22 minutes ago, Secret Squirrel said:

Good luck with that! I'm not saying it won't make a gain, I just think being dated may limit its market against a generic version like 40139. 

Happy Xmas 2019 ?

Dated also! Boom! I win! Happy Holidays!

31 minutes ago, bigfanofnu said:

Dated also! Boom! I win! Happy Holidays!

Lol, I noticed that too when further inspecting the box art a little while back. I may keep my latest freebie for 4 x years to make an extra £20. ?

I love gingerbread...

This was probably the best 2 of 2 holiday special set in a long time.  Usually they tank very quick and this one held strong most of the season.

On 12/24/2019 at 1:35 PM, Scatterbug said:

I'm not talking about the American market.

And I'd wager the sale price of the house will be bigger than the profit I get from the fish.

Wrong already.

It's been a weird couple years for us.  I think I suffered through a lego investor/collector burnout (literally).  In late 2016, the town I was living in had a catastrophic wildfire, burned half the town down but fortunately, our home survived - but the aftermath of the event left me altered.  We could have lost everything that day.  I was sitting on way too many investment boxes and collectibles that could have went up in flames.  Instead that day changed my perspective on life, and I literally have sold out a lot of the collectables over the last few years only keeping what we consider the good stuff (mostly large star wars and UCS sets, and my sons jurassic world sets).   Watching all my neighbors and some friends lose everything put a lot of crap into perspective. 

Well, finally, after a few years where my only lego purchase was UCS snowspeeder (last year), which we still haven't built.    We woke up out of our slumber, a little bit. 

Yesterday, I went to a walmart, and sure enough, it was like DEJA VU - and I couldn't pass up the discounted Jurassic world 2 sets sitting there at 1/2 price off.   So picked up the Stygimoloch Breakout set (16.00), Blue's Helicopter Pursuit (19.00), Dilophosaurus Outpost (32.00).  And some Star Wars sets (Rey's Pasaana Speeder Chase (32), and found Kylo Ren's shutttle at a Fred Meyer for 112.00.  

Will admit the new Kylo Ren shuttle puts the old one to shame.  Kinda glad we sold that old one from our collection a year ago. 

On 12/25/2019 at 1:43 PM, joneyyy1981 said:

Wrong already.

Nope. When I come to sell.

Not a set, but there's something special about going to the Lego store and finding multiple small parts I currently use for MOCs that I sell. $200 in BrickLink parts for $15.99.

Picked two of these up today ?

went into smyths & john lewis today lego shelves near empty..

Not today, but the other day...

Mandolorian Battle Pack
Bride and Groom Brickheadz
Happy Kitty Brickheadz
Valentine's Bear Brickheadz

56 minutes ago, Alpinemaps said:

Not today, but the other day...

Mandolorian Battle Pack
Bride and Groom Brickheadz
Happy Kitty Brickheadz
Valentine's Bear Brickheadz

It's going to be time for an updated photo of that collection soon. 

Back on topic: I haven't purchased a LEGO set in 2020. I'm getting the itch. 

6 minutes ago, BillyBricks said:

It's going to be time for an updated photo of that collection soon. 

Back on topic: I haven't purchased a LEGO set in 2020. I'm getting the itch. 

When it comes to Brickheadz, at that price point, I don't fool around.  Got to keep the complete collection going.

6 minutes ago, Alpinemaps said:

When it comes to Brickheadz, at that price point, I don't fool around.  Got to keep the complete collection going.

Just missing the SDCC ones and the strange one-off's. Purchasing the others this week. Im glad to have a fellow BHz collector here. Although all of mine are currently disassembled minus the 6 I have in boxes had to make room in the display area.

Fun Fact: The Valentines Bear and the Lucky cat are the first sitting BHZs, and both release at the same time. 

Edited January 3, 20205 yr by CosmicSpeed

I went yesterday to the Lego store in Monterrey, Mexico and this is what I found .Paid 140 USD for each, there were 3 I took 2 home .... 

picked up some assembly square for £140 each in a sale.

14 hours ago, joneyyy1981 said:

picked up some assembly square for £140 each in a sale.

Harrods had them for £145 plus postage but everyone got stung and refunded yesterday as no stock as usual from them clowns.

Picked up a Parisian Restaurant for RRP. 

1 hour ago, Secret Squirrel said:

Harrods had them for £145 plus postage but everyone got stung and refunded yesterday as no stock as usual from them clowns.

snap. just woke up. same was from 2 days ago 

Edited January 6, 20205 yr by joneyyy1981

Picked up 2 x 75933 for £30 each. ?

On 1/6/2020 at 10:00 AM, Lego Benito said:

Picked up a Parisian Restaurant for RRP. 

went smyths again today had 2 of these. at the counter both had what must have been a bunch hole in middle of back

grrrrrrrrrr

1 hour ago, Lego Benito said:

Picked up 2 x 75933 for £30 each. ?

from....

1 hour ago, joneyyy1981 said:

 

from....

Hawkins. Must have been found out the back as weren't there t'other day.

Edited January 8, 20205 yr by Lego Benito

5 minutes ago, Lego Benito said:

Hawkins. Must have been find out the back as weren't there t'other day.

you swine.

9 minutes ago, joneyyy1981 said:

you swine.

Speaking of Smyths, my local has very little Lego left after Christmas.

I picked up a Carousel, last week, but there's nothing else of note there and just hundreds of boxes of Wan's Hut!

Edited January 8, 20205 yr by Lego Benito

2 hours ago, Lego Benito said:

Speaking of Smyths, my local has very little Lego left after Christmas.

I picked up a Carousel, last week, but there's nothing else of note there and just hundreds of boxes of Wan's Hut!

Smyths is so overpriced it's depressing. Rarely have sales, best they come up with is 20 percent off. Bring back toys r us with the price match and freebies

1 hour ago, raulaco said:

Smyths is so overpriced it's depressing. Rarely have sales, best they come up with is 20 percent off. Bring back toys r us with the price match and freebies

uk lego resale market is a different animal compared to US/euro market.