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My son has been bugging me to finally build 76041 - The Hydra Fortress Smash. I didn't like that the interior had very few rooms for play, so I made some additions. He'll wake up tomorrow and the battle will ensue.

while I expect that Santa will perform the same as DC did in its second holiday season, I don't buy into the notion that Lego adjust its production because resellers decide to jump on a set ( any set) at the very last minute . Seems like a horrible way to run a company and too narrow sighted .

I hate both of you.

I'm going to re-iterate my previous stance on this. PASS.

http://imgur.com/a/15zTE Maybe I'm jumping the gun here but these look awful

Lucky's Diner by Rob Bender

Available @ Target...

that's overly optimistic . I don't really a time last year where I could put an order for 50 while others were grabbing a 100

I bet this year after everyone has 100 of these each, lego keeps supply flowing and does not retire the set. This one seems like a crowded trade now. Much to pay attention to these day.

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I see your Craigslist find and raise you mine: Harry Potter sets that are all mostly complete with instructions and minifigures included. 4705 Snape's Class (missing ten pieces) 4706 Forbidden Corridor 4709 Hogwarts Castle 4714 Gringott's Bank 4721 Hogwarts Classrooms x2 (missing three pieces to set 2) 4722 Gryffindor House (missing one piece) 4723 Diagon Alley Shops x2 4729 Dumbledore's Office 4750 Draco's Encounter with Buckbeak x2 (missing three pieces to set 2) - I had no idea that the pegasus was that desirable. 4751 Harry and the Maurader's Map (only 80% complete, but all key parts present including minifigures) 4757 Hogwarts Castle Plus extra stuff that I haven't gone through yet - conservative estimate of $250 in additional parts, sets, and minifigures. I may even find some missing parts to previous sets. $150US.

Just happens that the only two BPers I've met in person are those two. Cal and I text all day long, so he knows I hate him with the passion of a 1000 burning suns for his Lego luck.

I hope to get fat Santa in the next one.

You can get more in 5 years when they reissue it...

I see your eBay find and raise you my Craigslist find. I got 7628, 7683, 7198, and 7682 for $140, they're all 100% complete with the manuals

not really.

Indiana Jones 8 set lot - $225 shipped 7620 - Motorcycle Chase - loose complete 7621 - Lost Tomb - loose complete 7622 - Race for the Stolen Treasure - loose complete 7623 - Temple Escape - loose complete 7624 - Jungle Duel - loose complete 7625 - River Chase - loose complete 7628 - Peril in Peru - w/ box complete 7683 - Fight on the Flying Wing - w/ box complete

It's Jason from the BrickShow. Someone sent it to him so they could shoot some videos.

Entry nine is called the Gatlin Cannon which is a 'castled' edition of 75040 General Grievous' Wheel Bike. Believe it.

In space, no one can hear you poop.

Good, one less theme to worry about

This one is really 2-4 year hold. I agree with Ed, what is next that will pull in those dollar gains so quick. I come up empty.

Id be surprised if this thing hits $150 this Christmas.

I'll take the under. This has DC written all over it.

It will be a steady $140-$150 again. LEGO won't be able to keep up with production through the holidays as they're ramping up for 2016 sets. Folks will just have to decide to sell at $150, or hold out for $200+.

They canceled Chima for these **** *** ***** ??? These looked like rejected vehicles from Chima line, and I was being kind

If you like city scapes pickup 5526 if you ever get the chance (has Statue of Liberty, Sears Tower, Monorail):

Hearing word that most of the new sets for 2016 are mini city landscapes and not specific monuments - Burj excepted.

New York World's Fair Astro-View Towers by Eight of Five

Hell yeah especially if free! It's that corny horror where you laugh more than be scared.

In stock @ Amazon...

21110 RI $43 7961 Mauls Infiltrator $75 7106 Droid Escape $10 9464 x3 Hearse $43 each

http://brickfanatics.co.uk/happy-birthday-to-adam-west-sneak-peak-at-76052/

Oops...

The word on the street is that Tumbler tyres are going to appear in the 2016 wave of Technic sets so that would be one reason less for this set to retire early.

New Brick Park by Nick Della Mora

You are not making friends...

Funny thing is I can see a future release for more Monsters including a Grim Reaper character even though he represents 'the very end of everything'. (Fantasy era of Castle had skeleton armies and the Ninjago team had to deal with their own deadites so how would this natural part of life be any different?) On one hand I would not expect a devil/demon/imp for the most obvious of reasons while then again for the Monster 4 game they did design a head with devil pattern. Still to officially call anything a demon would be frowned upon I imagine (like the Scooby-Doo "Sea Monster" whose design is more based on the Sea Devil character in the original series) therefore perhaps Gremlin might be more suited for LEGO's needs. Somewhere down the line there should be a Troll, maybe a Lizardman soldier, and how about something using Garmadon's torso for a couple extra arms. Plenty of mythological critters out there that could use the minifigure treatment from Harpies, Lamias, to Scyllas. Okay they have given us Medusa, the Gorgon of Lamias, so for a male counterpart could be a Naga.

That's because you don't shop in some mystical fairy tale land with magic sorting baskets!

I could pack those boxes.

1) Fees are pretty set and you can use tools like these to calculate them. If I'm packaging and shipping myself, I usually tack on a $1.00-$1.50 to each shipment for materials, on average, depending on the size. This is my rule of thumb for taxes. I create similar formulas in Excel and just keep a running tab of sales. https://salecalc.com/ https://salecalc.com/amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=1161240 2) Generally, if I want to compete with current market prices, I'll look at the recently sold or most recent listings and see what the top 5 lowest prices are by sorting for Price + Shipping. I'll calculate a base average on what the going prices are and just make that my listing price w/ free shipping. If I want to ride it out for desired price, I'll just set a price or look at current prices and add 10% - 20% and let the listings sit until they sell. I will make adjustments from time-to-time, but this is pretty much what I do and what I've been doing for 10 years or so. If I know something is going to be a premium to ship from coast-to-coast, I'll add a shipping fee to cover the additional cost.

But it comes with a brick separator! I'll probably buy two... one for us, one just for the risk. We are still missing the bakery so hopefully that one is re-released next year!!

This has to be a sign, right? I mean, how can I NOT go buy another Death Star today??

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.

Train Station by dfalkner

On the topic of buying HH even now at 2x or more MSRP: Phase 1: My son got interested in Lego 7 months ago. I hadn't so much as looked at a Lego in 20 years. All I knew was he desperately wanted new Lego passenger train. We bought and built it together, along with station. Phase 2: I thought "wow this is so cool! These sets are WAY better than they were in my day!" Phase 3: I go online and start looking at what else Lego makes. I stumble onto Haunted House on Lego SAH (it was still up with a SO tag). Jaw drops. Heart rate increases. Phase 4 (also known as the self-denial phase): I do my research, see it is seeing on eBay for almost $400, and show my wife the set, but promise I would never spend $400 on a Lego set (because THAT would be crazy). Phase 5 (also known as "emersion from dark ages" syndrome. Also known as the angry wife phase): I buy a brand new HH for $350 shipped. It arrives in beautiful shape. Wife finds out. (Domestic episode deleted from post). The point of this whole diatribe was that the HH was the one and only retired set I just could never live without. I can pass on all the old Star Wars stuff, pirate ships, TH, FB, whatever. But this was a "biological imperative" - there was no way my heart/head combo was ever going to let me live a life that didn't contain the Lego 10228. I would have paid $500. Today I would pay $600 if I had to (and didn't own it). There is something magical about this set and I feel very strongly that there are THOUSANDS of people out about to have their ownHH moment in the next several years. This set will hit $500 two months, eclipse the Town Hall by October 2016, and leave TH in the dust in 2017. Just watch and mark my words. (Phase 6: new guy thinks he's smart enough to lay down epic predictions at 4:00am cuz he can't sleep)

Not every set can be a UCS MF or a modular. Some think that if you don't get a 100% return in a months after EOL then the set is a failure. I think this one will do nicely. But it maybe more of a slow burn. And we are still 2 years from the next movie which may help prices for those happy to wait that long. The BP price for the UK is still approx 25% so their may be some bargains still out there. The LOTR 1st wave sets went EOL approx 2 years ago and only now are they starting to appreciate. Some things takes time.