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I feel like this is @exciter1 after every post.

I personally think TLG made a crap load of these after seeing @TabbyBoy was back in the game.

This is all I have

I know that it doesn't matter to TLG or anyone else, but I'm done buying multiples of anything except for a couple sealed collections I'll have to keep going (Ideas and modulars). Other than those two themes, I won't be buying more than one of anything anymore (and at most I'll only buy two of anything from those themes). I had cut my buying way back over the past 18-24 months anyway, but this rerelease has ended any interest I had left in messing with LEGO products for profit down the road. I sold my last sealed Taj and all but one sealed first edition 10179 (that I'm keeping) last year. In the last 3 years I've sold off a few hundred thousand dollars worth of my collection with the intention of holding on to some things and adding small amounts going forward. Now that this rerelease has come about, I'll be selling off everything I have left that isn't part of my personal building or small sealed collections. I'll still buy and collect for my collection because I enjoy it and like the product, but beyond that it's just another thing to collect now.

Picked up a great lot today from Facebook marketplace. $100 for everything. Black pearl, western stuff, Atlantis stuff... lots of baseplates. Some instructions. I enjoy sorting this kind of lot and figuring out what goes to what set.

Original box, bricks, figs and stickers. 100% complete. Hey LEGO, remake this ****!

They want everyone to have a 'meh'ry Christmas.

Don't discount Moms who want to buy gifts to help instill strong Female rolls in todays society.

Bought a few Women of Exo Suits.

I think I just found my favourite buyer to date. What do you look for in a buyer, lots of cash, high margin items, loads of repeat sales, no, better than that, one woman took all the junk sets €160 cash for the following: Aaron Fox' Aero Striker V2 General Magmar's Siege Machine of Destruction Clone Troopers vs Droidekas battle pack Exo-Suit - whoop whoop Droid Escape Pod Spiderman: Ghost Rider team Up About €70 profit, but who cares what the profit was, she took the crap off my hand.

It's a sickness and I find them entertaining.

Well, back on the NASA topic.

I don’t have any and think this is a horrible decision.

Waiting for the pictures of 99 of these in someone's basement

Just finished this up, figured I'd post it up. The goal was to leave the Haunted House set untouched but to build around it. I also wanted to be able to open the house. All in all I'm happy with how it turned out. Thoughts and comments appreciated.

kinda mesmerizing until I realize where it is leading my eyes to

I couldn't justify anything beyond two nasa sets to get to 100 bucks for another advent calendar, that is sad that full price lego isn't worth it.

Women of NASA up for pre-order at Amazon. Has this been up for a while? https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Ideas-Women-21312-Building/dp/B071W77MBJ/

Also, tomorrow is senior citizen day, so an extra 15% off entire purchase will stack as well. I may need to drag the old fella out of the house tomorrow.

can we just go with WoN ?

At least I’m attempting to contribute.

I didn't think that the Saturn V was capable of sustaining a crew all the way to Uranus.

this set is being heavily promoted on some popular "girl" blogs which is going to end up driving stock outage at least in US. my optimism is returning. when i told my wife it was on A MIGHTY GIRL blog, her face went flat like i was telling her jacoby and meyers was on the case. buy a few more was all she said.

I was sure you photoshopped him in. haha

Buy through Rakuten using the GIVE10 code for $10 off of $40. Have to choose TRU as the seller, and a cheap filler to get to $40, but it worked for me! Total was around $33.

That is not how marketing works

I dont have any and I also think this is a bad decision only because this is a re-release of a set that only really has adult appeal. If this was a set for a child and/or a child at heart with play features and such, I wouldn't mind and would say it is better for the brand to cater to the toy market. This set is not that and kills the collectible nature of Lego. I would feel bad for anyone with 10189 thinking it was a legacy collectible set whether they had the intention of selling or not. It's like if you had Barry Bond's last home run ball of his career and all sudden he came back to hit a couple more. Not the best example but there is still intrinsic value that is lost now that there is more around.

Let it be known if it turns out hot. You could buy hundreds with ease. Probably thousands.

more like an end cap in a target in a florida

How many remake threads to we currently have on the go and which one is the original?

I don't. I will sell it to them just the same and enjoy it more. I just feel sorry for their kid who opens this up, hoping it was a Barbie.

Not @exciter1, he tells us a little too much at times.

Probably a silly question, but this inquiring mind wants to know. Does Target ban for too many returns or returns of the same item?

hoping a few big dogs chomp it up so its not an endless parade of penny undercutters .

I sent out an email to LEGO asking them when the Black VIP Cards will sent out and here is what I got. "The Millennium Falcon VIP cards are currently being produced and should reach all the consumers who purchased a Millennium Falcon around the end of November. Thank you for your patience and understanding." Same information that @GregP got from a LEGO Store except they stated they are being produced at this time.

Yes it was almost simultaneous. It said it would ship when it became available on.....NOW! And then I had to call my cc company bc Lego thinks I’m a fraud every time! Ohhhh maybe it’s my wife telling them to decline every Lego purchase!!! Makes more sense!

In the past week I've been to 5 stores - 1 at 30%, 3 at 50% and 1 at 60% that was marked 50%. This was the painful one... I go to buy 2 Fire Dragons marked $37@. Perfect, as they should ring up at $37 total, less $5/35 coupon & $5/30 in points. But at 60% off they rang at $14.80@, or $29.60, just low enough to miss the coupon and the points. I always use the scanners, but this particular low-rent neighborhood has seen all their scanners destroyed by 'customers'. Lesson learned... get the scanned price no matter what.

Here's a rumor??... ...upon receiving your Black MF Card you are entitled to One Free Beer at LEGO LAND (1 per day) as a lifeTime Perk. ???

I might be wrong but that could be the same source code Lego use for SAH search function when you sort by price and display all items. Either that or Russian roulette.

Yes.

Turning someone's rare collection of UCS, Modulars, Taj, Liberty, Eiffel, Christmas, etc. sets into 100-200 sets will have a lasting effect on buyers. Many will want nothing to do with LEGO going forward, as it will only serve as a reminder that they are getting screwed.

There will no doubt be some initial interest and some good sales but it wouldn’t surprise me, if after that, this then becomes a bit of a slow burner like the SOH. Price point is also a lot higher than other architecture sets so is a consideration for buyers. The reason why this was sought after by collectors (including myself) was because of its scarcity and until recently the largest set ever. As a result the price was what it was (apologies to those who have NISB versions in their inventory!) and ultimately another reason to have this in your collection. Now that it is being re-released I’m not actually too sure I will get one, due to: 1) the size of it - where am I going to put it? 2) it looks like a very repetitive and boring build 3) there is no longer the wow factor of this being a rare piece, since people can just pick it up (no doubt from any retailer in six months time) 4) if it gets anywhere near sunlight it will lose it brilliant white shine A number of my fellow AFOLs at my LUG were discussing this and this seems to be the universal view. It is this demographic that ultimately is the buyers that lego are targeting for this set, not the masses. So in my opinion this is an own goal by Lego, since not only will sales of this be lacklustre but it will probably harm sales of other large exclusive sets that they would normally get from resellers and also from those builders who buy one to build/display and another mint one for storage to sell on in a few years for a bit of profit. This will just not happen now since the threat of remake is so big now. Those who fall into the latter category are probably much larger in numbers and sales volumes than the resellers. Sorry Julia, but you and your corporate strategy team may have miscalculated. Having a large set on the shelf that has a high price point that doesn’t shift isnt going to get you back to double digit growth. It may have reduced your high cost base in terms of your R&D costs and to a certain extent improved your operating profit but ultimately not your revenues and NIBBT which is what is important to determine the health of a company. Maybe it’s time to get Mckinseys in and get rid of BCG?

You should do some research... https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/lego-group/annual-report

I don't own the original and I won't buy this one, it's not something I'm interested in... what gets under my skin is "we did if for the fans asking for re-releases." What a pile of ****. Don't treat us like we're stupid.

Wish they would re-release sets from the vault that people cared about...