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The sold out colour is red!

Lets move some bricks. This is good spot to drop them!

Ok, the data I have since 2007 is as follows: Format: Year/New Exclusives / Retirements 2007/ 5 / no data 2008/ 7 / no data 2009/ 6 / 6 2010/ 7 / 6 2011/ 7 / 5 2012 / 8 / 7 2013/ 9/ 3 2014/ 8/ 11 2015/ 9/ 3 confirmed + Red 5. DS, SW, PS, Tumbler??? This is based on EU set launch and retirement dates. I have the full list of launched and retired sets but it is too much work to type up - bbrickset is your friend for that kind of thing. As we can see, 2013 and 2014 stand out for the few and many retirements but the overall average prior to 2015 is 7 launches and 6 retirements per year (hello Mr Death Star, T1 and Tower Bridge!)

You have 4 girls? God bless you and good luck!

Three magic words when posting on eBay: Immediate Payment Required

For those wondering , 76022 is that X-Men Sentinel set. I needed to look it up myself

Holiday Train/Gingerbread House combo for $90 on ebay

It does not matter, it will come back, it always comes back. What is Dead (star) May Never Die.

All this time I thought that was my default. Seriously, before today, all my sales were immediately paid. Changing all my listings... You gotta watch your eBay listings like a hawk. I have that stuff happen to me sometimes. That or Free Shipping or what counties I ship to - all occasionally change from my standard.

Sea Cow from Amazon ... zzz ... time to hit the 7 day snooze.

Sold one at $169 FBA, could probably sell remaining 5 in a day at $159

Oh and I just bought a used 10030(finally) on Ebay. He accepted my $900 offer. No box though. Instructions are in great condition. Seller has good feedback selling a bunch of UCS sets so I'm stoked. Earned me $54 in EBucks too

Sold 12 of the Hero Factory shield parts for the Batpod for $167 shipped.

That must have been a big polybag.

I am ok with the 26 GH I have now + 2 more coming shortly.

LEGO head honcho's probably reading this thread and laughing at all of us...

Bought a 75019 AT-TE at Ross today for $44.99

I built 6955 Space Lock-Up Isolation last night. This was included in a bulk lot I got off CL. I have never owned this set or built it and I was a little skeptical about it overall when looking at the instructions. It is an older space set from 1989. This is an amazing set! Not the most detailed, but it has one of the coolest play features I have seen in awhile. The entire platform/ holding cell/ satellite array pivots and rotates when turning the wheel on the side! The little cell can fit onto the shuttle and the shuttle can dock on the moving platform. I can imagine kids playing with this for hours. Once I get the parts cleaned up I will be posting a YouTube video of it. Surprisingly there is nothing on YouTube already.

Architecture - feel free to move if not in correct thread: Year / sets launched / sets / retired / sets available at end of year 2008/2/0/2 2009/4/0/6 2010/4/2/8 2011/4/1/11 2012/4/0/15 (record high) 2013/3/6/12 2014/2/4/10 2015/3/6 (TBC) /7 TBC Studio is not counted but the limited edition sets like Robie, Ssung and MS are. If all retirig soon sets go by end of year, we will have the lowet number of sets since 2010. Six new sets are confirmed for 2016 so far.

I´ve got it all written down on a scrap of paper - give me a sec and I´ll post the summary.

It's really dumb this counts as a return as well. I figured it was a return status when they kept asking for my ID. So dumb...

Not sure what you all mean by LEGO islands?

I wanted to highlight your post. Maybe I've missed something like this In the past, but think it's important to mention. We have that spreadsheet for the modulars. It would be interesting to take it a step further and do one for all exclusives. How many exclusives have we gotten in any one year? How many have retired in that same year? How many exclusives do we typically see on the shelf at any one time. By no means is it some secret insight, but it does offer some additional analysis for consideration.

Although Amazon will allow you to set a restocking fee, in practice, it is something that is pretty dangerous to use since saavy customers can simply file an A-to-Z claim to avoid the restocking fee and those will really screw up your metrics in a hurry. The better practice in my experience is just accept the return, swallow any loss that you take on it, and move on. In the long run, maintaining good metrics is far more important than the loss that you might take on a single item.

So, the EU retiring soon list makes for a possible New Year sale on whatever is not sold out by then. Intriguing that Tumbler seems to be the surprise large exclusive retirement of 2015. Our definitive 2015 exclusive list seems to contain 6 items: EEE, Red 5, ToO, Seacow, DS and tumbler with PS strangely absent.

... when you have the identical amount of two sets, sell them in pairs and close to the end realize you have two of the same left ...

Yes, those have been international buyers. Oh, and that's the 2014 & 2015 cubes as a combo.

Duplo Build & Play Box (4629) - $70 ($19 clearance at TRU last year) - FBA Lots of Mixels Series 3 - $60 - FBA A-Wing (75003) - $60 - FBA City: Cement Mixer (60018) - $48 - FBA City: Train Station (7937) - $95 - FBA 2 x Target Minifigure Cubes - $55 - EBay

I'm almost peeing my pants of the excitement... ... ...

10188 DS SOLD OUT EU Can someone confirm i'm not dreaming ?

IR $208 amazon

Not a spoiler but more of a what if... Darth Plagueis is prob my fav Star Wars book. When they announced the EU was no more, I always wondered why this book wasn't included in the new canon as it was released not that long ago. I wonder if darth Plagueis isn't really dead... I stumbled upon this video last week and forgot to post it. Then I was reminded about it after reading this blog. http://makingstarwars.net/2015/12/people-magazine-confirms-snokes-height-and-weight-from-star-wars-the-force-awakens/

I just wanted to share a special moment I just had with those of you that are thinking of contributing and would really like to see your published work on the store shelves. Today was finally the first day I got to go to a store and see if the book was available. I got to say it was a pretty surreal moment to walk down the isle and then see your name on the spine mixed in with the rest. It was a lot of work, but in the end I am grateful that we were giving the opportunity and this next book will be even better.

Good luck getting that feedback removed. You will need persistence or luck in large amounts, maybe both. I had a similar situation last year with an old Star Wars polybag set. The mom who bought it let her kid open it and build it then left negative feedback for it being "so small" and "such a ripoff". I even bold / highlighted the piece count in my listing description... It took a lot of convincing eBay that her "honest experience" had nothing to do with my performance as a seller, only her failure to be a responsible buyer.

I was at a B&N today looking to get a Kotobukiaya TC-14. Found one but realized my coupon was online only. I hid the TC-14 and went over to the Star Wars table and saw a MISB Slave 1 sitting under the table. I bought it paying $191.xx after tax with my 10% off. This is the first time I've ever seen an exclusive at my store. Woot that makes 3 now. I then hit up a toy store in the mall and picked up 10x 8398 BBQ Stands at $5 a piece. They're going for up to $25 on EBay.

you should hold onto them till 12/26, they will be super hot then

Nice work valenciaeric and CrustyBeaver

Funnily enough the store manager there told me the same about Pet Shop in June - that it was done and never return...

2x UA Mission HQ $165 Amazon FBA

I had 3 items with 20%, 15% & $10 off. Is that not right?Generally it's 3 coupons. After that the register chokes. I guess my TRU register can't add...Were you also doing TRUTH? Because that counts as a coupon and will make it kick out one of the others. No. It was today. You're not trying to figure out what went wrong, right? I told you it was TRU. LOL... Boy, I hope the Macks fix this garbage above soon. I hate replying to quotes on the app anymore...

I know Ed already asked the publisher, but I don't think I would count on adding a signature to each photo. Your credit will be given next to the photo as well as in your bio. Photos will not be able to be released until after the book is published, which will probably be around the same time as the first book came out. If people release the photos before the book comes out, who would care to buy the book to see the photos.

The box is simply fantastic. First set I contemplate on buying 2 for myself. One for home, one for office. True winner in my book Review in dutch

I think this set gets a clear boost from the low price of oil. For the first time in years, Jawas can afford to take their 'crawlers on road trips. For AFOL's, maybe there's a mod out there somewhere for putting a leafblower's gasoline engine in a 75059, plugging in a Roomba circuitboard, and sending it out to mow the lawn...

Where is this wonderful chain of islands that is half full of LEGO? (Sorry, couldn't resist...) On topic, the WM, Target, Meijer shelves around here have quite a few holes, especially for things on sale. TRU had pretty good stock last night, but was absolutely packed. Everyone had to move down the aisle as one collective mob.

It´s a good point but that didn´t stop Jabba´s Palace retiring before Rancor Pit when they are combinable and advertised as such or the modulars on the back of boxes in street formation. How much longer till it becomes the longest running CUUSO set?

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!

ms 10/24/07 04/14/09 538 days cc 10/24/07 12/06/09 774 days gg 03/05/08 11/08/09 613 days fb 09/12/09 12/30/13 1570 days ge 03/03/10 10/15/14 1687 days ps 05/12/11 11/30/15 1664 days th 03/03/12 10/04/14 945 days pc 02/14/13 11/30/15 1020 days pr 01/01/14 11/30/15 699 days da 01/01/15 11/30/15 334 days

Let's talk about this theme, because I think you are 100% correct about it being a "theme." The set that I think is flying way under the radar right now is the Fairground Mixer. By itself, there is pretty much nothing to get excited about - it looks like a glorified City set that should be $89.99 at TRU and garner very little attention even at that price. But what it actually represents is the "missing link" to the whole Summer Carnival theme in about 5 years. Nobody is buying it, nobody is hoarding it, and it might simply vanish in the middle of the night in a poof of smoke. Then, as TLG continues to develop this theme and more and more collectors need to have the entire collection, it becomes the sought after piece that nobody has. Optimistic? Maybe. But plausible? Absolutely.

do you ship them out Gallimimus packs or just randomly pick stuff for the fun of it like TRU??