Leaderboard

The boy got some excellent grades so i let him open 2 sets and he picked my 2 scooby sets (tears). Got to rethink my incentive program.

For sure. In the past they used an end of shelf life model where they would produce right up until items were retired and put on sale on a specific date. During those times they had alot of stock on sale and they relied on resellers heavily to clean up the huge amounts of excess stock. During this time resellers had a great relationship with the lego store managers and got early access to sales and got to spend alot of money in the store. You could also call lego customer service and buy every remaining set in their stores (Green Grocer for example) across the country and have them shipped to you. Then about 3 years ago they changed to an end production date model where they had a specific date in advance where they would end production and that product would remain on shelves until it was sold out. This would help them be able to move stock at RRRP rather than massive amounts to resellers at 50% off. This is when they started the end of discounts on exclusives, and the banning of resellers both online and instore. With this model stock rarely lasted into the holiday shopping season for the retiring sets (FB, GE, SSD, TH, HH etc). This year the model changed again to "sets on demand". They want stock available to customers so there is no end production date planned in advance on the exclusives. They are doing more frequent smaller runs and as long as licensing is not an issue sets are continuing to be made as long as there is demand. I am expecting all of the retiring exclusives to be in production through the holidays and given to retailers and if there is any excess they should reappear on LEGO Shop at Home. This means you will see some sets listed as "sold out" or "retired" on LEGO Shop at Home but still being restocked at Amazon, Target, Walmart etc on a weekly basis, and the in some cases "sold out" or "retired" tags being changed back to "available now" on LEGO Shop at Home. Sets will retire, just not in the usual patterns we have seen in the past 3 years, and I am sure in 3 years or so it will all change again as ecommerce and consumer habits continue to evolve very quickly. I believe TLG has figured out the horse has already bolted as far as the secondary market is concerned so now they are all about capturing as much value as they can rather than trying a balancing act. Just MO.

Echo Base, yeah, let us build the big generator powering up everything on the outside hidden by nothing. No idea how the Rebels could have lost that battle.

Good to see Lego hasn't forgotten about their helicopter quota. Geez.

Wow. This topic really went down the crapper.

I always like to reminisce...one year ago we could have all been stockpiling R2s at retail. Now they are selling for $400 on Amazon. #bubble

That's where most of the book was written by the way.

Make hay while the sun shines. So sell/flip them now.

This is not a UCS set, this is a play set for sure. UCS should be removed from the title of this thread until we see something in print from Lego (in my opinion, of course)...

My expectations for any UCS set are extremely high and LEGO usually produces a top notch set, geared towards adults. This mishmash of sets is not up to UCS standards in any way, shape or form. Also, why release a UCS set based on a 30 year old movie when the new one is being released within the same time period. Makes no sense.

My latest sold for £129.99

You wrote most of the book in exciter's bathroom? Was his wife cool with that?

I don't know if that is a compliment or a review :)

Wow - They really beefed up that Escape Pod.

Well glad I stocked up on AT-AT. Every kid will need 3 to go along with this set.

That's one ugly Batwing.

I'd be more tempted to dump AT-DP polybags with this than C-3PO. I think that when people see the movie and realize that C-3PO has been a Sith Lord all along, they'll scramble to get his polybag, since it's the only way to get Evil C-3PO.

It's possible that it is not a UCS set, just a play set similar to the Ewok Village and 10188.

The Trees Have Eyes by AC Pin

Well, yesterday was free breakfast crunch wrap day. Couldn't have been a better time for the book to show up.

Something is terribly wrong with you

Stowed and ready. Locked and loaded just sounded weird.

About the end of September I tabulated the last 100 individual 71010 minifigs sold on eBay, and here's what I found: Top sellers (quan. sold): (1) Tiger Woman, (2) Banshee, (3) Spectre Top Avg. Price (incl. shipping): (1) Tiger Woman $9.09, (2) Wacky Witch $9.04, (3) Cheerleader $8.96 Avg. of all: $7.46 Just did it again for the last 100 sold now (end of October): Top sellers (quan. sold): (1) Wacky Witch, (2 & 3 tie) Banshee & Wolf Guy Top Avg. Price (incl. shipping): (1) Tiger Woman $10.39, (2) Skeleton $8.95, (3) Wacky Witch $8.43 Avg. of all: $7.44 Of course, take it with a grain of salt... small sample size... not statistically conclusive.

I like selling on Amazon and eBay. What I do not like is the idea of FBA, regardless of the potential higher profit margins. I just cannot get past trusting strangers with my inventory and feeling confident enough to know items are packed carefully for shipping. Although what happened to Undercover Boss and others in other scenarios can also happen to us sellers that fulfill our own items, it just seems that having to deal with incompetent workers at Amazon is a huge hassle. So in Undercover Boss' situation above, a customer (thief would be more appropriate in this case) ordered and paid for 10 30320 Gallimimus Trap polybags. 27 days after delivery, the scammer files a claim with Amazon stating the polybags were missing pieces. 1st, if I was an Amazon rep, I would question whether ALL 10 sets were indeed missing pieces. What is the likelihood that all 10 sets are missing pieces, and the supposedly missing pieces happen to be the most sought after pieces, the dinos? 2nd, after the buyer (scammer) took 40 days to send what they claimed were incomplete sets back to Amazon, the idiots at Amazon sent the scammer 10 more replacements from Undercover Boss' inventory. 3rd, if the scammer's claim was true in the first place, the replacement sets from Undercover Boss' inventory would most likely also be missing pieces and the scammer buyer would have the same issue as the original order. Wow, just wow! If I ever considered trying FBA, I will certainly avoid it after hearing stories like this So sorry to hear this happened.

After a what seemed like an eternity, I finally received my Bat-Pod last night. I was very surprised because I was expecting Lego to send me the tracking information, but nothing ever came of it and FedEx just showed up at the door. My first thoughts on this set are just spectacular. I'm a huge Dark Knight fan. I've seen the movies many times over, so I was naturally stoked when I heard about this contest. What a fantastic prize. I'm shocked to see Lego do something like this as a contest. It was a pretty straight forward build with nothing really too overly complicated. It's also pretty solid. I know I committed a huge sin in some investors eyes, but I don't care, It looks fantastic next to my tumbler and I will never get rid of this set. And besides, it will still be worth a ton of money regardless of the fact that I broke the seals. The box is pretty nifty with all the different angle views of the bat-pod on the box. One thing I find a tad odd are the instructions. It's actually thicker paper than your normal run of the mill thin paper instructions, but I would've expected maybe something along the lines of an architecture type of binding and quality. (I really shouldn't complain honestly though since it was a free set, but I can't shake the feeling that all the effort put into this set they could've done something really special with the instructions.) One of the biggest things, is that there are like 3 or 4 mistakes in the instructions that had me scratching my head a couple of times trying to figure out what in the hell they were trying to get me to do. But the actual pictures do help out, so you need to keep an eye out for those. I think what I find intriguing is Lego never actually making this a regular production set to go along with the tumbler. This thing would sell tons. Who knows, maybe Lego one day will put it into production.

My last 3184 Friends Adventure Camper for 65 euro excl. shipping.

Exactly, overhoarded playsets like this don´t appreciate much and your buy in gives you a chance to flip and gain rep for bigger and better sales.

9490 will still be ok, dirty Sandtroopers are still exclusive

Massive IR restock at my local WM, 40R5. This was the overflow as its spot in the LEGO isle was full, yikes.

I'm glad I let mine go for $53 each.

Yep..My first thought. The old one just took a crap. LOL

I never thought the figs were the selling point in the Sandrcrawler... It was obvious we were getting some jawas and c3po at some point.

It can be argued that the UCS R2 was a poor seller, thus the reason for EOL. Everyone loves him now, but many basically ignored him until right before retiring. This rumor has been flying around LEGO forums for about a year. Talk of an AT-AT or huge Hoth base was talked about many times and the video was released months ago. Something just doesn't seem right to me. I don't think it's a UCS set, and if it is a UCS set, this video is not of the set. If this is indeed a UCS set, LEGO standards have seriously lowered in my opinion.

Check the first post in this thread or the Daily Deals first post.

Let's not forget, the target audience is children.

I bought myself an Assault on Avenger's tower, and then my wife bought one for me for a gift. What do you do with 2 of this set? Save one to sell later? Pshaw! I decided to make it bigger. I know that others have made bigger, better versions. I am sure that they have more experience and are more creative than me. I was able to fill the Iron Legion bay, then I created a suit lab that only has one Iron Man suit right now, and an area for target practice. I didn't have an extra Hawkeye bow, so that's why it's not clipped into place there. Unfortunately I did not account for Hulk when I made my modifications, so he still can't fit inside the tower. I had a lot of pieces left over from the second set, and had to source a big handful of other pieces to make the aesthetics match. I added Trans Red near the Iron Legion bay, to signify some kind of alert lights when the bay opens. There were only enough pieces to add 2 levels with the gradually expanding footprint, without sourcing a lot more specific pieces. The biggest drawback of this build goes back to the original design, it's super fragile. When I was moving it a couple months ago the entire thing came apart, crumbling in my hands.

I didn't think it was cool that both versions of Anakin's RotS fighter was made in the past few years, and Obi-Wan had to walk, so I Modded a couple of Anakin Fighters. The Obi-Wan is just the one from the wheel bike chase with the headset head from an old set. kind of a shame that the red one will be made next year, since those Dark Red wings were a little pricey.

Yeah! I hope this one appreciates nicely and will be $50 for a set of 3 soon.

My expectations are kinda low since I'm not a huge Hoth fan & the price point (it can't be too big for $250). I still don't understand why Lego (like Kenner & then Hasbro) don't / didn't release more Cloud City items. It's not like nothing important happened there

Bob's Burgers by Chris Goddard

Judging by your avatar, I assume you'd MOC a basement scene for this....

Awesome! I was looking to do this for Jokerland or the Fairground as well.

Shoot, I'm usually better with odd parts but I didn't realize before the claw hand used on the Monster Fly was originally designed for Davy Jones from Pirates of the Caribbean except that was medium dark flesh while the Fly's is dark red. Certainly took a long while before seeing that part again, huh?

That Shark guy is going to be the new hot dog man. Extremely popular and extremely easy to feel for.

There is one on Flickr....but I won't link to it. All I can say is "Room Service" and leave it at that.

That's the only thing I can think of. I'm not using a Latin keyboard or anything like that.

LEGO Architecture 91101 - The Australian Academy of Science - 1959 - Canberra, Australia by Peter Blackert

The Duggars have Lego sharing issues.