've posted pics of my storage racks a few months back if you're more interested. My sales experience has been pretty good using this method. I have several data points, including sales of CC, MS, and 8043 in this "reconstituted" condition. In each case, I've gotten about 20-30% higher than used prices. My reconstituted 8043 sold for $400; while my CL lot 8043, no box and instructions, went for $260; my reconstituted MS sold at $1400; I sold 2 other MS w/box and instructions at $950 and $1050 (BTW, many of these sales were also posted here for trade). CC has been even better: I have 3 sales of used CC with box/instructions and they averaged about $1200; my reconstituted CC brought $1800. I can only guess that seeing kits in original bags, carefully packed, appeals to some buyers. Communication is super-easy. The pics speak for themselves. When looking at used sets, good pics and condition are everything. Buy hey, this is all optional. If you don't want to go through the hassle, by all means, don't bother. My intent was simple, to show some of things you can do to preserve value, and it works. Glad to see I'm not alone in keeping original bags, etc.

I ended up with 55 of them. I'll start selling them 3-4 years from now. Until then, I'm on a ramen noodle diet.