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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.

Point Dume Residence by César Soares

Shipping tip... shipping this 3 lb brick cross-country almost cost me over $13. Then I found it fits nicely in a Medium Flat Rate box, and ships coast to coast for $11 and change. This is the first time I've ever found use for a flat rate box.

I just picked up all the Force Awaken sets from a wholeseller $45 tie fighter (75101) $50 poe's x-wing (75102) $55 transporter (75103) $90 millennium falcon (75105) $25 snowspeeder (75100) $75 kylo ren's command shuttle (75104) $13 rey's speeder (75099) TOTAL $353

If I were a betting man, I would put my chips on WM as biggest buyer of Lego

Technically, Dr. Who was under reviews along side BBT set in 2014. Wall-E was announced in 2015. My guess is they are saving #11 for Dr. Who set.

Same as last year. So... ?

Maybe just take them back, full stop. Problem is it will proably retire the day after.....

If Vw is using the 42029 box then it is quite a bit longer and can fit on shelves mor easily being lower. I guess they are just standardising their packaging and eliminating unusual boxes (I don´t recall T1 original box being used for much else).The Mini box is the same or very similar to Tie Fighter, isn't it?

One for you Orcking... this guy makes some awesome mechs.

For sure it does seem way off, but I can imagine so many different reasons... Between being hung over, or having a co-worker drop a stack of bags into your working pile, or some jerk who just doesn't care. Is it just me or is that only 58 polybags? Doesn't seem to add up to 60 and I tried a couple times. The zombie frankenstein rocker is 5 to a case which is what made me add it up.

This may be old news but I haven't come across much talk about bump codes recently on here so I thought I'd share some findings. I've smooshed through two different production date runs of the S14s, 124B5 and 420B5. 124B5 was my first purchase of minifigs, tagged and bagged. Then the 420B5 I sprint smooshed at another store about a week later. I didn't have any tagged from my 2nd batch so I had to smoosh again at home and decided to compare bump codes to my initial minifigs. I found that some characters shared the same bumps across both runs and some were different. For example, #16 spider lady has the same bump pattern within both production runs, where as #4 wacky witch has 2 distinctly different patterns. I've only gone through about 40 polys so it's a pretty small sample. When I crack open a new box I'll do some more comparisons. I have come to 2 predictions: 1)bump codes are tied to production runs, so each character may have a different pattern each time they're made 2)each character may have multiple bump codes assigned to them but not related production runs

Here is a large collection of alternatives made from Benny's Spaceship.

just buy your extras now while everyone is undercutting each other

Our taxi went past a very large complex in Queens that had a Costco, TRU, and about 6 other large stores. The parking lot was massive... You could flip hot cakes and hire teenagers smoking in the parking lot all day long. NYC isn't for people who don't like busy, but it's hella fun when you're from a city 1/30th the size of the New York metropolitan area.

I haven't seen a better deal on a case...Wonder how many of these they have. Would figure they would run out here pretty soon with so many people ordering them.

You guys encouraged me. I ordered a couple S14 cases from Indigo. Nice price at $190 shipped.

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.

eBay .. lots of people sell ziplock backs in bulk as well for dirt cheap.

Then let him do it... It's a fun build and looks better built than in the box.

Regarding their buy in price, I agree it must be very low, like TRU and the big American chainstores. Perhaps Lego has renegotiated their wholesale discount so, indirectly, Amazon can´t sell so low. It is also possible that they are passing on to the consumer the increased tax burden they have faced since the EU ruling about being based in Luxembourg and their tax obligations.Timewise that fits but then there would be a correlation with other products.

Floating Paradise by Tyler

But if the movie is a big success, on the 17th we europeans will clean out your ebay and amazon shops of star wars sets. Even before you have the chance to do your price increases.

Great technique, gives an excellent effect.

PR will retire, since everyone is buying PS and PC