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Rarely do I post haul pics, as I rarely have any hauls, but today I stopped at Walmart and perused the Toy Aisle and found these. I have never bought a friends set before and have no idea what they go for, but after searching amazon and ebays completed listings realized it was a pretty good buy. Also checked brickset and realized these have been retired quite a while. Heartlake high for 25 and Olivias house for 35. Not bad.

Most do. Lets take a look at some previous sets: 10221 SSD (2014) $1108 POV, $1030 Amazon 10197 FB (2013) $445 POV, $400 Amazon 10212 IS (2012) $776 POV, $780 Amazon 10186 GG (2010) $1255 POV, $1430 Amazon and for fun 10179 $5492 POV, $5500 Amazon Most of the time the set value always converges with the underlying parts value once the number of sellers thins out and the market reaches equilibrium. The time for this to occur is different depending on how hoarded the set is. Occasionally you have a few sets like 75054 and 10225 trading for above their part out values but it does not happen often and prices normally correct quite quickly back to POV. GE will certainly be interesting to watch.

Am I the only one who didn't have a grandparent that could swing $250 for a single toy for them growing up?

The person that you quoted and replied to was referring to a LEGO set, you referred to how many of the Avengers LEGO sets that you had purchased, we're on a LEGO related site. I guess it's possible that I inferred from that that we were talking about LEGO sets.

I'd recommend putting some effort into explaining what you believe in regards to best investments. People will be more willing to weigh in knowing you shared your insight.

Lego just updated their Guidelines / House Rules / Terms of Service for the Lego Ideas: Lego Ideas Blog In short some of the greatest changes are: - Max. 3000 pieces per set - When a third party property is produced, they will not accept any more submissions of that property in future - Some other changes as it's easier to collaborate on projects etc. which can be read in the linkes blog article What do you think about the changes?

Bonus eBay Bucks deal going on. http://mail.ebay.com/r/mail/bf28aII2c5aabII1b3145f4e3aII2

Sounds kinda familiar, had on old used set on BIN £7.99 or best offer. Someone offered £8. SOLD to the man with no sense!!!

Some dimension sets at 50% off at Microsoft store https://www.microsoftstore.com/store?keywords=Lego&SiteID=msusa&Locale=en_US&Action=DisplayProductSearchResultsPage&result=&sortby=score%20descending&filters=

My parents spent $250 for a single toy once growing up (NES) ... my grandparents couldn't swing $2.50 for a toy! I got mints from my grandmother's purse.

They no longer stack since January 2016. Look at the fine prints on that sign/flyers inviting people to open TRU CC. They specifically say the 2 promos do not stack

Paging @trekgate502

I know it's been posted before, but people who smoke and sell stuff that wreaks of cigarette smoke. I bought some stickers (UEFA Euro 2016) from a few eBay sellers... so far two have come smelling like smoke. I messaged both sellers informing them that I was disappointed. One replied (roughly translated) "I don't smoke so they couldn't smell." I replied I wasn't asking for money back, I was just trying to provide helpful feedback. Her reply "Sell them if you're not happy." The other seller (again, rough translation) "Damn, sorry about that. Would you like two new ones?" Guess who's getting positive feedback and who's getting neutral?

That's cute, you think Marvel's going to ok a new X-Men set.

this set is grinding on up at a decent clip. these move quickly on amazon FBM at $235 with shipping fees from amazon. i sold 3 in one day last week at this price. given the approximately $5 per month price increase we're probably looking at $260-270 FBM-$299 FBA this coming 2016 holiday season. 2017 will be the tricky year. there has been a 1000 piece AT-AT on a 3-4 year release schedule going back to the first release. the most recent was 2014. if we get confirmation of a new AT-AT in 2017 the price will probably take an initial hit. if the set isn't released until Fall 2018, $350 for holiday season 2017 would be reasonable. things may be continue to rise in 2017 but i will probably clear the rest of my position (7 left) by the end of this year and put the proceeds into UCS Slave I's.

It means LEGO negotiated the rights to make a LEGO set based on a specific license and now want to capitalize on that license in-house. It also prevents all those people with shoddy projects from trying to piggy back on an already produced license. These seem like good changes.

I'd rather stay in bed.

Found this today. On sale for $25.

I only found out later in life that my grandparents bought us the NES that we opened up Christmas morning. My grandparents helped to make that Christmas one to remember and wish I could have thanked them before they passed. That was one of my favorite gifts of all time, 2nd only to the SNES which I discovered before Christmas by hunting for Santa's hidden stash. That guilt has never left me and to this day I don't have the heart to tell my mom I faked the surprise.

What's in your wallet?

Yes but the shipping kills the deal, and my LEGO BAM store no longer stocks Bionicle. Ended up buying one from Amazon for $7 after a bit of GC money and with free Prime shipping. Did complete the collection as I took the kids on a KMart liquidation sale run and bought the following after 40% off and a $7 SYWR coupon: Bionicle Uniter of Fire - $10.24 Bionicle Kodak and Melum Unity pack - $10.24 (pricing mistake at Kmart, should have been $13.24 but they stickered this larger set with the Uniter set prices) And for my daughter: Friends Popstar show stage - $21.50 On the way back we hit a Meijer and I got 3 more Pegasus Sleighs for $16.33 each after a $5 off $50 coupon, plus a Friends Hot Air Balloon for $7.99 after a $4 reward coming from the Sleighs purchase as it triggered a $4 reward on $35 spent promotion. All 4 sets were already marked 40% off.

I dare you to post similar replies to @emazers posts

I think 1500 would have been a more realistic number. These people submitting the huge MOCs are just wasting their time in my opinion. Sure they are really cool but I just don't see Lego ever making an Ideas set more than 1500 max and it's really more like 1000. The price point just gets too high.

I am expecting GE to do very well going forward as well. I see a few of the larger sellers are at $400 FBA. May take 4th quarter to clear them out. I am expecting $450+ FBA by June 2017.

I think you can still submit a set under a licensed theme, as long as that license is not from the IDEAS line: This just prevents follow-up submissions like EVE after Wall-E or GBHQ after Ecto-1. EDIT: I just checked and it's excactly that.

GE price is on a definite upswing. strong price support at the $305 level on amazon and also getting to $300 on ebay. amazon prices have been surging in the last few weeks. i have sold 2 in the last week for $329+amazon fees FBM and i think the prices quoted on camel3 represent prices that units are selling for. They sold within hours of listing. ebay hasn't caught up yet. GE was once upon a time the most hoarded set in the brickfolio. hopefully this hits $399 by the end of the year. seems like we are getting into the phase of price appreciation where people have sell target prices and not undercutting as much.

A few years ago, I had several stores near me that went out of business - they may have changed their procedure, but if memory serves, if you have multiple stores going out of business near by, I think as they get to the close date instead of marking stuff down an insane amount (I am not sure if Toys made it past 50 or 60%) they moved everything to OTHER stores that were going out of business. I imagine they have deals with liquidators where they may just move the inventory in bulk to one buyer instead of mark stuff down to crazy levels. I don't recall toys ever getting to something like 90%, though honestly casual buyers would ****** that stuff up at 60, 70% off pretty quickly anyway if you were hoping for somehow things to last to 90% This was a few years ago, so they may have changed and lord knows my memory isn't great. I do remember going into a couple stores and everything being gone and they said they shipped it over to store X which was a few weeks behind Store Y in the markdown schedule.

My advice: Make a list of the LEGO prices and compare what these sets are sold for on Marktplaats and on eBay. If they're sold there way below RRP then you know it's not a good investment, but if they're already sold for close to or even above RRP then it's safe to bet they will only go up in price after they're officially retired. But your buy-in is also important because you'll have to deal with fees and additional costs for selling. And you'll have to compete with other resellers who did get those sets at lower buy-in. Also, and it's rather unlikely, but there is a chance that the 10242 Mini Cooper gets retired before the 10220 Volkswagen T1. LEGO might want to keep the 10220 around a while longer as a companion to the new 10252 Volkswagen Beetle... All speculation of course, but that's what this topic is all about.

Unfortunately It's Been like that a few times the past few weeks

I can sum it up really quickly: 1. See sets on CL listed for retail price but are now 4+ years retired and worth 6-10x original price 2. Move on to next listings end tutorial

...(whispering) I can see it now too...

My kids don't get that much from me or my parents. It might be that they are still too young. It might also be that they don't really seem to even bother to take care of the smaller stuff that they get.

I watched the first 3 episodes just because Scorsese produced it and Ray Romano was in it. The music was definitely the highlight but the story was not very engaging to me

An honest mistake lol

Decided to give my wife time and quiet for an important phonecall and took the kids to my last remaining KMart (closing down). Toys indeed at 40% off. Only a few buildable SW figures left, the rest was Ninjago, Chima,Nexo and a few Bionicles. The Friends & Elves section was bare - I found 2 Emma 's houses, a hot air balloon, 2 show stages and a Pop star dressing room - nothing else. My daughter wasn't impressed with Emma's house, but took a Show stage. Lady at the checkout said they didn't take coupons, but I could still collect SYWR points. Giving my phone number triggered a SYWR $7 off $35 coupon so those coupons still work. They also continued to operate the usual tills and hence Credit Cards still work. All sales final, but when I noticed a pricing mistake on my receipt when I got back to my car, customer service had no issue with refunding me the difference. Hopefully my findings help some of you in your KMart store liquidation searches....

If my wife will stop spending my profits on Amazon...

saw big sign at TRU BM as late as last week still peddling 15% if you open an account. not sure when that has changed. rewards benefit changed many months ago as well. I only get rewards for what i pay on the card not the whole amount on the receipt as it used to be, loophole closed. now individual coupon codes, another loophole closed. these suckers are getting smarter.... good thing we're always a step ahead btw birds still there at WM, no end in sight...

I did that last Force Friday, and didn't feel like I missed out on anything.

Yes, that's what I've been saying too The price hike will come in September/October when people are back to their regular routine again, when the hype for Rogue One is getting in full swing, and when the weather is moving to Autumn with rain showers so people will enjoy building their newly purchased LEGO sets once again.

Just be patient. Now is not a good time. People are planning and paying for their vacations. Business should get back to normal again in September. If no new AT-AT is revealed I could see this one make a nice jump during the holidays.

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Assault-on-Hoth-75098?fromListing=listing seems 75054 is the missing piece of 75098. Is AT-AT walking toward 350USD level?

Da birds

Does anybody think this is a strategy on Walmart's part? Cap the website inventory quantity at a certain amount to give the illusion that an item is "low stock." The horde jumps at this "opportunity" and the next time the inventory update cycle runs again the quantity is updated but only up to the "cap". Rinse and repeat until inventory levels are at a comfortable level. Practically every shopping cart system has this type of functionality so why wouldn't Walmart do the same? Just saying...

It was named that way to confuse the crooks trying to escape the prison island using this aircraft. Crook1: What's the hold up? You said you were a helicopter pilot? Crook2: Thiz thing iz not a helicopter, it'z a plane. I never flew a plane, ze controlz were different

It has not. It's only been on shelves for a few weeks now.

Somewhere else I read some rumours, and one of them was that all Star Wars sets below 75100 (but I don't think that should include Rey's Speeder 75099 set) will retire by end of this year. And it's only about regular (play) sets, not the D2C UCS exclusives like Sandcrawler, Slave-1, and TIE Fighter. I do agree with @Val-E though that there were good discounts given in the final months of last year on 'soon to be retired' sets, especially on 75055 ISD and 75054 AT-AT. So there's certainly a good chance that left-over stock of 75094 IST will be cleared off at good discounts by end of this year. Other (interesting?) sets that fall in the "below 75099" category are: - 75096 Sith Infiltrator - 75093 Death Star Final Duel - 75092 Naboo Starfighter - 75091 Flash Speeder - 75087 Anakin's Custom Jedi Starfighter - 75085 Hailfire Droid - 75082 Tie Advanced Prototype Of all these sets that are at risk of retiring this year, I find the IST the most appealing set, with the DSFD a close second. When you can score any of these at a solid discount there's no reason not to start stocking up on them already, while keeping some spare funds available for the closing of the year clearance discounts on these sets.

I have bricklinked two of these. The light bluish grey door is in krusty krab 3825. The whole set often goes for $20 used so look for that before you shell out for one door. Great article.

With over 3000 sets and 90% Exclusives I have no insurance, there is no way I am paying $100's of dollars insurance on my Lego sets, and it would be almost impossible for me to prove what I exactly have. I guess anything can happen but for me getting robbed on all my stuff is near impossible, it would take them all day to take them out of my house, the cops would be in before they got a load or two out. The only way I would loose everything if my house burned down, and does anybody really think that my Insurance company would hand me a check for a couple hundred thousand check. I don't. Ed