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The Town Hall is retired as far as I know and I do not believe it will make a comeback with the exception of a sporadic and short lived in stock appearance. While LEGO can indeed change their core philosophy and reproduce retired sets, I haven't heard such a drastic change is coming. But a change is coming nonetheless. Reproducing retired sets would reduce the value of LEGO sets on the secondary market and I don't believe LEGO wants to reduce the value of their product, either on the primary or secondary markets. LEGO is very smart and does pay attention to the values of their sets on the secondary markets regardless what many think. The two work hand in hand with one another. The perceived high values on the secondary market filters over to the primary market every day. Many LEGO fans or collectors will pay $400 for a set because they know it increases in value after retirement. If this sets dropped in value after use and time, how would buying patterns change? Quite a bit I would say. LEGO has ALWAYS been an expensive product. When I was a kid 40 years ago, till now, it has been an expensive product. But like with anything that is of high caliber and finely produced, there is an increased price tag. You get what you pay for is very true with LEGO sets and people don't seem to mind paying for this higher cost, because they know they are buying a product made with the highest standards and the potential to increase in value after purchase. Should you buy a Town Hall now at $300 if you don't have one? Probably. I bought a Cafe Corner at $575 and a Taj Mahal at $400 and that has turned out well. I'm not saying the Town Hall will reach those levels, but it will be a non hoarded, short production run Modular, so I say there is a good chance of this set hitting lofty numbers.

I built my first vintage set. It was actually my first huge ship as a kid which had been misplaced years ago. Bought this one off ebay. It was a so great to assemble. If you listen closely towards the end you can hear how brittle the bricks while pulling apart the modules. Enjoy.

While one hits f5 all day another is buying pet shops and enjoying their day.

Could always plan in advance to reach your quota so you don't have to sit in front of your pc all the time hitting that poor F5 button.

I can see where this fits into this thread. Please let me know what you decide. Very curious.

Use a shorter network cable,

Three weeks ago. If people aren't buying yet, they certainly are looking.

"Passing the torch"...literally

If this whole "out of order" EOL for the sets is true, it will make things quite interesting. If TLGs main deciding factor to end a set early is due to lack sales, and to keep other sets because they sell well will mean as a investor you reeeeeeally need to know where you're putting your money and have a strong game plan. Not just buying near what one believes is a sets soon to be EOL because you may just miss the boat. With that said, we should probably change this threads title to town hall/TLGs play to mess with resellers.

Would emazers be considered smart reseller based on that policy? Epic Dragon thing being one of the few mistakes of course

Remember when this forum wasn't full of a$$holes? It was great.

Who knows, but chance favors the prepared mind...

Well stated. Also, lego probably doesn't enjoy dealing with massive returns when a set that appeared to be eol blazes back to life with no discernible end.

* You buy a set $200 at LEGO Shop at Home and you build it. Another guy buy the same set on LEGO Shop at Home. Lego gets $400. Lego is happy and will add some extra hugs and kisses in your next order. * You buy a set $200 at LEGO Shop at Home just before it's sold out. Another guy wants this set soooo much, you resell it to him for $300 on a craiglist. This guy wanted this set and have no more money to spend on LEGO Shop at Home. Lego gets $200 . Lego is upset because you made money thanks to them and the guy didn't pay RRP, meaning they may be finally disappointed and can change their mind and later buy other toys, or less sets, because of that disappointement. Lego would like that you do not resell sets, and that: * You do not invest in legos. Another guy buy a $200 set on LEGO Shop at Home. Lego gets $200. Lego is happy because it's how things are supposed to be. Of course, if you buy a set $200 and resell it 2 years later on a craiglist for $200, lego will not care that much about it. The only thing that may upset them is that you sold a 2011 Ninjago set, and they would prefer to sell their 2014 Chima sets, so the buyer will be tempted to buy some other 2014 Chima sets (still available).

If I want a surprise box of "Lego compatible" bricks I'll take my chances with a monthly eBay purchase of brick lots that say they are Lego. There are bound to be less disappointments and a higher percentage of actual Legos.

I'm guessing there are thousands of HH in hoardage...I mean storage.

So I had a mini heart attack twice tonight. I know how highly I'm thought of around these parts so I thought I'd let you all know. Here's what promted the heart attack... So I thought it would be a good idea to have my. Nephew separate bricktober sets. Thought it would be educational. He is 3.He started jumping and almost fell flat on them all. Happend twice. he then after stacking tried jumping over them barley made it . I was about to have so many pancakes. I fired him. Child labor sucks.

There products are a great quality compared to you're ordinary boxes. They just rotate the boxes on "sale" every few months. Shipping is very reasonable but I would recommend ordering a pallets worth if you are not local. They get heavily reduced freight rates and thats your best option. You can get a pallet shipped through them usually for under $75 as they ship from the closest facility. Also if you order $300 or $500 pick a free gift that you can sell and you get some money back that way. The Johnny Trigg BBQ kits and Tervis tumblers sell well also. We order once a week and they use local delivery as they are in our city and charge about $35 shipping for the whole order. Stuff like the packing peanuts and bubble wrap are impossible to pick up so it works out great. I stock about 30-40 box sizes so we just order whats out for the week. Issues with product damage are cut way down as the boxes are 200lb strength and don't crush as easily as economy stock boxes. Some good starter sizes for LEGO products are 6x6x6 12x9x4 12x8x6 10x10x4 14x12x6 16x12x4 18x12x6 20x14x6 and for larger modular type sets 24x24x6 The white boxes good for polybags are S-156 and S-159 for the small box sets If you're ordering just a bundle though the time you factor in UPS ground it might not be worth it for you needs but if you want to stock up and not have to worry about ordering them it can be a good deal. You can get a ton of boxes on a pallet.

More Mixels Series 1 for $110. Who was selling them at $99 and undercutting all of us either gave up or got bought. Good! Get out of my way, please. Let's raise the price, not lower it.

December 2014 Lego Shop Calendar PDF Download Offers: Free Exclusive 2015 LEGO Wall Calendar with a purchase of $75 or more - Continuation from November (valid Nov. 1 - Dec. 31) Holiday set 2 of 2 last day to purchase on Dec. 1 New sets in Star Wars, the LEGO Movie, Friends, and Disney Princess are being released in January 2015 Over all, pretty underwhelming. Hopefully we'll get some decent Black Friday deals to make up for this terrible injustice upon LEGO Shop at Home customers.

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What's your Amazon store name? I would like to buy a bunch and cancel. :)

You're right. LEGO Investment is a gamble. Still it all depends. For example a set like GE will be massively hoared (while TH won't be hoarded that much). You'd need to study amazon and ebay to see how many sets are sold yearly but taking a wild guess I'd say quite a few. Some resellers are happy with a quick flip and 20$ while others will wait till they see at least 100$. Not every set in every quantity will be a winner. Do people still buy the Black Pearl or an UCS AT-AT? Yes. Will they continue? Probably yes since both sets are pretty awesome and as well well known. Are people still buying CC or GG? Yes. Also you should take into consideration that people in other countries become more wealthy and new markets might open for resellers, e.***. China.

I suggest "Town Hall and other cryptic messages from beloved site owner (and their possible interpretations by others)" :)

Are we still talking about TH here??? ;-P Isn't there a "when is the best moment to buy" thread or something? People like me who have the urge to read every word in a thread and cannot stop until they reached the last word on the last page without skipping any (OCD) will have a hard time.

Give the next generation a helping hand.

If it's not listed it won't sell. That's my strategy. If you want to sell something list it now. It very well could sell before the big rush.

If that's true, then karma got him with the nasty leg break he had on set.

Luke is rumored to be part cyborg or evil. Greedy harrison ford is the star, he demanded it while negotiating for 2 more indiana jones movies. He wanted han to die in jedi, probably will in this one.

Mark Hamill could be at the beginning or in a flashback. I don't see Disney using Mark Hamill as the main star of Star War VII. They are going to try a make something remarkable and I believe they will be moving on from Luke. He will most likely still show up but not a main character. IMHO

I have a fair share of Epic Dragons as well. You win some, you lose some. But as I have always stated and emazers will concur, buy the sets you think are good investments as soon as you can afford to and a proper buying opportunity arises. Timing this market might become a futile and risky endeavor for some. Think of it as "dollar cost averaging" for LEGO sets.

I had that as a kid. Had no idea what it was called. Thank you!

Another Daily Bugle Showdown from Kmart. $20 in surprise points + $5 points to use later. I'll keep buying these at 30-40% off until I run out of shelving space.

You make a good point. But you forgot to consider that if Lego makes a predetermined amount of sets, they are still getting the same amount of money. Let's pretend Lego sells a predetermined amount of 500 sets. In the first case you buy set #300 and the guy buys set #301. Eventually Lego will sell it's 500 sets and make $100000. In the second case you buy the 500th set. Lego still made $100000. In both cases Lego is happy. I believe Lego likes us resellers (to a degree) because we clean out the remaining stock that they want to retire and free up space for newer products. We also increase the value of Legos in the adult world. This value lets resellers and collectors have hope and keep buying more Legos to their collection. How many of us tell ourselves that it's okay to spend thousands of dollars because in the worst case I can just sell it at retail price? How many of us hold onto a Haunted house because it looks cool and in the worst case I'll just build it? They just want to control us to a degree that we don't crash our own market and affect their Lego value in the future. We are all tiny pawns in their grand scheme of things.

Just to chime in here...why would Lego want to hurt re-sellers? Is our money not good enough for them? A busy secondary market is good for Lego in a number of ways.

TH available @ Intertoys.nl!!!, grab what you can brickpicker friends Here's the link: http://www.intertoys.nl/speelgoed/lego-10224-lego-town-hall-591828.html?st=SP&SearchQuery=10224 44 pieces left!

this was the set that I wanted so bad when I was a kid, I had the Battrax and smaller sets

The only part that puzzled me was the "calm down" part of it ;-)

Nice video though I agree with the before mentioned issues. Also it would have been nice to actually see all of the items unbaged. The equipment bag could have been promoted so much better that way. At the end of the video you say: "see if you like the idea of getting a surprise box of LEGO..." LEGO is a brand and though there might be some original LEGO pieces included in the box most are not (as far as I could see). So it would be more accurate to say "surprise box of bricks/brickbuilding toys/LEGO like toys... also including original LEGO bricks" or something like that. (Yeah it doesn't sound as smooth and cool but that's what it is). Anyhow, thanks for posting, didn't know that this stuff even exists ;-)

Please

the buy-box is stronger than the force my friend

Copied from Darth Raichu's post in the Daily Deals. There are 3 coupons the first is only good in Jan 2015, a FREE exclusive lego shop minifigure with any purchase Feb 2015 is the Han Solo Hoth minifigure free with any lego star wars purchase Mar 2015 Free build a mini with any lego purchase So pretty good deal, get two promos basically and a free figure to give to a kid with a build. EDIT: Looked it up, to get the calendar it requires a $75 purchase. Wonder if this will hurt the values of the Hoth Han Solo and Lego employee promo figures much. If you can get $15 each this makes $30 off basically, not bad!

I don't even like lagers. Too plain. Give me a dry hopped IPA or a stout any day.

Oh it's American. No other country would call that piss colored rice water beer. Blue moon is about as Belgian as Taco Bell is mexican.

Listen to his version, makes it sound better...

Hi. I'm back. Interesting tax discussion, but I feel that my thread got derailed as a result, so please post tax advice elsewhere. Thanks! How am I doing with the selling? Well, I avoided selling for a few months, but put about 40 sets on eBay the other day. 5 have sold so far (3 Batman sets, 1 Ninjago and a Chima CHI Temple). The profit is not huge (

Last Dec I was standing in TRU trying to decide between a bunch of MF sets or a big stack of discounted Bikini Bottom Underseas Party. I chose the MF

I think that - for anyone who is not from the US - the Lego investing could be extremely challenging. This is something I often think about, but after reading Gondorian's posts, I thought to share my feelings with you all. As a foreword, I am a sales executive (I am in the wine business), and I travel abroad a lot. USA is one of my most frequent destinations. This to say that I have a deep knowledge of selling techniques (and I deal with Americans a lot ). Said so, whilst I think I am an experienced "seller", I still did not figure out how to make decent and constant profits with Lego in my country (Italy). Our market is infinitesimally smaller than US market in general, and for Lego in particular. We have a plethora of unsuccesful Ebay auctions, because the lack of demand is not driving prices down to more reasonable levels. Sellers are just asking A LOT of money for sets nobody is going to buy at that price. I am not talking about the iconic sets we all know, but even smaller or more recent sets are just too expensive. Furthermore, the only and unique source of reasonable discounts (30% or more) is Amazon.it. We are missing the "crazy" (for our standards) discounts the US fellows are having almost daily. We are missing Target, Walmart, and the other big and aggressive retailers. B&M clearances do happen, but it is totally random, so, the chances of getting profit from smart buys are fairly limited. The other point is that Lego Movie in Italy was not as succesful as in other countries, and we all know this helped US sales a lot. Finally, I think that European investors should look at US investors profits, resources, storage rooms and inventories in a detached way, otherwise we would just buy too much, and sell too little. We are not selling in the US, and we have to deal with it with no regrets...just a little bit of envy I know that there are other Italians and EU members here, and I would like to hearing their opinion too. Ciao!

This is what I was talking about, nicely done. On the other point, I didn't know if we had any females here or not, but didn't want to exclude from the conversation.