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After setting up my Kwik-E-Mart and Simpsons house for display I decided I wanted to do something to display the 2 series of Simpsons CMF alongside them. This kind of design could be used for any set of CMF really as the 16 figs display on each section in front of the poly bag. Here's some shots: The 2 sections are hinged together and can be separated to display on different angles like this: Each figure sits on a 1x2 plate, so they stay put nicely. Nothing too difficult in the build, I stuffed around with different ways for attaching the CMF bag backgrounds and in the end decided to simply have the 4 edges jammed between 1 stud depth bricks. It's pretty tight so holds them nicely without glue or tape. A fun little project. Took a lot more bricks than I thought and I pretty much ran out and had to scrape by with smaller bricks for the last bits of the wall.

I launched the Lego Star War Rebels Imperial Assault Carrier a few days ago. Filming the new City Square right now. Yesterday I purchased the Deep Sea Exploration Vessel.

I believe the window is still wide open . still early in the game and most of the general public have no idea about the new set . I see the price rising again in the next few weeks .

​Hehe. I saw how someone on YouTube called you out on that. I just watched this for the third time last night with my boys. Wanted to show my 8 yr old an excellent stop motion video! Speaking of. For all you BPers that aren't subscribed to All New Bricks videos you are really missing out. They are great! Get on it! ufema I love the "draw" action that you do with weapons now.

My favorite subtle hint was when @Ed Mack told us he was 99.9999999% sure there was going to be a new MF.

the panic seller-induced breakdown in the 7965 market over the last day (and coming days) has been pretty spectacular, exposing yet another facet of the brickpicker reseller hoard effect when lots of people decide to sell all at once - no matter the price. race to the bottom might have us testing 150- bin & auctions are ending/selling for 170-180. two days ago they were selling for 240-260. we don't even have a picture yet. just a name and a few numbers. glad i sold in may and went away. i might have to get back in and pick up a few if the get down to msrp. even 7965 will have a dead cat bounce.

Sold my last Robie House! $379!

I sold all of my 7965's, doubled my money after fees. I'm happy with that, even if it goes up in price later on. I have very little storage room, and it's only getting smaller as my kids acquire more junk. My rule of thumb is to dump when I can double my cash. Of course, there are some special sets that I will hold onto longer, but 7965 isn't one of them. Unlike a lot of people, I do like the set. I think in terms of design, they did the best they could given piece and price constraints. If anything, it provides a nice base to start modding one, which I might do at some point. The new one comes in with a similar price and piece count, I don't see it being too different from 7965 from a design perspective.

Here my current moc Big Bang mini figures. I think Howard is better that the Lego one. Stomping

It is truly amazing what some people will complain about.

This is a "first world" problem if I've ever seen one. Some people just try to find a reason to be unhappy. I don't hang out with those people, but am in-laws with some of them.

BOLD is a high class seller.........he doesn't deal ebay riff raff.

Just sold one for $275.

I created a new thread for 75106 since I have a feeling we are going to talk more about this set. Plus the video is too good to be buried in the other thread

Previous Falcons that were similar in size to the 7965 were very average, if not below average performers after EOL. In the article I did for BLOCKS magazine, I took a look at all the previous Falcon versions and their returns and was not impressed. If you check out the chart below (data is several months old), you will see what I am talking about... MILLENNIUM FALCON LEGO SETS Set Number & Type Year Pieces MSRP $ Current $ ROI % 7190 (Regular Scale) 2000 683 99.99 303.00 203 4488 (Mini Scale) 2003 87 6.99 33.00 375 4504 (Regular Scale) 2004 985 99.99 211.00 111 10179 (UCS) 2007 5195 499.99 3359.00 571 7778 (Midi Scale) 2009 356 39.99 90.00 126 7965 (Regular Scale) 2011 1254 139.99 207.00 47 75030 (Microfighter) 2014 94 9.99 13.00 32 I think maybe the converstaion should be whether or not this set is a good investment at all, not whether you should sell it now or keep it for 10 years. The newest version might be the best investment choice besides the 10179, but until something comes close to the Big Daddy of LEGO sets, these smaller Falcons will always be the ugly ducklings of the STAR WARS sets in my opinion.

I still have 15 of the Falcon 7965 and will be holding on to them, I see no reason why these will not increase in price, it could explode in Dec, but sooner or later they will, there will be millions of new Lego Star Wars investors and fans with the new movies coming out, so don't panic sell just hold on to them and they will do OK. Ed

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!11!1

It's interesting watching everyone just dump their stuff over jitters and speculation. The market is obviously not as strictly controlled by supply and demand, but jitters of "inverstors" not willing to wait. Ahh this is like just about everything, it seems, whether it's real estate or stocks. Personally, I look at collectibles as something with long term strategy. There is no doubt in my mind that this set will increase back up to 250 or higher in the near future. It might just take holding it until 2017. With each set that is dumped, and then opened, that's one less pristine box out in the wild. As more sets are opened, the less sets there will be that are sealed and mint. Over time, those that hold the sets in pristine boxes will benefit. Just look at Indiana Jones/Harry Potter as a prime example of this. Mint and sealed sets from these two lines go for a premium compared to used sets. As time goes on, there are less mint boxes out there, so, this benefits the long termers willing to wait out the jitters. I personally, think holding sets long term is the way to go. Granted, if you stocked 20 or more of these and just made 100 on each set, then that isn't a bad strategy either. But the people that are now "dumping theirs RIGHT NOW" are going to be caught in a mosh for the next few months, but once that phase plays out, sets that are still unopened and mint in the box will still perform well in a few more years.

Awesome! Loved the "weapons presentation" at the 8:00 mark... had to rewind and watch that twice... worth every minute!

I have been dropping hints for a two months about the new Falcon being a mid sized 7965 clone since I was told what the new price of the set was, so people need to pay attention to some of the subtlest things I mention at times. Even last week, before the partial list of new STAR WARS sets was released to confirm my source, I told everyone a new Falcon was coming and it was not a UCS set. Those who payed attention unloaded their 7965s, others, well, it's too late. Time to hold on long term.

One of my local walmarts marked down their ninja turtle lair invasions to $42 so I grabbed one for my collection, so now I finally have every single ninja turtle LEGO between the animated tv series and the movie sets

Unlimited

The value was too good to pass up.

​More supply (ie. more sellers) and the demand stays the same. Panicking sellers are still part of econ 101, as in this is our future people, get used to it

​It comes free of charge with every new Exo Suit you buy.

Bought the Underwater Vessel set from TRU yesterday---I'm w/ Terry, this one's a winner. Today bought the T-Rex set for double VIP and the Underwater scooter to get over 75 and get the Winter Soldier.

​Closer to $225 actually. (I believe BA uses FBA)

I didn't buy it but it is my birthday and my lovely wife got me the Kwik-E-Mart!!!! But I also bought a Hobbit Chase at Lake town, Spiderman Helicopter and a couple of Doc Ock Heist sets on Clearance at Meijer's. Don't tell the wife .

​Its just by year. #10179 was launched in 2007, so it works off that year and the current year

The people who are gonna be willing to pay 350 when there is a cheaper and possibly better alternative will be very few and far between.

​OK. I really doubt you want me to come back in 4 months and tell you how it went, you are clearly just trying to tell me I made the wrong choice. But I still like it better than the approach of racing to the bottom with all the morons.

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Despite of it all. I will hold firm at a selling price at or above $230 for this set. Got 11 left and im in no rush to sell. $230+ selling price for this set will be attainable again very soon.

a widget is worth nothing until its sold

Liquidity of an asset matters. That's why, as stated above, Q4 is always the best time to sell. It's also the time with highest level of supply and competition--both by sellers and other products.

​... it's in the Episode VII LEGO Sets series... so what do you think? :-P Also see Ant Man: LEGO before Movie...

Did anyone get Jabba sail barge? Just placed an order for 1x Horizon Express and a few Republic Gunship... hopefully the express train ships and in perfect condition

​I felt like a simple "like" is not enough so I want to give you a written one as well: LIKE! ;-) Especially love the older version of Han Solo (?) in the back ^.^ I take it these are all customized minifigs (BBT)?

​sweet. i snagged 4 at $45 a week or two ago

On your seller page click on settings in the upper right corner. Scroll down to the legal entity column. Click edit and fill out your tax info, it should walk you through it. If you sell over a certain amount they will send you a 1099 and send your tax info to the IRS. If your under a certain amount it will your responsibility to report it. The ebay threshold for tax forms is 20k in sales or 200 transactions. I'm not sure what amazons is but it may be the same.

​I've got 15 Rancor Pits and 11 Jabba Palace. I plan on selling as a pair, but I will have a few extra Rancor Pits that I will sell individually. I think the Pit will do just fine by itself because it is the only set to ever feature the Rancor maxifig. If you haven't seen or held that fig in person it is absolutely amazing. There will always be those people that for some reason or another acquired the Palace but never got the Pit, and now they want one. The combos are selling for a pretty penny already, but I don't plan on selling any of my Pits or Palaces for at least another two years because I think the ceiling on these is very high.

​This is not realistic.

​The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing us the SSD being in the catalog meant it would stick around for at least a few more months.

​All members should read this as: Leave your price at $250 or above!!

This new model is going to be about as welcome as those last two runs of RI.

​Why not? Some of my best arguments have been with myself and it´s impossible to lose. With 14 of them you´d better hope the new film gives them a kick in the pants or you´ll be having godfather style mob meetings with 14 droids at the family table for years to come.

​ Just seen the pic, definitely haven't seen that come our way yet. Well if you've seen H&A your practically an aussie, so here is a quote you can use

This set is my biggest investment so far and I hope that it'll work out. If not I'll have to build chairs and tables with R2D2-LEGO modells I guess.

Ideas is such a disappointment that I've completely tuned it out at this point. I get that many of these submissions are just not feasible but big sets and interesting licensed IPs are cool; birds and labyrinths not so much. The Exo Suit was probably the best Ideas set but I didn't even get that one since I'm not really into classic space or mechs. Most submissions can now basically be sorted into 3 categories: Small vignettes derivative of the Research Institute, niche licensed sets (sorry but Golden Girls and the Goonies are about as irrelevant as you can get), and completely infeasible monstrosities.

I enjoyed the Kwik-E-Mart so much that I bought and built the Simpsons house last night/this morning. Has been fun binging on the Simpsons and watching the Simpsons World shows on the FX app while building....