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According to LEGO... Firehouse Headquarters doors can open to fit the 21108 LEGO® Ideas Ghostbusters Ecto-1 inside!

So the Fire Brigade and Ecto-1 made a baby.

UPDATE: The mobile app should be working now!

Picture is up on Legos Instagram page and most likely other sites

Bought a ferris wheel and UCS TIE. Adding them to my ever growing backlog of sets to build.

Would it be fair to say "It's my opinion that most JW sets are being purchased by resellers?" Because they are. And no, I don't have "hard" evidence, but Timmy's Grandma doesn't make Lego go "poof" from online retailers in a matter of minutes at random hours of the day. That takes a coordinated effort from dedicated people who see $$$. If there's going to be a bubble, resellers are adding the air. I'd like to think Lego is too big for the bubble, and across the board, I think it is. Certain sets, lines, etc. will experience micro bubbles though--and this line is one. RE was selling for over $100 on Amazon not too long ago. Yesterday, the buy box was around $85. I'm not arguing profit margin of $5, but the margin has "popped" some. And yes, I know how long it is until Christmas. Just food for thought. "Be willing to be different." - Warren Buffett

I made an announcement last week that you might not have seen that I have to basically completely rewrite everything based on changes in the data we get, so it's a work in progress. It will be straightened out over the next day or two. I have to change a ton of stuff. I do not know what you mean by the same for the Classified what "do not see any surplus anymore" means. It's a crap load of work I need to do and do it in stages. The new template for the price guide is a work in progress too that I was basically forced to make live early before getting it the way I want. Google has been barking at me for weeks because those other pages are not mobile friendly at all, etc, etc. Just give me a few more days to try and catch up. I wish I had all day to work on it, but now I need to switch gears and go to the office and work on totally different garbage.

Hey Folks! So as you all know Dimensions came out with the Portal 2 level pack. I have long been a huge Portal fan and love the games. The writing/humour/gameplay is beyond anything else I've played. There was an Ideas project that ended up not making it into a final product: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/18258 which i was really rooting for. So when the Dimensions set came out i decided i would try to replicate this design so i could properly display the awesome Chell minifig. I also intend to make a GlaDOS that will hang in the top of a detolf (tops of detolfs have a hole) without all the support brackets used in the Ideas design. Below is the progress I've made so far and i will continue to update as i make more progress and when it's all finished and displayed. I am awaiting parts to round it out a bit plus the parts for GlaDOS, and have taken a few creative liberties from the original Ideas set. There are no instructions for this available (that i saw) so it's all done by eye and tedious part counting. I have not made it modular like the original Ideas design intended, and the back side is abnormally ugly right now that i may eventually cover up with plates. Problems I've encountered (aside from the old: "Dammit, i swore i ordered enough of these pieces!"): - The sentry turret from the Dimensions set is way too big, i'll need to make a few micro ones which i have yet to get parts for. - Getting customs stickers to fit on LEGO bricks is hard (i went with stickers instead of brickbuilding the chamber sign). - Couldn't find a "swamp" like colour to simulate the gross water found in test chambers. - Not sure how to come at making the portals themselves, i may just not include them. - GlaDOS is a very odd design, I've gone with a different one than the Ideas design and the parts are on the way. - Not sure how to connect the floor pieces with the 2 walls, however i may not even need to for display purposes. A bit of the modular nature of the set. However nowhere near as modular as the designer's model. The back needs some serious work haha, plates of all sizes and colours! but they were just from my personal stash until i figured out what i needed. And finally this is the top of the walls that i am waiting for tiles pieces to arrive to cover up the Technic bits, and a few more of the Technic squares to replace some basic bricks on the right side to make it more flush. Updates will come as i get more pieces in the mail Thanks for looking!

Finished up Shuttle Tyderium last night. It's awesome. So much better than its predecessors. Never built a 10212, but this was a lot of fun and is very swooshable(according to my son, of course)

UPDATE: The mobile app should be working now!

I just finished an interesting interview with LEGO Artist Paul Wellington, who is probably best known for his large "Brickville" and "Brick City" microscale scenes. I was more interested in his intricate small-scale LEGO models of real buildings like the National Congress of Brazil (as featured in my book The LEGO Architect), and his most recent microscale model of Unity Temple by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.NATIONAL CONGRESS OF BRAZILBrasilia, Brazil, 1964, Oscar Niemeyer.LEGO Model by Paul Wellington."The scale of the National Congress of Brazil [LEGO] model is solely based on the sides of the towers, which use 1×8 tiles. I wanted to maximize the number of windows (trans-light blue plates) therefore the tiles could only be connected in one place."UNITY TEMPLEOak Park, Illinois, 1908, Frank Lloyd Wright.LEGO Model by Paul Wellington."Unity Temple was conceived by utilizing 2×2 medium stone gray bricks as the corners of the building. Next I imagined creating the columns out of 1×1 bricks with handles. Everything after that essentially fell into place."I asked Paul to tell me how he works within the limited selection of LEGO Elements. He explained: "For the most part I don’t have a problem with the selection of LEGO, just deciding what to build. I like to come up with new uses for pieces, as I rather focus on what LEGO does have rather than don’t. Some of my favorite and most commonly used pieces include headlight bricks, cheese slopes (1x1x2/3 slopes) and brackets. Using just these three parts alone I can create numerous designs from LEGO." Paul's dream elements include: 1×1 Grille Tile, 1×1 Plate with door rail, Wedge Tiles, 1×1 Brick with 2 Adjacent Knobs, and the 1×5 Brick (not pictured).I also asked Paul which new elements he most wishes would be added to the LEGO System. He had a nice list of ideas, which I drew out to share here.Learn more about Paul, how he uses 3D Modeling software to make amazing rendered images of his models, his Brickville / Brick City projects and more by reading the whole interview at:http://brickarchitect.com/2015/paul-wellington/Sincerely,---Tom

Won't let me login via the app... Booo. :)

There should be no stickers on a $350 set. Period.

Between this, CMF 14, and the Fall 2015 Ninjago wave, it's good to see TLG really getting some mileage out of the banshee/ghost/specter tail/leg mold.

On the TLG Twitter page with a confirmed January release https://twitter.com/LEGO_Group/status/659012107002859521

Anybody think the Ecto-1 will fit in there? Looks like it might.

This Month 5 Palace Cinemas 20 SW Advent @ $23.50

Understood. I just think the number of "investors only" on this site would suprise you. There seem to be a large percentage here who care nothing for lego bricks as toys and view them strictly as a commodity. I could be wrong but those types of members are the most vocal in the forums so that is what I am basing this comment of off.

How in the world could you know that percentage, out of curiosity?

Ferris Wheel...finally! Plus another Train. Enjoying the VIP points for next month, when I buy something else big (not sure what yet - maybe Temple of Airjitsu) for the Gingerbread House.

Let's just put this out there... You can kiss it. You are one of the biggest problems on this site as you argue with everyone and backtrack on statement after statement. People here are fed up with you and your bull spit so if you don't like it, you get can get lost. Yes I said that. No I don't like you. I try to be patient but you are being an a**hole to mods and especially to other members. If you want we can arrange for your posts to go through an approval process. Despite what you think this isn't a democracy and Jeff and Ed ask us (the mall cops) to keep up with the threads and right the ship from time to time. If it was up to me if have banned your ass a long time ago for the way you "speak" to everyone here.

It had to be done.

First, let me apologize for the downtime in the forum we just had. I was not expecting that. I thought I was doing a quick maintenance release to get ready for this 4.1 update of the forum. I guess they just pushed the 4.1 update and luckily it went through without any errors. One cool thing you will want to do is allow the browser notifications. I think it is very cool if you are active in the forum. Below is a large list of updates in the release. The activity stream is also a big update. You can no configure multiple streams for yourself to get the information you look at most often. Key Changes Changes and New Features Include: New menu structure and drag-and-drop menu manager Ability to have two menu levels Option to create both custom-link menu items and embed preconfigured menus Preview before publishing All menu items support group permissions Discovery system that allows for both admin and user created Activity Streams Admin-defined streams always visible to users. Users can edit and save admin streams to create their own, custom copy. The main show-all stream automatically tells you when there is new activity Users can create custom streams User streams can be shared but viewer will only see content based on their permissions Filter options include: All content or specific apps. Some apps support further refinement into categories or content-type. 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Blocks New blocks Members block, Blog comments, Blog List, Download comments, Download reviews, Poll block commentFeed/itemFeed based widgets have date limit (today, 7 days, etc) RecordFeed has a customisable title Calendar widget has a calendar selector to restrict events to specific calendar(s) Better selectors for open/pinned/featured selection External Widgets: Ability to add blocks to other websites via generated iFrame code Pages Larger editor box when editing/creating pages More tags in sidebar when editing/creating pages Custom error page configurable Fields Simple relational field added Ability to place fields above or below record content Simple Name: Value display format added Media Manager Ability to upload media for use within Pages pages, CSS, templates and blocks Compatible with designers mode Templates New templates for when viewing the record homepage as 'articles' Ability to export and import templates to share with other IPS4 communities Gallery application enhancements New upload image process Images and movies are submitted to the same upload field Image reviews Editor updates Uses div-mode which is much faster and more reliable. 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Not gonna lie, but that would be awesome. Not only am I happy with the amount I have, but we haven't had a good old fashioned quick disappearance in awhile. Last year isn't recent enough?

I wonder why they started limiting the numbers......

Are you cooping me? http://shop.lego.com/en-DE/MINI-Cooper-10242

Who you gonna call? RE-SELLERS!

350/4200 = 0,083333 So the price per piece is VERY LOW at 8cent It sure includes many small pieces. To compare it to another set: Helicarrier comes with 2996 pieces at 350(€) which is 0,1168... so almost 12cent per piece. Didn't hear that much complaining about the Helicarrier price. By the way: "Maybe half of that, or a little more due to the figs". Would be like 180 --> ca. 4 cent per piece... now we're getting a little bit unrealistic aren't we?

Lol I am not looking forward to list retirements by box arts

The highlight and quote feature is really sharp. No need to copy a wall of text to get one small key point

I hope they included blonde hair piece for Egon

Since we're on the topic of megablocks While sorting through a 15 lb lot, my 4 yr old and I came across some mega-block minifigures (megafigures?). Having never seen one before my son was intrigued by them. After a 15 minute study, he concluded that the megafigures were superior to the lego minifigures. Now I fear I may have to follow up this post with another complaint a month from now....when he asks for a mega block set for christmas.

The theme has reappeared (LEGO Shop at Home) for Australia at least All TOOS except Indominus

Alright, one last pump. I will include with each SSD an unopened Darth Revan poly bag with poster from may the 4th promo. I am not posting this in the listing, so if you want it provide me your brickpicker ID and the code in your checkout message "free Revan".

OK, so I have to pump. My 6 SSD are the lowest out there shipped folks. These are the last 6 I'm selling at this price. I will ship international, though pm be first. If you know friends wanting any come and get emhttps://www.brickclassifieds.com/products/lego-ucs-super-star-destroyer-10221-retired-free-shipping

I noticed this starting last week. I track every non-retired set and its status and saw the different colors for 'Sold Out'. I've been tracking the colors since I noticed and the color for any given set hasn't changed yet. I've only got a couple weeks worth of data to go on, but so far I haven't seen any reason for the difference. I was going to keep it to myself to see if there was any correlation before I said something. I was afraid there might be something to be gained from it and by posting about it, 'someone' might fix it. Guess that idea's shot...

372 sellers on amazon

Not sure what you're talking about. I bought into all those sets when they went on clearance and am already looking at nice returns for when I sell.

Found a used band aid in a lot of Lego I bought recently. Seriously.

Yeah, it was last week.

On the bright side though...

And then said, "It was a trap! No one should need more than one train so you are a reseller. If I ban more than 5 of you a day, I get the employee of the week muffin".

Amazon DE: 25% off 75094 Imperial Shuttle Tydirium http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00SDTU3Z2

I'm actually a little surprised you did. Have you heard of anyone else from Mexico being banned? What was the final straw?

Jurassic World IR : $129.99 + taxes Gas : $2.37 Sandwich : $2.99 + taxes Profit : $5USD Entertainment value of forums : Priceless

Can "rumored" be removed from the title yet...?

these guys remember iRobot...

76017 captain merica vs hydra now showing SOLD OUT after being Call to check availability yesterday. plot thickens - possibly finito? 3 exclusive minifigures.