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$75 local pick-up. Will likely be keeping this one.

2000451 Education Panama Canal. Finally pulled the trigger on this. Can't wait to get my hands on it! $199.96

$72 Just sitting on a shelf waiting to be purchased. Box is beat to hell but I'll be keeping this to build anyway.

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

Just fiinished building this stylish amazing little MOC. One of the best little projects I've assembled lately. You can build this one just by using parts from 10242. British Racing Green is spot on and works wonderfully with this little aeroplane. It's rather fragile and not intended to play around that's for sure.

Spent most of Monday sorting. Was thrilled to learn everything is Old Grey! Spent most of last night building! (some "building" paraphernalia has been redacted for the children...) Holy x32 Greebling Batman! Scored for $240 CAD all in, sold erroneously as a 6211. Should I file a SNAD?? ?

FBA - Minecraft The Mine - 3x $185. Scooby Doo Mystery Mansion - 2x $167. 8x Creative towers @ $85 each need to raise capital to keep up with the walmart clearance monster.

Francisco Hartley's Pagani Huayra with instructions from Thorsten50 completed.

Penguin's Arctic Cruiser car thingy I really like it. It shall be on display in the Winter Village some day

Dracula Castle by Toltomeja

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

There's a discount code for 20% off. Includes shipping. CMSY6UJXWT Order direct from Panama Stem's site: https://www.panamastem.com/shop/2000451/set-del-canal-de-panama/ Edit: I personally think this set might see a more steep discount in the future, but this set is a "can't miss, must get" for me.

My son and I are on a tear and we built TLBM Clayface set. Love it! Next plan is to mod the arms to actual articulated fingers. Someone on EB shows how to do it without using any additional parts.

Had one of those on a small seasonal set. Claimed to not receive it. Tracking showed that is was delivered. Called local PO and was told that GPS coordinates from scanner showed it was scanned out front of the house. Passed info on to buyer. No further "my package didn't arrive". Funny how that works.

The ground around his grave shakes at the end of BvS. And c'mon, what's the JL without Superman? (what's the JL without Martian Manhunter or Green Lantern too, but whatever)

Don't even want the figures. Just gonna make a Moc train bridge

Westminster, CO Starting 8/10

Beware the Bug-Beings of Mirphak 2 by Mark of Falworth

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...

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

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.

Everyone has their favorite versions and it might not be the most recent. For me, I have not found an x-wing that I am satisfied with but 75136 is a really nice improvement for the Droid escape set and 75050 is a great B-Wing. I love the snowspeeder from the UCS Hoth set but will take the 75049 if I can't count a UCS version. What about you? Any definitive versions out there? How about those x-wings?

The Wonder Woman store event. Not impressed. Just handed a cup and told to go to the corner like an animal lol...

Man are you trying to stir things up or what. No way TLG is stopping this money printing machine anytime soon.

This morning at wm for 50% off

On a lighter note. I was in Walmart today (I know how strange right?) Picking up some items and these two kinda rough looking late 40yr old guys walked past me on the LEGO aisle. I had "collected" several small sets and they were in my cart. Went one aisle over to check out the "friends" section and heard them say, "Did you see that guy..... he had like 5 or 6 of all the same set in his cart?" When I got to the checkout (outdoor lawn and garden) those two same guys were in front of me. They were buying the Batcave Break In. (just one) Gave me a chuckle.

Ares from Woman Woman Warrior Battle. I didn't buy the Marvel set with the large minifigure so this is my first time building one. Nice build. Legs have pretty much the same range of movement as a regular minifigure. The arms are on ball joints so even more range of movement is possible. There are stickers for the toro that I didn't apply. The face is one piece and is printed (only printed piece in the build). Here are some pics showing how the legs, arms and head work.

All set for tomorrow.

"Urrrgh. I don't feel well..." "Relax, Captain. I'm sure this is perfectly normal!" "All right men, it's time to get started on the next stage of construction. We finished Bag 1!" "Yay!" "Only...11 more to go!" "...BOOOOO." "...You're telling me that this-" "...YES. THAT WAS THE WRONG, SYRINGE! "...On a scale of 1 to 10, how bad is this...?" "...How does CHERNOBYL sound, Carole?!" "Hey, guys. What does this say "SN?" "It's because you're reading it upside down..." "OOOOOH." "Now move it to the right..." "I am moving it to the right!" "No, your other right." "Gah! Stupid helmets. I can't see out of these things sometime." "I heard some new ones came out. You should put in the first order for them."

R2!

Something with a Roman Numeral 5 perhaps?

Another day in sunshine state:

Umarak the Demon by D.Niel

Ancient Ruins by Mark of Falworth

Occult Shop by Rob Bender

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

TRU: The LEGO Batman Movie Blu-Ray Combo Pack (Blu-Ray/DVD/Digital HD) : $9.99 : https://m.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=127604496&irgwc=1&iradidTRU=221294&camp=aff:TRU:10451:Slickdeals LLC&irpidTRU=10451

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

I just sold a loose Dimensions Unikitty fig for $9.99 shipped and was wondering why. I'm saving the rest until the show comes out.

First in line for Deadpool Duck and bought the Brickheadz Spidey / Venom

Never mind. I figured it out. I'm so used to doing the First Class USPS 4 lbs. cut off that I forgot I can go heavier and it just becomes Priority Mail International. Two 22x21x22 boxes at 19 and 21 lbs. about $90 each.

A fortune cookie once told me "Most of your fears are imaginary" - That was one smart cookie.

I have had quite a string of fraudulent purchases lately. Warning signs for brickpickers: 1) item purchased buy-it-now, above market price, no negotiation, immediate payment 2) buyer quickly responds asking you to ship immediately for a birthday or because they'll be out of town 3) address looked slightly odd in paypal, but was verified. 2 of them had extra spaces, or periods in the address line 4) buyers were all low feedback, but this could happen at any feedback level What I did in each situation. 1) Set your shipping policy to give you time to think about it (I pick just under the 'extended handling time' penalty, like 3 days). This allows the REAL buyer time to notice they've been hacked and contact you. Also prevents your seller rating from going down, while you wonder if you're shipping to a scammer vs meeting your 1 or 2 day shipping stats. 2) Ask yourself is this too good to be true? If so, it's probably a fraudulent purchase. 3) Ask the buyer lots of questions. If they're unable to respond after contacting you so quickly, they might be doing this many times to other sellers. Try to discern the scammer from the real mom who needs the present for Timmy by Friday. 4) Once you find out it WAS a fake purchase, Do NOT respond to a paypal request for refund. Do the refund in EBAY first by requesting the user cancel the transaction, ebay then asks you to refund the amount. Do so HERE, not in Paypal. If you refund in Paypal first, then try to cancel in Ebay, Ebay tries to get you to refund AGAIN. This bit me, and I had to call Ebay for resolution.

I think the cats behaving like I would if somebody stuck a large cylinder through the front door.

Check this thread for common box sizes. Some of the sets listed are older so you'll have to do some cross referencing. Staples used to be a good place to buy boxes when they were giving out all the coupons, but that seems to have dried up recently. I've done this but only on boxes that are trashed, usually sets from AWD. Your buying pool is slightly smaller, but as long as you're reasonable in pricing, it will sell.

Has the address of 600 Markley Street in Port Reading New Jersey been mentioned here yet? On Saturday morning I sold an Arctic Icebreaker for $160, they paid immediately and so I quickly packaged it up and headed to the post office before they closed at noon-just made it. Then, around 7pm I got a message from eBay saying it was a fraudulent purchase which had now been cancelled and to not ship the item. Well crap. I tried calling the post office- that went nowhere, couldn't get a human as it was after hours. Called eBay, they said to just call the post office on Monday morning, should be enough time to stop the shipment. Ok. This morning I do that- turns out I just need to go on the usps website and initiate a package intercept, which costs about $13. I do that and think 'good at least I'll get it back'. I keep checking the tracking number and about 4 hours later it says 'delivered'. What the heck. Then, I get an alert I've sold an item. Yay. Oh wait... It's a different name but the SAME ADDRESS! Nope! You're not getting my last Jabba sail barge you bastards! I call eBay and explain it to them, they tell me to cancel the order which I do. I get home tonight and plan on calling Paypal, I hope they will cover the cost of the Arctic icebreaker I shipped. But first I decide to google the address to see if this has happened to anyone else... Yup. Lots of people. Buyers having their accounts hacked and addresses changed to 600 Markley st. Sellers like me shipping things to that address and then the payment being refunded to the hacked "buyers" once it's discovered it's fraud. It's been going on since at least July 2016. You'd think there would be a way to flag that address in ebay's system so sellers wouldn't keep getting scammed. Apparently it's some kind of warehouse that ships the packages overseas. Well, hopefully I can get PayPal to cover the cost of set since the post office couldn't intercept it for some reason. I'll call them in the morning. Just wanted to warn everyone here to watch out for that address!

Make him eat his words.