Hello LEGO fans...Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. It's that time of year again. Time to raise money for my son Max's school, St. Paul School, in Burlington, NJ. After a very...VERY...successful first BRICKPICKER LEGO RAFFLE in which we raised over $62,000.00 for the school, a year has passed, and it’s time to raffle off some dynamic LEGO gifts for charity. The money we raised last year literally kept the school open...which is a great thing. It's a special school that once again was voted BEST Private School in Burlington County, NJ, by The Burlington County Times, along with numerous other awards, such as:

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE 2017 BRICKPICKER LEGO RAFFLE FOR ST. PAUL SCHOOL!

• Best Private School
• Best PreK-Nursery School
• Best Teacher
• Best Fundraiser
• Best Music Instruction
• Best Tutor Service (Junior National Honor Society)

As I stated last year, St.Paul School (SPS) and its community are wonderful. People from all races and religions attend St. Paul School. Besides excelling in educating the children, the school does a tremendous amount of charity for local people in need. From food drives to helping out at local retirement homes, the children of St.Paul School are required to perform “service hours” that are designed to teach generosity, altruism and instill a hard-working, disciplined attitude. Excellence is expected and permeates through St. Paul School and the faculty and student body, so does a sense of goodness and frugalness. We make a little money go a long way. For example:

• All grade levels (Pre – K through 4) are scheduled for “Specials” each week...such as art, music, library, computers, and physical education
• St.Paul School is nationally accredited by “AdvancED” (the North Central Association Commission on Accreditation and School Improvement – NCA – CASI.
• SPS middle-school students have three periods of Spanish and are testing into Spanish II for High School.
• SPS provides more periods of physical education each week than is required by the State.
• SPS provides multiple extracurricular activities such as: LEGO Robotics Club, Science Club, Vocal Choir, Rosary Group, Tonal Chimes, Hand Bell Choir, Crafty Kids Club, Basketball (Boys/Girls), Indoor Soccer, Cheerleading, Yearbook Club, National Junior Honor Society (NJHS), Student Council, MATHCounts, STREAM (Science Technology Religion Engineering Art Math, Activity Tutorial Period (ATP for 5th-8th grades)

But all is not wonderful though. As many of you know, many Catholic schools have a hard time making ends meet. Enrollments are down due to weak economic conditions throughout the world. Even superb schools like St. Paul School have a hard time keeping the doors open. While we did pick up 25 new students this past year to ease the financial burden, we will still be way short of breaking even; thus the need for the 2017 BrickPicker LEGO Raffle 2.0. This year’s version of the LEGO raffle will start with TEN awesome prizes.These include:

PRIZE #1 BRICKPICKER MEMBER RAFFLE LOT:

• 21301 Birds (Salimr)
• Comic Con Throne of Ultron (echin313)
• Comic Con Dagobah Mini-Build (echin313)
• A mint 7144 Slave I (echin313)
• A mint 8001 Battle Droid (echin313)
• 10218 Pet Shop (exciter1)
• Rio Olympic Mascots set (Emvisawthatswho)
• 70816 Benny's Spaceship (Brickcrazyhouse)
• A special custom LEGO snow globe (Flanagan Bros Inc)

PRIZE #2 BRICKPICKER MYSTERY RAFFLE LOT (OVER 5000 PIECES):

• A bundle of quality LEGO sets from multiple themes that will far exceed 5000 pieces!

PRIZE #3:

• 10220 - VW Camper T1 Van
• 42056 - Porsche 911 GT3 RS

PRIZE #4:

• 10227 - UCS B-Wing
• 75060 - UCS Slave I

PRIZE #5:

• 10221 - UCS Super Star Destroyer

PRIZE #6:

• $500 Amazon Gift Certificate

PRIZE #7:

• 75159 - UCS Death Star
  • OR
• 10188 Death Star

PRIZE #8 CHOICE OF:

• 75827 - Ghostbusters Firehouse Headquarters
  • OR
• 71040 - Disney Castle

PRIZE #9 CHOICE OF:

• 10225 - UCS R2-D2
  • OR
• 10197 - Fire Brigade
  • OR
• 10228 - Haunted House
  • OR
• 10211 - Grand Emporium

PRIZE #10:

• 10255 - Assembly Square
• 10251 - Brick Bank

This year’s total prize value exceeds last year’s total by over $1000.00. Last year we had 11 raffle prizes and winners from around the world. From Vancouver, Canada to Reno, Nevada to Miami Beach, Florida to the Isle of Man, United Kingdom and everywhere in between, generous raffle participants were rewarded with awesome LEGO prizes. The 2017 BrickPicker LEGO Raffle 2.0 can be found here on the secure Rally.up.com site:

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Like last year, we will ship the prizes to anywhere across the globe. If there is an issue with shipping or prizes, a comparable prize and/or shipping method will be arranged with the winner. Last year, the LEGO BrickPicker Raffle worked very well. The Rallyup.com site is a first class, secure site that made this all possible. They also issued the school a big fat check. All raffle proceeds and donations benefit the school directly by bridging the gap between what tuition covers and actual educational costs. It also raises money to upgrade the school’s technology, keeping St. Paul School ahead of the academic curve with a dynamic curriculum. The prizes have been donated by Jeff and I, the St.Paul School PTA and by some very generous BrickPicker members. I am hoping, like last year, that more people will donate sets after the raffle begins. It was fun adding to the prizes last year. You never know what can pop up as a prize!

On a personal note, I would like to thank every person who donated sets/money and/or bought tickets to last year’s LEGO BrickPicker Raffle. It saved a wonderful school and kept dozens of people employed and 175 kids with their friends and teachers. I don’t like asking, but will anyway...please help out again this year. Even buying one ticket can help and it gives you a chance to win some great prizes. Watching the raffle ticket total rise every day was an intense rush and extremely gratifying experience. It made me so proud to have started this site with my brother Jeff and made me realize there is still good in this world…

The contest will end on February 7, 2017 at 11:59 PM. Winners will be notified by Rallyup.com. If you are a winner, please contact me on the site so we can confirm the prizes and shipping addresses. The Rallyup.com site works very well and is secure, so please feel confident in donating to the school and purchasing raffle tickets. All the money goes to St. Paul School, which is a 501(c)(3), and to Rallyup.com for running the raffle. I will make every effort to supply the winners with the appropriate prizes. If there are shipping issues, inventory issues or potential problems beyond my control, I will make sure the winners are awarded LEGO sets/gift cards comparable to the original prizes. Any questions, ideas or concerns, please reply below or PM Jeff or me...

TICKETS AVAILABLE UNTIL: February 07, 2017 at 11:59 PM EST

DRAWING DATE: February 08, 2017 at 12:00 PM EST

Thanks again!

Ed Mack

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Just a little reminder for where the raffle money is going!  Check out the cuties in the attached video!  We SOOOOOOO appreciate your support and come on isn't it kinda fun and the anticipation is killing you?  THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

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3 minutes ago, LucySPSMOM said:

Just a little reminder for where the raffle money is going!  Check out the cuties in the attached video!  We SOOOOOOO appreciate your support and come on isn't it kinda fun and the anticipation is killing you?  THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

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Your welcome best of luck to st. Paul school god bless all of you. 

Just bought $250 worth of tickets. That makes $325 total.

How can you resist these cute little faces??? This is what the raffle helps to support! And who doesn't want to win some of Ed's stuff???? Thank you from all of us at  SPS  to the top of the world for all of your generosity!! 

11 hours ago, Raykong said:

i bought some tickets approx 2 weeks ago (1/25) and some more today  - interesting to see how many have been bought for some of the categories since then.

in one package, only 7 more tickets were purchased

on another package more than 90

and on the member raffle lot more than 110 were purchased since 1/25

May I ask how you do know the amount of purchased tickets per package/raffle?

7 hours ago, Brian92007 said:

Hey ed I just bought 100.00 of tickets. I want a tumbler I miss out on that one. My 9 year old is a big fan of batman wish me luck, and good luck to all of you Brickpicker. From Reno Nevada. 

As I have stated many times, I am open to negotiation when it comes to prizes. especially the WIN A RETIRED SET raffle.  If there is a set or two that would interest you, PM me. 

May I ask how you do know the amount of purchased tickets per package/raffle?

By looking at the ticket numbers once you've paid.

COUNTDOWN IS ON...LESS THAN 24 HOURS TO BUY TICKETS!!!

REMEMBER..

• I WILL BUY TICKETS FOR YOU THROUGH MY PAY PAL
• I WILL SHIP ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD 
• I WILL RAFFLE OFF A SECONDARY PRIZE FOR ANYONE WHO CONTRIBUTED $100 
• I WILL NEGOTIATE PRIZES 

LET'S HIT $30,000.00!!!  

Tickets bought for the Death Star, wonder how much a set that size costs to ship to Ireland 

8 minutes ago, Sprocket77 said:

Tickets bought for the Death Star, wonder how much a set that size costs to ship to Ireland 

Nothing...If it's the new one! It will be shipped directly from LEGO!  LOL  

Just now, Ed Mack said:

Nothing...If it's the new one! It will be directly from LEGO!  LOL  

You so clever, that's why you the boss 

Did I mention I don't like cheese wedges 

My wife asked me to post this picture of the First Graders...

55 minutes ago, thebrickdad said:

 

By looking at the ticket numbers once you've paid.

Thank you for the info. I haven't really had a look at my numbers yet. I thought that they were given randomly.

The "Bad Boys" of St.Paul School say, "Buy tickets now or else!"

 

 

On 12/21/2016 at 7:00 PM, Lego Templar said:

I am stealing Jaisonline's idea from last year!

For each LIKE $***THIS***$ post gets I will donate 1 dollar!

1 like=1 dollar towards the schools raffle!
 

154 likes! Let's try and get it to 200! That would make another 100 to donate!! Takes 5 seconds to click like the post (first page of this thread) at roughly 29,400! Let's shoot for 32,000!!!

Just spent $100 on 1 of each. Don't worry, I'm dreadfully unlucky with raffles so you've all got the same odds as before ;-)

I also give tons of polybags and promos to my local school as a lot need all the help they can get. Best of all, it's built a community with a network of cash buyers for my sets! ;-)

Hooray, we just cracked the 30.000,- ?

Damn, Lego Templar, you beat me to it! ?

Just bought some tickets, got it over 30K now ?

Could this be just one reason why BP should charge for membership? I've no problem paying X-amount per month with a proportion of it going to good causes. At least it should weed out the trolls and numpties from the more serious threads?

11 minutes ago, Lego Templar said:

That triggers another $100 from me.  I will put in another $100 at $40,000  I think it is possible.

hello, in for $100.thanks for running a great site.

32 minutes ago, belljohn said:

That triggers another $100 from me.  I will put in another $100 at $40,000  I think it is possible.

I'm all for it.  BrickPickers are looking like the Patriots today.  Great in the clutch!

Thanks for running a good raffle for a great cause.  Just a heads up looking at the raffle page it states ' 7 days ' as the time remaining.  Just thought if I was confused (as easy as that is) others may be also and be left with a false sense of time left to contribute.