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Picked up a used lot 2 months ago containing the Black Pearl and Queen Anne's Revenge. Built both over the last 2 weeks prior to watching the new movie with my son. The builds went pretty fast since this was my 3rd time building a BP and 2nd building the QAR since 2013. I'll be modifying the BP with an extra hull element soon. Other than that, I have many extra canons for each ship Both are displayed in my son's room since they are "for play". 2 POTC ships down and 1 Silent Mary to go.

Took a break from Technic and built the UCS Tie. Fun build, sturdier than it looks.

Finished the AT AT today

I'm sure I'm not the only one who can't go on a mini vaca out of town and not check local lego on apps and check Walmart lol. Found 3 more tie strikers for 17 (bringing my total to 20 all @ 17) and some other smaller sets 50-75% off. I also hoped on letgo and found someone selling black pearl and queen ANN. It was from a month ago so figured it sold but took the time to message them and to my surprise they still had them. Picked them both up 100% complete for 160 for the 2 ships. Judging by eBays prices I did very well.

I agree. At least put some effort into it. ...like this.

We just finished our Carousel, too. I'll add a couple of what the 3 fairground sets like like together (plus a petting zoo, Friends cotton candy stand, etc.) (sorry about the poor lighting): Also built the new Wonder Woman set (and added some other Justice League members to the fray):

My son finally finished off the Seacow. Our first ever ship and , I have to say , I'm very impressed. Love the colours and the ship design. So used to SW grey and black , it's great to see other colours in a set . Much bigger than I had imagined when the hull pieces were first put together.

Thanks, and sure; it's nothing fancy: Since I was at it anyways -- one more angle on the fairgrounds. My wife decided to take a float around the area on Joker's balloon contraption lol

4 hours in line but worth it. His last appearance anywhere I believe and they only sold like a 100 signatures.

Open for business! I loved this build. Looks great in the modular setting. Ferris Wheel is next, excited to see how they look together.

Two of next wave's sets, over half a year early. - 709XX - Egghead's Food Fight - Condiment King, Egghead, 709XX - Batman Dune Buggy - Batman, Captain Boomerang

I thought it was about time to finally create two more editions to my minifigure wall from my favourite Films! These have been a few months in the making and a lot of thought and deliberation has gone into which figures to include and from which sets. I've tried to go 'rare' where financially possible and wanted 21 figures for each frame. The only one I would look to change at present is to remove Ugnaught and replace with Admiral Piett from the UCS SSD but I just couldn't warrant the price tag this figure holds. I'd love to hear from you guys regards what you would have done differently. I went for the following, enjoy the pics: Empire: Vader - UCS Death Star Boba Fett - UCS Slave 1 Emperor - UCS Death Star Stormtrooper - UCS Death Star Imperial Guard - UCS Death Star Tarkin - UCS Death Star Jawa - UCS Sandcrawler Scout Trooper - Ewok Village Snow Trooper - 2016 Advent Calendar Gamorrean Guard - Jabbas Palace Bib Fortuna - Jabbas Palace Tie Fighter Pilot - UCS Tie Fighter Greedo - Mos Eisley Tuskan Raider - Luke Speeder Bossk - UCS SSD Dengar - UCS SSD Imperial Officer - UCS Death Star General Veers - motorised AT AT Imperial Gunner - UCS Death Star Death Star Gunner - UCS Death Star Ugnaught - Freeze Chamber Jedi Han Solo - UCS Death Star Luke Skywalker - UCS Sandcrawler Princess Leia - UCS Death Star Chewie - UCS Death Star Lando - A Wing R2 - UCS Death Star C3PO - UCS Death Star Obi Wan - UCS Death Star Yoda - Yoda Fighter Wicket - Ewok Village Scout Trooper - Tantive IV Dak Ralter - Snowspeeder Admiral Ackbar - A Wing Mon Mothma - Calamari Cruiser Wedge Antillies - UCS Attack on Hoth Wes Janson - UCS Attack on Hoth Rebel Commando - Ewok Village Hoth Rebel - UCS Attack on Hoth Uncle Owen - UCS Sandcrawler Ten Numb - B Wing R3 A2 - UCS Attack on Hoth

This Minifigure is worth it alone just for the tighty whities.

Best $10 (multiply by X) you could have spent in 2015

Lately every chance I'm near LLDC, I go in to buy the same thing. Today was no different. yellow submarine for $48 plus $4 corncob guy (always smooshing for him or for rocket boy but so far only corncob guys found) to reach $50 and get free r3-m2 droid polybag. May be little early investing in this ideas set but hard to beat that price after selling droid poly.

We moved late last year, so the city has been able to expand: Couple of fun close-ups, Avengers: Grocery War Fantasy courtyard:

Also for @Val-E @Pseudoty who helped me with this So I spoke to brickset and found a solution. Now for this solution you'd have to accept that Brickset's "LAST SOLD ON LEGO.COM" = retirement date. If you accept that, then this works to filter sets by year for retirement. You simply make your own search query, you need to be logged in for this. https://brickset.com/queries Create a new query and dictate the And/Or statement as need be, in this case I did "last sold on lego.com on and after 1/1/16 and before 12/31/16"... that grabs all the "retired" sets from 2016. Repeat for each year you want. I also modified a few other specifications like no Lego Dimension Figures. Create CSV and boom you have a spreadsheet. Here is my 2016 query (I did the same with 2014 & 2015) https://brickset.com/sets/query-3605 Now, to your point about set values, yes I will still have to pull them manually via bricklink. I plan to grab every 6 months for older years and for 2016 I will do every month this year. Tedious? Yes of course. Worth it? I am sure many of you will say no haha But in the end I love organization and I don't mind spending the time on it. Plus it helps me play catchup on all the sets the past few years. See attached screen for where I am taking this. ?

I dunno about you guys but I'm not falling for it.

How many cheese slopes can they fit on one of these?

Not great pictures, but they gives you an idea. I built this with my two boys.

When RE was first previewed people were speculating that already, but it was largely dismissed. Maybe it was too early for some to believe, but I'm not even totally sure if it's Lego

Built 70911 penguins arctic roller with my 4 year old Batman has no cape as the 2 year old has a tendency to yank them off! Lovely looking finished build apart from a minor annoyance... I get why Lego goes multicoloured on the inside but IMO this should not be visible during display OR play.

Check out the official pictures of sommer set 75180... on the backside at the right of the box. I think this could be the new MF UCS.

Is this to prove it's a fake?

What about this one?

If any SoCal BPers are still awake, Win It! app is 1000 points right now [emoji6]

Went out and picked up some Walmart clearance while visiting my sister's family for the weekend. They also had some friends visiting who have an 8 yo who was pretty keen on my Lego enterprise, so I gave him one of the Death Trooper buildables and helped him a little with the build. It was pretty nice. Not sure why these buildables don't do better. He loved it

SOUNDWAVE by Alex Jones

Orko from Trolan by Alex Jones

Well it isn't a house but would fit into the setup nicely. Equestrian Statue

I'd do the same if I could. LLFL had no droids [emoji20]

No. Your memory is accurate. Bea is just a force ghost now while Betty is the Last Jedi

In the center is the Alpha Team's "Blizzard Blaster" #4770 (only thing with a white technic cannon) And in the bottom center - the white mec is quite likely Exoforce's "Stealth Hunter" #7700 the red engine (3rd in the top row) does indeed look like one of the HP Hogwarts express (possibly 4708)

Unfortunately, they don't have such a feature. You'll have to look at release dates and try to estimate what sets have retired. For example, all SW sets from 2014 have now retired. Brickset also has a handy tag system which you can use to browse through sets by year and by theme. https://brickset.com/sets/theme-star-wars/ownedBy/year-2014/page-1 You can quickly browse through themes and years and see what was released (not retired unfortunately). There's a similar system on bricklink, but I find that brickset is a little more user friendly. As for the data: to be honest, you probably won't see anything useful on bricklink for older sets as they only show the last 6 months of data. It's something you have to keep track of manually or via some script every once in a while. Though, technically you only need to pull the data once every 6 months so it's not really a lot of work if you only have to update a couple of sets each month. All this information is useful to have and it's good to know a lot about the performance of older sets, but in the end you'll still have to guess what set prices will do post retirement. I have tried all kinds of algorithms to estimate which sets will do well, but the fact of the matter is it usually depends on what Lego decides to do. You can look at the popularity of a set, the prices, etc. but those things are offset by the number of units they produce and what sets are released in the future. If we knew that, it would be much easier to pick sets.

I see the My Own Train wagon with the logs under the midsection of the Santa Fe loc. And the caboose from the same series is in the bottom left corner.

With only 1 more season left of Rebels, I'm not sure if Lego will make another "for play" Ghost. By the time it arrives, the show will be done. now if Lego thinks the Ghost is a fan favorite, I can totally see a UCS version (which I wonder if it's the set Rob Johnson is pushing for).

Through bag three. Love the build so far. Much closer to a technic set than a modular building. The rotation is smooth and ties in with the animal movement nicely. It's an excellent design. Ticket presale is open, line is down the block

You gonna use a tin-opener to get those Wall-e's out?

I will be very surprised if it retires this year, but come back to me next year with the same question and you might get a very different answer.

Cool little build

Easy Vader Having A Break

I went on a harry potter buying spree last month or so and finally built them. Yes, I do hoard them so I may buy the same sets over and over again.

Also added a light kit to my Creator Ecto-1 (: home from college means more lego down time

Stone Tower Bridge by jaapxaap BASED ON 6089 Stone Tower Bridge

Lego Creator 31057 Air Blazer - Lego Speed Build Review

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