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Sold a museum break-in for $125 shipped on Amazon.ca. Paid $60 for it.

I picked up a TRU exclusive set 66536, it combines 75110 Luke and 75111 Vader buildable figures. Comes with a poster. This one didn't appear to leak, can't find any previous mention of it on the internet, but it is on the TRU Canada site now (I bought mine in WA). http://www.toysrus.ca/product/index.jsp?productId=67364286

Only thing missing is a Sharknado to go with it.

I can't believe they let me walk out with the display box...

For me, when my UPS packages look this this, they don't ring the bell...

Here is a random selection of some more minifigure habitats. (A couple are using a proxy character in place of the actual one.) Collectible Minifig Apartment - Samurai (Series 3) Collectible Minifig Apartments - Surfer Girl (Series 4) Collectible Minifig Apartments - Race Car Driver (Series 3) Collectible Minifig Apartments - Aztec Warrior (Series 7) Collectible Minifig Apartment - Gladiator (Series 5) Collectible Minifig Apartment - Werewolf (Series 4) Collectible Minifig Apartment - Evil Mech (Series 11) Collectible Minifig Apartments - Daredevil (Series 7) Collectible Minifig Habitat - Series 13 Egyptian Warrior Lego CMF Series 14: Scary Story!

Centurion by Elephant-Knight Galaxy Tzar by Doctor Mobius Classic Space Spaceship by Crimso Giger CS Ticondaroga Spaceport by Søren Johansen

Low risk , good margins and people will buy these continuously as they can't just buy 1 off of SAH for $10, they would spend 18ish with tax and shipping. So there is always value in them from the get go. Any leftovers you save for the following season and make combos. A lot of people aren't like us that buy $75 to get free shipping and promos. They just want that one small set to put on display for the holiday. I try to get at least 200 of each seasonal set. Sometimes not all up front but on the back end at clearance as well for the following year. Bats at $5 were a great investment last year and are already pulling $15 again. Combo up with the new one for $35 on a $15 investment. Takes a little pre-planning as well to make the combos work.

PS is an outstanding modular. It's also unique, in that it's 2 separate buildings, one of which can be repeated multiple times to great effect. It's not crazy to think about 2 or 3x of these for your modular layout, they're that versatile (including doubling the width of the Pet Shop itself). For this reason, I see PS (and GE for additional floors) as especially good modulars in the long-run for future AFOL.

Go to Problem -> Order -> and file a Non-Shipping Seller action. Likely that will get you a response quickly.

I had "quoted" your pic of the Agents ship, but the pic got lost somehow. All I meant is the Agents ship looked like the anti- Dolphin Cruiser. I've always liked the Agents stuff. I wish more folks did (and it would be great if Lego actually marketed it).

I received some stuff from shopgoodwill and I was delighted at how little was missing from this. http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=23537592 only missing a hose from the Midi Falcon and instruction book 1 from the other kit. Now to see what is missing from this http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=23489302 there wound up being a lot more minifigures in that pile than I originally thought.

Was it only me or did anyone else flinch and cringe at the real-time impact sound?? That impact sound was like nails on a chalkboard for me.

I had the day off work today and built the mystery machine and haunted lighthouse during a scooby-foo marathon with the little guy. The MM is pretty resilient. My 3yr old hasn't stopped playing with it (minus dinner time) for 6hrs now!

If you have any 7965 Hold them, they will still bring $250 and up down the road.

I thought I would resurrect this thread since its been a year since this debacle took place. I'm happy to report that I'm back on eBay and sales are picking up! I want to thank everyone in this thread for their advice, reassurance, and support. It turns out the best advice was just to lay low for a while and use my original account when the time felt right. I started selling on eBay in May. The summer was slow but things started to really pick up towards the end of August. So far I've sold a SSD, a Lone Ranger polybag, and a few sets in between. It's been fun a ride so far. Thanks again to everyone on Brickpicker. I would have been lost without your advice and input. What a great community we have here. I am grateful to be a part of it.

Somehow my Lourve got out of the box!

Sooo my son started building Kylo Ren's command shuttle today, and after unboxing it, we had to look a few times for the sticker sheet, because there wasn't one, which baffled us. Then we opened up the bags, and found that all the pieces that used to have stickers now have printed pieces! Looks like Lego finally listened.

Thanks guys, just got 120 cmf from Sainsbury's , got to learn to smoosh now...never been that good at doing that!

None of the Targets or Walgreens in a ten mile radius of me got the Monster minifigs. The Target stores that didn't have any minifigs on the shelf showed hundreds in stock. When the employees went to the back to look, all they found were Simpsons series 2 that had been received ages ago, tucked behind other stuff, and never put out on the shelf. I was told when their stock gets lower the computer will order. Hope someone buys those Simpsons minifigs soon! I don't want them!

Millennium Winter Toyshop! Another year of Xmas flips beckons - rinse and repeat.

Here is an interesting article about the new STAR WARS books released today that discuss life after Return of the Jedi... Also another good post about it on USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2015/09/04/exclusive-excerpt-star-wars-aftermath-novel/71557386/

This was the same for me. I grabbed a sealed box of series 12, they cut it open and rang through each poly. I took them home, smooshed my 16 and out of spite, returned the other 44. The manager was not impressed.

Warehouse park/office addresses. Another common location is Portland, OR. FWIW, I haven't had a problem with these buyers yet. They usually leave good feedback, too.

Smyths has to be the worse. Look I got of the cashier when I bought a stack of Witch-King Battle. Wouldn’t mind but it’s such a low rent store.

Back in the old days I once bought almost 300 Team GB minifigures, when they where quid each at Smyths. Woman asks me why are you buying so many, I just said I work for a kids charity and these are going in their goody bags, seemed to work. If she only knew the money I made on them

The sad thing was I saw them this morning before getting ready for work. By the time I was done they were P to the O to the O to the F

Can't be any worse than the looks you get when sitting on the floor of TRU smooshing the CMFs. Kids and parents both staring, wondering; WTF?!

Please talk about this in the Non Lego Investing Group. Plenty already going on in there. Thank you. I am going to close this thread.

You are late to the party my friend. Check out the Non Lego thread and join the fun. Good to get an international perspective.

They currently have a Force Friday deal going on the has coupon codes: $10 off of $50 - STARWARS10 $25 off of $100 - STARWARS They didn't seem to work when I tried but I was able to order the new Millenium Falcon and have a rep adjust to take $25 off but he would not stack the $10 coupon as well

Just managed to get a full box of the simpsons cmf for £60 in sainsburys. I love the looks you get at the tills.

I went ahead and grabbed a couple Advent Calendars. Both for $50 plus $10 in points back. Nice!

They would need big balls to do so apparently.

"Who is Johnny?"

Non Lego, but this is the lock winner for Christmas. http://store.sphero.com/products/bb-8-by-sphero

Yeah, really bad time to put a no min auction out on these. The next 2 months or so will be riding out the worst of the storm - the problem is that the idea of keeping this set for years to come (at the risk of only achieving very marginal gains) is fine for an emazers, who appears to have no liquidity problems, but not so great for those who want to pick up the items that will retire in the last quarter or increase their portfolios for xmas.

The trading forum was reopened ... Go to the * Members Only Forum * then to the Lego Trading Forum and post away. No selling in there is all... Brick Classifieds has "want ads" which involve the exchange of money. That's what I remember Jeff saying the other day... Just don't remember where he posted that and I'm on my iPad which sucks for searching. ** edit... Yeah, he posted about it on August 24th in the Site Information & Updates forum. Go read and then go trade. **

Here are the giveaways I got at TRU... a crowd of about 70 or 100 people there tonight (in my BFE TRU)... most went straight for the Black Series stuff... other action figures, light sabers, costumes... I had the Lego aisle to myself for a while.

Umm...., the crossdressing chef?

The old trade forum was much more conducive to trading. Perhaps we can do some trading in this forum. I will be all about trading when I open up my figs tomorrow.

The fact that it's 2 buildings makes it unique, and gives you more different ways to arrange your modulars in a row. The biggest reason that people like it is simply because it's a modular. When there are only ~4 available at any given time, and the retired ones get expensive quickly, people who want to have a modular street are somewhat 'forced' to buy what's available to them. Having built several modulars, I personally find the Pet Shop to be the worst of the bunch, but even a bad modular is still a decent set.

Like others have said, I don't recall seeing Sold Out for something so new rather than (Temp) Out of Stock. This series is more seasonal than the rest, but 2 days would be crazy to be gone already. With all this talk, the fear suckered me into another Minfiguresplus order. I'm sure I'm not alone.

Please check this out and support it if you like it. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/115875 I made it.

That wobbly head isn't going to get better if you sit on it.

I think you might win the award for reviving the oldest thread. Almost 2 years since anyone posted. Well done!

Let's go space truckin'. Neo Blacktron Truck by nolnet

Typically I don't take the time to get on every forum, but since there were so many sales within hours of listing the pre-order, I assumed investors were responsible. Hopefully I can address a few concerns briefly. I have attached a photo that will hopefully show more clearly how everything is shipped. Labels are affixed to the boxes exactly as they are received, and larger orders will even receive double boxing. We pride ourselves with never opening the original shipping boxes. Anything that looks remotely damaged will be opened and parted out, so you receive the best boxes. Fortunately we have increased supply for this series, anticipating a higher demand (as is typical when there are figures involving an upcoming holiday), but that is very true. We have expanded to Amazon this summer as well, and if sales continue the way they are over the next 48 hours, you will see the price increase. Shipping date is expected to be around the 17th or 18th of September to be more precise, but because we cannot make promises on that date, it is stated as "late September."

Farewell Milano. Another good set with good potential in 2 years.