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Finished phase 1 of my square rigged ship retrospective

Considering I'm a mod and I'm telling off the admin of the site....I think it's pretty light. Leave the modding to the mods. If you have a problem with that post or any other post, report it.

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Today we are announcing the winners of the Brickpicker Minifigure Book Photo Contest. Now that we have two books out there in the wild I can say that it is not easy. Ed has a few months of sleepless nights and or nightmares and I become a stalker looking to get permission to use photos in books or I pretend I am a photographer and take a few thousand photos hoping one is good enough. With that being said, I have to say that the first book was super exciting mostly because it was our first book but the second book was a lot more fun. For one thing, we knew what to expect overall, but it was a lot more fun because we got to deal with and see what type of photos the public came up with. The first time I saw the photo below, I was in tears and laughed for a long time. I loved it. I knew we were in for a fun ride. So many people were helpful, giving and just fun to deal with. That we appreciate more than anything. Some really invested an immense amount of time and that we are humbled by and grateful for. At this time I would like to announce the Grand Prize winner chosen by Ed and myself. The winner is Markos Chouris from Australia. The amount of time he spent taking thousands of photos for us was truly amazing. He contacted me very early on and offered to help take a ton of photos of many of minifigures you see in the price guide part of the books. The sad part is that we unfortunately could not fit all the figures from our original list into the book. A few of Markos' fun shot were also able to make their way into the book as well. Thank you Markos for your help and dedication to helping to make the book great. You are the Grand Prize winner of a $500 gift card to Amazon or LEGO. Below is a list of the other winners that were chosen by the publisher and will split up the remaining $1000 of gift cards. Durand Family (Anna, Geneva, Isaiah, and Josiah Durand): (note: $200 gift card will be given to the four of you, thank you all for your submissions) Heriberto Perez Acebo Fabio Broggi Charles Chang Tony De Marzio Daniel Flanagan Brandon Isensee Stephen O’Mahony Anthony Varos As a special note all participants whether you are in this list or not will receive a copy of the book from the publisher. I know I have a lot of the information from all of your for your photo releases, but if you are reading this, please contact me via PM or email ([email protected]) and type of your address so that I can give to the publisher (some are very hard to read). For the winners above, please let us know whether you want an Amazon or LEGO gift card when you write me. I will also try to reach out to all of you as well to make sure you are aware. All gift cards will be in USD($). Thank you again to all of you and hope that you had a great time taking the photos. Jeff & Ed View full blog article

ECTO-1 is now: Sold Out at SAH

Sold an Exo-Suit for €39 cash, profit baby, profit. Same buyer also took Iron Man vs the Mandarin and Arctic Batman off me, love this person.

Very cool moment when you see work displayed.

There's some good news here. Some of those boxes are clearly too small for Pet Shops. I'm thinking they're a combination of Ecto-1's, Pirates Chess sets, and a last shipment of Funhouse Escapes someone found in the janitor's closet.

@Frank Brickowski and @feed ,Ok ok, agree to disagree and let's move on. Just ignore each other's posts. Personally, I don't think either Batman movie will help most Lego Batman sets for the long-term. Lego is just releasing too many Batman sets with refreshed minifigs every year. We'll see. In general, I do think the nicely designed Arkham Asylum Breakout set's already dismal value (compared to MSRP) will drop even more once the new Arkham is released.

Just sold 3 in the past 24 hours, $285 FBA

Hi! We have a non-LEGO Daily Deals thread for that kinda crap.

Paris 1889 steampunk [WIP 6] The Institute of France by Castor Troy

Best Buy has Lego dimensions for 50+% off if your a gamers club unlocked member. Great way to pick up minifigures if you need any of those exclusives.

Obviously you don't know what you talking about.

Target LEGO Sky High Battle 50% off today Target has a 50% off one-day Cartwheel coupon for LEGO DC Heroes of Justice: 76046 - Sky High Battle. Regular price $46.99, should be $23.49 with Cartwheel. 5% Redcard for more savings. http://www.target.com/p/lego-super-heroes-heroes-of-justice-76046/-/A-49119855

cartwheel has 50% off batman sky high battle 76046. in store only.

Can you keep your disappointment for yourself till I have sold all of mine?

What's Jakks? I'm serious.

Must have missed that, don't remember you ever having mentioned Argos before

Biggest development in Lego Investing 2016 All of the selections to choose from for the big developments in Lego investing for 2016 are negative events - How telling is that.

@TRU 10% off with TRU CC on Saturdays starts today...

Just for fun: I came across this article on MSN: Most Popular Stereotypes About Each State Each slide uses Lego as a visual aid, enjoy: http://stephcurry.co/stereotypes-by-state/?utm_source=FP4&utm_medium=2&utm_content=32533493385&utm_campaign=FP4-Stereotypes-1

I bought some Mega Bloks stuff 10 years ago and the pieces gripped so tightly they wouldn't fit together at all. So I gave up. Maybe they're better now, but I figured they'd already had long enough to figure out how to make plastic fit on plastic. Also, their name is tacky. Now Lepin, that's a classy name. Sounds like a coffee shop in Paris.

I've been travelling for work recently and in that time I've had the chance to visit 8 different smyths store across UK. All of them still have EV & PS with an average of 5 on the shelves and all had plenty more in the back. After speaking with the store managers it seems like the only time they really sell the big £150+ sets is during 20% sale and whenever they do vouchers (every couple of weeks). Unless lego update all of the retiring soon sets to retired these both will be around for quite some time. Once the retired tag hits SAH that will start the gradual selling out of these sets. Hardly anyone is touching them at full price. Most of the managers said the they were still selling PS about 2 sets per week. EV 1 per week if lucky.

I suppose it depends on what you mean by the casual Lego fan. Anyone who spends time on brickset or eurobricks, or follows a Lego related facebook page or twitter account, will know about the retiring soon tags. I would say these are the people that make up the bulk of our customer base. The kind of people who pay premium prices for retired sets. If you mean the kind of people who might pick up a Lego set now and then from a toy shop they just wandered into, then I wouldn't say they're the kind of people who buy post EOL sets from us anyway, , unless they're buying sets we bought at a heavy discount and they're buying on ebay or something at RRP or less.

Use this power wisely my friend...

Now that's just being cruel

Now that I think about it I'm pretty sure about 1/3 of my Kmart's toy clearance isle was that stuff.

language...we have kids reading this !!!

Treasure from the death by legomeee

Yes. Do not use an envelope. You'll get yelled at.

I reckon not everyone cares about box condition. Some sets can be posted as a discount when de-boxed and flat packed. A pity about your Disney House. I find Lego's packaging as adequate, but if you get a parcel handler who doesn't give a crap, stuff can arrive squashed. Consider it part and parcel of the 'mail order' game.

RETIRING as SOON as possible

Just got my disney castle order from LEGO Shop at Home, arrived with a little bit of damage to the box (refer to pics). Do you think it's being too fussy if I sent it back? Will most likely end up keeping it for myself but would be a shame to give that as a present with the box like that or resell later. Does anyone else have any opinions on the LEGO Shop at Home packaging? In general it's not too bad, however most the time those white straps are loose, wished they taped the boxes and added bubble wrap for the big exclusive kits.

To be honest...for kids...this set should work out great. Put this stuff on some base plates, buy a used AT-AT and they can play for hours (at least I will would ) !

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.

Hi guys, here is another build of mine entitled 'Jabbas Favourite Decoration' IMG_20161014_164521 by dimitrinicomanis, on Flickr IMG_20161014_192613 by dimitrinicomanis, on Flickr

I know I feel a disturbance...at the very least I'm disturbed.

We're just back in 2012/2013, right?

The real problem with Brexit and the pound is the uncertainty. No-one knows how things will look in a couple of years from now. Will there be tariffs to and from sales with the UK? How will this effect EU prices? It's hard to formulate any kind of plan with so many different potential scenarios.

Preacher by Ryan Rydalch

Even more important: how heavy is the next gate? Minimum sales quota? Stricter performance metrics? Amazon can change the rules suddenly without any notice. That should leave us all a bit concerned IMO.

Biggest issue: TLG willingness to keep many more sets active with extended lifetimes.

My FLL team needed narrower wheels for its robot. I looked at BL first, but then, by stroke of genius, realized I could benefit from the situation and purchased 42036 - for me to build, then the team takes the wheels, and after the tournament I get them back . Nice machine, a couple of really tricky connections but otherwise a quick build.