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Having pretty much exhausted my backlog of retired UCS sets I now need to turn to the current sets to continue building out my collection. I have to say despite the number of stickers this is a great build and looks great and I think this will do ok post retirement. Only time will tell.

don't want to see another cheese slice for a while but really pleased with the result. it's huge.

I was down in Florida visiting friends. I bring all the kids Lego. My buddy's kid Lincoln was supposed to build this T-Rex Tracker I brought him but I ended up doing 99% of it while he watched and played with the figures and T-Rex. He did only turn 5 a few months ago. He's on a Jurrassic World kick lately. He was looking for Indominus Rex Breakout next. I tried to explain JW Lego was retired.

FBM sellers have definitely been targeted on large sets lately , that is a established fact if you read the forums here and on Amazon . One member here is now banned from selling on Amazon all together and a few are hanging by a thread . Calling that paranoia is an insult to those folks who have done nothing wrong aside from being unable to provide proof of authenticity .

All that is missing now is Spider-Man from that year. Then my collection is complete Bahahahaaahahahhaaaah

All it's missing is a polar bear and a VW bus and it'd be a LOST set.

recovered from a vintage parts bulk lot. All are near complete. Even have box and instructions for the Harley!

Kmart.com: "Go ahead. We dare you..."

Picked this up day 1 and finally got around to finishing it. Gotta say i was all for this set at first with the idea that i'd put it with the rest of my ship fleet. However i found that it looks way too small and puny next to even the Black Pearl. The lack of sails really takes away from it's display value in a fleet imo. For $250 CAD i feel like it should at least look a bit more imposing than QAR/BP. The scale issues sort of bothers me, like the small doors on the deck that can't fit minifigures, and of course the small canons. And then we have this big bell on the deck that is minifig scale.. just makes it all seem jumbled. Even though i don't play with my sets; the lack of a captains quarters was disappointing. However on it's own like i have displayed below... i think it's actually really nice. It's fun to play around with the sails/masts and really give it a "ghost" look. Build was pretty fun, both sides of the ship were fairly different and not symmetrical. Bottom line: i like it, but only displayed on it's own away from the other ships.

More than a week in advance, but ad scans for Target week of 4/9 has BOGO 40% off on all Friends, Star Wars, City, and Duplo sets. Also, Cartwheel $10 off $50 toys and games purchase (excludes LEGO).

I guess you're just what I needed

I was just mentioning yesterday that I'm on a Queen kick. I love that song (and the final album). I was just listening to it yesterday. As for their writing process - you should read about the writing of Under Pressure.

That is one short lift. Man, these girls are lazy.

Builders will buy it

Hey everyone, Cannot believe I just stumbled across this site and it's probably the best site I have come across in a long time. Amazing how many resources are here. My story with Lego is interesting, I had hundreds of them as a kid and then suddenly stopped collecting... My sets got all jumbled into large bins and I put them away. I even think one bin was donated (grrrr). Fast forward to me now (age 27) and I have been in the collection game for awhile (comics, art, prints, action figures, etc.... just not Legos) I love SDCC and love the thrill of getting exclusives, but for some reason I didn't ever go back to my Legos until the past couple of months. I have pulled all the bins out of storage and started organizing each set and figuring out what pieces I need to replace to complete some of them. I was collecting a lot from early 2000's like the first Star Wars, Adventure and Ninja sets. I do have a few old castle sets though that I am excited to organize. Now I find this amazing resource for investing and it seems it is all coming together. I know there was plenty of money to be made back then and 2017 is only that much more popular, but I'd still like to give this a shot. Looking forward to meeting people and re-exploring my long lost childhood nostalgia. Cheers! Scott

we are at this moment planning our exit from amazon. while amazon has been great while it lasted but the level of fraud and buyer extortion has gone to the point that it has become overwhelmingly beyond tolerance level. [ its getting much higher than cost of doing business and the profit generated ]. there are two main things that started happening that are gearing us towards this direction: a. while seller-support were for dog-and-pony show somehow they used to be able to help present case to seller-performance during A-Z. b. they used to accept videos of packaging and item during packing process for certain level. including box dimensions. rfid tags. within last 2 week amazon decided that they would no longer accept i. video recording of packing and submission weight and dimensions of the carrier during any of the customer complaints. while they were reluctant in accepting rfid in the beginning they started accepting those. but now they seem to have reversed their course on that as well. ii. they would not remove feedbacks even when buyer has admitted to receiving what was listed but "they wanted expensive item". iii. they would side with buyer in cases where buyer would order 75055 and make a claim that wrong item was sent. they would respond they are expecting 10221. and amazon would grant in buyers favor for incorrect item sent. "return label doesn't matter" while its unfortunate when such things occur one has to take a step back and evaluate. and our decision has been to step away from amazon. it may be a good news [less competition] or bad news [ frauds will catch up to other sellers ] depending on which side of coin one will look.

Maybe Disney are looking to beat Fast and Furious in the number of unnecessary sequels competition. Episode 33.33: No Endor in Sight.

Yep, gearing up for Ep. X, XI, XII https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2017/03/do-not-post-lucasfilms-post-star-wars-episode-ix-plans.html

now it is a truly *blind* bag, no way to smoosh...

Buying up the Funko.

my metrics is a mess due to those scam as well. being a small seller, i have no way to sell 100+ item to make it right. i just sell as normal (4-5 sales a week, take off all expense item).... ignore the short period matrix being a mess. my matrix is back to normal now and no one from Amazon ever contact me about my matrix.

Yep, "Here you go, I can spare a square".

Restock of the SC Ford set today and they took down the sign. Still ringing up $24.99, so I picked up a few more.

It's not overhyped. It's not overhyped. My metrics are a mess from people claiming large sets were fake. Amazon refunded the buyers, did not charge me, but trashed my metrics. Makes no sense at all. Amazon is a mess right now. Check out all the fake listings for the Switch. Dozens, maybe hundreds listed for $150-200. I'm done selling there, at least in the near future. Sorry for thread derail.

Hey, 5 bucks is 5 bucks.

Just another 1 I sold too soon

There are a dozen or more just from this small BP community who've been hit. More common than I'd like to see.

I think the Slave 1 is the closest to actual minifig scale of any of the UCS sets. Still a little small, but close.

Very Old Friends by Eero Okkonen

Droopy & The Wolf by 74louloute

I've escaped the reaping so far ? Let hope it stays that way. Unlike @exciter1 I don't have in infinite supply of Kmart's out here. Oh, Exciter? You should ask for the sign

You were a good little earner. [emoji24] Posted by emotional locals. Looking for a new wedding spot as we speak.

Summer 2017 - do we have all of these in one post yet? I know I've seen most of these before.

Had built this a few weeks ago and finally applied the stickers. Designed by Bruno Jenson, instructions by Thorsten and professional stickers by Jaap Technic. More info can be found on rebrickable and Eurobricks.

Just got this from my walmart caterham order. Thought that was impressive customer service, especially for Walmart.

Since you started with the little details: The bench is too big. This is supposed to be a Hobbit bench, as they're sitting outside Bilbo's house. So you would expect that the bench is built to Bilbo's size, not to Gandalf's. So Bilbo would sit normally with feet on the ground, and Gandalf would look oversized.

Another 20% off sale but the selection is much bigger this time. Worth it to browse through.

Extensive 20% off on Toysrus.ca and Chapters.ca as well....

Couple more FBA sales: 1x 30372 Robin's Mini Fotrex for $11.88, buy in of $0 1x 75920 Raptor Escape for $159.85, buy in of $35

Everything appears in perfect condition, assuming there are supposed to be 5 bags.

I feel like that's kind of a corporate cultural mindset. Doing good isn't good enough, quarter after quarter has to show growth. Instead of focusing on the quality that brought people in, they try to diversify and catch fads. If one of these new-ish things hits, they'll be golden. However we're not seeing demand increase, we're seeing the same buyers being more spread out. Instead of buying everything from one line, now, they're making decisions about whether to get a brickhead or a mighty micro or a constraction figure etc. The offerings in the main lines feel smaller and less complex, but they expect people to buy them because of a single minifigure. Prices are rising (looking at you Star Wars Battle packs) THe Star Wars line is full of sets that would have been $5 less just a few years ago. Super Heroes as well. I don't think it's trying to get the last dollar before the market crashes, I think it's misunderstanding the fanbase and their capacity to continue buying when they're trying to squeeze every penny out. Someone thinks that the LEGO train has just gotten started and doesn't see the chasm ahead that they're driving towards.

Can't tell if you're joking or not.

Put Big Ben up on display... sorry pic is crooked, I got a bad shoulder right now and the shelve is above our basement stairs at the back door.

To celebrate my recent (early March) birthday I got the Detective's Office, which I finished last week. Put it next to last year's birthday present, the Parisian Restaurant, and took these photos