Ok so anyone have thoughts as to when the fire brigade will be retired? got to be soon, i mean there has never been 4 modular buildings for sale at the same time before. i want to buy up a bunch but i worry that because its been on the market soooo long it might be over sold, similar to the death star. Also feel free to post comments about other modular buildings, theres quite a few to talk about.

I tend to disagree with people who just say that lots of people have it and a hanging on to sell it soon after EOL. No matter if 10,000 members have 2 sets each of these there will still be a huge secondary market. Way more than 20,000 people will want it before a year after it's EOL. The buyer to seller ratio in this whole business is so amazingly small still. I think this set will do great.

+1 Kermando I completely agree, we tend to diminish the size of the secondary market right now, I saw dozens of young and middle aged adults plunking serious coin at Lego stores, they have the money and will pay for their Legos. There are always folks coming out of the dark ages, although I think there are less now than in years prior because Lego has such a good market presence right now. I believe that when Lego took a nose dive in the late 90's and early 2000's, it forced a lot of supporters into dark ages that could have been avoided, of the kids right now, there could be less going into dark ages in the future because of the market dominance lego now has. I understand that life is always changing and this will always force many people into their dark ages even with a positive market, but I think it those numbers will/are going down. As for the Fire Brigade, I am amazed at how the price could so easily jump sky high with it. Once the $119 sale was over and most inventories were depleted, it was selling on ebay for $170+ just because that was the going price for a few days there on the big retailers. I have no doubt that once this set goes EOL, investors here will be rewarded. Yes, it will take time, but there will be very solid gains. The only way a smart investor can loose is by having their money tied up too long, many people started buying this 3-4 years ago and will need to wait another 3-4 years before they can make much money on it. Even still, it won't be money lost, just money that could have performed better.

I was in the Cincinnati lego store on Saturday, they were completely sold out and thats when i was told they were not receiving new shipments and they were guessing it was to be retired. I cant speak for any other stores but thats the case for Cincinnati.

I want to say that Cincy and Indianapolis were out of stock, however, the managers in Columbus and Chicago were confident they would be selling the set all year.

On different european Amazon the price is decreasing

"Out of stock" on Amazon.fr, on Amazon.de, on Amazon.es, on Amazon.it and on Amazon.co.uk

"Out of stock" on Amazon.fr, on Amazon.de, on Amazon.es, on Amazon.it and on Amazon.co.uk

Amazon.es states it'll be back in stock on April 10th

Amazon.es states it'll be back in stock on April 10th

The same for amazon.it

This set is available now on Lego.com - does that mean anything regarding retirement being pushed back?

Firebrigde is still on the wholesale pricelist. 10211 Grand Emporium is off i guess it will be EOL soon .

Firebrigde is still on the wholesale pricelist.

10211 Grand Emporium is off i guess it will be EOL soon .

me too

Items on Pricelist Q2/2013 10188 LEGO

Thanks for the list :D

Solid information. Many thanks.

Yes......I suddenly feel that thousands of GEs will be sold today ;)

Not to change topics, but shouldn't tower bridge be on that list too?

this means that 10211 and 10214 will be EOL in june? more or less.....

Yes......I suddenly feel that thousands of GEs will be sold today

Haha yep GE's and TB's will be flying off the shelves now lol. Lets hope this list is accurate..........

Ugh, now regretting the FB buys and wishing I bought more GEs...

There's still tons of GE's and TB's on Amazon, both at retial so I'm not too worried yet. But the race will be on when we see Lego go out of stock of these sets and then Amazon stock getting low.................until then I'm taking this with a grain of salt.

There's still tons of GE's and TB's on Amazon, both at retial so I'm not too worried yet. But the race will be on when we see Lego go out of stock of these sets and then Amazon stock getting low.................until then I'm taking this with a grain of salt.

Same. Just checked and amazon has over 1000 of each in stock and you can order 99 grand emporiums on Legos site right now. Hoping amazon does one more run of discounts on both.

Same. Just checked and amazon has over 1000 of each in stock and you can order 99 grand emporiums on Legos site right now. Hoping amazon does one more run of discounts on both.

Yeah I already have some of both. I will go buy more GE's and TB's when I see real evidence of them going EOL, until then I'm not jumping the gun and buying more sets to sit on when they may still be around for a long time. I have learned with these modulars and with the Death Star, not to run out and buy more the minute someone says they're going EOL. Hopefully the list that was posted earlier in this thread is correct and both of these sets truely are ending production this year. I won't believe it till I see it though.......

Just bought a Grand Emporium from Amazon, but it was on my buy list anyway.

Ugh, now regretting the FB buys and wishing I bought more GEs...

sell some FBs and get some GEs........isn't not too late, yet.

I think it would be very funny if the FB wound up doing well in the end, maybe not cafe corner levels but going for $450-600 after a 5 years or so. I am not banking that it will but I do have a few and I am definitely holding on to them. Many of you saw when this set was going for $119 on several retailers for almost a month, but then one day, no one had it in stock, amazon was selling them for $171 and they were actually selling for that price. I kept my eye on ebay auctions and those took a spike upwards as well. Once it goes, the panic will set in and a lot of these will change hands, we will see people selling GE's for FB's and the insanity will continue.

I don't think we'll see prices that high in the first 5 years, but I sure would love to see prices that high. And there will be a lot of wealthy people if that does happen. I'm thinking this set will struggle to get above $250-300 range. Yes people are willing to pay $170 on eBay and Amazon when it goes out of stock, but that's because there aren't as many for sale at that given time (the majority of hoarders/investors are not selling their FB stock when FB's are only selling for $170). Wait till it gets up to the $250 range, you will see people coming out from all over selling Fire Brigades at that price, I know I sure would like to sell a Fire Brigade I paid $100-150 for at $250. And when it's at $250 there will be a huge flood of these on eBay and it will struggle to climb. Of course this is just my opinion and the set has to EOL first before any of this can take place lol.