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My ‘Original UCS Falcon, escaping from Docking Bay 327’ enshrined in a coffee table now complete.

Personal Set Winner: Jestro's Headquarters: Buy in $20, sell $80+ (7 of them) and probably being able to flip some Rockets within a week of getting them for about $50 profit each. Worst Decision: Not sure yet, I have some inside thoughts but am overly pleased with my 1st near full year of doing this via starting with bulk buys only and moving into sets and deciding which one's to break out into the BL store while buying bulk around town. Best Decision: Shutting the BL store down in August to organize everything so that when an order comes in I can pull it very quickly and know exactly where an item is vs knowing "about" where the items may be. I even built a 9 dresser drawer (about 4 feet wide, 5 feet tall) specifically for all my New pieces and absolutely love it. I sometimes wish I would have built 2 at the same time though as the lots/part numbers continue to increase. I originally thought that 10,000 pieces was a solid store size, then I thought 15,000 was good. Now I'm at 50,000 and still looking to continue to add more and more as time allows me with family/other job. Every order, no matter what size or sale amount puts a smile on my face. Other Best Decision: Starting to do this. I think I was hitting a mid-life crisis while going through some health issues, lyme disease like, never confirmed but treated as if it was in the end (after nearly 3 years of searching for an answer) and needed to find an escape at home and just from everything else. I believe I found that new spark in my life. Looking forward to a fun 2018.

Toys R Us $50 gift card for $40 at Ebay LIMIT 5

And I had a nice relaxed breakfast with wife and kids.

So, I'm visiting my folks and decided to pop into the nearest Books-A-Million. After using their coupons, gift card, membership discount, and BOGO 50%, it was a decent haul, especially for that old UN Set. 70906 Joker Lowrider - $34.99 21016 UN Headquarters - $22.49 Captain America - $7.33 Iron Man - $3.65 Belle - $7.33 Beast - $3.65 Hulk - $7.33 Plus, TLJ soundtrack for $10.33. That helped with one of the coupons plus also I loved the soundtrack.

In for 3

Per Max's update......https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Creator-Lakeside-31048-Building/dp/B017B1BEBE/ref=sr_1_21?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1514385528&sr=1-21&keywords=lego+creator 31048 - Lakeside Lodge at 50% off

When I am 64.

My amazing grandma bought me the new ucs millennium falcon (75192) from the store in Liverpool yesterday

I want the boardwalk

You could probably get someone to build a loft for what you got for your falcon! :-) In the falcon. Will add some stormtroopers, as well as Vader and obi-wan duelling

Any one looking for 4,283 Dimension packs for $17,500? https://santabarbara.craigslist.org/tag/d/4283-new-lego-dimension-sets/6435852840.html

Yawn. Where are the topless Kylo and the thing with four boobs, you know, for completeness?

Oh, almost as many as he does Rey's Speeder. Another winner... (50'ish)

I was at the mall for an other reason anyways. I’ve done well on Boxing Day at the Lego store before, so it was worth the quick check. Thank you for your valuable contribution to this thread.

Inception is dangerous...

Wins - deciding to go deep on Scooby Mystery Planes at the last minute when I could get them for £9 each. Backing TBBT when everyone else was deep in Dr Who. Hailfire Droids, Star Wars set that flew under radar but is double RRP now. Titanium dragons £17 buy in, in fact most Ninjago i bought did well. All Series 1 speed champions, don't expect this year's retirees to do aswell though. Losers 75150 same reason as everyone else. Cheap buy in and short shelf life looked good but it still won't die and there's a better a-wing now 75087 Anakins Custom Jedi Starfighter. These still keep popping up discounted on Argos eBay site. Thought Argos exclusive plus being Jedi ship gave this one potential. Small sets - Microfighters, mighty micros, city sub £8, battle packs etc. Boxes too easily damaged and take a long time to get into the £20+ range that would make them worthwhile.

I bought 2, one for me, one for my imaginary friend.

The problem is though, it's not what people will pay. It's what the horde will charge. Dr Who could have quite easily fetched £80 during Christmas, but the horde had so many at such deep discounts they were happy to sell at £45. I see the same happening with this. Every time there's any discount on this set HUKD lot are all over it. It's had 17 posts dedicated to it on there since it came out. People will make money because of the discount buy in. At best it may rise a little above RRP during the quiet months before dropping again come September.

It´s done now anyway. Sure took time to sell those last nine.

Cladner points out some valid information, I am going to be a little more direct and less eloquent. After not logging on to this site for a long time it really is sad to see that you talk as much BS about Crypto as I suspected you did about lego. I would sit down and stop trying to brag how good you are for once because it is so poor on so many levels! I suggest rather than trying to brag on here about your Crypto gains, you sit down and do some reasearch so you can actually pick coins that are gonna do much better in a much shorter space of time than Iconomi (technically you are at a loss on that) and then maybe consider spouting off about ya gains. Btw I would drink and be merry save wasting your time waiting for eth to hit 200 because since you got out at "the right time" it has gone up $100 +, btc also up around 15% , ooopppssss error! If you dont know the reason (why?) alts move with btc I suggest you give up or do some research! Oh and if you dont like what I am saying I dont want to PM you and I am sure you could try and bribe someone $50 to get me banned like you did with that Ozzy lad! To all you decent folk on this site, hope you had a great Christmas and have a fantastic new year, I have a lot of respect for this site and the folk on it, sorry for this post. As for you Tabby maybe stop with your egotistical s*** for 2018

I visited today two stores to get Architecture Studio, by miracle I found the last one in stratford. the current status in brand stores might give you better indication about current state of EOL status and potential resurection (if) Palace Cinemas gone everywhere Winter Toy Shops gone everywhere Caterham hoarded everywhere 10+ boxes Elves series almost gone everywhere Batman Classic surprisingly was almost done. Assault on Hoth isn't going anywhere even discounted Simpsons with 1cm of dust surface on top of it Louvre gone everywhere Burj Khalifa gone everywhere Tie UCS still available Winter Train still available Winter station still available Yellow Submarine overhoarded Nexo - it depends on set and location Xerion Gone everywhere AROCS still available Minecraft the Village still available hassle free Friends Escort Girls mainly gone Escort Superheroes girls still available.

Winner decisions: my decision at the beginning of the year to no longer put real money into my LEGO purchases (or only very little). Stuck to it by-and-large until October when the FBA earnings started rolling in. Especially KMart/SYW .... $4k in MSRP bought, $500 in cash spent. Total of 181 sets. Also winner: My early on decision to go mainly small and medium sized sets (sub $50). Final winner: Not listening to what others say here . Bad decisions: Kylo Ren Shuttle polybags. Even though I got them for free, they just don't move.

Finished this off while the kids were napping. It’s -40 with the windchill today so cant do much else...

My daughter loves the winter village sets but is too young, so we built our own with a few new sets from Santa!

75155: Rebel U-wing Fighter £40.00 21306: The Beatles Yellow Submarine £30.00 71016: Kwik-E-Mart £150.00 Speed Champions Lego Ferrari F1 £7.99 Lego Speed Champions 75881 2016 Ford GT & 1966 Ford GT40 Building Set £21.99 Speed Champions 75878 "Bugatti Chiron" Building Set £11 LEGO DC Comics 70902 Batman Movie Catwoman Catcycle Chase Batman £0.00 LEGO 75172 Star Wars Y-Wing Starfighter £45.50 LEGO 75165 Star Wars Imperial Trooper Battle Pack £0.00 LEGO Ghostbusters Ecto-1 Set 21108 £40.00 Technic pull back set 42047 (listed on ebay) £10.00 Lego Super Heroes Clash of Heroes £0.00 BrickHeads Beast £6.66 Lego Speed Champions 75877 Mercedez AMG GT3 £10 Speed Champions Corvette new damaged box £5.00 LEGO UK 41318 Heart lake Hospital Construction Toy £38.25 LEGO 41126 Friends Heartlake Riding Club £27.50 Lego Caterham £56.00 It's mostly the freebies and the Friends sets that I'm unsure about what to do with. The two Star Wars sets I'm happy to keep so not bothered if they do well or not, same for Ecto-1.

Pffft...You guys all suck. *I* like it! Cool that it's a 3-in-1. It doesn't have to be freaking huge. Just gotta be able to motorize the thing.

Wouldn’t surprise me if they have endless supply of Vip cards that will last until 31 Dec 2018. Would be another way to create more demand from those that didn’t get it before end of 2017. Also wouldn’t surprise me if early in the new year there’s also an announcement to say that due to the great success of the programme they’ll be extending the offers beyond 2018! A very cheap but effective marketing tool.

Black VIP card is til 12/31 or while stocks last. I wonder if anyone's asked Lego how much stock of these cards they actually have. You could still be in luck!

I’ve just had an email confirming my first order has shipped. Made just after midnight

You´ll be working harder for your money than Guns n Roses have been recently.

By far my worst decision was those damn fingerlings. That was more work than it was worth. Also, Joker Steam Roller was mentioned three times and @terrymc4677 hasn't materialized. I hope he's ok.

Thanks, I tried using the EBay gift card from Target the other day, but was denied. Must not be able to use the gift card to buy a gift card.

Yes! I really like LEGO ships. I really like this set. This and Voltron are the two Ideas sets I’m really looking forward to.

Winner - Being patient with Snowplow and Racing Bike Transporter Loser - Not buying the 25 Mystery Mansions at the KMart store closing for $55 in Februrary. I was holding out for one more drop which would have brought them down to $45. I think I bought 4-5 at $55 then. They had them marked $105 to start before discount.

It´s acually in scale with the overpricing on the real car.

Winners: Jokerland at 65 Losers: Kylo Ren 75104 at 65 when will this set die

It will rocket, like all memorabilia, when McCartney and Starr join Lennon and Harrison. Not soon I hope.

That´s a brilliant example of German logic.

I too received the email a while ago saying I'd receive my black card by end of Nov. It's now end of Dec, so I called LEGO Cust Serv. They verified my purchase was prior to Nov 2 (apparently this is considered the first batch of cards). In the USA, they said I should receive it by the end of Dec. Funny the email never said that. But they did confirm that those purchased prior to Nov 2, should get them before Jan 1. Guess we'll see if that's true. All they would say for purchases after Nov 2 is that they'll arrive later.

$70 local pick up. Turbo Tank and Hoth Attack are sealed. Ewok Attack seems to be in near-perfect condition.

My son and I have been building the Hoth rebel base. I have to admit I don’t understand the hate for this one. We did add two large base plates and a lot of white plates to flush it out and we will probably add a tunnel and baca tank area.

Unlikely, since LEGO already announced they are working with these guys, so credit will be given where it is due. They will not jump into the GBHQ PR nightmare again. The most likely reason is that the submission is lacking on its own as an IDEAS product, but can be a good fit in a City theme with some extra message. If LEGO is truly smart, they can run a small PR campaign with it to raise awareness (and sell more sets).

47.5% actually Y'all are slacking!

I think the fact that No one can pick up exclusives at a discount is positive for future resellers. This levels the playing field. The ones that has the capital and the patience will have the advantage. To me, this eliminates many market wrenches.