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$64 detergent stain and all

He did it! Even created the Torture Chamber based on Kenner Prototype info. http://www.baronsat.net/

A) Stay off my local CL 2) I'm not sure his current "firm" price is a major win as a reseller. As a collector, definitely. Lots of newer SW and LOTR/Hobbit dogs. III) Stay off my local CL

I finally had a chance to look at the instructions manual. Oh brother. I knew many of the original 10188 designers worked on 75159 but even so, some of the Q&A comments made me laugh in disgust. Basically, the quaility of this Q&A directly relates to why there wasn't a 75159 Designer Video. Come to think about it, I can't remember the last time an exclusive large set didn't have a Designer Video. While I made nice money selling my 10188s, the AFOL in me is still angry about this reissue.

You rang????

Took the kids to the LEGO store so we could get the LEGO Batman Movie promo poly. They also gave the kids masks.

x2 75912 for $27.49 after tax and the GC that took 3 weeks to get reinstated from my last TRU disaster. When I went to checkout a manager quickly waddled over to inform me that I was not eligible to receive my GWP polybags with my PM. Gave me a nice BS excuse about it not being Toys R Us purchase anymore when I PMed to their own freaking website. Unbelievable and incredibly petty IMHO, its a freaking $3.99 bag that probably cost $1.50 to TRU. In the end its the little things that count, she could have let a $1.50 loss slide and built goodwill with a customer, but instead she took the time to take a tiny free item away from a customer. Things like that stick with people. In the end its over, I have no more GCs or rewards to spend, and I will no longer have to shop with that rotten company. ? ? Toys R Us

Hate to keep on about it but please put this stuff in the right spot. I look in the Retiring soon thread for retiring soon stuff, not TRU sob stories.

Lego.com had a big discount on vampire hearse , big zoo and palpatine arrest coupled with free Martian manhunter poly . They were canceling orders and shipping free polys and yet kept the listings on those sets uP. One member was able to grab like 70 VH. Most ened with tens of free polys If u go to the very first few pages of the order status thread , it is all there .

No beard due to work, but other than that it's like looking into a mirror

It is a secret society like The Skulls. Just kidding, Card Cash (https://www.cardcash.com/) is a site to buy discounted giftcards. Sometimes you can get 5+% off on good retailers which helps with your overall % off of Lego sets. There is also Raise.. https://www.raise.com/

I love it how KMart shows relevant sets as picture placeholders for their LEGO categories: Granted, @exciter1 likely still has access to each of these sets in his stores, but for the rest of us ......

There's always this ...

Built 10244 fairground mixer assisted (and hindered) by my 4 and 2 year olds. The older ladies having great fun with the dunk tank. I've set it up beside my 10247 Ferris wheel and used an IR sensor with variable speed remote to control the motors. Hours of fun for the boys!

Tru ban goes like this : No confirmation email an email titled: " important notice about your order " and says : Dear xxxxx Thank you for shopping at Toysrus.com and Babiesrus.com. We regret to inform you that we were unable to complete your order. If you have any further questions, please contact our Guest Service Team at 1-800-TOYSRUS(869-7787). Your satisfaction is very important to us, and we are more than happy to assist you. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding. Thank you again for shopping at Toysrus.com and Babiesrus.com.

Personal preference, but I like the ship that came with the Darkseid set better than the Avenjet. There were a bunch of interesting techniques used in building that ship. In comparison, Avenjet was more like other planes in the Marvel SH series.

and the universal sausage.

There are still lots of truly exclusive sets out there ....

This is actually one of the several incidents that led to the creation of the "Order Status" thread.

Dude. The memories. I had that micros set. I remember that Luke. That's just awesome.

Thank you sir. Got a Scarecrow Harvest of Fear coming to me now. Between your coupon and some points I had that were expiring, it got it down to about $22.

Avenjet Space Mission 76049 was $35 clearance also at Shopko tonight. $10 off $30 coupon = $25+tax. I have gathered that Super Heroes isn't very popular here but this is a good price for those who like it.

Finished up my own 10212 Imperial Shuttle this evening. I went without pictures since there are a few other versions in previous pages. Bought sealed, open box during ebay bucks promotion so saved a good bit of money there. Pretty fun build, and all the technic keeps you on your feet because messing up somewhere would really suck. No numbered bags either. Had to do a lot of sorting prior to building to keep from tearing my eyes out.

Great set no neck issues.

eBay... Vampyre Hearse $50 shipped ($9 buy in). First Order Stormtrooper poly $15 shipped (free from Shop at Home). Craig'slist... Joker Steamroller for $40 ($25 buy in). I only have 43 more of these to go...(sigh).

Shopko $5 off $25/$10 off $50 coupon. Can be used in store and online (note: $75 minimum to get free shipping). Couple of examples: 75148 Encounter on Jakku - $39.99 (already 33% off) - $34.99 if you buy two and use the coupon (42% off) 60102 Airport VIP Service - $34.99 (already 30% off) - $29.99 if you buy two with coupon and use a filler* (40% off) 60129 Police Patrol Boat - $34.99 (already 30% off) - $29.99 if you buy two with coupon and use a filler* (40% off) 41129 Friends Hotdog Van - $19.99 (already 33% off) - $17.49 if you buy four and use the coupon (42% off) 75147 SW StarScavenger - $34.99 (already 30% off) - $29.99 if you buy two with coupon and use a filler* (40% off) In store only: 60104 - Airport Passenger Terminal - $69.99 (already 30% off) - $59.99 after coupon (40% off) Two fillers of note: Dimensions Bad Cop Fun pack for $7.19 on clearance, and Dimensions Wonder Woman Fun pack for $7.19 on clearance.

Built a used 10212 UCS Imperial Shuttle that I picked up for $230 with shipping a couple weeks ago. What an impressive set. I knew it was a large set but it always seems bigger when it sits in the dining room table. Had all minifigs no box no instructions. I can cross this set off my list.

I love how no matter what Lego does, the first 10 or 1000 posts are negative. They're re-doing the Death Star, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO They're not re-doing the Snowspeeder, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Just goes to show that the vocal minority or impacted party will typically dominate the social media and/or public view of any topic. That's how Brexits and Trump elections are mis-predicted.

Poor sellers. That will be us.

There is a whole forum dedicated to Australia, they have a main general forum that the people in that region use. If you want to help look for deals from Australia, feel free to contact me and I will keep you busy. http://community.brickpicker.com/forum/50-australia/

those days that gravy was even thicker ... coupons used to stack with points . 20% points back on lego purchases+ 10000 points back on $50+ purchase and $10 off $50 purchase. literally after spending $200 you would never be spending effective $ again. with the points banked you could rotate each and every purchases. i remember that x-mas all those diamond jewelry for graduating nieces and females in the houses were said to be paid by points...

I'm not sure how much KMart is willing to apply bans (personally haven't heard of any KMart bans) but the above info are just good warnings to keep in mind when buying/using GCs bought from secondary marketplaces such as Raise, Cardpool, CardCash etc. That way, should you ever get banned, you at least knew it could happen and hopefully planned an alternate strategy in advance. That said, with where Sears/KMart are heading, I doubt you'll have to worry about bans in 2018.

Good stuff, but I'm not sure there is much money to be made with it. Not enough for me to drive 3 hours to invade another's area ?

FYI...

I see a lot of similarities to the Darkseid Invasion set from last year. That one hasn't really taken off yet. Super Heroes have cool sets for fans but investment potential hasn't been the best.

Maybe she has split personalities.

This is not a misprint. Many LEGO minifigure heads have alternate face prints on both sides of the head (in your case, the facial expression is slightly different). This is typically done for minifigures which have a hairpiece or hat that obscures the backside of the head. You can give your minifigure a different look this way.

Bricklink is a pretty good indicator of market value, but unfortunately you have to look at the data in depth to really find out what a set is worth. There's several issues: They have two major categories: New and Used, however we all know a sealed set is worth more than an opened set. You can't list only sealed sets in the price guide. Within the New category, there's three subcategories: sealed, complete, incomplete You can exclude incomplete sets in the price guide, but there's no strict enforcement of the categories. Which basically means I can list a set as Sealed and put in the commentary field: set opened, bags are sealed. Other examples are: no minifigures, only certain parts included (e.g. Snowspeeder in Assault On Hoth), ... Minifigure value is very innacurate: The distinction between new and used minifigures is sometimes rather vague People sometimes list complete sets of 16 minifigures under the part number for a sealed box (60 figures) and even list it as sealed Another major problem is the use of super lots. This is also an issue with regular sets, but with minifigures it's a huge problem. Here's the problem: a super lot is basically a collection of items which are offered all at once, however on bricklink each item gets it's own listing through the catalog. Take for example a set of 16 minifigures for 90€ total. This means that each figure on average costs about 5.63€. However, there is no rule on bricklink that says you can't list one figure in the lot at 89.84€ and all the others at 0.01€. Now a buyer would see those minifigures listed for 0.01€ on the catalog page! Of course you can exclude super lots when selecting an item in the "items for sale" tab. However, for some reason this option is not available in the price guide. This means that all super lot sales are included in the price guide, even the ones that have this unrealistic price of 0.01€. I've complained about it a lot, but it really is a huge issue because it drives the prices down. Buyers look at the price guide and see an average price that is way too low. This price determines (in part) what they are willing to pay for a figure. I urge anyone on bricklink to report this to bricklink support. I've done so a couple of times already, but they keep telling me "they'll pass it on to the tech team". Since all of the sales are listed in a database, adding the option to exclude super lots is a really minor adjustment.

Perhaps TLG will finally kill off 10220 (VW Bus) and replace it with this thing: (http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/08/technology/volkswagen-id-buzz-concept/index.html?sr=twCNN010917volkswagen-id-buzz-concept0507AMVODtopLink&linkId=33154062)

The VH, BZ , PA , free MM fiasco .

Sadly I don't think they will be dropping again. Its a sale price, not clearance. Clearance has a $0.98 ending and usually would be $2.98 for a $3.99 set, which would eventually be reduced to $1.98 and then $0.98

I remember the $9 Hearst day. Wow, brings back memories...

Interesting how Friends has become the theme that gets the sets that AFOLs want first a roller coaster now a hospital.

Good. Keep it away from my stack of Spaceports.

You gotta look at it like this. That is the set value... on BL. As in, that's how much someone on BL will pay for it. That set can have, and likely will have, a very different value on eBay. Which will differ from Amazon. Fees. Each has a different fee, and shipping expectation. eBay and Amazon buyers love free shipping. BL buyers expect to pay their own shipping. Can be a very large difference in price. Sometimes I'll see some one try to sell something on Brick Classified for the same price they can get on eBay, as if everyone didn't know there isn't any fees on BC. Also, on BL, there are two options that you can toggle when looking at prices. "Group by currency" and "incomplete sets". Click those, and some times it can change the 6 month value drastically. Just because it was paid for in dollars, doesn't mean it was sold in the US, assuming that's your market. Just because something is labeled new, doesn't mean it wasn't actually parted out or even An open box, which would sell for less than NISB ("new sealed" in BL terms). I've seen people list a set "New Complete" but then in the description say "Ship only" Or "New Complete" and then say "built only once". Very annoying. Messes up the metric. At least with the incomplete toggle, you can weed out the ones that were honestly/accurately listed as "new incomplete".

Starting to believe I am the only person who has TRU's in my area that are closed on Sundays..

God, i could write a book about it honestly. Here is another one - Out food shopping with the Mrs. So as you do, i say " i'll just go and have a look in the Toy isle darling " Head into the toy isle and there were about 30 x 75034 for about £4 each. I don't have a basket so head off outside to get a trolley, put the sets in the trolley and head off to checkout. Instead of putting them all on the conveyor belt thing i give her 1 set and say " i have 30 in total to pay for ". Lady on the till says " what do you want all them for ? " my reply is " what's it to do with you ? ". Next thing she picks up a microphone and blurts out over the tanoy system" manager to till xxx and security please ". Now i have half the supermarket staring at me. Two minutes later 2 security guys turns up and a minute later the manager. " What is the problem ? " I respond " there is none " Lady on the till says "he is trying to buy xxx amount of these" and the manager says " what is wrong with that ? " I pay and head off into the sunset. You could'nt make it up !

I want to announce a secondary raffle that will take place a week after the conclusion of the main St. Paul School LEGO raffle. This raffle is designed to be a "thank you" for the most generous of the LEGO raffle contributors. All a person has to do to enter this "elite" raffle is to buy $100.00 (or more) of raffle tickets before the conclusion of the LEGO raffle. A donation of $100.00 or more will also qualify. The $100.00 amount will be a total of all raffle ticket purchases or donations. Upon conclusion of the primary LEGO raffle, I will aggregate the Rallyup.com data of the contributors and raffle off ONE of the packages below: COMCON004 2009 San Diego Comic Con Display (Ahoska Tano, Clone Trooper, Mace Windu) #290 of 300 COMCON006 2009 San Diego Comic Con Display (Count Dooku, Asajj Ventress, General Grievous) #69 of 300 COMCON009 2009 San Diego Comic Con Display (Anakin Skywalker, Clone Trooper, Obi-Wan Kenobi) One of 1250 COMCON019 2012 San Diego Comic Con Collectible Tin (Darth Maul's Sith Infiltrator) #305 of 1000 OR A SEALED CASE (64) OF MR. GOLD SERIES 10 COLLECTIBLE MINIFIGURES! They are both rare and valuable prize packages, with the potential to win a $1500.00 Mr. Gold minifigure! The raffle will also be exclusive in nature, with potentially very few participants. As always, if these prize packages don't interest you, we can always discuss one that would. So good luck...Remember, it's a scientific fact that generosity makes you happier and healthier! FOR EVERY $100.00 OF TICKETS BOUGHT, THE CONTRIBUTOR WILL RECEIVE ONE TICKET FOR THIS SECONDARY RAFFLE!!! Thanks again to all who have participated (and will participate) in the St.Paul School LEGO raffle!!!

My brain cannot contain this thread. I had completely forgotten about the micro death star until i saw this thread a long time ago, and the MOC is epic. The bespin Moc including torture chamber, and even the bacta tank is just more than my piddly brain can handle. THANK YOU for sharing this. So enjoyable to see what Lego can do in the hands of a nerd artist savant (#nerdisant patent pending)

Just read some rumours that Kylo Ren will be using a new First Order styled Tie Advanced, from his adoration of Darth Vader, in episode VIII. I also read that the First Order will be using Tie Bombers and this will be a Lego set to be released at Force Friday, Autumn this year. Sources: http://screenrant.com/star-wars-8-tie-fighters-bombers-kylo-ren/ https://www.starwarsawakens.nl/nieuws/episode-viii/exclusief-tie-bomber-episode-viii/