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I'm back from a nice little trip to Venice (Italy) and the Adriatic Sea. I browsed some shops and couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this: (I don't know if it's visible, but the brown LEGO shipping box contained a 10179 UCS Millennium Falcon and there's a 10189 Taj Mahal, too.) And that selection was only the tip of the iceberg, they had almost every historic set. It was like a LEGO museum on the seafront of a small beach town. So I maxed out my credit cards and bought them all, right? Wrong! I guess they had all those sets because their prices were straight from Cloud cuckoo land. For example 10181 Eiffel Tower was € 4,990, 10187 VW Beetle was € 2,990 and 76042 Helicarrier was € 550. Insane! So I had to settle for these little souvenirs: (4) 75134 Galactic Empire Battle Packs @ 60 % discount (relatively scarce in Germany) (12) 41171 Emily Jones & the Baby Wind Dragon and (6) 41178 The Dragon Sanctuary @ 20 % discount (very scarce in Germany)

Here's my brick linked set. Seller sent me the wrong round tiles so the only thing that's wrong is the over head lights are yellow instead of clear. Waiting for the correct ones to arrive. Haven't opened my Skiff yet so that's why Han's got the old hair [emoji4] Cute little scene! I love the red flooring in the hallway. May need to expand that. The official one should have really included a Leia.

Managed to snag myself a bargain due to the remake. Also in mint conditions as well as box and instructions in impeccable condition. No yellowing of bricks as well. Will still be getting the remake but may not necessarily be a day 1 purchase now.

This transporter is a nice set. But it can be easily captured by rebels, as happened in my case.

7778 Mid-sized Millennium Falcon I plan on hanging that in my son's room.

So these are the Saturn V pics everyone has been waiting ALL day for?! Apollo 11 looks a little strange.....

Based on Yellow Submarine and Adventure Time, it will be exclusive to any shop that sells anything.

And let's just say two more sections and you will end up with this.

I'm quite pleased with my unexpected haul. Thought I'd rub it in a little. Quality over quantity. I would've, maybe should've, grabbed more polybags but I wasn't expecting to find two extinct birds. And a great deal on some on the endangered list. All the new stuff was only 10% off and the princess was a whopping 15% over priced, but worth it.

I had a similar experience the last time I was in Europe (I believe it was in Krakow). There was a really small LEGO store around Old Town with a bunch of really old BNIB exclusives at ridiculous prices. It was really nice to see them in shelves though, rather than on eBay lol. Bought Battle on Takodana today with TRU Rewards for my personal collection

I guess the Taj Mahal remake is coming in 2018!!

In 3 years they might re-release the poly with the redhead girl breakdancing or something

Which is why I'm looking forward to the Arrowhead.

Although I don't disagree with your post @jaisonline in terms of the masses, personally I'm drawn to these sets that are little different. I like the prequel trilogy, expanded universe, yoda chronicles, freemakers adventures, etc sets. I'll take that vs. the 6th rehash of a popular O/T vehicle in most instances.

8x Friends poly from Target for $.39 each. Time to sell them for $4 on eBay and double my money

I like it. And I want it for my collection.

I've seen my future, and it's in hands.

Toy company's move so fast these days

I have a better title for this thread: "Phil B Phil B Phil B Phil B Phil B"

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/mobile/w/toys-games-lego-minecraft-the-nether-fortress-21122/28740356?ean=0673419233644 May be OoS, but doesn't show on screen. You can PM it

Looks like those exclusives were US imports as the boxes all had part counts on them.

Hmm. You're right. New title works better.

From the article it just said "carousel" not re release, we really don't know what, if anything, is coming here. The argument that Lego can never refresh a set is tiresome, they've done like three Ferris Wheels, each better that its predecessor, at least 3 Maersk ships, don't even get me started on Star Wars or police or fire stations. It's been a decade, it's time for a new one.

Screen scraped is a little worse than rug burn.

Honestly, if you're still holding a 10196 expecting it to continue to rise you may have some issues.

Wow, you went from zero to Star Wars tech geek in less than 12 parsecs.....I Love It!

I ordered myself an original version from the USA. Looking forward to keeping it closed forever

Seems to be going backwards with the design my 2007 one did not require the see through technique parts which spoils the set.

Warcraft - Mana Pool by Paul Trach

here it is. packaging might be little overwhelming.

Write it off..

Okay, I've triple checked the parts list I just created with the instruction manual and the parts list in the instruction manual. I posted the list publicly on Rebrickable here: CELEB2017 - Detention Block Rescue You can go on there and export the list to a Bricklink XML. Open it in a Text Editor, copy and paste it into the Bricklink XML box, and you'll have a complete want list. NOTE: Bricklink doesn't like the Stormtrooper helmets or Luke's had that Rebrickable has in their inventory, that should go for this set. So if you need those, you'll have to manually add them yourself. This should hold us over until Bricklink approves the set, and a couple of us can verify the inventory.

Finally got to finish my Batpod 5004590. Managed to get all new parts, some were spares, others from Lego and bricklink, the dark pearl grey shield pieces from a small stack of breaze flee machines I found in TRU. Thankfully I sold the spare pieces in groups of 6 to help bring down the price of the build. Think it came in around 40ish quid.

Found a box at Walmart. Picked out 16... didn't have time to recheck all of them.. ended up with 15.. missed the Dance Instructor (which I felt like 20 times and put back cause I swore I had grabbed it first) so guess I have to go back someday.

I tell ya. If it's not Fakes hurting long-term holders of sets like 10179, 10188 and 10196, it's Lego themselves. There are times I feel the 1x1 cheese slope element gave lego the idea of rehashing older more exclusive sets.

From both my kids over the last few days/weeks: 70902 Catwoman Catcycle Chase 41233 Lashina Tank 70321 General Magmar's Siege Machine of Doom (maybe one of the best set names ever)

Even if the price was $100 or even $75, not sure if many folks / kids will be lining up like herds are of cattle for the set. The set does look cool with decent minifigures but it's an unpopular ship from the worst SW film ever (including the Ewok films).

Looks like the USPS pricing issue is fixed. Of course it starts working 2 minutes after I wait all day and finally resort to PayPal to create the labels. That's Niko's luck for you.

Yeah... And it's a $70 (662 pcs.) set masquerading as a $90 set. Realistically, you're getting this for $20 off, not $40. Terrible price/piece ratios definitely hurt appreciation over MSRP. On the bright side, you're ordering from TRU, so you'll probably receive something else instead.

Hopefully TRU clears out the 75096's with this sale and the price will finally start appreciating! In for 2 in the meantime.

Well, I've had my eye on this for awhile. Just bought the 21050 Architecture Studio for $91. Used up my eBay bucks and got the 8% back. I feel as someone who works in the industry, it never hurts to have the Architecture Studio around. Strictly for professional and working reasons of course.

Nice Ideas Project that fits very well with a fancy fair theme: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/154427

close up of bounty hunter mini figures

My daughter built Olivia's House 3315 last week with a little help from me. It was from our first ever bulk lot that we bought for $30 (which had about 15 lbs of Lego from 10 sets based on what I can tell), so it was a new type of challenge to organize and sort the pieces and pull out the set. Fortunately we were only missing 4 pieces from this set when it was all said and done. I think this is probably her favorite Friends set that she has built so far. She wants to build Stephanie's Beach House 41037 or Heartlake City Pool 41008 out of the lot next. Our bulk purchase didn't come with instructions, but it looks like is has 9 Friends sets and 1 Super Heroes set based on the minifigs and stickers pieces that were included. Glad she likes organizing and sorting things!

Finally got around to build R2. Set was brand new in box, so I put it off for this long. Fun set to build, end result looks good. Some gripes I had were couple problems with instructions and at one point the colour tone they used changed suddenly. The small technic pin used in the leg area to prevent the feet from falling off is nearly impossible to put on. I had to connect one end to a flat piece and then transfer it in place. Front opening panels are rather tight and the left side comes apart too easily. I had difficulty positioning him properly with the third leg out. An improvement maybe to add some slopes to the head to make it look smoother. Besides these complaints, I like this set. It was larger than I expected and displays very well!

Found one of those beat up last year for $15, so I sold my nice personal version for $120.