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Just picked up this cl lot for a hundo. 8 first gen friends sets, sponge party, crafting box new in open box, couple city trucks, and a couple tubs. The sets are all bagged individually. The little girl assured me they were complete, sure enough I built spongebob and it was all there including extra pieces.

Sold the Grand Emporium I bought yesterday ($100) for $250 shipped on Ebay.

Another successful trip outside my normal range. $64 Hotel x2 $30 Pop Star Bus x2 $25 Elves Purple Dragon $15 Pegasus Sleigh $9 School of Dragons $18 Crystal Mine $7 Ariel $2.50 Party Train $2.50 Emily Jones $7 Duplo Rocket x2

After tremendous success of "daily deals-Antarctica", I feel like shopping for LEGO from Asia this evening, any good deals?

ordered this: but received this: either way, price $10. Kmart.

Finished! It's missing about 30 pieces that will be easy and cheap to buy from BL. I purchased it couple weeks ago for $240 on CL thanks to a tip from @terrymc4677 Will sell on eBay for $600-700.

I asked my four girls how they would rank the Elves, Friends and Moana sets. They collectively replied: Elves first. Friends second and they have Moana sets? (they have all seen the movie) They are a pretty good microchasm of the under ten girls market. My son, when he heard me poling them chimed in, " dad, those sets are not any good". Just one families opinion LOL Paul

Couldn't resist:

Wow....guess I know when I fell asleep last night. So, second try.... Am I the only one wondering how to become a LEGO authenticator? I'd be happy to accept the fee to inspect the goods.

All I know is that my daughter loved the movie and the music so we will be getting the sets at some point. Hard to count out any of the Disney "princess" sets with the way they have been performing after EOL lately.

The new business model seems to be similar to the TRU model. Overprice sets, offer generous discounts. Profit.

I have felt a great disturbance in the force As if hundreds of loose QuiGon, ObiWan, Darth Maul 3 packs were suddenly listed on ebay in 9 count quantities.

I am not sure what is worse; the mini batwing or this knighton rider I am waiting for February, I have a lot more faith in the batman minifigures...

Man... if I was ten again, I would love to race both down my stairs on Hot Wheels track (bonus points if they break at the bottom). But I'm not.

Fortrex for $100 with $55 buy in price, :))

Opened box, sealed insides Grand Emporium for $100 on CL

The losers are likely the 6 extra bags that filled up the full box of 60 bags to make it 3 complete sets + 6 spare bags. Those 6 extras are (in Europe at least): Pizza Planet Alien Mr. Incredible Stitch Mickey Mouse Genie Syndrome Winners are, as far as I know: Buzz Lightyear Maleficent Alice & Cheshire Cat Peter Pan & Captain Hook Ariel & Ursula Donald Duck & Daisy Duck

Angry turds.

Went to the local Lego store today with the family. Someone returned a sealed Lincoln Memorial earlier that day so I bought that for $23 along with some Batman minifig polys (2 Red Hoods I think). Picked up 2 replacement promo Batman movie polybags (wife 'accidentally' threw out the original ones from Jan 2. - made her ask for them).

Not LEGO related, but my kids needed new sleeping bags for a sleepover. Bought some boy/girl colored ones at *Bleep*'s Sporting Goods but even after washing them 5x they still reek, so had to find proper cotton lined ones. Stumbled upon the Coleman Green Valley sleeping bag on sale at KMart/Sears for $34 and change. Played around a little bit between the three sites (Sears.com, KMart.com and SYW.com) but got the following to work both on SYW and Sears: 2x $34 for the sleeping bags (similar price as it sells for on Amazon.com) $10 off $50 coupon (9700073570204686 or 9700073575450545 or whatever code the "Go Elfin' Wild $10 off $50 Kmart" coupon gives you at http://shc.cpn2c.co/RecomService/web/bE3R ) $8 in surprise points that somehow appeared on my account for use at Sears only, didn't seem to have a minimum spend, and applied together with the coupon Total out the door: $50 (that's $25 per bag, 45% off MSRP) But here comes the kicker: I see more free LEGO in my future ....

Lol "Kennobbi" I feel like this set is "action features with stuff built around them" instead of a nice scene with action features built in. Not a very good set.

Jangbricks review of The Phantom (II):

Jangbricks review of 75169 - Duel on Naboo. At least Jang had fun reviewing this set!

I think eBay just found a way to take make even more money.

They're not moving at $79 around here either. It doesn't help that the online price everywhere is $79 too.

Nice shot.

Palace Cinema on Amazon Warehouse for $130 - could be good for building. https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00BFXP3G2/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=all&m=A2L77EE7U53NWQ

about 100 Dimensions packs for $1 ea

Spaceport and Utility Shuttle were winners in my house. Even when the shuttle was in the hanger for repairs, there has been a lot of activity:

Please include set names! There are some people nearing their 40's here. They might not be able to remember all the set numbers.

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!

He's working a psy op; talking down Lego investing in the bubble thread (to scare off competitors) while he stockpiles every retiring Architecture set (so he says in the Arch threads). Actually, I'm not sure how the second activity furthers the goals of the first, but I bet there's a secret plan in there somewhere.

Hi Folks. I'll do the same as last year (copying Mos' original idea) to support the children of NJ's St. Paul School. For each "LIKE" THIS SPECIFIC post gets, I'll put $1 toward the raffle. Thanks, JA Is Online

So, I was printing a label on ebay today, and the price was coming up a full $1.32 more than normal. Thought it was a little suspect, so I did some digging. Turns out prices increased across the board today, January 16th. https://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/assets/pdf/business/parcel-rate-action-overview-2017_en.pdf PDF says to share with the appropriate reps of my organization. So uh, here you go guys

The lego minecraft village is finally on sale at 1% off!

Someone ( "evilkirk" ) took the 7965 MF and made it more "playable". It came out pretty good. I do think regardless of which Lego MF you have, it looks better to make the mandibles longer. ''My mission was to completely rebuild and enlarge the 7965 Millennium Falcon, with the main focus on 'playability' so that all parts of the ship could be accessed from everywhere else, trying to keep as close to the real deal as possible - BUT only using parts from my few non-star wars sets and my ancient 7190 Falcon. I used official photos as source material, although I had to use a bit of 'artistic licence' here and there + a lot of the interior decor is wrong due to a serious LOL (Lack of Lego). I could have bought a million tiles for the floor and walls to make it look neater, but that would have taken me off my goal that I set at the start of the build and I like studded floors so that the people can stand where they like as they fly through hyperspace ;)

The low buy in is always my trademark. I'm really bad at guessing which sets will be true hits, so i make sure my buys are always 10% or more below the cheapest seller in Bricklink. (Which randomly means 25% cheaper than ebay listings) This way I can always dump sets and still break even at worst. (DS, TB, friends, I'm looking at you...) Bac to that cargo train, i managed to clear a shelf in a big dept store and score 15. They all went relatively fast. So a succes. Demand is higher than my average lotr or recent creater/modular. Take care

Krakatoa - the Lost Island by Full Plate

Managed to score myself a sealed (damaged box) 10221 SSD for $950! Arrived today, and all is well. One of my big regrets was getting 10188 over this at retail... happy to say my problem is now solved!

That, and together with the TRU Porsches for $29.99 it also holds the title of "most repeats of the same deal" on this thread.

75150 A Wing v Advanced Turd 75106 Imperial Shelf Warmer

Just finished 1st out of 3 instruction booklets for 10181, its beginning to look nice

Why should they offer the service for LEGO at all? The not to be mentioned cloner company's sets dont need to be inspected by an expert to know they are fake. The companies' names are already spelled differently.

maybe. i agree with the rationale that people generally don't miss something until it's retired and not available at retail. my investment expectations are low and only own one for the kiddies. i think the ghost ship (despite it's small scale and awkward design - great 1st design attempt by lego though) did well because it's featured in pretty much every rebels episode. the 75106 is another pretty cool star wars ship that shouldn't be refreshed anytime soon. i just it was shown more in rebels or made it into the rogue one film. it's still one of the 2 sets with agent kallus / fulcrum but the main selling point is still prob being exclusive for sabine's helmet...for now.

Took the kids to the LEGO store so we could get the LEGO Batman Movie promo poly. They also gave the kids masks.

Yes you did. Thank you very much. Every bad thing I ever said to or about you I take back! Good luck!

Sold a 75055 ISD (NISB) for €180 cash last week. Not my last one, and I needed some space for new purchases. Sold a 40222 24-in-1 Countdown Calendar for €10 (NISB). After having opened and built my own copy of this set over 24 consecutive days prior to Christmas I think it's a crappy set and hardly worth more than €10. I know I would feel ripped off having paid more than €10 for it! Sold a 40223 Snowglobe (NISB) for €17,50 to the same buyer as the Countdown Calendar, so I gave a small discount for buying both sets together. Got the Snowglobe unexpectedly when I bought the new 75172 Y-Wing last December. Saving my other Snowglobes to sell near Christmas 2017.

Junk food

Oh? Trying to bribe your way onto the leaderboard then? ....Eh, what the heck.

I didn't loose any money on the 10188 DS, as a buy in at $262-$309, I made about $5,000 on the ones I sold. like I said before these would be about $700 and up without the remake. plus nobody new they were going to remake the same thing,