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That looks like some creepy chucky like set that will come to life at night and kill you in your sleep.

I am not buying any , I no my theory is to buy a few now and then, but in this case I could 75 yrs old or more before these are retired, and I still will have some 10188 laying around.

I think what amazon did is an important note to everyone. Your re-seller plans can be shattered at any moment. Every platform we sell on has the ability to stop letting us sell at any time. Make sure to not over extend yourself.

Can't you see that's a 10188 reconstruction.

For 250 bucks I picked the following architecture on Craigslist, all boxes and instructions. 21014, 21017, 21007,21013, 21003, 21018, 21024, 21009,21004, 21019, 21020, 21015,21023 and 21002. Best Craigslist score thus far!

Toywiz will be he only one left standing at all retailers.

In the trash.

I don't think it's a witch. Looks like a boy pilgrim. Failure either way.

Yeah looks like all those fake lepin reviews payed off

You guys are doing a fine job.

oh the 75159 designer video is going to be oh so terrible. might be as bad as the AoH one. .

This was publicly being built at the Arundel Mills LEGO Store in Maryland. Somebody's in trou-bleeee

Finds Craigslist ad, emails seller, tells them I will offer $50 more than you current buyer. /s You shouldn't jinx yourself. Wait until it's in hand to post what you've bought on a CL deal.

Found another photo of the front of the box in case people still don't believe this.

This should stamp out the issues Amazon was having on sets at the ASIN level. Nobody is going to come in with manufacturer invoices and pony up thousands just to send in some fake sets or sets with the minfigs pulled. Those days are over. I would not expect much change in the market at the beginning as most were grandfathered in. There will be a noticeable effect in 3-5 years time when future resellers who haven't even bought their first brick yet will be locked out and the current counterfeiters and poor sellers are weeded out over time. I do expect amazon premium pricing over ebay to be restablished over the next year or two as all of the new resellers are going to be stuck using ebay now.

Yay, some are on sale for last years regular price.

Meanwhile in the Lego "New design and Innovation" department, Star Wars floor.... Lol

could change set title to "justapilgrim"

Just a reminder that tomorrow, Saturday 8/27 is the next free TRU build! 12-2pm. http://www.toysrus.com/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=4311963&ab=Tru_homepage_aspot:2A:Join-us-Saturday-for-a-LEGO-Ma

Might need some spells and neut tails.

Why would anyone choose sub par marketplaces when there is Amazon? I will say that foot traffic on Amazon is unreal from what I've seen. Would take me forever to dump my investments on those other sites. I'll happily cash out and go back to my specialty.

Yeah...probably lots of this...

All u gotta do is put 10188 next to a mirror now which one you think is better lol

I envision it's just gonna be the designer flipping everyone off and walking away while they show old footage from 10188.

Man, this is a sad day for sure. I am not buying that turd!!

The brick separation tool is definitive proof this is not a fake!

Fixed

We haven't either. I think alot of the info posted in BA's link is speculation and not reality.

It is going to be very nice not seeing anymore "just launched" in the lego listings dumping their Tumblers for < $300. Price is already ticking up

Our non-lego selling account is blocked from selling Lego at the brand level. Requires invoices and $1k to apply for approval. Our other account which we use specifically just for lego products is ungated for all Lego except for TFA. We never applied to be ungated for TFA, and don't plan to. Likewise our non-lego account is ungated for Hasbro, Funko, Shopkins etc but our Lego selling account is blocked for those. The listing for 75916 is blocked at both the brand level and ASIN level. If you are ungated in Lego you can still sell 75916 in collectible conditiion and can apply to get ungated for 75916 to sell new - that just requires invoices but no fee. There must have been a specific issue with this set that they imposed a block at the ASIN level. It appears there was some sought of threshold (either metrics, sales volume, dollar volume, start selling date, FBA vs FBM etc) that you had to meet to be grandfathered in to get unblocked at the brand level for all of the newly restricted brands. Amazon has been moving in this direction for a long time so it is no surprise. If you are grandfathered in count your blessings you got a golden ticket. Plenty did get grandfathered into Lego so the real effect won't be noticed for a few years but it is nice to know we are basically at max competition for Hasbro, Funko, Lego, Sony. Microsoft etc. This will help Amazon prices get back to that 20-30% premium over ebay a little further down the road.

It appears that this may be more of an effort to target counterfeiters. If they grandfathered established professional selling accounts with a positive history of selling specific items, restricted any new sellers of those items, and required those new sellers to pony up $1000 to sell them, it would be a fairly effective way of targeting counterfeiting because any existing counterfeiters who are grandfathered are likely to get weeded out over time due to complaints and new counterfeiters would be unable to meet the gating requirements and/or unwilling to pony up $1000+ to sell. Here's hoping that this is what they're doing.

Bought 2 from the Lego Shop UK delivered yesterday with code 17s6

Even the Art and Hobby shop have it, not that limited

Who screws who? We screw ourselves. The more we buy, the more Lego makes because of magic word/rumor, "retiring".

If you have ever sold a Lego branded item on Amazon you will still be able to sell all Lego (same goes for Hasboro, Shopkins etc). Even if it was one polybag 5 years ago you are good to go if the listing was branded as LEGO. If you have not sold Lego ever you will need to be ungated. It is no different than when they gated grocery, dvds, health and beauty etc. You won't see any effects on the sellers in the listings as all of them are obviosuly grandfathered in. You will see an effect a few years down the track as alot of the currently ungated sellers leave or are suspended but not many new will come in. This is not going to change anything overnight, this is a positive a few years down the track.

as listed in previous link apparently 75916 is one of the lego ASIN that requires approval. another one is 10702. its hitting one ASIN at a time. not sure about the depth and breadth of impact on other LEGO ASINs.

Details are on a front page blog including a "fix" for the misaligned chin strap

You mean Santa in the sensory deprivation chamber so he doesn't turn into one of these seasonal monstrosities? That one is awesome.

At least we get that really cool Christmas promo. [emoji4]

Pair her with a Geoffry Giraffe and you're in real trouble.

I guess these are now worth $1100.. on Amazon anyways.

Guess can add some posts to the DS thread instead, needs some after all

Had a little luck today, with a $6 off $6 and a $10 off $20. When I went to go use my $10 off $20, I found this: $10 back in points on this. Nice way to convert my $10 in surprise points to $10 in regular points.

And boom goes the dynamite.

Not really. I've been considering doing an update, but I'm discovering that summer is slow when it comes to Polybags. The only real change I've noticed out there is that 30447 Captain America's Motorcycle is now available at Target. Other than that, there's nothing to report on polybags. No reports of any polybags coming out, no previews on polybags to come. I expect that we'll get some new news on polybags in the next month or two. I will make an effort to update the list for the beginning of September, though.

With all this stuff, just do it. Take your lumps and learn. It's way better than theorizing on the sidelines. Lego attracts the OCD person but we need to just act sometimes.