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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. ;-)

We've already got a thread like this... I don't really see a need to start another.

Canada's a country? I thought it was a city, just like Belgium.

Well I'm deeply sad that I am about to stripped of my European citizenship and the rights that it bestowed on me - not least the freedom to travel, live and work in any one of 28 nations across the continent. That's thanks to a needless referendum called by a Tory Prime Minister to appease a far right of his party terrified of losing their seats to the little Englander UKIP. Those on here who seem so keen to see the break-up of the EU and celebrate giving Johnny Foreigner a kicking would do well to note that if it does happen, it will have been caused by the rise of the far-right nationalism espoused by the likes of Wilders and Le Pen and their acolytes across Europe. Both my grandfather and father were called up to fight on European soil in wars that cost millions of lives. The fact that I, at 63 years old, and my son at 33 have lived our lives within Europe at peace and generally in harmony is thanks largely to the European Union in its many iterations. As for Lego investing, frankly I'm too sad (and angry) at the outcome of this referendum to even care about the effect on sales of Star Wars lego sets.

Thanks for the info, as that appears to be the most recent code I've seen on here. The bulk of the others disclosed were 21S5.

You win the inter webs today, I've been laughing for a full five minutes.

On a serious note, the leave campaign never once said the would decrease immigration into the UK, they would keep it the same. The current conservative government hasn't improved the NHS, helped the housing shortage, have cut pretty much all industries in uk (coal, renewable energy and pretty soon steel). With a track record of that not sure why a leave vote and some more money will help a party who only look after the upper class in society. The people that said they were voting against the establishment failed to realise that the 2 main people from the leave campaign Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage are anything but normal people, they were privately educated that lived privileged lives, Nigel was a former banker and Boris a career politician.

Look i heard all this rhetoric from Boris and co. I don't buy it and never will. I know the feeling in the area around me and its down to racism plain and simple. I'm not saying everyone voted Leave for that reason but i bet there was at least enough racism for a 20% swing which is disgusting.

Folks who part out or Bricklink may want to keep this one in mind today. FYI - all Classic sets are also 20% off this week at TRU, both online and in-store, including the new set 10705, which is normally $59.99 for 1000 pieces ($47.99 sale price). That works out to just under $0.05/piece.

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.

Phallus Palace by Rocko

Built 6280 Armada Flagship from a bulk buy I bought a while back. This is the first vintage set I've built in years. I forgot how bad instructions were back then. It was tough seeing what pieces needed to be added in a step as you needed to compare it to what you've built already and/or the previous step's picture. Kids these days don't know how good they got it.

Love the rocket

Got Crane?