LordEnder

Appreciate the coupon, but a question - where does it originate from? An email or app or what? Due to the YMMV factor of TRU, I'd like to know and be able to access and 'talk about' the source - should it be necessary. Thanks.

LEGO® Easter Minifigure (AKA Chicken Suit Guy) was apparently (reading the fine print) a 'one per household' item. However, he was listed on 7 of my orders yesterday. I'd wager he's sold out at this point - whether by an over abundance of orders in general and/or a mistake of him being placed on all qualifying orders - ignoring the household statement.

Oh, a sarcasm detector, that's a real useful invention!

Peeps! What am I looking at here? I see some vague references to Battle of Takodana (and those sets were near this part of the shelf), but little else. Thoughts?

Anyone else noticing the "Limit one per customer." legal print on the 'free' items with X amount purchased? Looking back at some previous months, I have not seen that before. Are they really going to track your VIP account to confirm that you only get one? If so, my shop.lego.com orders are going to decrease exponentially. Thoughts? Discuss... :-)

First Forum Topic creation and probably my second ever post - may the moderators and others be kind! I'm wondering what folks are doing with their displays (I know, open, *gasp*, built, *gasp*) Lego sets. I've come across very few items in general and even fewer in the U.S. for display cases and/or stands - generally made from acrylic. The two examples that I'll put out there are from PureDisplay and LaserLabs. Does anyone have experience with these items and/or competitors - or even a different approach? If so, any thoughts? I have a few sets I'd like to build and display, but the general dust and protection factors have given me pause. Any (positive) thoughts are appreciated. Thanks, LordEnder

Wow, I hit the average (mean, median - whatever, hated statistics class anyway) in all the categories for this poll except for location. Not in Europe, but in Colorado. What do you think, is that 'West' or 'Southwest'? Lemmie see...middle aged (depending on my death certificate), married, one child. Computer geek. Built like a linebacker - the average kind, not the J.J. Watt kind. Huge into Lego in my youth. Built my own Star Trek: The Next Generation style Enterprise (D) and Tie Interceptor that are still hanging from fishing line in my parent's basement. Didn't do anything with Lego in my college years and through most of my 20's. Based on my shop.lego.com account I emerged from my Dark Ages around 2010 - May 4th, not surprisingly. But I'm thinking that I must have started a few years earlier based on some of my sets - like Ultimate Collector's Millennium Falcon that's collecting dust from around 2007. It's been up on the shelf so long that I don't even know if it's a first edition (or whatever it's called, nerds) - I'm guessing it's not, but unless I take it down to look, I can dream. Besides that beauty I suppose my most prized set is the Bat-Pod I won from Lego this last summer. It's somewhat odd to be the most prized entirely because of it's rarity and the fact that I'll never open it...box makes it worth something (and maybe those tires), otherwise it's next to 'meh' status - interesting. Maybe that'll be the thing that kills me one day...finding that my kid(s) have opened it. The one that I've wanted for years I finally pulled the trigger on as an early Christmas 2015 present to myself (oh, who am I kidding, I don't need a holiday/birthday/event to justify a purchase, I wanted it, so I bought it) is the Super Star Destroyer. The rest of the sets I've acquired are mostly for my own pleasure to someday build, hopefully when the child(ren) are of age to appreciate it (and/or not eat the pieces) and some vague sense of 'investment'. Of the massive sets that I own, only The Tumbler has been purchased in duplicate. I also picked up a duplicate Jabba's Sail Barge 75020 on a whim recently. I have barely looked through the forums on here before now and have only been aware of the site for a few months, but I picked up the book by 'The Macks' and one of my first acts on the site was to donate/enter the Brickpicker Raffle Fundraiser for a Great Cause. I hope you all donate (but I hope none of you enter the drawings - just saying) ;-) I'm sure I've overshared for my first post and probably put in in the wrong place...but, what the heck, I'm a n00b here, right? - LordEnder