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Probably my most expensive LEGO set ATM... Won 2 EBay auctions for 10020s Santa Fe engines plus 2 or 3 cars. Had to spend significant money on BL to turn the double mail and observation cars into the missing sleeper and dining cars,but all in ended up just under $1600 (including shipping and tax) for the full train, including a bunch of expensive spare parts, spare manuals, and 3 working 9V train motors with clips still attached. One engine even has the light kit!

I highly recommend this book, “Why People Buy”. It’s helped me immensely in my career. I believe many of the truths could apply when choosing what to buy and resell. In no way is this an endorsement of the LEGO Botanical book though—however, the main theme of the book I’m recommending is, “feelings are where selling takes place”. And this botanical theme has the feels.. https://www.amazon.com/Why-People-Buy-Features-Benefits/dp/0692904530?nodl=1&dplnkId=a6621ad2-d53b-4d38-b843-3ba3c78f8b8b

Received a Bookshop today from Amazon. Shipped securely inside of another box and no damage noted. Seal code was 46R3. I also received two World Maps from Amazon. Both were in a FF type box (exact width and depth, length about 4 " longer with the corrugated accordion blocks on both sides.) Those two boxes were packed together in a well padded second box. Sorry, I didn't get the seal codes.

ahh, no exclusive darth vader gardener figure. PASS

bizarre to me. lego overplaying their hand here. One thing to buy fake plastic replacements to real flowers; cant imagine ppl would then care enough to buy a book about that also. its just a simple fact page about flowers essentially of which there are way better choices out there.

Will be interesting to see how this one tracks upward on the NY Times Best seller list once it comes out: https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Botanical-Almanac-Brick-Built-Blooms/dp/1797227807 EXCLUSIVE COLLECTIBLE PRINT INCLUDED: Tucked in the back of the book is a removable print featuring a hand-drawn illustration from the book. A must-have for LEGO collectors, this print is exclusive to the book. Frame and hang it on your wall to admire—and spark your creative thinking—every day.

1 sticker across multiple parts that is horrible or SC 3 stickers in a row that must be aligned near perfectly? In other news I finished Box 1 of 3 of Titanic which is approximately only 25% of the build, 12 bags. I made 3 mistakes, 2 minor that I fixed on the next step or 2, but one that required a thorough revisiting and deep thought, luckily not much rebuild though. I have become dependent on the iPad building app with the 3D rendering which takes all of the guess work out of the equation. Unfortunately, for this set only the PDF is available so I am using the paper instructions and figuring out where some of the elements go is not intuitive at times. So far only 2 missing elements that don’t interfere with the build. I might change up and build the Disney 100 Movie Camera and Disney Icons Villains sets between boxes to enjoy the voyage of the Titanic more. I have the Captain CMF ready to go for display.

Sold a UCS Sandcrawler last week that I had intended to build for quite a while. Just got a message that the buyer is building it & pieces are breaking. Set was new in sealed box, in a climate controlled garage, on a shelf, without even any light exposure. I’ve been doing this for a long time & have never had pieces break for no reason. Anyone had experience with this issue or is this dude fishing? Has a “1” feedback btw.