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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.

https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/04/lego-boost/ Too soon to call hot new lego for Xmas 2017?

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.

20 minute drive for me, see you all later

Vehicles from my childhood. Eastern European. Cool memories now, garbage in reality.

Lol...Great Wall of China....

MORE BOGO like 76046

Phew.. sometimes I did make the right decision

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.

http://www.thebrickfan.com/new-rumors-of-lego-star-wars-ucs-millennium-falcon-coming/

I'll buy as many of these R2 polys that I can find. Impossible to Bricklink. It's got winner written all over it.

Time to go smash some mailboxes.

I'm single so I could go one step further with SS water.

found in an old shop these new 2017 wave still sealed despite the age ?

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

Happy Birthday to my little brother Jeff....?

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.

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.

Ewok Village is now showing as Sold Out in the EU and US S@H. Backorder no longer possible.

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.

Happy2017 is one

At 5k a set already i have to wonder if continuing to hold can really be described as patience.

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.

Yes

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 !

30th February for T1 and TB, 29th for Modulars.

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!

Not too far off...

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-major-and-most-messed-up-revelations-from-the-off-1790711310

You must be too young.

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.

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.

Not Packer related. I need 83 of these to pair with my Joker Steam Rollers. Jeff Janis, BTW.

Such an odd number. Who is #83 on the Packers?

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

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

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.

Picked this lot up off craigslist, for $260 today.

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!