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I could fill the whole thread with pictures from this absolutely amazing LEGO Train display by PennLUG and Texas Brick Railroad, but will just post a few and a link to Cale Leiphart's Flickr stream which contains hundreds of pictures. It's got everything: beautiful trains, fantastic landscapes, wonderful buildings, great little vignettes etc...

Built Berlin yesterday. It was a quick one. It's hard to shoot these short and tall little landscapes. That big tower in the middle poses issues when you have so little horizontal element to help balance the frame. I have a couple images where the entire frame is in focus. I stacked 2 images in photoshop and blended the focus so it appears as if the entire image is in focus. That's the photography side of me coming out, some would call that dark ages talk.

Scammers don't usually send out shipping notifications.

Sold my last one today for buy-in. Tired of waiting it to appreciate. Will spend the 35 euro on something better. Thinking about a dozen chima fire bikes.

Today is a great day. A great day that I wish to celebrate and share with You. All of You. Today is my two year anniversary as a brickpicker! Thanks for the laughter, the tears, the joys and sorrows. Thanks for facilitating so much LEGO accumulation at such great value. Thank you, for melting my mind with gift card wizardry, the truth of stacking the TRUTH and teaching me the difference between an incorrect correction and a babble bubble. Thank you for teaching me that one can always go derper. To you all-I love you. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand My wife hates you.

Check out this great article for an idea on price struggles one might encounter bricklinking this beaut.

Luckily, eBay has removed the listing.

My last Exo-Suit for 35 euro cash. A truly sad day.

Beer league?

From the fantastic BrickWorld 2016 display by PennLUG and Texas Brick Railroad:

BNJUNE30 is still working. Just do it in the correct order. Buy one temple of Ninjitzu, get 5 free books. btw, I sold a pirate batman for $12 on BL yesterday, so its a good buy at $10.79, also closer to the $50 with it x5

They have been sitting on these for years and they want to turn away the chance to be rid of them? Managers are so clueless sometimes.

Northern Irish People with dual Irish/British passports will be both EU Citizens and not at the same time. Schrodingers Catholics?

I finally bought the 10195 dropship off eBay from a US seller. Didn't come with minifigs but 10 mins on bricklink and $50au later , that was sorted. If you are on here mystery dropship seller, thankyou!

Yes, let's all send money to the scammer. Then when he doesn't ship, eBay/PayPal can bail us out with other sellers' money (fees). Sounds awesome. Way to make crime pay!

Someone needs to reach out to Chewbacca mom. We need that viral video quick...

Canada.

I wish Artie could stay clean long enough to do more stuff. He's actually talented, crude, but talented. I guess he was a pretty good baseball player in high school. A few Amazon updates... 76032 - SH: Quinjet City Chase - $54.36 (32% off) 76046 - SH: Heroes of Justice: Sky High Battle - $47.99 (20% off) 76047 - SH: Black Panther Pursuit - $23.99 (20% off) 76048 - SH: Iron Skull Sub Attack - $23.99 (20% off) 76049 - SH: Avenjet Space Mission - $47.99 (20% off) 76050 - SH: Crossbones' Hazard Heist - $15.99 (20% off) 76051 - SH: Superhero Airport Battle - $63.99 (20% off) 76053 - SH: Gotham City Cycle Chase - $15.99 (20% off) 76062 - SH: Mighty Micros Robin vs. Bane - $7.99 (20% off)

These may be out already at your local Lego store but 7/1/16 refresh has SAND GREEN 1x2 plates and 1x1 bricks. These will make a great buy in order to get the two in store promos.

LEGO Minecraft 21121 The Desert Outpost is 33% off: https://www.amazon.ca/LEGO-Minecraft-Desert-Outpost-Building/dp/B00WI08MMS/ No big deal, but worth mentioning I guess.

A prime example of how most experts hedge their bets, and nobody really has a clue what's going to happen .......

An interesting read of opinions. How Brexit Will Change the World 17 top economists, foreign policy gurus and historians look five years into the future. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/brexit-change-europe-britain-us-politics-213990

Unintended virality? I think they just made up a new term. This could be a game changer if other retailers start using this. Everything we do here could be considered unintended virality.

SYW.com has a new promo: 30% back in points when you spend $25 or more on Marketplace purchases (which includes Target and TRU) - excludes Sears and KMart as usual. Promo details here. Funny part is in the language in the "see details": We reserve the right to cancel or modify the offer at any time in the even fraud, abuse, unintended virality, or if technical or other issues arise.

No it doesn’t. 17,410,742 voted leave. 16,141,241 voted remain. That’s it. Done. To suggest that every time there is a democratic election / vote the results could be overturned and a new vote cast is truly terrifying.

Self-shipping LEGO sets? Is that a new feature?

In for one Sail Barge to build. Missed it so I hope this comes through.

Here's how I have mine ATM. All my display sets are on shelves so it limits display options, but it's the best I can manage in my city condo.

in for one, thanks! Already have a mint box sealed so if this one is in good shape I can use it to build some day.

Works on $75 TRU gc http://www.ebay.com/itm/Toys-R-Us-Gift-Card-25-50-100-Email-delivery-/281816277079 Or 17% off $60 Red Lobster gc (buy 2) ($120 worth of gc for $85 out of pocket) http://www.ebay.com/itm/Buy-a-50-Darden-Restaurants-Gift-Card-get-a-bonus-10-Code-Email-delivery-/262478507046

Not a day I'm proud to be British i have to say. I live in an area where 60+% voted Leave and I guarantee you that the reason for such a big margin had nothing to do with the economy or European meddling, they voted Leave because they don't like coloured people. How they think leaving Europe will get rid of British born Pakistanis and Indians I'll never know but hey ho. On a brickvesting note. All my forays on to European Amazon sites for cheap sets will probably stop now with sterling dropping.

If you are trying to catch up on the books, you might want to check out Barnes & Noble. They have the new SW Chronicles of the Force for $11.56 (same as Amazon). DC SH is $13.66, though. SW Character encyclopedia is $13.94 (Amazon is $13.67). If you get over $50 in books, coupon code BNJUNE30 will subtract 20%. The coupon code will increase to 25% at $100 and 30% at $150. Now if you want to get super kick-ass, it would appear that the coupon code is doing some funny things... LEGO sets are excluded from the discount. No surprise there. Nor do they raise the purchase amount used to determine the discount level (i.e. $50 in books and $100 in LEGO set gives you the 20% discount, not 25%). But it appears you can get the discount to apply to your total order, including LEGO sets, with some careful sequencing (I didn't complete checkout to see if it actually carries through). If you work quantities in your cart, it will disqualify the promo code. I suggest channeling the zen required to hunt for SYW discounts online if you are trying to get this to work. To get it to the images below, I did the following. 1. Add the book to my cart 2. Go to cart and increase quantity to 5. (Raise the cart about the $50 for the promo code) 3. Enter the promo code. See about $10 in discount in the cart and indication that promo code BNJUNE30 was applied. 4. Add LEGO set to cart. See the discount increase commensurately. 5. Change quantities and the discount goes poof. Drop the LEGO sets, leaving only the books, and the discount still cannot be applied to order. You might need to clear history or go Incognito to make it work.

My first post here, hi folks! Just a short information from germany: the selling of the Disney minifig series at Galeria Kaufhof (the largest dealer of exclusive sets here in germany) starts on saturday, the 25th june. So we are late, but we'll get our chance to get some of them. ;-)

They also have Nether Fortress for 40% off http://www.costco.ca/Lego®-Minecraft™--–-The-Nether-Fortress.product.100219733.html I need to sell some more Lego so I can buy more Lego. #Legoproblems

I can see if I can give you my link for corp. discount tonight. Which park are you going?

I trade futures and options. I feel we see a minor drop Monday and slowly float back up. This will be a 2-3 day "event" in the market then it will normalize. I could be wrong but nothing crazy has happen YET from this. Was just the vote could take 1-2 years before fully leaving EU. Made good money Thursday night lol 2-3AM est.

Yep, game day one!

I don’t know enough about minecraft to really comment, but disagree on the Ninjago temple I think that has both AFOL and kid appeal, with both display and play value, as well as not having much to complete with it right now. (Although the cave set will likely complete for the kids attention as well as being cheaper).

went on a LOTR spree on eBay - 4 different purchases, a total of $298.00 shipped - 2 Council of Elronds 2 Battle at the Black Gates 1 Mines of Moria 1 Uruk Hai Army

Why do you need to be so emotional in all of your responses? and why would you background check fellow European citizens who want to come to the UK to study, work or live? If you talk about refugees, the figure is far far below 50.000 in 2015 for the UK. Per capita, thats a very small number. I agree that the EU bureaucracy is very, if not too extensive at time. However, from a consumers perspective it is often benefitial for us (e.g. cell phone roaming fees were significantly lowered over the last couple of years only because the EU made pressure). One of the best things about Europe in my eyes is free access: for all EU citizens and companies. If the UK cannot stand eastern European workers (I guess that is the 350k you are referring to?), well then you cannot have access to the biggest single market in the world either. I respect the UK's decision but it's certain that it comes at a very high price. Just today 5 trillion Dollar in stock value were burned. 5.000.000.000.000.000.000 ! That is an insane number. In a more and more globalized world, which is politically dominated by the US, China and Russia, relatively small countries like let's say the UK, France or Germany do not have such a strong voice as if they stay united - in form of the EU. The time of the British Empire is long over. The UK is not a super power anymore (I am not saying Germany is either) and quitting the EU does not put them in a political or economical pole position. Instead, it will put them in the second row. I doubt that this is in the best interest of the youth and future generations. As for Lego I think that import customs will have to be beared by the consumers, a falling GBP will lead to higher Lego retail prices, and if the UK actually enters into a recession we could see values on the secondary market go down as more people than usually see a need to sell their Lego collections.

where is the helicopter?

New Century Corner by Eero Okkonen

Awesome, my kids favorite place to go for chicken.

I respect those who voted for this for informed reasons, I believe you are one of those people, but please don't start defending the indefensible simply because they voted the same way.

Frankly, a lot of the nationalism, fear mongering and blatant racism that's going on with the politics of the far right in places like the U.K., U.S. and France scare the bejesus out of me. What scares me more is the reaction of large swaths of people. I don't have a "horse in the race," so to say, as far as Brexit went but from what I could tell, the Leave campaign was run -- and successfully run at that, one might add -- on very little fact and a lot of "take our nation back" type of rhetoric. The implications are downright scary. As for what this all has to do with Brickvesting... I think a lot of us in Europe will probably be looking at ordering from Amazon.co.uk if the sterling really plunges, as it seems like it just might. Now, if this whole Brexit thing really does send the world economy into a bit of a tailspin (more so than the reactionary trading of today), then I guess we'll really see if Lego is truly a better investment than gold.

The iconic Ferrari F40 with a working gearbox and headlights. I think the hood has room for improvement but overall it is a beautiful model by jorgeopesi. At some point I will be adding the Ferrari sticker emblems to the hood and side of the car.

I'd throw an iron brick through the window of any new modular you might speculate on.

Took a couple of days and finally completed Big Ben. The finished product looks amazing with the level of detail and finished look of the model. The build on the other hand was beyond repetitive - lots of x25 steps that you repeat over and over and over again - but I guess I knew that heading into it based on the images etc... but putting the clock part together was very enjoyable. Anyway looks great on display and price point seems decent based on how cool it looks.