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Took the instructions from the Maersk train #10219 and Bricklink'd all in black, bought some waterslide decals from a local hobby shop and then modified it a bit to be a Norfolk Southern locomotive in our little city. Nothing special, but we added power functions and it runs great.

I really enjoyed building this with my son. The repetitive parts were quick and easy. The cockpit is a little small, but it works. The chess area is my favorite detail. We loved recreating scenes and making our own. The hidden compartment is also a nice touch. I still have my 7965 sealed so i can't compare the two. Overall, this is a great value at MSRP, better yet if you find it on sale. This is the most iconic ship in the galaxy with great playability, swoosh-ability, and display-ability. Awesome minifigs, too! http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Millennium-Falcon-75105-Building/dp/B00WI0PJE2

My almost 5 year old built this morning. He keeps transforming him into Bumblebee from Transformers Lego needs to get the license so it gets done properly unlike Kreo.

Lego store in OIrlando: Disney Springs, has 20% off many sets. Not just the ones online. In particular, in my opinion, the weak ones. Maybe it's a good indicator of what's selling and what isn't. Most all Chima and Ninjago, anything In City that has to do with water, both Deep Sea and boats. Arendale Castle was the only Disney Princess set I saw on sale. All the Pop stuff were the ones on sale in Friends. Most of the Elves. And usually one set in most everything else. Even Architect. But no sale in Scooby Doo. Series 7 mixels were $3.98. I only found 4 Tapsy's in the whole store. They still had the Cpt America GWP, And they were already giving out the passports.

My best friend is in town with his family. We hung out at the bay. Chloe and I sporting shades. Lincoln as well. Gave the lady a chance to snap some shots with her Christmas present finally..

Built Destiny's Bounty from a lot I bought after completing with BL, the $20 to replace Skales hurt. Also built the Big Bang Theory living room that I picked up on sale at LEGO Shop at Home.

Any builder understands the strife in trying to make something feel natural and organic. Thankfully some have been quite successful in these endeavors which lead back to the subject for this topic. One part akin to "advanced building techniques" and the other being "MOC highlights", I thought it might be interesting to have a central hub for showing off these designs of nature well as ways to create them if possible. A couple of designs here to start things off with hopefully more added as time goes by. Note: This is not only about trees but any sort of scene with beautiful creativity in all things flora just in LEGO form. Cherry blossoms by 片岡 ひろし Technical Tree

2 x Ant Man Final Battle at RRP

Lego is expensive because people are willing to pay the price, not because it creates jobs for people.

If it's a new minifigure parted out directly from a set, I make sure it's never assembled. I'll use a stock photo of the minifig from lego's site, or take a photo of a copy in my personal collection, and clearly note that the figure they're buying is not the instance pictured, but a brand new one, handled only through extracting from the original set and bagging for shipping, but no more than that. I'll usually use a smaller baggy for the accessories, placed inside the baggy with the minifig parts. Once a brick has locked in with another brick using friction, it can be considered a used product in my opinion.

Aren't we thinking the same with our investments? "Look at the values of those old version lego sets! We can make a fortune if we all make sure to have 100 copies of the new version in our stock rooms."

Your friendly local Porsche showroom should no doubt be able to hook you up with one next time you take the runabout in for a service too!

I think I did well today. Bought the following used sets paying €210. Both sets are in excellent condition, without box. 10227 UCS B-Wing 10231 Space Shuttle Expedition

yeah - and his band. going out on tour with dead &co next week - hope to catch some shows before phish tour starts.

I've never seen the educational sets go on sale... and honestly, they are over priced. I'm sure the lessons are good, but you'll get far more out of that suggested book than you will the extra material in the education packs.

It took me quite some time to figure this one out! My first association was GG=Green Grocer.

Toys R Us Memorial Day one-day sale. http://www.toysrus.com/search/index.jsp?kwCatId=&kw=053016slctgo&keywords=053016slctgo&origkw=053016slctgo&sr=1&ppg=96 A few sets 30% off, but nothing too exciting.

You don't need more than a couple m-motors if you have some trains. Do you have either the Fairground Mixer or Ferris Wheel? Those are great sets to use an introduction to motorizing ... If you have a train set, I also highly recommend you "borrow" the infrared sensor and remote control to use as a way to turn the motors on. With the way it steps through the speeds, you can teach them about torque: - At the lowest speed, the M motor doesn't have enough power to spin them very well. - At the highest speed, it's way too fast to be realistic but the sets can handle full speed unlike a train that will jump the rails. It also prevents the problem Phil B described since they won't be holding the battery box, they'll be holding the remote! Then from a lesson on torque and how easy it is to motorize something, you can move on to building a vehicle. Start with building a stand to motorize a single axle, and let them figure out how to mount it to vehicle chassis. The lego bricks with technic pin holes are great for this - better than the technic beams - since they can mix and match regular LEGO in their designs. These technic bricks are excellent for building a basic chassis. From there you can do lots of fun stuff... - Try to build a vehicle that spins both wheels on an axle. - Make a vehicle with tracks. - Build a different kind of amusement part ride. - Get them to pick something that moves to see if they can figure out how to motorize it. After that, if they are still engaged then the Mindstorms stuff is great since it allows you to use servos and motors! But it is far more advanced than basic motor with on/off and different speeds.

My point is there would be a lot more people buying retired LOTR sets if they produced some new material (new movie). Of course there are new releases, but they cannot remake everything. You are picking one set and applying your logic to all sets. No one is stupid enough to buy only copies of 1 set. Look at UCS R2-D2, X-wing, B-wing, etc. They are all doing great (above 10% cagr). Besides, who says 10188 will not increase in value anymore? It has only been retired for like 6 months. Most people hold sets for 2-3 years after retirement before selling.

My kids liked it, I thought it was pretty bad. Definitely one to forget... Their attempts at "adult humor" were so over the top that I didn't find them funny at all. Of course, it's possible some was lost in translation as we watched in French but still. Everyone tries to imitate The Simpsons for bits of humor that only adults will understand but nobody has ever succeeded to replicate it. At least the sets are very present in the movie... they should remain popular with the kids.

Proper unboxing and skim through manual video.

Amazon 75106 - Star Wars: Imperial Assault Carrier - $81.59 (37% off) 76026 - Super Heroes: Gorilla Grodd Goes Bananas - $36.05 (37% off)

I do like the newer skiff but the barge should be bigger in comparison. The original barge did seem to fall apart a little but it was better sized to the skiff. Also the plastic sails are lame compared to the fabric material of the old one. Should have merged the good things about each set. It is rare that a remake is not as good as an earlier model.

Here is a preview of the next series slated for Fall 2016.

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That amazing 1st week of January sweetspot when it was up to almost double RRP and selling double figure amounts per day on ebay may well happen all over again.

Skimped on the spelling too.

Just a thought but what if Lego are looking at the secondary market and thinking...."what the heck! People are paying 50% over RRP only months after a set has retired...we've obviously being selling our product too low.." Ok maybe that's not exactly whats happening but they must look at the re-seller market and know that they can up their prices and demand will still be there.

The number is a random code so there is no limit. For me, this was a set to flip on pre order to ebay fruitcakes or wait for a healthy discount later on in life.

Did you really put a question about a set which hasn't been released yet in the Retiring Soon thread? Really???????? Too early as an investment, unless there's an initial surge of demand and they go out of stock and you can flip it. Now mods, move this post.

I had an absolute field day of not buying today. There were the Turtles sets, The Shellraiser Street Chase, Big Rig Snow Getaway and Turtle Van Takedown. From Cars we had Oil Rig Escape 9486 Had pretty much all of the most recent Ultra Agents theme. Benny's Spaceship, Emmet's Construct o Mech and Super Secret Police Dropship from The Lego Movie. Lake-town Chase from The Hobbit The Lone Ranger Silver Mine City of Atlantis 7985 All at RRP, I really had to control myself and not pick up absolutely everything today

You pay for the curriculum that comes with it. There are only 2 places where I have seen benefit in buying from LEGO Education: 1. The unique set bundles such as the minifig packs and the baseplate packs (see Amazon) - those do have sales sometimes if bought via Amazon 2. LEGO Mindstorms EV3 - for $50 more than retail (note: you pay for shipping when buying directly from LEGO Education) you get a nice storage box and the LiPo pack plus charger, plus a better sensor selection (2x touch, 1xUltrasonic(not included in retail), 1xgyro, 1xcolor). Slightly cheaper than buying the retail EV3 plus battery plus charger from LEGO Shop at Home (perhaps equally priced if you factor in VIP or slightly more expensive if you buy during double VIP). Note that I have considered (and still am considering) buying LEGO Educational sets for my non-LEGO-investing business.

Amazon has pricematched WM on MM: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00WI3HEBU

Nope, not a negative post.

Still available at Target.com for shipping.

99.9% of the time I shipped disassembled. 1) I don't have time to assemble every minifig I part out. 2) Some buyers might think its been played with/used if shipped assembled. I do assembled some such as the animals from Minecraft line because I don't ship the instructions. Instead of getting complaints from customers about missing instructions, I just quickly assemble the wolf, sheep the pig etc. So far, no problem.

I sell unassembled if possible. Not sure it matters to all but it can't hurt.

I would have liked and expected much less human involvement

Sand Green FTW - There have been many studies on the impact of this color and it's direct correlation to profit.

Shopko has the LEGO Dimensions Midway Level Pack (71235) for $9.99. You can use FLAG4 for 10 off 50 or 15 off 75.

Used Slave I off eBay with just the ship and Bobba Fett only. $65...seems too good to be true...

Not impressed after building this set compared to the older one that came with a skiff and sarlacc pit. the wind sails are too low and it needs more minifigs.

hahahaha...love the Cybermen Beatles.

You should. That's a rabbit hole that can get really expensive.

TLG would definitely not put three years of development and cooperation with Porsche to sell a measly 10,000 copies of the set and not say anything about it prior to launch. This rumor started with the similarities one can draw with 41999, except that 41999 was a crowd-sourced design based on a existing chassis, and it was 20,000 copies total. Let's all take a step back and stop talking about a supposed limited run like it's a fact. It most definitely is not, all evidence points towards the set being some sort of Technic UCS.

Judging from what i've seen over the last few years (and thanks to my spreadsheets showing purchase dates, discounts, retirement dates etc through the years), i'm convinced the following Star Wars sets retire in late fall/early winter. Reason is because many of these are either being clearanced at walmarts right now, or have the Lego LEGO Shop at Home sales. I'm not following buildable figures, so i'm not speculating on those or microfighters, but i'd suspect those will get culled too. I'm not speculating too deep on exclusives either because they are done to death, but i'd put my money on Sandcrawler and Ewok Village getting axed by december. ---------- Winter wave 2015 sets: All of them: ( Tie Advance Protype, Geonosis Troopers, Senate Commando Troopers, Imperial Troop Transport, Shadow Troopers, Battle Droid Troop Carrier (this may already be gone), Hailfire Droid ) Summer Wave 2015 Sets: All of them (Flash Speeder, Naboo Starfighter, Death Star Final Duel, Tydirium, Sith Infiltrator, Imperial Assault Carrier) - all of these are seeing 25% or more discounts lately. Walmart seems to be trying to get rid of their stock ( a solid sign of their production runs ending well before the Rogue One sets hit the market ) Force Awakens Force Friday sets: FO Snowspeeder, FO Transporter, FO Special Forces Tie Fighter (I think their final production runs maybe nearing) Winter Wave 2016 Sets: Resistance Troop Transporter, Battle on Takodana (the clearance of these sets right now is a solid sign. Last year, a lot of the winter wave sets only had a year run too, while others did not. I suspect the 3 of the 4 24.99 sets (Hoth Attack, Droid Escape, Obi Wan's Inteceptor, Carbon Freezing) will also carry on past this next year. Or maybe all 4 do. I'm not so sure about the following getting tagged this winter: Millennium Falcon, Kylo Ren's Command Shuttle, Poe's X-wing (I was convinced a while back, but i'm not so sure now since this never is clearanced), or any of the battle packs from this year. I think some of those sets will stick around past the end of this year and may go well into all of next year.

I'm holding off on putting my money in the friend's theme park sets because 'one day' when the real theme park sets come out I won't have to sell the friends lolly coloured sets for a few cents.

Thank you all for your advice. I've decided my plan is to build it with my daughter - for fun and to validate every piece is there. Then buy any missing pieces, and sell to reinvest. As some of you stated - stick to the plan and don't overthink it.

​ ​I got a 4842 in a bulk lot (with some other HP sets) last year. Great advice above. I inventoried, got the missing pieces, enjoyed putting together, and broke it down and sold it. I think I got about $200 for it. I did have instructions, but no box. Based on what I spent on the bulk lot, I'd say I at least doubled my money, if not better.