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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!

More info: Age 12 and over Box Size: 58x48x12cm (Town Hall sized box, bigger than DB but smaller than city) Release in June so could well be a D2C.

Don't forget this is the regular Creator 3-in-1 series. It doesn't mean there isn't a bigger more advanced Creator Expert (Fairground sub-theme?) Rollercoaster set in the works...

Putting your buy-ins would be helpful so as to know whether flipping is an option. As most of these sets are either just retired or still being made, unless you have a really good buy-in you´ll be stuck with them for at least a year.

Best: Jurassic World, Scooby Doo, Lighthouse Siege, holding Revan polybags that came free with any purchase last year. Worst: Thinking the demand for Saturn V would cause the set to be sold out for a longer time and sell at Xmas. Overall bad trend: overthinking and not trusting myself for certain sets, for ex: had a chance to get tons of Lighthouse Siege from B&N for <30 and I only got a couple ? Overall good trend: learning to find better deals and enjoying investing

So I will confess I felt I made a mistake and bought a lot of these sets off with as little as 50% off, some as much as 80% off but probably a 55% average I have sold most of them now at an ROI of 50-100% which ain't bad for a 6 month hold on what I felt was a mistake Best performer 75824 I think given another year the sets will do well. If you got at 75% off you will do great

You underestimate just how massive a band they are.

Winners - 30 - Fire Planes for 140$+ bought these on a whim when someone on BP said they'd be a quick flip around the holidays.. 45 - Livi Pop Star Houses for 165$+ bought at slightly higher then MSRP 15 - Technic Cranes 210-265??? Bought during TRU ban day Losers- Buying large stuffed animals to sell. What a flipping waste of space and time. Got cold feet going in on some large orders this year when i had the opportunity Jungle Treehouse, Airport, pink duplo TRU Cancelling my orders without telling me, causing me to miss sets I had expected to receive

The good - signed UCS MF with VIP card The bad - dr strange super hero’s sets. Still hanging around at TRU and a remake incoming! The ugly - credit card bill!!

Best move 1: Buying two Death Stars (10188) for $250 each and flipping them for >$400 each during the run-up to Christmas. Best move 2: Trading a bunch of City sets from “freeLego.com”. ($15.70 oop) for a 99% complete used MTT (7662) and selling it for >$200. Worst move: letting go of too many Millennium Falcons (75105) too early (before they started selling for $170-$180 the last couple of weeks) Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker Forum

I think we would have more to worry about than cryptocurrency of that actually happened.

LR Constitution Train : $194 FBA

Building assault on hoth with my 6 year old, his gift. I'm going 20 deep on it, now having built.

Let me get this straight: you consider a system to be very good because it can detect two accounts with the same address? ?

Next time, just ask for forgiveness later.

Even with a remote, there is still the chance the train might go flying off the table that you have the track on, sending it careening off the side because you're testing to see how fast it can take the curves. Or so I've heard. From a friend.

Yes, because EU ≠ Europe.

Lack of reading and comprehension is clearly a requirement for eBay customers. I sold a used 75105 MF that I picked up in a bulk lot. Listed as used and described as such, with a picture of a built set on my table. Guy emails me some threats the day it arrived. I explain to him step by step how to request a return on eBay. He lacks reading comprehension so he files a paypal case instead. After a few days I call paypal to ask them what to do, and they escalate it and give the guy 10 days to provide a tracking number. On the 9th day of him receiving reminders from Paypal he finally submits a tracking number. He assumed I would have to reimburse him for shipping so he sent it the most costly way he could, USPS express 1 day. Paypal already ruled he was an idiot who couldn't read, so I only had to refund the purchase price. They changed his return case from SNAD to a normal return. I can only imagine the hell he's given them about how he was misled and now he's out shipping for an item that he believed to be new. I wonder if his verbal communication is as poor as his written? +1 to paypal for their handling of the case.

Another great question coming from my valued eBay customers...

So I can buy a 10179.

One of the most underrated parts of this game that people do not emphasize enough is without a doubt the buy-in. Sure if you are buying a set at 30% off you are guaranteed reasonable profits. Back in 2004-2007, discounts on exclusive's were very easy to come by. I have posted this pic before, but just to emphasize how different this game is now, could you imagine discounts like this in today's climate. I know I can't. Buying exclusive's at 50% just does not happen anymore. If this happened in today's market, it would go bananas. The BP would probably shut down and it would be a national holiday. Discounts like this were common place before. The buy-in was crazy low. I almost want to vomit thinking about how much I missed out from 2007-2012 before the game started changing. Just finding a set at 10% off like the Tie Fighter today (it was 15%, but most have at least 5% in taxes), make people go crazy now. Before a 10% discount would barely even cause people to bat an eye. Tie Fighter or Slave I going for $100 would crash a website. Getting the Kwok-E-Mart for $150 from Barnes and Nobles is a no brainer, but if you weren't online at the right place and the right time you likely missed it. For most casual investors, we do not have the time to hunt every deal down, and eek out every percentage point discount, making it increasingly hard for the casual investor to succeed in Legovesting. But truly, the most important aspect of the game going forward is the Buy-In. It's easy for an emazer or any other BPer who stalks deals for maximal discount to sit back and feel good when buying at 30-40% off RRP on an exclusive. Even if the market sits sub $600 for 10188, a buy in at $275 makes profits easy going. For future sets, however, getting a set like GBHQ, Hellicarrier, Sandcrawler, etc. for more than 10% off is a battle, a battle which Lego is fighting furiously to win. The occasional deal will pop up, but it is becoming harder and harder to get that low buy-in. Given the effort of the buy-in, one has to start placing a value on the time to hunt these deals down, whereas before an RRP buy-in was more than good enough, and anything else was gravy. Now there is no gravy. Just biscuits. Thankfully, Lego's will never bottom out to a zero worth like baseball cards and beanie babies. No matter what there is a bare minimum innate value in the bricks themselves. With Beanie Babies, the fabric and beans are basically worthless in bulk. With baseball cards, cardboard is literally worthless, unless you are using it to ship Lego's. =) Lego bricks sell in bulk for at least some cash, so even in the worst case scenario, there is intrinsic value in the brick itself. This provides a safety net unlike the stock market which can hit zero value.