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5 minutes ago, legoboy16 said:


Is it always this way? Do retirements occur first across the pond before they hit the US?

Sometimes it's the other way around.  Europe had the Super Star Destroyer available for a few months longer than the US.

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I think the new tag is to warn people, the problem is the high number of new resellers. It would be no problem if timmy buys a set because its tagged retiring soon. So if a set gets the flag all noobs going to buy a lot of this specific set. The  tag alone wouldn't hurt the secondary market, the number of noobs + tag sux....

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12 minutes ago, TLKC said:

I think the new tag is to warn people, the problem is the high number of new resellers. It would be no problem if timmy buys a set because its tagged retiring soon. So if a set gets the flag all noobs going to buy a lot of this specific set. The  tag alone wouldn't hurt the secondary market, the number of noobs + tag sux....

TLG know what they are doing, the first people to get the warning are the professionals. Little Timmy has no chance unless they have made a bucketload. It´s great that PS is going but it´s horrible we got the heads up.

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14 minutes ago, Val-E said:

TLG know what they are doing, the first people to get the warning are the professionals. Little Timmy has no chance unless they have made a bucketload. It´s great that PS is going but it´s horrible we got the heads up.


And yet again we all know when the time comes and it does get pulled, It instantly jumps a big jump and then heads to double sooo whats the problem gents

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4 minutes ago, king156 said:


And yet again we all know when the time comes and it does get pulled, It instantly jumps a big jump and then heads to double sooo whats the problem gents

Would you care to estimate how big the jump will be? I say PS will not be consistently selling for more than 190 euros on Ebay before end of year.

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14 minutes ago, king156 said:


And yet again we all know when the time comes and it does get pulled, It instantly jumps a big jump and then heads to double sooo whats the problem gents

Yeah... surely immature resellers will try to sell it right away at 250 euro. But when no one bites panic starts and the undercutting begins. 

I am hoping Ed can give us a clue about how hoarded PS really is. I am afraid Grand Emporium will look pale compared to Pet Shop.

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3 minutes ago, Ciglione said:

Yeah... surely immature resellers will try to sell it right away at 250 euro. But when no one bites panic starts and the undercutting begins. 

I am hoping Ed can give us a clue about how hoarded PS really is. I am afraid Grand Emporium will look pale compared to Pet Shop.

Michael Jackson looks pale compared to PS.

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1 minute ago, Val-E said:

I´d speculate that the order of hoarding (outside BP) is:

PS, Ecto, EV, SC, SOH, Wall E, TBBT. Weird the Simpsons stuff is not tagged. Perhaps because KWE is already backordered but then so was SOH.

I think @Tabbyboy had a change of heart about the Simpsons and cleaned out some stores. So Lego decided to postpone the tagging of the Simpsons.

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11 minutes ago, Val-E said:

Yeah, he makes Trump look like the model of consistency.

Can you imagine the amount of sets that Trump could afford?

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Did Lego Group give us a cryptic clue as to what was retiring on the Ideas range when they announced the Old Fishing Store had been selected.

The presentation showed Big Bang and Doctor Who at the start (old sets) later on it showed the Caterham and The Maze (new sets)....at the time I thought are they hinting out with the old and in with the new? 

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6 minutes ago, Blockbuster said:

Does anyone think the Scooby Doo series is now at EOL? Noticed a fair few reductions in the UK in recent weeks.

Mansion was coming in and out of stock & going to back order, TOOS all the way though September (on LEGO Shop at Home).  I think its generally agreed this theme was a one wave and done.

I think most of the sets have been on permanent reductions (20% off) since the end of summer.

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8 hours ago, lukiepete said:

In France we have tags on all of these, too.
10218 - Pet Shop 
10234 - Sydney Opera House
10236 - Ewok Village
75059 - Sandcrawler

21108 - Ecto-1
21302 - Big Bang Theory
21303 - WALL-E
21304 - Dr. Who

And in the x-mas catalog (in the UK) only one of these sets gets a spread as far as I can tell..... answers on a post card.
Only Jk - its SC (75059).  Obviously there's loads more left out of the catalog so it doesn't tell you anything but to include SC and not MF....

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