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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?

Not sure where this goes...

I think you have overwhelming evidence to stay away from this. I'm not sure why you're still considering it. It's your $$ though...

This set is really cool, I agree. I went to an offshore oil drilling museum last week and decided I need to buy many of there and use the parts for my own off shore oil well I got the sale price at the lego store plus my kids built the mini build rabbit and got some free Kai dragons

If this set were split apart, into say, just the Manor, then the Batcave, etc, you would a better cohesive item than this. And it's not really consolidated into 1 structure. Sure it all connects, but it's 3 individual sections that can be connected together. I think you are reading too much into licensing fees. It almost reads as if the fees got more expensive the bigger the set. Which makes no sense. Also as far as overall cost, it doesn't look like a $270 set. And that's part of my problem with it. To make it 'feel' more complete, you have to 'build' upon it. I'm sorry but I don't believe that should be the goal of a set this big with nothing else at the moment, or even possibly in the future. If you want to do that, it needs to be a bunch of smaller sets. Look at the simpsons for instance. Sure if they only did the house and ended the line, it wouldn't feel 'incomplete', or that I needed more stuff to make it complete. It's good enough on its own. I think you are trying to hard to rationalize a pretty poorly designed set. It's similar because it IS trying to hard to do too many things. And I doubt it's just the number crunchers that are a hindrance to the design of the set. And I agree with @brickcrazyhouse. It does appear to be designed by the B-team, just like Assault on Hoth. I just don't understand this latest wave of exclusives. I mean in just the last couple of years, we've had excellent models, such as the GBHQ, Slave 1, AROCS, Kwik-E-Mart, Sandcrawler, Tie Fighter, etc, that this is just so odd from Lego to see two big expensive exclusive sets, look like they were designed by a child with limited pieces at their disposal.

And yet there are some who complain of boring, repetitive builds...

ShopKo 20% off online code EARLY . They have a lot of the new sets at retail, so it is decent discount on brand new sets. http://www.shopko.com/catalog/search.cmd?form_state=searchForm&keyword=lego

Correct. Those are exactly my settings (with the checkmark on Concatenate and on Consolidate checked) and I do the same (my remarks carry the names and quantities of the sets I purchased them from - but I'm thinking of abandoning this concept since I now have a different external tracking system - I will likely start using the remarks section to put in the location of where I am storing these bricks (box #)).

Available now at TRU for retail price ($350)...for those with rewards and/or discounted gift cards.

It is nation wide .. And for future reference, U can post the store address if it is an advertised sale .

Other than Shop at Home, I believe this is a Toys r Us exclusive. I've got four so far for around $60 from using TRUTH and rewards coupons, but I'll definitely grab a few more next week if they survive until double VIP. This is another overlooked set IMO. The base is pretty cool, and the plane is unique. People love unique planes...

Since there's already been confirmed 2016 seal codes and this just came back in stock I was surprised the one I got yesterday from TRU was 49R4. Not sure where they found this old batch. Although after seeing Red5 and ToO come in stock at TRU the past couple days maybe it just take them 8 months to process new inventory.

General Contractor....sorry...had to.

I'd love for it to hit $400 USD by Christmas but I don't think it will.

60080 - City: Spaceport = $85.12 (30% off) at Amazon

LEGO Ideas Maze (21305) Officially Revealed Posted: 02 Mar 2016 12:15 PM PST LEGO has officially revealed the next LEGO Ideas set with the Maze (21305). The set was conceived by Jason Allemann (JK Brickworks) and it will be available on April 1st for $69.99. Along with the Maze build, the set will also have a removable container to store the balls. Read more about the design process of the Maze (21305) over on their blog post. LEGO Ideas Maze – The reinvention of a classic! The latest LEGO Ideas product reinvents the classic ball and labyrinth game, but adds a twist of creative LEGO building to the fun. Built entirely from LEGO elements, the LEGO Maze consists of a base frame and a simple tip and tilt mechanism made up of LEGO beams and axles. You turn the wheels to move the maze up and down or from side to side guiding the ball away from the traps. The interchangeable maze system means you can easily swap maze plates without having to rebuild the entire game. Once you’ve mastered the two maze designs included with the set, you will find lots of inspiration to start creating your own mazes using the bricks included or any of your own LEGO elements. The post LEGO Ideas Maze (21305) Officially Revealed appeared first on The Brick Fan.

18,000 piece fortress of solitude

Pretty certain this one has a lot of life left.

Star Warhammer 40k by Paddy Bricksplitter

Bust this!

I've been working on piecing together a few sets from a huge mixed lot. After about a week of sorting bricks, finally finished up the 10174 UCS AT-ST today. I'm debating whether to spend the $15 to get the sticker. I'm about 99% done on a 7662 MTT and a 8097 Slave I. Just waiting on a couple Bricklink orders to finish those. And I've started the 10193 MMV, though it's missing all the blue pieces. Don't know whether I'll try to finish it up or not.