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My latest Craigslist find today for $50. My previous picture didn't save before a few sets had been bagged.

Make sure you inspect the bed carefully, you might still find some 2012 sets hidden in the corners.....

That's not how he rolls. This would be more accurate

I'm lucky enough to live in Arizona where there are many 99 Cent stores. I've visited about 15 separate stores (a handful of them 4 or 5 times) in the past two weeks (lots of work travel around the state). I've found everything and bought two copies of each for personal builds and a few extra BTTF, JW and Scooby... And it has totally ruined me for paying "real" prices for Lego. I was in a Lego store yesterday and bought the Valentine's picnic. For $10. It felt like highway robbery. I've gotten so used to shelling out $300 for exclusives (like so many others, I have closets full of them) that I'd forgotten how much money that really is. Thanks for the reality check, 99 Cents Only. And for the party supplies, laundry detergent, Captain Crunch, lawn gnome and sack of oranges.

Plus, it's a cool little build. Man, I wish Val-e would just quit. I respect some of his opinions, but lately he's just trying to live up to his avatar, and it's become highly annoying... Sometimes it seems like a terrible act.

Is basing an investment strategy on all the levels of poop a more viable option?

Sales over the last few days on fba: 2x Heartlake Hair Salon for $36.75 each, $9 buy-in 1x Elves Playmat for $52.99, $3.49 buy-in 2x Thanksgiving Feast for $33.65 each, $9.99 buy-in 1x Friends Jungle Playmat for $49.75, $7.49 buy-in 2x Minecraft The Mine for $157.75 each, $69 buy-in 2x Elves The Secret Marketplace for $117.89 each, $29.98 buy-in

It was 65 degrees yesterday.

Not for everyone, but BAM is offering 20% off $40 online purchase for members. Use code 20FLASH40 at checkout. Saw absolutely nothing on their site that looked interesting (almost everything is priced MSRP), except this: http://www.booksamillion.com/p/Chaos-Gotham-City-Lego-Batman/Ameet-Studio/9781338112122?id=6866437415947 Chaos in Gotham City Activity book comes with exclusive(?) Tartan Batman minifig (w/ sword, wearing a kilt) priced at $7.37, with discount comes to $5.90 ea (+ tax)... but need to order six. Not my kinda deal... but may be interesting to you minifig guys

One thing I have noticed is that sets are plateauing at "a" price at n months after retiring. 10197 is around £300, it still has not increased in the 18 months since I sold my last one. 10211 is knocking on the door of £300, and has been for the past year. I just sold one for £285. 21110 Research Centre refuses to go above £35. Which is still not bad for RRP of £17 but I was hoping for £50+ 21301 Birds shot up to £80+ Christmas 2015 but has since fallen back to around £70 and again is not rising. Currently the Scooby Doo sets have all shot up 50% due to their unexpected retirement before Christmas but now are falling back to approx 30% above RRP. Getting to Ecto1 I expect an increase - for a set that has always traded at 80%-90% of RRP on eBay - but no more than to £60ish. Initially at least. Let's see how right I am (I want to be wrong )

Star Wars Wicket key chains for $1.65. https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Keychain-Wicket-2015-853469 wildstyle for 99 cents limit 99 - https://shop.lego.com/en-US/THE-LEGO-MOVIE-Wyldstyle-Key-Chain-850895 oh no - LEGO Shop at Home is becoming the 99 cents store. lot of key chains for $1.65. no promos to sweeten. a poster is not a real promo.

https://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Holiday-Ornament-with-Gold-Bricks-853345

So when is T1 retiring? Want to take bets it will still be around by the end of this month?

Finished up the UCS Imperial AT-ST 10174. The kids and I are hooked on SW UCS sets at this point. Next up is the UCS Tie and then the UCS Imperial Shuttle. On this set, we loved the detail that they added on the outside with some of the unusual pieces that were used. We built most of it at my office where space is ubiquitous, and that made it a ton easier since it was a used set with all of the pieces mixed together. Definitely going to try to do that with the Imperial Shuttle as well. I do wish the set came with and At-St pilot, so we will probably BL a couple of those to put with the set. We also took a couple of pics with the new AT-ST 75153 and the AT-DP Micro Fighter 75130 (I don't have the 9679) for scale purposes. It is tough to tell how large this set is without some sort of spacial context.

Seriously, it's been quite the marketing for their stores. I never would've been in there otherwise and I'm seeing a bunch of name brand stuff. Might be a new favorite. And like you said, I'm about to order that Assembly Square tomorrow, $279.99 with 8 minifigures. That same $ would buy 560 minifigures in team packs.

Nothing fancy but better than nothing...

I think that they have resolved the issue of the collectible minifigs being of noticeably lesser quality - by lowering the quality of the regular LEGO minifigs. The problem has been solved.

So, I responded - let's see what kind of pleasant response I receive. First off, I was not lying (suggesting that was offensive, and is not the best way to convince someone to care about helping you out). Second, I was able to confirm that we did receive an extra set (which you could have just waited to find out) - You can either send me a return label, send me $15 to send it back to you myself, or send me the address of the person who ends up buying it (and I could ship it straight to them, saving you the extra shipping costs).

Thursday's aren't any fun any more. Where's the unlimited use 20% off coupons circa 2015? Back when you could scrape together nearly 40% off anything - 20% off coupon, 10% credit card, 12% Raise GC, possibly stack a $5 off coupon, sometimes a generous rounding error by the cashier. I'm leaving work in about an hour for an early weekend. In 2015 I'd have hit two stores on my way out of town. Today - not even considering stopping at one.

My trip today, store #1

^cant stop laughing, u nasty man lmao

guess the mystery is no more of 41593 / 41594

Must be my day. About 70 BTTFs.

Got home last night and was thrilled to learn Kmart had mistakenly sent me a special edition battle damaged 75149 X-Wing. Yesssssss!!!

Due to last year's disappointing UCS sets I started looking at MOCs and was blown away by the Nebulon Frigate. ~ 5800 pieces later and this masterpiece now stands before me. Now addicted and can't wait for the next one. Thinking tie bomber, tie Interceptor or cavecods at at

Whether the news is positive or negative, it is always good to hear both sides of the coin. Sometimes sets retire early on this side of the pond so it is advantages IMO to have one thread and vice versa.

Hear hear. I'm now going to be a regular at the 99 after seeing some of their incredible deals. The genius of it is that they're constantly turning over their inventory so you never know what's going to pop up next. 25 cent Odwalla bars, 49 cent cartons of Dreyer's frozen custard, Boulder brand chips for a buck... 99 4 life! It's going to be hard to go back to 50% off Lego at Kmart.

At this point, I'm starting to buy up fun packs with as much restraint as possible....but then I think....50 to 60 pieces here for 99 cents a pack with a minifigure to boot. Moc pieces and parting out alone just have me wanting more. Like others have said....I think we'll be wishing we bought more not less when this is all said and done. Just my 2 cents.

Well, that depends on the subject of the set. Not every Ideas set is connected to a license, though most are. For example the Birds set which doesn't have an external license. On the other hand, in the Ideas program the original designer of the submission gets a percentage of the sales as well. This will naturally be marked up on the price because LEGO wants to make a healthy profit and not have that commission eat away from their profit. So if you take the Ferrari F40 vs the Caterham Seven, then the main differences are: stickers vs printed pieces the original designer sales percentage mark up for the Caterham And who knows ... Maybe the license fee for Ferrari on the F40 set is smaller (percentage wise) because the total license fee is spread out over many different Ferrari sets, while the license fee for Caterham is exclusively pressing on the Caterham Seven set.

Awesome, with the mobile attack podium.

I'm trading off my truck tomorrow and have some gas to run out of the tank, so I might make a few stops tonight.

You could have followed up with the Homer .gif.

The kids nowadays love that new Melissa McCarthy version.

YMMV but one of my local Walgreens stores had all rogue one related items for half off. I got the buildables for $12.99 each and the die casts for $3.29 each.

Score !!! $220 both , all manuals , no box.

I have sold many boxes for big $ - but I haven't looked to sell the shipping boxes for the boxes. I think I still have some old receipts for the original 10179's, etc - I think I might start listing them.

The Europeans are harshing my mellow.

It´s now impossible for it to retire as quickly as the Tumbler as it will be 2 next month. It was on offer last BF so better hold off till another promo. For freebie Batman try spending as little as possible.

We don't want sense. We want our S back.

Madoca1977 Avtoros Shaman

dont know what the give aways are yet. Gonna be busy this Saturday.

Funny to see all the negativity, especially from a few who say they don't buy any more ?

Ummmmm...do you have too much time on your hands?

Now also officially retired in the US (previously Sold Out) after only 4 months of availability ....