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Throw back Thursday! One year ago today I made my smartest move as a brickvestor: First thing in the morning, I bought my first Town Hall on double VIP, just hours before they went out of stock. I love to reminisce when I was right, so just for fun… some other comments from that day…(all comments edited and taken out of context)… Bricketycricket: Backordered at LEGO Shop at Home. You may now commence EOL speculation and unwarranted panic Trekgate502: I think it is heading towards EOL land based on multiple comments BUT that is purely highly unwarranted speculation. Of course where mscheaf and I have the fork discussion going on the haunted house, I won't stick a fork in this one. VBG Mscheaf: Yeah, if I get worried about this set retiring I will just go to the Lego store and pick up a few of the 2 dozen I saw there next to the Town Hall display model. Neosphinx: Still plenty of stock Clxmouth: OOS at TRU. They had em a couple hours ago. …reports of OOS on other sites continued to come in… speculation tilted both ways… more comments seemed to lean towards, “this set isn’t going EOL yet… just the stupid herd creating artificial demand, and ensuring another big production run…” And then on Oct 2… Ed Mack: Very soon, this will be the busiest thread on the site. … then things really started to roll. Ahhh… good times… glad I was here to be a part of it. I was able to pick up several more over the next few weeks. The "dance" that ensued seemed quite orderly and easy to navigate, compared to what's going on these days. Probably never happen again quite that way.

Delete this guys account.

First modular MOC attempt began as ice cream shop but ran out of pink bricks so started working on other floors with blue. now i'm out of blue and waiting for more blue to arrive and will finish off the ice cream palace with another pink floor my daughter has promised i turn into a nail salon in exchange for eminent domain consuming her boxed up city park cafe I just can't deal with a pink ground floor and everything else blue. waiting for more Grilles to make a blue base.

Found 22 more today across 3 different Walmarts. I just had to take a few photos before I sent out more for FBA. Total holding as of today: 76 Christmas Tree of Raptor Escapes!

Fine, I'll play. 250 pounds of bulk with Emerald Night, QAR, BP, Shuttle Expedition, every Indiana Jones Set, plus 50 or so other sets. Oh, almost forgot, a 90% complete Grand Carousel. $50.

i finished the build review. just need to get the pictures ready. here is a sneak peak of the motorized Wall-E i built. hiding the PF cables was the main challenge. another obstacle was the torque generated by the 2 PF 8883 M-Motors. the "Cross Axle 4M" that connects the 8883 and track assembly tends to get separated (that side stops moving). update: yeah, the dog wouldn't leave Wall-E alone and demanded a cameo.

I think I got you beat on the 10030 front. From CL back in 2011, some guy was selling a star destroyer and falcon for $15. I was lucky that I was the first to call him. Based on the ad (I saved a pdf of it for fun), I thought it was going to be 6211 and 10179, but it turned out to be 10030 and 4504. I didn't complain though! haha 10030 was missing about $60 in parts and 4504 was only half there so I put it in my parts bin. Best CL find ever! Runner up would be loose 10181 from CL for $100. Edit: I just realized that I posted this already back in June 2014. Sorry, but I just love retelling this story.

i come to find out that both coupons on page 1 are actually 20% (with card). here is a way to maximize your truth this month: scan most expensive items first (in this case 49.99 and 44.99), scan bricktober, scan card, scan 20%, scan 15%(20%), scan $5/25. as long as your items are $75+ before tax and coupons, POS will ring BT up free. discounts are applied in different order (see exhibit a), but follow the scanning order above to get the most benefit. rewards and GCs are not taken into consideration.

I still see Atlantis polybags at Meijer every so often.

I hope it takes you until 2020 to sort it all out.

I'll trade you one of my liberal TRU stores for your Kmart or mom and pop country grocery store honey hole.

Somewhere else on the internet, "Matt" has a post about the biggest regret ever made...

Sold a used Hagrid's Hut for $85, unfortunately my margins were only 1" on top and bottom and 1/2" on left and right.

Saw some Lego sets marked down at Kmart 25% - 30% off. They were sale prices, so surprise points worked on them just fine. Some were in the clearance section (but without the yellow clearance stickers) and others were in the regular Lego aisle and not marked, but scanned with the sale price. I've been using surprise/reward points to pick these up heavily discounted. 41028: Emma's Lifeguard Post $7.24 60012: Coast Guard 4x4 & Diving Boat $13.94 31021: Furry Creatures $13.94 41008: Heartlake City Pool $30.09

Here's a little something floating around on Brickset.

Here's one of those wacky "had to be there" things. I am at Target, picking up online orders for Non-LEGO related stuff - and a guy walks out of the back with a slightly beaten up but sealed Atlantis 8061 - Gateway of the Squid set. Someone else had left it for him to do something with. I told him I'd take it if it was cheap enough, he scanned it and it came up $14. Sold. How often do people stumble on 5 year old sets at these stores?! Crazy.

I met this guy at the mall...and told him that I want 375 Yellow Castle. He just brought it to me, for free. All I had to do was be "good" for the year. What a joke. I totally was bad a couple of times. I Miss that guy...what a sucker, totally ripped him for some other free stuff too. Loser.

today's forecast calls for scattered spaghetti with a small chance one pointy meatball

Sold my last Palpatine's Arrest on Amazon for $116 shipped. Only 3 more orders to go before I qualify for holiday selling.

Or until all of the big ones are remade. That seems to be the trend haha.

Must be working up a new MOC.

I-Rex for $270ish CAD Incl shipping, was just testing the waters, time to up the price >:D

We have a thread for that... http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/12763-what-are-your-lego-investing-mistakes-and-regrets-lessons-learned

TRUTH!

Not really a compliant. But sometimes. I spent the first ten years of my career in IT support, on helpdesks and then managing helpdesks and sometimes it takes every ounce of that experience to help people buy. I’ve just spend an hour walking an Italian Lady, who clearly had no clue on how to use eBay or computers in general, through the buying process, via GSP, using google translate. But yah £8 profit…

Dimensions Starter Pack, Wonder Woman Fun Pack and BTF Level Pack - all for the family.

Kmart + Surprise Points = Rey's Speeder for free

Sounds like you just need to book a trip to any Canadian location that sells LEGOs.

if the modular retirement record continues, other than the anomaly (TH), probably EV (2013 set) will retire first. though with SW craze its anyones guess if PS stock runs dry this xmas season. PS should be the next modular to retire though and a few months overdue if you ask me.

yes but you are limited to 1reward code and 5 gc online

It IS a size 4 meatball though.

Sounds like Third Degree Grand Theft to me.

Because of this, Limit 3 came right away

Well clearly the pirate Captain! Does not look happy at all...

Speed is in Canada, so i'm guessing up here. This set is everywhere in the Walmart's up here. Need some US folks to help us clean them out

Forgot one ... 60042: High Speed Police Chase $13.94

its like a losing battle these days with turns , lunch, and everything else. Yeah I haven't seen in a WM In a long time.

Sealed sets that are accurately identified via smooshing will go for higher prices than opened sets. I've managed to sell the monsters, and series 13 sets unopened and sealed, even if my prices are higher than those that opened. But only do it if you have a good rating that screams "this guy isn't a scammer", and going into it by knowing that you accurately identified them. But, having sealed, properly identified complete sets of a line is more valuable than used sets that are opened. Kinda like normal lego sets - some people like them sealed, and they are willing to spend more to get something completely "new".

Thank you! I dnd't know brickset had this feature of matching piece with the set. This weekend I'm going to hunt some Hero Factory, I remember seeing some forgotten ones in the supermarket.

Agreed! And that will bring to an end any comments that do not have to do with the T1 set. Anything not having to do with the set will be deleted.

Lego Chima mammoth 0.65 cents Price error on clearance I assume

preorders are for FBA items that are already in Amazon's possession and are being moved to other distribution center ( redistribution)

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

Also, if you plan on selling, make sure to ask about the mini figures. I saw one in there that isn't Lego. If most are missing it will greatly devalue those sets.

Man, that all sounds waaaay too suspect. I'd get your money back as soon as you can...don't pass go, don't collect $200 collect it ALL!

Just as I pointed out that image uses someone's custom modular blurred in the background and is not official, here is my proof. >Pumpkin Factory by RedCoKid

That's what I'm hoping for; a nice dark brooding moody modular with a James Cagney minifigure. I think you're right with the agency being on the second floor as for what may be on the first is anyone's guess. A barber shoppe perhaps.

Regarding the ebay motive - One of the higher ups at ebay accidently stated at some public function that the % of TRS plus sellers was higher than they had expected, and that the new changes were expected to bring it down in line with the projections that they were looking for. I don't know what happened to this person, but I would guess there is a good chance that he also lost his ebay status.

Get an iphone or a cheap video camera. I videotape every single box I pack. About 2-3 years ago, a guy I shipped a $15,000 baseball card to (Eddie Mathews 1952 Topps, PSA 7) said I sent him a $5 card. I met with the police and provided the postmaster general with a copy of the video. Guess who is in jail or heavily fined for trying to commit mail fraud? That guy. Guess who saved $15,000 by taking a 2 minute video with his Canon Pure Shot camera? This guy.