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Well , yesterday I pulled the trigger on the modulars offer I had locally , all the modulars up to Palace cinema.... here's the first one I just finished building... not a missing piece..

I do not know what happened this weekend! Usually I have 3-5 to take to the post office. I actually have to package more. Some sets are Tie Advanced, Trex, Tumbler, Train station, Some hobbit stuff, grand emporium, and more that I can't think of as I spent the last 3 hours packaging everything.

Bought this bad boy (42009) for $80 Saturday off of the app "Offer Up". Ad was 5 months old, but sent a message to the seller on the off chance it was still available. Score!

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

Instant classic. Absolutely incredible build. So many Easter eggs referencing other Lego sets, including all the prior modulars. Easily the finest modular yet. Really rewards long-term fans that are familiar with others in the series. No less than *9* detailed interior rooms, each a tiny little masterpiece. 100% home-run from Lego, thank you!

I thought you were out?

Of course the 100k can be done, but you're not going to be able to just quit your job, curse out the boss, and then go home & start collecting your 100k salary. As far as what is better to do with your million dollars? If you have the million dollars to start, you should really just keep doing what made you that extra million.

3x Mechdragons shipped. I wonder what size bag they'll use...

Did you see the Fat Gent's video too?

Officially released on January 17th, 2017. A non-themed LEGO Chess set, with the included variant of the American Pool-Checkers game: It's got 1450 bricks, and costs $54.99 (US), £45.99 in the UK, and €54,99 / €59,99 (Germany / Netherlands respectively) in Europe. That makes a pretty good price per brick ratio with a nice collection of tiles and interesting/useful bricks as well. And here's a speed build of the set:

I had a decent 24 hour span on eBay ending Sunday afternoon. Sold 9 sets. All are new and a mixture of Jabba Palace, Rancor Pit, 1 75055 ISD, 4204 The Mine, 1 Ant-Man and Benny's Spaceship sets. Everything sold for $1350 before the vast amount of fees. Even w/ my UPS and FexEx biz account savings, shipping with US Priority is still cheaper because of eBay's USPS discount.

Pick a brick

I think anyone who bought the Enterprise at $99 is going to be pleasantly surprised by its performance.

Did you guys not try this link? http://www.target.com/p/lego-star-wars-resistance-troop-transporter-75140/-/A-49118966

? ? Quick! Kmart Blue Light Special! ? ? (Keep in mind retail is actually $39.99. Good deal anyway) http://www.kmart.com/lego-city-fire-response-unit-60108/p-004W007064166001P Ends in 6 hours. Use points and surprise points to lower your cost. I nabbed two for $15 each after points and GC magic.

Mega Blocks website is showing the Star Trek sets as "Discontinued". https://www.megabloks.com/en-us/shop/construction-toys/star-trek/uss-enterprise-ncc-1701-dph83

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$10.00 off $60 isn't bad. Use some of your points and you got a good bargain. Not much time left. The 15% off a single toy coupon does work with it even though its a hot buy. Just grabbed another one for $15.70 shipped after the coupon (-$4.05) and $8 in points. No other coupons work. If you have the $7 off $25 SP offer that's an instant 50% off before any other points. EDIT: POOF! Its gone. Good while it lasted. I managed to get 3 at an average of $15.25 shipped and after tax.

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1. Yes, you could make $100k profit a year. 2. It would require roughly $750k-1M in capital, accounting for your product & overhead (space & payroll required, as others have said). 3. If you have that kind of capital, there dozens of far better investments. LEGO is high-risk. There's easily a half-dozen strategic risks to the business model, and not nearly enough strategic advantages to mitigate them. 4. Therefore, treat LEGO "investing" like you do betting at the horsetrack. Enjoy the scouting and picking of winners/losers, strategy of placing your bets, thrill of the race, joy of victory - if you take pleasure in that, it can be the most profitable hobby you'll ever have, but don't fall prey to illusions you could make a living at it. Yes, there's always stories of someone who "wins big at the track". Or some old timer who lives there in the smoking lounge and actually does make a living on it. But that simply isn't the norm.

LEGO NINJAGO™ Nindroid Mech Dragon #70725 On sale for $ 21.25 http://www.kmart.com/lego-ninjago-nindroid-mech-dragon/p-004W005183505001P?plpSellerId=Kmart&prdNo=3&blockNo=3&blockType=G3

Yes, it can. But it requires a lot more resources than most people have at their disposal.

I would only email them and give them a quote for the tag and shipping cost as that is all they are asking for. I would add that you need to make a new listing for the parts and if they are still interested to let you know. It will expire on its own. You don't need need to do anything.

You'll have to ask your boss to send you to Detroit next time.

With Kmart its not always about the lowest price. Their coupons, points and SP offers easily take an additional 20-70% off their sale prices. As long as its 25% off+ at Kmart, it can easily be acquired for 50% off or more with basic coupons and SP offers. I'm actually surprised that they matched anyones price with this. They usually do their own thing.

Couldn't resist:

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.

aaaaaand next to a house

Yeah, but I wanted to go legal this time lol

Knew I waited too long. Had em in my cart and was looking for a coupon. Noticed it was posted here from the kmart thread. Poof.

1450 bricks for 55€ sounds very attractive. If this set is exclusive to LEGO stores and LEGO Shop at Home it'll be a great way to qualify for promotional items in the future.

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Damaged box Minecraft Jungle Tree House $40 at Kroger Marketplace.

Never tell me the odds.

Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1!

Mr Incredible, Syndrome and stitch. Doesn't help that I have a ton of those.

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).

1 Blue power jet 31039 30€ at local store (-50%)

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 ;)

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

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

Found a small toy store In The Florida Mall. Looks like they went heavy with Nexo Knights. I can see their history of wise decisions in the Center. My first time seeing one in the wild. I almost bought it so I could say I had one too.

I've never noticed any room for cards on@terrymc4677 's poker table.

So back on topic.....any retiring news? Anyone?

Finally picked up a 10143 Death Star (sealed boxes / bags - opened box). Been wanting the set since 2014 but never pulled the trigger. Wish I would have then. Would have saved some coin ($500). Just need to figure out if / when i will be building it.

I cannot say anything really bad about this set. I love it.

Awesome Klingon Bird of Prey This would sit perfect with the megabloks enterprise! http://geektyrant.com/news/star-trek-fan-spends-6-years-building-badass-lego-bird-of-prey

You did mean to say a bunch of badly overpriced sets in this wave, right, right? Can't believe how little bang for your buck there is on most of these sets. The Battle on Scarif has to be one of the biggest jokes out there, €60 for 419 pieces and 4 minifigures, only 2 of which are important to the movie. The A-Wing for €50, really, are people really going to pay that just to get Lando. The only set that looks worth getting when you see them on the shelves is the Y-Wing, it looks like a proper set, in a decent size box. This is the biggest threat to the secondary market, over priced, under sized sets, with Lego messing up things so badly with their own business that people will stop buying Lego for their kids, whether on the primary or secondary market. Rant over.

Great post emazers. I think many people here see this as an answer to all of their prayers, without really thinking about everything that goes into making wise purchasing decisions and earning significant money this way. I'll add that you can make a living at retail picking, however, as I've said in other posts, your scope has to go way beyond LEGO or any other single product. I own a consulting company so picking is not mine nor my family's main source of money, but my wife picks and sells full-time. She makes way more doing that than most people make at any full-time job. She has a very broad scope in terms of what she purchases and sells. LEGO represents at the most only about 10% of her monthly sales and profits. In fact, LEGO can be tough because the items are generally bigger and take up more space and are more difficult to ship than many other items that can be sold for significant profit. Retail picking is very seldom a sexy business. It would be nice if we could buy exclusively things we like but it simply doesn't work that way. For example, I just got an email from my wife telling me that she bought 100 Denorex 12 oz. shampoos for $.89 each. Neither of us use Denorex, but we know that can be flipped for significant profits. This is in addition to the 200 units of Botanical Berry ChapStick she just picked up this weekend and the box full of random retired eye shadows she just picked up. My wife buys a ton of things online as well. I'm in Chicago tonight and tomorrow on business (and will probably get stuck here). You know those shampoos and lotions they give you in the hotel??? Yep, people buy those. Especially when they're nice ones like in the hotel I'm in tonight! I travel almost every week, so in the evenings when I'm in a new city I'll often spend my time hitting retail stores and picking things my wife has pointed out to me. The key here is that I have no expenses for fuel or wear and tear because I'm in a rental car that a customer is paying for. I also have no shipping costs to get the things home because the airline I use lets me check two bags free because I fly so much. Watching your expenses in picking is key...wear and tear on your car and fuel can quickly eat into your profits. There's definitely money to be made out there, and significant amounts of it, but I know no one that does it by just focusing on one type of product. You have to do your research, mind your sums, and get out there and dig around.