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Welcome to Lego Investing. I have been in this game since the 1990's and my prime years were from about 2004-2007. All I can tell you from all my years of collecting and ebaying is that there is no guarantee, but the large lego sets are the closest thing to a guarantee as you can get. While not every Large set is a home run, you are pretty much guaranteed to NOT lose money, which is more than you could say than any other investment. Legovesting has become increasingly popular in the last 3 years, making it more difficult to make money as fast, and Ebay fees and the post office are continuing to cut into profits heavily, but you can still make good money. Just not as much and as fast as the mid 2000's. There are many naysayers on this forum about the Tumbler and they have their reasons. I personally believe this is as sure a bet as any due to the fact that despite what many people on this forum state, the interest for this set is VERY HIGH. It has more reviews than almost any other UCS set that was out for only 16 months, and has been a consistent top seller on Amazon since it has been out. While more interest drives more people to hoard, there is only so much supply out there, and this was hoarded less than many of the other sets out there. While the extra couple hundred resellers that picked up the set to resell will cause this set to take longer to sell out at lower price points, once it does, it will rise higher than the average 200 dollar set. Right now there are only 78 resellers for this item on Amazon. That is much less than Red Five, DS or many other UCS level sets. The set is already up to 300+shipping on Amazon which again is higher than Red Five or any other set retired in the last several months, and it's only been sold out a week, and there is even a small trickle of supply likely secondary to returns. The set was only available for about 16 months before retirement which is about 8-12 months less than the average UCS Set, again decreasing supply. People state Batman is not a "popular" commodity or as popular as Star Wars or Jurassic Park. While it is not at the level of Star Wars, it is very high. Batman has been popular in a tv format since the 60's and more popular in comics for lord knows how long. Batman has had 7 and soon to be 8 movies made, and will continue to have movies made. Batman will always be at the forefront of people's minds. People state that the Nolan Batman trilogy's time has come and gone, and thus interest in the Tumbler will die. Well look at the Delorean!!! Hasn't had any reason to be on the forefront of people's minds in 20 years except it was the 30th anniversary recently and people are paying 150 for some dinky little car that doesn't even look like the real thing. People state that no one will want to buy a Lego model of a car featured in only 2 Movies. Again, I point to the Delorean. The Millenium Falcon is only in 4 movies! The Super Star Destroyer in just one. The Nolan Trilogy is one of the definitive trilogies of the 2000's and is revered. It was a box office monster. The Heath Ledger Joker is one of the most legendary performances of all time. Batman, and especially The Dark Knight is HIGHLY RELEVANT and POPULAR. Especially among the crowd that can afford a 300 dollar lego set. This set will do well. How well is the only question. Lego investing is one of the safest investments out there because the number of Lego fans, unlike almost any other toy out there, will always continue to grow. Lego is not a Fad. It is not a beanie baby or a furby. It is a time honored toy, in which a lego from 1950 will still interact with a lego from 2016 the same. Lego never dates. While building techniques improve, (just look at the early X wings and first Star Wars sets, which I bought all of them when they were first release in 1998) a Lego from 50 years ago still functions the same as a lego today. With a constantly growing fan base, there is a constant stream of people who are becoming new to lego. With a constant influx of new Lego fans, there is a constant stream of AFOL's. Lego has always been a "higher" end toy as the prices for legos are higher than an average toy of the same size. Because of this it is a toy that tends to skew more toward the "upper" and "upper middle" class. Because of this, there are always children who grew up with Lego's that have a high likelihood of making a good salary. This leads to more AFOL's who when they start earning those salaries want to capture the magic of their youth, and also share it with their children. They then buy the sets they couldn't afford as a child, and then further the resale market. For many of these people, they will pay whatever it takes to get what they want. Lego is one of the most unique toys out there and it's ability to withstand depressions and stock market crashes makes it one of the safest investments out there.

figured it was you...

That's a great link right above, lets revive this forum a little BPs! if you got your money on bundle #5, you may just be getting my bricks too anyway, as cheap as I am, as lazy, as....as NOT-participating-in-SH.T as I am, I'm going to make a little version of Mos_Eisley $-4-likes idea, give this post 10 likes and I'll spend $10 on raffle ticket, up to 50 likes/$50! Let's go. (I'll pay on last day of the raffle Ed) And on the side, buy some tix too! Plus like Mos_Eisley post that I provided...

Spent my ebay bucks on this giant thing! Good times building it, took about 8-9 hours and it's cool to see the thing taking shape as it's coming together. Highlights for me were the micro scale vehicles and quinjets for the deck.

You need to advertise the raffle as "retiring soon"...

well then I'm gonna stay on topic for once...

I started this thread so that all of the Tumbler condition chatter can be centralized into one thread, where it will hopefully not be read because... well people really don't care. Thanks P.S. I have 10 Tumblers. Some are dinged up, but I have two of them that are in A+ mint condition that I polish daily.

Alright, I'm selling likes! I've already bought some raffle tickets, but just for fun, for every "like" this post gets from members who joined before the time of this posting, I'll spend an equal amount on more tickets, up to $250. If it gets beyond that, I'll figure out how much more I'll spend. Let's set a like record!

Removed coupon link - it is invalid try this

That's some serious tumbling.

Target online item return Architecture Studio. 111.89 instead of 159.99 Perfect seals.

I was so happy to snag a Tumbler from Target before the price shoots up... Then it arrived today in a giant box without a single shred of packing materials. All corners are crushed and there's a ding in the top edge. At least my girls can make a new space ship out of the box. I won't risk returning it.

Welcome to Week 3 of the Top 10 Best Selling LEGO sets as listed by LEGO S@H. How does this Blog work? While the LEGO Shop at Home best sellers list is updated weekly, we will be updating it every Wednesday. The list includes only sets. Minifigures, keychains, Pick a Brick and other products are excluded. If not enough sets are listed on the S@H Best Sellers page, the weekly entry could be shorter than 10 sets. I will comment only on those sets that are new to the list, or that for whatever reason may stand out on a particular week. For example, if a set has been on the list for 10 weeks in a row, then it may warrant a comment or two. I am keeping an Excel spreadsheet with each set that appears on the list, its weekly placing (if any) and the total number of weeks that it has been on the list. I will try to publish it for the first time in one of the next few entries. For now, this is a US based best sellers list. I am still trying to figure out how to do other regions. Pretty simple! Note for this week: The Top 25 Sellers page in LEGO S@H is filled with non-sets this week. As a result, this week's list will be shorter; there are just not enough sets to fill a complete Top 10. Now that we got that out of the way, let's take a look at this week's Top 10. Top 10 (7!) Best Selling Sets (LEGO S@H) #1: 40201 Valentines Cupid Dog - Previous Week: #1 - Buy Now! #2: 10251 Brick Bank - Previous Week: #2 - Buy Now! #3: 75827 Firehouse Headquarters - Previous Week: #3 - Buy Now! #4: 75105 Millennium Falcon - Previous Week: #4 - Buy Now! #5: 75102 Poe's X-Wing - Previous Week: #7 - Buy Now! #6: 31027 Blue Racer - Previous Week: N/A - Buy Now! So, this one is a surprise. I truly can't figure out why these small Creator set managed to make it to the list this week. Sure, it is a nice little model for only $5, but unless people are buying it along with a larger set I really don't see why it is so popular. Especially online! #7: 60036 Arctic Base Camp - Previous Week: N/A - Buy Now! The Arctic Base Camp is the larger (by piece count) of the CITY Arctic themed sets, so it isn't really a surprise to see it on the list considering LEGO slapped a 30% discount on it. This set, along with the Icebreaker ship, received pretty good praise from some forum members as well. Well, this week was a short one! Not really that many movers in the Top 5! As always, feel free to leave your views and suggestions in the comments section below! Thanks for reading. View full blog article

Here is the coupon images. I'm not sure why it changes to 20% with the export to Passport (iOS) vs 15% if printed or if exported to Google Wallet. I'm putting both up. T&C state that the coupon is as good on the phone as it is printed. Removed coupon link - it is invalid

That box has a monty python and the holy grail feel to it.

So beware of any new forum members from Berkshire that write trunk instead of boot and line instead of queue.

Languages: American LOL Only if I get staff discount and exemption from any rules deemed unreasonable.

I think the last guy started selling LEGO after reading the latest news.

http://www.lego.com/en-us/careers/jobdescriptionpage?title=E-commerce+Fraud+Assistant&id=53573722 Interesting job opportunity...

I do like what I am seeing on Ebay and bricklink - min. price 980 euros and 850 respectively and number of listings gradually coming down.

Here is an article about the school and fundraising efforts from the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Only my third post on these forums, and just wanted to commend you on your effort. Just bought my tickets last night, which makes me supporter #426. However much you raise, I think what you guys are doing is awesome! I remember when we had to raise money for our school every year, my mother would go around and sell cookies to her colleagues at work so that we wouldn't have to do it ourselves in our neighborhood. And she did this every year for 12 years! Hopefully, everyone is procrastinating like me. Best of luck!

Very welcome. You and your brother really do a great job with this site. Glad to be a part of the site and your fundraiser.

Tomorrow (friday 22.01) interspar.at will have a lego deal with 20% off.the code is 616lego0515 and it also applies to already discouted sets. Perhaps the 5euro newsletter coupon will also work. E.g. The arocs will be there for 127,70E included shipping to germany

enough for what...? [emoji53]

Finally got my donation in. Sorry for the delay. Been meaning to for a while now. The badges all the donators had were a nice reminder (not that you haven't done an excellent job posting it everywhere).

Sold a set of 12 (1 & 2) for $199.99 + shipping this morning. Buy in was about half that

Even that is not true, or at least not without digging into every listing. Ebay reports the final price as sold, even if that final price was for a 2nd/3rd/4th quantity item that never sold. So if I list qty=2 of a set and ask $100, the first one will show as sold $100. If after selling the first one I raise my price to $1000, and then end the listing, it will show up in ebay sold listings as sold for $1000.

Galeria Sunday Sale is this week -13% on Lego City and -20% on Lego Duplo. It should stack with the PaybackCoupons, that worked last time. (Possible Couponcodes are:Vorteil2187, Vorteil7927, Vorteil2186,Vorteil2851) Newsletter coupon didn't work the last weeks, so I don't think it will work this time.

I got one for €50 last year. One that will either some day (when it's finally not sold in retail stores any longer) rise in value enough to be interesting to sell it, or if not I'll just give it to my daughter as a birthday present or something. She's 6 now, so I still have 1-3 years before she'd feel too old for it.

Something you might consider having a go at Grav, would be to sell as open box sealed bags. You can open and flatten the box, and tuck all the sealed bags into a mailer. Most people are army building and intend to open the box anyway, so selling open box or even no box shouldn't be that difficult... especially when you can cut the shipping in half (US buyers) or a quarter (Canadian buyers). I've only listed a couple, but I've sold just the figures for ~$20 + $2.5 shipping. I have bricks leftover for MOCing or bundling together later, and I'm already in the black with a good buy-in like the BOGO offered last week! Definitely comes down to your buy in cost though, and the worthwhile value of it after that number has been recovered. As with anything on here I guess.

I'm not a power user yet (as I just haven't had the time), but I *just* found out about this. I'd seen the banner a few times but it just didn't catch my attention as it seemed like random publicity... Also not a fan of the vid used for the raising of the funds, but it's *definitely* something that everyone using this site should do. BP is a great site even for lite users.... I'd simply suggest to Ed that the banner be more attractive and focused on the raffle.. and Lego. Idk, different colors maybe? I'm definitely in. Good luck! - David

Doesn't matter if they are smashed or not -- they sell for the same on ebay and amazon. "May show shelfwear" -- I've never ever had a problem or a return. Im not a collector - just a seller.

Good idea. Now we just need a mod to move 2/3 of The Tumbler thread into this one. I polish my mint Tumblers twice a day, by the way.

Have you seen my mansion?

i see the awards are back... i demand ask for a Thor badge

Back in the day, Lego included alternate pics in instructions. No steps though. Even my Kings Castle from 1984 had it

I think it was across all EU since I just came across it accidentally when inadvertently browsing the German SAH and saw the discount and then quickly went to the UK SAH and saw the same deal and just called Customer Services. They said what they had left went very quickly and she said that there were three left. Was tempted to take all three but thought I may be pushing my luck so only went for two. I asked her whether they would get any more in and she said no, but who knows whether that means no until the run up to Christmas. Regardless extremely happy to get two and will sell one in the run up to xmas which will hopefully pay for the other one, which I will give to my children.

You chose.....poorly. I'm sure you would be able to sell $350 each with damaged boxes in another month, so send back a grand?

Not sure when it happened but these have reappeared online http://shop.lego.com/en-AU/Birthday-Table-Decoration-40153 Limit 2. I seem to remember these being very popular last year

double points + promo set giveaways that i can sell on ebay and consider the profit as a discount on the set i actually paid for, rather considering it it's own transaction. Hopefully you understand what im trying to say, as i am not the best at articulating.

This should make some of the decision making easier..

Remember not all sets that you buy are instant winners, most of the people that have been doing this for a while have had their fair share of mistakes. One that I will remember Is 70400 forest ambush, I could have sworn that would have done well since it was a troop builder with knights. I still have a large amount of those things. No the forums are not really about that, its should be more of a discussion on what sets people think will do well and many other things. The forums are not just a get rick quick scheme that anyone can do with ease. You will need to read through other posts and do the research and come up with your own onion.

Nobody is going to spoonfeed you this information, but here's a recipe on how to obtain the info yourself: 1. Make a list of sets you can get from this out-of-the-way LEGO seller 2. Download and/or Purchase BrickStock (either the free or the purchased version will do fine for what you need) 3. In BrickStock: Ctrl-I Ctrl-I and search for the set (hint: use the magnifying glass and look for "<setnumber>-1" e.g. "10179-1" 4. Press Ctrl-A Ctrl-G to have BrickStock download all the average 6 month sale prices for all pieces 5. Sort items by Price, look at the most expensive ones 6. Also look at total set part-out value. 7. Make your decisions.

see, i'm not against the Sea Cow and this post was before nearly everyone went "gaga", i mean "moo moo" after this set disappeared.

Just a point re: The obviousness of The Lego Movie being "a kids' movie," and not for adults... There are very, very few modern wide-release "kids' movies," esp. with a $60,000,000 budget. Restore a brand from yesteryear in the hopes of capturing identification from post-13 viewers ('15 ex: Alvin & Chipmunks [win,] Pan [lose] ) or elongate a successful 21-min format brand ('15 ex: Spongebob [win]) are the two en vogue pitches... 99% of "kids-only" long-format media is direct to shelf. Movies like The Lego Movie may seem like a sure thing in retrospect, but it wasn't. Pan lost $80MM this year with huge brand recognition, Hugh Jackman, and a recognizable young star. Even if you kill it with script & story, you have to get people to show up... to secure distribution channels they had to show a specific, proven plan for how they were going to get 13-24 yr olds interested, and 24-39 to bring the family. They cast Morgan Freeman, Chris Pratt, Liam Neeson, and Will Ferrell, then give them hundreds of witty double entendres and callbacks like every other animated feature to get people like me to bring the family... My 4 and 8 year old remember the song... I remember about 100 Star Wars callbacks. Parents were not just considered, they were counted on. No parents, no Lego Movie.

Guess I've been buying the wrong Poe in hopes of retirement. Never seem to get this stuff right... On a positive note its canopy is flawless...

The set looks awesome. I loved the marketing The LEGO Group put behind it. Love the box art. Love the figs. I found the set to be very fragile, though. It was a delicate build and pieces constantly broke off when my son played with it. I do like the detail of the mech. It's awesome looking and displays very well. This set should appeal to AFOLs who want to augment their existing displays with some sort of mech invasion. How cool would it look if you had an Exo Suit scaling a Tower of Orthanc? Or perhaps an Exo Suit wrapped around the mast of the Sea Cow?

Given the time-warp your local Kmart's are in, @exciter1, they'll close 5 years after all the others lock up