56 minutes ago, EliasFelipe said:

They were never heavily discounted, <35% Still available in stores in the Netherlands and Germany

 

Except here in the US where they sat at Targets at 50% off for seemingly ever! I still have a small mountain that I hope someday to make a little bit of money on. Nice set, but every Tom, ****, and Harry has at least a few if not a bunch stashed away.

Heavily discounted in the UK, my average buy in was 46% retail and I wasn’t trying too hard, if you’d been creative, you could probably have got them for 35% retail. I’d move all of mine at retail today, but as they’re still available in store, that’s a stretch. Thankfully I only have 10.

10240 Red Five is now marked as "Retired Product" at LEGO Shop at Home.us.

70749 Enter the Serpent now retired at SAH EU, more items will likely follow as they run out during the sale.

Disney figures have retired in the UK.

If you see them in the wild, buy them unless its from zavvi who charge £6 a bag.

Edited September 25, 20169 yr by The Lurker

Great news. It's official. Time to crack the champagne open

Great news. It's official. Time to crack the champagne open [emoji4]

I wonder when it will be reflected on the US site.

Start your engines people!!!

Looks like the gamble paid off, I went in really big with Disney minifigures, manage to get most of mine during 3 for 2, hopefully now series 2 disney will not be the same characters 

31 minutes ago, Mhd747 said:

Looks like the gamble paid off, I went in really big with Disney minifigures, manage to get most of mine during 3 for 2, hopefully now series 2 disney will not be the same characters 

What gave you that idea?

12 minutes ago, Ciglione said:

What gave you that idea?

Some of the characters like Mickey, Minnie, Donald etc are immensly popular and I can't see them not being redone, albeit in some sort of new clothing or print

Thats just pure speculation though, my own opinion.

8 minutes ago, Mhd747 said:

Some of the characters like Mickey, Minnie, Donald etc are immensly popular and I can't see them not being redone, albeit in some sort of new clothing or print

Thats just pure speculation though, my own opinion.

I think that is reasonable to expect.  Similar to series 2 of the Simpsons, where they made a rehash of Marge, Homer, Maggie, Lisa, and Bart, I would almost expect them to do the same with Donald, Mickey, Minnie, and Daisy.

My only 'concern' now is how soon season 2 makes an appearance. As happy as I am to see these retire it does seem a some what strange decision by Lego based on the recent release of 71040. I'm banking on selling a few sets to parents who want them to accompany the castle as a Xmas present, however if we see a quick release of series 2 they may not be as popular as we hope...

Complete sets have been selling for £70-80, I personally don't think they'll go any higher than 3xRRP  (£135), these should be £100 by Xmas, so good time to start dumping then.

I like buying complete sets of minifigures via Bricklink. I have quite some complete sets of Disney and dfb and will put them on ebay during Christmas I think. I think I'll sell half of the sets for double the money I payed.  That way I have my money back and can put the rest in longterm storage.

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42041 Technic Race Truck Retired in UK SAH

75899 LaFerrari retired at LEGO Shop at Home.de 

Edited October 24, 20169 yr by Foxhound

3 hours ago, Foxhound said:

75899 LaFerrari retired at LEGO Shop at Home.de 

Same in the UK. Currently only TRU, Argos & John Lewis have them in stock from what I can see. I won't bite unless £7 or less ;-)

10 minutes ago, TabbyBoy said:

Same in the UK. Currently only TRU, Argos & John Lewis have them in stock from what I can see. I won't bite unless £7 or less ;-)

Same. Annoyed with myself I missed the S1 cars when they were clearanced at £5 each at Smyths.

On the Dutch LEGO site 'retiring soon':

75059 Sandcrawler

10234 Sydney Opera House

10236 Ewok Village

10218 Pet Shop

21302 The Big Bang Theorie

21304 Doctor Who

21108 Ghostbusters Ecto-1

21301 Wall-E

 

10247, 10244, Kwik-E, Palace Cinema and the T1 are still counting.

Edited October 24, 20169 yr by Menno
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