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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

I think the bit about them planning to send him a free set was hysterical/cruel (pure torture) - I am sure that he will really enjoy building it.

Toys R Us have the deep sea exploration vessel at £48.99. I think this is a good price for a really good set but you also get a free bricktober set as it is over £45. This effectively means you are getting the set for about £33

This morning's Amazon ranking #2 in Building toys, #6 in Toys & Games. Buy box is at 68.99 with 5 in stock. 380 offers. 26 offers lower than the buy box. UPDATE: as I typed this, the current BB holder sold 5 units. EDIT: He sold through. New BB holder is at 57.99 + 2.98 shipping with 47 units. Have we seen the last of the people with hundreds of this set up for offer?

I would pay for that. I would also pay for a better box. "Collector" means it should be special. A sturdy, well designed and reusable box...similar to the Architecture boxes, would be a good start.

100% coolness.

I found the Sea Cow on Reddit

Maybe it´s a huge Ecto 1 that the fire station can fit inside!

Word is the Farmer will be wearing the Scarecrow hat but in a lighter brown color.

Ugh! These noobs working the holiday schedule always forget to ask for coupons and try to force a sale. Anyways, I was only able to use the 10% off CC and 20% off one-item coupon tonight for an X-Wing...

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. I guess the really only thing that bothers me with this set is the possible UCS designation....and we aren't even sure that's correct. I would have zero issues with this set if they charged $200-$250 for a large play set with 15 minifigures, a few maxifigures and some vehicles. It would probably sell well. As for the UCS moniker, I am an elitist and don't like throwing that term around lightly. I really wish a UCS AT-AT would be released, instead of rehashing older versions of iconic sets like the 7191.

When there is something strange with a ucs star wars set, who you gonna call, ....ghostbusters headquarters! Ghostbuster fans dont forgive or forget p.s. huge star wars fan and these early possible pics did not impress....just having some fun with ghostbusters vs star wars:)

But even as a playset it would under deliver, especially compared to the Sandcrawler and Ewok Village.

If all these rumors are true, this feels like Jokerland all over again but double the price.

I can't see any way to make this set without it being a scattered collection of (previously available) small Hoth sets. And that's too bad, because at the high price points I want/expect a large cohesive model. Even the Ewok Village is pretty well joined together with the rope bridge and such. But if this is just a hangar bay door plus some figs, turrets and maybe a vehicle or two, that'll be truly lacklustre.

There's no misdirection. It's Adam Driver. We've seen him without his mask on a few times now. There is zero chance he is actually Luke.

UK Prices for sets like 10193, 10197, 10211 & 10220 are still 10-20% down on the actuals for October so I have been assuming the update is still going on.

Awesome!!! I love Audible.com!!

Grand Carousel MOD by Palixa And The Bricks

Round Pharmacy and Doctors by cimddwc

That's a new line up. For Elves, there's been questions as to whether there would be an Emily Jones set, so it's nice to see that happening. I wonder if the Palace Pets set will be a Duplo set or fit into the regular line. My 7 year old daughter loves Palace Pets, so I'm hopeful it won't be Duplo. Friends has me intrigued and worried. Yet another Cafe/Bakery type set in the Cupcake Cafe. That's a bummer. However, the Party sets and the Archery set has me interested. And there's another Tree House. After the last one eluded me for so long, I'll probably buy this one soon after it's arrival. The only thing missing from the "girls" list is the DC Super Hero Girls line.