3 hours ago, stephen_rockefeller said:

A store near me had at least 30 mars rovers on the shelves for months........how did that end up?

You should make an experiment.  Arm sweep the shelves and post results in 2018.

Is "Arm Sweep" a coined phrase by you?

Is "Arm Sweep" a coined phrase by you?

I don't think I came up with that one by myself. That one probably dates back to "Supermarket Sweep."

2 hours ago, pstebbing said:

Is "Arm Sweep" a coined phrase by you?

Maybe he should sweep the leg Johnny.

I knew Janet Reno and I can tell you one thing, this set is no Janet Reno.

This set is starting to show up absolutely everywhere now, I've seen it in stores who've never received Ideas sets before, I'm taking that as a bad sign.

14 minutes ago, Sprocket77 said:

This set is starting to show up absolutely everywhere now, I've seen it in stores who've never received Ideas sets before, I'm taking that as a bad sign.

21302 BBT is a dud. But we already knew that for a long time.  

1 minute ago, Haay said:

21302 BBT is a dud. But we already knew that for a long time.  

Ah yes, but there's levels of dudinessnessnessness, this info for me puts it up there as King Dud of Duderlands, all hail the king 

Love the show but ironically, the set doesn't appeal to me at all. All this talk of dudiness makes me wonder if this set behave like BTTF. That would really irk me since I didn't buy any BTTF sets since I thought the Delorean looked like crap. 

There where some good ideas sets rejected in favour of this. Go figure what is happening in the board room that they thought this set would be a good choice. Nothing  major wrong per say, but never was going to get too many people excited IMO. Really just a bunch of minifigs and a couple of walls. 

 

5 minutes ago, Alfiepops said:

There where some good ideas sets rejected in favour of this. Go figure what is happening in the board room that they thought this set would be a good choice. Nothing  major wrong per say, but never was going to get too many people excited IMO. Really just a bunch of minifigs and a couple of walls. 

 

Is the problem with LEGO or with the voters? How many people looked at 7 minifigures and thought that would make a great set? How many people who voted for it stopped and realized that really all you could do was have them sit on the couch and eat takeout? The team who made the decision looked at the positive response, the popularity of the show, the overlap of nerds who like the show and nerds who buy LEGO and the success of other licensed LEGO Ideas sets. The voters are constantly supporting untenable sets. "Hey, look, a 10,000 piece Helicarrier! I'd definitely buy that and I think it should run about $250." The upvoters have a hard time seeing past the initial cool factor to "What am I going to do with that next?" Were they going to build a variety of BBT dios? Were they going to add the minifigs to their modular displays?

Is the problem with LEGO or with the voters? How many people looked at 7 minifigures and thought that would make a great set? How many people who voted for it stopped and realized that really all you could do was have them sit on the couch and eat takeout? The team who made the decision looked at the positive response, the popularity of the show, the overlap of nerds who like the show and nerds who buy LEGO and the success of other licensed LEGO Ideas sets. The voters are constantly supporting untenable sets. "Hey, look, a 10,000 piece Helicarrier! I'd definitely buy that and I think it should run about $250." The upvoters have a hard time seeing past the initial cool factor to "What am I going to do with that next?" Were they going to build a variety of BBT dios? Were they going to add the minifigs to their modular displays?

You haven't MOC'ed your own Pennys apt, Walowitz' room or University cafeteria?

I think some of you missed the memo :

Ideas is a line full of "premium" (overpriced) display models each designed to appeal to a SUBSET of Lego fans... Generally adults.

The concept of nerd overlap is inherent to the design. You aren't supposed to want this set if you aren't a fan of the show and as an investor you should not expect everyone to want this set.

BBT has been the #1 comedy in the US for years and successful across the world. An episode featured 10143 Death Star II for crying out loud. Of course it was worth a shot for Lego to produce this set and I think they did it well.

It's clearly no Ecto-1 but I think in time it will surprise the naysayers who just don't get it. So to them I say exactly that... DON'T GET IT. Not every Lego set is going to appeal to everyone.

,the plan wasn't for it to be popular (although lego would have been fine with that). The plan was to get more AFOL converts

12 hours ago, thoroakenfelder said:

Is the problem with LEGO or with the voters? How many people looked at 7 minifigures and thought that would make a great set? How many people who voted for it stopped and realized that really all you could do was have them sit on the couch and eat takeout? The team who made the decision looked at the positive response, the popularity of the show, the overlap of nerds who like the show and nerds who buy LEGO and the success of other licensed LEGO Ideas sets. The voters are constantly supporting untenable sets. "Hey, look, a 10,000 piece Helicarrier! I'd definitely buy that and I think it should run about $250." The upvoters have a hard time seeing past the initial cool factor to "What am I going to do with that next?" Were they going to build a variety of BBT dios? Were they going to add the minifigs to their modular displays?

Agree. When I look at the projects on the Ideas website that manage to achieve 10,000 votes and end up in the official LEGO Ideas Review, more than once I can't help to think: what were the people voting on those submissions actually thinking? People seem to forget that LEGO Ideas is not a MOC-popularity contest! Sure, I too love the highly detailed intricate MOC designs submitted at the LEGO Ideas site. They are usually beautiful and very well designed. But they don't fit in with the 'idea' of LEGO Ideas! 

<Rant starting>

Another gripe I have is with the continuous stream of submissions that belong to already existing LEGO themes like Star Wars, Scooby Doo, Super Heroes, Disney, Architecture, etc. All these people who submit a BB-8 or Luggabeast design... Do they think LEGO isn't looking into such possible sets already, and probably designing or maybe even finishing up the design of the manual and box by now? And when LEGO comes out with a set that has some similarities to one of the Ideas submissions, they complain and whine that LEGO 'stole their Idea/design/submission'. While forgetting that the whole process of designing and developing a model, designing a building manual with logical and understandable steps, extensive testing it with a control-group, designing a box for it, taking promotional photos and planning a release date, all takes quite a long time!

And the last annoyance I have is the sheer overload of terribly poor quality submissions. Just because a parent loves their child and they are proud of the apple of their eyes for building a simple house with their bucket of LEGO bricks does NOT mean they should submit that house as a LEGO Ideas submission! 

</end of Rant>  

I like the TBBT and as it has been constantly been selling for anything between10-20% above retail overhere on ebay since release I do also have trust in it's investment potential.

Is it good for resellers or a bad sign of unpopulatrity that this set is 20% off at LEGO Shop at Home?

Both if they don´t make more.

3 minutes ago, thoroakenfelder said:

Is it good for resellers or a bad sign of unpopulatrity that this set is 20% off at LEGO Shop at Home?

When we were able to see the EU inventory, it was clear they made way too many...

Even though I watch the show, I cannot muster any enthusiasm to own one of these sets for myself.

Its not hard to go out and buy a few and stash them away and forget about them. If they are a winner cool if not oh well your out a few bucks.

I may buy a few for the parts and distinct figs for my city.  Don't think I would actually build it.  Only if it goes on sale though.

I may buy a few for the parts and distinct figs for my city.  Don't think I would actually build it.  Only if it goes on sale though.

It's on sale at LEGO Shop at Home 20% off...

2 minutes ago, waddamon said:

I may buy a few for the parts and distinct figs for my city.  Don't think I would actually build it.  Only if it goes on sale though.

Do you read any posts or post only?

16 hours ago, dcdfan said:

 

It's on sale at LEGO Shop at Home 20% off...

You Lucky Americans. Not on sale here in Europe. Still up at LEGO Shop at Home Netherlands for €65 (inlcuding VAT, which converts to US$ 72). Not ever going to buy TBBT for €65 !