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My used Ewok Village sans minifigs arrived last week. Sorted the pieces over the course of the week then built up the village on Friday night. It lasted less than 24 hours where I dismantled it and put the purchase to it's real purpose. Saw this in the MOCs thread a couple months back and fell in love with it, had to have one. I present my personal edition of the 10236 UCS Lord of the Rings Ent!

Customer Service Agent: No problem sir, we can return these 8 MMs for you. Is there anything wrong with them? Customer: Well, nothing wrong with the set itself but I couldn't flip it for a profit because you guys restocked your shelves too quickly. CSA: Oh, I see... Well our 90 return window is for customers and not resellers. Let me call my manager over to see if that's OK. Customer: Oh wait, sorry, that was the "MM - Mystery Mansion" set that I couldn't flip... These are the "MM - Mystery Machines" and I decided not to give them to the kids that came to my child's birthday party a couple weeks ago. Sorry, I just can't keep all these abbreviations straight in my head... CSA: Well that makes perfect sense, let me start that return. Customer: Thanks, I appreciate it. CSA: You might want to check out Brickpicker.com .. they have tons of set abbreviations. You should learn them since that will help clear up misunderstandings the next time you need to return a cart full of merchandise.

Sold the 6 Jurassic World sets for $500

some are very conflicted and do all 3

Wait a minute... is this a cryptic hint about the Sandcrawler NOT retiring?

That was my line. And the year is not over yet!

the wild

Yellow series 6 mixels (the extra set per case) $55 shipped

https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/kids/toys/lego-minifigures-monsters-series-14/673419231534-item.html?ikwid=series+14+lego&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0

on the other hand, the stickers allow you the flexibility of putting other companies' logos on the containers. There are quite a few online sellers capitalising on this market.

I found monster minifigures at Walmart on clearance for $1.00 apiece. 51 all together. First one I opened was Tiger Lady !

Does it matter ? Tatooine had 2 suns, when 1 set and the other rose. It was always sunny there no matter what

I do like R2 for R2, but I'm not sure TFA is going to have that much impact on his immediate outlook. We can speculate, yes, but I'm not sure TFA is going to make it jump 25% - 50% over current market value in 2015 - 2016. That's just my feeling, pure opinion, of course.

non-existent. however years ago when i used to drive into the city for work it was at $47 an hour at the rock (worked for AP back then). easily wiping out the "savings". Also, spiderman might steal your stuff if you dont tip his sorry a55

Not sure if BP still has a minifig wanted/needed thread. On a positive note you did get extras of some Rares like the Witch but I know that doesn't mean much when you need a complete set of 16. Not at home now but I should be able to cover you on the ones you need.

Alpine, Based on my experience, you maybe able to do it...however, the issue is the online process to order in the store. When the store creates the order (from their computer system), they are unable to scan the barcoded coupons and apply the TRUTH. So what they have to do is... calculate the percentage off by hand/calculator, then generate a promo code in their system that takes off that exact dollar amount on the order, and then apply it to the order. You then have to print out the order and pay in store at the front register. This all takes time and work and takes away from other customers. However, the biggest issue is that the order can be a "red flag"...as corporate TRU questions the reason for the promo code that was generated by an employee. There is no track record of a coupon being used, since there is no physical barcoded coupon that was scanned. (Their computer system does not allow this). This makes corporate TRU think that something is shady or that an employee is hooking up a friend with a deal, etc. This can cause issues for the store, the managers and the employees. I believe most try to avoid the headache, and understandably so. Just my experience...

$190 USD

Over the weekend I sold two Creative Towers (10664) for $95.99 including shipping.

It's 4 floors and has a ferris wheel in it. The good stuff is on floor 2. It's rumored to be closing at the end of 2015 because of a 10x increase in the cost of leasing the space. From the outside it's one of the most unattractive store fronts in Times Square. You're nuts if you drive down there... and sadly, there is no TRU parking lot for flipping your hot cakes!

It´s a given - all SW sets without Disney boxes were retiring this year, weren´t they?

Box size comparision Mini Cooper vs. old T1 vs. new T1

Received my 4 RE's today, all 22r5 as expected. However they were shipped in a WM box. Either i was wrong and it's 3 a case, or they took them out of the case into their own box. I was sure they were 4 to a case, but oh well no big deal as they are all in good shape. Canada post decided to pull this on me: All that's missing is a picture of the SAW clowns (Jigsaw?) face saying "i want to play a game..." Needless to say this was a pain in the ass to wiggle out haha.

I believe TLG only wants one thing: sustained profitability. Period. Full stop. No company of its kind wants anything else. So the question the Lego company is constantly facing is: how do we (1) keep demand for our products up and (2) sell them for as much as we can? 1) They want people to be scrambling to acquire the sets they produce; they want people thinking "I'd better buy this right now because who knows when it will be retired and gone forever!" That is a very good mentality for Lego's customers to have. Lego's customers will take a much different approach to buying if they know they can get this same set in a few years for the same price. 2) And let's talk about price: Lego is VERY expensive! Almost outrageously expensive. Seriously. $200 for a spaceship made out of little bricks with a Star Wars logo on it? That's not cheap. But a huge reason why people are willing to spend $150, $200 or even $400 for a box of plastic bricks is because consumers believe in their value. Consumers believe these sets will always be worth what they paid for them, and will maybe even appreciate. Consumers trust in Lego because they are well made, last forever, and retain value. So the $200 price tag is softened quite a bit when you know it will always be worth this amount, even after you open and play with it. Compare this to my other hobby: my wine cellar. I often compare the two in my mind, and I think the comparison is worth pointing out here. Wine is consumable. The moment I pop the cork on a $400 bottle of Bond or Schrader or whatever, that "asset" just became worth nothing except the pleasure I'm about to experience as I drink it. Tomorrow morning I'm going to pee it all out and recycle the empty bottle. And my $400 Death Star? I can open it up and build it with my son. And then display it for a year while he plays with it. Then tear it apart and build a new scene with some of the pieces and minifigures and toss the bulk in a storage bin. Then we can find all the pieces again and build it all over in five years. And then get tired of it and put it all back in the original box with the instructions and sell it used and complete on eBay for $700. It sure makes it a lot easier for me to spend $400 on a Lego set than a bottle of cabernet once I go through all of this in my head... To sum up, I think TLG wants to retire sets, loves seeing prices skyrocket in the secondary market, and will not do anything that is going to screw up its own sustainable profitability. What TLG has done over the past 10 years has seen the company rise from the ashes to become this massive leviathan of money-making. If they started re-releasing numerous old sets or making their products available forever (i.e. stopped retiring them after 2-4 years) then the consumers' mindsets would really change. And profits would go down. And that isn't going to happen.

Look at what received the Architecture treatment.

Just received 4x RE today also, shipped in TLG shipping box, 4 to a box. (a much more "size appropriate" box than yours appears thou - just big enough to fit. :-)

Staples boxes have free shipping if you ship to store. There is more info here:

Dr Who perhaps? possible that was before wall-e in the number, even though it has taken longer to release.

Yep at least I called it... Anyway, Dr. Who is due soon... https://ideas.lego.com/blogs/1-blog/post/26

got these yesterday. Simpson's house (waited a long time for this one) Kylo Ren's Command shuttle Ecto-1 (which i also built yesterday....reminds me of my childhood)

If you don't post for a while, we understand... Five finger discounts are frowned upon by stores.

If you have a target selling price (say, 3x buy-in) then sometimes that can be achieved right at the beginning (RI), after some years (Dino) or maybe never all (Prince of Persia) - there don´t seem to be fixed rules. Recently we have seen that some popular sets have dipped/stagnated in resale value. Wary of a remake and happy with the price, I sold my 7965´s but held on to 10224´s even though it had reached my target get-out price because my expectation was that there was more growth to come there. Maybe it would have been smarter to do the other way around, or have sold everything to be coherent with the 3x strategy or have kept everything for 3 more years and enjoyed the ride. Sticking to the get-out price whilst jettisoning sets that don´t show good growth prospects is probably the safest and least stressful option, even if it means you will sometimes sell sooner than is optimum - the problem is we get greedy and want more from certain sets than is perhaps reasonable.

I wonder if anybody has ever contemplated designing full-scale modular houses based on these Bricktober mini-modulars?

Blade Roller VW Krokodil CEC Vertikale Denkfabrik Gearhead - Tank Destroyer

If only the hotel had a helicopter instead of a plane.... The train station is my favorite.

Just got a shipment from SAH that I placed a week or two ago when this briefly blipped into stock. 27R5 seal code.

think for a lot its always been sales / business. Never really understood the flippers vs long term used on here. Its just buying and selling. Some do hold and sell way down the road which would be more investing. Then some just collect and never sell at all.

tower of orthanc

Yeah, that was a nice prize for regular season win, and much deserved, as it's damn hard to do. I just got $25 last year.

Modulars are one of the safest investments IMO...long term. STAR WARS sets, especially of the UCS variety, could be highly volatile. If a set is not reissued, it will be fun to watch them skyrocket. On the other hand, with all of these new "retro" Disney STAR WARS versions being made on an annual basis, there could be multiple UCS sets reissued or improved upon. The Modular theme is designed for collectors and the chances for a remake are low. There will always be a LEGO fan who wants one. On the topic of retiring sets, historically, the November to December time frame has the highest rate of retirements, so I am looking forward to seeing a few of the long in the tooth sets go poof for good. If they don't, then the old LEGO business model will have changed and people will have to modify their investment strategies.

Just sold my very first minifigure today, a Darth Revan poly for $72 + free shipping.

Just use a sharp knife pointed away from your body. Easy as pie...

CL Find - Loose TB for $75, no instructions or box. No guarantee of it being complete, but it was a nice old lady selling it, so I'm pretty sure it will be. Glad I don't have to open one of my sealed boxes to build this. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever opened a sealed Lego set for myself. I only like to build big sets and have always been able to find a used loose one on CL to build, e.g. DS, ISD (10030), SSD, PS, etc. My kids on the other hand, open new sets all the time! LOL

I finally found a little bit of time this afternoon to expand Tony Stark's mansion for my son. He's happy now, but still wants more displays for his suits. It's still a work in progress, since I need some more large white slopes to fill out the front. I built it up a little bit to give it more of a mountain-side feel. It's real solid now with the heavier base.

Since this devolved into a NIN band discussion, I was never a big fan of the band, though this was probably their best album on a mainstream level. Does anybody remember David Bowie's "I'm afraid of Americans?" Trent Reznor is the guy chasing him in the video if memory serves me correctly, which is really hazy since this was during my college days and I wasn't in there for 5.5 years for no reason.

You're thinking Target has a dedicated Lego person like TRU. It doesn't. I bet they would categorize this just one step above seasonal -- like add-on item products for amazon. This is going to be relatively deep production IMHO so the Quick Flippers will suffer--but will have good long term legs as Halloween occurs every year and Lego won't revisit a heavy minifigure line like this again.

I was going to ask or beg for this, but I thought it was cruel and unusual...

load up on PR next month instead of GE lol.