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went looking at a target for sealed cases today. the clerk didnt find any even though it shows in stockroom. instead he brought me a complete sealed display case of series 7 in a shipper. im thinkin what?!?! took it to service desk to get the price adjusted to 2.99, because im a cheap bastard. instead i got them for $2 each and 5% redcard. moral of the story is check your local stockrooms. you may find gold. barcodes on them still scanned as series 14.

Hey fellow Brickpickers! I'm a huge fan of the "Building LEGO" part of this forum and topics I frequently visit and stay up to date to are the MOC Highlights, Rebuilding the Classics, etc. As for me I am still more of a humble builder but ever since I restarted this hobby I felt this urge to create something on my own or modify LEGO Sets. What this forum always lacked (for me at least) has been a thread where people share their own creations and modifications. Until now these things ended up in the topic "What did you build today" or in other random threads. I'd like to invite you all to share your humble, awesome, small, big, crazy, etc. creations and modifications :-) I'll start with something - rather humble if I compare it to all these madly awesome MOCs I've seen - that I have build recently. This is my take on "Toxikita's Toxic Meltdown" (http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/70163_Toxikita's_Toxic_Meltdown). At first I wanted to build a lab for a zombie scene with some star wars minifigs, but I ended up with this ;-) (I guess I could still just put some star wars minifigs in there ^.^). Hope you like it and share your own creations soon! This is a general overview of the built. As you can see I tried to put some lab stuff into it and it is made up of two sections. One for regular research and another one for more dangerous research projects. Normally these two sections would be safely devided but somebody broke the glass and opend the door... Toxikita and her henchmen met some resistance when they forced their way into the facililty. Now they can do as they please while they keep the researchers and guards under control. Some detail of the lab equpiment:

I scored a decent craigslist lot this morning. All sets are used/complete with instructions. No boxes. 10216 Winter Village Bakery 10199 Winter Village Toy Shop 4996 Creator Beach House 3833 Krusty Krab Adventures 3827 Adventures in Bikini Bottom All five sets for $125.

It took a while & I made a few substitutions but I bricklinked the freaking Imperial Flagship

Well, it made it on Amazon. 75920 - Raptor Escape - $100

Both of the 2011 christmas seasonal sets for $69 with free shipping on EBay -NEW. Architecture Sungnyemum - New - EBAY - $247.99 including shipping. 7950 - Woody and Buzz to the rescue - The buyer bought 2 duplicate sets - Maybe he's a BP'er? - $148.00 for both sets shipped on Ebay. Fire Brigade - New - $394.00 - Free shipping. 41999 -Crawler Exclusive - New - Ebay - $365 including shipping. Burj Kalifa - New - Ebay - $69.90 free shipping. 10212 - Star Wars Imperial Shuttle - New - Ebay - $624 including shipping Statue of Liberty magnet set - Exclusive to NYC - $14 free shipping. 10231 - Space Shuttle - New - $316 including shpping - Ebay. Winter Village Post Office - 10222 - New - Ebay - $262 including shipping 10199 - Winter Village Toy Shop (after the new set announcement) - New - Ebay - $137 shipped. 10217 Diagon Alley - New - Ebay - $349 shipped. 21001 - John Hancock Building - NEW - Ebay - $169 including shipping. All these sales have been in the past 5 weeks.

I spent $.50 in gas for mine. My local Wal-Mart had 19.

Someone gave me offer for $8 for ToT today. I usually set auto decline but I forgot

This is 100% a scammer, there is someone who's scamming on top of the line retired sets and the MO is always the same. Location is always Hungary, with the country being another country in Europe. It's always an auction, the seller generally has 1 feedback as a buyer from a Chinese site and the set is usually something top of the line retired like Imperial Flagship, Grand Carousel, Marsk Train etc. I've been reporting this guy when I see them, but keeps popping up as a different user.

Laff in the Dark by Jordan Schwartz

70816 Benny's Spaceship Alternative Build by Adrian Jonestwo

Only here can you read a sentence talking about how fantastic the VD and PEE was. Now if only these two were available at Target so I could say I found my VD and PEE with the TIT.

If anyone is interested. I will be building this set live over on Twitch. I'll be starting in about 45min (9pm PDT). twitch.tv/silburned

Remember not to be so shortsighted trying to maximize deals that you lose opportunities. Waiting for the double VIP/bonus while a near EOL exclusive go OOS might end up sabotaging your plans. If you want EV, Sea Cow, RE or similar sets and they show up online it's better to grab them when you can unless you think the $20 train is the profit you would have made by buying the EOL set. I don't know how accurate the statement is but many senior members have said people buying like crazy during those 2 day overlap period may be deemed as resellers by TLG (apparently anybody with a brain and good impulse control is also a reseller).

Only tour date in CA is on 10/31/15 in Glendale Galleria. Honestly, I don't want to be anywhere near a mall on that day... especially the Galleria. TX and IL peeps might be worth checking it out.

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

Built 21303 - Wall-E last night. This was done on my live stream on Twitch. Great build with some interesting techniques. I see what people mean about the floppy head tho. Now that it is actually available in stores, I'm curious to see the difference.

Buyer: "Worst case, they'll say no, right?" *Blocked*

LEGO Collectible Minifigures Series 15 Set Number: 71011 Color: Orange Release Date: January 2016

I could be wrong. At my two Targets, they're hanging out on the pegs one day, cleaned out the next, restocked the next day, then gone, then back again... seems like they have plenty. I guess when they're easy to find in my area (and maybe I bought more than I should), I forecast surpluses, and when they're hard to find in your area, you might expect shortages. Human nature? I just think there are lots in stock rooms around the country, waiting for Series 13 and Simspons figs to vacate the shelves. If these were just a seasonal thing... done after Halloween, then is Series 15 coming out in November?

And Speedy, Kid Flash and Aqualad since they all appear in TTG

I haven't bought it though I do intend in getting one for the bat mobile (other than the yellow wheels its the best minifig scaled batmobile (exception 7888 tumbler) ) and most importantly the minifigures, 3 teen titans (star fire, beast boy and tt version of robin for the first time) as well as new 52 harley quinn (only wish they gave her a dual coloured hair piece instead of class clown hat). Lego needs to release Raven so we can have complete set teen titans (maybe terra too)

A Kayak? Really? Time to load up the trunk with some Raptor Escapes and flip some real coin in the parking lot.

Not sure if anyone is looking for this set or wants to burn eBay GC's, but Niko and his flowing locks has this set on eBay for $103. There are 4 left.

Battle for Humanity (First Contact) by Kylie Joe

google is your friend

Is that the latest date code on those? Noticed at SAH they put the Lord of the Rings theme back up.

Gingerbread > train

50% off at the actual Lego Store? Obviously, I'm doing something wrong.

I'm a new seller and I hope it's not this dire. When I was researching the prices, I wasn't so focused on the declines since March, as I was on the run-up that most sets got from December thru March. I was wondering if that pattern might repeat this year? ... especially now with prices "taking a breather" this summer / fall. If it were a case of Lego investing just becoming "too popular", and "too many investors", then we'd see these declines across the board for more recent sets, and older sets would be spared (because they were hoarded back in "the good ole days" when the market wasn't so crowded). Looking at camel3 pricing (which may not be the best indicator... but it's the easiest one I've got) there are 2015 declines in even older sets like 7181 TIE Interceptor, and 7199 Temple of Doom. And there are winners this year (climbing solidly since EOL) in more recent sets like 9493 X-wing, 75005 Rancor Pit and 75021 Republic Gunship. My feelings are the Unimog is just suffering from a combination of this general "summer slowdown" and the birth of 42043. For the casual buyer / builder, why would I pay more for the Unimog, when there's this bigger badder better thing that just came out? The 6211 Imperial Star Destroyer has seen similar weakness since the 75055 came out. Sure the 6211 is bigger, has more pieces, and is a more prized "collector's item", but I can't justify spending $300 + on that, when I can get a 75055 for $110. Sure, some gearheads are super "into" the Unimog, but a lot of buyers who just want a cool truck with a robot arm... well, they just got a better offer this year.

There is going to be enough of Yoda to make him worth building. I’ve plenty of Tan spares and a few missing sand green parts shouldn’t be a problem. AT-AT looks mostly there so I may built it, but the separatist shuttle isn’t worth the hassle without the figs.

Don't forget your tweed jacket with leather patches on the elbows and a distinctive pipe.

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

Police Headquarters by Castor Troy

Saw this on Reddit. How *not* to sell your base plates on eBay:

They are yummy...

Thanks! To put a nice little bow on this story, I printed shipping last night and before I got to bed already received positive feedback "Thanks for the swift shipping." Seems like I can create a Saturday Night Live character based on this person "Mr. I-Have-No-Concept-of-Time".

Yes...this is what I do too. Turns out this person was just impatient more so then an a-hole. My message to them was "Sorry, I have been at work all day but will ship this when I get home"....to which they replied "Thanks, have a great evening." I think what happens a lot in this day and age is that people forget they are talking to a person. The person probably works, has kids, goes to school, etc (I do all of these). Until you respond with a "human" response, they think they are talking to Amazon or some other huge corporation. Anyways...still think there is 92% chance I end up eating something on this transaction.

Mom's House by Zachary Lewis

Tomboy Clothing by Barrie Crossan

Cyberpunk shop by Shannon Sproule

Nice. That reminds me how I have come across a number of recolors for the Galaxy Explorer and a couple other Classic Space builds done as Blacktron, M-Tron, Spyrius, etcetera.

Oh yes it does. It means that prices on amazon be

hmmm. So going from a 7 year old autistic girl to an ageless nephew. I guess he found that the autistic girl story was a little too much over the top to be believable. The real lesson here is to not leave LEGO out on your patio anywhere near this guy's neighborhood.

This minimalist design caught my attention for looking something right out of those vintage retro space magazines. Untitled by Shannon Sproule

Floating Paradise by Tyler

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