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Ed, thanks for the input and I agree with your concern regarding LEGO's new production factory in China. I immediately thought of this interesting article regarding Bassett Furniture and the Chinese theft of Bassett intellectual property (furniture designs) and subsequent undercutting Bassett in the market: http://www.npr.org/2014/07/14/331356258/how-a-factory-man-fought-to-save-his-furniture-company This relates to the Tower Bridge because the book that inspired the article is by Beth Macy, who is a reporter for the Roanake Times. The Roanoke Colony was an attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement in the late 1500's. Queen Elizabeth I ruled England from 1558 to 1603, which is 283 years before the real Tower Bridge started construction.

Isn't that that establishment in Atlantic City?

A funny thing about the BP forums is how often the most interesting information and discussion takes place in threads where the title wouldn't give you a clue what was being discussed.

My son said he's done with his Harry Potter sets, so far sold 4842 $300 4867 $115 4840 $149 10217 $250 He gets some money from 4842 since he got it from Santa, so "technically" it's his, but I'll be taking some substantial seller fees. Still need to sell the Express, Dobby, and Quidditch. He said he wants to keep his Hagrid Hut for now.

I thought it was a Thai dish.

That wouldn't be a problem because only 1 of the SGE items would have any resale value

Well my order from " Lego Man" arrived the other day to my parents house and today I verified the contents and conditions of the sets, and I'm very pleased to say the least. As I stated before, the sets where $$$, but we agreed upon a price ( Best deal I found ) and made a deal. The communication was great throughout the whole process. Lego Man was worried about the condition( shelf ware) of the one set, so he emailed me pictures and waited for me to verify it was ok to complete the transaction. I bought these sets to eventually put together with my daughter, so minor shelf ware was ok with me, but being the true Professional he his, He also sent me two little LEGO sets for free. Thank you so much.. So anyone looking to buy from the site and especially from LEGO MAN, do so without hesitation. I'm new to this site, and I made the plunge to give Brick Classifieds a chance, and I'm glad I did. If I should post my feedback somewhere else, please let me know where, or move my post. I think we should have a thread dedicated for feed back for buyers and sellers. One for the people to do business with, and another for people to stay away from.. Some other forums I'm member have something along these lines.. Just a thought.. I don't know know his FORUM name, so if LEGO MAN can please stand up, so we all can

No worries. You can always return some sets in 90 days. storage never seems to be a problem at your place when return polices are offered. Ha.

But how will you know it's a real Deadpool until it's too late.? If it hasn't started already, you will have non-Chinese sellers buying knockoffs and passing them off as legit. Then once people start questioning the validity of minifigures, it's a downward spiral.

I maintain my brickfolio like a monk. Not sure if everyone does that.

So I went to the Lego store today and bought my third Beach Hut one of the new Sand Base Plates a large pick a brick of yellow and sand bricks and I had some white at home. This is what I have gotten done so far. Too much yellow? I know it needs more detail I will add a sofa and a keg inside tomorrow. Sorry if the pics come out sideways.

Since this thread is pretty much done for, I will contribute to its demise........speaking of the London Bridge, Lake Havesue City is probably one of the best Spring break places of all time.

I really like that about this place. You truly gotta put in the work here if you want to find the good eol info and deals.

We can built a real sized GE now

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You know a lot of smart Americans. Most are asleep and uninformed. They are too busy looking at Facebook and Snapchat.

Doubtful....they are too many people here scouring world for deals rather than pay full price for amazing sets.

Maybe we can both go to the salvation army.

Will you rent me a girder for a fair price?

I cant add much to the first question since I just found out what Amazon Wherehouse was but as for the second one I would leave the condition blank. While the bags are sealed it isnt new according to ebay since the original packaging (the box) is open. Good rule for ebay especially on legos list it in worse condition than it really is. In the long run it will benefit you as you will have people commenting on it being in better condition that it was listed and not the other way around.

Re-releases are pretty complex. Part of TLG's strategy is managing overall parts production and inventory. If a set has many unique parts/unique colors, it adds to the calculation. Retooling is non-trivial, even with the molds in storage. Not to mention, it's another unique part to keep in inventory, ship to Mexico/Czech, etc. It can be done, but it also comes at a cost. TLG nearly went bankrupt 10 years by having too-many kits and parts in simultaneous production. They won't make that same mistake again. I'd love to see (and perhaps, it's been done) an analysis of these valuable sets, including those close to EOL, and how many unique parts they share with other sets in production. Might be clue as to why some sets have been around forever (*hack* DS *hack*, TB) and others go away rather quickly.

That is a T-arrgh-iffic news Jaylay, it was on eBay

If I do not cool down with buying lego I will be sleeping under a bridge very soon.

Ther is a difference on Town Hall the first post was Ed said this thread is about to get busy then it all started No such post this time

Just bought 3 for way above MSRP. So for me, this would be the getting kicked in the balls kind of fetish.

GE is my personal most hoarded set - i have 20 (21 counting the one i built) and after seeing the GE is the most hoarded set overall and likely purchased at msrp, it is pretty hard to see any point to buying over msrp except to build. its not like there are 10 of these selling every day - more like 1 or 2 per day on ebay and probably similar numbers on amazon with some days with no sales. so say there are somewhere like 6000 sets hoarded - just a guess for the point of discussion - if there are 4 total selling on ebay and amazon every day x 365 days a year = 1460 new ge's sold a year - so it will take 4 years for that amount to sell. most investors won't want to wait that long and will get out sooner than later which will also depress the appreciation curve. so you are going to be waiting a long time before the price gets to where you will be making anything more than like 10 or 20 dollars for your time and risk if you bought it over msrp or making accepting 10% profit. there are so many other non-hoarded $149+ sets out there that have EOL in their not to distant future that will perform better than a GE purchased well over msrp. the boat has sailed.

In Soviet Russia inventory ask about YOU!

Europe is in most cases a bit behind the US. In a way that is nice so we have more time to react sometimes.

PM on its way

I have two extra 15% off BN coupons that expire Monday if you want them post up Please don't PM me.

Found a returned mint one at target for 30% off. Boom!

It is not common to ask what the banc accounts balance is in germany....oO

Oh, ok - sorry. I didnt think about that. Here in germany its normal to ask things like that....

The price change can be drastic. A 10124 TH from the East Coast to the midwest use to cost me $14.23. It's now $25.22. ...and this includes my biz discount or the price would be $30.01. I'm hoping that buyers will begin just wanting the bricks, sealed bags, etc... forget about the Lego box! By the way, here's two of many recent news articles. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102310088 http://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/rate-hike-may-trigger-fedex-fdx-united-parcel-service-ups-diaspora-337282/

Yeah exactly. None of mine in the area ever had any of the wave 3 Hobbit stuff, whereas Walmart is now trying to clearance it haha. They must have known for quite a while this was going to happen. Many of my locations still have lots of stock, just nothing new on clearance yet (still some less desirable sets lingering at %30). I don't think we'll see liquidation prices until a few more weeks anyways though. By the time that comes around it will certainly be slim pickings, but i'd like to try and get a couple for personal builds even at %30. Mainly 2014 super heroes stuff no-one is clearancing yet.

There has been a wave of nearly nonstop scam listings on ebay lately (might have been after the last update) - with the FB being one of the prime targets. Are you certain that the numbers are excluding the scam listings?

it went oos last night.

I'm not going to make it easy. I know how to make a forum entertaining. The Town Hall is surprisingly high.

Quick, someone let hxckid know his acct was hacked and the hacker is trying to get info out of Ed!! Only one missed capital letter - it can't be him! ;)

could name it Super Grand Emporium and make its acronym SGE..... oh wait that might cause problems

It's pretty obvious now everyone is dying for the top 20-50 list. It should be it's own thread at this point as this has barely been about tower bridge all day. Which is fine, but maybe we can get that list Ed? Cause I'm also intrigued to know. Otherwise people will just go in a round about way naming more sets and asking if it's close to top 10. haha

^ and GG is the best. With CC a close second. Then there is MS, not even close.

If anyone got all three promos I flip mine sooner than later Flower cart $13, SW poly $13 friends $7 (+ shipping all) I ordered 2 birds, a SW magnet and a $10 friends set With VIP points nice to basically get $30 off a $90 order of current stuff Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Brickpicker mobile app

Once you see the 'made for tv' type stuff - that's the liquidator bringing in extra stuff to try and sell off, not the best of deals usually either!

Most stockpiled sets: Grand Emporium Volkswagen T1 Camper Van Fire Brigade Superman Vs Power Armor Lex R2-D2 Tower Bridge The Dynamic Duo Funhouse Escape Pet Shop Haunted House

Sadly, I think you are way overestimating the potential for this set. The Town Hall was a short production run. It was not hoarded. The SSD was too expensive to hoard and has the new movies to stir interest. The Tower Bridge is highly stockpiled and is a British landmark. Many Americans have zero idea what or where it is. As I have said before, I love the set. It is a tremendous value at $240 and it is beautiful, but for these sets to really hit high levels, they need to be rare. This set won't be rare.

Congratulations and a little envy.....

Thanks for the info! One more post to go....

A little project I've been working on. I have a second Viper almost complete. I have a couple minor tweaks to make to this one, but I'll get all the parts to complete both when I start ordering the parts for my classic Cylon Raider I'm building to go with them.