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Used Grand Emporium and Pet Shop for $120. I need to buy minifigs and instructions.

First time ever I had someone from this forum (active member, but I won't call him out) say to me after a purchase "hey, aren't you from BP?" Recognized his handle here when he mentioned it, and said I'd have gladly knocked a buck off the $5 minifig he bought had I known - was willing to do a partial refund as well. He basically said "nah, don't sweat it, it was a fair price." Just some cool BP camaraderie, and made for a highlight amongst my last 250 or so eBay transactions.

Bought 4 London bus and 2 fountain promos for $8.74 each at a Lego store.

I also have a very bad investation of Death Stars.

lol - i'm going to have to like every one one of your posts now because of your new avatar.

Been like that for some days now. TOOS is the perfect limbo that means nothing.

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!

My Targets even have a cardboard piece that juts out from the shelf highlighting this one, taunting me that it hasn't been available for less than RRP.

in the meantime :

I was in a local Barnes and Noble today. It's pretty cool I see your work in a published book. Granted Jeff made my pics look far more professional.

Very cool moment when you see work displayed.

Ya it was $5200ish for dollars and the piece count was right around 22k. it was the biggest part out to date for us. Paid my son $200 for his help. Took us about 10 hours total I would say. Very proud of him!! ( proud papa moment)

[insert cheapskate meme here ]

Alert! Alert! The Sandcrawler has been 21% off at Amazon pretty much all week.

Lego Glasgow Didn't buy it as already got one. Also trying to save money as bought too much recently from tesco 3 for 2. SC should do well once retired but I just don't like buying big exclusives as I have limited storage space. I also prefer to buy small - medium size sets instead of exclusives as prefer to sell after shorter period instead of long hold.

All I can say is that Brexit gave me several amazing deals, I've been ordering more from the UK than from anywhere else since then. It is a damn bold move to vote leaving the biggest economic area if an economy's whole USP are services in that very economic area. But as long as it makes my Lego purchases cheaper... who am I to judge?

That is precisely the attitude against which pro-Brexit voters were rebelling.

This is my first Star Wars Store display!

Your Lego store > my Lego store

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.

Obviously you don't know what you talking about.

ECTO-1 is now: Sold Out at SAH

Honestly some of you guys need to lighten up. Are you a reseller or are you a Lego nut? Lego nuts tend to be irrational and get bent out of shape if someone says "Legos". A deal is a deal. No reason to call it "crap". I've stated it before: Lego brick quality is not what it used to be. And your prized UCS sets often use stickers instead of printed pieces. Lego has turned into the Apple of toys. A cult brand with too many followers who are judgmental and close minded to any and all alternatives.

Finished phase 1 of my square rigged ship retrospective

Can't buy happiness? by captainsmog

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.

Judging future performance on past sets doesn't mean much nowadays with so many resellers + production runs etc, but looking at the previous ideas sets i came to conclusion that non IP sets are less than 1 year, and licensed sets are between 1-2 years All data taken from brickset for UK dates, for current sets not retired I've used todays date as an end date Non IP sets: Hayabusa - 21101 160 Exo-Suit - 21109 277 Research Institute - 21110 184 Birds - 21301 291 Maze - 21305 215 average duration = 225 days Mars rover excluded as that was actually a limited release, no data for first ideas set submarine japan release Licensed sets Minecraft Micro World: The Forest - 21102 837 The DeLorean Time Machine - 21103 429 Ghostbusters Ecto-1 - 21108 885 The Big Bang Theory - 21302 459 WALL-E - 21303 428 Doctor Who - 21304 337 562 average duration = 562 days Yes some of the values are obscured because of 1/2 sets, but this is hardly a detailed analysis I obviously waste too much time thinking about this.

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.

Finished Big Ben! Repetitive but happy with the final product!

Having a banner Sunday-Monday in sales, I walked up to my local USPS with a box of 33 packages weighing over 20 pounds at 6am. Plan was to slip as much as I could into the drop box this morning on my way to work, then the rest on my way home. Gal inside saw me approaching and came and unlocked the door, offering to take it. I thanked her profusely, and she was all "No problem at all, happy to help, you keep us in business, and better than filling up the drop box". Offered to bring her a coffee or something for making the generous exception, she politely declined, and said she's always there at 6am so I can just give a knock if I even have an early drop off of more than will fit in the drop box. Not really an Ebay buyer "feel good" story, but a pretty good experience all the same

Tabby several pages back said: "If Tesco drops the price after you've ordered, call them up. I was advised that the few 60124 Volcano sets I bought dropped by £5 so I called them, the difference was refunded straight away. Keep an eye on prices for 28 days after you order and you may qualify for this little "bonus". So... these RRP £80 sets cost me just £30 each in the end. I'm watching until tomorrow night to see if any other prices have dropped. At least it's a treat not a trick!"

What do you mean? (and this is before coupon and surprise point magic, and has been available like this for many months). My average buyin has been sub-$30 for the ones I have.

Is it odd that Changing Seasons seems to never drop below $40 or so?

The store calendar shows the weekend before Thanksgiving being exclusive early access to Brick Friday deals for VIPs so that sounds like the special event has been replaced with a special weekend for everyone. I'd say they're in need of some revenue.

That would explain it then.. :-)

Sounds like you're gearing up for a third book.

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.

Not a deal. Wrong thread.

Use this power wisely my friend...

Those Christmas adverts don't come cheap.

My wife and kids reckless use of Verizon data.

Built the Seacow. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but I think it looks very cool. I keep staring at it, it's just so nice.

Finished the Disney Castle tonight. It found a home on a high shelf my daughters room. She is not old enough for it yet... guess she can admire it until she gets her driver's license.

Great points. My plan is to start small with flipping things I find cheap on CL, garage sales, etc...to build up money and learn the selling process. I usually only buy something if I can double my money. It's been a blast hunting for things and I've flipped a few used sets so far. I bought a used 8019 republic attack shuttle, 10192 medieval market village, and a few smaller sets for for $40 and my local flea market. boxes, instructions included and they were only missing a few pieces.

Swiggety switch, the title's fixed.

Amazon, not eBay, but a very rare message to receive.... Thank you so much for this awesome set! I'm glad I got the one you were selling! Brand new, just with a damaged box, it was so much cheaper & I didn't feel bad opening it! Again, thank you, I am very satisfied. :)