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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!

Speaking of Meijer: make sure you use the $5 off $50 coupon (mPerks) and while you're at it, $4 back on $35 in Toys (a clipped reward). And if you're really brave: $5 back on $75 total purchase ..... Those $4 and $5 won't be useful on your current purchase but help reduce the cost of the next one ...

What sand green pieces did they have? On PAB? Emerald night 10194. Great score!

Spielemax.de with using a 15 euro gift coupon I received last week after my purchase from Kaufhof.

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.

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.

Actually they use some algorithms to balance the SKUs with the piece counts to optimize the production costs. For example, lets say that the build requires 1x2's in other places. But in the whole model, it only needs a 1x4 once. It's cheaper for them to change the 1x4 to 2 1x2's because they then have one less different inventory piece to include (one less tub of parts feeding into the packing machines, one less chance of a machine error, etc.). The packing is all automated, but when you are boxing 20 million sets a year, those fractional savings add up.

I was unimpressed when I saw Pisa in person...... just sayin'

Judging from past events, it will retire in Q4 this year. A good buy-in is essential to make money on these - see 42009 crane.

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 have 2 of these now. The second one I got from a 3PS on Amazon. Box and seals look OK, but it sounds like there's more stuff "rolling around" loose inside. Can't tell if it's a broken bag, or just large pieces that weren't in a bag to begin with. Probably just worried about nothing. Anyone here can tell me how many bags / what comes loose inside the box? I tried to search the "sealed bags" thread, but couldn't find it.

Bought one today for 50 euro. Will go back tomorrow to pick up the remaining two. Hopefully they will be still there.