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Short story, hopefully entertaining (and reminiscent of a Goodwill lot Alpinemaps found/lost earlier in the thread [sorry for bringing that up!])... These days, CL deals don't come as often/easy and finding a truly 'rare' set is even more difficult. That's why my eyes nearly jumped out of their sockets when I saw this photo on a $50 listing for 8 lbs of bulk locally: Thankfully, no one else had contacted the seller almost four hours later (an eternity of time for a decent Lego lot listed in my area) and I made arrangements to pick it up as soon as I could. After 5-10 minutes of sifting through and grabbing most of the related pieces in the lot, I have this bin of pieces from 10190 Market Street: I'm pleasantly surprised by how much of the set I ended up with (even though many of the hard to find pieces are missing). As a collector who has bricklinked Cafe Corner and a Sand Blue Grocer, this is a very welcome 'head start' to wrapping up the last modular I needed to complete my street. Last week I found a Black Pearl & QAR (no minifigs) plus several other sets for $85, so I'm hoping this run of finding rare/valuable sets on CL continues!

2016 sets leaked by Italian site (mods please remove if not appropriate) http://www.pierantoni.it/Cms_Data/Contents/Webmarket/Folders/Campaigns/~contents/ZMC2HTHK98R42KGQ/Toy-Lego-Canvass-Gennaio-Marzo-Camp-T07_web.pdf I'm liking Creator 31050, City 60119 and the new architecture sets

I built the Black Seas Barracuda today. Well, over the past week. I bought this on CL along with about 8 other pirate sets from the same era, and some LOTR sets. I got them all for $45. Total score, I have the box to Barracuda, and instructions for the dozen or so sets. The build was pretty fun. The old skool techniques are a bit painful compared to newer sets. One major difference is the instructions. The entire set was just 28 steps in the manual. I feel like a set this size would easily be 2 big manuals by todays standards. They packed in a lot of changes into each step. I had to backtrack MANY times because I missed something. There is no highlighting or diagrams for which parts will be used in the step. The minifigures are pretty cool, I can picture some good imaginative play with the blue vs red capped pirates. The interior details are very poor. There is a whole roof section that is hinged, that just reveals a simple treasure box. Very lack-lustre compared to the BP or QAR interiors. But the colors are pretty cool. I need to flatten my sails for sure, but I wanted to snap a quick pic with the finished product. I'm missing a few pieces that I hope are fairly common. If there are any classic pirate system fans out there, shoot me a PM if you are interested, I'm going to put it up for sale as soon as I get the spare parts.

42009 also creeps quietly into SOLD OUT mode on a Sunday at US shop. Interesting for us Europeans to monitor how it sells in other places over the next month or so.

Wait that last friends set is a copy of my Emmet's Beach House MOC I want 1%

I think the actual user market this year has been saturated. your only hope for profiting this year is to bundle it with a WVM and a holiday promo close to xmas if target, amazon, walmart go out of stock. i think its a given shop at home will go out of stock before xmas, but that doesn't necessarily mean EOL. I am hoarding for post EOL which I pray for each night befor I go to sleep that when I wake up it will be SOLD OUT or SOLD OUT.

This one mostly fits into this topic. Here's an alternate take on the Sea Cow: I Think I Built My Sea Cow Wrong

This is fast approaching 400 sellers on Amazon . This is an jaw dropping number . Once folks realize there is little money to be made this year , the flippers will head to the exit all at once causing the price to crash . That is provided Amazon sells out ofc.

wait, is it blue or brown?

That creator sandwich/hamburger stand looks pretty sweet--I know the size is massively different, but the color scheme puts it in line with DO. I also like the City Ferry.

To me it's pretty closed-minded to assume Finn is Lando's son. Not beyond the realm of possibility with the lack of creativity in Hollywood, but really?

I want it to say Retired Product

The Elves dragons (especially the blue one) are pure winners. So is the Frozen set including Anna, Kristoff and Sven.

Star Wars

Elves

Disney Princess

Creator

Architecture

City

Larger images: Friends

Firstly, of course Finn is a non-clone storm trooper. As far as we know there has never even been a clone storm trooper. The clones got phased out when they got too old. They'd be ancient by this time. Secondly, kylo ren is not a female. He is Adam Driver. We have seen him without his mask. And finn's lightsaber IS Luke's lightsaber. Also, why the heck does Finn need to be lando's son? Because he was the only black man in the galaxy? He'd more likely be a relative of Mace Windu if he is force sensitive but even that would feel forced. I am sure Rey and Kylo are cousins or even siblings. Kylo's talking mask in toy stores indicates they know each other.

It is 2015, keep an open mind .

I bought 12 C3PO polybags via TRU. Score!!

A working PC case made from LEGO, far out.

Not I. That boat sailed last holiday season.

It's funny, I've sold tons of Star Wars sets, but don't have a single one on display, the only set I've ever bought new to build myself was Ecto 1. I will probably get GBHQ early on to build and/or flip if the opportunity presents itself, but I don't care much about this non confirmed Hoth maybe almost UCS set other than weather or not I can make money on it. Not many Palmetto Staters on here, nice to see another one.

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.

This could have gone in about 5 different threads, but ultimately, it's an MOC, so it belongs here. Credit to PaddyBricksplitter

The Hive by Bart De Dobbelaer

60075 demolition also sold out. Seems this will be a hidden gem as it has been out for less than a year.

Wow, the similarity between your MOC and Livia's Popstar Villa is astonishing. I'd recommend that you start an online petition to assert your legitimate claim immediately!.

oooo, the scientific approach works!

Yes. Jeff is still working on the page and with Bricklink directly. It's all technical BS that I have no idea how to explain, but Bricklink and Brickowl prices will be on there as well. The way we were doing it before was not the best way and he and the developers over at Bricklink are working on a way to increase performance. As Jeff said, the price guide page had to be changed for it to be compliant with Google's new mobile requirements. It is still a work in progress and things will be sorted out shortly.

I love the new Architecture Skyline sets (NY, Venice, Berlin).

Buckingham Palace is a rumoured 2016 set inclusive of mini double decker bus

There have been some issues with non US data and Jeff is aware of the situation and is working on a solution.

Super Heroes

I seem to be in the same situation as CNH1974. My total brickfolio value is down 10-20%. Furthermore, when I click on individual item price guides, I only get the ebay listings from eBay USA when before I used to get only ebay.com.au ones on each set's price guide. I'm speculating that the reason for the drop in value is it seems that the values shown are the US ebay values, which have been converted to Aussie dollars. For example, the valuation on 10218 PS is $215 Aud, which is substantially lower than it is on ebay Australia. NISB, it lists and sells for at least RRP, which is $269 AUD.

Good to know that you and your colleagues are all scientists haha (or was that just a gag à la:"The Big Bang Theory Nerd Club"?) But what has your profession got to do with anything of it? You did have a "meeting" (like TBBT meeting or like with the producers of the movie? ^.^ or rather a serious meeting but you decided to talk about Star Wars... (so again like TBBT!)). Anyhow, the scientist thing would fit to your nickname here ^.^ So Rey is the daughter of Leia and Han but grew up in the UK... wow... I mean for U.S.Americans the United Kingdom sure is something alienlike, but to place it in a time long long ago in a galaxy far far away is pretty extreme (especially for scientists!!!) *g* Okay enough with the kidding. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I know there is a function that allows you to post something "hidden" so that other people can decide whether or not they want to see it by clicking on it. The MODs will have to explain because obviously (even though I'm kind of a scientist) I don't have a clue! Anyhow, I think parts of it sound plausible enough. Lando being the only black human in the universe and stuff... eh I mean not that part! But I'm not too sure if Finn really is force sensitive. Honestly I think it would be cooler if he wasn't. Yeah he is holding a lightsaber alright. But maybe it's just the best thing he's got to defend himself. Heck I would even grap a stone or a squirrel and throw it at him if some freaky dude (yep dude! See posts before!) would approach me with the obvious intention of killing me... (And probably I'd have better chances of fighting him with a lightsaber as well... even though I would use it more like Count Dooku. I mean seriously I bet a lightsaber would be pretty "light" (haha...) so there really is little reason to hold it with two hands instead of holding it like a foil or epée or rapier or... well... saber... I mean in German the translation is "Lightsword" but in english even the name is "lightsaber") Isn't it great how these movies got us all going? I'm so looking forward to them! (Found this ^.^ )

Oh, I agree 100% on this. I never even considered it a true UCS, just a large terribly disappointing and underwhelming playset. But I can 100% see TLG charging a premium for a nice box art and a bunch of minifigs. I'll sincerely never get why the resources of the company are wasted making such duds at "adult" price point instead of finally putting out an UCS AT-AT that the AFOL community has been desperately calling for.

Probably a Dad with kids that are BTTF fans. That would have been me if I wasn't a responsible Dad by providing for my family at retail.

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.

To answer your question I feel like the delivery of your product in the quality of the box the thickness the tape the label and how it is packaged and is what defines you as a seller it is the initial presentation to your client for their impression of you as a seller. Therefore you should invest heavily into the presentation. I am not saying bubble wrap and box every item but you should have paper stuffing carefully protect the item place it in a durable box that is new and not used and ship it to your customer. If you do enough volume it will be worth the expense long term and gained sales in my opinion. Box yes paper stuffing yes bubble wrap highly valued items. Hope this helps ...

"It's roughly northwest, that way."

It's my favorite as well. GG held that spot until I built it as well. Looks like your Lego town has a dinosaur problem.

Started the PR last night while handing out candy & just finished up. The detail on this is amazing. Of the 4 modulars I have done this is easily the nicest. Pains me to say that as I was determined to keep the GG as my fav but I just can't do it.

ACT I: A Tuesday morning in Billund, Denmark. Two lego corporate executives meet at the water cooler. Lego Exec. A: Hey George, how was your weekend? Lego Exec B: Hi Rupert, it was fine, just fine. And yours? George: Fine, just fine. Rupert: That's good. George: Yup, yeah, good...good. (an awkward silence develops as they take turns at the water cooler) Rupert: Hey you know what we could do today? George: (looks up from his coffee cup. Audience wonders why he now has a cup of coffee if this is a water cooler scene, but they just give it the benefit of the doubt). Rupert: Well, you know how the status updates on the website are always red when something goes to "Sold Out"? George: Yeah... Rupert: Well I was just thinking, you know we could totally change that... in like, just some of the different sets... George: I don't follow. You mean like make the new "Sold Out" tags blue any time we temporarily sell out of something? What's the point of that? Rupert: (frustrated) No, no, no, you're not hearing me. Not all of them. Like, only a few of them.... And not blue either. Blue is a direct contrast to red. I'm thinking something really close to red, like purple or something. George: What about orange, orange is really close to red. Rupert: (excitement building in his voice) Holy crap yes. Orange would be perfect for this. It's almost the same thing, but not exactly. George: (still seemingly indifferent) Okay but why? I mean, why would we do that? (a robotic female voice with just a lilt of a British accent comes over the intercom announcing it's time for the weekly executives meeting in the lounge to laugh about 10188 while execs enjoy pastries and read recent online blog entries to each other) George: Hey I'm gonna go to this meeting. Do whatever you want with the colors dude, I really don't care. Rupert: (Looks at the camera and raises one eyebrow, a smirk beginning to form on his thin Danish lips) ACT II: An online website where people write long and self-indulgent forum posts that take forever for other members to read and go on and on with pointless stage directions and attempts at humor. Especially people with costumed frankfurters next to their names. Forum Guy: Drop everything. The "Sold Out" tag is orange on the ISD! It's orange. It's not red, I know what red is and I've seen red. But this changes everything. It has to mean something. I mean this has to MEAN something. We need to discuss this. We need to! Okay you all get the joke now, I'm not going to beat you over the head with it. I have to get back to work anyways. This took me like 20 minutes to write. God I'm such a nerd.

Ya know, it does make sense that CT would be carrying Lego... everything else you buy there comes apart after you use it a couple of times...

I seem to remember only 3 star wars movies and Natalie Portman. Perhaps I am missing something. Ex astris, scientia.