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My first post here. I came out of the dark ages a about four months ago, in February. This set up has been up for about 2 months now. Kinda stole the wife's stand. I have the minifigures for all of the sets but did not want to put them up yet. I recently built the Parisian Restaurant and London Bridge. Brick bank is unbuilt and I believe the wife bought me the detective office for my upcoming birthday. I am messing around with some light bricks, a few wires and such can be seen sitting on top of the fire station. We are living in a condo so room is limits. Have an entire empty house though but it is 75 miles away, go figure. We rented the house out for 3 months and that really helped with the funding for this and the unpictured collection. I have been buying a lot of bulk lots in the hopes of building some fan designed buildings. I have some serious catching up to do with some of you all. I have seen some very nice setups on here and it makes me want to get mine in a better situation. I wish I hard started back sooner. I wanted to right as the modulars were coming out but was hit with too much college debt. I did get my feet a little wet right before that and got a few nice trains. You know what they say about hindsight.

My exo suits will be happy to hear the news; they've hit it off with Lex and they're looking forward to spending eternity together.

5th bag done for the Silent Mary. Pulled the sharks and minifigures before the build for the kids.

I bought it today for $200 on Craigslist, asking price was $250. Some of it is pretty damn dusty.

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

Kmart, SYW and everything affiliated with them, coupons, rewards, etc seem to be all messed up, changed or completely fine depending on when you look. They're obviously up to something... Let's hope they don't ruin everything. Also, I was able to use a coupon this morning and apply as many points as I wanted.

It's a little blurry and difficult to tell, but it also appears this "Milennium" Falcon may only come with one "L".

Finished the AT AT today

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

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

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

So I wasn't hallucinating. It is $23.99 now. Just in store, not online.

Sorry in advance for the meme...

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.

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.

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.

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, I had somehow overlooked the jpeg encoding algorithm.

Poor 6862. It had so much potential back in the day

Picnic in the City by Melan-E

OMG. At least one physicist somewhere just had a heart attack...

Jeff does a lot of work filtering out scam sales, keyword abuse, clones and other stuff that infect Ebay and distort final sales. For US data, BP is probably the best source but you have to be patient to get the updates and some sets have null values. You can do the same on Ebay for individual sets yourself but you are limited to the last 60 days. Brickset has the most comprehensive data set on set info like availability dates, RRP prices and can be exported to Excel and customised. Bricklink is the best place for parts and minifigs and also allows you to value sets on part out value. That is very useful for spotting sets that are greater or worse than the sum of their parts. As mentioned, the number of set sales is very low so price data is not always accurate (some sales are clearly fake or part of a superlot and fake sales that get cancelled are not wiped from the stats). It is still a good indicator of real market prices as the commissions are lower and it´s a lego only platform so buyers tend to be better informed and won´t pay such crazy money for sets as on Amazon, for instance. You also get real time sales and 6 month hustory and there is no currency exchange pollution, like on Ebay where everything gets put into $. Brickowl has even less traffic so I wouldn´t bother with that. Another option is to use 3xcamel to take a look at amazon price evolution and the sales ranking of individual sets. This helps determine the popularity of the set and at what price your rivals have been getting it for. For my purposes, BL is the least bad option as it is instant, in Euros and all the sets are there. The worst point is you do need to filter out the lowball and higball sales and maybe some months, or indeed semesters, there are 0 sales on some items. Another good point is you get an idea of sales to hoarded ratio and you can easily see which sets are rare. If a set is selling well on ebay or Amazon and is not highly stocked on Bricklink, chances are you have found a gem. In summary, there is no one best solution and you probably need to work with 2 or 3 sites to get reliable and useful info.

I did not see any coupon applied to that order. I have no problem redeeming more than $10 points without coupons.

From the Delta Customs Instagram page:

If anything that's a slightly modified 7778 Midi Falcon. I wouldn't view a picture of Han's ship on the box art of a set featuring Han and Chewie as any kind of sign either, but I'm crazy like that.

The trooper is the same as the previous builds although the head and chest piece are nicely printed. The speeder and stand are 99% technic not sure how they got $54.99 MSRP

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.

If that´s your own work then I think you have an excellent shot at working for TLG´s City Fire and Police Station R+D team. Don´t forget the helicopter.

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

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

Saw this MOC somewhere on the web and thought it was great so decided to recreate it...

I'm sure you could have found these yourself: 4 - one of the many minifigs in 2014-2015's Arctic City subtheme 6 - backpacker from Series 16 CMFs 7 - Syndrome from Disney CMFs 9 - Teen mom/Babysitter from Series 16 CMFs Typing these without looking them up, so if I got the series number wrong on the CMF my apologies.

Sorry for my lack of clarity - these will be working there way down my non existent chimney Christmas eve. Bought for gifts not for profit. Hence the happy face

I got a few Fire Engines when they were discounted to around 25€. It's a pretty nice set actually, though a remake seems highly likely. Seems like they got a LOT of stock of them for some reason over here. I'm talking well over 30 in one store. I'm pretty sure it had limited availibility in the US, which might explain the high wanted/owned ratio. Wanted vs owned is a useful statistic along with supply vs demand. Bricklink does not provide any ready to use feature that I know of. There are ways to pull the data from bricklink, however crawlers etc. are forbidden by their TOS, so basically it's not allowed unless you ask permission. Have a look at robots.txt on wikipedia. I guess they might allow it if you don't overload their servers with page requests. Some script that pulls the data for a set once every minute might be tolerated. Yeah there are lots of problems with the bricklink price guide. It's driving me insane sometimes. I don't know if they simply don't care or are too stupid to fix the issues, but to me it's pretty obvious what needs to happen: Provide additional filters for new and sealed sets in the price guide along with the current "new" and "used" catagories Provide an option to exclude super lots from statistics --> this would correct minifigures prices among other items. Exclude sold data from banned sellers / scammers. Right now, if some scammer decides to list a UCS falcon for 100$ and someone buys it, it appears in the statistics. Even if the actual sale never goes through, the stat remains. This has a HUGE impact on the perceived value of rare sets. It can drive the price down by hundreds of dollars. Warn / ban sellers that do not stick to the item description. A complete set of 16 minifigures should not be listed under a "box of 60", even if it's mentioned in the description. Better yet: provide additional options for selling these kinds of lots. Make an item listing for complete sets of collectible series or provide some type of filtering for buyers. Those things alone would fix 99% of the problems with the price guide. End rant.

Looks like more Brickheadz on the way in July. I've got all 4 Marvel and 4 Batman releases so far for my collection. Waiting for better deals to pick up the 4 current Disney releases. Hopefully the next wave is on par

I hear that this one comes with a removable section, exposing a secret compartment (for the cheese wedge).

Smaller in physical size...more detailed...more pieces...higher MSRP seems to be the new order of the day.

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. ?

Looks awesome mate, thanks for posting up the pic!

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.

Yes. You buy the one on the right a wedding ring & one day the one on the left magically appears.

I love the imagery of a grown man stuffing 100$ bills into a piggy bank with little boy excitement *oh boy! oh boy! oh boy!

Senior, Junior and Mini-me

Here's the three amigos who couldn't save the Death Star in Ep IV. I think the teal outline on Black in the older UCS sticker plaques offered more contrast. I liked teal on black over the dark blue on black.

I just did an article for BLOCKS about the decline of the UCS Empire. Fact is, most won't be remade. Fact is, the UCS theme as a whole will suffer from these remakes of the major sets. How much is the real question.