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My first time posting here so be gentle #60050 Train Station - $41.59 at Walmart - 30% below retail http://www.walmart.com/ip/LEGO-City-Trains-Train-Station/38056081

That's like $75 US, sweet!

This is a follow up to my deal/no deal post from last week. Picked up 2 separate deals: 1. Brand new Town Hall, grand Emporium and UCS R2D2 2. Used and built UCS sets with instructions and box:. SSD, Imperial Shuttle, Bwing, Tie Interceptor.....and current sets red5, sandcrawler, tie fighter, slave 1. only missing box for the shuttle. All for $4000 CAD.

Every basement in the U.S.

I think this post must be proof of the Lego bubble.

Greg, no worries. I was wondering what happened, and didn't think I said anything wrong. Anyway, to repeat... Personally, I think it's never too early to start collecting modular buildings regardless if you've missed a few. I've been investing in themed sets as well as architecture for quite some time now, but never gave much consideration to the non-themed creator line, and especially the large exclusives. They were off my radar. Then last year I used points on a pet shop mostly because my wife felt it would be cool to own a few of these. We then built it, and became hooked. So, we've bought a few of the others and plan to continue this line. I personally, don't have and doubt i'll get cafe corner, green grocer, town hall, or market place because I just don't see myself spending a grand on a set just to be a completionist. I still am looking to obtain fire brigade, and grand emporium. But, the modulars are for my personal collection, and i'm not in it for the investment.... but I do think over a long enough time line, these all will do very well, because it seems that eventually people take notice to these and all the sudden become hooked then they start wanting to get some of the older ones. I find these more fun to build, and display then any of the star wars UCS sets. And you can always switch them around to make a new setup, if you want. With that said, I think all of the creator exclusives, whether it's modular buildlings, or the landmark sets are some of the absolute best sets to build, and you will feel rewarded with the finished product. I was heavily into the architecture line for a while, but as time has gone on, I find myself less engaged with that line, and more into the larger creator sets. I have never had buyers remorse on any of the one's I have bought. And I plan on picking up brick bank once I get a couple more VIP points built up. The only downside is they take up a lot of space. 3 modular buildings put together will take up about 3 feet in space. So, that is one of the downside to these large creator exclusives. As long as you have the space to commit to them, I say buy at least one! This line will go on for perhaps a decade +, and I think it will go on without the need for repeats. So over that long span of time, even hoarded sets like Pet Shop will probably be over a grand even if people today are skittish about it.

Nope

Gramps? I thought that was Gilligan.

Until everyone buys at 58$ then u need to drop the bar even lower

FBA: MF 7965 : $255.49 x 2 X-Wing 9493 : $229.95 Malibu Manson 76007 : $59.9 x 2

there's nothing politically correct about a child in a wheelchair minifigure coming from the father of 2 daughters 6 and 7 who will never walk, much less wipe their behind.

Agreed!

Apparently The Netherlands. Start driving now!

Need to keep them alive yo... If they are closed I have nowhere to practice my SYW points magic

http://www.lego.com/en-gb/aboutus/events/annual-result-2015#/fphead Go to the "play" section and there is a slider that lets you scroll through the top 10.

I guess I had that one coming...

I can 100% relate to your dilemma. Very similar to my own back in 2013 when I came out of my own Lego hibernation. Having missed out on the Green Grocer and Fire Brigade, I'll always feel like my modular display is "incomplete". But that said, the Creator Expert modulars (TH/PS/PC/PR/DO/BB) are the one and only theme I have yet to experience a single iota of buyer's remorse. If it helps justify the pricetag, perhaps worth bearing in mind that they're a pretty solid bet to hold their value. Not long after retirement, even the "used" value is pretty much right about what you paid for it new/retail. If you for some reason you do find them unsatisfying (or Lego inexplicably terminates the line), you shouldn't have much trouble at all getting your money back out of them.

I can only imagine how that would be.. but I think you're stomping on the wrong person here. LEGO (and any other toy maker) is in a no-win situation these days with the products that go to market. If we look carefully at this set... - 8 female minifigs, 5 male minifigs (assuming climber is male) - no even stevens? - 3 females in traditional male roles (business suit, painter, gardener) - some men still do those jobs, just ask exciter who cuts the grass! - young man in wheelchair - why not a young woman? Maybe this was a nice middle ground for LEGO. - grandma, grandpa (in old people clothing) - no park is complete without them - baby clearly has no gender specified with white outfit - white/yellow/green typically considered gender neutral colors for babies - man in lumberjack attire setting out the picnic - come on, he should have a chainsaw! - 4 kids - 2 and 2 but clearly gendered (see below) - climber seems genderless - nice safe move - hot dog stand man with mustache - hah, such a traditional chef - some figs with glasses, some without - nice balance don't you think? - boys wearing baseball cap and tshirts/hoodie, girls in pink tank tops and star necklaces - girls wear caps and boys wear pink too! It attempts to meet or break many typical stereotypes so I would say it's an attempt on LEGO's part to be very politically correct (whatever that really means). So I'll reiterate .. I can't imagine the hardships your family endures, and I express sincere gratitude to all parents who look after kids with disabilities. But I too see this set as very politically correct - and a great place to finally introduce a wheelchair into the LEGO world. For kids who have never been exposed to what life is like in a wheelchair, any kind of exposure is good exposure. That's how we as a society can raise socially responsible kids - by normalizing things that have traditionally been not normal. /end soapbox From an investor angle, this set could be a long term winner if LEGO doesn't produce another set like it. It will appeal to the mass politically correct or not. But I have a sneaky suspicion that it's early popularity means it'll get on someone's radar and be something that gets revisited with a twist such as a slide or climber instead of the spinner. 1x1 tan rounds for the sandbox win!

I would price it......accordingly

I'd list it for $1,000,000 as a buy it now with free shipping. Include the "or best offer" option and accept the first offer that you feel is acceptable. Who knows? Maybe you'll get lucky and someone will actually buy it for $1M.

And lower buy ins.

Hey now...

I think it's due to the license with the Octan corporation.</joke>

I didn't say sell for $90 ASAP. It's just an example. I do not think this set will make hundreds of dollars, but I do not think people will lose money buying it at ~$60 dollars. I try to buy sets that I won't have to take a loss on and then let the big money winners find themselves. If everything you buy makes some money and some of those make much more then I think you'll be fine. You are more than welcome to stick to the big winners that clearly have unknown growth potential, but those types of sets generally must be purchased at near full price and the growth doesn't always pan out. It is like investing in low risk vs. high risk stocks. The police station is low risk at ~$60

Thanks for the new Daily Deals update. I love having that back and on all the pages again. Feels like old times

I agree with you on this set, I've no plans to pick it up, unless I see silly discounts. The problem with dismissing this set as an investment turd is that you just need to look at other Rebels sets, like The Ghost and The Phantom, hideous looking sets, but doing well since EOL. Why do we dismiss these sets, because we're not the target market, to me I see an X-Wing, Falcon or Shuttle Tyderium and go now that's a ship, but how much of that is historical childhood bias. Probably a bit, but also they just designed better ships for the OT. Out of all the Rebels sets so far, the only one I really like is Vader's Advanced Tie vs A-Wing and surprise, surprise they're OT ships.

Finished this beauty over the weekend and it is very impressive build by the user Pvdb. It was a tricky build and you definitely should be proficient in building with Technic and have lots of experience as the instructions are not nearly as straight forward as TLG instructions. Here is the Koenigsegg One:1. More pictures, videos and info can be found here.

not yet sure if cool are creepy

OH...I also got my family immortalized in Lego! They are actually very close and mine is uncanny!

Fixed that for ya.

Asia says hello.

Police Station at $60 is an absolute winner. I disagree about the profitability of City sets. Most of the larger sets do very well, especially at Christmas.

I apologize if I insulted you. As far as my PC comment goes, it refers to the fact that LEGO decided after 50 years of production, 30 years of minifigures and I have no idea how many sets to feature someone in a wheelchair and use that as a selling point to all the self congratulatory people who feel inclusive now that they have a kid in a wheelchair minifigure. It should be insulting that they never included one before or that it is being touted as revolutionary or interesting. It should be insulting that mainstream media swooped in on it and celebrated that it's here instead of decrying that it never existed before. It's PC because now high minded consumers can feel inclusive, you know, except all the other things that are excluded. I feel like it should have been introduced sort of apologetically "Sorry it took us so long." instead of "Now with added wheelchair!" Maybe I misspoke. But I feel like the prerelease media that touted how exciting it is to include a wheelchair is the same thing that took away from the message of the research scientists. Finally women are shown in the sciences instead of "Look we are showing how inclusive we are!"

Is ti just me or does he look rather deranged? Well, more than usual. Edit: jbacunn outran me.

He looks angry to me... must be the TRU markup that gets him mad.

Too many sets, wife with too little patience. We made her this.

Finally got our pick-a-brick order yesterday, so we just built the Star Wars: Escape The Space Slug Set I sold the real one we got at the store, then ordered the bricks to build our own (Sensei Wu not included)

The Pet Shop has soured me on modulars more than any other.

Classic example of not answering the question.

This thread is starting to echo the PC thread from last year... ...and all we got is a new box for the PC.

Such appreciation from everyone - i guess PR will get the most recognition among other currently easily available modulars (PC, PS). P.S. First post on forum by the way

The numbers would have changed. There used to be a "Delete vote" button at the base of a poll allowing a person the ability to change their vote later on. I speculate a member's vote for a specific topic was saved as part of their profile or maybe the vote is saved into the topic's data itself. Under the current forum system though there doesn't seem to be the option to revote anymore.

I'm not going to repeat the entire thing here, but the current rumor for the next modular is this: I guess we might find out on Monday. The bank next to a laundry mat, according to the rumor, will have some playability that allows for thieves to rob the bank and then "launder" their money at the laundry mat.