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Here's some images from the one I built on Tuesday, but then I had to build one last night too b/c A) my dad won't be building this for himself for his present and B ) I had to do the EXACT same thing I did on Tuesday night so the Cubs would win again! It worked!

Biggest moment of the series and this happens:

My son has more or less written off Star Wars and only likes it about "10%" (he measures everything in iPad battery life). There is a new hope, though. He circled this in the holiday catalog we received today. Say what you want about this set for AFOLs, but it appeals to kids. Might have to sell my soul to keep the force alive in this one. It could be worse, I suppose. At least he didn't ask for a prequels set.

On Ebay Hobbit Lonely Mountain $174.99 shipped. Buy-in was $80 or so. Private sale on FB Two Super Star Destroyers 10221 for $1625 shipped, no fees at all. Buy-in was $340/each

Love it! I ordered a Star Wars Black Series Hovertank Pilot for pick-up, since they were available online. Went in the store today and saw the pegs with several hanging there. I then went up front with my stuff and asked to pick-up my order. They called it in, the guy walked up front with it, no bag, no receipt, no nothing. He hands it over and comments to me, "You don't even know how hard that was to find, must be the last one in the store." I told him he had a half a dozen or so on the pegs over there. He frustratingly throws his hands up and mumbles something like, "See what happens when I take a day off?" I have no idea how that applied to the situation, but it is what it is.

Toys'r'us helpdesk is quite helpful. Bought the Volvo 350 with wrong price, which got cancelled for 'not deliverable'. I waited 2 weeks till it was back in stock and complained. They asked me to buy it full price and refunded the difference. Volvo 350 cost me 126 euro, cheapest ever

BWE, Klaas, Vacation Getaways and others back in stock, as well as a couple new items such as Technic Drag Racer.

I volunteered to go to go to my parents house to hand out halloween candy and I brought along a treat. I finished bag 1 there and bag 2 last night back home. It's nice but unremarkable (dat ass!). I liked some of the building techniques used for the back window and some of the panels but I REALLY didn't like building the first third of the set, it was incredibly boring. It's still worth the $45 net that I paid for it and it also functions as Christine while the trick or treaters head to my hotel.

Shh. We're keeping this a secret. I'm buying one SC per week from Amazon until I meet my quota, and I need it to last.

Case of Series 5 mixels. $225 shipped. Buy in was $80. (Ebay)

Got you covered

Say what you will, but I'm pretty psyched about Pet Shop retiring. I have so many plans for that 12 square feet of primo floor space. It's like discovering a whole new secret room in your house. Ok, more like a secret closet. Still, I can't wait 'till the end of 2018 when I have these all sold off, have finally broken even on a 2014-15 investment, and can finally see the actual floorboards again...

Reminds me of the old story of the Navy and Army guy in a latrine together... Soldier walks out without washing. Sailor says "In the Navy, they teach us to wash our hands." Soldier replies "In the Army, they teach us not to piss on our hands."

It's half term here in the UK so my son and I had a SW marathon on TV whilst building this beast. Don't worry folks, it's the original!!

My day job prevented me from putting as much time to my side job (selling craps on eBay)... Not sure if this should be posted on complaint or "I love it" thread

It's a great year to be a technic builder.

The Easter Bunny by Tom

LEGO Cafe by viktor Jakobsson

Amazon limits reset on a weekly basis

TRU policy usually is a PM voids any other offers. So no coupons can be used and no offers like special GCs back will be had by you. Occasional YMMV tho.

No , not yet. Too early for me. I'm way too impatient.

I'm settling with Mixo.

He´s talking about his floor.

I didn't see these posted anywhere else. TRU events in November. Looks like the Storm trooper Sargent 5002938, with a stud shooter. I almost arm swept them last weekend at Legoland last week. But then found they had quite a bit in stock all over the park. I still have a dozen or so anyways...

You´ll have a nice two tone floor to look forward to, rather like a pro cyclist´s arm.

accidentally sold 2x RE for $125 FBM (there are a bunch parked at $129, so we will see how quick those get blown out) raised prices on the rest I have been slowly selling DC character encyclopedias for $10 shipped (cost $2.50 media mail) after I sold all the Buccaneer batmans (batmen?) for $13+

Sold 7784 UCS Batmobile for $550 on Amazon.

@Mhd747: Thanks for the analysis. My humble conclusion, without a thorough analysis, is that the secret why Hayabusa, DeLorean and Mars Rover (even was a true lego exclusive) did so well lays in the set number. Respectively... 21101, 21103 and 21104. In general, the first sets in a new theme always do well. Cause many people receive these new themes with alot of scepsism. Then... when the theme appears to be succesful. People start to squeeze the theme like an orange and expect the same results. As a confirmation... look for example at the first wave of Friends, Super Heroes wave 1 or Mixels the first series.

Guys, K-mart has some rouge one and volcanic explorer sets on special if anyone is interested.

Are you being sarcastic? Better be careful with this set. Don't bag hold this one. Hopefully you've got enough storage space for it because you'll be needing that for a long time.

I usually don't complain if they cancel, because I don't want to get banned. But if they cancel these ones I might just make an exception.

Hi hoffmonkey

It is the slope cone nose whatever piece introduced in 2012 with Francesco Bernoulli from Cars 2 minus the printed décor.

Welcome

Sure looks like a new piece.... it's more obvious in the box photo.

Welcome to the madhouse, lurker! Here you will find your investment dreams utterly fulfilled or shredded to bits depending on your time of day and level of sanity.

Went big on this one! Think they launched it a day early

I found Waldo! He is disguised as a helicopter again.

You mean the hoard?

I posted some in the TRUTH thread ... having trouble linking to it in the app.

Go Indians ?

I´d call it common sense. Why would anyone give up an extra opportunity to sell when there is most demand? It´s sketchy enough whether this set will experience a post EOL bump so anything to shorten the odds helps.

Forget what I said. Party on people!

Due to unprecedented demand we are pleased to anounce we will continue to make 10218 after the Christmas campaign. Please check back in January.

My wife and kids reckless use of Verizon data.

For some time, every time that I have heard the Legend of Chima mentioned, it's been half joke, half cautionary tale. The conventional wisdom says stay away, stay far away. There's a few people that are wild enough, dangerous enough or wily enough to have made some money on Chima. They say buy cheap enough and you can make money on anything. I began to wonder about the non-licensed LEGO Intellectual Properties. What is it that makes Chima such poison? Why are these LEGO sets reviled? I felt like I had to know more. I felt like I had to understand what makes one series less desirable than another. I decided to start with what I know of Chima. In the early days, LEGO was giving out Speedorz for free with purchases. I know because I got some. I was able to sell those eventually making about $5 each. As far as I was concerned, I made money, though not much, and notably less than LEGO was trying to sell the same thing for. My buy in was good, free with purchase. That doesn't tell me much though. I didn't keep the Speedorz because I was uninterested in LEGO sets that weren't really building sets. Now that those sets were long gone. I needed something else. I had to go further. Maybe the denizens of the land of Chima could help. Half forgotten memories of something that I sold off as an afterthought weren't going to do it. I had to look deeper. I had to follow the trail. I unearthed a handful of minifigures that came in a bulk lot, and a couple that were part of Target cubes that I had purchased. Nature's mistakes some might call these poor twisted creatures. That is, if there was anything natural about them in the first place. Anthropomorphic animals that wear animal head helmets. Are the helmets supposed to be part of them, or some representation of the animals that they once were? How could I know? I took off the helmets and was happy to see the dual sided heads, until I realized that they were worse than useless. The Chima helmets cover the entire head. No face is visible when they are wearing the helmets, but when you take them off, these freaks become some kind of grotesquerie with two faces. Every single Chima is like Professor Quirrel and Voldemort. It doesn't really matter how good or bad the figures are when something fundamental like creating dual faces without a reason slips by. Sure, you can turn the head around so they'll be angry, but the angry face will be just as hidden by the helmet as the happy face. This is worse than Batman's sweatband. I fled the tiny freaks with their shoulder armor and wings (fire wings are awesome by the way) and their transparent limbs and zombie-ish body damage. Is this why people didn't travel down into the dark heart of Chima? Is this what stops most people? My journey almost ended there, but I had to push on. I had to get to the heart of it. I had to observe. I had to see what the children saw, so I unleashed the torments of the cartoon upon myself. I thought that I knew what I was getting into. I've watched more than my fair share of licensed toy cartoons. I've seen the LEGO Movie and the LEGO Super Heroes videos. I thought that I knew what to expect. I thought I was prepared. I was wrong. The cartoon is dreadful. It's poorly executed nonsense. The main "hero" (Laval) is an idiot and the main antagonist (Cragger) is an easily manipulated fool. As far as I can tell, the "Chi" is some kind of naturally occurring steroid with hideously addictive properties. The Lions are the kingpins and the Crocodiles are the meth addicts that live in the swamp trailer park, constantly jonesing for their fix. The rhinos are dumber than a bag of hammers and the gorillas are too stoned to be effective at anything. The wolves are thug, the eagles are the lion's enforcers and the ravens are some kind of group of mercenary scavengers, easily distracted by shiny things. There's a collection of animals that just said no at some point hundreds or thousands of years before. Somehow, not taking the drugged water made them stronger and longer lived. I have to stop there. I can't relive the unspeakable horrors of this cartoon anymore. I lost days in there to madness. Was it a symptom of that madness to continue this foolhardy quest? It probably was, but I had come this far. I had to see it through. I needed to get a feel for these monstrosities myself. I had to build them to see if there was beauty buried within. I couldn't believe that they were all terrible. The underlying parts were the same as sets and themes that I enjoy. I found 2 sets on my shelves, but that wouldn't do. I couldn't do it with just a couple sets that I had found on clearance. I needed to dive deeper. I put out the call for sets that were cheap, expecting people to be thrilled to get their money back out of these beasts. Strangely, no one stepped forward. The only offers that I received were full retail offerings of used sets through Facebook and a few scattered offerings of new sets at a markup. People who spoke ill of Chima, still seemed to believe that there was something there of value. Was conventional wisdom just a blind that people hid behind, believing that there was still money to be made down the road? Was money back worth less than the effort of digging out the hated sets in order to convenience a stranger? Probably the latter. But, I found a few more sets on clearance, and found someone dumping his collection on ebay and dove in to the murky depths. I had to build, the fever of madness was upon me. It would be either glory or grotesquerie, but my journey would be over soon. Soon I would know the truth. . . The brightly colored packaging was appealing. Warm orange and cool blue mutually highlighted each other. The packaging though, only hid what was inside. I had to open the packaging to see what lay within. I started small with a battle pack and a legendary beast. Strangely, the legendary beast was enjoyable for such a small set, better than many other $9.99-$12.99 sets that I have built. The small ones were harmless and easily dismissed. I was hunting bigger game. Surely as I worked my way up the ladder, I would be exposed to the depravity of this theme. As I built the sets, I looked for simplicity of design including large elements that made them easier to put together. I looked for play elements that were more important than functionality. I immersed myself into the ideas of this theme. I went native, thinking of how the ability to change a vehicle from one form to another might make sense. A large boat that could actually float made less sense to me than vehicles that looked like birds that would never fly. I pulled ripcords and launched Speedorz at targets, at each other, at my cats before succumbing to the darkness inside. I awoke, surrounded by animal head helmets and dual sided heads placed in a row before the greatest darkness. My eyes wouldn't focus upon it for the longest time. I forced myself to look. There I beheld something that I wish I could forget, even here at home, long after my ordeal. My eyes rested upon Worriz' Fire Bike, and I knew fear. I am told that I spoke two words only, but I lost some time there. They say that I said "The horror." When I came back to myself, I was clutching my Star Wars minifigures to my chest tightly. Someone knew how to restore my sanity. Brief glimpses of the dark heart of Chima still haunt me at night. The truth is, there's nothing inherently wrong with Chima. The same pieces were used by the same designers to create a theme aimed at children. The builds run the gamut from clever to uninspired. The minifigures are highly repetitive, I'm not entirely sure I can tell a main character from one of the faceless hordes. I enjoyed the build aesthetic where everything looked to some degree like the animals that used them. As an adult, we had no anchor or inroad. We could jump in to the deep end, as I did and find something to enjoy about them, but it's like candy. You can enjoy it while you're building it, but it's easily forgotten. As far as a future, children (especially modern children) have a very short memory. Very few children will return to the world of Chima to recover their youth as they graduate up through the themes. Adults weren't the original market and inherently knew it, so they didn't really get behind it. There's nothing wrong with Chima, but there's nothing really right about it. When you look at the whole line, the problem suddenly crystalizes. This theme was supposed to take the reigns from Ninjago. Ninjago was supposed to fade away and allow for Chima's Pre-eminence. Something happened that allowed Ninjago to continue. Ninjago outlasted Legends of Chima. I've watched Ninjago with my kids and seen the sets that they've built, and I realized that while they are both juvenile, it seems that Ninjago was treated with more respect by the company. Fans, young and old can tell when they are being respected and when they are just being given a new product for the sake of change. I can look at the sets that I have built and appreciate them for some things. I'll try to ignore the problems with the minifiures. I'll play with them with my kids and try to forget the terrible cartoon. I'll try to forget how incredibly stupid the characters are. I may not try too hard to reassemble things if my kids smash them. It's time to move on and forget the confusion, the fear and yes even the beauty. I'll try to forget that somewhere out there, Worriz waits with his fire bike. EDIT: (I never intended for this to be a typical dog whistle where I jump on and make fun of Chima. I was actually fairly curious about the theme and decided to try it out. My final feelings are mixed because it serves its purpose, but it doesn't really excel. Nothing that I built was terrible or truly worthy of disdain,just not worthy of praise either.)

Paris 1889 steampunk [WIP 5] The Chocolate factory by Castor Troy

Duh. It's LEGO. They just brought the bricks upstairs and built it there. Geez...

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