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BRAND NEW - UPDATED A FEW MINUTES AGO AT LEGO Shop at Home AUSTIA: RETIRING SOON TAGS ON: 21108 - Ecto-1 21302 - Big Bang Theory 21303 - WALL-E 21304 - Dr. Who https://shop.lego.com/de-AT/Ideas-Sets

Simple, It's pretty much always a standard procedure on BL... rigorously watch the sales threads here (and elsewhere), watch the flyers for the big retailers and use the webwatcher tools to see whenever anything Lego goes on sale for anything more than 15% off.... AND AVOID ALL THOSE like the plague!!! choose everything else instead, any clearance Lego will not give you proper returns to part-out. Basically everyone else is picking up those in huge numbers and will already flood the marketplace before you even get back from the toystore. New sets right off the printing press can do really well if they have unique parts - if you can get them a week or two before the release date - otherwise forget it. you may have some luck with really expensive sets that folks might not want to buy for a piece or two - but then you're still stuck fighting the bigger fish to sell off the chaff anyway. since the Bl upgrade, prices are falling drastically as everyone races for the bottom price just to get search hits. "Cost vs Part-out Price" has very little to do with the equation anymore, it's no longer what you pay - it's what you have to sell that others don't.

Following rampant success of retiring soon tag on Doctor Who, TLG have now decided that everything is retiring soon just to troll resellers and Tabby especially.

UPDATE: https://shop.lego.com/de-AT/Exklusive-Sets-Kategorie?S1=&callback=json&cc=at&count=18&do=json-db&i=1&jsonp=jsonCallback&lang=de&pt=shop&q=*&q1=backAgainFlag&rank=at_rank&showRetired=false&x1=featured_id RETIRING SOON TAGS ON: 10218 - Pet Shop --> FINALLY! 10234 - Sydney Opera House 10236 - Ewok Village 75059 - Sandcrawler Yay! ATM all together 8 RETIREMENT candidates.

I'm helping boost your revenue and suppress your net income simultaneously.

10254 Holiday Train MOC by Mouseketeer

Back in September I started sorting through a recent Craigslist find and two pieces happen to end up in my hand at the same time. The train cow catcher, and the coffin lid with bats. I'm not a train guy but when I held these two pieces together i just knew they would go well together! And with it being so close to Halloween, I felt it just clicked. I borrowed some of the basics of typical lego train builds for the base but after that, it's all me. The Spider body utilizes a modified Lowell Sphere. I present my Halloween train & red backed spider MOC.

Thank you! To apply the Voucher, first go to "Your Account" here: https://www.walmart.ca/my-account Then near the bottom you can enter your voucher. There's also multiple $5 off codes as well. Then when in the checkout, the option to use a voucher shows up near the credit car field. $5 off Montreal5 Winnipeg5 $10 off Toronto5

Pretty pretty legit

The people not posting right now are the people buying.

I feel like every Lego Halloween town needs a graveyard. I started messing around with some loose vintage castle bricks and with some help from the Monster Fighters line, a little something actually came out of it.

spidey bridge 45% off plus athletes pack @ TRU after sale price, GCs, and $5 reward

Rowan Atkinson

This is TLGs IT Team we're talking about here.

Christopher Lloyd

Received my first S.H.I.E.L.D HeliCarrier today from SAH, absolutely fantastic. Massive minty box, sealcode 37S6. Yes, this is my present and I like it .

Yuge. Bigly number of bricks. No one in the history of the world has ever seen so many bricks.

Ha! I'm about to leave work for my Thursday lunch run to go do the same thing.

I think @Tabbyboy had a change of heart about the Simpsons and cleaned out some stores. So Lego decided to postpone the tagging of the Simpsons.

2 years ago resellers would have cleaned up TLG overproduction messes. Not anymore. I am waiting for deeper discounts. No need to be a hero at RRP these days.

I had that happen once....I purchased an item on eBay and the USPS opened the package and deemed that it was not covered under Media Mail. The postal officer gave me a card that showed the correct amount owed and said that I needed to cover the difference. I "rejected" paying for it (said that I needed to get in contact with the shipper) and the post office said they would hold it for a week till I could sort out the issue. I e-mailed the person on eBay and they refunded the amount that it was going to cost me to go pick it up at the post office. Worked out in my case, however this may happen to you if the post office checks the contents. Or the shipper may not refund you the difference and the item will get returned to them, and you will have to get your money back from Paypal since it was not officially delivered. Generally, sellers will try to work with you on this type of issue. Hopefully, it works out well for you and the seller.

I think this is a good point, People are trying to predict, guess, how this will pan out according to the past results of other sets. But really, they have no Idea what they're talking about. Idea sets are a different beast entirely from any other theme. And within Idea sets, DW is in a league of its own. What can you compare it to? Birds? Exosuits? Maze? Ghost busters seems like it would be, but it's not the same. It's a Hollywood movie franchise from the 80's with a big time star Bill Murray. Top of the A list. And a cartoon who's audience is now in the AFOL age. DW is a tv show from Britain. A strong devoted following, but not a Blockbuster like GB was. Like comparing Dolphins and Sharks. May easily be mistaken when you see that dorsal fin in the water, but an entirely different beast.

Code: toronto5 Will do $10 off of $50!

"Doing my part to keep you in business."

Doubting to order another Sandcrawler with Bus promo and double-vip. I have only 3 SC's.

What if it´s the gem of the bunch? Time to get ordering, man!

Capitol? 2023

WW1 Heavy Howitzer by Karf Oohlu One interesting though altogether large concept might be to give each Batman their own small vignette area (maybe 8x8) representing a little of their respective timeframes such as Adam West's Batman would be a colorful section of the Batcave while Christian Bale's in a dark alley or something. Another idea might be to create Batman's hall of suits with each within a 'glass' stand and using either a clear or dark minifigure head.

The first order strikes back by Andreas Lenander

So basically they had an excess of Gingerbread Man key chains and figured GWP for December.

Three exclusive minifigures and a Tumbler make this set awesome.

That always warrants the same response from me.

Somehow this sounds familiar.

Michael Jackson looks pale compared to PS.

Everyone's favorite, Winter Village Toy Shop. He knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy.

Winter Village Toy Shop - Don't judge

it's been too long...

The employees at my Sears are getting a little grouchy over my baseplate orders though - saying things like "you are here 3x a week" and "what do you need all this LEGO for" and opening my boxes and just handing me the baseplates (probably because I hand them the box most of the time since I'm swimming in them at home and carrying in a box is bound to raise the ire of the missus). Perhaps time to find another pickup location.

I don't think anyone predicted 4 ideas retirements this year.

Since you want everyone to join in. "8 RETIREMENT candidates"

Regarding the question how many out of 100 Germans know "Dr. Who", for 99 of them the name says it all.

That there wasn't a mad bastard clearing out Poe's X-Wings

A list with names would be nice :-)

Forget LEGO's shelf space,... what about my shelf space ??? And my poor pocketbook...

Locking this thread. We have a thread for questions such as this. Plus, there are a bunch of us moderators hanging around, posting everywhere. You could easily PM any of us, and we'll answer you pretty quickly. Titles like this don't serve any constructive purpose.

I just wanted to mention that I have received/been offered some great sets from generous members that will be going into this years raffle. So far I have received: 21301 Birds (Salimr) Comic Con Throne of Ultron (echin313) Comic Con Dagobah Mini-Build (echin313) A mint 7144 Slave I (echin313) A mint 8001 Battle Droid (echin313) 10218 Pet Shop (exciter1) Rio Olympic Mascots set (Emvisawthatswho) 70816 Benny's Spaceship (Brickcrazyhouse) A special custom LEGO snow globe (Flanagan Bros Inc) These are some great and highly collectible sets that will make a great raffle prizes.

TRU $40 for $50: PayPal Digital Gifts on Ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Buy-50-Toys-R-Us-Gift-Card-only-40-Email-delivery-/282218935739?hash=item41b58f35bb