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  1. If this is true I'm in for 75. This will be a sleeper flying under the radar. We've never seen anything like this. Mark my words. Hot cakes.
    11 points
  2. https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/04/lego-boost/ Too soon to call hot new lego for Xmas 2017?
    6 points
  3. Holiday Build No 2. Having seen Rogue One, there was no excuse to put off building this any longer. Just have to carefully apply the stickers.
    6 points
  4. 20 minute drive for me, see you all later
    5 points
  5. Vehicles from my childhood. Eastern European. Cool memories now, garbage in reality.
    5 points
  6. Lol...Great Wall of China....
    5 points
  7. Phew.. sometimes I did make the right decision
    4 points
  8. Anyway, just my two cents. Considering that 10179 was a poor seller for $500, if LEGO wants to make money, they would be stupid to just rehash it. If I were LEGO, I would just release a playful set for $300-400, with 10-15 minifigs and a detailed interior. If they are smart, they release EPVII and Han Solo movie expansion packs for it that are also good standalone sets. Going higher would not make sense because it would eat away space from the DS, and we don't have a large SW set in the $300-400 range with the Sandcrawler going away. It would be logical to fill that gap with a money maker. This would be a genuine cash cow, maybe with a top that can be removed as a lid, not like the ugly petal type method of the smaller MF versions. Therefore I would not bet against 10179. Quite the opposite, the release of a set like this would alleviate any concerns about a potential 10179 remake, giving hesitating people confidence to finally buy it, raising the price further.
    4 points
  9. http://www.thebrickfan.com/new-rumors-of-lego-star-wars-ucs-millennium-falcon-coming/
    4 points
  10. I'll buy as many of these R2 polys that I can find. Impossible to Bricklink. It's got winner written all over it.
    4 points
  11. Time to go smash some mailboxes.
    4 points
  12. I'm single so I could go one step further with SS water.
    4 points
  13. found in an old shop these new 2017 wave still sealed despite the age ?
    4 points
  14. yup. i sold my 2 75054s because prices are getting bloated for a vehicle that has been remade many times. i saw nothing special about this set compared to my motprized 10178 and 8129. pic from eurobricks edited by me. note: 10178 isn't standing up straight so it appears shorter. link for more details = http://www.brickpicker.com/bpms/search.cfm?searchterm=at-at&sort=set_pieces&order=desc here's more at-at comparison pics. see the pic above to know which at-at is which lego set. http://brickset.com/article/12296/review-75054-at-at
    4 points
  15. Happy Birthday to my little brother Jeff....?
    3 points
  16. Personally, I would be happy with a $1000 giant MF. You confuse my personal preferences with what I think would make the most money for LEGO. And 75105 MSRP was $150, a $400 set would not even compare to it. I think it is perfectly possible to make a compelling MF at that price. Look at the picture below. With a size between the two and with less greebling there is no need to have such a robust and expensive (in terms of piece count) internal structure as 10179 has, so actual interior can take place. It would be still large and detailed enough to be called UCS, with a similar difference in size as we see between UCS and regular Slave I, which is in my opinion one of the best UCS releases ever. Also, if you look at the tendency of the mega releases nowadays, all of them lean towards having play features while maintaining balance between AFOL and kid appeal. Disney Castle, GBHQ and Sandcrawler does that. I don't think the new MF will break this trend, and in that case it will probably be in line with what I described. I see pure display sets restricted to the $100-$250 range these days, simply because relying on hardcore AFOL demand seems to be not enough to make the most expensive offerings sell sufficiently well, especially that many AFOLs actually prefer playfulness maintained, since that is what LEGO means for many.
    3 points
  17. A couple more holiday builds were finished up with the kids last night and after school today. My daughter finished up the Friends Amusement Park Space Ride 41128 to go with her Hot Dog Van. She's currently saving up for the Roller Coaster and Emma's House which she didn't get for Christmas (though there are several Emma's Houses in inventory). We also built another SW Mos Eisley Cantina 75052. My son sold his that we built last year for $85 before Christmas, but we had already picked up another complete used one for $45 on CL, so we built it again to re-add to the display case. Cool set...I am surprised it hasn't appreciated more than it has.
    3 points
  18. Ewok Village is now showing as Sold Out in the EU and US S@H. Backorder no longer possible.
    3 points
  19. you still are. Lego often uses faded / blacked out / blurry / translucent images of familiar items in the background of a box front to give the illusion of an action packed image, without accidentally tricking the customer into thinking a Millennium Falcon is contained within the box. If the Falcon was available today that image would still be blacked out. There is no correlation. on a side note, i found a view of the new Falcon interior. Looks "Retro", but i like it.
    3 points
  20. At 5k a set already i have to wonder if continuing to hold can really be described as patience.
    3 points
  21. I have reached the point that when I look at a photo like this - I only see more LEGO being added to the ever growing pile that is slowly smothering me to death.
    3 points
  22. I sold one of those princess tubs for $55 + $8.95 shipping on Ebay a couple weeks back......found one all by itself at a target on clearance for $7 Nice find !
    3 points
  23. 30th February for T1 and TB, 29th for Modulars.
    2 points
  24. I went into Best Buy a couple weeks ago based on a tip posted here by exciter1. After almost giving up, I spotted them: around 50 30277 First Order Star Destroyer polybags with a $1 shelf tag. I picked up 12 and excitedly marched to the register. They rang up as $9.99 each. I mentioned the $1 shelf tag, and the general manager and I went back to the polybags to inspect the shelf tag which she removed. She had to manually change each price. I thanked her and apologized for taking her time during a busy day. She acknowledged that this was a pricing error but had no problem honoring the $1 price. I was back there this week to see them marked at $9.99. Thanks exciter1, for the tip. This particular deal was a real rush!
    2 points
  25. FBM seller edited the weight to scam a higher shipping credit. Happens all the time. Open a case and they will do a cubiscan and correct it and reimburse you.
    2 points
  26. You must be too young.
    2 points
  27. I hope it's a $1000.00, 10,000 piece set. If you are going to do it..do it right!
    2 points
  28. I agree. To an elite LEGO snob like myself, owning and keeping a MISB 10179 wasn't about making money from it. It was about owning it. It will always be special to me. Also considering it is a 35th Anniversary First Edition set, I think it is still a worthy collectible. That being said...If you have multiple 10179s as an investment, you might want to consider selling a few.
    2 points
  29. As the article stated, it really should be zero surprise that a new UCS Falcon will come out in the next year or so, especially with the new Han Solo movie coming out. The question will be the design. Hopefully it is either much better or much worse than the 10179, but an identical set to the 10179 will once again be bad for all concerned. LEGO has a chance to correct their 10188/75159 mistake and give fans something worthwhile to build and collect.
    2 points
  30. No manuals really cuts the value of the lot down. When I was buying used lots like this, I wouldn't even consider a lot that didn't have the manuals.
    2 points
  31. Such an odd number. Who is #83 on the Packers?
    2 points
  32. more sears and kmart closing in 2017 but looks like they prolonged their inevitable doom by securing up to $500 M of additional liquidity to fund its operation.. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sears-holdings-announces-secured-standby-letter-of-credit-facility-300383950.html
    2 points
  33. Great set and one of the best from the series. It's not flying under any radar unless it retires in 6 months or less
    2 points
  34. I'm not gonna lie, my side hobby of collecting legos took a major hit when I was banned by Lego last year (I just started buying sets again this past holiday) I haven't been here much since I was banned, but I came here specifically to see if the raffle was being done again this year. Gave a little to help get the totals going and hope to give more, closer to the end. Nice work Mack brothers.
    2 points
  35. I am stealing Jaisonline's idea from last year! For each LIKE $***THIS***$ post gets I will donate 1 dollar! 1 like=1 dollar towards the schools raffle!
    2 points
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