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Destinys Bounty from Ninjago Movie. Unbelievably enjoyable build and when you consider it's only 2/3 price of Silent Mary it's incredible value. The Dragons heads are fantastic.

Built the Rebel Transporter to compliment the medical Frigate. Next is Mortsevs Tantive IV and the hammerhead

I am a teacher and my class are studying Space next academic year. I built this to show the children as a hook. Great building experience. A classroom display will follow with the rocket as a centrepiece...

built the palace cinema

Somedays, I feel more like Mia than the guy with the mop.

and Raskolnikovs UCS Size AT-AT. Still trying to source the correct 5x5 dishes in lbg for the sides of the head. Also need another AT-AT driver and more snow troopers Next up is to build my bricklinked 10134 Y-Wing

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Finished off a few mocs missing some little greebling details. First up Anio's UCS Sith Infiltrator

Over the past 2 weeks. As you can see I have 0 faith in ghost rider that's why I bought them all so you wouldn't get stuck with any. Also bought a lot off offer up last week. Mainly SH but good deal

I think that the knockoffs have hurt this set. Also, I think there is general Lego fatigue that has affected the values of many recently retired exclusives. This may not be a popular opinion, but IMO there is nowhere to go but down now. I had 7 or 8 of these and sold some at $1000ish to get down to 3 left. I just sold one for $839 on ebay. I am selling one more at that price and keeping the last one to build some day. I will be happy to get out now before the price drops further.

What an amazing build! Took us around 6 hours. The payoff on Step 236 of the yellow and red modified plate placement in Step 155 absolutely blew my mind. Bag Seven was a work of art. This set is solid gold, my favorite to date.

Finished the castle last night. Really cool set. I dig all the details from the movies. Should make a tidy profit on this pick up. I'll try for $300.

The LEGO Buzz is just over. For years, LEGO couldn't keep up with the required supply, and now that they have the ability to create the necessary supply (for a demand that is no longer there), they can't stop. Add to that the remakes, or even just the threat of the inevitable remake (since nothing is safe), and the counterfeits (even though I don't believe that the serious buyers buy them), there are certainly lots of resellers being scared into selling their inventory early (which inevitably weighs down on performance).

Besides the knockoffs and possibility of remakes, I think the over-saturation angle is the biggest negative for all STAR WARS collectibles. If you told me that 5 years ago, I would have said you were nuts. But how much STAR WARS crap do people need?

The counterfeits have hurt this set disproportionately more then others. If you look at sold listings on eBay for Super Star Destroyer (yes you can search by "lego 10221 USA only" but not sure your average buyer does this) only 1 of the last 12 sold are lego. BL looks like an average of 2 sold new units in the USA per month this year. If you look at direct sales of Sold units of the leading counterfeit brand from the number one selling store the SSD has almost 50% more sales then the next UCS model which is the MF. With over 700 units sold by just the top 3 sellers someone is buying them. You can say that true AFOLs would never buy counterfeits, but what I think it has done to their mindset is decrease the urgency to buy before the set dries up and/or the price gets too high so the sets sits and prices fall. Add to that the overproduction of SW sets and remakes and who would want to drop a grand on one.

Francisco Hartley designed Pagani Huarya WIP. Instructions made by Thorsten50.

3x Walmart stores and Craigslist today Wal-mart 1x Ninjago Green NRG Dragon 70593 $30 2x Mighty Micro Wolverine vs Magneto 76073 $5 2x Mighty Micro Wonder Woman vs Doomsday 76070 $5 6x Mighty Micro Spiderman vs. Scorpion $5 1x Mighty Micro Iron Man vs Thanos 76072 $5 4x Mighty Micro Superman vs Bizarro 76068 $5 4x Star Wars Resistance Trooper Battle Pack 75131 $3.50 2x Elves Queen Dragon Rescue 41179 $35 2x Elves Fire Dragon Lava Cave 41175 $19 1x Elves Water Dragon Adventure 41172 $7 3x Elves Magic Rescue from the Goblin Village 41185 $25 1x DC Super Hero Girls: Super Hero High School 41232 $30 2x Rapunzel’s Best day Ever 41065 $9 1x Marvel: Detroit Steel Strikes 76077 $21 1x Batman Movie: Bane’s Toxic Truck Attack 70914 $35 1x Creator Vacation Getaway (3 in 1 RV) 31052 $45 Craigslist 1x Architecture Eiffel Tower 21019 $15 1x Ultra Agents: Hurricane Heist 70164 $13 1x Duplo Super Heroes Batman Adventure 10599 (Wonder Woman) $10 1x Duplo Super Heroes Batcave Adventure 10545 (Catwoman) $12 2x Creator Beach Hut (yellow) $15

Used 76023 The Tumbler for $100 off CL. Score!

Spidey Bridge x2 @$49 Volcano Copter @$25

Ancient Ruins by Mark of Falworth

He did play with the figures, but everything changed when he watched the new trailer and saw the real enemy is a cat and is now really excited! He does not love anything more than Lego ninjago except for cats.

I always thought this set should be a winner someday. I could never figure out tho - on the back of the box... Why is Mia shoveling ice-cream? https://brickset.com/parts/6150309/ice-cream

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Just in case anyone is interested....Friends Puppy Daycare 41124 is at 40% off...not shown on daily deals list...lowest price yet according to Camelcamelcamel.... https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CU9WQ8C/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_8?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

Pink Floyd clearly were; Another Brick in the Wall, Money, Us and Them, Time, High Hopes, See Emily Play, Any Colour You Like, Wot´s the Deal?, Green is the Colour, The Last Few Bricks and Take it Back @TabbyBoy favourite.

Scored the new Destinys bounty a week early and effective £99

Over the past couple days I have been busy with used sets that I ordered the missing parts for: 5973 Hyperspeed Pursuit 5982 Smash n Grab 7292 Propeller Adeventures 7622 Race for the Stolen Treasure 8016 Hyena Droid Bomber 8669 Fire Spinner 360 9471 Uruk-hai Army 79107 Comanche Camp 79108 Stagecoach Escape (picture is before I got the missing hat and mini)

I wish that were the case. I have a great local base that I have given good deals to for years due to their continued purchases. I've lost a handful of my best AFOLs to the allure of lower costs. One told me something to the tune of "it's gotten to the point where the cost for something you're going to open and display isn't worth the risk of depreciation. Why spend 8-10 times the cost for these retired UCS sets when I can buy an identical one that I never have to sell? I'll lose more in depreciation in a few years while the prices continue to fall, than I will buying a knockoff." The point that hit me the hardest, outside of losing yet another high spender, is the that I can see his point. Buying something at a very high cost, that you have to sell to take the same or a greater loss, than you would buying junk that can be made into the same model that you can keep without the large investment. Looking at the knockoff distributor website it looks like they have vendors who can send you a SSD for less than $80 shipped. By the time you're hit by fees and shipping on a SSD, you're nearly down $80 as it is... and that's if you can sell it for what you paid. It doesn't surprise me at all, as Pseudoty found, that the top 3 sellers of the knockoffs have sold over 700 units, and that only 1 of the last 12 sold was authentic. I don't even want to take a guess at how many are selling on the knockoff distributor site. Many have said that true collectors will not buy this garbage, well I know a few that were true collectors for years that have changed sides... and the availabilty of these cheap duplicates ensures that many never have a chance to become true collectors. If everything is cheap and available they never have to pine over any set. Why scrape for a UCS Falcon when you can get one shipped to your door for less than $200? On a positive note... I guess ... even the buyers who have dipped into the knockoff pool have a price limit. They continue to buy pretty much all the mid level priced sets anyways.

Disney will probably be the demise of Hasbro, unless they start subsidizing production and distribution costs.

Ghostrider, Hobgoblin, and Spider-man. That set has winner written all over it, of course so did the Power Armor Lex until LEGO decided to keep it around for a third year. I have bought some of 76058 at $13, but I didn't get them all. I plan to buy more later in the year when the opportunity presents itself.

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Friday.

I'm going to do my best Val-e impression. Still too dear for the Grand Hotel, nothing worth buying in Tesco even with the points back and none of the half price sets are available for delivery. Boo urns to that, I say.

2 different walmarts: 2x 70352 nexo knights $35 each ninjago NRG dragon $19 microfighters $3-$5 ea brickheadz $3 ea 70904 clayface $10 ea 70902 cat woman catcycle chase $7 ea friends hot dog van $15 ea ghostrider $7 ea city airport starter set $4.50 mighty micros $5 volcano helicopter $25 volcano crawler $19 ea friends cupcake cafe $19 Target: 41077 Elves $10.46 mixels series 5 & 7 at $2.50 ea

Thanks! A good way to start chipping away at my Rewards stash now that I can't use it on Lego sets.

The Saturn V is back in stock! https://shop.lego.com/en-CA/LEGO-NASA-Apollo-Saturn-V-21309 At full MSRP, but eh, you get a Mini Piggy Bank!

I have family in GR. I'll text them right now.

few days ago in Grand Rapids, MI - hopefully far enough from other Brickpickers turf $5 each - sorry for the shaky hand... maybe I was too excited :-)

60051 High-speed Passenger Train with my son. I've never built a LEGO train or one with Power Functions. Took me back to my youth, building HO scale trains - I even thought to myself "this is a bigger scare than I'm used to."

Sliced open a Rancor Pit this evening. Lots of large pieces and the Rancor is epic. It was worth the original RRP in my opinion, despite the low parts count.

Well, the construction is moving along at the moment. Though, always expect the unexpected in this line of work... "Carol, where's my green syringe? It had the experimental drug in...it...HOLY MOTHERFU-" "Ermm...Doctor, did you hear something?" "Nope." "Steady as she goes, guys. Just connect it slowly. This isn't rocket science..." "Except it is, boss. Can you lend us a hand?" "No, I can't. I'm supervising. It's what I do. Supervise." "This thing isn't so heavy!" "Speak for yourself, you're using one hand, Bob! WHAT THE BRICK?!" "Oh, that makes sense..." "Oh hey, Ellen. I gave the Captain the inoculation for the space sickness!" "CAROL! That wasn't it! THAT WAS MY EXPERIMENTAL RADIATION DRUG!" "...Oh...dear..."

built the PR

ASW-G-08 Gundam Barbatos Lupus Rex by Caleb L.

Batman shirt under the labcoat! Bruce will need that to conduct Bat-Research.

LEGO Thunderjaw by Nicola Stocchi