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I think you are mis-reading the situation. This is the time of year when TLG does a major overhaul of its product lineup and retires a lot of sets. Typically this has little to do with the velocity of sales for a given set and everything to do with the time that the set has been on the market. There are obviously exceptions to this, but it generally holds true. Also, TLG has already perfected their system and it has little to do with the market that everyone here feeds off of. TLG makes their money by constantly refreshing their product lineup and moving the sets that they're selling on the primary market in large volume. TLG routinely kills off sets that could continue to be profitable (as evidenced by the money that we all make selling them on the secondary market) because it can sell larger quantities of the sets that are coming in behind them and, thus, realize a greater aggregate profit than it would if it continued trying to milk the existing sets. There are obviously exceptions to this, but it also generally holds true.

I wish people would stop using just set numbers.

Supposedly a 'leak' of the minifigure based on a character called Maz Kanata from The Force Awakens.

Looks like today there was a little movement. Still #2 in building toys, but now #7 in toys. Current BB is 66.99, I can't tell the inventory, because they placed a purchase limit of 3. 364 offers with 12 lower than his price. Lowest price seller has 7 in stock. The lowest domestic U.S. offers on Ebay are in the $58 range including shipping. Looks like somewhere around 400 BIN listings. multiple sold BIN in the $60+ range recently. Sorry if these updates are annoying, I'm just interested in the movement of this set.

Sold a holiday set combo for $105 on ebay with free shipping to international buyer via GSP. Out of pocket cost: $40. Only going to no-so-far KY so only $6 to ship. Combo included: 40138 Holiday Train 40125 Santa's Visit 40124 Winter Fun 40093 Snowman 40092 Reindeer

We got it, lol

Listed 3 holiday trains for $34.99 each on amazon non-prime, not expecting them to sell and they all sold out within the last hour. I was not even close to the lowest price among third party sellers. I will most certainly take it.

Causing a stir, look at the product description. http://www.amazon.com/Star-Force-Awakens-Piece-Puzzle/dp/B0153YLTIY/ref=sr_1_2?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1447098640&sr=1-2&keywords=star+wars+1000+piece+puzzle

Yep. You are good. You've got your funds, and an order to ship. You are only required to get it to the global shipping center. After that it's out of your hands.

The only thing that the retiring soon label is useful for is identifying sets that will definitely be retiring soon. Put differently, the absence of the label from a set that is long in the tooth doesn't provide you any information about whether that set will retire or stick around. It's basically just a marketing tag.

why Red Alert? On a sidenote: Maybe the LEGO limit is the reason why the empire only had two of these.

Sold 5 SW advents (75097) for $60 each this weekend on ebay. seems like the market for these is heating up. I jacked up my price for now since im down to two, was not expecting them to go this quick. buyin was around $20 each from kmart.

225 C-3PO Polys

So the main black character in the new series is related to the only main black character in the old series? SMH

Where on earth do you guys live....? Haven't seen these in the wild in a while.

ISD 75055 no longer in stock at Target so I decided to check US Shop at Home. Not sure if anyone bothered to check the DOM so I loaded Firebug to inspect. ISD 75055 Sold Out in Orange = <li class="availability-future">Sold Out</li> Benny's Spaceship is Sold Out in Red = <li class="availability-questionable">Sold Out</li> That same red css class is also used for the Death Star (Temporarily out of stock) and Indominus Rex (Temporarily out of stock). Not sure if this helps or has already been discussed but thought it would be helpful to share.

No, it does not.

Funny thing is I flipped a couple of T-16s and pilots when they came out to keep the Tuskens for cheap. There really should have been another minifigure in that set though because almost nobody cares about the T-16.

Err, sometimes I want to eat a quasi-Mexican food without the need to spend the next 1/2 hour in bathroom ???

It's great, if you eat it before midnight. After that, it turns into a gremlin.

Maersk EEE 10241 was "retiring soon" in US/CAN for a couple months. From what I've seen; items tagged with "retiring soon" are items they want us to gobble up and "help" them clear inventory of, maybe because of slow sales or too much item on hand. Most exclusives seem to sell through on their own without the need of the retiring soon tag, Maersk potentially having poorer sales in US/CAN could explain why it was given the tag.

Wrestling Champion seems to be the most probable candidate. At least I can finally make a MacGyver minifgure now.

I prefer the roll and I don't have to go dumpster diving. It does last a long time.

Yes, that's still the best price. My last two orders dating back to June 2014 have been $26 each.

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

42050 Drag Racer in higher resolution Tumbler tyres??

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.

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

I wish these forums were smart enough to convert (or append) the set titles when it sees the set numbers (not in links)

10-4 good buddy :)

Less than 10 ten 10 a week IIRC.

Jeff and I just got off the phone with the publisher discussing our next book and he had many great ideas on how to get the BrickPicker community involved. The next book will have a creative element to it that will enable us to incorporate some of member's building and photography skills. Jeff and I will discuss this more next week on the site, but I think there will some great opportunities for the "LEGO fans in you" to show off your skills, get a little recognition and to maybe make some money as well. Our publisher also asked if we could reach out to members who bought the first book and ask them to leave a positive review on Amazon.com. Jeff and I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks. Ed.

We always use fresh bubble wrap, it's not cheap, but save any you get and those "air bags" for spacers. Using paper for spacers starts to add to the weight. With paper, go to a printing place, your newspaper will always have 'end rolls', usually their free some newspapers charge. there is no printing on them and they are light weight. The Mayor

Does for me........hate it, always have.

These will be on-sale, maybe not the 2-packs, but there will be plenty of these figures left over next year.

Amazon is up again, backordered for 11/16. EDIT: Oops gone again current BB price is 66.90 with 18 offers lower than this. Seller has a limit of 5, so I would guess he's pretty confident in his stock on hand. Current number of offers 357. Ebay doesn't appear to have changed much.

Cheap Jawas to populate my Sandcrawler thanks Lego.

Looks more like an Asgard aka Anunnaki aka Grey...your typical alien friend. Although I see the Lobot. Let's see what we have frozen in the labs.

Ask him to pay for shipping, give him a Paypal invoice, get the money, and ship the item out. I don't see why not. You get the money first (he's the one at higher risk) and should be cover by Paypal seller protection.

Hi! I just wanted to do a quick introduction. My name is Lori and I'm a stay-at-home, homeschooling mom to five kids. Our whole family loves LEGOs. I'm glad to have found this place to talk with other LEGO-lovers. I recently started a blog and posting build videos as a project that our whole family can work on. It's been a learning experience, but I love it.

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

#bubble #notabubble

Gone!

thanks for the updates Kylo ship just does not do it for me it is amazing it is out of stock it looks like a plastic pile of gray bricks of course that is what I used to think of the SSD until it was gone and then I was thrilled to have one lol

Except they haven't consistently come back into stock. Not on the website, nor in the B&M, and certainly not at TRU, Target or WM. I have never seen ANY JW set at TRU, only 75915 at Target, and have only seen 1 IR at WM. I have consistently seen 915 at WM the past couple of weeks, but that's it. Heck, the S&H site says " We're sorry that this set is not available. Please check back in February for product availability." Nothing else is like that except the broken 21303. If that fact alone doesn't make one at least pause and contemplate putting this towards the top of their "Should sell well for the Holidays", well, I'm not sure what would. I haven't been at this long enough to base my beliefs on the action of the sets. I will only say I believe what I do because of what I have heard. 60057 - Love this set both as a flip and an investment. I can still get about as many as I want from retail, but I will be adding a bunch of these. 76011, 76012, 76020, 76022 - All available at S&H, B&M, and on the shelves at all of my TRUs. I'll keep an eye on them if they get the "Retiring soon" status or suddenly retire. 76015 - Is available at S&H, B&M, and on the shelves at all of my TRUs, but at least it has the "Retiring Soon" tag. I am looking to add a bunch of these to my stock eventually. I like the set and it should do well on its own merits, but with the release of the BB modular, these will be wanted by individuals to add to their scenes. Thanks for the suggestions.

I love the deli. With two of them you could probably scale it up nicely to fit next to the standard modulars.

Damn! You get a jelly like. I pay anywhere from $1-2 per avocado.

While the UCS Millenium Falcon was still available at retail ($625cdn + tax), I won an ebay auction for a first edition, MISB for about $480cdn. I bet that guy is kicking himself now!