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This lil' bundle of joy. First daughter, 40 min old.

Hanging is by far the best way to display it. It has a hollow core, so we used a small piece of wood painted black with an eye bolt and picture hanging wire. That way its supported from the bottom. Merry Christmas.

Tried waiting out another price drop, but ended up losing out on 20 or so. I ended up with 24 @ $39.71 each.

BIRTHDAY PINATA!!!!

Maybe what I didn't get. I got my wife the VW van. She has always wanted that exact van, and I've been helping her build it. Sucks no numbered bags but I'm her piece finder, she won't even let the kids build any of it. Its her first Lego set. Winning

Merry Christmas! I'm excited to share the 6 "nanoscale" architecture models which I submitted in the Advent calendar contest at Brickset. 6 "nanoscale" LEGO Architecture models based on designs in The LEGO Architect book.Creating what I call "Nanoscale" LEGO models which meet the constraints of the advent calendar contest is a really interesting challenge. Specifically, the parts need to fit easily in the small compartments of the official LEGO Advent calendars, and the model should use 20 parts or fewer. Nanoscale Prairie house on right, More detailed LEGO model from the book on left.I'm also excited to share instructions to build one of these models as new bonus materials for LEGO Architecture enthusiasts, and readers of my book, The LEGO Architect. (Admittedly, this model uses 21 pieces to achieve the preferred design, but you can easily modify it to use 20 bricks.)Detailed instructions show you how to make this tiny model using only 21 common LEGO bricks.It's a pleasure to share these directions with other LEGO enthusiasts, especially around the holidays when people have some time to build LEGO projects. (I also hope that The LEGO Architect was part of your holidays.) Visit http://brickarchitect.com/book/extras/ to download and print directions for this model, as well as a tiny Neoclasssical monument.Merry Christmas and a Happy LEGO-filled New Year!---tom

Yes, instructions I bought online. http://www.brickbuilderspro.com/queen-anne-victorian-instructions/ I wasn't totally satisfied as there were some odd arrangement of parts inside and no spark of creative build techniques. I think the designer builds only in LDD and not physical, so there are some nuances that would be done differently if you had actual bricks in hand. Looks good on the shelf though!

This really isn't going to be a fluff article about how awesome Brick Classifieds is, but more of a small message that people are starting to take notice of it. Launching any new site is not easy at all. Google and other search engines don't even know you exist, so obtaining new customers via organic traffic is tough. Vendors that do list products don't have a lot of feedback so it's hard to show history and trust. So you might say, ok, what is so good about this? Those that have stuck it out and continued to post new quality listings with solid descriptions, real photos and priced their listings right have done well, real well. Brick Classifieds has been live for just about a year now and a little over 500 vendors have registered, listing a little more than 1,200 items for sale (there are more than 5,000 items in the system that are waiting to become active). Sales actually are strong for a new site, exceeding greater than $200,000 with an average sale price of ~$350. This shows strong interest in vendors listing high valued sets and taking advantage of the zero commission fee structure. Overall, Brick Classifieds has saved vendors over $20,000 in commission fees if comparing to a few structure like that on eBay. There have been a lot of enhancements on the site over the year and we continue to work on new features and tools. This week we will be updating and releasing price lookups to all the other marketplaces. This feature will show you what your item is going for on those sites and allow you to price your listing accordingly to take full advantage of the zero commissions fees but yet make more money. We are working on a few things for 2016 that could lead to a breakthrough moment for the site. I am in talks with a few developers to help build a native mobile app for the site that will allow for easy posting of new sets, minifigures and other LEGO related items. I have also had a few talks with Huw from Brickset.com to get Brick Classified's listings in front of that large community. I gave him access to an API to search for sets via keywords to appear within their LEGO database. We believe 2016 can be a breakout year for Brick Classifieds. Even though this new site may virtually disappear when put up against monsters like eBay, Amazon and BrickLink, but all sites need to start somewhere. There are some fantastic deals there to be found. Use the feature at the bottom of each listing to compare Brick Classified's price to those that might be found on eBay or Amazon. We will continue to plug away and making the site better, hopefully with the support of some of our fellow LEGO communities and our great vendors, everyone will learn that Brick Classifieds should be the first place to look when going to buy LEGO online! View full blog article

I was able to get sea cow half price and price adjustment on my 3 Sea Cow and 4 Tumblers! So happy I am going to buy more Tumblers lol "Since the price on The LEGO Movie - Metal Beard's Sea Cow (70810) has been reduced within the last 45 days, it qualifies for a price match! And yes this item also qualifies for buy one get one half price of which, I also completed giving you a credit of 104.99 as well. The original purchase price on your order for The LEGO Movie - Metal Beard's Sea Cow (70810) was $299.99. Since the current price has been reduced to $ 90.01 each, I have submitted a refund request for the difference of $ 90.01 for each order. "

I submitted an online PM yesterday and just got e-mails that all my Sea Cows and Tumblers will be refunded the difference. Score! " Thank you for contacting Toys“R”Us with your request for a price match on the Tumbler and Metal Beards Seacow on Order# xxxx. Since the price on has been reduced within the last 45 days, it qualifies for a price match!"

Finished up Red 5 this morning and am thoroughly impressed with it seeing it built.

My brother gave me Grievous Buildable figure. It's a lot better than Obi-Wan and Luke.

My Chima-loving 9yr old son got the Phoenix Fire Temple, and his twin sister received the Grand Hotel ... Both have been quiet for the last 5 hours, occasionally shouting "I'm on book/bag X" to compare progress Daddy got a 250 page book by two first-time authors, not sure if you guys ever heard of it: something about collecting LEGO sets for investment purposes or something ... Will let you all know if it is any good once I finish it ;-)

A lump of coal (again)...[emoji19]

Braniac attack at target yesterday. Saw this on the shelf!?!?!?

Found these Target DCPIs on another site and I thought it might be helpful in the Target search tool. 204-00-1460 AT-DP Microfighter 204-00-1461 Hero EP7 Battlepack 204-00-1462 Villain Ep 7 Battlepack 204-00-1463 Battlefront Hero Battlepack 204-00-1464 Battlefront Villain ? Battlepack 204-00-1465 ??? 204-00-1466 Escape Pod 204-00-1467 Carbon Freeze 204-00-1468 Hoth Attack 204-00-1469 Takodana

Found these today at B&N. This is likely my fault for not hitting my B&N yet. Pretty amazed to see a FW still in the wild.

Shopko triple stack, 15% star wars, bogo 40% $10 off $50 slightly lower on ties, but not near the quantity Got a fire station for $47 and used a $10 GC they sent me in mail at BN. Will build with my 5 year old

Found this on SAH by chance among Sandcrawler reviews. Guy is complaining about lack of plaque. Response from LEGO:By Allison Licensed Product Specialist , Consumer Services , March 25, 2015 We are so happy that you love the UCS Sandcrawler™. To answer your concerns about the plaques for the UCS'. In the past the plaques were ment for display models only, for example: 10240 Red Five X-Wing Starfighter™ and 10227 B-Wing Starfighter™ have a plaques because both sets don't have much of the play value as the Sandcrawler and 10188 Death Star™ have. However, in the future we at the LEGO® Group will be adding plaques to all of our UCS' as everything at LEGO should to be played with and we want our fans to have fun with their bricks and builds. Thank you for your feedback and it will passed along to our awesome Star Wars™ design team. Wonder what kind of plaque they will come up for Hoth if it is indeed a UCS. Could you imagine one for EV?

http://www.toysrus.ca/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=83357336

Nah, I would prefer a 10179

From Target.com: Really...?

Well, do you have kids? If not then be quiet. Can't stand people w/o kids giving parenting advice. If you do have kids then how do you handle taking them out into a public place? Do you shroud them? What about a school event where everyone has a camera? Based on your comments in another thread I would focus on getting along with your wife first before having kids. You think it's stressful now wait until you have kids and money is tight around the holidays. You can't just run off to the office to balance your check book.

Yes.

I was at a toys r us this morning and they would gladly refund the difference on the lego sea cow. It was very empty this morning, all lego wiped, only ones left are ninjago, friends, chima, city, technic and duplo. By the way, they had some tie advanced prototype polybags for $3.88 each. John

Who do I need to kill to get those prices In here??? I know one person on here who did better.

I don't think people hate it, just LEGO came up with better alternatives. Typical cannibalism.

Where'd you get the white shelving?

Very nice. A 60061 Airport Fire Tender or 2 would really finish the whole scene off as would a 60082 tow truck taking people´s badly parked cars.

Get 5 ticket, one for each set

all from LEGO Shop at Home: 2x 21301 Birds 2x 21118 The Mine 2x 21014 Villa Savoye 2x 75044 Droid Tri-Fighter 2x 75058 MTT 2x 70787 Tahu, Master of Fire

Found this regarding previous purchases on TRU, for today's clearance offer : Clearance - Buy 1 Get 1 1/2 Price! Offer valid only while supplies last and not applicable to canceled orders due to out-of-stock merchandise. Discount not applicable with returned merchandise; total discount will be deducted from the value of any returned item to which the discount applied. This offer is not valid on previous purchases. This promotional offer may be modified or terminated at any time without notice. We reserve the right to cancel any order due to unauthorized, altered, or ineligible use of a discount. Offer valid only while supplies last and not applicable to canceled orders due to out-of-stock merchandise. Discount not applicable with returned merchandise; total discount will be deducted from the value of any returned item to which the discount applied. This offer is not valid on previous purchases. This promotional offer may be modified or terminated at any time without notice. We reserve the right to cancel any order due to unauthorized, altered, or ineligible use of a discount.

Btw I got my son 70733 blaster bike........Cole in his stocking

.... because we like too. I feel like I just saw the 1977 star wars movie redone for the millennial generation and feel Disney could have, at least, given us an original story. An touche... how can everyone say it is a great movie when all it is... is a carbon copy of the original? (I do not get that!) ALSO the thread is the "Farce Awakens' Discussion"

I do believe the all white/clear is used to keep your attention drawn to the designs and not distract you with color. Same reason architecture studio is all white.

My family does a Winter Village every year. This year, we added a bunch of Star Wars stuff, along with other Lego winter/ice themed elements. Here's a few photos. If you would like to see more, here's the album on Flickr

My first larger experience with Mega Bloks this morning. Put together the Halo UNSC Warthog. I actually had to use a child's project hammer to get the pegs to fully insert into some of the parts. It's not LEGO, for sure. I'm putting together the Scorpion later and we also have the Police Pelican, which I'm dreading. Good and sturdy once together, but definitely an inferior product with swirling colors in the pieces and some are too flexible. My daughter received a bunch of American Girl, Barbie Dreamhouse, and new Epic LeapPad. My son got his first laptop, LEGO Dimensions, an Interactive R2-D2 and we're going to share an XBox One. I'll be busy on vacation putting all this stuff together.

You know you are in the midst of nerds when you spend Christmas eve arguing about Star Wars movie

This just arrived from Paris. Not sure if I'll open it though!!

The success of this set as an investment is likely to vary market by market. I drew a line as there are just too many negatives in my market compared with sets of a similar price: 1) TLG lowered the official price a few months ago. 2) The usual resellers all have multiple copies and the only ones sold in recent months have been well below RRP. 3) It was available at 25% off or some time in a major chain and didn´t sell out 4) AA and other Super Heroes sets are among the hardest to move on here - see Chima and Ninjago 5) That retiring soon tag I am sure there will be many places where this set will be exactly the opposite - we can check in in a year´s time to see.

They must be getting a ton of complaints about the JW poly. My returns on those have been very very high as compared to other sets. I think that people are making an assumption based on the price that they are paying that what they should be getting is more than a single polybag.

Built the Temple of Airjitsu and Sensei Wu's Dragon. First, ToA is an incredible set. I can't believe it doesn't get more pub for the incredible display it is. It's truly a breathtaking set, and one that deserves a place among the best of the best. Sensei Wu's Dragon is also a great build. I have built almost all of the Ninjago Dragons, and this one is great. The brick built head really shines, and the minifigures are excellent. Plus, it comes with a husky - an added bonus for an already great set! Both are great sets and highly recommended.

Not sure where to post this as this is not an official set nor is it a MOC (as I did not create this build)…but I purchased the Starlight Train Station from BrickBuildersPro http://www.brickbuilderspro.com/ (I need to make sure to give credit to them because they do great work) about a year ago. We were planning on a trip and my youngest had never been to an airport or on a plane. So, we Bricklink’ed all the parts and customized/stole/borrowed others ideas to change the train station into an airport in our Lego city. We were able to explain what was going to happen on our trip to the airport step by step, and I think the airport turned out nicely. (We have not fully customized the entire interior yet, but that work will be done over the next year). I do not remember the number of pieces, the cost (thank goodness) or the amount of time involved. But we enjoyed the process. PS - Sorry for my lack of photo skills...

I sold some cubes, but refuse to low ball, so I will slowly part them out (my 11 year old is in charge of that)

When I first built the 8043 I thought it was amazing and it is, but can it be better? Awhile back I posted the Ultimate 42009 which is a marvel of technic engineering and here is another MOC / MOD (that is what he calls it, but the changes are substantial) by Jurgen Krooshoop. The Ultimate 8043 In addition to 4 included M motors, there is an additional M and XL motor, 2 sets of lights, and an extra IR receiver and controler. All functions can operate at the same time but it is difficult to drive and operate any the other functions. I have to say, this is by far the best playability technic model I have built thus far and the modification from the original makes it easier to operate and a lot more robust. I also changed the dark grey threads to black, the way I think they should be!

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...

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