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Continued my building rampage while my wife is overseas. Been wanting to make the kwik-e into a modular style that will fit on the block. I had to sacrifice the isles inside but everything else fit nicely. This is my first attempt at any kind of moc or mod. I think it turned out pretty good. The second floor will be an addition onto the cinema next door, still playing around with that. I have it started in the last pic but I may change that up.

With everyone posting their collections earlier this week, I decided to post how mine currently looks. I am likely building the Porsche with within a few weeks so will have to move things around. Enjoy!

$41.99 for a $50 TRU Gift Card on Staples (16% discount). Limit 3, I believe. For you can pay $101.99 for a $100 gift card if you want an anti-deal.

After some sore fingertips, completed this yesterday. Final product looks great!

Is this the TV you bought?

Just for kicks, checked the last 100 sales again... for last 100 sold July, 10, 2016: Top sellers (quan. sold): (1) Fly Guy, (2) all tied: Tiger Woman, Square Foot, Spider Lady, Pirate Zombie Top Avg. Price (incl. shipping): (1) Tiger Woman $10.28, (2) Square Foot $9.60, (3) Wolf Guy $9.43 Avg. of all: $7.29 Square Foot was a real surprise, though there are some outlying data points for that one (a couple sales at >$13)... taking that data out, his avg. sale price is closer to $8 (still much improved over early sales). Most consistent popular sellers from all three data samplings (always selling more than average in quantity) are Tiger Woman and Banshee. As always: take it with a grain of salt... small sample size... not statistically conclusive.

To be fair most BP forum threads begin the same way.

If it retails for $350 and there is a shortage during the holidays then double down to $700 isn't out of the picture. Heck ide rather stock up on this then the Technic Porsche for the price.

I keep mine in the original boxes they came in and sort them as to what they are and then stack those boxes together. It's not pretty but I pretty much know where everything is when I'm looking for it. I have a couple people that help me with it, so that helps. I've uploaded a pic so you can see what I'm talking about...

A few years ago I bought a used 6285 Barracuda off Bricklink. I finally had time to clean the pieces and build this beautiful ship! The sails were in fantastic shape. This was my first LEGO ship that I've ever built and it was a fun, but sometimes challenging build. I must say, once you start assembling the masts and raising the sails, this ship really comes to life! I hope you enjoy the pics.

Working on a western scene and saw a western train station on Lego Ideas and liked it (https://ideas.lego.com/projects/9050), but wanted to mod some changes, make it a modular and add some LED lights (http://www.lifelites.com/). I have worked on this one on/off for about three years making all kinds of modifications to it. I want to redo the inside of the building at some point, maybe give it more detail like the outside. However, for now I am content with it. I hid the battery pack to the street lights under the water tower and ran the wiring under the building (you can kind of see the battery pack, but not too bad). The clock tower lights up too, though it may be hard to see. I hid the battery pack inside the roof, with a little trap door to turn the power on. I like that it is usable for western type scenes as well as a modern train station (since there are so many older train stations still in use across this country). I also modified the locomotive so that it runs on Power Functions. All the wooden planks that wrap around the station are the 1x4 wood grain tiles (not stickers), part #2431pb243. I bought a bunch a few years ago and am glad I did, they are quite pricy now. I think it makes it look a lot nicer. Spoiler: and those of you with OCD…you may notice in the pictures that the four clocks are not aligned to be the same time…sorry.

LEGO must have discovered Penicillin and accomplished affordable health care because sets just don't die anymore...

There's a whole bunch they can do with this line. They could in theory make more UCS type playsets or structures based off disney characters. While I would suspect this set to be out for 5 to 6 years easily, it will eventually retire, as well. But, I think this, along with the Disney minifigures series are the first in a long long line of these things. They'll tap this market to death, just like they did and are doing with Star Wars, and Marvel. Personally, i'm not so sold on the disney minifigures being as big of an investment as people are chirping on here. Maybe initially, but over time it wont be, after the 50th mickey mouse is released in a set, or the 20th alice in wonderland playset is released with yet another alice. Just watch. Those sets are coming, and it's obvious. Now if they will just release a star wars minifigures series so we can finally add Zuckuss, and 4Lom to the collection, i'd be a happy cat.

I think the economy and marketplace has changed. While there always might be an outlier like a $400-$500 STAR WARS set, I am beginning to question the continued explosive growth of The LEGO Group's profits. We will see this year when they release their financials, but I have seen interviews with LEGO bigwigs and they are nervous about Brexit and are putting a lot of faith in the Asian markets. There are also other subtle changes occurring. Discounts on exclusives? They are starting to pop up. Bans? Have you seen any recently?

I thought that was the only reason people go camping? To avoid the shame of drinking Old Milwaukee and PBR within the borders of civilization? We've all worn that shame at point...

You will really like many of the photos members did for the book. A lot of creative people in the LEGO Universe.

I hope so.

I think this is a new cartwheel.

Seems about right, considering the hype here.

Other than the fact were reseller scum.

I read the first Elves book with my daughter (picked it up during the Barnes deal) and she loved it. And I like it much better than the Friends series. Friends is so superficial and consumer-centric. The beginning of one the books (probably all of them) said something like 'we need more money so we can buy more things.' And 'isn't shopping the best?!' I'm not exaggerating. To keep thinks relevant. Kmart has Friends Heartlake Hair Salon #41093 for $21.99 (27%) Heartlake Private Jet #41100 for $23.99 (20%) There are at least two $5 off $35 coupon codes out there. One should work. And free shipping over $35. And you might get $2 bonus bucks for next time. I did on a different Lego order. Ymmv

Tru ad : 20% JW , MC , Elves

At this rate, we don't need the Mack's book anymore ....

More building...

So, here's an odd story. On my neighborhood's Facebook page, on Friday, someone posted a picture of a FedEx Ground truck. They asked if anyone knew what was going on, as it had been sitting there for a few days, appearing to not have moved. Of course, neighborhood drama and discussion ensued, with questions of "why doesn't someone call the Sheriff?" "Why doesn't someone call FedEx?" "Why doesn't someone call the media?" It took a good day before someone actually DID anything other than suggest that someone do something. Someone went and checked it out, and it was unlocked, and loaded with local packages for delivery. That person locked the truck up. The sheriff's did come out, and just drive by it (they didn't stop to check it out). I'm not missing any packages. I'm not on the page (I'm just hearing it about it from my neighbors). This is just really weird.... Edit to add: Video of the inside

Moral of the story: LEGO is teaching our daughters and nieces to be QFLLs!

The only major Technic pieces I can see being used would be for inner frame and base.

Love the idea, and can't believe we've never had a post to single this type of thing out. Pinned to the sub!

Zig when they zag, right?

$40 postage to WA. BOOOOOO!!!!!!

This set is currently being sold at 30% off in Australia (TRU) Last call perhaps

If you're not incredibly attached to the minifigs, you could recoup a nice chunk of your buy in. Vintage Pirates go for decent money, especially that female pirate. She's only in 2 sets I believe. Jealous of your Barracuda. The set I always wanted as a kid but could never own due to being lower middle class. Good call cleaning it first, makes the experience feel much more like a new experience when the bricks aren't covered in dust!

That's if you choose to use a fixed or free shipping cost. Since I started in August last year, I've primarily been using calculated shipping as a method to avoid getting burned. This requires you to have a shipping box in mind for the set you're selling already, and the packing materials on hand to put it all together and weigh it. Once you have box dimensions and final weight, you plug that info into the Calculated Shipping fields.... then using your own postal/zip code, ebay Calculates for the buyer based off their location in relation to yours, and the service that's been selected. I find this typically results in fairly accurate shipping quotes for the buyer, but often it's a little bit higher than what you actually pay if you use the at-home label printing through paypal, as you save a little percentage there. This usually ends up covering the shipping portion of your ebay fees, which is nice. Highly recommend BIN perhaps with Best Offer attached. That's usually how I sell all my used sets. Check BP, check BL, check ebay sold listings.... come up with a price that's about 10% above the average rate, add Best Offer, and negotiate with buyers up to 15-20% off my asking price. This usually lands right around my target profit margin. Pick a system and try to stick with it. IF you have an incredibly hot and popular item, put it on auction and hope for the best, but generally speaking in my experience, auctions will end lower than you hoped for, and there's nothing you can do about it once it's done. At least with a low Best Offer you can outright decline, or choose to haggle. Once you're sitting on a healthy profit margin it might be less of a risk to list more as auctions, but when you're starting out it's a sure fire way to put yourself into the negative I think.

The book is almost done. The designer is finishing it up. I had to go over the entire book the last several weeks and add callouts/blurbs/dialog and Jeff had to get the photographers bios together and locate some images. It looks really nice. A lot of dynamite pictures to choose from. Very creative. I wish we had more pages because some fantastic photos won't make the cut. We should be able to see the finished pages on screen in a week or two to see who stood out photographer wise.

Speaking of Prime Day. I see on Amazon's site there is $30 off $150 coupon if you use your Amazon Rewards Visa to pay for your purchase on that day and enter code VISA30. Sounds like it can be multiple items, but have to add up to $150. Good on items sold by Amazon. Can be used once. http://tinyurl.com/h5o5tv4

Will this set include minifigs? If so will they be the same as the Disney series one - mickey, minnie, daffy, donald, tinker bell?

my son, 8, wanted me to post this. Minibeard.

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun" -some old story

Hey, I can't mop up everything.