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After spending most of the year bricklinking the Barad Dur, it's finally done with a few modifications, it stands 45 inches tall. Thanks to Kevin at BrickStruct for creating the instructions. The model still needs a couple of mods that I will do when I have room to display it.

Stopover on the way to Orlando at a Target in Southern Tennessee landed me 1x70601 Ninjago Sky Shark. Wasn't giving a price on any of the scanners (wall-mount, employee, register). Guys at electronics said it was scrapped merchandise and I wouldn't be able to buy it, but the lady at CS found an online price and managed to print an "Online Item" 30% off sticker to make my purchase price $11 (website price was $16.49, RRP $19.99). Set is down to last 5 sellers on Amazon, with only 1 FBA for $60 so score!

Made some more candy dispenser mocs. People in my office were seeing these at my desk and they started giving me their dispensers.

Amazon gave them free Lego then helped them sell it at extortionate prices then lost the items and blamed the sellers,

Built a few modulars, working on finishing the city block, have 4 left

Happy New Year! First build of 2018.

Benny and the J.E.T.S. by justin_m_winn

(6973) Zycon VI by Tim Goddard

50% promo time ! ? Auchan supermarket, France.

Just got three 10252 VW Beetles at TRU for 50%!!! Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker Forum

Merry Star Wars Christmas by Andreas Lenander

Cinderella Castle by Koen

I’ve learnt from last year this is a great time to be regularly visiting your usual Lego stores since this is when end of year inventory is done in preparation for new stock and you can get an odd gem that appears which someone forgot to put out on the floor in the Xmas rush. Also helps to be nice and ask staff to check out in the back. Hence why I ended up with 4 x 41179’s as opposed to just the one that was on the shelf. Although I do regret not loading up on these about 6 weeks ago at TRU when they were doing their 20% off, given that they are now doing about 2 x RRP already. But can’t complain with my four, although my daughter has already eyed it up along with the Water Dragons that I also manage to snag. Will need to ensure that these are stored away properly!

Nope...I picked up my 75192 sept 26th and also got the e-mail about November..then called customer service and was told "your card is being printed in Germany and should arrive before dec 25th"...and...Nnnope! i was also told that if it didn't arrive by the new year to call lego again and just got off the phone...and was told to continue to wait but that they'd print another card anyways....that second card is expected by the end of February Meanwhile....at the first sign of a Card in my mailbox I was instructed to call lego back to confirm...so I'm guessing however this plays out I'm getting two printed numbered cards with my Vip number on it as well...so who knows?...maybe they'll deactivate one card...or maybe it doesn't matter.

500 USD is enough money to do justice to anything.

@Simon74 has a team of snipers waiting - do you think he´s just going to let foreign reseller scum come onto his patch?

JANGBRiCKS review up:

Northern Italy is like a bermuda triangle for retired lego. It all goes there and only you bring it out!

They are pretty cheap on EBay. I think I got mine for $60 and I added a $15 set to use the $15 off $75 coupon a few weeks back.

My name is Mud...

Retired as of January 1 in the EU: 70317 - The Fortrex 75105 - Millennium Falcon 75154 - TIE Striker

Had a lot of fun putting it together. Daughters having fun driving it around and having strange ideas about getting sand into our apartment...

We are working on the Disney castle. Daughter is loving it

Based on comparisons between TLG and TFA just going to leave this here.

6 legs dude.

I wasn't overly keen with what they did with Luke in this movie, but I had far greater concerns about the tone, humour, pacing, plot, characterisation and dialogue, to be honest. Based on the three Disney SW movies released thus far, I'm of the opinion that JJ Abrams and Gareth Edwards had a far better handle on the "magic ingredients" needed for a movie to feel like it belongs in the Star Wars galaxy. I'll go out on a limb and say that the Solo movie will feel more like Star Wars too, which would leave TLJ as the outlier. This might have made sense for a standalone movie, or even a separate trilogy, but seems a bit thoughtless for the eighth episode of a nine episode saga, or even just the middle part of this sequel trilogy.

Porsche 956 by Manuel Cara

Here´s a list to build on in order to sum up the most important events in the market and on the forum this year. Feel free to add any I missed. It´s in no particular order. UCS Falcon and Saturn V release and supply drama. Lego Group poorer financial results and change of CEO / laying off of staff. @TabbyBoy returning to the game (and leaving and returning). New themes such as Brickheadz, Pirates of the Caribbean (return), Super Hero Girls. Continued trend to wards bigger and more expensive D2C sets. Amazon gating and increase in scams. Facebook Marketplace consolidation. Chinese clone consolidation with paid MOC designs, Lego re-release of Taj Mahal. Gingerbread House and the power of professional influencers to create demand. Assemby Square anniversary modular. Death of Dimensions. Deep discounts and oversupply. TRU slow death.

Too late, I just posted off my return package. Had to wear rubber gloves when handling those turds.

BrickHeadz. A bit like Marmite. Some love them, others hate them. But majority seem to hate them. Poor attempt by Lego to tap into the Funko Pop market.

Egg head 70920 straight to back order. Lego haven't got 'un oeuf' at the moment.

Surprised at how the votes are, so far. I put down Architecture. I loved that series a couple of years ago. Now, not really. I enjoy microbuilds, but the skylines just don't work for me. I'd rather have more awesome buildings, like The Louvre, than the Shanghai skyline. There are so many great monuments around the world that could be built. It's a shame they just aren't making them like they used it.

No idea. I'm not a carpenter. Got a local furniture maker to make it.

Yes

Construction figures is my pick. Even on clearance they just don't sell.

by the way, it hit slick deals, so grab it now before they do disappear. Make that, gone....

Lack of flexibility does not good investment strategy make.

Yeah here’s what’s wrong with that. Obi-wan and Yoda went into hiding with a purpose and mission for fixing things. Luke became a whiny little beyatch with no plans for anything but expiring like old cheese. Lame

TLJ was terrible mess and killed all the thrill for any future SW movie

Been waiting for this review.

Thats what I was talking in lenght about }CZ Kladno) .. there are cca 2200 ppl working nowadays, each entitlted to cca 1.000 GBP credit per year from which they can purchase in the factory shop ANYTHING.. ANY SET that is there - being it exclusive or standard City for just 50 % .. .. so if everybody was to use this incentive in full, given the math. it would be 2.2 mllion GBP discounted on exclusives each year.. to my knowledge not everybody is doing that and not everyone up to max, but I guess 60 % of the ppl have a great business

GXX-05 by Chak hei Mok

Now I get why they were so shy about showing photos of the third model.

And the box shot is now also available:

MS-01 Headhunter by Marco De Bon

This one?

6950 MIRC by billyburg MIRC by Adrian Drake BASED ON 6950 Mobile Rocket Transport

Uranium Search Vehicle by Chris Edwards BASED ON 6928 Uranium Search Vehicle