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There has been a trend we have been seeing lately and I would like to address it. First and foremost this is a Lego investing website. People read the forums and join this site to gain valuable knowledge. That being said some members have decided to post some quite off topic threads, I am guilty of this as well. There are plenty of off topic threads to add to if you feel the need to discuss something else besides LEGO. Please do not feel that since someone started a topic for example what kind of car do you drive, that there needs to be a topic started for every aspect of everyday life. There are plenty of websites where all that other stuff can be discussed. Like I've said before we have been quite lenient in what other topics are discussed but it has got quite out of hand as of late. If a thread gets deleted or moved do not take it personally, and don't think one mod has an agenda against certain members. All deletions and other modifications to posts are discussed privately between mods and admins before any action is taken. Please do your part to keep this forum as a whole on topic. Thanks and feel free to PM me if you have any issues with this post.

I guess I am in the minority but I like the daily chit chat thread. Normally a lot of the stuff in there are things I want to talk about but haven't brought up yet. I agree with hxckid88 I want to talk all sorts of things with my online Lego friends. Compared to other forums I have been involved in this one has the nicest and friendliest group of people. Maybe it use to be different before I joined but since early December the deals in daily deals are few and far between but the chit chat is more than entertaining. It takes a couple of minutes to go through and find the deals and in the process I get a laugh or two out of it and at times I learn a new trick as well.

I don't want a single thread either, but if people have a great travel deal to share, then post it. As I explained to sauromosis, this is a slippery slope. This is a LEGO site, so we have to be careful what we discuss. I really don't want dedicated threads to travel or cars or sports or whatever, but if something interesting comes up...post it, then we will have to see how off topic it is and then deal with it. I have instructed the Mods to be a lttle more lenient with this sort of issue, but people shouldn't take offense if something is removed. I think the forum topics are quite wide ranging, but please cut me a break. No guns or ammo talk. Nothing about drugs, political, sexual or anything else that can construed as controversial. Ask Jeff or I first and you can save yourself a lot of time and trouble. Thanks.

If you set your listings to 2 business days handling time, you should ship out in 2 business days. If you need 3, set it to 3.

Quote: It appeared he was flying solo.

but I don't understand. I don't want to discuss best oatmeal flavor with those strangers on other sites and weird people on SD. I want to discuss it here. with all my bp friends and buddies. cause you are all so special just like me. apple cinnamon for the win.

Perhaps off topic forums should not be included in the 'latest posts' section. I use that list to browse posts almost exclusively. The off topic stuff does tend to clutter it up a bit.

As hxc sarcastically points out, this community is special for having money to spend and a keen eye for deals. I get the impression that some of you are content to chase Target clearance and a 5 dollar profit for the next 5 years, but I think we can achieve more. As far as "go join a travel forum" I think the people on this site are better suited to provide me travel deals. And I look forward to buying a drink for anyone who does hook us all up with a big vacation deal.

Neighbors who scare off the 20 or so Turkeys you're trying to feed early this morning by having a loud conservation with you about how they(Turkeys) were having an orgy earlier. The guy is great but this annoyed me. We've had so much snow this winter(8" more last night) and the ground has been covered for 7 weeks or so. So I've been buying dried corn and squirrel mixes for all the animals and birdseed for the birds. The Turkeys always have been around the area but they'd show up every week or so. Since I've been putting critter food out they've been waiting in the yard when I get up. I'll try to get pictures tomorrow.

Of course it is still early (or not yet even) in the "EOL" stage for all sets in this theme but you are correct that overall it has not been too good investment-wise. By CAGR in the database, Shelob's Lair (25%) and Mirkwood Elf Army are the leaders thus far. Mirkwood Spiders has really taken off lately, Lake Town Chase got a huge bump over the holidays, and Unexpected Gathering is finally starting its inevitable climb as well. ToO speaks for itself. The first four are very roughly double MSRP on eBay last I checked. Why those? The minifigs tell the main story, if you ask me - especially after the final Hobbit movie. But to address your question, is any of this performance "good"? For the pair of wave 2 Hobbit sets, I would argue yes. They can still be found in the occasional Walmart for up to 50% off and are fetching ~4x that. But it really depends on when they plateau, of course. On the subject of minifigs, Lonely Mountain has five exclusive version minifigs in addition to the big fire-breathing star of the show, including the three dwarves that "matter" in the movie besides Thorin. Perhaps more importantly, it represents the point of the whole dang story from start to finish. For purists, very little of that other "5 armies" spectacle was in the book, and none of the Dol Guldur business. Of course this probably won't matter a great deal but it is something to think about long term. Helm's Deep is not a great comparison, in my opinion, though arguably the closest between the two sibling themes. It did do quite well initially after becoming unavailable, but plateau'd very quickly too. Holidays and all that... It only has 3 exclusive minifigs out of 8 total, by the way, two of which are comparable to the Lonely Mountain dwarves in terms of being "second tier" important characters. No super-villain-huge-awesome-guy to carry the set at all. And unlike Hulk, we know we will never see another Lego Smaug. Furthermore, despite a very solid design, Helm's Deep suffers from "lots of grey bricks" syndrome. The Lonely Mountain does not. It is colorful and therefore more unique. Finally, Helm's Deep is just not iconic enough to represent LotR the way Lonely Mountain represents The Hobbit. It is much more similar to Lake Town in many ways, story-wise. The difference being, it survives.. mostly. Now, had Sauron "lived" in Mount Doom, and THAT set been released, WITH him as a maxi-fig, we would have an ideal comparison product. I realize Unexpected Gathering is much easier to display, so it may be chosen "over" this set by many folks who don't give a rip about any of the rest of it. But I think the (personally predicted) difference in supply will more than make up for that in terms of the sets competing against each other. Another way to put it is that this set is to The Hobbit what Black Pearl was to PotC, or Hogwarts to Harry Potter (imagine if there had only been one version). Obviously I am not the first to draw those comparisons.

No "Hans" on the steering wheel?

An inside corner modular house would be tricky but seems doable. Such a small facade to look at though. http://www.flickr.com/photos/aku_lego/sets/72157626276086097/ inside corner modular house inverse corner modular building MKII Modified modulars >Asian restaurant by hobbythom

In the past, many of us have asked the buyer to change their Paypal address before shipping the item.

A lot of a-holes out there needing a good wipe.

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Just got a profanity laden email from someone who sent three offers for an item that were all auto-declined. I love it when they use eBays messaging to do that. Block. Report. Go on with day.

There is probably small niche market for people reenacting the scene with a ship on the street in " the day after tomorrow" movie...

another user was and did post those deals there. They were deleted. No one is investing in travel deals though. It's more of a hey I'm tryna help anyone out that may be traveling thing. So, in my opinion the middle ground and compromise for all of this would be a thread as we have now for non lego investments. Other toys for people to make a buck on basically. And then a thread of just deals for travel, and yes oatmeal. Everyone wins. Teo threads. And BP wins as if I posted hey everyone look at this pancakes for cheap on Amazon. Use affiliate link here. This actually happend last week as I know two users used BP affiliate link to buy those Kodiak kakes I was talking about. 2 threads... One for investments and other toys and one for just deals people May like. Yes, I was being sarcastic about oatmeal. My point was I'm really into other things, working out is was one of those things. But, I don't belong to any other online forums. I don't even have Facebook. I like it here. I've made friends on here. Even people here, mods..... That I don't always see eye to eye with and I know every once in awhile they can get frustrated with me is I still want to help anyway I can. For the most part people here have good intentions and want to contribute. Even if it's not a lego deal.

We already have a whole forum category dedicated to these NON-LEGO DEALS. Why don't people just post their travel deals there? We don't need another category.

No offense but that's your own fault. That's called feedback extortion and is against eBay terms. Sellers giving in to buyers demands is half the problem.

Well, with this forum, we always hope folks look first for the correct forum before posting new threads.

This picture was taken on the scene as the plane crashed. Good thing he had that raft.

It would be nice if they came up with a Creator 3 in 1 version that is modular size, with this being one of the options.

20% off at Myer for toys online now and starts tmr (Saturday) in stores. Checked that LEGO online is reduced

Looks like I'm getting a Smaug now. This hobby is getting more and more expensive.

Orc you find the coolest stuff. Great post.

Copying my reply from another recent conversation.

This is a birds eye view and please bare with the crudeness and chicken scratch, (doing this at work shhhhhhh) but this is how I would set up my wall with modulars. You can give the appearance of city blocks without actually making a city block.

Completely agree with Alpine here. Lego ship enthusiasts are the craziest, must-have-one-of-each-set of the bunch. Same with train folks. Always an audience for our boat/train investment sets with these maniacs... I know from experience (congrats to whichever of you I bought a Black Pearl from for three hundred dollars). The Lego Movie is just getting started. Franchise-power is the name of the game in Hollywood. Get ready for a SW movie every year, multiple Marvel Avengers universe films every year, and next... Lego Movies galore. Four movies are already schedule for production; the first being Lego Batman (May 2017). A May release date from Warner Brothers tells you something very important: this film is a heavy-weight, and will be contending with a slew of other summer blockbusters. Huge money, huge audience. And a very bright future for the entire franchise. This makes the flagship set from the first movie- The Sea Cow- an outstanding investment. There will be future demand. Just like the fairground "theme"... future iterations will drive past theme demand. And speculating here... as an investor, I love the lack of investment buzz around this set. It pairs wonderfully with the fairground themes, it pairs wonderfully along with the modular lines, it looks great on its own, it's an extraordinarily complex design scheme. To quote W. Buffett... "Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful". To each their own on any investments- I will be placing significant $ into both these sets.

I'm very excited! I know many have surpassed this but It is a big day for me. It has taken a lot of time and work to get there but this morning I received my 1,000th feedback on eBay and I met my goal to have it be 1,000 positive feedbacks with no neutral or negatives! Fun that it came with a glowing Mixels feedback. I am sure I will not stay 100% forever but it was a goal I have been working on for a couple of years and it came true. Have a good day!

I have sold all of my 7965 Falcons (had five left) over the past two weeks. Each one sold for $220 plus $18 shipping. I paid between $80-$100 for each one, so I'm happy with the profits. They may continue to rise, but I don't want to take that gamble with the new version coming soon. One note...I received a lot more traffic and sold three of the five after I included the mis-spelled version of "millennium" in my title (milennium). This trick was mentioned somewhere on here last week, but I don't remember which thread. I changed my listing title after I read that and it seemed to make a difference.

New seals or not new seals? That is the question.

Buyer paid in the wrong currency? Not sure if that's possible via ebay though, this has happened to me off-ebay.

Amazon has now tagged the Helicarrier listing with 'pre-order' status. Meaning no fba or amazon sales until it clears. 6/1 date.

TRU and their prices all going up and up and up. I am next quarter will bring yet another report from the execs moaning and crying that sales are down and they just don't understand it dang it!

Well, option 4 (Wait it out for 12 hours) ended up being the best. I received another message from the buyer yesterday (without responding to them yet) that said "Hey, sorry about the last message I'm going to keep the set, thanks". All worked out in the end, especially since I had decided to just take the return.

I've already flipped one set for $100 on eBay, and have two more ready to go.

I liked pr the most and brought it before pc

The underwriters for SW VII movie are most likely freaking out all day today

Not a suggestion for an award but with the mods constantly reminding members to keep threads on track, maybe some "thread derailer" awards should be handed out.

wait what? You're concerned about which part not being a winner? The Lego part or the Disney princess part? Cindy castle has lots of things going for it. Least of which is that the minidolls are both exclusive to the set. I would buy up to at least ten of these. I say only ten because there are tons of exclusives pending retirement worth buying as well.

If you can somehow convince a retailer to measure and weigh the cartons, give you that information, have them wait for you to send them a pdf of your box labels, and pay amazon $0.20/unit for labelling, sure.

Not that that wouldn't be redundant... If he's not posting random stuff all he ever says is: "I've told everybody that before but to me this set (xyz) is going to be BIG. So start uploading as soon as possible so that you get as many as possible over time and when it's done your fine". And of course "All of you that are selling this set right now for quick profit will have regrets about it in a couple of years when it's going through the roof. Stay strong and hold on to your sets for a couple of years for maximum profit!" (Anything I missed? All sets he is into are really big and expensive and most of them exclusive. The amount of sets he's buying and the time he's holding them still doesn't work for everyone ^.^) As for now there also have been like literally no real surprises when he said "buy this"... I mean he isn't wrong but I don't get how or why a lot of people see him as the yoda of brickpicking. His choices are obvious ones with minimum risk and he's going big and holding long. Nothing worldshaking going on there really. So if anybody here posts: Buy all the modulars and SW UCS (okay probably you shouldn't buy the obviously ugly and stupid ones...) and don't forget about black pearl, imperial flagship, simpson house, TB, SOH, Helicarrier, Tumbler... the reaction would be like: "yeah... okay..." If emazers steps in:"You should buy these... I'm doing it..." everybody is like "woah... thanks for sharing your wisdom and experience!" So it's nice to see that somebody who obviously has a lot of trust into his investment strategy supports the idea of buying a set, but so far (I'm not a long time member here maybe I've missed something...) no surprises. As for PC people should just get a couple now and if there are any sales they can upload more... If it retires early you got yours, if not you still got yours and can even get more if you think that's a good idea. (Also no magic...). And honestly I don't know why there has been so much going on in this thread here lately... yeah the TH thingy has been interesting but that's that. A lot of people repeating the same thoughts of PC maybe also retiring soon or probably not really is just nonessential (at least to me... and obviously to stephen as well, because he prefers reading the same thing again and again only if emazers posting it ;-P ).

No problem knock wood. Two people have thanked me for saving their kids birthday. Gosh, I'm a great guy.

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I don't know how this thread is still going. I thought it was over once your R8 got posted.

This place needs a little more Yang these days.

Seen at a local tru...two dudes booking out the front door, each with two star destroyers and two other large sw sets under their arms. Manager gave half hearted chase and stopped at the parking lot. I did get him their tag number Sent from my SPH-L710 using Brickpicker mobile app