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Got a good laugh out of this question....

Picked up the following used sets from CL all with instructions but no box for $750: 10185 Green Grocer 10218 Pet Shop 10216 Winter Village Bakery 5766 Log Cabin 4956 Creator House 6754 Family Home 4996 Beach House 5891 Apple Tree House 5771 Hillside House 7641 City Corner and extra 10-15 pounds tub of LEGO and some small city sets I think it's a pretty good deal and most of them are going to be placed in my city. I'm just really happy to finally able to get Green Grocer and all of the retired houses that I wasn't even bothered to buy back then.

I would like to see a Starkiller Base that resembled the 10143 in scale and style. That would be an awesome display piece.

I'm at LEGO Downtown Disney waiting for them to open. I have $40 in my pocket and $5 in points. Ever wondered what a degenerate LEGO addict spends his last $40 on? Stay tuned!

While those are all valid points, I think you're missing one point: hype. Tumbler EOL coincided with the largest influx of investors that Lego has ever seen. A lot of investors who bought this set bought it simply because it was "the thing" to buy at the time they started investing in Lego. What we may see as "large demand" could simply be resellers buying each others' products. If anything, the ratio of hoarders:end users is way higher than any of those other sets. I actually think Tumbler will do well and have posted about those points you've mentioned (mainly that it's one of a few displayable superhero Lego), but just playing devil's advocate for a second.

And there it is, I've reached peak acronym level and want to cry

You won't do any better than 50% off really. A few people might, but not many. You will make money at that buy-in price. ...and you suck for finding these at 50% off.

My shipping has been great lately. They've got one up on Amazon there. They'll even ship your pants.

Didn't see Venom Poly's. Cat, dog, shark, road, steaks, Pebbles hair added to my collection. $40.97

Yep....automatic MOD mode for the next person with a stupid comment. Try me please.

There is nothing left that escapes the horde.

If posts on this forum can be anything to go by I believe there are plenty of new sellers that don't even factor fees, postage and tax into a reselling equation. I believe there are people that would happily sell a Tumbler for £5-10 profit, to some profit is profit no matter how small it is. Increased amounts of quick flippers all competing for sales are responsible for creating a plateau. Most resellers, let alone general public cannot get a sniff of a Tumbler through retail stores so eBay or Amazon is there only option. The prices should be sitting around the £250+ mark now, however due to Smyths stock being available in constant supply to some Tumblers are being flipped for measly easy profits. Once the retail stock dries up we should see a decent rise in profits.

50x Cowler Dragon Polybags $150 + shipping. After taxes, fees, shipping made about $70 on $64 target clearance for $1.19 ea. Keeping it rolling while everyone chases Poe and batman

LEGO Star Wars TIE Advanced Prototype $34.99 good price? http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Star-Wars-Advanced-Prototype/dp/B00NHQI286%3FSubscriptionId%3DAKIAJQSYTIGRBKVM26KQ%26tag%3Dbrickpicker-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00NHQI286#Ask

They're on the boat!

Annddd done! Pretty much used Jang's as my reference, but there was a lot of trial and error as there were some pieces i could not find in black. Mainly the cockpick hinge pieces, so i had to sort of redo the roof section to make it come off as 1 pieces instead of hinge open. I can get the shuttle into a landing pose, but it's not entirely stable. However it will be displayed in flight mode anyways. Really love the teardrop red cockpit windows. This went from a bad looking model (in terms of screen accuracy) to one of my favourites. Aside from the stud shooters; there is practically no grey to be seen. Pictures below:

I finally figured out what Kmart is doing: To get $15 SYW points, I bought something I do not need the other day. And today, to redeem the very same $15 points (before they expire in 3 days), I again bought something I don't need. Very clever, Kmart!

Had a coupon and points bonanza at KMart.com. 5 x 75094 - Imperial Shuttle Tydirium - averaged out to $54 each

$55 - Another Silver Centurion Amazon FBM $24 - HF Rocka Crawler eBay

What did you call me?

I was in a local TRU yesterday, found a lonely snow plow on the shelf. While in line with it, I noticed the light hit it and highlight an imprint of "From Santa" on the box. Clearly a return.

Airport Fire Truck is doing ok.

Sold a 21301 - Birds, for €95 clean cash in hand to a nice lady. Buy in was the Dutch RRP of €50. So nearly 2x RRP in less than 6 months after buying. Wish I had bought more.

I don't think you can compare those sets to this one. None of them are UCS and none of them are licensed (except for the Mercedes, technically). The fact is this set has a lot of attributes which make it highly collectible: licensed theme with tons of fans (Batman) vehicle and minifigs are unique and appear in one of the most popular/iconic movies of the last decade (The Dark Knight) it's a UCS set there is another Batman movie coming out in march (Batman vs Superman) relatively short run (1 year) All these facts were part of the reason people invested in these so much. I don't think a large supply will outweigh the large demand. The price has not gone up that much because a lot of people want a quick profit.

Um...Get a room?

Ebay. Used

Are you the guy that took the minifigs out of the 9471 I bought at Walmart a couple years ago?

I personally label everything because I have had too much trouble with being stuck with poor merchandise that wasn't mine after it was returned. I feel most collectors know what they are getting if they order an FBA item, and they are not surprised by a label. I have never had a return or bad review because of a label. I am concerned about labels tearing boxes too, so I stick the labels to my shirt before I put them on the boxes to make them less sticky. Seems to work. It doesn't matter which the of the 17 Interceptor labels go on each Intercepter. Just don't put a Phantom label on an Intercepter. If you are just starting out on FBA, I wouldn't send in 20 of a single item. I would send it at most 5 of each item. Here is why. Selling is slower than in Nov-Dec, and it might take awhile to sell through 20 of one item. In the meantime, other sellers may undercut your price, and then you will undercut them, ect... I also don't like to commit a lot of inventory of 1 item incase sales are slow because then you have higher storage fees as you wait for everything to sell. Every day an item sits in a warehouse, you are charged a small fee, but you won't see it until billing long after you have incurred the fee. Two different items get 2 sets of eyes and twice the chance to sell, but 2 of 1 item only get 1 set of eyes.

I'm glad I didn't go too crazy with this one.

John Lewis in the UK currently have 41078 Elves - Skyra's Mysterious Sky Castle on offer for £39.99. Can usually be found elsewhere for around £55 and £75 in the actual Lego store still. No sign of actual retirement ahead of the 2016 line coming out. Nice set with lots of good parts for those who part out.

Sounds like a good way of making friends with the ban hammer to me considering it is limit 1 per household.

That's good for you, though. Four years from now you will be able to buy them for $20 each.

To beat the Last minute panic buying, good idea is to pick up a few now and then, I think it will be a great investment set.

I just bought my first one of these from TRU and I have to say this set is awesome. This screams of a ship I would have built with my hodge podge of legos from the late 80's and early 90's that I would have showed off to everyone as being the coolest ship ever built. I know that this was the intended purpose of this set and all Lego Movie sets. Huge nostalgia factor for me. Just an amazingly appealing set for AFOL's in my belief. Looks like it was probably over produced, but this still has to be a steal at $70 right? This has a very unique build quality to it that is unlikely to be repeated. It might drop more, maybe to 50%, but I have to figure that this one will increase in value over the next couple years, especially when the second movie comes out.

Sad when the daily deal thread descends into discussion of SYW points and coupons. Not criticizing anyone, just saying that there are no deals anymore and this is the only way to make our own deals.

With the hord in mass buy more mode. We might get a situation similar to red5 again.

Someone in Chik Fil A of all places just told me the same thing jbacunn...that he has a new show and he's a goner.

If by sponsor you mean that Jeff and Ed will buy me one of each, then I will gladly donate my time to build, film, and destroy.

They've made nothing like 20%. Once all fees etc, they'll be lucky to clear 10% profit.

Today I managed to finish building the Grand Emporium. For the photo I placed it between 10246 and 41101 which were built in the past two weeks. Some people complain about the built being repetitious but I didn't mind that. What I did find noticeable when I opened the bags was the absence of a brick seperatator as Its regular inclusion in bigger sets is something one gets accustomed to with time. I still have a second GE to realize an extension of this modular building at some point. The parts of two GEs might not be enough though.

You noticed that too, right? I´ve been looking at my sold new items filter over the weekend and I can see an upturn in sales of the popular retired exclusives (Tumbler, Red, modulars, DS, R2) but that has come at the price of a general downturn in sold prices (a lot of auctions and buy now best offer accepted). Conclusion, the demand is out there but the price has to be reasonable. We have one good month of sales left until the Easter holidays and then there will be a notable decline in demand until late Autumn so I guess those who are carrying too much stock and want to cash in are sellling now. Interestingly, other recently retired sets like Seacow, ToO, SW, Lonely Mountain are not moving at all.

Moe's Tavern?

like this one...?

I have to say, that the final outcome of the set was actually very impressive. It's full of detail and don't let the pictures fool you, it's actually a seriously huge set. It sits on a 32x48 stud base. 1 32x32, and a 16x32. Overall, I really feel you get your money worth out of it. It's not like the tower bridge where you have half the set as cheese slopes. You get tons of bricks, and plates, and bigger elements that add to the weight. I also love the fact that they double walled it so you don't have the mismatch of colors that you see in the modulars, and even the Simpsons House. My biggest gripe is the freaking back. The double walled 3 of the sides, but the back is single walled and just looks horrible IMO. It's really unfortunate too, because outside of the that, I had a lot of fun building it and watching the movie in the background. I would say, as a fan, I would get this set. If you aren't, I can see why some people think $350 is overpriced for an oversized 'modular' as it were. Oh yeah, one last observation, for those complaining about having to move stuff in order to put the Ecto inside, I understand your gripe, but once you put this thing together, you'll understand why they did it that way. In order to fit the ecto inside, they would have to add probably at least another 10 studs length wise, and a couple more width wise, and once you take into account the double walls, the piece count would explode and balloon out of control.

I think the problem is nothing related with the quality or potential of this set: it has only been overproduced, lots of shops still have some in stock and secondary market is full... Not a good investment if you did not plan to keep it 2+ years after EOL in the closet.

That may be - in Europe prices for some of the sets that I named above are already pretty high, others sit at or below RP (Dropship, Spaceship, Flusher, Ice Machine, Reinforcements, etc.). Not investing in the movie sets myself, I love most of the sets though for their creativity, craziness and the fact that they relate to a cool movie of course. However, it seems to me that the theme as a whole is discarded by investors a bit too easily. I wouldn't be surprised if there are a good few winner sets in the theme when we come back to this discussion in a year or so. Maybe the situation regarding that particular theme at the US market is just completely different, I don't know.

visit the camelcamelcamel.com web and choose any lego reference you want.When the price graph comes up you have to click on the sales rank tab. I don´t see this data as conclusive myself as there are so many swings from high to low but I probably don´t have the brains to interpret it properly.