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My daughter finished up the UCS Red 5 X-Wing 10240 yesterday with a little help from me. It is her favorite set and she was super excited to finally get to build one. The kids got their first Lego set for Christmas in 2015, and this was our 50th set to build as a family. What a great family hobby! (And so far it has been a hobby that has paid for itself through sales of extra sets that we have bought...which is tough to beat.)

My patience has paid off

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Trip down to memory lane, I build the classic set 377 this weekend. One of my first sets. I did buy this one last year, as mine had some broken parts (I was quite rough apparantly). The gas hoses are missing and there were some fake Lego parts included. I will make 1 set of both and burn the fake pieces. In order not to make the same mistake I check second hand sets upon receipt. So I build Battle of endor 8038 yesterday (was delivered last friday), pictures will follow soon. Great set! There were some pieces missing so I hope the seller will respond soon.

This is me showing restraint at the 99¢ Only Store:

Had a pretty eventful day driving around in the torrential SoCal rain, was going to try some $0.99 cents stores but a flash flood warning from my phone convinced me otherwise. Anyway, I made out pretty well. If you don't like Kmart stories skip the following. Kmart #1 - Never had been to this one before. Huge, well stocked, very clean (I know, I know, shocker) and judging from the outside decor recently remodeled. Employees where friendly. Picked up my x4 Creator Treehouses ($15.50 each with 60% back in points) and headed over to the Lego section to see if there was anything good. Noticed immediately: A pile of old sets that when scanned showed Kmarts normal 5% off starting clearance price. Next isle over had signs for additional 75% off clearance toys. Now here's the funny part, a bionicle set actually had one of their blue normal stickers on it, but with the printing of a clearance tag. (even said CLR/D on it). I took it to the register, where it also scanned for the markdown prices without the additional 75% off. The employees wouldn't believe me when I said it was clearance, but after playing around with her scanner one of the bionicles finally scanned for $3.50. The manager voided the transaction and started to ring up my full purchase, but then they all rang up at the original price again. The CSM was very apologetic and took the set with the sticker to the store managers office. 5 minutes later she came back and gave me the full 75% off everything. x4 Bionicle Lewa (scanned $14.00 -----> $3.50 Retail: $14.99) x2 Bionicle Pohantu (scanned $14.00-----> $3.50) Retail: $14.99 x1 Nowhere escape mission (scanned $38.00 ------> $9.50) Retail: $39.99 x1 Elves school of dragons (RRP) Used a $10/$50 and $10 in points, final total was $32 for $150 worth of Lego (79% off) Walmart - picked over, clearance isle only had buildable figures for 25% off. Did find however one single heartlake grand hotel for $64.00 (RRP $130). Box seals where worn off on one side but it was spider wrapped and complete. Talked to the manager about further markdowns but the best he was willing to do was 10% off. I took him up on his offer. Heartlake Grand Hotel (1500 pieces!!!!) $63 (after tax) Retail: $129.99 Kmart #2 - My normal Kmart (still 30 minutes away from me) Picked up my 1 Corner Deli ($21) and headed over to Lego where I was happy to find: x3 Elves School of Dragons (RRP) Used $10/$50 and $25 in points to get them down to $8.3 each after tax. Not bad. Final tally of the day (including Kmart.com packages opened. After tax) x4 Bionicle Lewa $3 x2 Bionicle Pohantu $3 x1 Nowhere escape mission $8 x5 Elves school of dragons $7.5 x1 Corner deli $21 x4 Creator Treehouses $15.5 x1 Hearlake Grand Hotel $63 x6 60106 Fire Starter Kit $3.5 x10 Foals Washing Station $3.4 x3 Fire Helicopters (Kmart BLS) $15.75 x4 Pizzas from Blaze $13 (BOGO Free at my local, no I didn't eat ALL of them :P) Its not $0.99 Dimensions, but I'm happy. That's what counts, right? ?

Not so obvious. The plural of Jedi is still Jedi. It could refer to Luke and Rey and anyone else they want to take on.

There are days when I feel like hating [mention=5363]exciter1[/mention] and there are days when I feel like hating [mention=65381]MinifigW[/mention].

Mine only had Krusty.

So you finally got that Hero Factory set you wanted. ?

Not today, but I recently sold: 2x Lego Dimensions Dr. Who Fun Packs on eBay for $14.88 each. They were available from Best Buy on eBay at the same time for $5.99 each...so not sure what went into the decision making process of the buyer. Buy-In was $3.81 at Target in August 1x Friends Heartlake Mall $110; Buy-in was $57.24 in March

I have a few u-haul boxes full of various dimensions from previous Target sales. Think I will just burn them.

*cash register sound* Yorba Linda, CA

It's not really a question of when it starts, it's a question of when it goes on it's ever-so-infrequent hiatus...I think we all agree that he lives in some remote corner of nowheresville USA where there is an unexplained rift in space time that only appears in the Lego clearance section of Walmart stores.

I'd pay $2-5 for as many as someone wants to send my way instead of Amazon. Those are sweet deals. My Bricklink store is 90% dimensions. The margins are low and everything has to be parted, but the volume is pretty high.

I´d ask Ebay to remove it if the listing said no box. Or can I neg a seller for not selling me the real Eiffel Tower too?

used complete , manual in excellent shape ... $100.00 usd... Local deal....

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.

10030 ISD. My greatest CL find ever. $100 and missing less than 100 parts. The previous owner must have missed on section in their disassembly. The parts missing were onesies twosies as if it were from a section. 225 pages of instruction. I'm on page 16.

Do you live in Utah?

Whoo Hoo! $170 Indominus Rex's for everyone!

Star Wars set 8038 Battle of Endor. This is a great set, I like the building process a lot. The colors of the bricks are fascinating, it gives the set a great look. A must-have for Original Trilogy fans. In the future I would like to set it up for display with 75094 IST and Ewok Village. The folding of the building is not very solid and the walking mechanism of the vehicle is a bit odd. But these are my only negative comments.

All 3 sets for £25 good little day

My suggestion, build this:

Luke will come back as a force ghost doing Trump Twitter quotes in the Joker voice.

That's one problem I don't have. I have my own spending limits which means I only buy a few at a time anyway. But as with the Trevi last year, I just pick them up slowly but surely over time when the deal is right. With most things I ended up with a good average buy-in on the recently retired sets this way. Like many more experienced members have said, choose the sets you like and wait until the price is right to buy

It's from City: 60110 Fire Station

Lots of great building going on at my house over the weekend since the weather was rainy. We finished up several sets that we had been working on. My son finished the Battle Droid Troop Carrier 75086 on Friday, which was one that he had received for Christmas. He also built his first ever City set, Van and Caravan 60117, which he also got for Christmas. My guess is he will stick with Star Wars in the future:)

Great gifts! Who the hell are "The Simpsons"?

Discounted by 50% down to €29,99 instead of €59,99. At such a discount it's not too bad. Even just for the minifigs and parts. Ordered 2 for the collection. :-)

Bought 70905 Batmobile for $17.39 today (KMart, after $10 off $50 and $32.60 in points) - 71% off. Also bought .... ahem ... another 71006 Simpsons House (all minifigs, no manuals, no box, missing a few pieces), this time for $76 shipped. Was assuming someone would step in and outbid me but couldn't let it go for that price. I'll either complete it with parts I already have and sell it on, or sell it partially complete once put together. Time will tell if this was a wise decision.

And@Exciter1 goes to 11.

eBay as been modifying the item specifics fields pretty aggressively lately (within the LEGO categories at least). I ran into a pretty sharp traffic drop on 1/17, and realized today the "Gender" field had been eliminated (so it became a custom field on all my listings I had previously filled the field for). Having a "Boys & Girls" as a populated as a "custom field" in the item specifics may have been suppressing my search rankings (my impressions jumped back to the norms within 48 hours of removing the field). I'd suggest double checking all the item specifics of your listings - seems possible some seemingpy unrelated field is suddenly adversely impacting search queries.

I take the time to read a neutral or negative feedback. So I'd see the "no box" as the item title and read the feedback and dismiss the neutral.

Volume is key!

I recently built the new 75153 AT-ST Walker, and set it up in my display cabinet next to the 75094 Imperial Shuttle Tydirium: Of course, the minifigs are not from the same movie, but the models themselves are. My other recent build was the new 75172 Y-Wing: I love the model and am happy to have added it to my collection.

This is what I been working on this week.... great builds !! 6 more to go !

Grabbing all of the kitties for a dollar... who are you, our commander in chief?

I only post deals on here when I come across them, never posted on HUKD before and probably never will unless like others on here have to help clear out a set we all want gone I.e. doctor who.

And I was happy getting Scooby before for $12.50. So, from the pics, it looks like: Bad Cop, Cragger, Bart Fun Packs, Homer Level Pack, and Scooby Team Pack. Any others seen?

60080 City Spaceport - net cost $52.17 @ Kmart.com after coupon for $10 in points on a $20 online purchase found on the floor at Kmart :) , discounts, taxes & GC. I don't think this set is a home run, but its a nice enough $100+ set for 57% off.

I took the additional step of "Report Buyer", which was the 4th and final built-in option for combatting bogus feedback. The feedback wasn't a flagrant violation of any policy, but everything taken together (making a demonstrably false "original box wasnt included!" statement, shipping through a 3rd party in the US, identical feedback on both items, no response to communications) suggests they may have made this kind of mistake elsewhere (or possibly a deliberate attempt to extort sellers in exchange for revising the feedback). So I've taken every step available through the formal process. And if the buyer remains unresponsive through the 30-day window they have to voluntarily revise, you can bet I'll be calling an eBay rep to plead my case directly. They've been pretty reasonable about applying common sense to override the formal policies in the past. Anyhow, I do appreciate the input. BP'ers are far and away the best community I've run across in quite some time. I'd have washed my hands of reselling 6 months ago if not for you guys.

First of all, when @exciter1posts his finds, we all cry, ok? and that's your problem right there, you're getting in your truck. You need to get in a time machine.

LEGO shapes

I NEVER EVER want to hear you guys from west coast complain again. EVER!

I can confirm