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It really feels like there are several camps, and each is in a different state of mind. The "buy and wait" crowd is out, as sets no longer seem to be rising over time like they used to. The "Amazon FBA crowd" has an insatiable set of buyers and can turn cheap Lego into profit without much effort or thought, so they don't care. The "just flipping some sets to pay for my collection" crowd is somewhere in between, depending on how badly they did selecting sets in 2015. But rehashing the same arguments on thread after thread is tiresome. Oh and the fourth is "bitter Euros", who are just bitter European resellers who complain endlessly and then come back the next day to continue complaining. You know who you are.

So just to get away from the stock issue talk. I actually started building mine last night, I never had 10179 and have never even seen one, so the size of this thing astounds me. I'm building it on a 6 seat kitchen table and I'm still short of room. Luckily most of the build is modular so far, so I can put the main model to one side while building then add it to the frame when all pieces have been used up. I know that some are hard-core and want to build this opening and sorting all bags at once but I can't imagine the scale of workspace you'd need to do that. I'm around 1/3 of the way through the build and got through ep IV,V,VI in the background while building. Only annoyance so far is the stickers, why oh why could they not have printed them. Especially the large ones supposed to represent the corridors which are difficult to place and adjust. Yeah £650 is a hell of a lot of money for a retail Lego set, but I don't regret it for one second and those who are struggling to get hold of one, don't give up, it's worth the wait.

I'd take an excited signature over some dude I'll never know any day of the week

Here are a few more that code works on. And I was wrong, it does work on some high value sets. LEGO City Jungle Air Drop Helicopter (60162) LEGO City Volcano Heavy-lift Helicopter (60125) LEGO Technic Porsche 911 GT3 RS (42056) LEGO Technic Bucket Wheel Excavator (42055) LEGO Technic Bucket Wheel Excavator (42055) LEGO City High-Speed Passenger Train (60051) LEGO Technic Mercedes-Benz Arocs 3245 (42043) LEGO Technic 6X6 All Terrain Tow Truck (42070) LEGO City Airport Vip Service (60102) LEGO City Volcano Exploration Truck (60121) LEGO City Volcano Crawler (60122) LEGO City Van and Caravan (60117) LEGO City Police High-speed Chase (60138) LEGO City Police Tow Truck Trouble (60137) LEGO City Great Vehicles Sweeper & Excavator (60152) LEGO City Great Vehicles 4x4 with Catamaran (60149) LEGO City Great Vehicles Pizza Van (60150) LEGO City Great Vehicles Race Plane (60144) LEGO City Service Station (60132) LEGO Technic Claas Xerion 5000 Trac Vc (42054) LEGO City Fire Boat (60109) LEGO Technic Ocean Explorer (42064) LEGO Technic Heavy Lift Helicopter (42052) This is not a complete or official list. Just those that I have been able to get the code to work on. They seem to be mostly Technic and City, but not all of them, as well as The Speed Champions. I was not able to find one Superheros or Star Wars that it works on. Check for yourself and you may find others that work too.

That poor little boy, bottom right, in the yellow shirt. He needs his own festival.

That's one

I think that´s a very valid summary but it does not preclude people jumping from one camp to another as the market evolves. IIRC @TabbyBoy, @Ciglione, @KShine and myself (amongst many others) were certainly not complaining back in the day (we were too busy selling) when there were easier pickings from modulars, Star Wars and even City and the first IDEAS sets, which made a lot of people very very wealthy and saw no other way than the high priest of Lego investing @emazers business model. Another point is that the European buyers may be a minority on this forum, but Europe has a bigger population and GDP than the US. On the other hand, there is much greater diversity country by country and "union" is now an oxymoron. When some of us started saying there would be difficult times ahead more than 2 years ago now, we were a minute minority but we were proved right - within our market and selling context. It was clear that too many people were getting in on speculating with the same dogmatic buy and hold plan and no plan B. TLG already recognised falling US (and now European too) demand was one of the main reasons for declining results, so you guys are clearly not immune to the virus - maybe you´ll just catch it later. Gingerbread House lady has a lot of work on her hands.

Somebody might have mentioned it a time or two.

I only want to hear about the hype machine .. plz & ty

People with low budgets previously would buy the official lego sets. Even if they were more expensive due to retirement and scarcity. They just had to safe money for some time to be able to buy them. There simply were no alternatives. Now with the knock-offs they have a cheaper alternative. So they can buy more sets for less money. Just my 0.02

Just finished up ucs y-wing. I like this build, the detail on the ship is well done. It seems to hold up against repeated fuzzball attacks too! (I'm fostering those guys for local spca)

The nice thing about previous years was also that there were many more mom's and pop's shops to go to and find already retired sets at nice prices. So when you got home and you would be entering your purchases in your brickfolio those sets already showed a nice profit. That was awesome! And very satisfactory. Now unfortunately those times are over. Many smaller shops have closed or are already depleted by my dear collegues. Add to this that previously the investor community was more serious and did not have the urge to sell their sets at ridiculously low prices. There was more of a telepathic agreement amongst resellers to keep the prices up at a certain level. I guess many people here can relate to what I wrote above.

At S@H, you can now get the Ninjago Green Dragon poly and the Lloyd poly for purchases over $50.

I'm sure we all have funny stories, but this find was more random than others. I purchased about 8 lbs of older Lego that had been sitting in a garage. A lot of space stuff so my weakness.... Gosh darn it, they had a funky smell right off the bat. So bad I said forget it about stickers or anything else and put them in the washing machine. Better, but not good enough. 2nd time washing machine. After the 3rd time it was tolerable , so I start sorting........... A CLOVE OF GARLIC in the box?!?!?! Sorry, I had to tell that story. It's 1 am and I'm tired of seeing my MILF say backordered

And henceforth September the 4th shall forever be known as "Ginger-Gate". Every year on 9/4 we shall hire bloggers to hype up a previously modestly successful gwp, and we will wager on which one will go viral. I am pulling for VW-gate. And would loathe Globe-gate as I just sold my last.

I ended up just raising my minimum purchase. First $5, $10 and now $15. I sell sets now more than loose pieces. But I'll still get a larger order about once a month for $20 worth of loose brick and minifigs. Now, I kind of use minimum purchase as a way to control how busy I want to be. Or rather how busy my real job is, and how little time I have to dedicate to my store.

After bags 1 & 2, normal amount of extras Then bags "3" just decided to have everything left over.

...and on The Price is Right!

Only on brickpicker is something a scam or theft at all times

Better start all over...LOL

76048 The S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier on sale 20% off $319.99. 2 Left I think. https://www.amazon.ca/LEGO-Superheroes-The-Shield-Helicarrier/dp/B00NHQFMKM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506102716&sr=8-1&keywords=lego+helicarrier (Couldn't find generic Amazon.ca thread to post this to and I think we should have one...)

I can think of better sets to buy for investment than either . They are both terrible investments imho

I ordered it from Klarity design - their website is glassfurniture.co.uk. I sent them an email with sizes and they made a custom design for me. I ordered it a bit too big size wise, so the cost inflated to £1,500 - its pretty thick glass. I don't think you can see from the photo but the only way you can get into this is to lift the entire glass structure off the base, and it takes two people to do this. Looking back I think I would have preferred one of the panels to open on one of the sides to make access easier.

I'm not convinced this set is that expensive / low profit for TLG. at the end of the day it's manufactured in an automated process and boxed up. Apart from Disney licensing they have no third party costs, it's their product after all. No need for any special components. Sure it's heavy but many things are. It's very expensive I think there is plenty of profit for TLG. Its more expensive than many large kitchen appliances and electronics such as fridges and TVs, yet those can be shipped or stocked in store and make the sellers a margin. actually I think it gives TLG really god value, it's like they are selling 10 mid-size sets in one sale but with only one unit to shift. i think TLG will do just fine £€$-wise

Reason 1 would be the only reason I would consider divesting since it's only part time to collect what I really want. Scammers a dime a dozen out there.

I'm still over 100%. Selling regularly. My death stars are dragging me down. But clearing them out one at a time.

Starwars.com has a breakdown of the airing schedule for the first 9 episodes. They will be airing episodes back-to-back from October 16th-November 13th followed by a holiday break and will return in January 2018. Monday, 10/16 – “Heroes of Mandalore” Parts 1 & 2 Monday, 10/23 – “In the Name of the Rebellion” Parts 1 & 2 Monday, 10/30 – “The Occupation” and “Flight of the Defender” Monday, 11/6 – “Kindred” and “Crawler Commandeers” Monday, 11/13 – “Rebel Assault” Six episodes will presumably air in 2018 leading up to the series finale. Star Wars Rebels Season 4 will air on various time slots each Monday including 9:30 a.m., 3:00 a.m., 7:30 a.m., 5:30 p.m., and 9:00 p.m. ET on Disney XD, the Disney App, and VOD, per Lucasfilm.

Worth more than the signature of the Lego designer who didn't design 75192?

Shocking. Thought I was retiring off this

duh, no thumb ...what was i thinking

To heavy? Thought you could handle any set now...

Speaking of shipping overseas somebody in the USA got one of those signed 75192 London boxes. You can subtract this one out @Val-E looks like customes wanted to see what's inside the box.

I have found no list but have tried it on a great many sets, especially all high value ones. The only other that I have found it to work on is one of their exclusives, LEGO City Police Auto Transport Heist (60143)

I'd probably will end up with ordering this display. http://allegro.pl/gablota-na-lego-ucs-millenium-falcon-10179-75192-i6963054383.html#thumb/3 Pure acrylic display with black bottom also acrylic. Price approx 96-97 GBP which is reasonable.

Lego Brand Stores =/= Lego Certified Stores

Stacks with all of the Speed Champions stuff.

I'd go with the leading vote getter.

I´d argue that buying is more fun - till it gets out of control. Finding FB´s or TH´s and Dragon Sanctuaries long after they sold out or waiting it out for that 70% clearance are hugely satisfying. I understand that nowadays with more clearances and the retiring soon tags, buying has become much less interesting.

Finally got a hold of instructions for my little Record Store. Now just waiting for the stickers to come in. Cute little Modular.

So I managed to alter my excel sheet enough to bulk upload all my sets... I updated my splash/terms/shipping pages and opened the doors early this morning. Got my first sale this afternoon, invoiced it right away and buyer paid right away. Kinda neat! And if anyone is curious .. a Santa's Workshop for $1 less than the next cheapest set on Bricklink from Canadian Sellers. Need to get some sales experience. Some sets I wanted to "sell" I opted to undercut by a dollar or two, others I went a few bucks more. And some I don't want to part with I priced around where I'd like to be when they do sell.

Wow. This might be one of the craziest deals I ever found. I just left Savers (a goodwill type store). Found a big bag of Legos marked $9.99. I had a 30% off coupon, so I paid $7. I wasn't sure what was in the bag, but it was big enough to be worth it to me. Looked like a lot of white and blue so I was assuming some kind of city police stuff. Didn't see any minifigures so I was a little disappointed, but I saw a some numbered bags so that's cool. I got in the truck and open it up. Start pulling out all sealed bags. Lots of white and blue. Oh look, an instruction manual. Woah. It's a freaking UCS R2D2! All bags present and sealed. Instructions never opened.

Got in the door from the airport tonight and this was waiting for me... I officially have the best wife ever. I can't believe she went to the store for opening and then dragged this beast through the mall!

Dark Gizmoduck????

TRU: 20% off all Speed Champions: https://www.toysrus.com/family?categoryid=60532996 30% off select LEGO sets: https://www.toysrus.com/search?q=101688sep17

Recent FBA Sales: $56 - 75080 AAT ($11) $40 - 41131 Friends 2016 Advent ($8) $42 - 60078 Utility Shuttle ($5) $50 - 60118 Garbage Truck ($12) I also sold a 2013 dented Friends advent on Ebay for $50. Who said the advent market is dead I wish I had bought tons of these garbage trucks from Target last Christmas, but there was so much else to buy I only grabbed a handful.

Toysrus.com has many sets marked down 20% - 30% off, some off RRP and some off TRURP. I hope these prices hold out for TRUTH. It appears all Speed Champions are 20% off. Here are a couple highlights: 60098 - City: Heavy Haul Train - $139.99 (30% off) 70912 - LBM: Arkham Asylum - $104.99 (30% off)

Picked up a 310 Esso Station recently and got round to building it. It's in really nice condition for it's age, probably around 55 years old.

I received an order for a quarter once. What's the point of spending $3 (after shipping) for 1 piece? Then I realized that I was screwed too. Paying ~5% on $3, not $0.25, plus the $0.35 per transaction fee. I sometimes wonder if people place those small orders on purpose to teach us a lesson.

Picked this up while breaking my keyboard ordering 75192. Thought I'd share some pictures of the wallmount that I did. Ended up taking down my support structure for the UCS Tie Fighter and harvesting those pieces and a few others I had lying around. The bottom support bears the entire weight of the set while the upper support is purely for stability. Both are on Stage 1, so playtability and "show and tell" are not adversely affected. Next step...lights!

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