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Bought 7 sets in Germany recently. 2 EV, 2 GBHQ, 1 TB, 1 PC and 1 SC. Managed to sell 5 of those sets for a profit, which left me with essentially a free SC and EV, so I decided to break out the SC to build it up. What an awesome build it turned out to be! Truly befitting of an UCS set, unlike the upcoming Hoth set... I have 2 other SCs kept in storage MISB. I think I shall get a few more of these down the road

The grammar police will be with you shortly.

We're all waiting for the next Ebay promo before spending our certificates

Please be classic, please be classic...

What's an adverb?

Finally finished this beast. It's actually a pretty awesome playset and you can fit a warthog and a couple mongoose inside. It's been a busy week and we had 5 baseball games this weekend. The wife is watching a movie, so I finished it while waiting to watch "The Walking Dead".

A complete, used but great condition Pirates Chess 2009 edition for £40

Some more information re: " From your experience, can you find retired sets from big box stores like Walmart and Target? " Different retailers have different practicies: For example, Target - corporate-wide has a pretty strongly regimented product life cycle on their shelves. They go through 2 major clearances a year (Feb/July) - and in general, they move out product even before it's "retired" from shop at home. Wal-Mart has a lot more freedom, and it can vary store by store, so OCCASIONALLY (especially in backwoods Wallies) find a retired set or two. Walmart also has a tendency to pile clearance items in storage, and then unload them onto the floor at various times, which allows the occasional old set to surface. Target does not do this. Other retailers, like K-Mart - have stuff on their shelves a lot LONGER. For example, at some K-Marts you can find things like Brick Bounty, The Ghost, even wave 1 Chima - All of which are "retired" on shop at home. And the ever popular Mechdragon, which just recently retired from Shop at Home. Toys R Us is the same way in that they have a lot of flexibility, and since they tend to overprice a bit - retired sets can linger on the shelves a while. "Retired" simply means the date it is no longer available at Shop At Home. Sometimes these sets can linger at other retailers for quite some time. A good example would be the Toys R Us exclusive "Hydra Fortress Smash" which I believe retired in November officially, but didn't get cleared out of TRU finally until a couple weeks ago. One of mine had a couple Black Gates 8-9 months after retirement on their shelves. And your own regional stores will have their own policies and gems.

No tricks. Just grinding out deals Here's the find of the day

Netflix and LEGO?

My girlfriend and I have been building Parisian Restaurant and binging Netflix all weekend. I'm pretty sure she's hooked on LEGO. All according to the plan.

I thought Geoffrey delivered these to you personally, with a slice of pumpernickel?

Well, that would be par for the course for LEGO's timing.

Love Bug Love Bug !!! I'd be all over this!

survey says : 4 per case... i thought they might be 10 per case. and up into the rafters they go!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lego-75060-Star-Wars-Slave-I-Building-Toy-1996-pieces-Read-/201555215386?hash=item2eeda0841a:g:q1oAAOSwud1XAopb New in Damaged Box Slave 1 $179 shipped. Disclaimer - yeah, you can get it cheaper at TRU if your TRU carries it and if you happen to be there and if it's the 4th day of the new moon where your 10% discount applies and if you don't pay tax and if you steal it OR just buy it now. If only someone made that suggestion!

If Brickpicker only had a stock alert system...

The Brick Fan is reporting that there is three full sets in a case with Alien, Genie, Mickey, Mr. Incredible, Stitch, and Syndrome getting an extra in each box.

Ant-man took a little jump this weekend - sold one for $63

Ragge Runarson's business building by LegoJalex

In all fairness, it's taken lots of hours/gas and been over 7 states You should explore southern WI (before I get there)

I used to collect Those and the call of duty mega bloks. People like to crap on the brand but they never use stickers and they're a lot cheaper so they're doing something right.........

End of day summary: The last picture the 3 bigger boxes were $3, the foal was $1 and the poly was $2. The TRU bricktobers were $9.98 and the trees were $3.49.

Used $9 in SYW Surprise points for another Rey's Speeder. K-Mart has been good to me this year.

I couldn't help myself today at a local mall. $50 in VIP points and plus Mr. Freeze polys for each family member. I didn't want the huge box with holes in it so the contents were dumped into 2 XL bags. For a set I never planned on buying, looks like I'll be building it.

70172, while this is a Ultra Agents set, the kids thought it was awesome. Tons of playability and the fact that you can fit a minifig in the sharks mouth is sweet. The crane that holds the cell is weak and the giant harpoon gun hanging off the small boat is comical, but still a fun set. 5x eBay bucks and I broke down and bought our first Indiana Jones set. Came clean and with every piece in good shape, awesome set. I want to pick up a couple more now. Does anyone know if there are straight pieces of this smaller track?

My wife and son built this last week, they both enjoyed the build. A set I only bought to sell hence the 'ebay' photo. Quite an impressive finished product even though HP doesn't interest me.

1st lego store today: 75102 poe's x-wing fighter for $80, got $5 back in VIP points from a coupon, regular 5% VIP points and free mr. Freeze polybag 2nd Lego store today: 2x 21021 flatiron building @ $32 each, 1x 21022 Lincoln Memorial @ $24, again, got $5 back from a coupon, 5% VIP points and mr. Freeze.

Hotcakes! Flip 'em like hotcakes!

update #2 - still there, still $8. At what point do you give up? I don't know what the answer is, but I do know that the answer is not "after nine months or so"

It is believed there is one floating around. You may want to check the TRUTH thread.

Ahhh yeah....

First question ... Not really.. The best LEGO does is let you search for the Retired Product tag, but won't let you sort by date retired. http://search-en.lego.com/?cc=CA&i=1&pt=shop&q=retired&q1=Retired+Product&rank=ca_rank&x1=available Brickset records the approximate retired date, but has no search option to sort by retired date exists. Not sure about other fan/selling sites though.. Second question ... Sometimes. People post pictures of long retired sets often, especially from those magical Walmarts ex1 shops at who have time machines out back. But it's pretty rare now. Most retired sets get scooped off the shelves pretty quickly unless it's Ninja Turtles, Chima or Dimensions.. and even then, people often scoop them up before good clearances do them in.

I love the Avengers Tower. But that's probably just personal preference. As far as it goes, The exclusive figures are the various Ultrons that are all virtually indistinguishable, an Iron Man that is indistinguishable, a Hawkeye that is virtually indistinguishable, a Scarlet Witch that might be better than the Civil War one, Vision, Quicksilver Iron Legion and Baron Strucker. If it weren't for the fact that the airport battle made the quinjet city chase almost completely redundant, I would have put my money on that one. The Vision is the only part of that set that people will go crazy for. Hulkbuster is the best contender for increase.

The reactor piece is cockeyed

Silver Centurion

3310455512183729 from eBay. It appears used...HTH...

Got an artic supply plane from tru today for 49.99

I'd love the idea of a white Beelte, old or new. You could easily mod it into a Herbie bug.

Triumphal Arch in Paris by Brickmaster_Kor

Three Houses by cimddwc

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.

This might be old news but it's worth mentioning in case anyone missed it. LEGO Shop at Home US: "We're sorry that this set is not available. Please check back in August for product availability. "

Full list of recently retired Star Wars sets: 75034 Death Star Troopers 75035 Kashyyyk Troopers 75036 Utapau Troopers 75037 Battle on Seleucami 75040 General Grievous' Wheel Bike 75043 AT-AP 75044 Droid Tri-fighter 75045 Republic AV-7 Anti-Vehicle Cannon 75045 Coruscant Police Gunship 75049 Snowspeeder 75050 B-Wing 75051 Jedi Scout Fighter 75052 Mos Eisley Cantina 75053 The Ghost 75054 AT-AT 75058 MTT 75072 ARC-170 Starfighter 75076 Republic Gunship 75077 Homing Spider Droid 75081 T-16 Skyhopper 75083 AT-DP 75084 Wookie Gunship 75090 Ezra's Speeder Bike See here. AT-AT was marked 'sold out'. Imperial Star Destroyer had indeed already retired before (end of 2015). Here you'll find a list of, mostly daily, Star Wars set availability updates during the last two months.

http://brickset.com/article/10443/sandcrawler-ucs-or-what http://old.brickfanatics.co.uk/ucs-official-statement/ You folks really need to keep up... The explanation about UCS badging going forward is almost two years old. The Sandcrawler was the first to have the UCS badge. The UCS Slave 1 and UCS Tie Fighter have them. Until the boxes of the expected new UCS sets (Assault on Hoth, Snowspeeder, Death Star) show up in the wild, you won't know if LEGO truly considers them UCS material or not. This does leave out whether the consider Ewok Village a UCS but frankly who cares.