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Been on a conference call 12+ hours today, so I decided to get started on 10212.

Built yesterday. Pretty nice movement with the bin raising/dumping out/lowering, the bed goes up and down as well and the door to unload also opens/closes. Not bad for a decent price last week (and my big guy loves it, hasn't put it down since it was completed)

My boy built the MTT yesterday. We had to put our beloved husky down on friday, and he was very upset, so I went into my "investment stash" and pulled out an MTT to help ease his mind a bit as he grieved. He whipped it together in a few hours. Not bad for a soon to be 6 year old.

Look at what my 3 year old son did this morning early when he woke up:

What a tragic day in Orlando. Thoughts and prayers to all the families and people affected by this monsters actions...

THIS is def one of my greatest gamble in 2015. Still have over 30 to be listed throughout the next couple years till the next Jurassic movie

I have only bought a few sets in the last 3 months but I had to buy a new in box spaceport for $35.

Toys R Us this week. 20% off Speed Champions and build event June 18th.

20% off select LEGO at YoYo.com and Diapers.com, use code LOVELEGO. Max discount $50. Some decent deals out there. http://yoyo.7eer.net/c/65738/83305/2056?u=http://www.yoyo.com/b/lego Jokerland for $77 Mystery Mansion for $64 24 Hours Race Car - $85 Well, you need to work with the math a bit.

They would! My parents home burned down and anything we had pictures of or recovered damaged, they were paid. My Dad had an extensive gun collection and received at or above current appraised values. I'm a little disappointed I won't have those guns to carry down to my kids, but I'm glad he was paid.

Yup free shipping. Or is it? I always include the shipping price in my overall price listing and label it free shipping when it's not. eBay US takes a cut on final selling price, with or without shipping price.

Count me as one(and I'm pretty tough on new sets) who actually sees legit value in this set for the carnival layout theme from CREATOR. Sure, those that like their layouts to be all from one theme will poo-poo at the idea of mixing a FRIENDS coaster with CREATOR carnival rides....BUT, this coaster is, more or less, a version of The Sooper Jet; a popular traveling roller coaster (in the U.S. at least) for young children. Think about it people. A carnival is different than an amusement park in that they actually need to take down the rides to move them. A giant rollercoaster doesn't afford that luxury. They've showcased that with Mixer. This FRIENDS coaster is perfect for that. Mod out a loading area with pieces, maybe make the Ferris Wheel smaller (to make it a little kids wheel), keep the other little ride and the booths and add a couple of Carnie trucks (ala the Mixer) and you have the perfect "little kids" area for your carnival.

I sorted and cleaned and then resorted a bit before I started.

One of my biggest mistakes of 2015 was dumping these at Christmas.

arrived today, this is for my older daughter (and I suspect for wife as well)

Posted a couple months back, this was my first real MOC I put together and ordered from scratch. Total cost came to around $500 CAD. But it's one of a kind and I'm very happy with that! Borrowed a friend's DLSR to take some proper "artistic" shots.

Painful to follow up those beautiful shots with these horrible iPhone ones... I'll post this up in the BP MOCs thread when it's completed, but I spent most of Friday sorting bricks I'd already ordered, disassembling (and sorting) a Brick Bounty, and cracking open and parting out a second Brick Bounty. My total build is still missing about 90 parts I need to order, but I had enough bulk to get started. My goal is to have a customized Pirate operated ship to pair with my Imperial Flagship. Many weeks spent in LDD fine tuning the model, with lots of inspiration drawn from the original Flagship, but many of the parts borrowed from the Brick Bounty. Many more were purchased. Total count of 1968 pieces. Here was the first portion of my progress yesterday! (It won't let me add more pics so I'll have to add the rest later on.)

So Kmart will carry them?

Eventually, all of the disdain for Superheroes will translate into lower aftermarket supply and good earnings. Today, I fear, is not that day.

I want to like the Sinestro deal, but with the recent... Underwhelming performance of Super Hero sets, it's hard to want to buy in at anything more than 50% off.

Fine use of the power ring guys.

76025 - Green Lantern vs. Sinestro =$13.47 each if you buy 3 using promo code LEGO at Target.com.

We, built it and it's terribly small. I actually added on to the containment cage to make it significant enough to hold the raptors. I can see why parents would be upset when it took their kids a 1/2 hour to build it. You are basically buying the exclusive raptors.

Sorting the pieces detracts from the adventure but it's a lot better than a conference call.

I've sold through a bunch of them at various price points since last Fall and I still have some listed, but I have some set aside for long-term too. I did order max 5 on this set at S@H more than once and got lucky.

67% RRP means a 33% discount. It's better than I've ever seen it sold for here in The Netherlands. Currently Amazon Germany is selling it for ~ €116 which is about 28% discount on an RRP of €160. So 33% discount is already cheaper than what I paid for the 75105 last year when I bought one for myself (€121, or 24% discount). Oh well, c'est la vie. At the time I thought it was a really good deal, but I had just started with LEGO investing that time. What did I know about prices and how much discount is possible when you're patient? And that's where the experience of long-time Lego investors comes into play: knowing what discounts are feasable and when is the best time to strike. Ultimately it's the gamble when you see a discount: is this the best deal I'll ever have on it, or will it get even more discounted? And if you wait too long you may not get that deal any longer and you'll finally have to buy at a higher price. I'm sure every LEGO investor here has bought sets when they thought the discount wouldn't get any deeper, and then they saw the same set at an even higher discount a while later. Keep in mind that people love to show off and tell here about the awesome deal they scored, but will rather keep quiet about the mistakes they made. Returning to your question: should you purchase 75105 now at 67% RRP, is something you have to decide for yourself. Other Brickpickers here won't buy non-exclusives at less than 40% discount, but that's their choice/strategy. This set will not retire any time soon, but if you don't mind holding it for a few more years knowing you got it at a decent discount, then it may be worth it for you.

It's been sitting semi-built for a few weeks. Built one of the expensive $74 WM clearance ones I tossed a couple finished build shots over the one and only astrophotography shot I have. Fun build and looks great on display.

My son got named as a "top reader" in his second grade class, so he got a couple little rewards to build today... oh... and dad got a couple things, too...

Purchased this awesome book earlier, and as a bonus it included this Micro-scale Space Cruiser which my son could build!

Also Cindy Castle for $46

TargetZero vying for Exciter position of Canada??? Lucky man!

That's why I was relieved when the Time Warner/Comcast merger got cancelled (I have TW at home). Unfortunately, last week I got a letter that they are now merging with Charter, and I'm fearing another "we are making things better for you" strategy in which they will raise my prices or install caps or whatever. I'm a cord-cutter, so no TV bundles in my house, which is what they continuously try to sell me. Lucky enough I have an alternative offering (compared to the many US residents who only have 1 possible provider) to whom I can switch over at a moment's notice.

The biggest walmart here(supercenter) has a lot of set in clearance, but with 0 or 5$ markdown. Have three here, one puts everything in clearance at 50%. Everything included legos. The third and smallest one, i've found the better deal up to 80%. But they kind of clear by alot sets that they have 1-2 copy for space need. The ones that they have 6-7-10times, they only reduced it by 5$ -10$. Went there this morning, didn't take anything tough already bough my quota this week. But if lucky, the 16 I might get an other jokerland at 50%, some ninjago sets 40-50$ instead of 75 and 90$... there is two millano at 65$.. i don't have any(sold them) and I regret not having one... might grab them. So, the supercenter didn't do any clerance yet, checking often, but they are the slowest beetween them. Maybe they just don't need shelf space like the two others needed. My best trick is to spot some clearance sets that are available on the walmart.ca store tracker... check often(many time a day). I grabbed very close to 100 sets at 50% or more like this pass two month or so. Nothing is free of work. Some people ask me how I do this, how i manage to find to deals and grab them so quickly.

It really doesn't go down that much ... 400+ sellers on Satna Workshop . Enough said

Always. Might make a nice gift to bundle with Birds or something like that but I don´t think it will have any resale value.

Is more than one too many?

Target back up. Thanks @exciter1.

40% of Amazon's sales are 3rd party merchants. Not sure how much of that is FBA but I would guess a majority. They may have stuffed warehouses but that doesn't mean they aren't profiting.

Built two small sets last night for display on my desk at work: 41567 Skulzy - probably my new favorite Mixel 30472 Parrot

Finally built 42043, great set!

Nothing special ?? I would be showing this off

like others said, might as well be chester the molester.

6344 Jet Speed Justice from 1993. I'm helping out a fellow LUG member who wants to rebuild a ton of sets he has in storage. Everything is complete and bagged and instructions are included. Makes life pretty easy.

it was his doggy door

Dreary and cold day, games were cancelled, so let's build.

7964 Republic Frigate . Awesome set to display IMO .

Started messing around with some of my macro filters...The depth of field is literally razor thin. I was about 4" in front of these guys while shooting , maybe less...I think I will begin shooting a few more mini figs like this...I like the results but have to play around more with the subject matter, sharkie and chen were just the first victims to get shot.

and rear view.

Third component of 5526 Skyline