What Lego set did you NOT buy today?

[donbee]

I saw the new Vader TIE vs A wing set. Looks kinda cool, but was disappointed that there's two more OT ships. How many Vader minifigs are there?

[mahler24]

left behind about 300 german football minifigures.....i have 2 full boxes and am afraid if i get more they will make another run.......or should i get them???

[BricksR4kids]

Oh man I'm just about to order a case from bricklink for $350+ us. 

[justapilgrim]

Ive been selling.the green latern ship for $10 by itself, some nice pieces in there, space batman always sell. I do the minifigure parr out, nothing wrong with green latern

[Sfcommando14]

left behind about 300 german football minifigures.....i have 2 full boxes and am afraid if i get more they will make another run.......or should i get them???

All signs point to buy and flip before/during Euros. Even if there are more in a warehouse, so many are being shipped internationally to meet global demand for regionally available items. Mine should be crossing the Atlantic this week

[Clintonjoseph]

[donbee]

I stopped in a target far from home. Grabbed the lone 70228 for 13.98

But passed on the 70135 at 50% off.

I only like my Chima below 50%

[Phil B]

54 minutes ago, donbee said:

I stopped in a target far from home. Grabbed the lone 70228 for 13.98

But passed on the 70135 at 50% off.

I only like my Chima below 50%

The 4 70135 at $19.98 at my Target are still sitting on the shelf more than a week after I took all the 70228. Needs to drop much lower before I bite.

[donbee]

As much as I hear people dump on TMNT, I can never find any sets. I picked up one Krangs Lab for 50% at a booksmillion in January. Other than that I've only seen one other set at my Barnes for full price. Been waiting for it to go clearance

If people hate them. Where'd they all go?

I can find more LotR than I can find TMNT.

[Alpinemaps]

1 hour ago, donbee said:

As much as I hear people dump on TMNT, I can never find any sets. I picked up one Krangs Lab for 50% at a booksmillion in January. Other than that I've only seen one other set at my Barnes for full price. Been waiting for it to go clearance

If people hate them. Where'd they all go?

I can find more LotR than I can find TMNT.

They went to MegaBloks.  LEGO doesn't have the license.  I've been surprised that I still see some on the shelf occasionally, but they are long since gone.

[Clintonjoseph]

As much as I hear people dump on TMNT, I can never find any sets. I picked up one Krangs Lab for 50% at a booksmillion in January. Other than that I've only seen one other set at my Barnes for full price. Been waiting for it to go clearance

If people hate them. Where'd they all go?

I can find more LotR than I can find TMNT.

That shows how little demand there is for them. Can't find them on shelves, but prices remain low. Being a fan of the ninja turtles as a kid, I wish Lego had done a better job when they had the license. But the sets all kind of stink. If they had made a nice original style turtle van set, like they did with Scooby, it would have been a must have for me. All I really want of what they made is the main character minifigures. I won't buy the cheap Fake-o ones on eBay, but enough people will to not make it worth investing in, unless you get a super low buy in price.

[exciter1]

I sold through all of my investment TMNT last year during the holidays. I'm very satisfied with the short-term return. My long-term outlook wasn't great, so I took the money and ran.

I did find a stash of lab escapes at a Wal-Mart a few months ago and blew through those already.

[jbacunn]

57 minutes ago, exciter1 said:

 

I sold through all of my investment TMNT last year during the holidays. I'm very satisfied with the short-term return. My long-term outlook wasn't great, so I took the money and ran.

 

I did find a stash of lab escapes at a Wal-Mart a few months ago and blew through those already.

TMNT is comparable to Lone Ranger to me. 50% discount is ok but flip them within a year at the most for what you can get out of them.  

[exciter1]

4 minutes ago, jbacunn said:

TMNT is comparable to Lone Ranger to me. 50% discount is ok but flip them within a year at the most for what you can get out of them.  

Well, yes, I sold through all my Lone Ranger very similarly.  I made good profit on the Stagecoach and Constitution Trains.  Actually, I still have an extra Colby City and Silver Mine.

TMNT, Lab Escape and Turtle Lair are the winners.  I think I only have a couple extra Shredder Lairs to offload.

[zskid00]

I did really well selling my Baxter Robot Rampage, Stealth Shell in Pursuit, and Shredder's Dragon Bike sets over the holidays.  My buy-in price was about 30-50% off all of them though.

Edited May 25, 2016 by zskid00

[exciter1]

22 minutes ago, zskid00 said:

I did really well selling my Baxter Robot Rampage, Stealth Shell in Pursuit, and Shredder's Dragon Bike sets over the holidays.  My buy-in price was about 30-50% off all of them though.

I did well with those too, so actually the whole line had decent short-term return, if you found good discounts.

[donbee]

I figured the megablocks had something to do with it.

I don't see them in discount, I don't see them at all. Feel like they're a sleeper set.

Maybe I'll hold my one set. Lol. A small gamble.

[Sprocket77]

I had an absolute field day of not buying today.

There were the Turtles sets, The Shellraiser Street Chase, Big Rig Snow Getaway and Turtle Van Takedown.

From Cars we had Oil Rig Escape 9486

Had pretty much all of the most recent Ultra Agents theme.

Benny's Spaceship, Emmet's Construct o Mech and Super Secret Police Dropship from The Lego Movie.

Lake-town Chase from The Hobbit

The Lone Ranger Silver Mine

City of Atlantis 7985

 

All at RRP, I really had to control myself and not pick up absolutely everything today 

 

[Val-E]

All in one shop? The smell of turd inside must be unbearable!

[Sprocket77]

Two shops about 100m away from each other in the same centre. There was a bit of a bang of something there alright, smelled like desperation. 

[Val-E]

2 minutes ago, Sprocket77 said:

Two shops about 100m away from each other in the same centre. There was a bit of a bang of something there alright, smelled like desperation. 

Yeah, I´ve got a couple like that too and for them clearance is a four letter word. Eventually those boxes get all beaten up and faded, making them even harder to sell on. Guess they are Telegraph subscribers and believe they are sitting on a fortune.

[Sprocket77]

Just now, Val-E said:

Yeah, I´ve got a couple like that too and for them clearance is a four letter word. Eventually those boxes get all beaten up and faded, making them even harder to sell on. Guess they are Telegraph subscribers and believe they are sitting on a fortune.

The Atlantis and Cars sets looked like they had gone 10 rounds with Johnny Depp (allegedly) 

[Phil B]

12 minutes ago, Sprocket77 said:

The Atlantis and Cars sets looked like they had gone 10 rounds with Johnny Depp (allegedly) 

Meaning they are now settling for a $400M divorce payment? <cheap shot at mr Depp>

[Val-E]

When I think of Depp, I think of Lone Ranger. When I think of Lone Ranger, I think of Lego Lone Ranger then I want to punch MYSELF in the face. Who gets to keep the dogs though?

[BrickLegacy]

I made it.  A whole month without a LEGO investment purchase.  So unless 50% off SSDs show up tonight, this will be my first month of no LEGO investing since September 2013. The addiction is real.