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24 Exo Suits at $22

Most of the ones that sold during the run up were to each other - Remember, so many seemed certain (during the hype) they were going to sell them for $1,000 at Christmas. This was not a popular set - and now (after the dip in price) some sellers are worried, and looking to get out. Until the actual end users buy them, things could be difficult. Overall, the market is absolutely flooded with sellers. I periodically re-visit my stash of unlisted aging sets (to check if they are reaching their price points). More than ever, it seems that many of the prices are going nowhere. As I am considering changing some of my own rules, others are certainly doing the same. Stagnant prices, more supply, other sellers dumping supply - it isn't good.

Turned up this morning. Listed as 3kg Of Lego, Star Wars Theme, With Some Figures. £50. Took a gamble on the Sand Green. Dusty but otherwise good condition, haven’t inventoried him yet, but looks promising.

Lego 41038 half price at amazon!

Brides of Dracula by teruel211

Tonight a picked up a used complete w/ boxes lot with 10225 - UCS R2-D2, 9493 - X-Wing, & 9492 - Tie Fighter for $380 shipped on EBay. Looks like a real nice lot and well kept by a collector. This way I won't be torn about opening my personal copies and I can offload them and cover most of the cost with profit.

Imperial Hotel and White House will be HOT!

I quick flipped a winter village market that I got for $78 on eBay a couple days back to a regular buyer of mine for $125 lol

No. We hope they retire 10188 & not replace it...

Why? So they can sell a new toy. Why did they replace Darth Maul' infiltrator a year later? Same reason.

You can buy from me--always a shipping box, 90% of the time a brand new box, appropriate packing, and a handwritten "thank you." We don't all suck, but the one's who do make the rest of us look really good.

I've been selling/flipping in some form since the mid 90's and have seen many "hot" products come and go. Either adapt with the changes or get out. There is no third direction. Anyone who thinks otherwise is only fooling themselves. Be it tulip bulbs, beanie babies, baseball cards, gold/silver, real estate...Lego is no different.

treasure is still everywhere, you need only get your head out of the past and look.

Maybe because in the U.S. they get them for 50% off with a coupon that they use to double the value of another coupon which decreases the price of ALL purchases while they can additionally add their bonus points and membership special deals and if the box has got a bruise they get it for free or sue the seller. And in most parts of Europe on the other hand we can be happy for double VIP points and a promominifig (if we get the cool one... obviously UK gets a lot of great deals so I'm not sure if I want to count you to Europe anymore when it comes to LEGO ^.^...) also I've never heard of anything like comic-con where they have awesome minifigs sometimes (always?) (too much frustration after I've been waiting for weeks for the 3 for 2 deal in the netherlands...and still nothing! :-( ) Would also be glad to see somebody post a pic ;-) I don't expect too much of the new box art though since I never really have been that much into the box art...

Lucky you are, hate you I do. ;)

The Great Devourer by Tyler

Hey Everyone, I will be starting a live stream in about 40 mins. I will be building the 6973 - Deep Freeze Defender from the Ice Planet theme. Come on over and hang out. twitch.tv/silburned

I think I laughed a little too loudly at that. But I honestly think $22 Exos are good.

I think you might be confused, I think what resellers want is for the DS to retire and another one NOT be made.

Exactly. Aside from resellers who would be pissed, collectors and kids would go wild and throw money at a new death star. Look at people going crazy over the new MF......which is essentially that same as the last one.

If you screen capture some parts of the video after building it, you should get a pretty good idea. I just haven't built the Wall-E we own yet. This MOC stores in the battery in the trash compartment behind the Wall-e logo.

Remember that Lego dropped the Shell license, apparently because someone told them Shell was an oil company. It's not hard to imagine Lego dropping the VW license in light of the incredibly deliberate and widespread fraud the corporation has been perpetrating. We are talking about pollutant levels under actual driving conditions that are 40-50 x the legal limit, concealed by software with no purpose other than fraud.

LOL @ "extended" as opposed to "misprinted"

The Brick Fan website is reporting that the October x2 VIP points has been extended from Oct 1-14 which would be nice because the Train promo starts on the 13th and would be nice to get both. Will wait and see though for the official announcement. source http://www.thebrickfan.com/lego-october-2015-double-vip-points-extended/

Perhaps what happened with this set is that people because it was around for 2.5 years and a well received set, the non technic investment crowd got in, taking advantage of every discount possible. Those who got it 40% off were still able to double their money, which is fine. Look at 42000 grand prix racer, however, and the story is different. In the US it got a late launch and was available for less than 2 years so the price shot up on EOL as it was quite scarce and probably because some investors missed out (the price has now fallen a little). In Europe you can stil find it easily as we got the full 2 year schedule and it was a typical supermarket / mainstream set hard not to find. They could be had for as much as 60% off so it is no wonder that now it is still struggling to sell even for RRP. If 42025 cargo plane has retired by Jan 16 then it will be a repeat of grand prix racer, but if it sticks around another year then it will not be a good performer.

HILARIOUS!!!!!! like the only people buying death stars are the members on this site.....please!!!

I´d tend to agree with the view that 10224 growth has stopped due both to investors not buying them up at current market prices and sellers seeing the green light to unload at double RRP point. Perhaps Darin would like to contribute his opinion.

42043 is as similar to 8110 as F40 is to VW T1 - even less as the colour is different! It is true that 42043 has brought in pneumatics again but it is a different scale to the unimog and is more akin to 8258 just with more parts and no XL motor. However, I agree that the market for big Technic sets is probably smaller than the number of units that sellers have massed - the same can be said for most other sets that were supposed to be the "bees knees" like Benny´s Spaceship or AA. Sellers have a choice to ride it out until they are the last standing or sell at little or no profit and move on. I´m sad as it is one of the first post dark ages sets I bought and was a super build and display model (to some it looks ugly but that has already been discussed in the R2D2 thread).

keep buying. They will make more.

You know how it is... you build that set and then another one and after a while there are just too many spareparts so that you decide to do something with them... After I figured that I have way too many of these nasty very small blue and white bricks where you just never know what to do with them I decided to build something. So it took me quite a while (I guess it must have been about an hour or so...) but here it is!

So, to summarize, the market for new Unimogs at $300 are people that: - Are collectors / completionists (still want 8110 regardless of 42043), and - Don't mind the look of the Unimog, and - Have money, and - Are lazy / insane Small market, I think.

At least you can't recall what the world was like 5 years ago - Treasure was everywhere, with little if any competition.

2 sea cows, last two.

After seeing the higher resolution pictures of this set, along with the initial pictures of 40139 Gingerbread House, I can't help but wonder what happened with the main winter village release this year. Both of these freebie sets have candy all over them, and it certainly seems like they would have paired well with a candy/sweet shop, which was heavily rumored before the toy shop re-release was confirmed. Makes me think that perhaps the original plan was to have a candy/sweet shop this year, but those plans were changed because 1) design resources were shifted to TFA stuff or 2) TLG made the conscious decision to bring back the toy shop, feeling that it would be a better set to follow up and capitalize upon the popularity of Santa's Workshop.

50% Target Clearance - Karai Bike Escape x3, Witch-king Battle 79015 x5, Attack On Lake-town 79016 x3, Cragger's Fire Striker 70135 x1

They may have. I went to a store format a few months ago because I'm kind of a big deal. People know me. I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany

Klingon D5 Deuterium Tanker by Matt Bace

is there a way we could get a "last updated on_" flag on the brickfolio and a message in the banner that lets us know when it is complete? for me this would be helpful

Settled a bit and sold an SSD 10221 for $850. Half price on fees and good shipping prices made the decision. Needed to clear some money for upcoming months Batcave/Funhouse combo for $135. Again, a bit low, but cheap buy-in and unsure about future for this combo.

Did you read the poll @ the start of the thread?

Have built several sets in recent weeks, here are the latest two. I need to buy another shelving unit from Ikea now

ER0L's Garage 1.0

Finished the last of The Force Awakens sets with the Snowspeeder set. Of all the sets this looked the least appealing to me but it's much bigger and better looking in person and I really really like it. I still don't get the functionality of an opening top vehicle in the snow though. If I had to rate the sets in order it would be: 1. Poe's X-Wing (a surprise to me since I wasn't originally planning to get this set) the cockpit piece and color scheme is amazing. 2. Millennium Falcon - with the figures being a part of my vote for it here 3. Kylo Ren's Command Shuttle - even though the wings are not at the right angle it is a fairly easy mod to correct and of all the sets this one felt like a UCS set and a fun build. 4. Snowspeeder - like the way it looks like a hovering boat with giant engines, snow trooper is great 5. Rey's Speeder - love the colors, fun little build 6. Tie Fighter - the new printed pieces in the dark red are great pieces 7. First Order Transporter - I was so disappointed by this set. I wanted to love it, it was one of the first that I purchased but it just doesn't work for me. Disappointed but the figure selection is pretty good.

I do not want to throw oil on the fire here. But my guess and hunch is the following: All Star Wars sets without the Disney Logo will have either a new box design or will retire by the end of the year once the movie is out. That also would explain the many OOS and small restocks we see every time. They are stalling till December. Again... this is just a hunch/guess/gamble from me. No proof. Just my common sense. You can thank or burn me later.

built the Temple of Airjitzu with my sons this weekend. Two word: frickin' beautiful! It was really a lot of fun - but now I don't want them to touch it

Plastic is not the primary cost of producing a set.

Indeed.

my son and i completed Arkham Asylum Breakout yesterday. That building will def be part of my Halloween theme! just nee to make the gate longer.