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So, wait, I just have to buy a hundred-fortysomething Microfighters and I get a free UCS Falcon? I declare fanatical support of this deal.

https://www.toysrus.com/product?productId=85850196 Volvo Technic 42053 59.99

New set replacing the retiring 40165 - Wedding Favor set from 2016:

"Steamed" "Train" LOL No pun intended? Wow they are really off "track" with their shipping protocols

Used the double membership discount and some discounted GCs to purchase the following at 3 different B&Ns today: 10615 Duplo My First Tractor 2x$5.30, 1x$5.98 (MSRP: $14.99, 60-65% off) 31059 Sunset Street Bike 4x$7 (MSRP: $19.99, 65% off) 41123 Foal Washing Station 1x$3.48, 1x$3.98 (MSRP: $9.99, 60-65% off) 31048 Lakeside Lodge 1x$10.45 (MSRP: $29.99, 65% off) 41309 Andrea's Musical Duet 3x$3.52, 1x$3.98 (MSRP: $9.99, 60-65% off) 60151 Dragster Transporter 1x$10.63, 1x$11.98 (MSRP: $29.99, 60-65% off) 70623 Ninjago Destiny's Shadow 1x$10.63, 1x$11.98 (MSRP: $29.99, 60-65% off) 60149 4x4 with Catamaran 1x$7.98 (MSRP: $19.99, 60% off) 75153 AT-ST Walker 1x$19.51, 1x22.37 (MSRP: $39.99, 40-44% off) One of the GCs was bought at Meijer, earned a $10 reward, used it with Santa Bucks to get 1x41300 Puppy Championship for $3.99 after 15% off sales price (MSRP $19.99, 80% off). Also, for the first time ever did one of the B&N associates find sets in the back room for which their website showed inventory but the sets weren't on the shelf. Score!

I bought this 20 lb lot locally off FB marketplace for $250. I exceeded my typical price per pound because I saw something I needed for my personal collection

Just bought 20 sets with 30% and 50% discounts, combined with 20% member discount and 10-15% discounted GCs for 60-65% off total. Will post full list later in the what did you buy thread. It was a good day ...

7 new sets on US LEGO Shop at Home with Jan 1 release . These look pretty cool. We get our first "little" box minecraft sets here. And FINALLY a chicken. 21138 - The Melon Farm - msrp $14.99 - 21139 - The Nether Fight - $14.99 21140 - The Chicken Coop - $19.99 21141 - The Zombie Cave $19.99 21142 - The Polar Igloo - $29.99 21143 - The Nether Portal - $39.99 21144 - The Farm Cottage - $49.99

FBA since November. Quantities and buy-in not included cause I'm too lazy to figure them out right now. 31039 Blue Power Jet - $79 31019 Forest Animals - $26 41107 Pop Star Limo - $50 76036 Carnage's Shield Sky Attack - $35 Raptor Rampage 75917 - $110 Juniors Lost Temple 10725 - $50 Princess Ariel's Magical Kiss 41052 - $72 Avengers Quinjet City Chase 76032 - $109 Raptor Escape Set #75920 - $200 Avenjet Space Mission 76049 - $69 Princess Elsa's Sparkling Ice Castle 41062 - $75 41103 Pop Star Recording Studio - $26 Heartlake Shopping Mall Building Set 41058 - $210 Doc McStuffins' Pet Vet Care 10828 - $30 Pteranodon Capture 75915 - $50 70128 Braptor's Wing Striker - $22 10672 Batman: Defend the Bat Cave - $80 41093 Heartlake Hair Salon - $43 Juniors Beach Trip (10677) - $30 Space Starter Set (60077) - $30 Indominus Rex Breakout 75919 - $259 (a couple a bit higher) First Order Transporter 75103 - $107 Green Lantern vs. Sinestro - $40 Demolition Site (60076) - $172 21118 The Mine - $199 T. Rex Tracker 75918 - $170 Deep Sea Explorers 60092 - $80 Arctic Helicrane 60034 - $64 Princess Cinderella's Romantic Castle 41055 - $138 21117 The Ender Dragon - $150 Jungle Rescue Base Building Set 41038 - $79 Microfighters Series 1 TIE Interceptor (75031) - $38 Creative Building Box Set 10704 - $47 41057 Heartlake Horse Show - $130 Naboo Starfighter 75092 - $68 Emily Jones & the Baby Wind Dragon 41171 - $40 Adventure Camp Rafting 41121 - $44 41053 Cinderella's Dream Carriage - $38 City Demolition Starter Set (60072) - $33 Death Star Final Duel 75093 - $114 60025 Grand Prix Truck - $89 41104 Pop Star Dressing Room - $60 41078 Skyra's Mysterious Sky Castle - $150 41178 The Dragon Sanctuary - $250 Arctic Outpost 60035 - $69 Arctic Helicrane 60034 - $64 Dilophosaurus Ambush 75916 - $60 General Grevious- 75112 - $44 Star Wars 75146 Advent Calendar - $45 Arctic Base Camp 60036 - $153 Saturn V 21309 - $189 Space Port 60080 - $136

If you buy any Star Wars LEGO set on shop.lego.com right now, you get 100 points for EVERY SW set you buy. There are still microfighters left...

It sure looks like Amazon... ( •_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ is going off the rails. (⌐■_■) YEEEEEEEEAH!

There was a useful post that I thought had been stickied but obviously not that explains all the Lego stock labels and how a set does the dance before retirement. Which is what this set is doing. However this kind of stuff should be kept to retiring soon speculation thread this one is literally for when a set is marked retired on LEGO Shop at Home

One (1) 2339 - Brick, Arch 1x5x4 in White for $6 shipped.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015OYWEBO/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 LEGO Creator Expert Winter Toy Shop 8 left and 66+

got my falcon today in the lego store. super awesome. went to the movie too. good day all around

It's been an interesting start as a reseller. Lego Set Number Purchase Price Sale Price 75038 Jedi Interceptor $19.00 $65 75103 First Order Transporter $21.00 $85 Lego Dimensions Starter Pack #1 (3 Fun Packs) $10.00 $42 Lego Dimensions Starter Pack #1 (2 Fun Packs) $7.50 $38 76038 Attack on Avenger's Tower $30.00 $115 60092 Deep Sea Explorers Submarine $20.00 $40 75103 First Order Transporter $21.00 $90 7590 Scooby Doo Mystery Museum $7.00 $26 75902 Scooby Doo Mystery Machine $14.90 $50 Ninjago Display Case $1.00 $25 75150 Vadar's Advance TIE vs A Wing Starfighter $22.50 $85 40195 Friends Emma's House $35.00 $80 41130 Friends Amusement Park Roller Coaster $10.00 $75 41130 Friends Amusement Park Roller Coaster $10.00 $70 21125 Minecraft Jungle Tree House $15.00 $99

Here is what I found

20 orders...

20% + 20% off on a few Lego sets at Target.com: https://www.target.com/p/lego-city-jungle-explorers-jungle-cargo-helicopter-60158/-/A-52092753 https://www.target.com/p/lego-creator-mighty-dinosaurs-31058/-/A-51301099 https://www.target.com/p/lego-city-coast-guard-4-x-4-response-unit-60165/-/A-52092246 https://www.target.com/p/lego-town-people-pack-fun-at-the-beach-60153/-/A-52210950 https://www.target.com/p/lego-city-great-vehicles-pizza-van-60150/-/A-51244018 https://www.target.com/p/lego-city-coast-guard-sea-rescue-plane-60164/-/A-52092751 https://www.target.com/p/lego-city-jungle-explorers-jungle-mobile-lab-60160/-/A-52092290 https://www.target.com/p/lego-city-great-vehicles-dragster-transporter-60151/-/A-51243920 https://www.target.com/p/lego-city-coast-guard-heavy-duty-rescue-helicopter-60166/-/A-52092252 https://www.target.com/p/lego-city-jungle-explorers-jungle-halftrack-mission-60159/-/A-52092755 https://www.target.com/p/lego-174-city-great-vehicles-fishing-boat-60147/-/A-51243562 Most did not ring up at these prices in store. You'll have to price match website. YMMV

Bought 8 microfighters for $84.72. Got 800 vip pts ($40) and a London mini bus ($20 market value). So essentially 8 microfighters for $24.72... not bad. Thx@swada33

Volvo up...if you missed out on one for $59.99 https://www.toysrus.com/product?productId=85850196

Eat 'em up.....not worth the hassle to me.

Thank you, I looked around this morning and still realized it was not worth spending $60 on Microfighters I did not want to just to get $30 in ponts. Now... if you want them.....good deal =)

I was able to find a store with Ninjago Destiny's Shadow, City Dragster Transporter, and City Catamaran still in stock. They are holding them for me today.

New images found on the LEGO LEGO Shop at Home servers of this new flowery set:

I have begun to mark all my amazon orders as gifts. This typically will get it shipped in a box.

Bought this as part of a bundle of 6 other Lego board games, for £12:50. This one sold for £37.99, I sold another one for £34.99.

Me also. I was really steamed. Apparently Amazon brings hobos off the street during Christmas to fulfill orders.

They must me competing with Kmart for worst packaging.

Amazon has been awful this year. Several items packed with too much paper stuffed on topped, causing crushing to sets. Also, what is with all the stickers now? Almost every set has had some type of sticker, either on the bottom or side. They have even sent me sets that appear to have been returned after someone horribly removed a sticker, peeling the packaging.

If ya can't wait until January, and don't mind paying extra, I know a guy who listed some of these on eBay already ... just search for them.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072HMY5B4/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 you can use your rewards points to buy the GC limit 2 x $100 per account

Holiday Train is back on amazon. Just got 2 more with my wife's account.

Don’t stress mate. We were all new here once. Some forget that.

Yes!

Enjoyed the movie. Snokes ship was badass. Some very cool scenes.

I just tried it and it worked on an Angry Birds set that was 50% and Women of Nasa. I asked at customer service and they told me there were no exclusions this weekend. That may or may not be true, but the discount came off without any encouragement from the cashier.

30% off stickers on Star Wars sets and Star Wars toys specify only 10% but I didn't take them to a register to confirm. There was another set of discounts that also seemed to be only 10%. And some full price sets, like the Old Fishing Store, didn't trigger the bonus membership discount. Brickheadz did get the double discount.

everyone is entitled to his/her opinion. In yours you are just mentioning the "good aspects" of bitcoin (as that is the only crypto you are talking about). I think that you are terribly wrong (in the long term, not just speculating for a few months increase/decrease movement).. .. why are these crypto-projects called "currencies"? obviously the very first thing was as a supplement to an ordinary cash / money issued by the national bank. But Bitcoin off-the-chart development (20 % down one day, the 2nd day 40 % increase] simply disqualifies BITCOIN as a widely used form of transaction. I give you an example: lets say that some super duped item costs 10 Bitcoins on Monday - who would pay 10 BTC for it while speculating "mmmm.. but tomorrow it could be just 6 BTC or even less.. " and that is not just the least of the issues. The problem lays also in the slowness of transacations when you want to convert BTC to some widely convertable, legitable currency - be it USD, CAD, EUR.. it takes sometimes tens of hrs to deal with it and process it.. I have no idea and couldnt find out what "exchange rate" will be used - the one when you started the transaction or the one when it was written off from the ledger? therefore esp. BTC is now not an "alternate currency" but a kind of "DIGITAL GOLD/DIAMOND", where it truly serves it its uniqueness, scarcity and other things like that. One of the things that ppl just "coming out of the dark ages" dont realize is, that the price of BTC is so high - because there is such a demand from total "id--ots" who just heard the TV news and immediately start thinking, this is the life saver.. without any futher digging up any details how it works, what are the costs for stock exchanges and stuff like that.. I see much better fitting in IOTA. That truly makes sense. Bitcoin will never be used for a day-to-day transactions like paying for a coffee cup.. it might not lose its investment value due to the "the first one and scarcity", but even its protocol is old and outdated. It would become a "collectible item" - if anyone sane chose to see it as that.

anyone who says they understand crypto is lying. no one knows what is going on here and no one knows how this will be 5-10 years from now. every advisor who told a client to not invest in btc has cost their clients the fortune of a lifetime up until now. my take after watching my wife make thousands without taping a box and getting drawn in, as time goes on and I have dabbled in crypto and thought about how it is being used around the world, i think the term cryptocurrency really is confusing the lay public as to what bitcoin,eth lite coin are. i have come to the conclusion that these assets are like harddrives of wealth that can be very easily transported without anyone knowing or having to pay a fee and then the wealth can be converted to either a currency or another form of blockchain basically anywhere in the world. this type of system is something the ultra rich people want in countries with corrupt governments/banks, unstable currency, high inflation. the fact is that the number of people who are buying and selling btc, eth etc is still extremely small. in fact, less than 4% of people who own bitcoin actually own more than 1. most people have fractions. the supply is limited. the majority of people holding are very disciplined throwing out HODL (holding on for dear life) like its a gang greeting. this strategy has worked well and with such a limited supply of bitcoin, as long as owners don't want to sell, the price will continue to rise because there will ALWAYS be rich people looking to move money around without prying eyes noticing. many of these owners have ridden out multiple booms and busts and are not giving bitcoin up because they see it as their path to riches which so far is working. the system is not something that can easily be clamped down on by governments and some governments are embracing and profiting from bitcoin. i do not believe there is any real risk from bitcoin futures for shorting the market because the margin requirements and intrinsic volatility of bitcoin will call you out sooner or later and the actual holders of bitcoin are not willing to sell. the futures have reduced the intraday price swings dampening trading opportunities at least for btc though ltc has been a great trade lately. these little bumps will do nothing to the high conviction nutjob long term holders who own the vast vast majority of bitcoin. i think there will be a sideways trade until recent low conviction sellers get shaken out by 20-40% price drop or some other event drives bitcoin price up. the next really big leg up in bitcoin will be when the stock market (which is certainly also in a bubble) has its inevitable correction and all low conviction stock holders/financial advisers flashing back to Feb-March 2009 (if they weren't in 5th grade ) go looking for a non-correlated asset. gdax.com is an easy way to get started without having to put a ton of money in. bitcoin "crypto" investing is somewhere between gambling in vegas and investing in the stock market. as long as you can tolerate volatility, don't need the money you put in, and are patient, there is still potential for great reward. probably one of the smartest guys on wall street - Tom Lee - who has been calling S&P price targets accurately going back to 2013 - has been dead right on this and many other things. ignore his advice at your own cost. last week one of the biggest bank bears of bitcoin and crypto in genearal, UBS, along with barclays and credit suisse revealed its plan to use ETHERIUM as a means of interbank transfers. https://www.coindesk.com/ubs-launch-live-ethereum-platform-barclays-credit-suisse/ eventually the banks will have to buy eth and btc from regular folk who had the foresight to invest in it. i haven't really dabbled in the other coins or ICOs. btc, eth and ltc have been doing fine for my family..

Waiting for account to he verified so I can buy Ripple. It's gone up 250% since I opened account and have been waiting

115 USD on Assmazon and only the 3 sellers. That´s an easy 7.5 times RRP in a year. Something we are unlikely to see repeated. Meanwhile, in Europe you can only find it at Amazon.de for 100 euros. If someone has told me one year ago that a Bionicle and an Elves set were going to be the best performers of the year, I´d have laughed long and hard.

On LetGo, Tower Bridge for $75. They threw in Seattle Space Needle and Big Ben Arch set for free. Complete and fully assembled.

Now only need to see once built if it actually cracks nuts.

A bathtub full of 10704 ....

Don't be lazy....

I think you're walking too deep into the weeds, Jeff. You're arguing sub-points on sub-points without everybody understanding your broader position. Let me try to sum up your stance: OT was great all-around cinema. PT was conceptually great but poorly executed. TFA was conceptually un-original (but in my own words: pretty well executed). Most look at it from a cinematic perspective so OT > TFA >>>> PT. But you appreciate that Lucas aimed for Mars (despite his rocket exploding before it even left the atmosphere) whereas it disappointed you that Disney was content to return to the moon, so OT > PT > TFA. It's not an outrageous position like people are suggesting. Had Lucas been able to recruit other directors successfully (he tried) then I do think that the PT (same outline and all) could've been awesome (and better than TFA) for the reasons you've outlined.

You have misread most of my post which makes me wonder how much you failed to understand about the movies. I am not saying the PT is better overall. I am saying it does some things better. I still prefer the OT but my enjoyment is not a blind cult-like obedience that requires me to hate everything that is the PT. I have serious problems with the PT but nothing that makes me think they are garbage or should not have been made. It's hard to take you seriously with your spewing hate and use of words like abortion. Criticizing the PT for clunky dialogue is pretty hypocritical given that the OT is notorious for it. It was all written by the same person. It was Harrison Ford who told Lucas on set "You can write this stuff but you can't say it". That's one reason why Alec Guinness thought the OT was rubbish and told a child to stop watching it. TFA copies the adventure from A New Hope. To paraphrase Princess Leia, if remakes are all you care about it, then that's what you'll receive. Disney will be only to happy to take your money and sell you the exaxt same thing again and again. Aim higher. It's more satisfying.

Nothing ridiculous about it as it's true. I think you are viewing the old movies through very lived in rose coloured glasses. How am I forgetting Endor, Hoth and Dagobah when I mentioned them in my comment? What looked "lived-in" in a forest, frozen wasteland, and swamp? The Naboo swamps, the Mygeeto frozen wastes, and the Geonosis caverns looked just as lived in. We see very few living areas at all in the OT. Just a few places on Tattooine and the Falcon in the first movie, 3 rooms on Hoth, a Dagobah hut, and the very fake looking Cloud City in the second, and Jabba's Palace in the third. When you watch the OT the cheap FX are quite transparent. You could do a drinking game based on the bad matte paintings used in them. The prequels used more models, miniatures, etc. then the OT. It's a fact. You are going through confirmation bias where a few obvious CGI effects in the prequels colour your entire memory of the movies. I felt a lot was fake about Force Awakens. You should read some of the conversations with the FX people and how they used CGI all over the place. Starkiller base in particular never looked "real". It's more a matter of the CGI has gotten so much better in the last 10 years, similar to how CGI vastly improved on the old matte paintings. I assure you, there is CGI in literally every frame of Force Awakens. "Limited budget"? Star Wars cost $11 million to make, which was an exorbitant amount in 1977 and the cost was why it kept getting turned down by so many studios. FX alone made up more than 1/3 of the budget, more if you count set construction. http://io9.gizmodo.com/5875998/behold-the-1977-budget-breakdown-for-star-wars Them's the facts folks. That 40 year old movie stood the test of time because of how novel it was. Even then, most people rank it as at best the 2nd best Star Wars movie, with most people preferring Empire and a lot even preferring Revenge of the Sith over the original, and that was a CGI orgy-fest.