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Agree. I think I've transitioned from collector to hoarder, as due to work / kids, not built a set in months. But I just keep on buying sets as addicted lol

No kidding. Jang is still my goto for a set review and his analysis on value.

Bowser's Airship, 71391, is 50% off at Best Buy. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lego-super-mario-bowsers-airship-expansion-set-71391/6454754.p?skuId=6454754

The LEGO influencer market is concentrated cringe, but the increasing size/footprint of super sets leaves most of them off the personal list regardless of cost/value. Quality control is my biggest issue at the moment.

LEGO really overplayed their hand. This year alone I have spent $200 buying The Great Wave and a Medieval Castle. Nothing else. Barring a castle/pirate themed promo that blows me away I might just take the next year off the hobby. I’d be curious to know how the purchase habits of others here have changed? I might make a survey on it later.

Back in 2021 I had 6 weeks off in between jobs and was on vacation for 4 of those weeks. Turns out those few weeks made me put on a few pounds and I decided to do something about it. Started looking for a quick and efficient workout and began jumping rope. Lost all the weight i put on and more until I was at my leanest on 20years. Then in apr last year I started indoor rowing, bought my own rower in may and never looked back. I will hit about 1850km in another two months and have built a rock solid habit/hobby investing time in my health. With a little discipline you can make big changes to your fitness even in your forties. It's never too late. Best part is I can eat a ton now and not put on weight, in fact i have to so that i get enough energy for the activities.

Is there a cliff note version ?

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/dry-bowser-castle-battle-expansion-set-71423 MAR10 Day set posted for 2023

If you remove all punctuations and replace some capital letters with lower cases, that post brought back some old memories

He / She / It(?) was probably swamped with orders. Based on the tracking #, one of the orders even had to be shipped from Japan just like the feedback said..

I had to recall my last bit of Christmas inventory today ... First the listing got blocked by PFT Corp with their 1000+ copies, and now ToyWave stepped in and dropped the price by 20%. I'll eat the return shipping cost and take the chance this comes back in a paper bag.

Daniel Smith sounds like a decent and honest fella

A couple of reviews stating that they're a dropshipper. Not sure how many people bother reading the reviews rather than just clicking the Buy now button?

I’m still saving up for Titanic, not this new crap.

Better to complain here than the “White Whale” thread 😂

It's not even simply a money / burnout thing. Space and time are a huge concern. Even the wealthiest Lego fan in the world (not me) probably doesn't want to spend 8 hours a day just building everything they felt compelled to purchase. I've hit the point where I have unbuilt sets piling up, some of which I've had for years (current rolling record is 5 years, 5 months). I'm either going to have to dismantle some sets to make room, or just give up and sell stuff. Maybe UCS sets - they used to be special when they were the largest, most adult-focused sets TLG made, but now they're just some among many others.

Very honest and quality video.

The Precious just arrived:

Just had the first arrival come today. The others are 'in warehouse'.

the question is...is there a mini LEGO satellite phone inside that pile

If you were my neighbor, I'd be giving you eggs whenever you needed any. With our 14 chickens and winter coming to an end, the ladies have started laying again. We got a little over a handful of eggs a month during winter but we got 46 eggs over the past week!

Wow this is super cute: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/the-mandalorian-n-1-starfighter-microfighter-75363?CMP=AFC-AffiliateUS-UENCDus92FQ-3774713-1182088-1 Saw this drop too: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/pirate-snub-fighter-75346?CMP=AFC-AffiliateUS-UENCDus92FQ-3774713-1182088-1

What exactly triggers the ban from TLG? I already know your email address and home address is blacklisted because once you're banned any other order you make you're greeted with the deadly "Information about your order" email and told the exact same thing that you were told when you got banned (that also includes different email addresses but same home address). I also know that the very first line of 'defense' TLG has is an automated system, once you're banned and you place an order the system (probably) cross checks it with TLG's database to make sure the order wasn't made with a blacklisted email or home address. I know this because that's what it says in the ban email - "the validation process is automatic". But I decided to contact CS over live chat and they obviously gave me the same response but also told me that it happened because "our team reviewed your account order and history", so... who's lying? I still believe that a computer does it as I tried making another order with a different email address, name and home address (literally just my neighbour's address) with the intent of using DPD's 'deliver to neighbour feature' (i.e me) once it was shipped, but got instantly banned again. I hope my neighbours aren't LEGO fanatics. (sorry!) I know them well, and in all honesty they've told me they or their kids don't like LEGO so it's not a total loss? But really, what else? Is the whole street put on an alert list? On the other hand I did manage to get an order through by contacting customer service with again different details and my other neighbour's address, and guess what? It went through, I managed to get DPD to redirect it to me and now I do have the order. But that begs the question... what about other ways people could abuse the system? As far as I know, if you ordered something and it doesn't arrive within the given timeframe, you can either ask them to resend it or refund you. I have actually asked them to resend a missing order before (this was before I was banned) because DPD decided to leave my order ontop of my rubbish bins instead of literally handing it to me at the door, and they delivered it at the same time the school next to me finished so... it got stolen by some pesky kids (yay) as by the time DPD told me it arrived (I think their system is crappy as every time I recieve something from them it takes them about an hour to confirm I got it) it was gone when I checked. Oh well, TLG sent me a replacement completely fine, no issues, they just needed my order number. I don't know what they do in the background, be it check using the tracking system on the courier's website the same way a consumer would use it or they just have loads of logs from the courier telling them if it was delivered, the time, where it was put or and an image of where it was put (if that's what your courier does), but DPD took a picture of my parcel on my bins, yet I got the re-order just fine, so that just makes me wonder... couldn't someone just order something, tell the courier to leave it somewhere vulnerable (but collect it the instant they see/are told it's delivered), wait for the delivery timeframe to pass, and then ask TLG to resend the set so they now have one for free or refund the whole order so they got the set for free? I'm not saying you should do it and I'm not saying I will do it either (ever since the price increase I've been put off buying sets at retail price on the LEGO store forever), but I'm sure someone's tried it once and maybe/maybe not got away with it. It's a weird thought, I know, but it got me really curious.

Nothing is going to happen. A lot of their old feedback is getting removed. They are responding to feedback and including names thereby using the personally identifiable clause - IMO to get feedback removed.