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In the past, several BrickPicker members have asked us how we post affiliate links. Many members have been very helpful with posting affiliate information when they post new links in the Daily Deals threads. Please support BrickPicker by using our affiliates. BrickPicker gets a very small percentage of any sales through the affiliate programs. These affiliate purchases will help to keep the site, databases, and software costs in check. We hope you like BrickPicker and all the information here, the great services here cost money and the site is free. Try to help support us in keeping it that way. The costs can be significant, especially the information provided from EBay for the Brickfolio information. Sometimes you will see new members post information about cashback sites or credit card affiliates. We either have filters in place to censor the names of the sites, or mods will usually delete the posts when members discuss cashback programs, etc. It's not that we hate or don't believe in other cashback programs, we just want to promote the use of BrickPicker and the use of our affiliate program is another way you can help keep the site afloat and to bring new services that provide great LEGO information and tools to assist you in making good investment choices. If you look at the links in the Daily Deals main post, many have affiliate tags in them. I highlighted the tags in red. Amazon.com = http://www.amazon.co.../dp/B00CNBS5WE/? Amazon.co.uk = http://www.amazon.co.../dp/B0094J2CA4/?tag=brickpicker-21 EBay - http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=2&toolid=10041&campid=5337057111&customid=dailydeal&lgeo=1&vectorid=229466&item=Put Item Number Here Walmart.com = http://linksynergy.walmart.com/fs-bin/click?id=jfOcdvfTNg4&subid;=&offerid=223073.1&type=10&tmpid=1082&RD_PARM1=http://www.walmart.c...ay-Set/22018312 Target.com = http://goto.target.com/c/65738/81938/2092?u=http://www.target.co...08/-/A-14278599 Shop.Lego.com = http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=jfOcdvfTNg4&subid;=&offerid=115554.1&type=10&tmpid=2294&RD_PARM1=http://shop.lego.com...Sales-And-Deals KMart.com - http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-5917360-11042397?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kmart.com%2Fsearch%3Dlego Jeff and Ed Mack have a bunch of the affiliate links in their signature. Any of these links can be clicked on before purchases. SUPPORT BRICKPICKER BY CLICKING ON ANY OF THESE LINKS BEFORE MAKING A PURCHASE!! Amazon: USA | UK | DEU | FRA | ITA | CAN | ESP LEGO: USA | UK | CAN Walmart: USA | CAN EBAY Raise.com (Get Discounted Gift Cards to buy LEGO) Target K-Mart Barnes & Noble YoYo.com Smyths Toys Argos UK Let me know if you have suggestions for things that can be added to this post. Thank you all for your support.

I am posting a link to a Twitter feed I setup for the Daily Deals. This is new and I have tied it into some of the processes I have been creating for the updated Daily Deals section. Many of the main sites are in there (Amazon, Walmart, Target, Kmart, Argos, etc). I still have a list to go, but you should see more activity in the coming days. The Amazon process checks very often so you will see the most activity from them. Right now I have it set for discounts of 20% or higher. Feel free to follow it and lets see if we can make it a worthwhile feature for everyone. Let me know what you think. If there are Twitter experts out there, I am always open to ideas, so please send me a PM if you know of features that can make it better. https://twitter.com/BrickDailyDeals

It's because these youngen's attention span only lasts for 140 characters #oldmannaf

Greetings Brick-brothers and sisters! In my job as a US DoD civilian, I have the privileged of traveling the world. Everywhere I go, I am always on the lookout for our favorite plastic crack in the hope that I can find some hard to find sets at a good price that won't be prohibitively expensive to ship back home. I am currently deployed to the small country of Bahrain in the Arabian Gulf. I don't know if we have many members from the Middle East or South West Asia but I'd love to here from you. Children here obviously have toys but the working/service class is huge and the income gap, much like most of the Middle East, is vast. Bahrain's location relative to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia means that toy stores largely cater to the more affluent. The country of Bahrain is very small but boasts two major malls and an actual TRU. I understand different countries have different taxes, tariffs, exchange and inflation rates. I had no idea what to expect from the Middle East. I was in for quite the surprise. Enough prattle. I went to the TRU and cataloged some prices for comparison to what we pay in the West. I tried to get a good spread of sets for comparison. 1 Bahraini Dinar = 2.65 USD All prices are listed in USD. SSD $710.42 R2-D2 $318.21 Tower Bridge $421.63 Opera House $501.19 Silver Mine Shootout $169.45 Mindstorm 3 $790.24 Ghost Train $164.14 Microfighter $22.54 Horizon Express $182.71 Goblin King $211.88 Sail Barge $291.43 Yeah... Needless to say, I didn't find anything I would be bringing home. If anyone is looking for something hard to find, I'll certainly look but I don't see much meat left on any bones here. Not the most interesting post but I hope you at least found it interesting. My next trip is to various destination is West Africa. I look forward to searching those locales as well. Until then.

http://www.supercompressor.com/home/photo-tour-of-lego-s-factory-and-design-headquarters-in-denmark?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=thrillist

It takes a lot of work to mark 100 sets with "Retiring Soon" on it!

Maybe all you banned people can't access the site...

Sally is such a nice name. She sounds like someone who bakes cakes and knits wooly scarves all day long. What could possibly go wrong?

skiff-a-dee-doo-dah skiffity-yaay. black friday in july target skiff's delivered today.

Sold my Cafe Corner from my mega-lot between it and the Grand Carousel I'm all in the black with the other 99999999 sets that I have to list still

For better or worse, got a GE on LEGO Shop at Home and a used Pet Shop for 100 on craigslist.

This will not be for everyone. This is for lazy email people such as myself that receives tons of email and don't sort it or delete it. It gets to the point where your mail app barely works and sometimes crashes. It may be different for me since I create a lot of alerts for Brickpicker, but I got to the point where I had over 60,000 emails in my inbox. Ed has laughed at me, co-workers, etc. This morning I searched for something to help clean my inboxes and found the program Mailstrom I can't tell you how well this app works for finding what you don't need and making it easy to get rid of. Within minutes I was able to find and remove over 40,000 emails that I know for sure I will never need. It gives you a bunch of different ways to group your inboxes and when you think you have everything, you try a different grouping and can find hundreds more. I know many have Inbox OCD issues and can't stand seeing 5 emails in their inbox. I will never get to that point, I already know that. But if there are email hoarders out there like me, give this a shot. http://mailstrom.co

$112.50 after staples GC beats VIP points and poly bag

I will have an RSS feed for you when I release the Daily Deals section which should be pretty soon.

Nice list! I did a little more digging on your website, and I really like what you did with the Lego piece ruler. It's quite ingenius, in my opinion. Thanks for developing it! For those who want a link: http://tomalphin.com/2014/02/lego-ruler-and-sorting-tool.html

I am excited to build with my son too. He is only five and a half months old, so we have a ways to go before we even get to Duplo

Heej Guys, Check out this deal on Bricklink: http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?sID=501970&itemID=60135640 It is very cheap but also very suspicious, user also has cheap 10196. User has 0 feedback and doesn't want to be contacted. Thought i post it here, USA is to far for me. -Hendrik

There is not a chance thats the last one ever. SO don't worry.

So now I gotta turn myself into the weirdo with a digital scale weighing lego sets in the aisles of stores.... I'll mutter to myself, missing the minifigs, missing the minifigs, ya never know, ya never know. AFOL, EOL, follow the codes! The codes knows...

Well, it started here https://community.lego.com/t5/LEGO-General/SAY-NO-TO-LEGO-SIMPSONS/td-p/5291968 Got locked, but the same thing keeps popping up everywhere. Peoples do petitions and angry letters and stuff. Might buy some more Simpson houses and send few more even angrier letters and flame a few topics in random boards. For sure gets retired...

I think "SSDs half off, but only over the phone" would be sufficient

very Edsals are easy to assemble only a decent rubber mallet or smallish hammer is needed. the hardest part is aligning the top 4 arms to the bottom 4. just watch out for your floor as them units can indent most flooring. some newer units do have 4 rubber-like feet to help avoid floor damage

There is no amount of LEGO that would be able to bow the one Jaisonline is talking about. I picked up 2 during the holidays last year for $50 a piece at lowes. They work really well. Here's the link he provides in the thread. Edsal 72in x 48in x 24in

Yep... then the guy tries to sell them by a pallet on bricklink...

Too many steps involved. I'd rather watch the SSD vs DS video again when I am in the mood for destructions.. At least I am not stcuk with the cleanups http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuxM-avNfLo

Just kidding..

Good point, shop.lego.com is working perfectly fine for me. I just ordered 5 of the SSD as it came became available and then poofed again.

the half off SSD !

They were already on the site. Just "Add to cart" button was disabled. I highly doubt they need to bring entire shopping site down to flip the switch

I ordered the 10196. She emailed right away with 'Please send payment to (her paypal email) , thanks Sally. I replied 'There is not even a shipping charge? This seems a little fishy. I will need to cancel unless you can provide me some assurance I will receive the item. Sorry, hope you understand.' She replied 'I don't know what shipping will be. I usually cover it on my end. I don't see what is fishy about that." Not sure what to make of it. Don't think I'll be risking it though.

#Journalism

Menard's is having a sale on 48x24x84 gladiator shelves. Or 48x24x72. Deep enough to hold 23" exclusives. And strong enough not to bow. The ability to adjust shelf height is nice as well. http://www.menards.com/main/flyer.html?&flyer_run_id=30144&store_code=3310&locale=en&flyer_type_name=weekly3&hide=catalog,midwestmanufacturing&getGoogleKey=true&flyer=flyer

they encountered A-Wings on the way to you....

Are these Canadian Fire Brigades?

What would be really cool is a popup widget that has a link visible on all forum pages in the header or footer. A reader can paste the clean URL of what product they are seeing on another site into a text box. Then the popup displays the affiliate-appended text and copies to clipboard. Reader then pastes the correctly formatted link into the forum post.

great post. just wanted to add that the site will get a cash back on any eligible product you buy -not just lego/toys- provided you use the aff link...

Maybe I can drive up to Groveport, OH and ask them what's delaying Bold-Arrow's order?

All day...thanks for the heads up NMM! And thanks again to xeeeej for the staples GC deal. Much appreciated.

First of all...I really like black and red. There is just something about that color combination. Second, I had no idea who Jek-14 was. I saw this set on Amazon about 10-12 months ago. I thought the set looked really cool but had no vested interest because I was unaware of the Yoda Chronicles. When I finally got back from overseas this summer, I asked my kids. Boy did they rave about Jek-14 and his exploits. We watched the Yoda Chronicles together and I thought it was a funny series and the Jek-14 was an interesting character... So I bought the set. Just built it tonight. Only took an hour and a half with some "help" from time to time from the kids... Here is how the build looked: Opened the box and poured out bag #1. Jek-14 thought he'd supervise. Jek checking out my work after bag 1 was finished. Bag 2 done and he's not quite sure what to make of this contraption without wings. He said he could build it faster. Bag 3 was finished quickly and he was in a rush to load the holocrons so he insisted R4 help him out. Once bag 4 was done and there was finally a wing...he thought he'd inspect to make sure it was attached correctly. R4 was "supervising." Final product. Jek seems happy. He threw on his helmet and was ready to take off! Overall I think this is a cool looking set with a great minifig in Jek-14. The Special Forces Clone Trooper is cool as well. I always have fun building LEGO so the fact that this was fun is no real surprise. It's not up there with R2 or some Technic I've put together...but a nice quick build while kids were taking turns taking showers and getting ready for bed. I do have one boxed up in my closet as well in case this becomes an item in demand for the holidays. P.S. Sorry you have to turn your head for the first few pics...lesson learned for next time.

Flown all around there. never got off base in bahrain though. I believe th prices. But gas in qatar is 29cents/liter so that makes up for it.

If you haven't used Twitter, you will. It is the best place to find information anywhere. It is almost instantaneous as well. I really love to follow sports writers and news/financial sites on it. It's short and sweet and gets to the point but gives you the links if you want to read further. Follow the right people and it can become a very useful tool. Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

If I were to make a time lapse of a building, I guess I would finishing the building first, then remove one brick and take a picture, then rince and repeat. Doing so, and reversing the pictures in the end, you can have a very "natural" time-lapse feeling, where the set is built strictly from bottom to top, and remains in a steady position.

Give your woman a trip to Bruges as present for whatever is the next holiday and take some HH with you. Win-win situation. Unfortunately they only deliver in Belgium home adresses or pick-up points.

I think they do not. You have to go to Belgium yourself to pick it up from the store. I do it the same way.

10 minutes in to the 41999 and I'm already in over my head......I'm definitely not a master builder lol this is gonna take a while.

Last time Super Hero characters were given away in New York was 2011 and then for 2012 it was the Shadow Leonardo to promote TMNT. If nothing is given out this year then I question why Lego stopped giving out anything Super Hero related for the big apple.

I cannot wait till my son is old enough so we can do this together as well. He just turned 2 and is already pretty smart at building his duplo's that I am wondering who taught him that?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcosbessa/sets/72157645143093631/

People in Detroit just rip the stuff open and take. Never come across a reseal but I have checked the seals pretty good when something looks shelf worn. Detroit - we aren't subtle we just plow through. But you have to hit the walmart because the 50% discounts is just too much to pass on. There are only a few other "collectors" that I know of that are hitting the same rounds that I am but we are all just buyers. No one has sstarted done the path of stealing and returning. But honesty is a funny thing - I got a few extra simpson minifig packs in my cart by accident and I went through self checkout so I didn't ring them up. Found them later when I counted the packs and I went back and paid for them. I sleep better at night knowing I paid for them. Just becasue you can steal doesn't mean you should but there are way too many out there who do. Sorry, some people just suck but what they put in the world is what they are going to get back. Karma.

I know it is limited by: 1.) it can only be ordered online 2.) you can only order 1 at a time 3.) a friend at lego group told me 4.) it says limited quantity in the lego catalogue Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker