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A typical day on BP 2015: superlegofanresseler3476: EV is crap. Ewoks were to the OT as what Jar Jar was to the prequels. Nobody likes them. And who wants a set that's nothing but a bunch of trees? Really LEGO? Trees?! Plus, if you check the stock tracker in Europe you'll see that they have plenty on hand. Probably enough to last 12 months at least. I've been tracking the sales of this one along with a dozen other sets every day and I can tell you that EV is the worst selling exclusive released since 2013 with more than 1,750 elements and less than 18 minifigures. Total crap. I've also been watching Amazon and this is never selling for more than $290 Prime so if that doesn't tell you everything you need to know than I don't know what you're doing in this game. I'm not getting any of these for my own collection or to flip. There are so many other better sets to put my money in right now. superlegofanresseler3476: OMG!!!1!!1!! It's gone?! Damn, I'm going to take the day off work today and hit all the LEGO stores I can. I've got two in my state plus the neighboring states, hopefully I can pick up about 23 by the time the day is over. I'm going to bring my nephew and his friend along. They'll do anything for Hot Dog On A Stick. Anyway, I love this set and it's going to be huge this Christmas. You all know The Force Awakens is coming out, right? It doesn't get any bigger than that. This is like the perfect storm of LEGO flipping. Where's George Clooney? Oh but just in case I'm not able to get any, if anyone can help me out I'd appreciate it. I really need to have one for sure, I can't wait to have this displayed with my Sideshow Scout Trooper.

LEGO Delorean 89.99 ebay free shipping. price is going up $5 a week.

My cousin sent me a few items from Star Wars Celebration. The posters are fantastic.

This should also be posted in the "why buy cheap sets" forum. These were $27 for the longest time...

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Now that is a message that is directed towards resellers. Game on!

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DCPI codes… for those that prefer the lazy and efficient route of lego hunting. 204-00-1508 - Mummy Museum Mystery 75900 204-00-1509 - Scooby Doo Mystery Plane Adventures 75901 204-00-1510 - Scooby Doo Mystery Machine 75902 204-00-1511 - Scooby Doo Haunted Lighthouse 75903 204-00-1512 - Scooby Doo Mystery Mansion 75904

Based on one of the most iconic vehicles in animated history is a well priced set at $29.99 to include a total of 301 pieces, a cast of four minifigures between Shaggy, his faithful companion Scooby-Doo, exclusive (at the moment) Fred, and the witch's zombie aka Zeke from episode thirteen "Which Witch is Which?". Obviously for any fan of the classic series, this is a 'must have'. I know for me it is.

Finally to round up this first wave of sets, here at the price of $89.99 includes 860 pieces and a whopping seven minifigures between exclusive Velma followed by Daphne, Shaggy, Scooby, and three crooked criminals to catch with the Black Knight aka Mr. Wickles from the very first memorable episode that started it all "What a Night for a Knight", the Ghost aka Bluestone the Great from the first season's third episode "Hassle in the Castle", and then the Vampire aka "Big Bob" Oakley from season one's eleventh episode "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts". The mansion itself is a mix of different locales one of which could be the haunted mansion in the opening credits for the original show and a greenhouse section I can recall from an episode yet cannot remember the title of it for the life of me (and so far Google isn't helping any). Anyway although the manor is not specific to any one case from the series, the overall appearance and inclusion of so many main characters plus classic crooks all from the original first season make this the other 'must buy' along with The Mystery Machine I think.

I too bought a Jokerland today. $70 out the door after the 25% off coupon, 10% TRUTH, and 20% off GCs.

Mid-Twenty-First Century California House by Michael Labelle

Remember when some people thought this set would somehow devalue the Haunted House? Granted I think that was before it was revealed, but still...

Yeah... this is one example of a small set that is a giant success. I knew it would become a success but only bought two cause I thought I had still time to buy these. They disappeared almost overnight.

So back from my Smyths trek and talk about random as hell, so I visited like 5 Smyths and this is what I ended up with: 5 x Lonely Mountains £50 each 5 x Phoenix Temples £50 each 2 x Chima Ice Mammoths £30 each 9 x Movie melting rooms £5 each 14 x Hobbit Witch king battle £5 each (funnily enough another person maybe one of u? had a trolley full of these must of had like 30) 4 x Bennys spaceship £50 each 3 x Movie dropships £30 each and last but not least, I was totally amazed to see 6 Movie Castle cavalry (was never interested in this set but not seen them anywhere for the last 6 months) for £10 each! Talk about random. I passed on a load of Ultra Agents stuff at half off, a load of misc Chima stuff at half off and a couple of the mid sized Hobbit sets at half off again. So a good afternoon trip out, and as I expected the are just emptying all there old stock into random stores. So again if you have time it's worth a visit but be quick this stuff is going to go fast!

I guess it depends. For me it's 1. Slave I 2. X-Wing 3. Tumbler Also because personally I don't like the tumbler :-P I wouldn't want to have it on display instead of one of the other two... actually I don't want to have it on display at all :-P (maybe if Emazer or somebody else here wanted to give me one for free under the condition that I don't sell it but build and display it I would though... actually I really would be interested in building it ^.^ but that's all). The minifigs are nice, even though batman isn't anything special anymore. The Joker minifig is overrated but will probably stay overrated so that alone might be a pusher! (So that's a wildcard if you ask me!) But there have been so many batmobiles already and the tumbler is only one of them. Next movie there will be another one. And in the computer games there already are other ones... so I don't think it will stay as iconic as the X-Wing or Slave I for example. So the Joker minifigs is the biggest PLUS the set has going for it and if it wouldn't be included I wouldn't have any doubts about the superiority of X-Wing and Slave I.

2x 75920 (jurassic world raptor escape)

I can see MOCers wanting multiples of the mansion set. I think it lends itself well to expansion. Ok, who am I kidding. I'm buying two for myse... my daughter. We'll see what we can create.

Picked up some take-out tonight. They are already running some kind of cross-promotion with restaurants...

That makes no sense. So his store accidentally puts the set on sale and lego.com and all lego stores are punished. Seems really far fetched to me.

I'd second grabbing both if it's not an issue of capital. However, if you can only grab one, consider holding time. I would expect, as I think others here do as well, that the Tower Bridge is in a different 'class' of building set, up there with Eiffle, Taj, Statue of Liberty. It may take longer, but I think the Tower Bridge will ultimately plateau at a higher price than ToO, but might take longer to reach that plateau than ToO might take to top out. All that said, ToO is by far the more interesting build. Lots of repetition on the TB, only a bit of repitition on ToO, with lots of neat 'advanced' techniques. My approach to this has been developing and I've discovered I personally like to invest in sets which I want to own/want to display. Both these sets fit that bill, however I've only got the ToO out in a cabinet. All this from a novice investor, so take with a couple large grains of salt! Just my 2 cents on these sets, betting there's lots of other takes on it.

*update* I got to digging around in the General Buying and Selling Forum and came up with this bit of info from justafrog: "2. If the package is "lost in space" (no recent scans to tell you where it is), you can get the current tracking at USPS.com and ASK FOR EMAIL UPDATES (there's a box to click). You can ask for updates just to you, or to you and your customer. I don't know if I've just been lucky, but EVERY time I've had a package that the post office just vanishes in a puff of smoke and is stalled on tracking somewhere for days and days and have used this service, the package miraculously re-enters the flow of packages within a few days. Like I said, could be luck, or maybe they have to explain "never arrived" packages in some kind of internal auditing that this track-trace function generates." So I gave this a try yesterday afternoon, and sure enough, I get an e-mail about 8 hours later. It's moved on the tracking page with a delayed status, but on its way to the customer. I never would have thought of this, and it's a great little tip that I want to pass on. Thanks to all who replied, and a big thanks to justafrog.

We I settled on mandated DBZ I need to find time to fish out, clean, and assemble the old DB from this used LEGO lot I bought a year ago

DBZ or whatever Darth Raichu decided to call the new Destinys Bounty already marked up 8.5% and I only had 12% GC will have to sell figs tonight for $50 to make it a deal. BBT JBC x 25 All on the TRUT special

If the box is indeed factory sealed, you should get three of each minifigure bare minimum. Lately for the few past series, the ratio has been seven characters at 3 each, six characters at 4 each, and three characters at 5 each for a final total of 60 altogether.

I got lucky Since my tru got a fresh shipment of mystery machines and jokerlands in so I got one jokerland, mystery machine, and a mystery plane since next months coupon isn't as good

"Who wanta some Wang?"

Sure, but why write something like that? The Tumbler was a few months old when something like that was posted, so I can understand. This set? It could backfire on LEGO though if people want to flip this set this XMAS. Could be a winner...twice...LOL By telling people this set will be unavailable for another 5-6 months...in the middle of STAR WARS Madness, this could be very interesting.

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Glad to see you here.

No it's not like that at all (your logic is flawed)... Saying the Batmobile is just another "car" would be like saying "Slave I is just another starship". If Starwars would bring out new Slave I starships with every star wars movie and LEGO would build new Slave I starships every now and then, who are differently enough (as are the batmobiles) then we would have an equal situation. http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/brush-up-on-your-bat-history-with-cbrs-batmobile-infographic-set Here you can see quite some batmobiles. The Tumbler might be "unique" but the batmobile as such is not. It's just another gadget for Batman, it doesn't matter how it looks like. Only because the dark knight triology has been a huge success and one of the more recent batman movies the tumbler is such a big deal. Long term Slave I will stay Slave I. THE STARSHIP of Boba Fett. If you wanna get Boba Fetts starship, that's what you'll get. The other question would be: Will they re-release an even better version of Slave I with the ongoing popularity of SW eventually? Don't see it coming for the next 10 years since they have enough going on right now. So there won't be another Version of the Tumbler at least, that's something. But maybe there's a good reason that there won't.

Welcome, cullmancrations.

Yeah..I was the Lone Rangers. Didn't see an invite would you mind PM'ing me with the email address? Would love to do this again if you still have space. Thanks! Okay...scratch that. I was able to join. Looks like you sent it to my Yahoo! email...don't really ever check that. Thanks!

15% reduction @ TRU in The Netherlands: Death Star, Simpsons House, Slave 1, AT-AT

I'm thinking retirement is pretty much set several months in advance. Maybe years--as soon as a set is produced, TLG has a sense of its lifespan. Knowing how LEGO operates (i.e., the quality of their business model), I'm pretty sure they do have projected production lifespans upon launch. They study the sales data and trends. A set is effectively "retired" long before we purchase the last box. Seal codes give us some clue, but we have little ideas about the size of production runs, etc. Even the EU stock tracker has proven somewhat mysterious and oddly inconsistent. Just a guess like everyone else's, but I agree it becomes complicated when a set's sales jumps like Red 5 did early this year. All of a sudden, a set has altered its sales path and doesn't provide a clear trend. I think Red 5 was likely on track for retirement this spring, but resellers smelled blood and really messed with the data. Just a hunch based on the looooong backorder time (close to three months for one of my orders). Either way, its fun to speculate.

That's pretty much how it always works and there are always people who look around before and say "this set is everywhere, I have nothing to worry about," but end up afterwards saying "where the heck have they all gone."

10019: Star Ware UCS Rebel Blockade Runner. Used, no box. Manual in ok condition. Unused sticker sheet. I'll be building this.

I think I understand what you mean... and it makes sense. My understanding: Lego is are very busy at the moment producing batches of the current sets so they will last until Xmas at the least. So when all stock levels are in the green they can focus mainly on the new Ep.7 Star Wars sets which will be the flagship for the coming holidays. Except maybe for some unexpected shortages. They want to avoid situations like last Xmas where shops were totally depleted from Lego. They need to keep the retailers happy. Cause this situation was very bad for Lego. You forgot to add: "SO Check back soon, just finished chatting to the lecturers and had to write it down before I forgot ".

Sorry, I'll rewrite and clarify when I have more than 2% battery. Check back soon, just finished chatting to the lecturers and had to write it down before I forgot

We need new activity anyway, the "predicting set retirement based on Sold Out flag" game is getting old

Well my TRU must have been saving a couple cases in the back. Went today and they have 4 on the shelf minty fresh and marked at 129.99.

Agree with the above. You could take it to a jeweler and have the gold tested, too.

Hot Cakes are back in. Ready to flip those losses to wins this year in the TRU parking lot!!

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.

Golden Cup Grand Hotel by Jorge Barros

Lego Modular Candy Store with Kitchen Store by Elizabeth Nevermind

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

I have several sets in their boxes and ready to go. I bought them for my son and I to build. I wish I had your fortitude to wait and wait, but I just have always wanted some of these sets and can't wait to enjoy the fun of building them with my son! I would rather live and enjoy the ride than miss that memory I guess. I will take the hit on the value. Of course, I will use all your knowledge and preserve all that I can (bags, boxes, spare parts, etc) in the meticulous manner you have suggested. I am OCD so that is not a problem! Thanks for the advice and post! P.S. I always download copies of the instructions from Lego and use color prints of those to build so the originals stay original. I then seal the originals in vacuum bags for preservation. Just a thought.

Fingers crossed on seeing the rest of The Fly character because that head is a superb rendition (with the LEGO touch) of the classic science-fiction thriller from 1958. ....Anyone else hearing that? I swear I can hear a faint voice somewhere screaming "Help me!".