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41056 Heartlake News Van for $10 at Walmart. It was tucked away a bit. It will go into the "my daughter is going to a birthday party and I need a gift" pile.

New polybag coming soon. It has shown up on TRU's website, so it will probably be available for sale or on promo soon.

Thanks man, I was going to wait until double-VIP, but my discounted TRU gift cards are a little better deal.

So I finally sold my 10123 Cloud City after 10 months of trying. I had many bites (mainly US, UK and Australia) but people kept complaining about the cost of postage (not my prob as including the Lego box raised the cost & insurance / signature was required). Whenever, I offered to decrease postage by omitting the Lego box, people, were like "no, I want the box". From this experience, one thing is certain. Even a refresh of 10123 would fly off retail shelves. 10123 hasn't aged well but it's still a great little set. Some aspects like the Freezing Chamber and Weather Vane still look awesome. I do think the landing platform wasn't needed and those elements could have been better used to increase each room's size. I just hope this Assault on Hoth set debacle doesn't convince Lego to forego releasing a Cloud City set.

Tough to answer because the real answer is the dreaded "depends". I buy anything SW at 50% plus and almost anything non-Chima-non-bionicle at 65%+ off. Exclusives or sets I am targeting can be less of a discount, but there is almost always a way to get sets for a decent discount if you're patient and opportunistic. All that being said, I live in a nice location for WM finds...so that might give me a higher discount bar than average.

Used 100% complete Palace Cinema and Darkseid Invasion for $150. These are for my son and I next weekend as the wife and daughter are taking a girls weekend away. It will be my first modular build, pretty stoked!

Surely, this is has been posted before. Maybe even by me...

10 more Spider-Man vs venom symbiote polybags

In keeping with the Deep Sea deals 60096 (D-SOB?) is $79 @ LEGO Shop at Home. http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Deep-Sea-Operation-Base-60096

Could just add them to the Nerf shooting gallery.

Check out this cool build with a rolling BB-8. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/132170

Built 9461 The Swamp Creature today with my son.

Pfff amateurs...... I collect them out of the dumpsters when they decide to throw them out

Goodbye Daily Deals. Hello Daily Debates...

Depends on the set. Eg: 30% or more on Star Wars or other licensed themes is usually good 50% or more for city 95% off or more for Chima. I still leave chima at those prices

It's fairly uncommon in the big picture to see the larger exclusives in store at TRU. Maybe at larger stores in some markets it's more common, I can't speak for every demographic. At my store I currently have one SHIELD Helicarrier which feels like a return. It's behind the counter in the electronics section. There are three UCS Slave 1 sets in the LEGO aisle. I seem to recall others sighting some of these in store as well.

Location, primarily. Occasionally notes to ourselves. Just to add to the discussion the difference between using "comment" and "remark"... We occasionally have the need to force a separate inventory lot. For example, if we are selling something for someone else on consignment that we need to track separately. If you add an inventory item with a comment, and then part out a set that has the same item, it will not consolidate that lot (unless you put the identical comment in). So this is a way to create exceptions to the consolidate everything decision if needed. Having multiple lots of the same items irritates buyers that use wanted lists, so use the forced comment or the "don't consolidate" options sparingly. Here's the best reason to never NOT use consolidate... If you have 20x of something, and part out a set with 15x more but don't consolidate, you will end up with two lots of 20 and 15 respectively. if a buyer is looking for 25x of that item through a wanted list, they will not see your store, and go shop somewhere else.

I can not agree - As I have mentioned before, the classic artistic element of LEGO has unfortunately gotten lost over the years. The excessive mold/print details on many of today's minifigs are also out of place (since the minifig form itself is extremely simplistic). In the case of LEGO - More is not always more.

While behind the scenes I'm sending those to couple different BPers for original cost plus shipping.

Next time, just please PM me lol. Thanks.

Awesome review. Seeing the pics of it getting assembled swayed my opinion from "this set isn't worth it" to "wow, this set is kind of cool".

Does the divorce set have a lawyer or a brick separator?

Yeah, 2015 release, and lots of listings on Ebay. I grabbed one for the collection, nevertheless.

I believe it was in the flyer for this week. This polybag has been around forever and in ample amounts, not a very desirable promo

Typically 12am'ish EST

I wish I remember where I had read something about Lego talking about how long it can take from concept to production. It might have been a Lego documentary or something. Anyways, if I remember correctly, they mentioned that I think on average in can take about a year to a year and a half to go from first concept to release. And I would assume longer in some other instances. You figure with a set as big as the Helicarrier, and Ghostbusters, it's entirely possible that before it was actually released to the public, it had already been in the pipeline for close to 2 years. So I think for the most part, it's just bad timing overall really, and not Lego purposely going out of their way to rip off people's submissions. Granted I'm sure they do some research into how popular something can be to make a new line/set what have you. Before this gets too far off the rails, I'm with the consensus that most of the IDEAS submissions, while very nice, and would love to have them, are so insanely impractical for Lego to actually produce. Ranging from licenses that Lego already has, to licenses that lego will never get, and sets that are too big to ever even be considered. And that's the unfortunate double edge sword with regards to the IDEAS program. Sure they have gotten some new licenses, but the more popular sets, that I'm sure would sell really well, can't be done in an IDEAS form, but then the only items that can do well are original creations, and that can create a more niche selling market.

Honestly, for that, I´d make the trip and do some tourism at the same time. Maybe there are also some toy shops in the region that can have interesting stuff.

Penny Dreadful

I was not. My renaissance was just late 2014 and I'm in my sophomore year. No longer vulnerable to Chima sales, but new enough that I worry I might go deep on a theme that goes away as part of the normal cycle and then is forgotten, never to appreciate or be appreciated. Thanks for the lessons learned anecdote. Those are the kind of stories I want to hear when weighing my strategy and searching for deals.

My second last set of Series 2 Mixels for €94 shipped

I know right? Based on your usual findings, CMF 10 should not show up until 2017. Forget bee girl, you might find a Mr. Gold

They sell Lego at the Sydney Opera House...?

We've heard that before... Folks also get banned within their first 2 orders after staying under the limits as well. Super cookies are where it's at!

But don't go unless you're invited. Otherwise it's frowned upon.

One of the the things that makes me sad is knowing I want to order a GBHQ during double VIP, but I have to deal with an imprint from a Ninjago polybag when it arrives.

If your target market is resellers than ask them. For this set the target market is little girls and their parents. Most of you are men I assume based on comments I have read. I can assure you having a daughter who buys great lego sets, that the mall is awful. My daughter and her friends have 20 other sets they would go with before a pieced together set that does not even look like a mall. I would stick with sets that have animals or look really great. I can not stress enough that one should know their target customers if they want the best chance.

Union Pacific EMD SD70 Ace Locomotive in Lego, scaled 1:16 The Lego model consist of about 27,000 bricks, and was built in 4 months. It is about 143 cm in length (56,2 inch).

Hate to be the one to tell you this but in Belgium Ewok Village MSRP is €260,- (see here). Become a VIP at Lego Shop @ Home by registering; it's free so why not. You get VIP points for 5% of every purchase. Those VIP points can be used for a future purchase. So basically (and abstractly), you pay €247,- there. Plus, you have a big chance of receiving a (near-) mint box. Plus, shipping is free. Sorry for the off-topic bit but this seemed the best place.