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$800 dinner or $8 dinner - it all comes out the same way in the end.

Here is what I replied "No" to... There will be 1000x the number of R2's, Town Halls and Haunted Houses on the after market. This was in reference to the 10179 Falcon. I know there was 20,000 First Edition 10179s made. So at the very least, there would have to be 20,000,000...or 20 MILLION R2's, Town Halls and HHs floating around in the storage facilities across the world for your statement to be true. Sorry, that is not reality. As for your other comments, what I make or why I stoke the flames is none of your business. I could easily keep the information to myself and let people fend for themselves. I have enabled thousands of people to take advantage of private information for FREE. They have gotten solid information from me on the Rover, RI, SSD, TH and now the 10225, all in the past 6 months. The site's costs have to get paid with something, so if Jeff or I ask people to click on a link, it costs you nothing, but helps keeps the site operational. I really don't understand your other points. Are you telling me that DOUBLING your money in ONE YEAR is a bad thing? I really don't know of many other investments that exhibit returns like that. Good luck with your future investments. I hear Hasbro will be making a remote controlled R2-D2 that beeps and lights up. Sounds like a solid investment.

Whatcha ya gonna do brother?!?!?

What has two thumbs and just got the "sorry we dont have those items" email?

Am I just dumb or Is there really no logic to that plan?

might still be better for what Target is doing with mine. they are shipping my 5 10225s in ONE box. that's 33.3 pounds of 100% pure 10225 r2d2. oh beep, beep, chirp,

No worries TG, SHAKE IT OFF, SHAKE IT OFF! I felt a tinge of desire to go running to buy more tumblers too somewhere along that circus talk. Bottom line is I don't think it is foolish to have a massive stack of tumblers growing in the old collection so when the coded message comes from nostradamack you can casually try to pick up a few instead of running around with my pants around my ankles to lego stores trying to scoop up R2s like a fool. Why my pants are around my ankles, I have no idea. I did manage to get 4 at 2 lego stores yesterday though, guess I'm lucky they aren't pushing the limit 1 exclusive thing.

In defense of panic buying: 1) It can be just as effective as buying over a longer period of time (at least in large citites like where I live). I've picked up twelve R2-D2s in the last 48 hours, and could get four more if the manager hadn't imposed a limit. Grrrr... 2) It's an efficient use of capital. Doubling your investment within 12 months creates a MUCH higher ROI (or CAGR or SCUBA or whatever) than doubling it in 36 months, which could be what happens if you buy a set at the beginning of its life. 3) It's fun! I've been having a blast calling Lego stores and zooming around buying the ones I find. I'm not desperate to do so, but hunting for a few extra R2s is like a scavenger hunt. Wheeeee!

It is like advising folks who mostly shop at Newman Marcus to comparison shop at Ross. We know that Amazon is just a facade - they, not quite... Oh, man, and when RI article in NY hit, the ratio was like 2 to 1 price wise. Granted, there were only 17 sellers on amazon at the time... I have no idea what ebay can ever do to get rid of flea market perception

You know it is Christmas selling season when... My Gungan Subs start selling. Amazing.

Thanks for keeping things running smoo---- Ooh, Mini-Trucker Magazine.

it aint a set but its LEGO ... hope to more than double than what i paid for this ...

I think people took my answer to Cross as the Tumbler retiring early. He asked if there was one set to invest heavily in right now, what set would it be? I said the Tumbler. Whether it retires in 6 months or 3 years, it is a great set and it is hard to acquire, so I said to start now because you can never have too many of these sets.

They need to do a refresh. SSD colliding with Town Hall SSD colliding with Research Institute...

Batman sets kick ass in the secondary market....That is all.

Take a breath here. I said there will be a lot of cryptic messages over the next 6 months. This set might have some life left in it, but I would strongly suggest if you don't have one, now is the time to start collecting them. Once the movies are over, you know all of these LOTR sets will be slowly vanishing. Also, there might be a certain amount of inventory that was planned to last until June, but once people start sniffing retirement, it will never last.

Everyone has the right to sell at their own price point... It just amazes me that some people are willing to work so hard for $5-10 when it should be clear there is money being left on the table.

How could it last until next year? Everyone keeps saying the license is two years so it must be so.

I like the cut of your jib.

When someone hands you a shovel...

it is not that easy finding teen smoking weed in the mall these days ..

I wonder if it was my listing with gray in the title! I demand 5 cents in royalties.

This set is a solid seller already. Hard to keep it in stock and its early November. Would advise anyone that has stores left with these to stock what you can. Pulling $120 paired with 40106. Could easily see the combo hit $150 as it gets deeper into the season.

4 sets of Series 2 Mixels LEGO Batman: Beyond Gotham w/ Plastic Man and DLC Keep checking those TRU Express stores: 1 x Star Wars: Desert Skiff - $0.03 1 x Chima: Ultimate Speedor Tournament - $0.03

No. Lego, real actual Lego, sells very well in China. Even right alongside the counterfeits. Where do you think I've sold my Tumblers?! TLG is well aware of the counterfeiters. Their legal team is actively pursuing legal action in China (which they summed up by saying basically: lol, good luck to us!). They have been to the trade city in Yiwu and seen all the knockoff offerings first hand and are doing their best (lol, good luck) to get rid of the blatant copiers.

We know there will be at least one more batch as it is not marked as sold out. However all signs point to this set being done very soon. There should be plenty of opportunities (probably brief) to buy this set from LEGO Shop at Home and possibly big box/amazon over the coming weeks in North America.

Don't you love that logic? Business screws up and can't ship stuff decently and if customer complains too much, ban the customer and keep on packaging stuff horribly. Problem solved right?

Mack, Stray away from this thread until I get 20 more. Thank You!

Did a Pin just dropped?

I feel we don't need that at all.

My Tower of Orthanc I backordered during 2x VIP and Toy Shop promo shipped.

Seems a bit early for Red 5, but retirement of HE this year would be consistent with the lifespan of EN and MT.

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Thanks, I've been trying to cram as much as possible in the title but.... I think this is ultimately the problem. I had something similar to your suggestions and then pulled out "collection" and replaced it with "princess". That seemed to help initially, but now there are a ton of sellers and I'm nowhere near the bottom dollar. I need to play around with eBay's search a little more and see if I can't figure what works best.

Ok, you might not know the name 'Tantive IV', but do you remember the opening scene of SW Episode IV? You know the ship carrying Leia and everyone's favorite droids, getting its buttocks spanked by a SD? Yeah, that one. Alongside maybe the obelisk scene in 2001, that has to be the most famous opening sequence in modern cinema.

Didn't even know Tantive IV before I started collecting. As for R2, even my girlfriend knows it.

I think $275 - $300 for R2 one year from now sounds reasonable.

Exactly...I could have said something weeks ago about the 10225 or the 1...........

I for one have never seen anything where Ed tries to stoke the flames for affiliate sales. Most all of the info he gives out is done after the item is already OOS on most sites. Wouldn't make much sense to stoke anything when someone can't buy it to begin with. This site has a wealth of information for FREE and a lot of people on here wouldn't even mind paying for it so I would hope anyone would be happy to click on an affiliate link to keep it free for as long as possible. Not to much to ask. Plus the riddles are very amusing especially for the forums they are made in that day. Speaking of hidden messages, how many boards exactly did BA post "the calm before the storm on..." could be a trivia question for the day!

Read this entire forum. It's in there a few hundred times.

You had't even had to have any additional information. I know that this is my usual mantra, but if anybody looked at the ratio of new and retired exclusives in the last year(s) should have known that something has to balance it. It is just clever observation and deduction, I was telling the same since January without any hint received. What took people off guard is that LEGO had not done the balancing spread out uniformly but compresses it into these few months. My personal guess, which is totally irrelevant to anything by the way, is that LEGO did not want to make a move until they figured out a way how to handle resellers in the future.

People were saying this a lot about the SSD #10221. "Its all grey bricks", "tedious build", "too big to display", "box too big", etc, etc I just ran the latest price guide update and it is now at $711, up almost 80% in the last 6 months. I say its doing pretty well. This one will too.

TB is not worth it. Surprised nobody loaded up the simpsons house. Do the math there and convert it to USD. i landed five. The xmas set is easily flippable for $20usd. After shipping and fees, its better with double VIP on the TB. Fyi, I'm a bit surprised nobody has been loading up tge simpsons house up north during double VIP. It's less than $189USD if you do your math correctly. Buy it, list it on ebay and ship it at blaine or pt roberts. I wish i got to stay longer in vancouver last month. Sold a couple to malaysia for $280USD plus $80 shipping. You guys got it good now with the strong USD.

I definitely want this set! One reason: the tires. The last time those tires were made in black was in some space sets in the 90's.

The LEGO boomers (the generation that spent their childhood in the 80s), is just now entering their prime income earning years (mid/late 30s or early 40s). The typical LEGO boomer has 2-3 kids, at least one is probably a boy, and that son is most likely at least 3 by now (I know girls like LEGO too). This is the prime season of their life to leave the Dark Ages and rekindle their love for LEGO. I think its only just begun. Christmas of 2015 will be even more special when LEGO capitalizes on Star Wars. After that will be the new LEGO movie featuring Batman and who knows what else LEGO has up its sleeve? So I agree with Ed, I have no concerns that I won't be able to sell a TH, SSD or HH in 3-5 years for big bucks.

Well, a completed Modular street is quite a display and the Town Hall is the centerpiece IMO. I think you underestimate LEGO fans and their habits.

Make it a load-bearing poster!