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My vote for favorite acronym is not for a set, but instead for one of the most useful buying tools available...the Target Inventory Tracker. Let's face it, three words consisting of twenty-two letters is a bit much to type out. We should all use this acronym going forward to save time, and to provide a good chuckle.

Well this builder has already come up with some nice MOCs using these monsters. Up To Their Old Tricks Feed Me! The Cheerleader

Walmart - always unpredictable!

thats why I prefer gonzo , plus it has a fitting giphy that happens to go poof as well

Nothing... he says that in every topic of a just retired set.

yes, yes I can

I'm not a fan of abbreviations and acronyms. I waste a lot of my precious waking hours trying to decipher BS.

Isn't it? The system denied us too... but these folks REALLY wanted my money, unlike TRU. I asked for nothing, but they bent over backward to make the sale from the moment I hauled it all to the counter. Yeah. Without asking what was in the back, lol. I honestly think it was employee ignorance. As above, the system wanted to obey its Lego Overlord. Then we won't discuss the extra discount for waiting around an extra 40 minutes for them to figure out how to sell them to me... Just smile and act baffled, folks. It works wonders sometimes! Sadly none of these three sets impress me. Cody is OK, the red on the TIE is pretty cool, that's about it. If I was Ultra QFLL they'd all be gone by now (and I'd probably be in a Billund jail by next week). But who's complaining?

You mean R5?

Doing business on your phone, yes it's convenient. It's also a PIA to type/text/respond coherently, so it makes many lazy.

Let's see, with the Hot Dog Guy you felt for his weenie. Now with the Wolf Guy, I should go for his bone.

Yes, I'll take credit.

Ugh. This thread needs a clean up bad after this evening. lol. Fine, if we are going to complain, don't just put your set number into your post. Write out the stupid freaking set name. I don't have time to decipher what set 75101 is. Edit to add: Based on Walmart clearance get 75101 First Order TIE Fighter I'm guessing that's the next to go.

The power is out at my place so I decided to walk over to my local WM to kill time. Lo and be hold, 4 raptor escapes were sitting on the shelf. Needless to say I picked them up.

I'm really glad we're addressing the topic of abbreviations here. It is pure insanity. I mean, how much time are you saving, really? Even if it accumulates and winds up being a couple of hours, even a day in total, through a life time, I gotta say it's just not worth it. Let's be honest, you were going to waste those two hours/that day. As far as language is concerned, it's the equivalent of buying Chima to me. Utterly pointless, and kind of ugly. Despite Mark Stafford's efforts. Also, for those discrediting Sea Cow, you're wrong and spreading misinformation in my opinion. I don't think there's anyone out there who has actually built it that says "Meh, it's pretty dull." On the contrary, anyone that's spent some time with this set knows that it's a remarkable gem with massive potential. I mean think about how much the Pirates of the Caribbean ships are worth now, and those probably (I don't own any, I was lost and adrift in my dark ages.) weren't nearly as big or wonderfully nuanced as my dear cow. Aside from that, it was a major set piece in the film, thus guaranteeing its place in the zeitgeist for years to come, like the death star, or the bat mobile. Probably not to the extent of those two, but my point is that it's a part of pop culture now, which is basically our mythology now. If I had more money in the bank, or more room in my home, I would completely double down on that set. Stupid stock market. On a side note/coffee talk topic: Do you think if lego were around during the age where folks believed in Zues, that Apollo's Chariot sets would be skyrocketing? Asking for a friend in a parallel dimension where that happened.

This is solid advise. From now on when I read it I'll imagin And like that, poof. He's gone

One was sold for 305 € incl. shipping @ ebay Germany, recently. Looks promising. Let's wait till christmas. Maybe we can start a poll to see in which quantities this set is hoarded.

Damned resellers.

I've been bitten by the building bug pretty bad and built a few sets in the past couple days but I will take it easy and start with 70817 Batman & Super Angry Kitty Attack. Well there isn't much of a set to build really considering it is simply two minifigures, Angry Kitty, and another unique Micro-Manager. What is there was nice though. This classic Batman, despite having the same (most) everything from just a couple years back, could be my own favorite among the growing army of Batmen for the special facial expressions. The cheshire grin across one side cracks me up every time as I hear Will Arnett's voice giving the traditional "I'm Batman" line in the back of my mind. (His head is exclusive to the set by the way and so is the trans-black 1x1 circle tile used on his nifty yet bulky grapple gun.) Super Angry Kitty is, well, super angry to the point of giving The Hulk a run for his money. The Robo Skeleton is awesome for more reasons than I could think of right now one of which droids are just awesome and I want an army. Another being it is quite possibly the closest we will ever get to see a Terminator esque character in LEGO form which just adds to the army building exercise. That is more than enough jabbering on just the figures I think so on towards the Micro-Manager which turns out to be filled with play features between the decently flexible claw arms, a couple flick-fire missiles (that work well as any other), and at the push of a lever the thing blows it top literally. Okay a couple of plates shaping the head fly off basically. Overall I found the set to yield a solid selection of parts (a handful are limited to exclusive) and the only deterrent with getting multiples would be ending up with a lot of Batmen which already was a problem with acquiring any one DC Super Heroes set. I can imagine a few creative uses with Super Angry Kitty's parts well as the Micro-Manager's and you already know where I stand on the Robo Skeleton.

You know that scene in TLM where Batman sees the Double Decker Couch and says "What...the heck....is that!?!" Yeah, pretty much that. My mind is blasted!

Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP shouldn't we keep his PC on the QT? Because if word leaks to the VC he could wind up MIA then we'd all get KP. one of the funniest scenes ever put on film.

FWIW it does not matter to me

I appreciate the depth and thought in this response, but I believe that same depth is probably lacking when someone changes Pet Shop to PS. It's more a matter of convenience than bonding or tribes. I mean, it's a bit like ascribing Jane Goodall observations on dominance and alpha status to a the exclusionary tactics of high school cliques and bullies. Yeah, you're right to a certain extent, but they're also just kind of jerks.

Tribal rituals?

It's Available Now on SAH

I usually start with the bone. I know, I know, "that's what she said"...

Based on a real life Odeon Theater and LEGO's own in the Town Plan set (from 2008), this expired Ideas submission has a nice art deco styling. Odeon Theater

Well us guys can't have all the fun cruising the cosmos now can we? GALACTIC GIRL POWER! TF401-3 by Frost TF402-1 by Frost TF403 Pinktron MAS Command Vehicle by Frost 21415 Pinktron "Fast Kitty" by Frost Pinktron Racing by Frost PSH-1 "Scarlet Hawk" by James Warden Enyo's Fury by curtydc Pinktron Avenger Mark V by Moctagon Jones Pinktron Commander's Cadillac by Moctagon Jones Pinktron Butterfly FX7 Viper by Moctagon Jones F.H.P. "Tickle Pink" by Master Shifu Leo J Pinktron Rover by nolnet

I don't recall the box ever changing.

Varies month to month. Depends on when we receive the data, plus it takes time to aggregate the tens of thousands of sold listings.

Can't believe I'm the first to mention this. It came out this past week. First, the Trickster minifig is awesome. He looks great. And does play a role in the film. The kids and I watched it this morning. Lots of fun. A few references to the Challenge of the Super Friends cartoons, with the Legion of Doom, and the sound effects. We need more of these movies. And we need more of the minifigs that show up in these films.

Meteoric rise straight out of the gates and months of stagnation/decline after that. BTW what is going on with Fire Brigade prices recently? I think he meant the risk was looking to export markets to sell them. It´s not a 1000 euro set but it looks like it will do well in Europe as distribution was tight - especially this year and discounts few and far between so not many people can really sell it cheap unless they stole it.

Can't even begin to imagine how conflicted you must feel about the Elves line...

Yeah..R5 10240-1: Red Five X-wing Starfighter

Street - New Orleans Style (Lego MOC) by SEBASTIAN-Z

My bet is on 10240 UCS X-wing Starfighter.

Abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms, only save time for the one typing them out while everybody else ends up getting stuck losing time constantly deciphering them all. It is understandable for those who browse and text via a smartphone but if a keyboard is handy there is no need really.

Sea Cow only got 6 letters, only 3 letters shorter than MSC... a little bit tedious to make abbreviation, no? Maybe MSC can be more confusing/challenging than SC for people to adapt to. lol

Are they Jehovah´s witnesses?

ultra agents is meh? My kid built a few of the bigger sets like the helicopter, and our view is that they look really cool with the blue transparent bricks against the largely black colour theme. The mini figs are also very well designed. If lego had put in the same marketing effort to this theme as they had for chima, i would think that the ultra agent theme would achieve the same popularity as ninjago. Too bad some exec in the company made a wrong choice.

There could have been less made altogether or more were sent to areas where they would have sold better. Who knows honestly. In my area Walmart had a small end cap with possibly a couple boxes worth over some months while Target had maybe one display box for less than a month and that's it. In either case it didn't take long for them to sell out it would seem but considering I do not shop every day I would have no idea how many times they restocked in the meantime.

MSA-53Z Pepperfish by .Tromas

Made me double-check the date on this post. Haven't seen half of those sets in so long. Nice.

Let's talk about scale for a minute...

Built the Temple of Airjitzu today: from the pictures I was concerned there were too many colors and it would look over the top but I am happy to say in person the color choices make sense. The build was no too complex and I wished the Smuggler's Market section was a little more complex brick wise but the rest of the set was fun and I really enjoyed building the main temple section. This was my first ever Ninjago purchase so I am happy about the selection of figures and think they look cool positioned running on the rooftops etc. If I had to give an overall grade it would be B+

Don't get too hung up on the box condition. As long as it's not ripped and the seals are intact any set you would have otherwise invested in is still a buy.

​You Are Not Being Unreasonable In my day, we used sentences.