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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...

From Delta Customs: New minifigs include Lobo, Cheetah, Firestorm, Killer Frost, and Reverse Flash One set might be a Lex Luther Mech. Might be time to get rid of those 6862s. Could be an even more awesome mech. Something like this would be awesome: (That's an MOC)

Sometimes I've noticed when they start an in- store promo the online price reflects it at first, then they change it back. Would explain how you and Phil saw both the Dragon and Supermarket online for the same price as it is in store. EDIT: Phil ninja'd my explanation

Not sure from that pic but does it come with both the round and square radar dishes

Here's the image. I'm somehow posting this between fits of laughter.

Good morning guys Fake.. worse photoshopping than yesterday's

Same for me about keeping track of certain stats of the sets I bought, which I use for determining value, (potential) profit, stock, etc. Coming back to the list of Retirements of 2016, it's interesting to look at the difference between "Own this set" vs "Want it", on Brickset. I know it's very arbitrary and just a check that people voluntarily make on Brickset, but when looking at the entire list of 2016 retirees these numbers can give an idea of the demand for a set. Specifically sets where the Want it number is higher than the Own it number. There are a few limited release City sets that were not widely available where that's the case: - 60096 - Deep Sea Operations Base - 60112 - Fire Engine - 60071 - Hovercraft Arrest They might turn out to be future desirable sets. Too bad I didn't get any of them when they were sold at the biggest discounts.

That's pretty awesome you actually got help from them and got something working. Yeah, I also enjoy cataloging my sets and keeping track of all the stats. To me, it's part of the fun of buying/selling. If anything, it helps you remind what you have in stock and when might be a good moment to sell it. There's all sorts of data you can get from brickpicker, brickset and bricklink. Prices, demand (wanted lists), set/box information, availability, release dates...

@CM4Sci , That is a whole lot of drama. It's like a soap opera. It's sad when this stuff happens with a product that should be nothing by joy. Like many of here, I have enough enough drama with the wife (Lego hater), dog and kids.

A recent Bricklink transaction that I purchased had cat hair all over the place in it. My wife is partially allergic to cat hair. I know it's not done on purpose but the amount of hairs littered within the bricks just made me think that the storage that the seller has is not nearly as sealed and contained like how I do it and I'm sure many others. I let it slide but sometimes the more you buy, the more tactics you learn on things NOT to do or make sure you don't let happen if we do someday get a pet also.

Diner Fare by Sean Edmison

Come on, Kmart! I'm playing with fire here. Let's get some new sets in! Or remove some Hot Buy tags... Or a sale. Something!

Built old Bessie. Only the Ewok village and New Death Star left in my backlog of UCS inventory. Need to get my hands on a Death Star 2!

Got this for xmas, finally got it done over the weekend. I'm downsizing my town to make room for a carnival, I think this will make the cut. Love the laundromat.

These guys have never steered me wrong in the last 10 years so Im going with that until I hear otherwise.