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Great Question 1.) It brought me closer to my kid. He brought me out of the dark ages and I enjoy playing with him so I love sharing the Lego with him. HE is now older (14) but still at Christmas he gets a set. At the store we look at sets, etc. HE still likes them but Magic, the gathering is now the priority. I hope we will always share Lego- even when I am a Granddad. 2.) The investment side - I love finding something and selling it. Honestly, it is the core of business and the fulfillment of the notion that I made that money through my intelligence, hard work, networking skills, etc. There is a thrill when I can take my investments from last year, sell them this year and pay for part of a vacation, or a grill or something like that with the profit and reinvest the capital into a future set. 3.) They are cool - don't know why but they are - even the wife picks one or two minifigures out of each series that she sends to her cousins down south. Indian girl and shark guy are the current ones. 4.) The garage sale - it takes me a lot of work to put it together but it is great to see the kids come to my garage sale with money in hand and happily buying a retired set at a good price. IT brings a personal touch to the sales process that I don't always get with ebay - it is a great feeling for me to see the personal side of lego sales and making kids happy. 5.) IT relaxes me to put a set together. I can just shut down and enjoy the build. To see how it is engineered and the final product that comes from a pile of bricks is very cool. Plus, it always comes out exactly right when I put the pieces and parts together. 6.) Communication with like minded individuals on BP. I would not be interacting with you right now if it were not for Lego. You asked for help and I am taking ten minutes to do so. There are lots of stories out here about how BPers as a community have rallied around causes or individuals to help. I like to contribute and this gives me a way to do so that is fulfilling. 7.) The hunt. Lego hunting is a hobby on its own. There is something about deriving value through sales, clearance, etc. I enjoy the Lego hunt as well. IT gives me a purpose to going out sometimes, plotting a strategy against the masses and Little Timmy's parents and the hard work paying off on that score - (Slave 1 for TRU Thursday CC discount and coupon stack was awesome!!!!)

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Recent builds

I'm not falling for that again...

Your attention to detail is impeccable!

Not sure if this actually goes as a daily deal or not.. But just got an email from Walmart.. They now give 3% on online purchases when you use their CC.. includes pick up orders and site to store ( every little bit helps!)

I'm at a Homeschooling convention this weekend promoting my non-LEGO business. My booth features my RFID-controlled LEGO train, a perpetual crowd pleaser ... see a video below this post. Haven't really had the time to explore the convention apart from passing a few booths during quick restroom trips, but noticed the following booth (btw, these Homeschooling conventions are a rather Christian affair, so the theme of this booth is totally unsurprising): That poster reads "Jericho" btw, a brickfilm (you can see it being played back on the TV screen). Shortly after I had a nice conversation at my booth with a lady from Lawrenceburg, KY whose kids were interested in my educational program. I mention to her kids how awesome the LEGO trains are, to which she remarks "I know, we have tons of LEGO at our house". We chat a bit more, turns out she and her husband own Toyburg, one of the top-selling Bricklink stores. Small world .....

The crown lies heavy as they say. Management is often not worth the trouble or stress. I think I will be applying to a local LEGO store as an associate very soon.

Meant to upload these earlier...

Sold a lot of 30 lbs of used LEGO no minis or booklets for $220 + shipping. It was most of a lot I picked up Monday for $60. I sorted out non LEGO. I have a few SW minifigures, many baseplates and a few more lbs to sell from it too. Not a bad flip in under a week.

They're, their and there to be precise. And separate spelled as seperate. And know vs. Now. And Lego, Legos, Lego's or Legoes instead of LEGO

Don't get me started on Your and You're, there and they're or their. Drives me nuts. Oh, and cursive will be a secret code used by us old people one day to plot the overthrow of the millennials and their offspring.

Saw this just up the freeway from my place Can you imagine the phone call with your insurance company? "Yes, I was rear ended by an airplane. That's right, an airplane."

It's because we all love helicopters so much

Pardon me as I am going to complain about something completely unrelated for a bit. Ahem. I have already stated before somewhere how much it irks me when someone uses the term "loose" instead of "lose". Well another peeve is when people say "I've got". Let's see, "I've" is a contraction of "I have" therefore you are technically stating "I have got". Yeah, instead of saying "I've got LEGO" try using what it really is as "I have got LEGO". ....Oh my jeeze, that hurts my head just thinking about it and grinds off the tongue like sandstone. And now we return to your regularly scheduled programming. Have a nice day.

lego christmas by Karen Metz

According to Reddit, this series is out in Billund.

So I finally finished Diagon Alley and the two burrows. Added som lite brix- love the way it looks.

DPCI is 086-14-2496. It's already marked on sale on Target's website at $15.99. The original RRP was $29.99, but was marked down by Lego to $19.99 a few months ago. Good pickup!

At target. Got about 25 fire Easter polybags for $1.19 and a single Olaf polybag for the same price. Also nine heartlake hot air balloons for $11.16 each. They had quite a few jungle bases but they were around $40. I passed.

Built this last weekend but took me a min to get the images onto the cpu.

Oh, I really, really hate this one. Grrrrrr

I just finished the Mos Eisley Cantina (75052) - thanks to @Phil B for the hook up earlier this year! Fun to build, lots of neat details, and great parts for future MOCs.

21024 - Architecture: Louvre - $46.98 (22% off) at Amazon

60051 - High Speed Passenger Train - $107.99 (28% off) at Amazon

I settled for the $15 back on $40. Crazy, I have 2 x $15 back on $60, 1 x $15 back on $40, 1 x $10 back on $15, 1 x $15 back on $125, and a $10 back on $50 all loaded at the same time. What to do, what to do??? I'll probably start small and bank the points each time to put toward something big.

My $60 in points back on $199 is for the automotive department only. The wording on the offer is poorly written making it seem like it can be applied to anything. I just don't want you to be stuck with 20 quarts of synthetic motor oil, Exciter.

For all the conspiracy theorist out there. I Went to the Lego store today and they threw a magazine in my bag. In the magazine was the attached comic. Is this Legos way of foreshadowing?

Rey is still my favorite thing about TFA, that hasn't changed.

I put down my $1K deposit for a Tesla Model 3 today. Felt a little insane doing it without any info on the car, but I'm in.

It's a small world after all....

Got one. Thanks to my Lego angel. Looks great on my desk.

Sorry guys for the long reply. Sorry mods for the slight offtopic talk. If this is unacceptable I'll open a new topic, just let me know. You might have missed the Ultimate Collector Series Assault on Hoth: 2,144 pieces of playtime fun every ultimate Star Wars collector needs in his or her collection. I've seen opinions like this on this forum and didn't reply. Now that I see yet another I can't resist. First this: I have to disagree on the link you're describing as if it were a fact, between the large number of small pieces and the price people are willing to pay for minifigures. In fact you don't seem to make clear (at least to me) what you mean. Let me try to following your reasoning. TLG uses many small elements (1) to enlarge the piece count (2) to try to justify the price people pay for the minifigures (3)? Do you mean that according to you TLG is trying to make it seem that there's a lot more body to this set than there really is, in an attempt to make the people who are checking this set out and who are mainly interested in the minifigures pull the purchase-trigger because the enlarged piece count enables those buyers to knowingly and willingly fool themselves? That's deep! Or maybe you just mean something entirely different and I misread it. But what I likely didn't misread (and what is my inspiration for this long reply) is that you've expressed criticism to the use of small pieces in a set. Of course you can have that opinion, but I can tell you that I'm very happy that there are these kinds of sets with these amounts of smaller parts. It's one of the reasons why TLG is still alive today. Back in the '90s and beginning of the '00s TLG made parts as large as this very set. This silly baseplate always come to my mind when I think back of that period. So what happened? The sets became too expensive to manufacture (cost more than they brought in) AND the kids didn't get to build. TLG's engineers and managers clearly thought it was all about the play after the build rather than the build. Try to make 10 nice alternative MOC's with your 1995's average 150 parts-set. Impossible... unlike sets from the '70s and '80s. We should all be very happy that this is now in the past and TLG have the Creator series, modular buildings pulling the train, showing the kids once again what can really be done with Lego. I'm very happy with all these smaller bricks. And I don't think TLG has a hidden agenda in it. They even show the set's final appearance on the box cover, so everyone can make up their own minds on what's to be found inside. I certainly don't think TLG are intentionally putting in 'as many small bricks as they can' in an attempt to get a larger part count 'so that a set with those rare minifigures are more easily bought'. I think the use of smaller parts is for the benefit of a model's / set's look. And they know that if they really include a rare minifigure, the collectors (and resellers) would buy it even if it had 50 other pieces and it had the same price. Of course, if there are too many large parts, people complain. If there are too many small parts, idem. If there are is too average a number of parts with too average a size, well... let's complain about averageness! Everyone is entitled to that. But sometimes it's a good exercise to think of what it is you're complaining about and to verify for yourself if those complaints are true.

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I'll pass on the streaking, thank you. Guess I'm a little surprised it made the news outside of San Diego. I can see the freeway from my house - it's still significantly backed up. Probably will be that way for awhile longer, too. Sadly, there was a fatality. They still haven't moved the plane, and two of the four lanes are still closed down.

Looks like I will be taking a "holiday" to Germany with 2 empty suitcases.

The initial sprint appears to be done, so It's probably a buy now scenario.

Earlier this morning I had a shopping cart where I combined a 5% off, a $5 off $50 and a $10 back on $50 on a two item order with a total of $70...so I think it just depends on the coupon...

Ordering from LEGO a few years ago is not the same as ordering from LEGO now.

Did anyone get a Sea Cow last night from Target?

That was the first architecture set I build, and I really liked it. Of the sets I've built so far (only a few), I'd say that was my favorite.

Rey becomes better each time I watch.

Bad Cop, Bad Cop! by Grantmasters

I like using the $10 off $75 coupons to take advantage of those $15 back on $60 coupons. I usually use points to get larger items down to $60.01.

They had that promo online too and I happened to have a coupon for 50% points back on jewelries

Latest build and first big one in a while that hasn't been star wars related.

This site has become inundated with 'How much do you think set X will make for me?' or 'I do my own research, but just for fun, what set is likely to be a good investment?' questions from low post members. I'm new to this site myself, but if someone spends a little time to browse the forums, it's glaringly obvious that no-one really can predict how any set is going to perform post-EOL - especially with the glut of new investors - any more than when a set will retire. TLG semingly taking delight in thwarting resellers with unpredictable long runs for some sets or re-releasing other retired sets to stymie the prices for the retired sets. This post isn't an attack on you, just I see this question all the time here. And yes, I know it's fun to speculate, dream of Sandcrawlers becoming the next 10179, and no harm in asking as that's what a forum is for, but I see a growing resentment by many older members here in reaction to seemingly lazy help-me-make-money-without-researching-the-info-already-speculated-upon-many-times constant questions. To answer your question with my own guess, I would say maybe the SC could retire later this year as Smyths aren't stocking it anymore, and they still still stock EV. This is if it follows the usual availability cycle of 2 years since it was re-released in 2014. Who knows? It could become the next Death Star and keep going for another 6 years. The only way anyone knows if it's going to retire is when LEGO Shop at Home stick the 'retiring soon' label on it.