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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...

That's just a salesman trick, trying to make more sales. Similar when a salesman tells a potential customer looking at buying a ... TV/coffeemaker/sofa (whatever) ... This is the best one you can buy. I have the same one myself! Using that "Lego is worth more than gold" sales pitch by a store employee trying to make a customer to buy Lego. Just trying to boost his margin!

Here in the states the raccoons will skin you if you drink anything but Old Milwaukee and PBR when you're camping.

I am really looking forward to OLED. LCD is strictly inferior to good ol' CRT for gaming, or any application involving fast-moving images. Motion blur and the theoretically compensating 'overdrive' cause literal headaches. However, I'm setting my new TV budget to equal one sealed DS. It may be awhile before OLED is obtainable at a decent screen size for that price, unless the fabled new DS turns out to be based on a Teletubbies episode or something.

It will be next to the Palace Cinema. I'm going to have a doorway between the theaters. Maybe hang a curtain between them.

So if $350.00 seems to be the new max MSRP or "sweet spot" for large sets. Does that mean the new Death Star be priced accordingly?

Somebody needs to offer Slave I at $146 shipped FBM to see if we can get AMZN to reprice down to $155 to win the buy box.

I think people have to consider the fact that poor selling sets or sets that are expensive to produce/issues can retire sooner than later. This has been shown many times. This leads us to the UCS TIE. While I love the set, many don't, so it is not universally popular, thus possibly a candidate for early retirement. LEGO adapts and adjusts. If it sells, it stays. Saying a set will be on the shelves for "X many" years is complete speculation.

Sweet. All those calls to my congressman finally paid off.

Well, yesterday morning not today, but I bought 2x UCS Tie Fighter 75095 for $119 each at TRU price matching Walmart and using discounted BRU gift cards that I keep on hand.

Must have ran out of large boxes.

I started getting interested in electronics right about that age. Started Designing and building HiFi amp kits, and speaker systems. Also made a few robots (using raw electronics, not lego mindstorms). Back then Lego was still very expensive and I couldn't afford modding lego parts to fit electromotors or sensors. Mindstorms was non-existent, so I drifted off into electronic. Studied it at uni, and soon Lego was forgotten... 20 years later, I can afford Lego again. I am also not shy about cutting, modding and gluing lego parts to make more complex systems, robots, fit them with electronics, etc. etc. If you have an engineer's mind and love to create new things, grab an Arduino, a motor shield, a few electromotors or stepper motors and build your own complex mechanisms. That will transition you smoothly into your studies, uni, etc. If you are more creative and artistic, start using lego to express yourself creatively - build sculptures, etc. You will find that lego, especially with some ABS glue and hot-knife can be a very malleable medium >:) Best Luck, Jack

Doooo it!

so I got home today after running some errands, and there was a decent size Lego box there on the porch. i figured, wow, my Porsche is here already even though it was on back order (when i ordered it) The shipping box was large, but not as large as a Tumbler in a shipping box which I am familiar with. anyways, i open her up and this is in it.... ???? I got my much valued wall stickers I ordered, along with my fountain to crash my Porsche into..... but they also threw in a tank to bulldoze the fountain with??? is this a mistake, or something they do? receipt says legoland ticket voucher, fountain, and lego friends wall. total of $3.75 will the Porsche stil come? (scratching head) pp

I just signed up, been lurking. I had no clue that other people did what I did, buy Lego sets and sell for profit. How silly I am! Nice to meet you all.