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I think there is too much analysis going on here. It's really not that complicated. LEGO has a production plan for every set. Most follow that plan within a couple of months of the original dates. If it is a more popular set like the HH, it will sell out before the original date was reached. If it is an unpopular set, it could last well past the original retirement date. The unpopular and poor selling sets will see "Retiring Soon" notices or possible discounts. That being said, sometimes there are outliers in the system...Sets that either sell very, very well and production runs are extended or on the negative side, sets that sell poorly and are removed early. There are also sets that have production issues in which some components of the set...bricks...instructions...boxes...make it too costly to continue production. Could LEGO be messing with EOL dates? Absolutely. But most sets will continue their normal production lives for the reasons I mentioned above.

A HUGE THANK YOU TO GREGPJ FOR FIXING THE PAYPAL SHIPPING ISSUE. IT WAS QUICK AND PAINLESS BUT FRESH EYES AND A FRESH MIND PREVAILED!!!!!! REALLY PAYPAL SUPPORT DIDN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION WITH GREAT SCREENSHOTS. GREGPJ PICKED UP THAT THE ISSUE MAY BE THAT THE TRANSACTIONS WERE BEING SENT AS PERSONAL PAYMENTS AND NOT GOODS. I UPDATED THAT CALL AND DID A TEST TRANSACTION BETWEEN ED AND MYSELF AND WHAMMO! YOU CAN SEE IN THE IMAGE BELOW THAT THE LINKS ARE THERE TO DO SHIPPING. I HOPE THIS SOLVES THE ISSUE FOR EVERYONE. THANKS GREGPJ!!!!!!! These links will probably only show up for new transactions. I am pretty sure it won't fix previous ones.

CT have arrived! All packed in either factory cases of 2 or large WM boxes of 3

When they walk into the lego store and see stacks of Exo Suits......

This set is just like RI in that it has very little risk to it. Its cheaply priced, is pretty cool and was not available like a lot of regularly produced mainstream sets. It was only available through LEGO and some dot coms. It will have been out for a short time compared to other sets as well. Sure its stacked in LEGO stores right now. That will change as usual.

Let me explain so you can understand...... When you have a family with kids, it's damn expensive. Not that I'm complaining, it's just very, very expensive. You don't have a bunch of diposable income to invest. When you do, it's really not that much and the investing and then waiting for profit is slow.....very slow. Especially if you are new to this as I am (I am only like 8-9 months in). Also, when your wife sees that you are using the disposable income to buy Lego, even if you explain that you are going to make money, she won't be fully convinced until you start raking in some money. For someone like me who is new and the sets I have are not quite close to retirement or some that are, it will take a long time for me to see any profit. If you have been playing this investing game for a while like you have, you have had time to build up your portfolio and money and can make a convicing argument to your girlfriend that this is a great side business you are doing. Plus, you don't have kids. If I didn't have kids and I could invest all that I wanted, I am sure that I could have already convinced my wife that this is a great side business that is making extra money for the family. But that hasn't happened yet and I am sure it will but it is going to take some time. I can't blame wives and/or husbands that are skeptical. I would be too and wouldn't really believe it until I saw some cash start rolling in.

I tried to look at it in a different way... how many modulars were available in total during a year: 2007: 2 (MS CC) 2008: 3 (MS CC GG) 2009: 4 (MS CC GG FB) 2010: 3 (GG FB GE) 2011: 3 (FB GE PS) 2012: 4 (FB GE PS TH) 2013: 5 (FB GE PS TH PC) 2014: 5 (GE PS TH PC PR) 2015: 4 (PS PC PR DO) Hope this helps. p.s. Are there any rumours for a new modular coming out in the fall? This would make things even more interesting.

I'd believe their obvious message to consumers is simply that they are giving everyone who wants one at retail price advance notice. It will be a very short run for a lego set, and inline with other non licensed ideas sets.

Definitely wasn't very cryptic. LEGO clearly could use a lesson in riddles.

Yes it is. I was able to compare them in a toy shop:

No, this is trolling.

He'll let it slide this time, next time.... Sent from my HTC6525LVW using Brickpicker mobile app

Whats happening lego people? I found this site On Sunday, lost all semblance of reason becuase I read it until 3 am (7am start time at work) every night since and just blew my 1st thousand on legos to invest in. This is the place of my people. I love my job, but I LOVE hunting down diamonds, and turning a profit. Its the rush. Just wanted to thank everyone for contributing to this awesome site. ITs definitley led me to make some purchases, and I hope that I can grow it readily. ...So far, I found 3 sets of series 2 mixles, 3 sets of series 3, 2 t1s, 1 mini, 1 DGB, 1 Blocktober set, 4 Ecto-1s, 4 Exo-suits, 4 treehouses, and a few Star wars mins to play with. The plan is to diversify (any good investor does that right?) and build a few racks, and hold long on the bigger sets. Looking to get into a few sea cows, SOH, TB, , then amass mixle sets, t1s, star wars, and idea sets for the holiday season. How do you all diversify your collection?

I think you might be confused. Thread titles are what the thread isn't about. For example, all modular EOL speculation can be found in the Palace Cinema thread and all local Target clearance finds and Walmart Creative Tower order statuses are in the Daily Deals thread.

Target clearance... 20 joker steam rollers at $35/each. 6 x-men sentinels at $35/each. 4 metal beards at $25/each. My tax rate is 5.5%, so the redcard basically negates tax. I left several sets that were also marked down. Lots of agents, secret police dropship, hobbit lake town, and most of the new turtles sets. Go to your Targets, people!

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I think that the "chaos" which is coming (according to Ed Mack) is about amazon and other online retailers which will not be allowed anymore to make their usual discounts on lego sets. And if amazon do not agree, they will no receive anymore lego sets. But you'll still be able to buy some sets online on toys'r us for example, but at RRP. I think that the time when we were able to get some sets with 30% off on amazon is behind us. I have no proof, I just see what's going on in my country on amazon: no more discounts on the new sets (for the 2015 sets), no more modulars available on amazon (since a while), fewer and fewer different sets on amazon (more can be found on the LEGO Shop at Home). RRP everywhere, in online and B&M shops ? Man, THAT would be a real "chaos".

So we started out with some unfounded speculation that the PC could retire early, which spawned a bunch of discussion about that. And now the resulting increase in posts is being cited as evidence that something may be afoot with this set. Circular logic at its best.

You are right. That is a very good deal. I have not seen any discounts on this set yet.

My problem is that I want to reinvest every dime I make and my inventory perpetually grows. The wife isn't crazy about that strategy, but it will pay off long-term. I just need her to see that.

You're remembering incorrectly. TH didn't sell out until a few days into the Oct. double VIP. It was definitely available for purchase from LEGO Shop at Home North America on Oct. 1.

To all the QFLLs...........bitter much?

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Thanks for the work on updating the list guys. I'll take a look at home tonight and see if I can make some posts of the stats.

I know I can he bold and abrasive at times. And I never want to be totally disrespectful but really?.... Are you trolling. Like honestly. Why would you return a set that you could sell right now for much more then you paid and make a profit? I honestly don't think any response you could propose would be valid or make any sense. Or why not offer it to people here.

'Not undercutting' talk is too close to collusion talk. You just gotta wait for the knuckleheads happy to make $5 a set to sell first. I'm watching it play out now with the helicarriers on ebay.

About your marriage or your remaining ct's? :p

Darth Vader music played in my head as I read your response.

Yes but beware, it's dangerous. You won't get my code !

That must have been an interesting ride back on the bike

Couldn't help myself today:

Hi everyone, If this post is in the wrong section could someone move it pls I'm new after all. Anyway, as i've just started collecting (investing) in lego, I thought it would be a nice to dig out my old toy box from when I was a kid, go through it and share it all with you. The box weighs around 5kg and contains all of the lego I had as a kid which is late 80's early 90's. I can't remember exactly whats in here so if you see anything you can identify that would be great, I'll try and add images as I go. It shouldn't take that long to sort but maybe there's something cool that I can build again, lets hope all the pieces are there!

How about: Highway to Heaven (easy, classic ) Remington Steel Moonlighting Airwolf (badass TV intro, laughable special effect and "acting") Bonus round: Street Hawk One more: Misfits of Science A bunch of "soft balls" for ya PS: Looking back, I could not believe my parents let me watched some of these stuffs

if i could buy them at any discount its a good buy. nice job. ill probably end up getting them for full retail by 5s in a few weeks.

Alright you've convinced me to stop by after work and scan a few boxes!

Yeah because there only can be ONE golden rule and we all know what that one golden rule is for!

Price has really jumped on the 1st edition sealed sets. $4.5k. Nice.

Tagline: When "retiring soon" tag is not enough to move a product

Garth Brooks' The Thunder Rolls would have been obvious response, but I'd rather not open that can of worms So, instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8BKiigBsa8

The three WMs I get to have so many Lego sets they've overtaken other aisles. I honestly don't see how they move the amount of product they have without better than 20% off. I think perhaps WM over ordered Lego sets this past holiday season as the previous year they were wiped out and shelves were empty for quite some time. Seems feast or famine.

should get it eventually, still have some RI from the first orders showing processing. They shipped the first 8, then skipped the last one (still shows "processing"). Then the ones from the next day are all in process. They've always come through for me just takes some time sometimes. Downtown Bakery was a mess. Was receiving 1-2 a day for 30 days. The lagging ones always seem to come from CA which takes a lot longer to begin with to east coast so that plays a part in it. Think they start east or closest and fill further out from my experience.

I bought one for us... If I had a bricklink store, it would be a no brainer since the partout value is over $300. I just don't like Chima as an investment - it's more of an Xmas flip and Dec 25, 2015 is soooooo far away. I have one extra Battle for Ninjago City though. They had three more - I'm tempted to go get them all at that price.

Are you finally convinced this one is not going anywhere soon? : )

David Jones currently has a bonus $10 gift card when you buy a $100 gift card. Combine this with their next 20% off promotion and you can effectively get 30% off.

Hi, I found BP Grolim's EOL excel worksheet a while back (posted 03 June 2014) and I have updated it with the list provided by xRebirthed, just wanted to give credit to my fellow BPs for gathering the data. I have made some tweaks to the original spreadsheet, you are able to filter by set category etc. for the most recent retirements. Hope it's helpful for some. Ummm.... *embarrassed* can someone assist me and tell me how to attach an excel sheet? haha NVM, figured it out EOL dates table.xlsx

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yea, mine too, federal gubberment, I think the rule is "if you can't fit it in your briefcase you're not allowed to take it home with you"... unless maybe you stay past 3pm on a Friday afternoon when there's no one else around to take notice... & after putting in a full day since 10am it's not like anyone would ever really stay that late! ;-)

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Maybe sets at that price point don't move quickly enough outside of the Christmas shopping season to warrant the large amount of shelf space they require? Just spitballing here.

This isn't aimed at you, humanvege, and I'm probably among the minority, but I'm glad they're finally doing this. It will become the norm as more and more people abuse the return policies at various retailers. I know, I know, they have a return policy, you're not doing anything wrong, you're the customer, you're always right. Here's the thing, they don't want people buying up every hot set during peak selling opportunities, just so that they can return the rest of the sets they can't sell when the time has passed. Now the retailer is stuck with a bunch of stuff they can't sell for a while when they could have sold it all to end users to begin with. Everyone thinks it's no big deal because they're just one person, but this is going to continue to be a problem as more and more people abuse returns.