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Room just about finished. Sadly my budget didn't buy me bespoke shelving so I had to settle for cube shelving. Doesn't work for the big sets so these have to sit on top. Overall, pleased with the effort and it has cleared other areas of the house. We now have space that we never thought we had! If my better half gets cross, at least I can sleep with the Lego!

We all know why. Chem trails from the deep state lunar landing.

It's just a section. You can buy about 800 of them to complete it.

Hopefully, I’ll be dead before everyone is walking around in bubble wrap. Everyone needs to grow thicker skin.

And for the record, I would prefer they keep Mandalay Bay in the set. I understand why they are allegedly doing what they are doing. But I also don't think this is a black and white thing with a clear answer as to what is right. The only black and white thing is that the shooter was in the wrong.

This set, Ninjago City, and Temple of Airjitzu should not really be considered with the rest of the Ninjago sets. Totally different appeal to them. I'm not interested in the TV show, or the movie, but these sets are excellent, so I bought them.

This is pretty cool! Someone combined two Destiny's Bounty sets to create a bigger ship: In the description of the video: Two combination sets of Lego the Ninjago movie set 70618 Destiny's Bounty is now here. All parts is used only from the 2 sets of 70618 except custom sails and non-Lego string. The length is double with more rooms and space. Training room was moved to lower deck and Master Woo room was moved to second deck. opposite to toilet, It is space for cargo.

Porsche have been following the same strategy with the 911 for the last 40 years!

LEGO Heroes Needed Event 10 February 12-2 at TRU. 40% off "select sets". No idea what those sets are yet. Just mark your calendars...

Found this comment on Rebelscum a bit interesting: "German LEGO fan site zusammengebaut.com reports that LEGO noted that the popularity of their Star Wars theme had peaked (when?) and that sales were declining. In their live blog of the LEGO press conference, the field reporter from zusammengebaut.com noted that the mood from LEGO was glum." http://www.rebelscum.com/story/front/LEGO_Nuremburg_Toy_Fair_Reveals_178467.asp -------------------- Personally, I think this is an accurate assessment. I think the Star Wars theme is tumbling towards rock bottom (and hasn't reached it yet), but it's heading there and quickly. I don't blame this strictly on Lego, but a lot of the blame should be placed on Disney's shoulders. It's just not Lego that is tumbling, but the Star Wars theme in general. I recently noticed the Toys R Us in my vicinity completely scaled back the Star Wars aisle, and marvel merchandise was combined with it. Basically the space was halved. I also noticed two targets in my area do the same thing. I personally didn't like the Last Jedi movie, and I don't think my son thinks too much about that film either since he doesn't seem to want anything from it, and still hasn't built the two sets from the theme he got from Christmas. Overall, looking at this year, I only have interest in picking up the Ach-to, Yoda's Hut, and all 4 battle packs (already picked up the Jawa version).. The Solo film sets i'm going to have a wait and see attitude with (I did pretty much the same for the Last Jedi), but I could see definitely picking up the speeder, but i have no interest in the new falcon other than maybe bricklinking minifigs a few years from now when prices bottom out on them. Overall, I don't see myself spending much money on Star Wars this year. It will probably be around 130 bucks at most. Not anything like previous years. I also feel the same way about the Marvel infinity sets (have zero interest other than bricklinking some figs). The Jurrassic World sets is probably going to get the most dollars from me this year. Anyway, can Star Wars recover? I don't know... i'm a bit of an old timer now with this theme, as we have a pretty solid collection but with rehashes, and sets based on movies that didn't inspire - well it will be hard pressed to want to go and buy every single set. At this point, I no longer just collect them all. If I had a 3 or 4 year old again, and wasn't around for the 2010-2015 era I could see myself anxiously awaiting the Sandcrawler, and X-wing, but at this point, it's hit the rehash and revision cycle and I dont know if it's enough to make me want to go out and buy those. The future of this theme gets bleaker with each wave reveal, i'm afraid to say.

The brick bounty a £80 / 745 part ship, is now selling at £100-£125. A set that was readily available at 50% discount. I know because I bought at mine at sub £50. So sure no reason to expect a set with 7 figs, 2256 parts at nearly 3kgs of Lego and bricklink part value of nearly $320, is going to sell at above £110 in the aftermarket, no reason at all.

Please keep us in the loop with your build on these, I reckon that is going to be one big boat! And let us know if you manage to find some pdf instructions rather than keep freezing the youtube vid!

Yep, $300 between this and my last 4431 Ambulance I sold.

FBM - 4429 - City: Helicopter Rescue - $175

Not really, they also end the GOOD shows too early. Two examples: SW Rebels and Gargoyles

You still think there is a final movie.. Star wars movies, all the way down.

Disney needs to be worried about over-saturation. With a new movie every year people are going to tire of it especially if the audience is divided about the quality of the product they are putting out there as it was with TLJ. From a toy perspective a lot of the TFA and TLJ vehicles, sets, and characters are bland and uninspiring. One of the prequels few strengths was it's colorful and unique designs which carried over into the Clone Wars. We aren't seeing that with the new trilogy.

At this point, I think they need to go back to cutting back on what they release. There are too many sets. Remember when it was just two good waves per year? They need to go back to that. Just looking at the force friday 2 and winter wave for this year, they could have completely cut out the Transport Pod, the Assault Walker, the Bomber, the half built AT-ST, the Cantina, and the two combined microfighter packs. While some of the minifigures in those sets are nice, they could have beefed those into other sets, or did a little stronger on the battle packs. Right now, they need to have a less is more approach to this theme. So many of the sets I listed above are just not that interesting and i'm not going to spend 50.00 on a set just because of 2 minifigures.

Nice deal.....https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Creator-Village-Station-Building/dp/B075LVT3PH/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1517408533&sr=8-1&keywords=lego+train+station Go go go......

So, release it in year but don’t alter it as if the building wasn’t already in the set. Hopefully the truth will come out soon enough as to the why this horrific event took place in the first place but once again, people can’t handle the truth so less is more here as well.

Got to start somewhere! Now it’s about increasing your turnover with quick flips to replenish your funds and reinvest that into more sets so that inventory and returns grow.

It's a ploy to clear stock from Tesco. Do not buy.

It's official ! Nexo Knights is FINISHED ! https://brickset.com/article/33959/the-end-of-nexo-knights Winter 2018 sets are the last Nexo sets. There won't be any follow up sets. No Summer 2018 sets anymore.

Keep some lead in your pencil for October sales - I expect at least 40% off Ninjago Movie sets.

Couldn't you have mixed and mashed the heads of all the old dinosaur molds? This is going to turn out just like the Hero Mashers.

230 euro price tag, can be connected to Ninjago City and will be released in June.

I know this is stupid, but, I'm going to separate the regular 2018 Brickheadz talk from the Seasonal Brickheadz. It's a little because we have traditionally had a seasonal thread every year. So, talk away about the Seasonal Brickheadz here:

Alright alright. His last sentence can be read differently depending on whether you think it was stated within the context of the previous sentence or as a separate statement. I obviously took it as a generic statement about the US market, where it was intended (I assume) as an Amazon specific statement. Mea culpa.

Don't hold your breath while you wait!! The only better deal will be 20% + points or rewards. You won't see a better deal than 20% off on Winter Village sets.....

Done.

Promobricks (and then picked up by Brickset) reports that the Vegas Skyline set is being re-designed to drop the Mandalay Bay Hotel. Sigh....

Me too. I've bought them all as well and can't wait to build and display them. I'm looking forward to adding the Ninjago City Docks too.

Look at how much effort the intern put into the trade fair display.

Yeah, I'd love one for personal build but can't afford personal builds right now. It'll be great for investment later on I think.

Two Destiny's Bounty - £74.99 each on Amazon. These are to be combined into one larger ship.

received my purchase today

Ok guys, so I got a little more insight into this whole design. I went to the Signing event at the lego store in Salt Lake City, and had a chance to ask some question of the designer. (On top of getting my box signed.) I asked him why they nerfed it so much, and he said that his own design has some flaws and was extremely fragile, and had some seams that wouldn't work for stability purposes. He also admitted that there were some illegal techniques he used in his submission. So it started to make a little more sense why it's a bit different. So take it as you will, but this is coming directly from the Sadovich himself.

I would have sold my one and only 75101 First Order Tie Fighter for $95 FBA today and cleared a nice 100% ROI .... if it wasn't for the fact that the buyer happened to be in my state and without a business selling account, I cannot have Amazon take care of the tax for me, so I have to pay tax myself. Ergo ... dropped down to 90% ROI. Bummer.

Finally got to put together 21018 UN Headquarters, which I picked up for £10 from a charity shop a few months back. Used, but the box was mint so had every chance - happily it is complete with no yellowing and absolutely mint! Not my thing generally, but it looks rather good ??

Built the Dragster Transporter set and it was bought for its versatility. So glad I bought a few for investment too. This set seems to be a winner and we are using it as more a heavy cargo transport. We have that one also. ?

I went for it.....cracked open one of my Tower Bridges and built the alternate build designed by Lee Inyong. It's a good looking modular, but if you look closely, you can see where he obviously was limited on pieces. For example, the most obvious is the sidewalk not being done in tiles. I am going to tweek the streetscape a little to better flow with my other modulars. There are also some very delicate components as you get deep into the build which add a bit of a challenge. But overall.....I think he did a pretty darn good job at making the most out of what he was provided. Made good use out of one of my shelf-warmers.....

Built another TLBM set today. This time it was 70903 The Riddler Riddle Racer. I enjoyed the build and like the look of the final result. As much as I like the racer I think it's just too big to fit into a regular city setting but the parts should prove useful for future MOCs. The minifigure selection is splendid with Magpie being my personal favorite. I already envision her in a normal city context without the giant shoulder pad. The omnipresent Batman minifig has been sold already as one standard TLBM Batman is more than enough for my collection.

Did some TLBM building. Sets were 70910 Scarecrow Special Delivery and 70901 Mr. Freeze Ice Attack. The Batmen and Scarecrow minifigs were sold some time ago so do not appear in the pics. Overall some nice builds. The mech looks pretty cool for its size. I especially like the pizza delivery vehicle, will be very useful in a city setting.

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.

Perfect skillset to work in TRU warehouse.

BrickHeadz Boushh by Nigel Hill

small sets matter and are quite proper to include. selling something through fulfilled by amazon , these smaller sets sold on a much larger volume basis offer much greater profit, little profit risk if a few go missing, and can usually be picked up at 30% discount before any magic, which means it takes hardly anytime after EOL before you are doubling your money. the hard part becomes how to source enough sets without getting banned by a retailer but if you can do that, super easy money. just look at whichever little pink box is slated to retire next and load up - currently its Ariel's Dolphin Carriage. this can be had now for $11.99-12.99. it will sell for $36+ within a year of EOL. multiply that by 200 and you don't pay much attention to the bubble speculation threads anymore. and the best part is you load up a few large boxes ship them in and then sit back and count the money while amazon takes cares of the fulfillment. also small sets like these go under the scammer's radars so that becomes a non-issue. for whatever reason, these little sets also seem to get ignored by the hoarding crew and the higher demand because of lower price point combined with a modest seller count is favorable.