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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.

We all also thought there was no way they would retire R2 before the new movie came out......but they did. I don't think Lego doesn't care what people think, especially resellers.

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.

It was a J.O.K.E. but it is confirmed they are redoing Burj Khalifa at slightly bigger scale so anything can happen regarding the other sets.

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.

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).

^ I find that statement hard to believe . The fact that a company will keep producing a set indefinitely based on resellers' buying habits is a far fetched idea IMO .

^ this. Lego isn't stupid. If you continue to buy the DS, they will continue to make them. Stop buying; reduce their profit margin because of idle merchandise and, only then, will they stop and go to another line that is more profitable. You DS horders make it to easy for them

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!

Being pissed off sarcastic that we don't have more opportunities here in Germany and sometimes when I read "what you bought at full price? If you don't buy for at least 50% off it's no deal!" and how people do it with all these crazy coupons and bonus points etc. (even for bigger sets that we can't get much better than 10% off) then I'm not so sure about the joking part anymore... but I think it is obvious enough that I might have exaggerated just a little bit ;-)

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

The Ray Gun, what every decent hardworking spaceman should carry because you never know what terror from outer space will arise across a forbidden planet. Smith and Wesson A80 Smith and Wesson A82 Russian Tokarev TT-34 Atomiser Stechkin Laser pistol, circa 1956 Junebug 7500kW Mercury Mk. 2 Ray Gun G-28 Plasma Ray ZapRay 9000

2 sea cows, last two.

Well it would appear that LEGO Dimensions is planned for at least three years. Also all the booster/character/extra/whatever packs are not required to earn all in-game medals (100% achievements). You just need the basic starter pack to, well, get started.

DS(LEGO Shop at Home) http://ift.tt/IAwppj changed status from [Out of stock, expected ship date Sep 27 2015] to [Sold Out], change time: Thu Sep 17 2015 19:05:15 GMT-0600 (MDT)

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

The Tipsy Zombie Costume Shoppe by Brick Police

If it make you feel any better, my kids are 7 and 3, and don't do that anymore. Oh, sorry. That just makes me feel better.

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.

We service VWs everyday and they are way overrated. Sorry to any fans out there. German cars are generally overrated IMO. I've had my share of BMWs and Mercedes and they are pricey and unreliable.

as long as you have this guy too, you can be a coin collector

Based upon the board game from long ago, here is Ghost Castle. Also be sure to watch the video for a better overall view.

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

The Sandcrawler remake is fine. It's a much improved version over the old set. I expect LEGO to produce quality products like that. The Red 5 wasn't needed because the 7191 was an iconic set, but I could live with it. The Toy Shop is laziness in my opinion, or an experiment. As I have stated before, LEGO needs to be careful here. Scaring off the collectors and resellers with exact duplicates will damage the secondary market, which will in turn damage the primary market. Do you really think it's a coincidence that The LEGO Group's profits started increasing at the same time eBay's growth was exploding? When people realized a LEGO set was a valuable collectible, the company's profits skyrocketed. It might take some time, but corporate profits will be hurt if LEGO continues down this path.

Plastic is not the primary cost of producing a set.

Indeed.