8 hours ago, Lego land said:

I called the Lego online store from NZ today to get an update on the disney minifigures.  A customer service agent said "they will NOT be coming back to OZ or NZ but they will have a Limited run for North American region Only"  This affirms what our local Toy stores have been saying that they aren't getting any more in OZ and NZ which is good for those who bought them.  Still a few individual packs on the shelves at some stores, better grab them.

So that confirms the difference in status of this set between LEGO Shop at Home Europe (+Australia & New Zealand) and LEGO Shop at Home North America. 

Interesting ... so USA/Canada region only will get a limited run, while we in Europe / AUS continents are safe.  

1 hour ago, Haay said:

So that confirms the difference in status of this set between LEGO Shop at Home Europe (+Australia & New Zealand) and LEGO Shop at Home North America. 

Interesting ... so USA/Canada region only will get a limited run, while we in Europe / AUS continents are safe.  

We're safe as long as we have crazy high import taxes. Never thought this could actually benefit us

Buying at RRP is a safe way to store money as it is highly unlikely these will loose value.

I just picked up two more 60 pack boxes for $245 + $15 shipping.  I agree this is a pretty low-risk gamble with high upside and pretty limited downside.

18 minutes ago, futureman said:

I just picked up two more 60 pack boxes for $245 + $15 shipping.  I agree this is a pretty low-risk gamble with high upside and pretty limited downside.

Since you're from the future I'm even more sure :-)

In Australia , recent eBay data shows that while the minifigs separately sell fairly often , the complete boxes are very slow sellers and for not much more than RRP.  The availability here was very limited and extremely short lived also.

Unless other countries are completely different , I wouldn't go too deep on these. I have one I got at $300 au and fair while ago and even tho it disappeared from out LEGO Shop at Home site pretty much straight away, sealed box prices have hardly budged.

47 minutes ago, Furious_george said:

In Australia , recent eBay data shows that while the minifigs separately sell fairly often , the complete boxes are very slow sellers and for not much more than RRP.  The availability here was very limited and extremely short lived also.

Unless other countries are completely different , I wouldn't go too deep on these. I have one I got at $300 au and fair while ago and even tho it disappeared from out LEGO Shop at Home site pretty much straight away, sealed box prices have hardly budged.

I agree. I learned my own lesson on other series, and that's to not go too deep on minifigures.  They are a timesuck for what you get out of them.  Literally breaking them up individually is the way to go.  This year I changed my tune.  In previous years, i'd smoosh out about 6 to 15 full sets, and sell them.  And sell a lot of the invidual figures early on.  But, after a while when you are sitting on a bunch of complete sets, and they are end of life, things tend to move much much slower with these lines.  Not sure how sets like Disney, or the upcoming Batman series will go.  I actually kind of think the batman series will be just as big.  But, either way, I blew out all the Disney Minifigures I had while I could make decent money on them.  And I did make a lot of decent money on them already, so i'm fine with what I did.  I sold them mostly early in the game, but to sell most of them today, you're still not earning what you would have during that early period.  But, 2 years from now these will probably be 3 to 4x what they are right now, and that's if there isn't a big restock here in the US, which I still think will happen.  If that does happen, then that will knock the value down quite a bit.  And when that sort of thing happens, that's when you start to feel what some of us call the SLOW BURN!

Edited September 10, 20169 yr by fossilrock

Was a consensus reached on the best way to accurately smoosh the packs? I might go the 18 complete set sales route but I have no experience picking them out from one another.

1 hour ago, Furious_george said:

Was a consensus reached on the best way to accurately smoosh the packs? I might go the 18 complete set sales route but I have no experience picking them out from one another.

When the new figs arrive, we usually buy a bunch at first.  My son likes to spend time studying the map, and once he knows what pieces go to which figures, he usually smooshes the bag until he finds the first original piece, and 7 out of every 10 tries he properly identifies that one in the first take.  He then hands it to me, and I verify and check off the map. On a good day, we can get 3 complete sets out of a store like walmart, or toys r us.  But, on days where we just don't have the time to smoosh, that's when you just buy 50 or so, and hope for the best.  And you usually get at least one set out of them.  Rinse and repeat about 360 some bags and you'll have about 7 complete sets, and a whole bunch of others that you'll never be able to get rid of, unless you go out and do another round  of minifig hunting where you are just grabbing the figures you need to complete those sets.  Eventually, maybe after a weeks worth of hitting stores, you'll get to 10 complete sets, and you've already gotten to the point where you leave a lot of the 5 per casers behind for little Timmy and his sister Tiffany.   But either way, it's a lot of freaking work.  Wayy too much for what it's worth in the end..  I should have just bought 20 to 30 more at-at's last year instead of all the time I spent on simpsons 2, and series 14.. I could have just spent this holiday season as amazon's AT-AT man without worrying about anything else..  

But I do think complete sets of a complete minifigure line is good to have.  

Good luck!

Ain't nobody got time for that. I just buy the sealed box, sell off the spares for small profit, then I have 3-4 complete sets to sell or hold.

I just let you guys do the work and then buy a set when undercutting gets them down to RRP.

why would TRU take the listing down if they were gonna get them back, in less than 2 months? Does anybody think these may come back, but only sold by lego B&M & LEGO Shop at Home?

Edited September 10, 20169 yr by Jeffrey_Dollars

3 hours ago, exciter1 said:

I just let you guys do the work and then buy a set when undercutting gets them down to RRP.

why would TRU take the listing down if they were gonna get them back, in less than 2 months? Does anybody think these may come back, but only sold by lego B&M & LEGO Shop at Home?

TRU have taken down many Lego SKUs and brought them back up.

Contemplating buying a box for £202. Currently sitting on the fence. What would you do???

15 minutes ago, CrabslayerT said:

Contemplating buying a box for £202. Currently sitting on the fence. What would you do???

at least make sure there was a pillow on the fence.

 

sounds like Disney MF are hard to get outside of US so i would buy them and give Mike Lindell a call.

 

Edited September 15, 20169 yr by cladner

Some stores are asking $500-600 au per box in Australia.

http://imrickjamesbricks.com.au/lego-disney-minifigures-sealed-box/

http://www.justbricks.com.au/lego-products/minifigures/71012-lego-minifigures-disney-series-1-box.html

Disney Minifigures sold out in a flash and were never restocked by anyone in Australia.

Edited September 15, 20169 yr by Out of the Dark Years

They have very recently jumped up a bit. $475 on eBay is the new low but not selling.

The full 18 set new moves better at $140.

Edited September 15, 20169 yr by Furious_george

21 minutes ago, Furious_george said:

They have very recently jumped up a bit. $475 on eBay is the new low but not selling.

The full 18 set new moves better at $140.

I'm betting the full sets would sell better, next would be individual minifigs and last sealed boxes.

They certainly will be rare here, anyone selling them for $80-$90 a set en masse at this point in time in Australia is pretty silly.

If a Disney Series 2 happens it should send the price through the roof. I'm guessing $200-$250 per set, the only thing possibly stopping it would be under cutters that don't know their arm from their leg. Given how quickly they disappeared I think the under cutters will also be limited (at least in Australia)

I wonder if they are even going to reappear in the US or not.  Surely if they were to be sold alongside the new castle they would be out by now.

Edited September 15, 20169 yr by Out of the Dark Years

Big news! Lego rep I'm friendly with put out a brand new hanging display of Disney figs at a target here yesterday.

1 hour ago, Out of the Dark Years said:

Some stores are asking $500-600 au per box in Australia.

http://imrickjamesbricks.com.au/lego-disney-minifigures-sealed-box/

http://www.justbricks.com.au/lego-products/minifigures/71012-lego-minifigures-disney-series-1-box.html

Disney Minifigures sold out in a flash and were never restocked by anyone in Australia.

That first link might be my favorite URL of all time!  I can't see it due to my work filters, but I will be checking it out when I get home.

4 minutes ago, Sfcommando14 said:

That first link might be my favorite URL of all time!  I can't see it due to my work filters, but I will be checking it out when I get home.

Nothing to do with the singer but the guy that runs it is named Rick James and he's a Super-Lego-Freak 

 

11 minutes ago, Clintonjoseph said:

Big news! Lego rep I'm friendly with put out a brand new hanging display of Disney figs at a target here yesterday.

Let me fix that for you...

 

Edited September 15, 20169 yr by Sfcommando14

More info from my Lego rep: that display of Disney figs was just one they found stashed in the back of that target, not a new one...but that a new shipment of them should be in stores "before Christmas"

These now seem retired in Europe...

Saw some 20 packs smooshed Disney minifig packs yesterday at a target that I've never seen them appeared at that location prior. Got a genie to complete my set.