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More sets...More chances of errors and issues. I am still impressed with the overall quality of the sets considering the enormous quantities made. I think box quality is improving and minifigures are way better than years ago. I think this hobby is filled with overly smart...and anal...people, who nitpick things to death. What bothers me more is the lack of creativity by re-releasing sets like the Winter Toy Shop.

Monster Fighters lot for $450 via EBay. $10 to ship and insure, within state. 9461 - The Swamp Creature 9462 - The Mummy 9463 - The Werewolf 9464 - The Vampyre Hearse 9466 - The Crazy Scientist and His Monster 9467 - The Ghost Train 9468 - The Vampyre Castle

The bride to be looks like she may be having second thoughts upon seeing the groom. The Bride Of Frankenstein

My Wife: "Ok it's Friday night. How much did you spend on Legos this week?" Me: "Well, technically, I think it's 'Lego'. I don't think you pluralize it." My Wife: "Really? Like how the plural form of 'moose' is also 'moose' and not 'mooses' or 'meese' or something?" Me: "Yeah, I think so." My Wife: "Okay, well how much did you spend on Lego this week?" Me: "I'd prefer to think about it in terms of how much I SAVED on Lego this week." My Wife: .... (eyes narrowing) .... "I'm going to Lululemon. I'll be back in an hour." Me: "Yeah that's probably fair." My Wife: "And you're watching Miss America with me on Sunday night. But we can play a drinking game. You have to take a shot every time a girl says the word 'blessed' or 'opportunity' or 'surreal'." Me: "Actually, I'm totally in for that." My Wife: "But seriously, how much did you spend on LEGO this week?" Me: "On second thought, you might be right. It might be 'Legos.'"

Chamber St NYC today 9-12-2015

In stock @ Amazon but may require an extra 1-2 days to process.

Im starting to wonder if I've met my match in terms of packing analtivity.

Went to the Lego Store today. Here's a few pics. Most everything in stock, including Death Star, Ewok Village, Slave 1, and Tower Bridge. They had all JW sets except Raptor Escape and Indom. Rex. They also didn't have TOO and the Lego guy said they won't see that one again. No series 14 minifigs; he said those disappear in 2 days or less. Picked up 5 Trick or Treats. Seal on TRex Tracker was 30R5, on Raptor Rampage was 34R5.

Bc LEGO Shop at Home only allows 5 at a time

So not as good as I initially thought. The £10 off vouchers cant be used together. So they are just £10 off a single transaction.The stickers are still running though. The £10 off has to be used between the 18th and 24th of this month. So I got 4 £10 off vouchers and a £20 off voucher, and bought ecto ecto wall-e + CMF wall-e + CMF (at least both CMF's were tiger ladys) Nothing amazing, I'm gonna build a wall-e with my little boy today, use the £10 off vouchers on the Star Wars build able figures next week, and prob use the £20 off on another ecto.

These are straight from the Lego website. lego retired sets.xlsx lego retired sets.xlsx

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I want my son to hang out with your kid.

Turns out that I got the price wrong. There was a 30% discount on all the sets, so each FW was selling for about $74 usd. Thats 26% off US rrp! There were abt 20 sets in total, so i wiped all of them

Didn't see a main thread for chapters. They seem to have revamped their plum rewards program, on sept 10th you get 10x the plum points limited to one transaction per plum member. Couldn't find any exclusions for Lego. So instead of getting 5 points per $1 spent, you will get 50. I plan on getting 60 S14 CMF which should give 11,850 points which is $25 in points which comes out to around 10% off. Anybody else take advantage of plum points?

I have that shirt.

I'll post where I found them in a bit, right now only listing on the bay

No, never. What am I supposed to say? "They don't let me stack coupons"? They'd probably get a bonus from corporate. I've tried this as well, got shot down really quick on that one.

I like getting and sharing this info to, whenever I can... but it is helpful to know where you are. I mean... if you don't want to pinpoint the store, I guess that's fine, but at least tell us "US Northeast" ... or "Southwest" or whatever.

Went to the Lego Store today. They had all JW sets except Raptor Escape and Indom. Rex. Seal on TRex Tracker was 30R5, on Raptor Rampage was 34R5.

SAH back to full price

Just got a $5 off $25 coupon in my TRU cc renewal. Calling on BA, please do your magic.hehe thanks!

$75.48 for a $39.99 set?!

I've seen the 5 boxes in my garage

I always find the TRU staff very good down here when it is quiet, when they are busy people like us are a nuisance. They know we are investing or reselling most of the time as they get to know your face etc etc. I may have a go at this tomorrow first thing when the store opens. Thanks for all the info 'TheGallows'

Just had another thought on this, I wonder if you then spent £40 of your £60 in vouchers, would they give you another £10. Giving you £30? You then most well spend an extra £10 and get the promo again. Anyway I have a feeling i'm gonna be the most popular guy in TRU today Maybe ever.

Yep. I was coming in near the bottom on pricing of in-hand lots, too. May have been too many preorders up last week that I was competing against.

Picked up (2) 79117 Turtle Lair Invasion on on clearance at Wally World for $40/ea

ebay has a feature that will automatically open a case when a seller doesn't pay within a couple of days. I like it - almost every time it has spooked the buyer into paying right away. Not foolproof but at least you don't have to think about it.

In case anyone does do this spending ~$800 will get you the max trade in value of points, which is 35,000 for $100 off an order, plus 3.5% cash back ~$25. Comes out to around 15% off. They do have Wall E, bigbang and ecto-1.

Haha oops! I thought that was a post purchase pic.

It was nice knowing you.

I'm up to 20, I keep ordering 5 at a time, I don't think they will do a ban for a $9 set. I can always use the Halloween party give away story

This might be of interest to someone. TRU £10 voucher for every £40 spend in store. Could be useful if your after some CMF or buy 4 ectos get one free etc. Havnt really had a chance to have a proper look yet to see if theres any good deals this could be used with. It might however stack with the £20 spend on Lego sticker offer ( 4 stickers gives you a £20 voucher). So for example if you bought 4 City Swamp Police Station (60069) all separately @ £40.99, you would get x4 £10 vouchers and 4 stickers giving you another £20 voucher. £60 back for a £120 spend. (I have only picked this set because of its price point, buy what you want etc) Obviously this could be applied to any set or any mixture of sets as long as you spend £40 each transaction. If you guys find anything really good post it up, I had enough of looking tonight. I'm gonna check this out tomorrow, see if the sticker promo is still going. Happy hunting lads Here's the link. http://www.toysrus.co.uk/toys The dates: "You will qualify for a free £10 Gift Coupon when you spend £40 or more on any Toys 'R' Us and Babies 'R' Us items, in a single online transaction from 4pm Friday 11th September to Midnight Thursday 17th September 2015 only."

I never mentioned it, but thanks for posting that. I think when the forum upgrade happened, it moved from wherever it was hiding before, to the Filter Results by Forum tab you posted. That must be what I'm looking for.

Think of air space inside the box as your enemy when packing. The less movement laterally and more support you give the outer box the more resistant it will become to damage. "Pancaked" boxes are always due to a lack of contents and support within the box. A tightly fit modular in the right size outer box will fair better than one in an over sized box swimming in air pillows. (I'm talking about YOU Target!) Because you are dealing with several different sized LEGO boxes you might consider vertical packing of the items. For flat packing I've used a piece of cardboard on top of a large set like 10228 to help span the load of smaller sets packed on top.

Only the popular guys get to get the cheerleaders.

I once ordered from TRU.com series; they sent individual packages 1 at a time---talk about crazy. But then again, was set with envelopes for quite a while

I don't like the scene either and I'm not a fan of explaining it to my kids.

I'm excited about Episode 8 because it should have more Luke, and it will have Benicio Del Toro as a villian and overall be the darkest of the next three. But please no murdering of a room full of children, that was not necessary.

Train Station by dfalkner

I thought "no brainer" meant that only a person with no brain would do that investment.

I shipped out two smaller items in the past week that had slight issues. One person was great to deal with, one is a potential fruitcake - see if you can guess which buyer is which. 1 - A new in sealed box arrived and was missing a piece. The buyer asked about the missing piece and I explained that I would ship one if I had it and it turns out that I did. 2 - A used set was missing a piece, probably due to a packing error. The buyer asked about the missing piece and explained that if I didn't resolve it then I would receive neutral feedback. Sigh, at least give me a chance to correct it before you threaten to hold my feedback hostage.

Only thing missing is a Sharknado to go with it.

Description is cool: http://www.ebay.com/itm/LEGO-Seasonal-Christmas-3300014-/141761048750?hash=item21019df0ae

Yes, I've seen this before. "Contact Wal-Mart, they have a charity program for Veterans that will suit your needs."

Had $180 in TRU rewards to use up and was able to find a few things on clearance. Also used TRU card on balance for an extra 10% off: 4x Galaxy Squad Vermin Vaporizer - clearanced to $19.98 (left 7 still on the shelf) 5x Galaxy Squad Warp Stinger - clearanced to $7.98 1x Friends Heartlake High - clearanced to $19.98 (they had 1 more but the box was beat to hell) 2x City Museum Break-in - clearanced to $26.98 2x Series 13 Minifigure (Hot Dog Guy) - Regular price of $3.99 1x Series 12 Minifigure (Piggy Guy) - clearanced to $2.98 4x Super Heroes Electro polybag - Regular price of $3.99 4x Joker Bumper Car - Regular price of $3.99 Stumbled upon a Walmart that had 3 city Heavy Duty Helicopters on clearance for $35 so bought all 3.

Just bought this for £65 off ebay. A professionally built Terminator Salvation terminator bike!