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If you're having trouble selling your sets on Ebay, maybe message this seller for some (or better said: two) tips ... https://www.ebay.com/itm/262492801150

Built Big Ben and added lights from Brick Stuff. What a slick addition to the model - I added two white LEDs in the top of the tower, and two green LEDs behind the colonnade above the four sided clock. Next step is to illuminate the facade and light the Tower Bridge displayed next to it. For those builders and MOCers that have thought about diving into lighting, you will not be disappointed.

Gave my husband a Grievous constraction 75112 for his birthday today. I had no idea how large it would be. I may never feel safe again. He is quite menacing.

Amazon.com: Dimensions Doc Brown Fun Pack - $5.97 (60% off) Dimensions Dr. Who Cybermen Fun Pack - $6.29 (48% off) Dimensions DC Aquaman Fun Pack - $8.50 (43% off)

our first used Modular on local eBay, first purchased locally here in Brazil, at BRL 1300 (USD~385 -EUR~349) extremely well kept, first time no missing pieces at all (previous used set experiences always with missing pieces 75093, 79003, 7965, 8038, 4842, etc.), as you can see below seller placed back the pieces into the original numbered bags...

Received the B/N order. Temple and a bunch of Lego books. Packaged nicely by Barnes and Noble.

Finally got around to building (and photographing) 10197 Fire Brigade. It was the first modular I ever constructed. I enjoyed it, but, it wasn't as life changing as I expected. I'm in the process of tearing it down so I can sell it, lol. But I am looking forward to building others in the series.

Hi guys, Earlier this year my wife and I "completed" our journey out of the dark ages (thanks again to this community for making that possible for a -relatively- reasonable amount). Having acquired all of the retired sets we wanted (within reason, sorry UCS Falcon and Grand Carousel), my wife mused that our city needed a zoo. I agreed, so I decided to make one. I posted a MOC a few months ago but this is my first end-to-end, all the bells and whistles effort at something special. It took about 10-12 weeks. I built it and my wife provided constant feedback, answering "what do you think of this?" and "how does this look?" over and over hahah. I also received input some friends, family, and even an esteemed member on here (shout out TheOrcKing for his feedback and, really, everything he does and contributes to this community). Anyway, I thought I'd share this one with you all, too... The concept is that it's a modular building that has modular exhibits, in that you can remove them from the building and place them side-by-side more like a traditional zoo. Depending on how you configure it, the play area becomes as large as 50" wide, but is easily stored and placed into your city on a single standard 10"x10" baseplate: Behind the facade, there are 7 exhibits and 1 food stand & lab. Here's a look at one of them (link to others below): And this is what it looks like as part of a Lego city street: There's a complete video overview here: https://youtu.be/3q6l0Ud5C3c And lots more pictures here (no pressure to vote, of course.... not that I'll stop you lol) https://ideas.lego.com/projects/145483 Thanks for looking! Thoughts?

If anyone is still looking for more storage drawers for their store/LEGO collection: Sears continues to have the 39-drawer Stack Ons as Hot Buy for $13.99/ea. There is a $10 back in points for purchases over $50 promotion, plus a 10% back in points promotion, making a purchase of 4 $56 plus $15.50 back in points towards FREE LEGO. (plus a 5% off coupon if you have a Sears Card - saves an additional $2.80 on 4). Combining with discounted Sears gift cards gives more direct savings if you have any.

Well, it looks like I won't have to worry about hitting any Toys R Us stores on the way to the beach.

Especially when I start to get rid of some...

Grand Emporium is an excellent set. Every collection should have one.

you know whats odd, I was doing an inventory of all the Mixels I have ( turns out its like 1100 ) and comparing prices on Amazon/eBay etc and for some unknown reason maybe valublae pieces in the set, the Mixels Scorpi from series 3 was selling for £14.50, so I put the 34 up which I bought for like £1.50 each and all sold in like 10 days ( all Amazon and all sent none-recorded because Amazon actually bans people. ) Yes madness

That's strange. Mine came with these...

All my WM birds got stickers blue rim for the first buy 21S5 and orange rim for second buy 24S5. The first time I almost got a heart attack (given previous experiences with WM sticking a shipping label to my town hall and shipping naked...) but I was pleasantly surprised when they pealed off easily. Catastrophe averted now I just want WM to dry up before they single handedly flood the market.

As if Medicare isn't subsidizing grandma enough already (most 65+ people receive in paid services about 4 x what they paid in during their working lives, thanks to younger workers who will never see any of their 'generosity' repaid). The least grandma could do is not go around hacking eBay accounts and running phantom lego reseller scams...

75055 Imperial Star Destroyer for €100 from real.de

These were plastered all over mine.

A couple updates on Amazon. 41015 - Friends: Dolphin Cruiser - $55.99 (20% off) 76046 - SH: Heroes of Justice: Sky High Battle - $46.99 (22% off)

"Everything you need to hook up and play! Console has been cleaned and thoroughly tested. Joystick is somewhat used and works great. Polished pins on game. I ship six days a week!" I'm not 100% certain, but that description ... seems pretty accurate.

*sigh* That's right about at my price point. Guess I'm in a for a few more.

I used the dollar for size reference. We have a local auction group setup on Facebook for our county and neighboring counties. I won about 40 sets, varying from Star Wars, Harry Potter, Batman, SpongeBob, Toy Story 3, Indiana Jones, City and Creator sets. I used the Brick picker app to at least track the retail value. I know I can't go by the exactly as far as valuation goes, but I don't think I did too bad for $75.

Already? jack & coke pls ill check my honey hole tomorrow and will report any new polybag findings...

Nice haul. Looks like a Summer Riding Camp is in there too based on the white corral.

Didn't know the VA had licensing agreement with LEGO?

I foolishly bought 5 more complete sets, when I was adamant I wasn't going to buy anymore, but reading this site convinced me to get some more. Anyway, back in late April, I scored 2 cases of these right before the official release date, and then over a 2 week period, I blew out 10 complete sets and made decent profit on them. I sold some sets for 180 during the initial gold rush, but then prices dropped quickly, but were in the 150 range for a few days (still very good profit), before going lower to where they hovered around 120 for quite some time. Now, they are down to about 105 before fees, and I have to say it's just average times right now, because they are not moving like they once were, and the better time to sell these was during the first 2 weeks of release. I sold one of the 5 sets this past week and made a whopping 9.00 after fees/shipping/packaging costs, and plan on just holding the other 4, but I'm thinking it's going to be a while before these are profitable again (be nice to see them hit 180 again). The good days have definitely slowed. Reminds me very much of Series 14 when early on it was incredibly great but as time wore on, the interest waned, and too many people jumped in. I think the same has happened to the Disney Figures. I hear a lot of people convinced these are going to be extremely profitable, but i'm not convinced. Same thing was said about Simpsons series 1, and that hasn't really panned out and they have been retired for some time. A lot of the previous minifigures I wouldn't call "extremely profitable either".. While some figure MAY net you 2x, a majority of these will hover around the 30% range for quite some time. So, I think a lot of people are overstating these as investments.

It looks to me that the parents are expecting to get back near what they spent without putting in the effort to organize it into sets. not anywhere close IMO. If you're interested in going into Bulk, I wrote a primer on it.

Started this Friday night, just finished. I was always underwhelmed by pictures of this set. I was mistaken as it's quite impressive in person.

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.

Death Star 10188 on eBay for...well, let's just say a tolerable markup over RRP. Comes in the original shipping box from Lego, so there's that. My dark ages unfortunately spanned the entire time that this set was available at stores, so it was this way or no way. This one is for my personal use. I now have DS, SC, EV, IST, and a few smaller sets in the pile to build! I thought about waiting until the new rumored Death Star comes out later this year, but part of me is really afraid that it's going to turn out to be Starkiller Base- ugh!

It's bad enough the Seller slapped the mailing label directly on the ARCHITECTURE SERIES box and mailed it that way, but there's three other assorted labels affixed to the packaging as well. To further add insult to injury, my Jacka** rural postal carrier wrote my address on the box with a sharpie.

Sold 1x 70173 for 199E, no fee.

My password for my ebay account used to be "Sky" You had to have at least 3 characters so that is what I came up with. How did we not get hacked back then? lol

Angry Birds was added to the TRU sale at 20% off.

Eh Ninjago Airjitzu part deux

Amazon 75091 - Star Wars: Flash Speeder - $20.99 (30% off)

I keep seeing this debate about the distribution. Ursala and Maleficent being the rarest. Even if it's an even distribution, I think the women will be the most sought after. Simply because the Disney princess line runs in dolls. This may be the only chance to get Ariel as a true minifig. I could be mistaken, but I think she has only appeared in Duplo and doll form. We likely will not see her in this form again. Though, that may make the princes valuable too. As they'll probably make an Aladdin doll, before they make another Aladdin minifig. Just my thoughts as I'm shifting from flipping mode, to sitting mode.

Picked up a CL lot from RI for $550 the other day which had a complete Town Hall as the main selling point. So far sorting the 75+ lbs or so it has about 30% non lego. 100+ minifigures I'd guess. Lots of instructions too. I'm now pulling out a 6211 and a 7665. Here are some pictures. Top two are the ones they had built. The bulk is a horrible mess of pieces. I'll sell it off after cherry picking.

I just repurchased and built the very first Lego set I ever received. I got this set from Santa many years ago I just got one like it on Craigslist.

Build this over the last few days, picked it up for £300 so happy. Quicker build than I expected, but looks fantastic. Bit big though, doesn't fit on my shelf without removing the top section of the tower.

Well its been £230 for the ship (including a replica sticker sheet that actually doesn't look that bad). Ended up buying from 3 different stores in the end. I also got a bargain deal for the Vader (new), Storm Trooper, Imperial officer and Imperial pilot for an extra £20 on eBay. Only missing Luke and all the weapons. To put it in perspective the cheapest you can find a used, complete with instructions (and usually the box) in the UK is £350. Ok, I don't have Luke but as I wasn't buying this for any kind of investment saving works out ok. Plus it was a nice little project.

Finally Finished this bad boy after building it little bit at time over the last week and half. This is my first big build and I am really digging these larger SW sets.

I bought a second hand 10212 last week and built it at the weekend. I had no idea of the scale of this thing. It's HUGE. Pic next to my 10188 for comparison. For 350gbp I consider this a bit of a bargain.

Finally got around to building part of the $15 bag I got on CL. Midi-MF is short 9 pieces and Y-Wing is short ~15 and the minifigures except R2. Do I sell or keep the MF?

6 hours... too soon?

When you've got used to the bag 1, bag 2 format of most lego, hunting through all the bags for a part seems frustrating now. The actual build was fun though. Fiddly at points and takes a while to realise what different pieces of the build are for but when it comes together its quite a clever build. It's quite an impressive size for the money too (£68 from German Amazon) I'm waiting for Smyths to drop the price on the Technic Cargo Plane as I think that will be an even more impressive build especially with the power functions included in the set. As for displaying, it's very impressive to look at all the detailing and how it is built, but I'm really running out of room for displaying Lego.

Latest build and first big one in a while that hasn't been star wars related.

Well yesterday and rebuild, but still.