Thanks all! My two boxes are safe then. So i suppose the weight listed on bp and brickset is off by almost a pound.

Is anyone else bothered that there's no door between the bathroom and living room on the Dolphin Cruiser?  And the "glass" panels that separate the two rooms are transparent?  It's a strangely exhibitionist design.  I would imagine that the Friends are in practice too embarassed to ever use the toilet or shower unless there is no one else on the boat at the time...

Nonetheless. Its a cute set.

"Call to check..." @ LEGO Shop at Home. Hopefully that means something...Also, appears to be out of stock @ Amazon & Walmart...

Edited August 17, 201510 yr by dcdfan

You can get it in some WMT stores @49.00

August marks two years for the DC. Time for this ship to sink. 

Edited August 17, 201510 yr by marcandre

August marks two years for the DC. Time for this ship to sink.

Hopefully it's not on a 3 hour year cruise.

still alive.... 

1 hour ago, kingleonidas said:

still alive.... 

What do you mean with "still alive...." ? It's officially retired in Europe since end of 2015, and Sold Out in the US with official retirement imminent.

59 minutes ago, Haay said:

What do you mean with "still alive...." ? It's officially retired in Europe since end of 2015, and Sold Out in the US with official retirement imminent.

Yes but it can still be found at MSRP on amazon.de, amazon.fr, amazon.it ...(temporarily out of stock for .fr and .it, more coming soon on january 27th). Limit of 1, 1 and 2 however.

Edited January 20, 20169 yr by biniou

10 minutes ago, biniou said:

Yes but it can still be found at MSRP on amazon.de, amazon.fr, amazon.it ...(temporarily out of stock for .fr and .it, more coming soon on january 27th). Limit of 1, 1 and 2 however.

should be a winner if there's no competing ship coming in 2016/7

14 minutes ago, biniou said:

Yes but it can still be found at MSRP on amazon.de, amazon.fr, amazon.it ...(temporarily out of stock for .fr and .it, more coming soon on january 27th). Limit of 1, 1 and 2 however.

Ahhh, so that's what you meant. Yes, while it's officially retired by TLG, there's still stock at retailers that needs to be sold off first. Here in The Netherlands I could still get it below RRP if I would want to. Will take some time before this set is going to get sold significantly above RRP.

Indeed still widely available in our countries, I ain't gonna pick this one up unless I find it at a nice price. 

With a MSRP at 69,99€ it means that it has to be sold 105€ on ebay (without shipping) to get "only" 130% of ROI, so IMO it's not enough interesting to grab some at that price. This set is wonderful and a very good seller but can it reach 150€ ? Not sure, it's not a SW licenced set and I think that parents will be more tempted to pass and buy something else to their little sunshine. Not sure that there are tons of friends collectors either.

It was a nice set to invest in at 50€ though (I got my sets for 48€). I think we'll have no problem selling them for 89€, meaning 150 to 160% ROI, it's more than OK for me.

Edited January 20, 20169 yr by biniou

If you think too many Tumbers are hoarded....

If you think too many Tumbers are hoarded....

Yuo, I'm passing the $50 ones I see at ross. Probably should grab them, but friends in general are slow risers so I don't want to throw them on the pile

I got one for €50 last year. One that will either some day (when it's finally not sold in retail stores any longer) rise in value enough to be interesting to sell it, or if not I'll just give it to my daughter as a birthday present or something.  She's 6 now, so I still have 1-3 years before she'd feel too old for it.  

FINALLY listed as retired on Lego.com US!

6 minutes ago, rpaulson7 said:

FINALLY listed as retired on Lego.com US!

16 hours ago, exciter1 said:

 

$145 buy box on Amazon. Not too shabby.