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If you played it already you can play it again! I got another $2 - https://www.shopyourway.com/app/2/l/contests/verv

Realized I hadn't posted here yet (registered in 2014) until earlier today. Just a big fan of Lego for almost 30 years, opened a Bricklink store last year and loving buying Lego for the store. It feeds my addiction to buy Lego and earn some money from doing so.

Been working on a UCS MOC for a while but decided to take a break and build Leia. Great little build with great techniques that allow for a number of poses. Will build similar scale R2 next to recreate that iconic scene in a new hope.

Speaking of WTF - I read yesterday that World Taekwondo Federation had to change their name because of the acronym. Too funny [emoji38]

Group effort of me, my daughter and my son.... Two of the three builds from 31044. May try the squirrel next.

Fe different Walmarts: 75152 imperial assault hovertank $7 each 75118 captain Phasma $5 75821 Angry Birds $5 70322 Axl's Tower Carrier $17 75104 Kylo's Shuttle $30

I just assumed you'd put up a picture of the mini beetle. Careful thought is required... you can tell people who just threw anything up just to have something (raven for example... hahaha).

My son and I finished this today:

One of the best LEGO sets ever - I have finished the building now and I'm saying this despite the fact that I was hating the whole theme until yet (like chima...)

I think that everyone is forgetting that LEGO has transitioned to just-in-time production over the last couple of years. 5 years ago, they would have slotted production capacity months in advance and made 50,000 copies, and if they sold out it would be ~6 months before they could squeeze in another production slot. Now, LEGO can shift production lines between sets quickly, so they can make 5,000 a week to carefully control supply (i.e. avoid full distribution warehouses). This is a smart way to avoid overstock. However, it means that many different sets get packaged every week and when there is a fast seller like this one, the weekly capacity only has a limited flexibility to it. In other words, they can't (won't) stop producing all other sets in demand just to make more of this one. At some point, demand and supply will equalize and it will be more easily available at retail. I imagine that this set may set the record for the most number of different seal codes, when it finally retires. Oh, and Villager - build the set. Its awesome!

built the red creator house

Still 30% off at TRU on these sets. Could be good if you have rewards. Looks like Amazon still has lower prices on most. http://www.toysrus.com/search/index.jsp?s=A-UnitRank&kw=93928jun17&keywords=93928jun17&origkw=93928jun17&sr=1&ppg=96

built the fire brigade

Oh come on. Fe. Iron. Anyone?

When you said you were there to flush them out of Nexo Knights at 90% off, I guess they took it literally.

US Wal-Mart clearance

If I am not a scalper, would he buy 1 FOR me ????

This bear needs some spanking .

Fixed that for ya...

Back to back wins as well. Thank you sir.

Tried the squirrel

Great, another thing to ponder. I'm never going to get anything done. I'll take it as a milestone. I've been here long enough, and posted often enough for you guys to be curious. This is a badge of honor. I will seek out an appropriate picture. I may test a few before settling on one. I can assure everyone, there will be no cat involved. I apologize to the feline lovers out there. But it ain't me.

Build the set.

(off topic) Isn't it about time you got a profile picture Mr Donbee?

Jealous!!

Prices have reset on some of the 40% off items, others have moved up to 50% off. A few in stock online still. Use those sweeps earnings and grab em while you can!

Ha. Well since the Transformers Jetfire toy and Battletech's Phoenix Hawk (I believe) mech were taken from the same design of the anime Macross Super Valkyrie, they pretty much are the same thing at least until the Project Phoenix makeover addressing Battletech's "Unseen" problem.

I am not so sure that Lego will ever move directly into Amazon in the same way that Nike and other brands have done. For a brand like Nike, the move on Amazon makes sense because all of the 3P sellers compete directly for sales that would otherwise go to Nike or its authorized retailers. For Lego, this is true insofar as 3P sellers are selling sets that haven't retired, but those sellers are already competing with Amazon and it's pretty hard to buy sets from authorized retailers and resale on Amazon before retirement at a profit when you're competing with Amazon...so how big of an impact on Lego do those merchants have? However, if Lego moved into Amazon in the same way that Nike did and effectively boxed out all 3P merchants that focus on the secondary market and that aren't authorized Lego dealers, Lego would effectively destroy the secondary market for Lego products on Amazon and that would have a direct impact on Lego's bottom line because few, if any, of those merchants are authorized Lego dealers. However, all of those merchants are sourcing their products from authorized Lego dealers. If they then lose access to the Amazon sales platform, they would have no reason to buy the extra inventory they would have purchased specifically to sell on Amazon. Given the power of Amazon as a sales platform for the secondary market, this reduction would be significant on an individual level and would likely add up to a fairly substantial amount on an aggregate basis. Speaking personally, I will currently buy between 200-500 copies of certain sets to resell on Amazon after the sets retire. If I lost the ability to sell Lego on the secondary market on Amazon, I would likely reduce my purchases of those same sets to between 10 and 30 copies to sell on eBay and other platforms...and there are many sets I buy now to sell on Amazon that I wouldn't buy at all to sell elsewhere. If Lego understands the power of the Amazon platform to drive sales on the secondary market after a set retires, they will face a real dilemma when it comes to taking action to disrupt the secondary market on Amazon given that there is no parallel market out there. They could always decide to get into the secondary market directly, but that has never seemed to be in their gameplan.

A clean-up was needed at our Wal-Mart on aisles 1-24 today. Water main break...

Hah! Thought I looked at the date before I posted, guess skipped over the year. Wonder if he is still searching. Or cleaned it up, added stacks, and brought it to that show.

Thought I'd dig this up. This last week I sold 14 mixels to two buyers at $9-10 each. Avg buy-in $3. Series 4,5 and 9. And a set of Series 3 astronauts for $22 I'm glad I bought up all those Walgreens clearance.

Congratulations. It only took you close to two years to build.

Not 100% accurate, but more importantly did someone say serendipity?

not all ideas sets are out for year(s). Research institute was only available officially for 4 months. mars rover cuusoo was available for even less than that. i don't think anyone can say with any certainty how long a set will and won't be made. certainly visions of mars rover is fueling some of the demand. serendipity favors the well stocked storage room.

As Vodium said, seems to be a few sets on clearance at Walmart. Notable sets I saw in store were Resistance X-wings for $65 and the Tie Striker for $60. Not nearly as amazing as deals people are getting in the States, but that's probably (maybe?) near the best price we can expect for the X-wing. I also saw the Web Warriors Ultimate Bridge Battle for $89. As reported previously, many of the current wave of Constraction sets are $15.

Another KMart holding out on me. Ended up at about 20% off plus points back. They were actually pulling stuff out of he back to ship to another store.

After forgoing Ideas Apollo sets last weekend at a local Discovery Center, I finally picked one up from amazon. At least I was able to apply some points. At some point, this will be on-sale multiple times online for 15% + off so wait if you can.

Was at a conference in Berlin yesterday and snuck out during lunch to visit the reopened Berlin flagship store. Got VW Beetle and T1 at 20% off and the promo sets :-D The minifig set is numbered, but labelled as item #852766. Anybody know what's up with that? Seems to be re-used/-issued for any custom minifig-triples? (brickfolio, brickset.com etc. list different sets)

Guys I can confirm it's not a rumor anymore, it's confirmed and I saw it just moments ago behind closed doors. I really can't say much nor I wasn't able to enter the room with camera ofc but what I can tell you about it... it's about 30cm-35cm long, 15-20cm tall, it's based on retro design of the London Bus and seeing this you feel this heritage of the 60's 70's. comes with detachable top plus entire top floor is detachable to get the better access, it's full of very interesting details and techniques used to accomplish some part of the construction. This is just my initial few words after seeing this just moments ago. You can remove the Rumor from the title

This morning's builds.... 6268 Missing the sails and string which drops the price from £50 to £35 and a little 6656 from 1985.

6210 Jabba's Sail Barge. Feels old, but still a great set! Of note, I still have the original sticker sheet, but I going to opt for a replica sheet from BL.

Saturn V back in stock at John Lewis - comes with free dents from the lousy packaging

This has been updated This is always tough with newer sets because the average values aren't solid yet for it to strip out the really low prices of parted out sets or really high ones of bundled sets. I get raw data, so there is nothing that says to use only these great listings. There is a bunch of garbage in there that needs to be weeded through. Should have this corrected soon, sorry about the delay. This should be updated now.

Got a horizon express used for free from a friend. Built it yesterday.

I ran a 3:32:08 marathon at Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, MN. A personal best by 14 minutes.

Found out a couple weeks ago that my wife is pregnant, so I set up some minifigs for a little baby announcement. However, after her first doc appointment, I had to modify it a little bit...

Just a tip for the future, when you're that close on shipping weight (assuming you're shipping in a box), you can trim the inside flaps of cardboard a bit to take the extra weight off. Works great for me when you're that close in ounces.

I can't speak for non-US markets. I have no idea how they're performing. I do believe, though, that they are still readily available in southeast Asia and the Pacific (which makes sense for TheDarkness). I mentioned this in a different thread late last night. 9 sets of Series 1 Mixels @ RRP cost $404. 1 SSD cost $399.95. Both retired this past summer. Selling on eBay right now, $120 for Mixels. Sell all 9, get $1,080 for your $400 investment. Your SSD is going to get you between $600 and $700.