The Brick Fan just uploaded this interesting tidbit earlier.

The short of it, a new Architecture set will be released sometime in July and consist of 1,210 all white parts, and the first ever building event for the theme will be held. (Check link and below for information.)

Place: Oceanside, California

Store: Barnes & Noble bookstore

Address: 2615 Vista Way, 92054

Date: Friday, July 26th, 2013

Time: 6:00 p.m.

Another B&N will be holding this event (thank you bheltzel for pointing it out).

Place: Atlanta, Georgia

Address: 2900 Peachtree Road, 30305

Date: Thursday, July 25th, 2013

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Quacs pointed out this one.

Place: Oak Brook, Illinois

Address: 297 Oakbrook Center, 60523

Date: Thursday, July 25th, 2013

Time: 4:00 p.m.

The event is free to the general public.

The Architecture Studio set itself will be available for purchase from July 25th to the 28th.

Price is believed to be around $150.

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>Architecture Studio (21050)

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

Yeah I am struggling to not go ahead and dump the one I have for 300$ plus. I don't know how high it could reasonably go from now. So tempting - but if I see it at $700 in two years, I would poop myself.

But you will have used that $300 on other Lego, and turned it into at least $700 in two years, no? I wouldn't hesitate to liquidate at $300.

The pain of selling too low fades.  Eventually.

The prices for sold listing is all over the place. I'm gonna hold onto my 5 for now. I'm a hoarder.

Careful, this one seems to be a bubble. When they release more later this year, you'll lose out when people can buy at retail again.

Careful, this one seems to be a bubble. When they release more later this year, you'll lose out when people can buy at retail again.

and for every person who believes that, what will the price do when lego finally announces it's retired, or they're moving on to a completely new book and set in black?

These things were BN exclusives. They're not in the BN computer anymore, external nor internal. They've removed the store displays and replaced them with regular lego architecture displays. In my opinion, They're gone.

I only have one which I got when amazon was down to single digit stock level. Holding it for now but watching prices. I would be very happy with $500.

Just in case someone missed this great series of blog posts - see Architecture Studio 30 day challenge posts here:

 

http://tomalphin.com/category/lego

Two new eBay listings already dropping prices on this set.  BIN down to $344.  It was selling for $400 not too long ago.  If it is coming back, lots of dumping gonna be happening....

Two new eBay listings already dropping prices on this set.  BIN down to $344.  It was selling for $400 not too long ago.  If it is coming back, lots of dumping gonna be happening....

 

Doesn't matter.  lll have mine flipped so fast.  Ill take $100 + flip anyday. 

Do not think this one was hoarded much. In fact think it caught a lot of people by surprise.

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Auctions-style listing were ending at around 335-340 for last couple of weeks. 

I suspect that those lowered BINs are done by the fine folks here who got on yesterdays TRU's lost truck

And if you look at the sold/completed listings, the true range was 325-360. I can see at most 2 completed listings from above 400, one of them being some sort of private listing bulls**t

The one thing that makes me think this set won't be coming back is the very short production run.  There must have been some sort of issue with production of this set that caused them to stop reproducing it(maybe the book printing as some say).  It must have made the set "unprofitable" to LEGO, so much so that they scrapped a very cool and collectible set.  LEGO does not have a history of retiring sets that are profitable.

The one thing that makes me think this set won't be coming back is the very short production run.  There must have been some sort of issue with production of this set that caused them to stop reproducing it(maybe the book printing as some say).  It must have made the set "unprofitable" to LEGO, so much so that they scrapped a very cool and collectible set.  LEGO does not have a history of retiring sets that are profitable.

But the big question is certainly whether or not they would be able to "fix" whatever issue they had, and it is taking them a while to restart production. If they know that they can't fix it, then it is unclear why they did not set it to "retired" during recent batch of retirings. So, they have some hope, perhaps. It is certainly becoming melodramatic at this point - we probably all going to laugh about all our speculations a year from now...

We laugh at our speculations every year

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We laugh at our speculations every year

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Which one was the most laughable last year? I am somewhat new here...

Pretty sure everyone made a howler or two. There is a thread somewhere on some of the worst transactions people have made.

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But the big question is certainly whether or not they would be able to "fix" whatever issue they had, and it is taking them a while to restart production. If they know that they can't fix it, then it is unclear why they did not set it to "retired" during recent batch of retirings. So, they have some hope, perhaps. It is certainly becoming melodramatic at this point - we probably all going to laugh about all our speculations a year from now...

No one really knows, but maybe the real interest in this set was from investors and resellers and not regular customers, so the market for this set appears better than it is.  Maybe the set was a huge disappointment on the primary LEGO market and it was retired because it was a big white terd.  LOL

No one really knows, but maybe the real interest in this set was from investors and resellers and not regular customers, so the market for this set appears better than it is.  Maybe the set was a huge disappointment on the primary LEGO market and it was retired because it was a big white terd.  LOL

I thought it caught resellers by surprise? At least many of them, no?

On the internets, it seems the reaction is mostly positive, and see the reviews. I hope resellers not writing fake reviews these days...

My orders from TRU.com are out for delivery today.  UPS usually doesn't stop by until towards the end of the day, but I'll be able to confirm if this is actually the AS or not that we all ordered.

My orders from TRU.com are out for delivery today.  UPS usually doesn't stop by until towards the end of the day, but I'll be able to confirm if this is actually the AS or not that we all ordered.

Its definitely the AS according to UPS weight.  I'm just hoping they are delivered in decent condition.  

They have arrived and it is indeed the AS.  I can't answer specific questions as I'm not at home to check them out myself but the wife says there is a little bit of wear and creasing on some of the boxes, but I would be shocked if there wasn't coming from TRU.  Time to sell before LEGO shop @ home gets them back in stock.

guys, this set is definitely done... won't be in stock again.

TRU and S@H said otherwise so who are we to believe?

TRU says 41999 is still available for sell in stores.

Maybe it is still in a store somewhere......just the other day someone reported they found an imperial shuttle on the shelf at TRU. When I called both TRU and S@H they both said it would be back and one of them even gave me a date they were expecting it back in stock. I have no clue personally I'm just letting you know what was told to me.