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Forgive me as I may over share, but I think it's about time. 37. Female. Boston metrowest suburbs. SAHM since 11/2009 when I had my fourth (and last) daughter and childcare would have been more than my income. I have loved Lego since my youth. Mostly Pirates, a good amount of City and a few Space and Castle. I remember saving up my allowance, planning my next buy, while waiting for Bradlees to have a 20% off sale. It got so bad that in 5th grade I started skipping lunch to pocket the cash. My favorite, and most expensive set was the Black Seas Barracuda. I built it at least three times, but never managed to use all the pieces as older Lego instructions were more like playing "spot the differences" and a step of adding 20 black plates to various locations often ended in less than 100% accuracy. I still have most of them (and every box), but lost my Caribbean Clipper and Rock Island Refuge in the shuffle. My dark ages went from about 1992 to 2010. How did I end up here? Once I got back into Lego, I got REALLY into Lego. I have brought my kids to nearly every monthly mini build for the past 4 years, and even worked at the Lego store for 3 days back in 2011, but I hate retail. I have roughly 100k pieces of Lego over 250+ sets. Close to a year ago, I was rejected by WPI's grad school program and I tried to drown my disappointment in Lego. I bought close to $5k worth to make up for lost time and buy all the sets I've been eyeing. Now I have "sobered up" and am holding about $2k to sell at maturity (or at least get back what I've spent). I really like the forum so far. I must confess that the root of my animosity towards QFLL's is that they are making enough money to support their addiction while I am shamefully siphoning from the family budget. Nice to meet you!

Below is our Christmas setup for 2015. Someone else has to finish decorating the tree but I finished wiring the buildings tonight so this can be displayed. White lights run across a "train light bridge" and through all rooms and floors of the modular buildings and colored lights adorn the outside of the buildings. The holiday train is setup in the RC style and has engine headlights as well. The closeup photos were taken before the external lights were added. Enjoy!

This is alarming, especially after the internal memo was leaked that they were sticking all the sets together with gum to ensure a safe arrival.

I've stopped spending any time or energy trying to figure out what those colors mean. It has something to do with something happening behind the scenes at LEGO Shop at Home and that's where I'm stopping with it.

I am not braggin, it just looks cool..........

I think somehow the price of the Gingerbread House is tied to this little puppy and chaos for what some described as a boring set with not much return value we could have passed on since it is now only 2 copies away from already being $195 in a matter of weeks http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00J4S9BEA just imagine if they call a movie episode vii and release it and people really start to get star wars fever GH for $250 AT AT for $250 !!!! lol

FYI/YMMV: The 20% coupon stacks with the 10% TRUTH (obviously), however it did NOT stack with the $5 off $25 or the 15% coupon. This was a single item purchase over $100... Hopefully this info will help some of us to avoid harassing some of the seasonal TRU employees with our smartphones... Remember, be nice and smile

I'm still waiting for ChristopherJB to post a picture of his magic sorting basket... I'd love to make one for myself.

These looks fairly easy to smoosh for. The queen, shark guy, knight and the winged creature will be the easiest to identify. I'm guessing once an accomplished smoosher works through the first 20 bags, they'll be smooshing at a rate of 5 seconds per bag and generating an hourly revenue rate of 1 thousand bucks per hour....or something like that. Right?

Winter Village Bakery Winter Village Post Office Winter Village Toy Shop (the original) Winter Village Market Winter Village Cottage Santa's Workshop 2015 LE Holiday Set Gingerbread House 2015 LE Holiday Set Holiday Train 2014 LE Holiday set Elves' Workshop 2014 LE Holiday set Winter Skating Scene 2013 LE Holiday set Christmas Tree Stand 2013 LE Holiday set Christmas Tree Truck T'is the season...

Only just realised this after someone just bought a Scott Lang minifig off me for almost 28 bucks. I have a grand total of 3 of these, so I guess I will hold onto them for a while longer. I only opened one box and only built Antony (the flying ant) and the scaled up Lego pieces with the catapult; the minifigs were never assembled and zip locked for sale. I am a fan of the film, but I was surprised just how much I enjoyed the flying ant, Once it's built with its wings, it's a decent size and it looks great. A quick substitute of the pink 'ass' plate and replacing his saddle with a 2x2 black brick covered by a 2x3 navy blue tile and he looks like a nature series ( a la Birds style ) here's one of my home-made pics below.

Well, that's it, I pulled the trigger and ordered one, I still had 25 euro in VIP points and with the C3PO en GBH promo I figured I wouldn't get a better deal. My wife will be sooooo happy when she sees the credit card statements this month....

Last week I built the 10246 Detective's Office and although I appreciate it, I don't really love it. It's very small compared to other buildings and suffers the same problem that the Market Street and Pet Shop have: By splitting the building vertically, the interiors of the building are too small. My other big complaint is that the building is very shallow. The pool hall is very well done and the detective's part is nice but I would prefer a secretary's office across from it. The barber shop exists and I have seen enough 'S' letters in the modular buildings; they don't look good. This week (and weekend), I built the 10243 Parisian Restaurant. I waited until I built the 10246 because of all the great things I had heard about the Restaurant and I wanted this to be just an ok build because I love the Green Grocer... Unfortunately (for me), this set is a construction home run! The details in the dining area and the kitchen are phenomenal, especially the chain fencing. The external staircase really works well with the 2nd dining patio and the adjoining pullout bed is a clever design (needs a rug!). The art loft/studio is a nice addition and I really appreciated the way that the fireplace was designed. Overall, the Parisian Restaurant is a great size and used nice techniques overall, including for the roofing and the first floor pillars, using food accessories, and to create offsets with jumper tiles. Simply a fabulous build and my new favorite. ETA - My only complaint is that the balconies should be one stud deeper on the modular buildings.

Here's another look (the wrestler's head is cut off though)

i went to "that" store

Am I the only one who, upon seeing the image of the figs, immediately starts to pick out which piece to smoosh for? net/skunk crutch shark head pig/pitchfork mace tutu spear mop trophy sloped legs/crown flag swords etc... This series looks very smooshable, but only a few figs interest me, with the shark guy probably being the most sought after.

Joke, right? The laziest, richest dudes are absolutely NOT going to bricklink anything. Can you image a guy worth $10 million ordering 3000+ pieces, inventorying them, and then putting it together with printed off instructions? No, ain't happening.

Woke up to Dr. Who Got 2 BB and an Ecto -1 with today's reward at TRU after work and came home to an early Bday present

Agreed. As far as parliaments are going, this takes the cake for me. Yeah, I am biased. But nobody knows where it is so it will never be made into LEGO.

TH $400 local

Yes, they are prerparing the new EXPERT box for them....

just to give an idea of the general interest in this set..was chatting to amazon agent about an adjustment to my order, and this is how the conversation ended: "Amazon Rep: Always happy to help! Is there anything else I could do for you right now? Me: no i think thats it thank you so much Amazon Rep: By the way I didn't know that Doctor Who LEGO is already available! Amazon Rep: yes it become avail on Dec 1st..it was only at amazon UK for a little while - was lucky to get it! you can still get it from the official legoshop Amazon Rep: Oh. I need it as well as me and my wife are crazy Whovians Me: yeah i remember it from when i was a child too im still scared of daleks Amazon Rep: Who is not? Great. It was nice talking to you! I hope you have a great day!"

This man had the right idea.

this is normal. it took a day for my black friday orders that finally shipped to catch up with the complete status. sometimes it helps to take the tracking number and track it outside the shop at home link. even now, walmart.com internal tracker says my creative towers won't get to the nearby store until next Tuesday. When I track the numbers using the fedex website directly, it says they will be there Friday. no. i have zero interceptb4wife skills, that's why the brush is so worn. that's ok - brushing builds character _AyyND_ on the plus side, the bowl is now so clean i'm using as a holiday chowder serving bowl at the town temperance society gala this coming weekend. splendid times.

Someone came up with this once:

This set is Sweet!

Also they had to change the instructions because pieces were setup wrong, queen goes on her own color. Neither of these required a change in elements like Walle, but the set was a design disaster IMO. The chess pieces are supposed to fit inside the base so it can be a carrying case to make the set storable/mobile but they don't and you have to do a partial disassemble for this feature to work. It is an easy mod to fix just add a row of 1x4s and 1x6s but lego didn't fix that so I think they just gave up on the set. And that's why I like it.

It is unfair to compare a show barely has 1.5 season vs one with 6 seasons under its belt. I watched the entire 1st season of Clone Wars on DVD and TBH I had to force myself through most of the episodes. Some episodes like the Malevolence ones dragged on and on and on with very little payoff. The villains were so dumbed down and 1 dimensional for something that was supposed to be gritty. And hosts of other complains. I stopped watching at the end of season 1. I did not have any difficulty watching the entire 1st season of Rebels. In fact I had to stop myself from watching the entire season in 1 seating . And when the season ended, I could not wait for more. Also, body count does not equal quality.

The only 100% guaranteed way to avoid 0 feedback buyers on eBay is to never list anything on eBay

A UCS SSD for 590 quid best offer off eBay uk. I really hated paying over the odds, but excluding the UCS falcon, It's the one I wanted the most and I can see it being worth double that in 2-3 years, so I forced myself to buy now.... Before it was totally out of reach

I think some of these accounts are checkout as guest. The usernames are consistently cryptic in a throwaway manner. I haven't had trouble with these types of transactions. If its a human readable username, it's probably a person that signed up for an actual eBay account. And in any case, like everyone stated above, you have start somewhere. Be glad its not a $1,000 set. That would make me nervous. Maybe they heard about the Gingerbread set, saw the price on Amazon, and decided to check out eBay for a discount. Very likely IMO.

I think some folks are really underestimating the Netflix effect. I do not have BBC America and was not a fan of the show until it showed up on Netflix. Now it ranks up there with my favorites.

Until BA makes it sexy.. ($10 off $100)

Here is the uncropped version... Is the wrestler Adrian Adonis or Ultimate Warrior?

I have one tactic that seems to help in regards to electronic coupons. TRU has a text alert program, where they text goofy sales and such to your cell phone. I always say that the coupons I have were part of the text message enrollment. The managers / checkers that I deal with seem to know that the text alerts exist, but they don't know any of the specifics. I tell them a link was texted to me, and I saved it to my phone. It seems to work for me, but they are VERY laxed and it's probably not even necessary. But maybe give it a try if they are on the fence, and asked where you got it. It's a buyable story.

some one should just drop ship these from ebay... currently there are quite a few going for $45 shipped...

Let's just agree that you guys both build your Sandcrawlers and I'll keep mine MISB. That way, it works out best for everyone.

Ordered one SC as well last Monday when it was still in the Cyber Monday 5% discount + GBH promo. My order has been stuck in the Warehouse since Tuesday, and it's not moving till now. Wondering what's the hold-up. Come on, TLG, ship it to me already!

These $31.49 pp

Um, what you do in the privacy of your home is your business. We don't want to hear about it.

I'm just waiting for minifiguresplus to have cases. I don't want to smoosh this one and I probably won't be investing. Who am I kidding, I'll probably be tickling the pig.

This is not series 14 but this has good figures, for sure...

Text from my wife while I was at work today "What did u order from target????" Surprisingly all of my exclusives arrived in great shape, no stickers, no gum. Almost mint. UPS mail innovations for the win.

I prefer the tiered approach. I currently have 12 of these, and i've bought in the 70s up to 100. If this breaks 200, i'll definitely sell off a few in the next week or two, and may sell a few more up into february if the movie creates a frenzy. Last years MF 7695 is a prime example of what might happen to the At-at. I believe the MF peaked around 260 (yeah a few may have sold over that, but not many) and then when the new MF was announced prices pretty much plateaued. After the new release, it's been sitting at 235 since and it hasn't really risen like the other sets. I really would be shocked to see the AT-AT go for 300.00 and hold at that price. Even MF 7454 has pretty much plateaued at 350.00 and that's been out for since 2007 I believe. A decent peak will probably be within the next few weeks and while it could go higher, I doubt it goes MUCH higher. Other At-at's like 8129 currently sits at 245. The ancient one 4483 while in the 500 range would have had to been held for a decade. The motorized one is kind of it's own animal, and that sits around 700. I don't see this version following in the footsteps of the motorized version. Personally, I don't view most star wars sets as super long term holds since rehashes are too common. Just look at what happened with the A-wing, Droid Escape, Hoth attacks set, Homing Spider Droid, etc. They are all getting rehashed next year, and will be out soon. AT-AT may have 2 years before the next iteration, but it will definitely have a new iteration in some form very soon. Since I have a son that likes to build, I can pretty much flip two at-at's in the next couple weeks and take the profits to a lego store on January 1st, and buy a Brick Bank for free with the profit play money. Not a bad move, by just picking up a few more at-at's over the last few days.

Absolutely agree. 100% I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they do a Billie Piper...

I felt like deleting it out of jealousy, but I moved it.

I made this one up last night, my holiday gift to BP 20% off