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Another year.... another kid.... same train. It's clear that no form of non permanent birth control can defeat our ultra fertility. The oldest let me condense his zoo just enough to jam Christmas town in. Just a couple small sets added this year. The toy shop never got rebuilt due inventory and staffing shortages. There are a lot of set 10241 sitting off the coast of the table.

Been living in Florida for a month now. Took all this time to get the pool figured out, a heater installed and up and running. Took my first dip in my jacuzzi tonight. Love it!

Not really a “deal” but I redeemed a Vintage Camera set in VIP portal back when it first came out, and now its letting me redeem another so figured if anyone wants a second. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I got a lot of love for this post on Instagram, thought y'all would like it too. You better believe I wrapped it like a pro.

Re-brickable has some really nice MOCs just using the Porsche set:

Even old sellers were doing that with huge quantity. LEGO was not very short at all, even when it went oos it was back in and out frequently. Some stuff never went OOS at all and was even on sale 20 off the entire season. Nothing ever went up like last year over a certain point. If you raised a little it stopped selling altogether and had to lower back down. Then risk getting stuck on the non retiring with the sporadic restocks or stuff showing up in stores scattered all through the 3 weeks. Money was definitely tighter and a lot of people just jumped to other cheaper priced items instead of pushing up items like last year that they really wanted. That also was easier with so many damn sets out there. The most baffling part was the non lego toys that were actually hard to get and not out there online or in store many times that never took off yet still somehow had 300+ sellers. The limit 20 and unlimited stuff early on in season Oct/Nov with 30-60 day delivery times on amz didn't help either as a lot of that got into resellers hands during peak time and in large quantities. The whole Target x Collection BS Dec 4th didn't help any seasonal sets. Wreath never going OOS anywhere was ridiculous as well as other previous year holiday sets which is just pure overproduction. Pretty sure sales were even or a bit higher but only cause I bought more for the holidays. Profits were minimal at best on the stuff that actually did sell and had a good amount of speculation breakevens and losses. Few big winners but was hard to get those in quantity.

Oh my 🙄

Serious Elf Clubhouse work to complete the village before Mass. Happy Holidays, All!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Flapped a bunch of these and then realized I never kept one to build and really wanted to build it. Found on on FB for $20, they built bags 1 and 2 then stopped.

Another because of file size...

One of the perks of living in Romania. This was a couple of days ago and all of the LEGO stores look like this. Heck, grocery and toy stores look like this too.

Was what got me banned. 80+ orders of Quidditch Match + Harry BH for $46 will do it.

Anyone have a real one of these to post up?

Ultimately ended up settling with 15% partial refund. They offered full refund for a scheduled pickup of the set but I actually wanted this for personal, so with the initial $100 + extra 15%, I’ll take it for a damaged box. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A couple more years and you'll have a six pack. I can remember each of these as they were posted. It is clear you love your wife and for that I raise my glass of, well, eggnog to be seasonal I guess. (Non-alcoholic, of course.)

It feels like Green Hill Zone alright. Arguably the single most recognized area & theme of the Sonic franchise. Robotnik's head is about the only facet seeming a bit off. Everything else including his flying craft seems fine proportionately. I believe the original Ideas submission was for Sonic Mania so technically the "wrong game" (weird as that sounds). However, circling back to as I mentioned, Green Hill Zone is the most iconic set piece of Sonic hands down. If this does well enough then we could see a potential treatment similar to Minecraft perhaps.

It's a requirement. You deal with it by complying with the requirement. Sent from my LM-V600 using Tapatalk

It's a THG/TheHut storefront (same parent as Zavvi/iWoot, will ship from UK).

I love the c3 corvette

Just got mine fixed and fired up this evening. Enjoying with a dash of egg nog and rum on the side 😁

The discounted gift card to buy another gift card worked at target once. It was glorious.

IMO : Ungating is the worst thing amazon did this year. Many listings had new sellers with prices $30-$40 less next closest or prime offer. Whatever happened to the eligibility to sell during holiday criteria. I guess amazon got greedy, more sellers --> more profits. FBA: Up until last year FBA vs FBM was approximately $10 difference with FBA getting buy box. This season it was $5. That doesn't even cover FBA expenses per item. Some products sold at a higher price in December 2020, then this season. 21307 comes to mind to top the list.

My sales are down about 25% from 2020 to 2021, but that is not surprising since I offloaded a huge chunk of my inventory in bulk deals earlier in the year. All of the new competition is going to make things more challenging in the years to come and will tighten margins, but I've been planning for this for at least 6 years and have enough scale to make up in volume what I lose in margin. Sent from my LM-V600 using Tapatalk

I think it was the same. I recall thinking that $15 is not cheap for this set.

That is defiantly a compliant.

Got busy and never updated but actually arrived at dealership the next day after posting that last assembly line photo. Took possession 12/8/21 from a 7/13/20 reservation... Got about 400 miles on it so far and its fun to drive. Feels like a tank on the road and lot more room / comfort than the Wranglers I drove for a few weeks. Color looks a lot more vibrant in the sun too and darker at night. Were shocked I was keeping it, said most were just having them sell on the lot.

So this is why they have a post office in my grocery store... Sent from my moto g power (2021) using Tapatalk

Decided to build a 10216 Winter Village Bakery from my spare parts and just bricklink the pieces I didn't already have. I was going through the part out list on Bricklink looking to swap out expensive pieces for cheaper variants or colors where I could and found this medium nougat 1x8x2 arch that was exclusive to this set and goes for $15 or so on Bricklink. https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=3308&idColor=150#T=S&C=150&O={%22color%22:150,%22iconly%22:0} I replaced it on my wanted list with a dark orange arch. But, while going through my spare stuff I actually found a medium nougat 1x8x2 arch. Crazy because there are no other stickered pieces/minifigures or anything else in my spares that would indicate that any of the bulk buys I have made ever included this set. Happy to save $15 though and have the correct color piece! Sent from my SM-G996U using Tapatalk

Someone was in a bidding war on my item and he lost, I relisted it after the auction and he messaged me to ask why do I have another copy??!! Should I tell him I'm reseller scum? I often get messages telling me somewhere else is cheaper, I'm like ok good deal buy from them instead!

So far, loving Florida. Everyone here is super nice and chill.

Probably a long shot, but I like this thing and the Old Fishing Store getting approved gives me hope. I'd even take a scaled down version. https://www.thebrickfan.com/lego-ideas-the-pirate-bay-achieves-10000-supporters/