I will say i think women and children are more interested in the pet shop than any other modular. While they aren't the target audience It still makes a difference

I have 6 Town Halls. Will pick up four more to make my goal, from B&M stores, as they are still receiving TH shipments. Am good to go there, but thank you for your literary critique and insinuation.

I do nearly all my purchasing from multiple Lego stores in Southern California (6 total) and two in Arizona, and though it is the often-critiqued "heard it from a store employee" - I see these folks nearly weekly and have a good pulse on what is happening, at least, in the stores. The managers of these stores speak very highly of PS sales, and speak about the slow-movement of the TH. Three managers that I highly trust and respect feel this is the very basic reason for the TH retiring out of order. It takes up a lot of shelf space. It is expensive. It isn't selling nearly as much as the other modulars. That is the basis of my opinion. I know nothing of internet sales and trends; My opinion of what is happening at Lego B&M's is qualified.

Until six weeks ago, in the B&M stores, the TH was still warming shelves, as it has done for a long time. The PS has been a consistent seller. More so than PC still, less so than PR.

Fair enough...

Also people are entiltled to their own opinion, as well as it not any one persons job to convince the masses that any one opinion is correct. To each his own.

"Consistent seller" does not equal "epic seller" or "epic set" in my opinion.  I just think your first post was laying on the praise for PS a little too much.  Comparing it to the TH, which could be retiring early due to slow sales, is not exactly the best way to make your case for this being a "heavyweight" for LEGO.

It's all subjective, man.

In my opinion, as investment PS may be the weakest, but it seams to be selling very well in B&M stores, better than TH, I agree with that. For investment you have to think of the people willing to pay good money because they missed it, not how many kids and women like it. The original price difference won't matter once it's discontinued and that is one of the main reasons why TH was not selling that much and also why more than one will miss the boat if it retires early, because they decided to purchase the cheaper modulars first.

I'm not a kid, nor a woman, and I find Pet Shop is one the best looking modulars, right there with Parisian Restaurant.

Palace Cinema is the worst.

Just my personal taste.

I don't get the PS hate.  If you've ever lived in a big city, it captures that "feel" far more than the other modulars.  It could also easily be contemporary, whereas most of the others are stuck in the mid 1950's.  FB is the ugly duckling of the group; TH is actually pretty nice, though I could imagine a symmetrical exterior build being a little less interesting.

Just my personal taste.

 

I think that's all it comes down too.  Nothing will ever be 100% agreed upon.  I love the Palace Cinema and the Fire Brigade.  But if people don't like it, that is ok too.  I have heard people say that the MF #10179 is ugly.  Who am I to judge whether they are crazy or not?

LEGO Shop at Home Out of stock, expected ship date 1 Nov 2014

I'm not a kid, nor a woman, and I find Pet Shop is one the best looking modulars, right there with Parisian Restaurant.

Palace Cinema is the worst.

Just my personal taste.

Not a kid nor a woman... That must be a lie because there is no other sex ;-)

 

For the sake of it:

Received PS: 38S4

If anyone want

Whats going on with this Set??  Sold out now on Amazon since last night among some others.......Target still in stock though   

might be since Amazon opened up international shipping on a subset of lego sets yesterday..

For what it's worth, a lego employee told me that this set's eol is 2016 in the system.

Which system would that be?

I don't think they plan that much forward with aged sets. In the light of recent events I deem that information unlikely, although anything can happen.

Which system would that be?

 

Norton ARS (anti-reseller system)

 

Norton ARS (anti-reseller system)

 

could be - had to laugh at that. 

 

The person I spoke with seemed to genuinely try to be helpful and also to be looking the items up as I gave them.  We had great report and chatted about a variety of things so my sense was that she was trying to give accurate answers and was certainly not rushing me off the phone.  I was also being careful to not exude any sort of reseller vibe.  She did provide the caveat to the EOL date that some things leave sooner and others stay beyond their dates so any info provided is hardly written in stone but apparently, seemed to be written somewhere in their "system" whatever that may be :-)

2  PS from shop at home arrived backordered from tail end of double vip.  seal codes 38R4.

Out of stock on Amazon

She did provide the caveat to the EOL date that some things leave sooner and others stay beyond their dates so any info provided is hardly written in stone but apparently, seemed to be written somewhere in their "system" whatever that may be :-)

Imagine how valuable TLG EOL database could be to reseller community, the money you could make off that would be more lucrative than Lego selling itself.

OOS at target.com as well. It was in stock last week. 

Mine arrived today with 20r4 seal. It looks a bit disappointing when placed beside the massive box of the TH.

Don't see any signs of  this retiring yet but don't keep it too far on your shopping list.

Imagine how valuable TLG EOL database could be to reseller community, the money you could make off that would be more lucrative than Lego selling itself.

I wonder what people would be willing to pay for such a thing...