I am almost as excited for this set as I was when I first saw the Haunted House pictures last year. This set is going to be a big hit in my opinion. I typically don't even like technic sets that much, but this set rocks!! Thanks to Brickextra for the pics!

Link to Crawler on Lego Shop

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/4x4-Crawler-Exclusive-Edition-41999

 

BrickExtra news link

Shop-at-Home link

And here I thought I was going to hit the big time today.

As I am relatively new and am not going to read 182 pages of what appears to be fun drama, anyone have one to readily sell or should I just get one on ebay for mid-$300s?  Anyone?  Anyone?

At the moment, the site does not allow buying and selling, so your best bet would be eBay or BrickLink.

just to add to the suspense mark goes to bed at around 3pm PST. So gotta wait for him to wake up if he's going to post. 

and he eats his breakfast at 11:30 PST

He might be banned (again) when he wakes up :)

I doubt he has anything to announce since he has all this time to do it and he didn't. ..

I should get a prize for being the only one not posting here.... Oh damn.

I've read every page since the beginning. probably posted 2 pages here or so myself. scared to know

Where the hell is Willy?

 

This is the 'off-topic' topic, right?

It'd be mad funny if he posted a youtube video of him burning 15000 sets

Eccentric millionaire confuses message board with insane post, film at eleven.

Where the hell is Willy?

 

This is the 'off-topic' topic, right?

 

That guy was a train wreck that bought tons of crap.  He probably can't find his computer.

Please everybody chant with me "DIE THREAD DIE, DIE THREAD DIE, DIE THREAD DIE" (keep repeating) If I get 10 likes I will chant it backwards like this: "DIE THREAD DIE, DIE THREAD DIE, DIE THREAD DIE".

At this point, I can't imagine anyone would listen to a word that used crawler salesman has to say.

Awesome pic! Still love this thread and this set!!!!

 

Are you saying this will be the profits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qo6_tjnXv8

 I coulda found 1000+ things to burn that would be alot cheaper than lego .. lol kid must be retarded

Listen, the bottom line is that they wanted to pay money for specific plate numbers, but why would you want to open up all your sets to find out what you have. You would ruin your MISB for this.  I don't like this type of tactic at all.  You are never talking to the real Markr anyhow, its always his assistant.  I don't think the real Markr has ever even been on this site.  I am sure they have done a bunch of great transactions with people on here and that's fine and dandy, but why would anyone ask you to open their boxes?  I personally don't care for it.

Listen, the bottom line is that they wanted to pay money for specific plate numbers, but why would you want to open up all your sets to find out what you have. You would ruin your MISB for this.  I don't like this type of tactic at all.  You are never talking to the real Markr anyhow, its always his assistant.  I don't think the real Markr has ever even been on this site.  I am sure they have done a bunch of great transactions with people on here and that's fine and dandy, but why would anyone ask you to open their boxes?  I personally don't care for it.

This actually seems quite clever to me. Not only could he make a good investment by purchasing specific plate numbers and then having those for resale, he would also deplete the market of other sealed box copies thus making his own holdings much more valuable.

Bottom line is that if he was asking people for plate numbers, he probably already had these plates and was just trying to get people to open their sets, thus increasing the value of his. He has to think of something to make money off of the thousands of sets he paid over twice retail for. I know alot of people are too busy worshiping this guy because he bought so many. Give it a rest people. If you don't like the decisions that the owners of this site have made then feel free to start up your own site. After all the hard work Ed and Jeff have put into this site the last thing they need are members second guessing their decisions. Now can we talk about LEGO and not some tool trying to get attention and recoup his major losses.

What would get people opening their boxes is if a 41999 was featured in the movie with say, licence plate "12321" meaning a set with that number would be a high value collectors item.  It'd put a stop to some of the MISB reselling, right?  As posted earlier, LEGO could offer a buy-back at a high price for a certain licence plate again meaning that MISB quantities will fall.

 

Can you Americans please spill the beans if that's the case as you'll be seeing the movie a week before us.

 

This "troll" has lost a bunch of money due to his greed and is just being sneaky and is desperate to raise the value of his stash to what it was.  I bet he's feeling quite crap and embarrassed right now - LOL.

 

Mine are staying sealed no matter what.

 

BTW... I "unliked" the previous post that I "liked" earlier. ;-)

if i can get a least 10 likes ill let you all into a little secret into why i have purchased maybe every set that went on sale on ebay and in total 0000's

Please everybody chant with me "DIE THREAD DIE, DIE THREAD DIE, DIE THREAD DIE" (keep repeating) If I get 10 likes I will chant it backwards like this: "DIE THREAD DIE, DIE THREAD DIE, DIE THREAD DIE".

I will give you my like if you chant this way instead: "EID DAERHT EID, EID DAERHT EID, EID DAERHT EID"

I am not going to defend Mark's actions on the forum. I have dealt with him and he was nice - but his actions are his own and I respect decisions made by the founders of the site. For what its worth, he confirmed to me it was really him posting. However, after seeing what he has said, he probably should have said it was someone else.

 

Despite all that I am really finding it funny everyone thinks he is freaking out or going to lose all this money. If you take a look at the UK market - looking at auctions, this set is going for over 300GBP and not all to the same Ebay accounts. Thats the equivalent of about 500$ american. Considering Mark bought most of them for less than that, why would he be worried this early in the game? Would I have done that? No. But I also don't have a Ferrari.

 

And ignoring everyones personal feelings for him, why is everyone seemingly losing hope in this set? It seems to be doing fairly well at the moment. Even if the US prices don't go crazy high, if this disparity remains the same to the UK, it will be easy to sell it internationally and make money. Right?

 

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