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Finished building my very first Lego Star Wars UCS set: the beautiful Slave 1 ! I took my time building it, one bag at a time (day) and when daily life (wife and kids) demanded my attention there were days in a row where I didn't build on it at all. But I'm very very happy with the result and it looks just awesome ! The build itself was also really interesting and seeing all the parts coming together was very satisfying. This is an absolute must-have for every Lego Star Wars fan, and I foresee a glorious future for this set after it retires some day. It really ticks off all the check boxes: Big and massive, highly detailed, very displayable (CEO office worthy!), multiple special bricks only available in this set... I can't sing its praises enough!

I built this VIP set yesterday with my 3 month old and she fell asleep! It wasn't that boring. Kids! Ha!

Built the corner deli a couple weeks ago. My boy slapped it on his very rough start of a city. Yesterday he turned 6 and he built the High Speed Passenger Train all by himself. I made sure the connections were solid but he did it all...I shot it yesterday and although he MOC'd a few things in the station area and the top of the train, it looks great. Runs well and I can't believe how solid this train feels.

Slow moving on my part, but it's coming along. Vacation will get in the way the next couple weeks.

LEGO birds are non-migratory.

Like technic too.

here are 2 updated pics of my collection. Had to get a 3rd shelf from Ikea! Not sure where I will put Big Ben once its built. Hesitating if I should crack open my one and only TH and GE. Still have R2, Ewok Village, ToO to build.....too much Lego and too little time. sigh.

Taken about ten years to get this far.

Cross-posting from the LEGO Shop at Home promo thread: Just noticed that LEGO Shop at Home has now made $35 the permanent threshold for Free Shipping (used to be $75). See here for the details. This was a promo in June, but seems to be the new normal now. GREAT! http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Shipping-Returns?icmp=SHLP_FreeShipNA

Let's all take advantage of this offer and let Staples see how much we appreciate it! This is re-posted from @c666187 original post in supplies: Coupon Code: 41839 40% Off Your Regular-priced Packing And Shipping Supplies Purchase Of $75+ Expires 07/23/16 Details & Exclusions: Get 40% Off Your Regular-priced Packing and Shipping Supplies purchase of $75 or more. Excludes Daily Deals, Auto Restock orders, stamps and shipping services.Exclusions: Excludes Daily Deals, Auto Restock orders, stamps and shipping services.

(sorry admins, wrong section, can you please move this under "What Lego did you buy today?") here my 2nd modular (eBay, GBP 201)

I still trying to figure out the comparison posts between 10240 XWing and 76023 Batman Tumbler. Other than sharing the $199.99 price tag and 12.9% of Lego elements, these are 2 very different sets. One is a a direct refresh, the other kinda isn't (7888). One contains popular minifigs while the other doesn't. One is mainly white while the other is mainly black, etc... Hmmm.

This one dropped my jaw this morning... but don't bother looking for it... page is "temporarily unavailable"... ... one item that IS orderable right now at kmart.com: 70725 Ninjago Mech Dragon at $45.

A lack of self-control and sense of common decency for a start. The anonymity of the internet can bring out the worst in people especially around difference of opinion in, well, basically anything & everything while in real life they may act much differently (perhaps like an actual human being) but still there is simply no excuse for any person under whatever the circumstance towards whoever is involved to think it is okay to say such disgustingly horrid things. Being able to openly speak one's mind behind a shrouded identity is both a privilege and a curse with the World Wide Web seeing how mentally disturbed many of them can unfortunately be. There has been a noticeably rising inability people seem to have with opinions and some absurd sense of entitlement that comes across as though they have the right to say whatever they wish in whichever manner they choose (usually very foul and/or immature) and should you not conform to it, think differently, or point out what is wrong in their statement then they will openly demand you should commit suicide. With so many of what I would call 'angry channels' to be found on YouTube alone as though rage was the 'in thing', the volume of intolerance nowadays is not surprising. With a population of over at least seven billion, you would think the elementary concept of "no one person is the same" to be a staple in all our minds but alas it is not.

We are recently out of the Dark Ages, so couldn't find / afford SW UCS retired sets like@TCSBGDADY, so focused on modulars.

Not a major score but I found a used, complete (with damaged box, mint instructions) Lego UCS Slave 1 for $150 CDN a couple of weeks ago.

As Ed and others have pointed out, the short availability of this exclusive under 24 months precludes the massive hoarding that comes with 3-4 year production seen with other exclusives. Tumbler was an in demand set and out of stock at most retailers for the first 20% of its life span. despite the broadcasting of its imminent retirement and the massive apparent hoarding on this site, the demand for the set is still strong. 9 sold in the last 7 days on ebay. price increases for a set with a relatively limited production run like this are nonlinear. 2018 will be the year for Tumbler price appreciation fueled by a wave of Millennial nostalgia as we hit the 10 year anniversary of Heath Ledger's untimely death and the release of Dark Knight. 2018 I'll be meeting up with the next generation of bearded flannel hipster with cash falling out of his corduroy meeting up with meet at Starbucks to get the UCS set from his favorite movie when he was 12. comparing the Tumbler or anything to Star Wars is just not fair. There is Star Wars and then there is everything else. I'm not saying Tumbler won't do better than a Red 5 but its an apples and oranges comparison. Tumbler will do better than other comparable exclusives because it benefits from a media cultural anniversary time cycle and had a relatively short production run coupled with a well advertised retirement ensuring that a disproportionate number of sets were snapped up by "investors" in it for the 6 months it takes to squeeze out $20 profit. as more and more stock is sold off, patience will be rewarded.

Updated Lunar Exploration Geological Outpost Ground Crew by billyburg Battlepod variants by Jeremy Croft Exploration ATV by SweStar Pimp my landspeeder! by Priovit70

UCS set area is coming together!

I've been pretty sick lately. So I had some time on my hands in between naps to finish off a couple of sets. It really picked my spirits up and kept my mind off the pain! Thank you Lego!! #LegoDad

Modular city. Just missing CC and TH (which just isn't built yet). My daughter has a parade of Disney figs walking down the street.

the other option is hold on to them for a while until the price normalizes.

(sorry admins, wrong section, can you please move this under "What Lego did you buy today?") and here our 2nd Harry Potter set (for 8yo/6yo daughters... and wife I guess) also from eBay UK (GBP 189) by the way the used Hogwarts Castle I got from another UK seller a couple weeks ago had more missing stuff than declared ("nothing major, maybe a couple flowers"), including missing instruction manual number 3 and a somewhat rare cat, sent everything via eBay message and got no answer (I bought everything via BL for relatively cheap but other sellers in Germany or USA answered right away and offered to send missing parts... I did not give any feedback to this seller yet... still wondering... if I at least got an answer with some "sorry" comment I would have given positive feedback but no communication in my book is very bad...)

Not at all...

My initail thought when seeing the pictures was...WTF?!? After thinking on it a few moments...I'm gonna stick with my initial thought.

Does a CL War story include not seeing anything worthwhile in months?

I've been successful in self brokering parcels from UPS. The brokerage fee for ground is $40 CAD, for Air it's cheaper, around $10. It's always best to just ask the US seller to avoid UPS, but if you get bit, refuse delivery. Then call the UPS 1-800 number and ask to self Broker. They will arrange to have your parcel sent to your local UPS depot where you go and pick up the shipment information (At no cost). Then take the shipment info and your receipt to Canadian Customs, pay your tax and duty. Then go back to UPS with your receipt showing you've brokered the parcel and they will hand it over without their exorbitant brokerage fee. It's cumbersome for sure, but I had a friendly UPS worker from their 1-800# tell me how to do it one day when I had $60 worth of brokerage, duty and taxes on a free item. I ended up doing the drive and at least locally the UPS hub and Customs are all within a couple minutes of each other. Customs person just stamped my paperwork and didn't charge me anything.

Why so difficult? Just simply compare it with the 7784 UCS Batmobile. That one is 4 x RRP now.

Crab Island by BrickCurve

New York Apocalyptique by domino39 brickpirate

Picked up the Ninjago Destiny's Bounty for $84. Used $35 in free promo Target Giftcards I earned from household item purchases today + RC and paid $51 OTD.

Built a set with my daughter for the first time, she found it quite complicated and was getting a bit frustrated with the process. Who would have known that an 18 month would get angry trying to put the pieces of Duplo Learn to Count Train together.

- 76057 Spider-Man: Web Warriors Ultimate Bridge Battle for 63 euro. - 2 x 75902 Scooby Doo Mystery Machine + retro knights promo and Nexo poster.

Shhhh. The first rule of the Temple of Airjitsu thread is that we don't talk about ToA investment.

I dig the motion blur on the train shots. Nice!

Exactly. I was wrong about R2 and its performance turned the corner about a year after EOL so it could still happen for Tumbler as both sets had similar lives and R2 was being really panic hoarded in the last weeks of its life too.

There are many sets with Window 1x4x3 without Shutter Tabs in black (http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=60594&in=S) but only 2 have them with the white shutters and in larger quantity: 10184 Town Plan has 8. 4956 House has 4.

FIGS .... IN ..... SPAAAAAAAAACE!

The much needed routine maintenance would quickly change your mind.

Boy am I glad that was an 'a' and not an 'i' ....

That's like the first rule for any set lol.

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.

You know why I knew this would do very nice? Because everyone was skipping on it, and had a short life too. Shortest for an exclusive, name me a pirate ship that didn't do well? Have to put you in a collector's head, if he have them all, he sure want this one

I'm not concerned. This ship is awesome. I don't think anyone is buying it for the minifigs. The imperial flagship has all generic minifigs and is doing fine.

I posted this in the "what lego set did you build" thread, but for people who didn't see it, this is a good spot for it too. Just finished building it with my son and it was an incredible build....really cool! Took this pic next to the haunted House for size comparison.

I'm about 2/3 of the way through the Sea Cow build, and frankly it's a work of art. This set is unbelievable - it combines the best of large builds and small, it comes with the couch, a mini-Metal Beard (who is just phenomenal - really well done), Benny, Unikitty, Emmett, and Wyldstyle. The two micromanagers are nice, but similar to others. The single manual is awesome - over 300 pages all bound into one book. And it's just so damn big and impressive. The build is really fun, too - lots of neat details around every corner. I don't know what to say to anyone that's bad mouthing the set other than you need to build one to see how slick this thing is. I get it if you only like "realistic" builds, but this set maintains enough realism that I think it will appeal to most builders. "Whimsical realism", perhaps. There are some nice build techniques on this set too, and it has that steampunk essence running through the entire build to put it over the top. The Sea Cow is amazing and I could easily see people paying $500+ for this set. It's so damn impressive and unique. And it's a fresh take on TLG's pirate ship genre. And it has all of the best characters from the movie, the double-decker couch, and two micromanagers. My only real issue with the set from a marketing perspective is its name: Sea Cow. If it had a more steampunky name, I think this one would really top the charts. Sea Cow is a pretty "meh" name though - this kick-butt ship deserves better.