23 hours ago, eliminator said:

some dude on Reddit posted that he had a fire in his home recently....guess he better pick up another Saturn V before it retires....

We all know that most parts of the rockets are disposble...

On 10/27/2019 at 8:49 PM, eliminator said:

some dude on Reddit posted that he had a fire in his home recently....guess he better pick up another Saturn V before it retires....

In all honesty, my first thought was Apollo 1, which was just a fire inside the cockpit but killed all three astronauts.  Considering the Soviet counterpart actually did this on the launchpad it's amazing something like this didn't happen to one of the real Apollo rockets.  (Apollo 13 aside, which was while they were in space AND they all survived).

On a less serious note, he's got some nice parts for a pretty cool Lunar/Mars crash landing MOC.  Sorry for the pun... not really.

short stop @Smyths Toys today. Brand new rockets arrived. 39S9! I assume that’s the latest batch. Can’t believe that the rocket will retire this year. 

so now this baby has gone. admit how many you have......

i stopped at 8. i got spooked by remake rumors, otherwise i would have hit 20.

i'm guessing at least 1 person on here has 100+

It´s not gone anywhere in Europe. Still available at SAH.

When did it drop off "Retiring" @ SAH just like PR which is now labelled Retiring again?

19 minutes ago, Val-E said:

It´s not gone anywhere in Europe. Still available at SAH.

so let me get this right, if it retires in Oz. it will be made for years more in europe?

42 minutes ago, joneyyy1981 said:

so now this baby has gone. admit how many you have......

i stopped at 8. i got spooked by remake rumors, otherwise i would have hit 20.

i'm guessing at least 1 person on here has 100+

I wish I only had 20.

55 minutes ago, joneyyy1981 said:

so let me get this right, if it retires in Oz. it will be made for years more in europe?

S@H US is the only true indicator of retirement.  If it is not retired in the US then there is always a chance for it to come back.

I have 1   

Well, in the US, it's Sold out at LEGO Shop at Home. Out of Stock at Wal-Mart. Last list price was $170. It's averaging the same price at Amazon. $60-ish above retail. 6 sold Listings today on eBay averaging about $145. Barnes and Noble apparently still has some at retail price $119.95. https://bit.ly/35pSnJS. 

1 hour ago, Saruman said:

I have 1   

Ditto, I have one built and one in box.  I started getting collecting one each for each of the Ideas sets a year or two ago, so I'll probably keep it only for that reason.  Who knows, couple years down the road... it depends on what they're pulling in and my life situation, I might change my mind.

Still available at full RRP on LEGO Shop at Home. Wonder how many they still have in storage.

19 hours ago, Brian Briggs said:

Still available at full RRP on LEGO Shop at Home. Wonder how many they still have in storage.

At this point every newbie stocked up because of the "retiring soon" tag.

2 hours ago, elmaslıefendi said:

At this point every newbie stocked up because of the "retiring soon" tag.

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This is a 3 year hold at a bare minimum. Or a quick dump.

32 minutes ago, landphieran said:

This is a 3 year hold at a bare minimum. Or a quick dump.

quick flip now for me.

It's still not gone SAH EU... this will probably sell out late june or so.

1 hour ago, landphieran said:

This is a 3 year hold at a bare minimum. Or a quick dump.

By next Christmas, this will be 1.5 retail pricing, at a minimum.

25 minutes ago, iahawks550 said:

By next Christmas, this will be 1.5 retail pricing, at a minimum.

Imo that will be the max it gets here in the uk. It's such a good set but the amount they have made has really killed this for investment purposes. It will be a race to the bottom once it finally sells out at lego. The amount of people that will be listing these after retirement will be crazy, me included.

You can't really blame lego for milking this one though, such an amazing set.

 

Just realized I'm starting to sound like Tabby with the negativity, scrap what I said this will be at 3 x retail next christmas.

Edited January 6, 20205 yr by raulaco

In mainland Europe this set was really hard to get in volume, so I expect less dumping. We'll see. 

1 hour ago, iahawks550 said:

By next Christmas, this will be 1.5 retail pricing, at a minimum.

I anticipate 180-200 but I think it will stagnate at low 200's for a while. Before doing really well, (3 years from now)

2 hours ago, landphieran said:

I anticipate 180-200 but I think it will stagnate at low 200's for a while. Before doing really well, (3 years from now)

You know what, maybe it will. There are people that buy PR right now for 200€ as an investment, nothing is shocking me anymore. Probably some newbs will buy them at 250€ hoping it makes it to 300€ so they make their 12,5€ after eBay & PP fees.

2 hours ago, Legojona said:

In mainland Europe this set was really hard to get in volume, so I expect less dumping. We'll see. 

I can get a hundred for 95 a piece right now. PR was much harder to get in volume.

2 hours ago, landphieran said:

I anticipate 180-200 but I think it will stagnate at low 200's for a while. Before doing really well, (3 years from now)

These have been hoarded in the thousands, in the UK i would estimate £150 max in a year.

On 1/2/2020 at 9:38 AM, elmaslıefendi said:

At this point every newbie stocked up because of the "retiring soon" tag.

Yes! Absolutely ?

Mine have just arrived this morning (x4). This is a great, magnificent set.

Edited January 9, 20205 yr by denosya