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Today I sold a 75059 Sandcrawler via CL - thinning out some inventory to pay for recent Walmart clearance buys (and clearing space for those sets). At the end of the transaction, the guy says "Do you like beer?" I thought to myself "weird question to ask in this sale, at noon in a church parking lot" but I said "Uh, yea, a lot." He says "then I have some home brew for you." I say "does this involve me giving you back some of this cash?" He says "no, it involves me brewing way too much beer." So he gives me a 6 pack of 3 different brews with a spreadsheet of what they are. Says wait 2-4 weeks on the Voodoo Baby. I asked what if I really like one and want to buy more? He says "I can't sell it, but I'd trade for things like Lego." I told him I'd keep his email address just in case. So, seems legit, hopefully I'm still alive after drinking the first bottle.

I can't believe I'm typing this...my money is going to ninjago.

someone pretty famous is building the Disney Castle using all the incorrect ergonomics

Picked this up last night. All bags and the two sub-boxes still sealed. Tempted to build, tempted to flip. #brickpickerlife

This made me laugh. Very good!

We've been mentioning it to Jeff, repeatedly.

again, this is just my opinion. the out result is clearly not lego's fault. lego just followed the design art / stills given to them. heck, i'm sure the scenes with this super-sized "planet of the apes" AT-AT cool will be cool during the movie the lego model just looks like a regular AT-AT mashed with something that didn't make the Chima cut and then finished off with a michael bay inspired transformers bearded face.

Either everyone is having short term memory loss and rewriting messages they forgot they had already sent, or things are a little buggy round here today.

That hurts my back just looking at the photo

Yeah unfortunately not a rare find.

Those orders will probably be cancelled.

No, I got them early with rewards in some get rich quick scheme that never panned out

Probably my age, but it's Shere Khan in the Jungle Book for me. Every good baddie must have an English accent.

It's like wanting a horse but settling on a donkey.

still having trouble digesting it .

There are also some rumors that the bricks are 2.56 times bigger... I assume these should reflect it....

Toontown Street by Chris Goddard

You don't say.

Going rate is now $200

It's the Ninjago Movie Fire Mechs, cooooool

I like how it looks and dig the gorilla look. To me it looks more menacing then the original AT-AT. It would be cool if in the movie the AT-AT stands on his back legs..?

I'm going to grab one since I missed the original AT-AT. I know I'm in the minority opinion but I do like how it really looks like a lumbering gorilla. Maybe it'll swat those pesky Rebel scum!

I am just trying to understand what the upsetness is about. Is it the design or that it was just another remake like the death star?

Yes. This was a gift with purchase at Toys R Us. They were priced at $6.99 each (I think) for individual purchase. There was a similar one for Nexo Knights as well (5004390), except that was a gift with purchase at LEGO.

I hear that they will be adding some flapping wings for the episode 9 version.

To me, it's scary how little imagination has been displayed by LucasFilm so far. Neaely every vehicle including this one is clearly based on something from the OT. This vehicle is another rip-off. Maybe the First Order found full factories and factories of unused Death Star, Tie-Fighter and At-At parts... As a Lego set, it looks too much like a Transformer. I'm passing.

Aachen by Utanapishtim

Oh wow. I guess now I do have to consider the Force gripping master of darkness a Disney villain now. ....That just seems weird no matter how I try spinning it. Still I don't know though. I'm pretty sure Maleficent could kick his Sith ass.

email notifications down ?

I'm still figuring that out as I traded some sets from my stockroom (nothing special) and some other non-Lego items plus cash. All on all, when all things considered I got it for less than what people are paying for used ones.

Does DV count ? If not , maleficent is badass, dragon and all ... evil queen from snow white used to terrify me as a kid after she transforms .

This popped up on CL for $100 so I picked it up. Not a steal by any means but a cool set to have. May be good trade bait at some point. He had the 50 years of trains for $150 but I passed on that for now.

My daughter is performing in Peter Pan at a local theater this week. So we've had Peter Pan playing lately. Not the most politically correct movie, lol. Between Hook smoking, and "What makes the red man red?", oh boy.

Captain Hook is the man. Especially the Dustin Hoffman version

That's a tough question. Scar is the most evil in my book. Killed his brother and framed his nephew all for the sake of power. Pure evil. But my favorite? Jafar. He almost hooked up with Jasmine and that puts him up there with all the great villains.

CL isn't exactly the bastion of humanity but this scumbag is the worst I have dealt with to date. Guy posts an ad with horrible pictures and says he will accept a reasonable offer. I take a stab at an offer based more on his text than anything and even let him know I was offering without knowing what he really had. The next morning I get a "I accept your offer" reply, and we send back and forth 6 emails confirming time, address, pickup, etc etc. In terms of deals, this was done complete in the books ready to go. Meanwhile I spend a large part of my day (sick, staying home from work) researching what I can about the lot and themes he claimed to have and it looks like a good deal. An hour before our transaction (11 hours and 6 emails after he accepted) I get an email telling me the price has gone up but I am welcome to stop by and make a new offer. Hey clown, FU. I admit I have had pretty good luck with CL so this may be tame to some. Got a bad story? Share it and let the healing begin!

I said that wrong. Lol LEGO's best designers are on Ninjago. Their most creative designers are in SW. Because it takes some real creativity to figure out a new way to make another A-Wing, MF, that is not an exact duplicate but has just enough tweaks to it. Where the hell are you going to tweak it? That's the challenge. And until Lucasfilm starts pumping out truly new designs, they have nothing better to do that rehash rehash rehash.

In for 100.

Mine shipped too although I didn't receive any cancellation requests. Can't wait to see what colored curtains I'm getting!

Apologies for the really crap cutting and pasting, but when I saw this set originally, I thought ugh, the OT At-At is so much better, but side by side I don't think it looks too bad. A bit more Battlestar Galactica than the original At-At, which isn't all bad. I do think the box art for The Last Jedi sets is horrible though, don't like the white at all.

God yeah, those wheelers scared the bejaysus out of me when I was seven.

Cruella de Vil.

RIP Glen Campbell

I think people are highly overestimating the amount of buyers who are looking to spend $1k+ on a set. Obviously a lot less people will be able to afford scooping up UCS Falcons to resell compared to most other sets, but there will still be enough that this will be no different than any other set where people will be fighting for the slimmest margins possible in no time.

I did not buy it, but I bought the parts to make it !!!

If it were anywhere else, yes. But LEGOLAND California considers these and minifigs to be impulse buys so they jack the price to $4.99.

I really like this... Plus, you can use minifigs if you want... I'll definitely be buying a copy of this.