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Stumbled upon a Jurassic World Raptor Rampage 75917 at a local Toys R Us. It seemed out of place since the series has been off the shelves for months. Scanned the thing and it came up at $0.03. Shocking deal.

I applied for a job at Sam's Club late last night, and got an interview and the job the very same morning shortly after I woke up today. I'm only 19 and an off and on college student who's been unemployed most of the past year so this is a big deal for me.

While I am getting closer to releasing a long overdue update to BrickPicker, now is a good time to release some content that I was hoping to release with the updated site. @belljohn has been talking with Ed and I for a very long time and has spent a lot of time in creating a series of Brickvesting videos that he is happy to share on the BrickPicker YouTube Channel. I am hoping to see this expand this into a bunch of different topic series and welcome any of you that are interested in working on some videos to reach out to me and we can work on it. Set reviews, investing tips, set builds, etc. It's not easy to speak for ~15 minutes, but Brook does an amazing job covering this topic. We will be publishing more videos soon from belljohn. We hope you enjoy it. Who knows, maybe soon you will see Ed showcase his amazing words of wisdom in video. That will be a real treat. View full blog article

I think my post belongs more in the Getting Out of the Game thread but here it goes. I'm small time. Was buying and selling to self fund my Lego hobby/addiction. Now it's more about time. I'd rather be spending time with my two kids and my wife instead of packing and shipping Lego sets. I still have a decent stash left but I haven't bought anything to resell in about a year. The space it takes to store sets also wore me down. My inventory spilled out of my storage room and into my bonus room and my wife didn't take it too well. Happy wife, happy life.

My oh my have times changed.....

No expert here... but I think this is one of those questions you really have to ask yourself... "What is it worth to me?" I'm not sure you'll really find a consensus here on the value of this item in the next 24 hours. For me... I dunno... I might give $350 for it? With a new one coming out, this is just another old, used Lego with missing figs.

My policy: if the buy-box price (or a little less) looks satisfactory to me, send it in. I don't worry much about sales rank, unless I have a lot to sell (I usually send in 1 of this, 3 of that... sometimes 5 or 6 of an item, but rarely more). If you match the buy-box price for sales rank 20,000 or less (and some d-bag doesn't have his software set to automatically undercut you) items usually sell within the first few hours. Sales rank 40,000 or 70,000 may take a few days. Sales rank 150,000 may take a few weeks (or may sell quickly... you never know). I am only wary of slower selling items (sales rank > 100,000 ) in that I won't send in multiples of those items... no need to send in 4 or 6 of those... they may be in storage a month or two, and I don't like storage fees. If the one you send in sells quickly, send in another.

Rumors of an Obi Wan movie making the rounds on the net

1 more time and we got...

Maybe I'm him. And maybe I said that because I know I would run this contest and I wanted to throw you off.

I am an old, beaten down married man with a brat seven year old...What do you think?

That's a free steak dinner buy. My ToysRUs would say, "Thanks for finding this, we can't sell it to you." It would then disappear.

This is not eBay but Kijiji. There's a trade that supposed to take place with a NIB set. The other party in all email correspondences mentioning his set is mint and box is perfect . He insisted on to discuss over phone further. On calling and probing further, then only I realized that the set is built. I think he is desperate to trade as he kept insisting I got a better deal. In the end I called it off. With the shady behaviour, I am not sure even the set is complete in the first place.

My sources tell me they've ditched any internal frame, and instead packed its hollowness full of Galidor figures and K'nex pieces. ?

I think we have something in common.

They would just say, "Thanks for finding these, we can't sell them to you", then they'd disappear.

Yes, I noticed at least 3 times I said the wrong information, but the text should be right. I am going to post the data and photos in a day or two for everyone to see to go along with it. Thanks for watching. I have a lot more written up, but give me more ideas if you have them.

So watch and wait. It´s not like there aren´t more and it´s a buyers market unless the new one looks like my avatar. Buying an incomplete one with no box to resells is madness ATM, in my opinion unless the price is RRP or below. BTW how much is it at now?

Hi! mi name is Francisco I am new to the forum, I am from Mexico (Guadalajara) I have been enjoying lego since I was 12 (now I am 39) and now proudly an AFOL, my biggest Lego project is my town, but enjoy building other themes too... Hope to make new e-friends and connections! Regards

The ship has pretty much sailed for big sets, so it's safer to stick to this mindset. That doesn't stop me from collecting them.

Someone on Reddit posted this: Personally...I see it.

Here's the first picture I've seen of the other winter vignette set. Looks pretty nice.

I do not understand why does the theme need to define the quality of the set. The price point is very good as the set is large. Who cares what is written on the box, LEGO is about the build. Speaking about AFOLs, 'adult' means that they are supposed to have the brain capacity not to be influenced by the branding in choosing which set to build. You say yourself that it is an 'incredible design and likely interesting build'. If you think so, then listen to yourself, buy it and enjoy it.

Dang, this set is bigger than I was expecting...

$0.03 finds are the best finds. Almost the only reason to even go in a TRU at this point.

Frustration free return it will be then. I wonder how they ship eggs.

Nope, I have my fill.

They saved you the frustration of opening the shipping box

I´d hold off 2 more weeks and observe prices like a hawk in the meantime. The new one will bring the value of the old one down unless it is mint and numbered so it is best to wait and let the sellers sweat.

I'm sure there's "rocket enhancement" kits available in the back of some magazines...

let's hope they blow the last ones out at 50% off again!

Besides them telling us which factory it came from, what are they supposed to tell us? It's not like Lego slaps a SEOL code on there to let us know that the sets at it's end of life .

both statements are compatible largest lego star wars set and largest lego set at least I hope

Here is some signage from a LEGO Store. So...which is it - Biggest SW set ever, or biggest set ever?

As long as I get one to build I will be happy. First run, numbered, not numbered, don't care. Buying to build and enjoy. Can't wait till vip early access. It will be a glorious day.

Compare it to Sea Cow, very similar in terms of positioning. This is larger and more detailed, thus maybe a bit better potential, but still should be close to it. In any case, no D2C has set a large long term potential now, market got saturated and too competitive. People here have to keep in mind that the golden age was good not just because of the low number of investors. The low number of D2C sets released so far at those times meant a much smaller universe of collectable sets and variety. Also, LEGO kept a lower amount of sets in production, so people ran out faster from in-production sets and needed to resort to shop the retired market sooner. Now anybody coming out of the dark ages (i.e. the market for retired sets) faces a plethora of choices. LEGO has an obscene amount of sets in production with discounts coming back. The retired market has such a selection that you do not even know what to get. Long term investments for D2C sets in my opinion is pretty much over for this reason. Better gains can be made on smaller and short production sets. People are less reluctant to pay triple on a $20 set than a $200 one.

I hate this set already

Even you with the seals man...

Yes. LEGO back doors parts into BL stores, particularly German BL stores. This is known.

To extend the build fun, LEGO has implemented its first "sticker for each brick" set! You will receive a full complement of stickers to apply to an entire box of white bricks. We have even provided white stickers for the white bricks so no part of the experience is lost!

The Brick Fan reported this is available at Legoland California.

Dude...talking like Jar Jar...that's a double jinx on that post.

meesa only bubble back highly collectible items or sets that either require bubble wrapping by amazon or are over $300 in value. i use the single walled home depot boxes with padding that would only go on the top . haven't had any distributor damaged items in over 2 years ( i realize i just jinxed my self )

I pack them in double-walled boxes without any extra padding in the bottom or around the sides. If there is a big void at the top, I'll fill that sometimes, but not always. I've never had a problem doing this. Bubble wrapping each set is complete overkill.

Or she caught her BPer husband with another woman, and she's revenge selling off his stash.

Finally all here. My SDCC collection is complete once more!

I have done that, but it belongs in the ethics thread.