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**SoCal Red Alert** The Geoffrey's Bargain Box TRU clearance outlet on La Palma in Buena Park marked the whole store down 50% this morning. They have a fairly large amount of Lego but set selection is limited. My friend got there first and arm swept the Technic (bucket excavators $115), the Caterham 7's ($30) and some others. I picked up some good part out sets (Ninjago, Nexo, Friends). Plenty left for the horde to scavenge.

That's not creepy at all....

Didn't know this place existed until my friend called me this morning... Geoffrey's Bargain Box - TRU clearance outlet in Buena Park.

Opened "Clayface Splat Attack" to remove the Batman minifig that's going to be sold on ebay (one TLBM Batman is enough for my collection). Spontaneously decided to build the set. It's a nice build, and I like the parts selection. Stitch acts as a stand-in for Batman to save mayor McCaskill.

Would really like the Lighthouse set, don't mind at all if it's similar to the Fishing Shop, they are amazing sets. Christmas Story is also one of the most overrated movies of all time. Now if they gave us the Griswold's house with the RV in the front, we'd be onto something.

8351 la Palma ave, buena park, ca 90620. Googled it for you from 3000 miles away.

Just managed to get Assault on Hoth from LEGO Shop at Home for 30% off. Extreme page refreshing pays off...

Mine is actually in warehouse which is a surprise. After cashback and VIP points I think it's worth it.

Yeah, they were at $35 each for about 5 minutes. Sorry everybody!

My faith in buying retired sets direct from Amazon is restored for now. 60102 City VIP Plane (441S7). 42048 Technic Go Kart (40S7) 21131 Ice Spikes (439S7) All recent productions and all in very good condition, apart from annoying barcode stickers on two of them.

I think the book would work better than the maze if they are able to package a couple different "story" builds at the start. Maybe selling add-on packs would work but better to show what you can do day one.

Maybe it's just me, but the sea themed Modulars are pretty neat and would make for a great series of sets IMO. They would be great in my shore house...if I had one.

I finally built one of these. It cost me about $50, which I'm not entirely convinced was the right amount to spend on it. I kind of liked the overall construction. The Rathtars were a little cubey for my tastes, but once you have them lurking in doorways, they look ok. (Mainly because most of the body is hidden. Bala Tik and the Deathgang are nice to have. I like that you could potentially throw a few more sets together to make one enormous corridor. It's got a very modular setup allowing you to make your own custom play area. The hardest parts of the Rathtars to get would probably be the whips if you wanted to make more of your own. I've got another one of these sets sitting around and if I get bored enough someday, I might wind up with a big corridor. It's too bad that they put Han and Chewie in this set, only because it leaves the only unique characters in the Falcon Tasu Leech and the Kanjiklub guy. Speaking of, I kind of wish there were more Kanjiklub gang members (Those freaks?) I'm afraid that if anyone invested their money in these sets they'd have a hard time recouping the money. Just too expensive for a set that basically looks like nothing that was in the movie. open sides and narrow pathways makes it look more like a bridge than the inside of a ship. It's going to be hard to make anything on this investment. (Kanjiklub also wants their investment back.) Looking at them now I really do like the Guavian Death Gang minifigures. even though their masks remind me a great deal of an evil Target. What I really don't understand about this set is why a set that retailed for $79.99 gave almost every character a stud shooting weapon. Only Han gets a real blaster, Maybe it's because it is a playset instead of a vehicle or something collector oriented, but even kids have to know that stud shooters are dumb. (Tell that to Kanjiklub.)

https://rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-11989/Garom/10214-alternative-build/#bi It's a french cafe/dinosaur museum

Still waiting for the price to rise. I might head out and buy some tomorrow.

Seems like a glitch. Get an error if you try to add to basket

Only really worth buying RRP if it exceeds £300. Who knows? Maybe next Xmas. If it doesn’t I’ll just add the kwik-e mart to my modular town and make a small profit on the house.

My 10 Caterhams arrived... 9 in mint condition (I assume as they are packed in addition in the original LEGO boxes, 3 in one box). The last one is totally destroyed... I will give them a call for some free VIP points and will build this one..

Tell it to that dude talking about Ferrari arrived in great shape.lol Sent from my SM-N900T using Brickpicker Forum mobile app

I really like the look of the diner.... but in the name of inclusivity, and to further the LGBTQQIAAPOMGBBQ agenda, LEGO will be forced to yield and we will get RuPaul's Drag Brick Race

The same for me with Tower of Airijtzu.... :-)

I like the Christmas story house, hopefully comes with crate “FRAGILE”.

Can't see any of these being made honestly. I like the 3 ocean style sets, but i doubt they will put out another large fishing style set. The others just don't seem desirable to me at all, maybe the Jag, but they don't seem to want to make ideas cars or something.

The set's on clearance at Wal-Mart, it didn't sell well even when marked down before Christmas, and in the next few years, we've got several new movies that each require new toys, not to mention refreshing stuff from prior masterpieces like attack of the clones. I'd be incredibly surprised if they revisit this to make a similar set with different characters. With jabba's palace and the rancor pit, at least it was different actions being performed.

There is hope for Angry Birds.

Hi welcome, Belfast guy here, best deals are Tesco instore at the moment, but get yourself a self scanner as the price on the shelf is not always correct. Look out for 60141 City Police Station,75187 Star Wars BB-8 and older Ninjago sets.

HAVE over the last few weeks purchased some Amazon deals. Am reading what all of you say to one another, very interesting. There don't seem to be/ are not very many women in this lego purchase / sell world or so it seems to me. I am in Ireland - female Would really appreciate words of advice from all you experiences lego people. Thank s.

If it isn't I'll just ask for some VIP points...

Desk display potential is key here. I think the original would just have been too large for what it "is" and Lego probably couldn't meet the price point they wanted. Unfortunate they had to scale it down, but I don't see that if it was any larger that the demand would have been that uch greater for the extra $$ it would cost on both ends. Edit: I would be interested to see if the mini 6285 from the 60th set fits in this bottle.

Dimensions Goonies slight upgrade haha

Looking at the price I would say Lego doesn't want many sales. Shame as i wanted this, would look great after several modifications to the ship.

If I didn't know what the original ship looked like, I would say this set is pretty great. Not really awesome as the ship still looks very medium level builder status. It's ok looking but I think there could have been an attempt as making the details less "Lego" and more natural.

Correct , book was in the Great Hall infront Of everyone and LV dies a normal death movie : outside , solo, disintegrating crap.

Haha, no kidding. Someone wrote instructions that use the Tower Bridge to create a modular building. About to drop $20 on those...

Sold a Darth Revan Poly via BL for $34. Hooray for Freebies!

for laughs :

Bag 3 in progress and I have to give my 5 year old props. He’s built most of this, just needs guidance occasionally.

Uh, no. I really liked the character of Rey and am a fan. I just don’t think anyone should be able to be a master Jedi the day after learning about the Force. It’s that simple. Where is the struggle and drama if she just manifests deux ex machina powers for every threat?

1. aiming a missile and beating a jedi is something totally different. luke could not beat Dart Vader in Ep.V and Ep. VI. 2. they could jump to other system and than jump back or they could ask other destroyer to jump into system in front of that rebel fleet. And still they could deploy the tie squadrons, there had to be hundreds of ties in Supremacy. 4. the official statement from disney was, that Snoke is stronger than Vader and Emperor. 5. and what luke, finn and other learned from their failures? Only character making any psychological progress is Poe. 8. no, the only statement supporting your statement, that mark is OK with the movie was the one from 26th December released on his twitter, which in my opinion is only damage control from Disney. He repeatedly said he does nt like the story of his character in episode 8 and if you saw his reactions after the premiere, than there is no doubt whether he was happy about the movie or not. As per what would I do, I am nto a screenwritter, as Rian, but should it be on me, I would at least try to come with a plot and use the plot points I have from Episode 7. He just negated everything new and obscurely unexplained. Who is Snoke? Noone. Who is Phasma - not important. Who is Rey - Noone. What did Luke do all the time - nothing. What is the political story behind FO - not important. Where are the other Empire officers escaping to Unknown Regions in Aftermath - not important. Who are Knights of Ren - not important. Do we have any new character or plot point? No. Did he managed to settle the death of Carrie Fisher? No. etc. etc. Do you want to know what would be cool story for Last Jedi? Just one idea right out of my mind. Let Rey fall to dark side with Kylo Ren manipulated by SNoke, bring the ******* Thrawn from unknown regions as an emissary of Chiss as a support force against the Snoke, let the Thrawn and Luke join together, Luke challange the Snoke resulting in death of Luke in combat but turning Kylo Ren back to light, so he is the Last Jedi, fighting on the side of Thrawn who fought on side of Anakin Skywalker against Snoke and Rey in Episode IX. I have seen again for tenth time or so Rogue One and that story is so much better than Last jedi, that it is unbelievable, that it was produced by same company. Empire beeing dangerous and threatening, space battles making sense, decent humor for adults and psychology of characters making sense... omg.

She gets us. She just doesn't respect us and cares more about pushing Disney's NWO agenda. At least in TFA Poe was a cool guy and I really liked the camaraderie between the new characters. It was the best thing about that movie. They literally threw out everything good, cool and fun about Star Wars with TLJ.

Rey still beats way more experienced people than her easily. In New Hope Luke is clearly shown out of his element in the dog fight. He needs Biggs, Wedge and Han to save him and while his one shot that he is already good at is guided by the Force, Rey is possessed by contrast. Mary Sue indeed. The First Order “plan” only worked because of a highly coincidental sell out by DJ. And mini hyperspace jumps are well established as being possible. Even if they wanted to avoid any danger. A bunch of ships could jump away, then jump back in front of them since they know where they will be. This plan was about as smart as Hitler letting the Brits escape Dunkirk. As you say, Luke is an old man and should not just be learning that failure is a teacher. He figured that out big time in Empire Strikes Back. i dislike how these movies have undone the progress of the main characters from the OT and put them where they were at the start. Leia running a rebel cel, Han smuggling, and Luke being a whiner. When we saw that Luke was exiled in Force Awakens and a glimmer of why, I don’t recall anyone being offended at the time. I’m sure most of us could imagine reasons why he would do that. I doubt many came up with curling up to die. We were likely expecting a plan like why Obi-wan and Yoda were hiding. Off he top of my head, Luke has a vision of the future of a powerful apprentice seeking him out and is waiting for it to come true. I applaud the effort to be different, especially after the Force Remakens, but being different is not a guarantee of being good. In this case the blemishes overwhelm the successes. There was much risk taking I enjoyed, but the whole does not hang together, especially with Luke.

Ah grasshopper, but they also fly in atmosphere.

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.

LEGO's design has a very traditional feel. I like it. Also being able to acquire a nice assortment of those transparent dome parts is quite good for many builds. About the studs as water, that is a technique used by many MOCers for I don't know how long. I honestly do not see any other way one could simulate flowing water with LEGO in something so encased.