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First time poster, so hope I'm doing this right..LEGO Star Wars Imperial Shuttle Tydirium 75094 $82.80, about 17% off http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00UYNAGNY

Here you have it. 02S6 tags. Whole point of this forum is to share information. If people dismiss out of hand such information and be rude, that's when people stop sharing.

I scored 3 Silver Centurion 5002946 polybags from Gamestop for free. Thank you, Steve!

Imperial hotel 9% off http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Architecture-Imperial-Hotel-21017/dp/B00BL63G08 Villa Savoye 9% off http://www.walmart.com/ip/LEGO-Architecture-Villa-Savoye-Play-Set/21317986 Both sold out @ SAH

San Diego Comic-Con 2015 Dagobah Minibuild

Hey Now!

I just want some for my Katy Perry Super Bowl display.

Had a banner day yesterday (Saturday). I'm just recovering from it. 1. Fell asleep Friday night in my 3 year old's bed with him. Was so zonked that I slept there all night. Oops. Woke up with back and neck pain. 2. Went downstairs and found that the cats (6 month old kittens), had knocked the entire hamster habitat off a shelf. Everything upside down, tubes everywhere. 3 year old is crying up a storm, worried that the hamsters are gone. (Fortunately, the hamsters were still in their cage). Spent the next 45 minutes (at 5:30 in the morning, thank you early riser 3 year old) cleaning up the cages, and putting everything back together. Guess it was time to change the bedding in there anyway. 3. Take the 3 year old out to start a couple of Walmart runs, drop off some Girl Scout cookies at some friend's house, etc. He wants a Happy Meal. We're in line for the drive-thru when he says he's going to be sick. I'll save you the details, but we had to head home. No LEGO hunting for me. 4. He and I nap off and on for the rest of the afternoon. 5. As we're getting ready for bed, he doesn't feel good again. Again, I'll save you the details, but I spent the next hour cleaning. 6. He and I sleep the rest of the night on the couch, just in case.

So there is a rule of 2. Not just for the sith

Finally getting around to putting some stuff in my display case. This shelf is western theme.

It's about the same with 3in1 houses, not as poor investment as 3in1 vehicules but most of them have to be passed without regrets. There are few exceptions especially with houses that have a special brick with sound or light (I'm thinking about sets like 31012 that has retired soon, even if it will not perform that better than 110€/$, BTW it's time to unload them if you have some and invest elsewhere). For such sets being a Lego builder gives you some hints as an investor. Other exceptions are sets based on robots and animals (and dinosaurs). As an investment I would say that : animals (including dragons and dinos) > houses > robots > vehicules ... of course also depending how cool they are. (we're talking about 3in1 sets, not related with some creators sets like the 10226 sopwith camel or 10233 horizon express) Ok now I'm really off topic, time to stop.

I would suggest 31011 Aviation Adventures as a possible precedent. That disappeared from shelves in 2015. It had a US RRP of $59.99 and can still be purchased new on eBay for that price or less. Auctions in January finished in the $40s for some new in box. The people finding them for $20 might eventually make a profit, but that assumes there are enough AFOLs out there who are interested in retired creator 3-in-1 sets as opposed to the present airplane. I think it's a dust collector, and agree with @biniou that you'd have to be one of the few investors. However, if they're having success, I wouldn't blame them for not sharing that fact, because adding you to their numbers with ideas of profit would increase their chances of having bought a dust collector.

I received my Minifigures Plus order as well today. Very impressed with order. I'm not a big baller like the rest of you, so I just picked up the complete set of 16 minifigures for $63 shipped (cheaper than Target price with red card discount +tax, and no akward in store smoothing or chance of duplicates). These are for personal use. Not a complaint, just an observation for anyone else looking to buy a set vs. an entire box. The figures arrived in polybags vs.original sealed packaging. It was very nicely done. High quality ziplock bags with contents neatly placed inside. For me not a big deal, as I would have opened them today regardless. For others, having them in sealed bags might be more important.

Got mine set from Minifigures Plus as well. Haven't fished any out yet. Need to check which ones I really want to get multiples of, and then spend some time at Legoland smooshing.

seriously that's awesome - that's like he just gave you a hundred dollars.

Leaked Episode VIII test shot.

The boxes were shipped the way I would expect to receive them...MISB condition. I want people to be happy with what they receive because we will do this all over again next year.

Frankly, I would have preferred he wrap them in brown craft paper, slapped a shipping label on, and called it a day. Alternatively, he could have borrowed a technique from a previous eBay fruitcake I dealt with and shipped the sets wrapped in Christmas gift paper. I hear that 9/10 collectors like to recieve their prized Town Halls and Death Stars in sealed, destroyed box condition.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/LEGO-Star-Wars-Jango-Fett-75107/45059383 LEGO Star Wars 75107 Jango Fett $14.73 Was: $19.87 Save $5.14

It might be slightly off-topic, but I've seen this reported several times, however here is an excerpt of an interview about 75060 conducted last year by Anio with Hans Burkhard Schlömer: Am I crazy thinking that one of the three announced UCS might actually be an oversized playset à-la Ewok Village? My guess would be Assault on Hoth if it is anything like the video released last year. Has it ever been stated that this 2 UCS per year rule has been revoked? Disney might have changed things a bit, but this got me thinking.

If you want something to print rather than looking at Flickr, you can download from our site. We have many of the other Comic Con & Celebration sets as well. No need to purchase the product if it doesn't appeal to you. You can just download the instructions. Constructibles Repro Tatooine

Walmart dorval is in clearance

One in the same,. According to Rebel Force Radio and Rebel Recon episodes the show is now about 2 years away (same amount of seasons). So unless Feloni and Disney wants to slow thing down, Rebels could be on a crash course with the Rogue One timeline which would bring more attention to ships. Can you imagine if the DS plans were given to Leia directly on The Ghost. The ship would def be put higher on the SW Ship Pedestal and warrant another Lego set. Pure speculation in my part.

So you're wondering if using the common pieces from the PS towards a sand blue GG and part of a CC will boost it's demand? Are _any_ of the pieces that are common expensive or exceedingly rare if bought on Bricklink, etc? If yes, then maybe a little... if no, then not at all. I'll say this as gently as possible, but that's a piece of research you should and could do on your own if you think it's possible. Otherwise, you're just asking a question blindly hoping someone has the answer for you. But since you asked it in the right thread, and I've got some time.... FWIW my gut instinct tells me the answer is no. Aside from the $50 or so in Sand Blue bricks, there is not enough quantity of any of the other valuable parts to be worthwhile for parter-outers to acquire this set in bulk (not to mention the other valuable parts like the 2x4 light bley tiles aren't exactly rare or are likely to become rare). Also, anyone who is truly going to drive up the value of rare bricks wants the real thing, and not some knock-off even if it looks good. i.e. I'd have never paid $700 for a CC with substituted colors. IMO The true value of modulars like PS is as a sealed set for those who decide to collect modulars later or expand their city without the hassle of bricklinking their own. (in case anyone cares, the part-out value according to BL is roughly 2x MSRP as of this posting which is pretty typical .. most of the value is in those sand blue bricks and the larger plates. Next up is the dark blue bricks, the larger 1x16 bricks and the tiles that make up the street with a few odds and ends like 2 of the 2x3 slopes in red that can be used as subs for CC)

Finally found the instructions.

Pop Star Stage, Left and Right Shark, and you've got a nice little display for your Fairground MOC. Not that I was thinking of doing that.

Received my Series 15 set from Minifiguresplus today. I fished for a shark guy the other day and there are a few others I will probably get multiples of.

Here is you chance to get the latest Quinjet at 21% off. Amazon $63.50 http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Superheroes-Quinjet-City-Chase/dp/B00NHQFICO/ref=sr_1_18?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1454819872&sr=1-18&keywords=lego+superheroes

Standard is they release two large Star Wars sets each year and retire two around October-December. Last Year we got Slave and Tie and lost DS and X-Wing. This year however we already know we're getting a UCS Death Star 75159, a UCS Snowspeeder 75144 and UCS Assault on Hoth 75098. There's just no way I see Slave or Tie going so surely just EV and Sandcrawler around Christmas.

Do you mean these guys?

justapilgrim has clearly been living in a galaxy far far away

Is this a selfless act or are you just trying to encourage Lego addiction to boost the future sales? Mwahahahha

Looking at the pics a second time I noticed the control room in the back of the first picture. That, and the bag numbered '4', and the thing below the train motor cable, belong to 3368 Space Centre. Looks like the white half cilinder piece in picture 2 is part of the shuttle*. Looking even more closely at the first picture, I see the remnants of 7939 Cargo Train (=train base utmost left part of 1st picture). That explains the presence of switching tracks seen on picture 2, because they are included with the 7939 set. It also explains presence of the yellow and red pieces in the container seen on picture 2 (for the loc resp. the truck). *White half cilinder piece may also be part of fuel wagon. So instead of one train, there's actually two trains (of course we can't see if they are anywhere near complete, hopefully the rest of it can be found in the container; for starters, some train wheels can be seen lying on top). I also see one ultra-rare olive green Duplo brick. Plus part of a car wash (blue brush piece, bottom of picture 2) and two brown chariot wheels (below bag no. 3). Inside bag 3 there are unspeakably rare one-off UCS Millennium Falcon discs... or maybe just disks lol. Minifigures seem to be present (zoom in to spot a torso and a head) so the lot hasn't been looted or cherry-picked yet. Some train stickers can be seen attached so that's good. Finally, pay attention to the first picture, right border. There I think you can see part of another bag. So my guess is that we're not seeing the whole lot. I think the bags have been opened by the way, and were used by the kid who owned these sets to keep part of a set in after he tore it down. Even more finally... has anyone else spotted the boxed architecture Big Ben in the second picture? Don't forget to ask the seller if that set is part of the deal Blue dots: 3368 Space Centre. Green dots: 7938 Passenger Train. Purple dots: 7939 Cargo Train (of course the train motor, remote etc. could also belong to 7938).

Superhero Dad. Nice work.

Thanks for clearing that up for me. That was my guess... that there must be Lego company marketing material out there that calls all of these sets "UCS", whether they are strictly labeled as such, or not. I also found the B-Wing not labeled UCS... but the shop.lego website indicates it in the fine print under the set description... appears to have been almost and afterthought. In fact, in some cases, these could well have been marketing decisions made after box art, and decisions on plaques were already finalized.

You're absolutely correct. I was thinking JAN 2014 launch, but it was absolutely JAN 2015. I stand corrected and have edited the original chart. Thanks for catching my screw-up.

first two numbers are the week, letter is the region it was manufactured, and last number is the year.

A little bummed that shark guy comes 5 per case, as this may temper the future resale value as compared to previous animal suit charachters. That being said, He's pure awesome sauce put together, so there's that.

I sold one too similar price amazon. Someone probably piecing together a market square? I'll take it, sat there for a long time

Make that 2 ... and cherry on the cake, both to the same buyer (someone is thinking this is the next Mr Gold?) so I can combine shipment (received $9.50 from uncle Amazon, spent $2.70 on shipping).

Hi Veegs, great story to start the conversation. As an Economist, I do feel compelled to correct your tittle a little. Scarcity (as in Supply) doesn't create demand. It does create higher prices, which is what I think you were after Having said that, the relative scarcity of a set can raise demand if the news of that scarcity becomes wide spread and the "desire" to hold that set, maybe as a trophy, increases at every level of price. Your idea, just like the recent Sea Cow and the Tumbler, where low levels of production can create low levels of supply combined with either consistent or increasing levels of demand (due to a new movie for example) creates a fantastic investment opportunity. Hence why most of are here and why this site is so much fun. Thanks for your post and the analysis on these sets was great to read.

Very good point. In other words, always consider the future value of money as part of your investment strategy

If we only had a clearance deals thread...

So this being a Lego investment forum and all, I thought it might be a good idea to write a small post about which raffle tickets to purchase, with only a few hours to go before this set of opportunities becomes a retired product*. There are 11 lots in total. Here's an overview + value** + my thoughts + rating. 1. Death Star (10188). Value: $530. Hoarded from day one, though one of the best opportunities of the first wave. Rating: 6/10. 2. UCS R2-D2 (10225). Value: $350. Hoarded from day one. Rating: 4/10. 3. Case of minifigures, probably including Mr Gold (71001). Value: $615 (or more, if Mr Gold is included). Bit hoarded maybe but many people aren't aware of the value (including me before Ed informed me). So rating: 8/10. 4. Haunted House (10228). Value: $385. Hoarded because of sentimental value I think. Rating: 5/10. 5. Town Hall (10224). Value: $500. Second wave, which is good. Nice value. Rating: 8/10. 6. Grand Emporium (10211) & Parisian Restaurant (10243). $425. Third wave, which is better. Nice sets. Rating: 7/10. 7. Mystery box 5000+ pieces. Value: probably $400-$1,000. Probably not too many raffle tickets sold for this one. You don't know what you're going to get but it certainly isn't going to be bad with that many pieces. Rating: 8/10. 8. Create a bundle 5000+ pieces. Value: probably $500-$1,000. You get to pick them yourself... honestly? This is a must have. One of the latest additions to the raffle, many people who first bought their tickets weeks before probably didn't notice this or didn't get the tickets. Rating: 9/10. 9. Tumbler (76023) & Arkhan Asylum Breakout (10937). Value: $530. This is a very good value for a lot overlooked by most Brickpickers, probably. Rating: 8/10. 10. Brickpicker bundle: 11 desirable sets. Value: $935. Yes you read that right, I added all values and this turns out to be by far the most valuable lot (that we know the value of). It was also one of the last added. So this is, for me, easily the lot that is best worth getting. Get it now... while you still can. Rating: 10/10. 11. Friends bundle: 10 Friends sets plus 1 ideas set. Value: $260. Not unexpectedly, the least value lot. Few raffle tickets sold for this one, probably. Because it's the last added to the raffle and because of the value. So still not bad for your $10. Chances of winning this are of course relatively good. Rating: 5/10. Conclusions (from worst to best): - Lot 2 is probably not the right choice at this point in time (value 4/10). - Lots 4 and 11 I also wouldn't try, unless you really want that Haunted House or are a friends' friend (value 5/10). - Lots 1 looks okay (value 6/10). - Lot 6 is a very understandable choice (value 7/10). - Lots 3, 5, 7 and 9 are probably rather overlooked and have high values. Much recommended (value 8/10). - Lot 8 is a must-have. Get a few of those tickets or you'll regret it later. - Lot 10 is, in my view, the best of the bunch. Get as many tickets as you can while you can. This is a winner! Guess I'm going to get myself another ticket for lot 10. *The tone of this post is not to be taken too seriously, was however written with respect for the good cause and its contents are in principle true and useful. The use of terms as 'retired' and 'hoarded' is intended as playful and should not be interpreted as businesslike or disrespectful. ** For the value I took a look at Brickpicker's price guide + current listings.

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Sold three Bat-Pod pieces....to a guy in Singapore....where I am going next week for work. So I am going to just bring them instead of shipping to the Portland address where it was going to get shipped overseas. Saves us both some money. Small world for sure. :-)

I hate complaint threads.