Couple days ago @Elkkthunder posted info about estate sale near by (thank you, thank you, thank you), with some help from @Sfcommando14 (my man  ) I was able to go there this morning. Sale started at  9am, they were handing out numbers prior to that, that determined in what order people could enter, I was number 2, not bad right? Well, guy with number 1 was wearing....a Lego t-shirt....damn I thought....

anyway, he goes in first, me right behind him, both of us straight to the Lego table, but he doesn't grab the best things.....he just looked at some Lego train tracks, stated that he has thousands of Lego (whatever) and moved on... So here is what I grabbed, for a total of $263, all sets almost complete, very little needed, all instruction are there too, plus few zip lock bags:

Edited August 13, 20169 yr by Lordoflego

36 minutes ago, Lordoflego said:

Couple days ago @Elkkthunder posted info about estate sale near by (thank you, thank you, thank you), with some help from @Sfcommando14 (my man  ) I was able to go there this morning. Sale started at  9am, they were handing out numbers prior to that, that determined in what order people could enter, I was number 2, not bad right? Well, guy with number 1 was wearing....a Lego t-shirt....damn I thought....

anyway, he goes in first, me right behind him, both of us straight to the Lego table, but he doesn't grab the best things.....he just looked at some Lego train tracks, stated that he has thousands of Lego (whatever) and moved on... So here is what I grabbed, for a total of $263, all sets almost complete, very little needed, all instruction are there too, plus few zip lock bags:

 

Great score. Nice team work there. 

14 hours ago, ravenb99 said:

they can list anything they want on there website.  It is not on the exclusive list.  It is not on the no discount list at Merlin.  It is not hard dated.  All 3 of those lead to it being able to be discounted and also can lead to it being available at other retailers earlier on then other true exclusive sets.  Might not happen but there is nothing stopping it.  That can always change as well just as other sets get taken off the list that were.  We've already seen Toy Shop, Ecto 1, and Temple of Airjitzu come off the last list so this is just something new with one not starting on the list. 

WOW, this is the first time I've seen the Death Star being priced... I'm screwed...

Expensive day. Insert sad Panda face.

 

1 hour ago, Deadfraggle said:

Expensive day. Insert sad Panda face.

 

 

 

 

This amazes me.  There's no way my store would sell either of those sets right now and they haven't had an MTT in months.

Expensive day. Insert sad Panda face.

The Dracula set is meh but the box is awesome

1 hour ago, Loghamel said:

This amazes me.  There's no way my store would sell either of those sets right now and they haven't had an MTT in months.

Discovery Center. 4 MTTs on the shelf .

2 minutes ago, Deadfraggle said:

Discovery Center. 

 

Thanks, I know where I'm going tomorrow morning  

The Dracula set is meh but the box is awesome

I thought it was a walrus at first glance.

Gonna need that Dracula. Will go well with the Bat from a year or two ago.

I'm waiting until mid-September to buy the Disney Castle - grand opening of a new LEGO store in San Diego. I'll grab the Castle and get a free LEGO Store set and then flip that to offset the cost of the Castle.

Btw - I had to come up with that plan right now because my wife was demanding we drive to the LEGO store tomorrow for that castle.

10 hours ago, Alpinemaps said:

Btw - I had to come up with that plan right now because my wife was demanding we drive to the LEGO store tomorrow for that castle.

@Alpinemaps My wife and I went to the Discovery Center in search of some polybags. When we walked in the door, we noticed the Disney Castle sitting there on display.

As soon as she saw it, my wife, who is now 8 months pregnant, looks at me says "You know you're buying that for me today, there's no way I'm leaving the store without it." 

...... I know not to poke the bear, there was no discussion.

20 minutes ago, Deadfraggle said:

@Alpinemaps My wife and I went to the Discovery Center in search of some polybags. When we walked in the door, we noticed the Disney Castle sitting there on display.

As soon as she saw it, my wife, who is now 8 months pregnant, looks at me says "You know you're buying that for me today, there's no way I'm leaving the store without it." 

...... I know not to poke the bear, there was no discussion.

Was it the Chicago (Schaumburg) DC?

15 minutes ago, Quacs said:

Was it the Chicago (Schaumburg) DC?

Atlanta, Phipps Plaza location. Sorry.

41 minutes ago, Deadfraggle said:

@Alpinemaps My wife and I went to the Discovery Center in search of some polybags. When we walked in the door, we noticed the Disney Castle sitting there on display.

As soon as she saw it, my wife, who is now 8 months pregnant, looks at me says "You know you're buying that for me today, there's no way I'm leaving the store without it." 

...... I know not to poke the bear, there was no discussion.

Good, good husband.  And smart man.

Finally picked up the Dimensions Midway Arcade Level Pack, I also had to go ahead and preorder some of the new Dimensions level and team packs at 40% off.  Passed on the Ghostbusters portal pack for now, I wouldn't be surprised if that thing lived its life at ~30% off.

Finally picked up the Dimensions Midway Arcade Level Pack, I also had to go ahead and preorder some of the new Dimensions level and team packs at 40% off.  Passed on the Ghostbusters portal pack for now, I wouldn't be surprised if that thing lived its life at ~30% off.

Me too, I've been waiting for a discount on the Midway pack.

42009 Mobile Crane MK II | € 110.00

70413 The Brick Bounty | € 49.94

70599 Cole's Dragon | € 4.99

16 hours ago, Deadfraggle said:

Discovery Center. 4 MTTs on the shelf .

Just got back from discovery center. No Disney castles, no vampires yet, but they had those at msrp: 

Just got back from discovery center. No Disney castles, no vampires yet, but they had those at msrp: 

Same at Discovery Center DFW (they have in back, but can't sell them yet per employee).

Galeria-kaufhof.de offers discounts on a few LEGO themes today. So I purchased a Sith Infiltrator 75096 for roughly 70€ as this set is relatively hard to find at other retailers.

6 hours ago, Deadfraggle said:

@Alpinemaps My wife and I went to the Discovery Center in search of some polybags. When we walked in the door, we noticed the Disney Castle sitting there on display.

As soon as she saw it, my wife, who is now 8 months pregnant, looks at me says "You know you're buying that for me today, there's no way I'm leaving the store without it." 

...... I know not to poke the bear, there was no discussion.

Mine is 8 months pregnant too, I wonder would that work for me if I bring her into a toy store, darling would you like me to buy you the Ghostbusters Headquarters? 

Complete with box assembled 75060 Slave I for $140. My build copy and now the other copies I have can help pay for it.

i got a Queen Ann's revenge for $12.99 at goodwill, get in the car cut the tape with my keys and its 100% complete, score!  

1 minute ago, Knightwing01 said:

i got a Queen Ann's revenge for $12.99 at goodwill, get in the car cut the tape with my keys and its 100% complete, score!  

You have entered the world of amazing.

12 minutes ago, exciter1 said:

14 minutes ago, Knightwing01 said:

i got a Queen Ann's revenge for $12.99 at goodwill, get in the car cut the tape with my keys and its 100% complete, score!  

Did you feel like you were dressed in all black wearing a ski mask as you walked out of Goodwill to your getaway car ????  LOL......Nice SCORE !!!!!