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Sourced these through a local FB bulk lot purchase. 3 of about 30 80’s 90’s sets.

Star Wars: 75249 AT-AT Driver Helmet

The new Tudor Corner is a great set. I wouldn't say the build experience was particularly revolutionary or special, but the final outcome is quite impressive!

Finally cut the seals on one of my BL Designer sets. Had a great time building Brick Cross station, but I would have gladly spent extra for printed pieces and instructions. Oddly enough, as I was on the last steps, my Tudor Corner ordered on 1 Jan arrived at the door.

One more finished today.

Last set of the year, The Endurance, and yes you are going to need endurance to build this ship. This build is not for the faint of heart. 28 bags including my first ever paper bag containing the sails, no stickers, 3 different prints (2 exclusive to this set) and NO minifigures. You begin by building a temporary stand, not the display stand, at a glib attempt to add stability to the set that isn’t really obtained until you reach bag 19. At this point you will want to clean all of the black elements that will be covered with fingerprints because the entire set is sideways SNOT built, no eating Chic-fil-A during this build. The hull is comprised of large curved panels, not bricks, making for a flimsy hollow build. The deck and stairs, also sideways SNOT built, look great as does the engine and captains quarters, which are all removable, and finally the build becomes fun. Only to be followed by the supply boats, not “lifeboats”, which are designed poorly and are tedious to get just right. By the time I got to the sails and rigging I needed a day off and just wanted to finally be done with this thing. The finished set looks amazing and it is one of the few sets that deserves one of those Limited Edition Wicked Brick display cases. Not sure if I will open up one of my Shackleton’s Lifeboat GWPs to display with it. This set is a ship of two tales, the build, only major ships worse: Maersk EEE, the stickers, and The Silent Mary the build. Display, only major ships better than the Endurance are the Sea Cow still #1 in my book and then the Titanic. Endurance is even better than the Imperial Flagship so don’t think I hate it just wasn’t much fun especially following the Botanical Garden that I look forward to getting back to. Build: 6 Play: 7 Display: 9 Value: 7

The hoarder me still has the free TRU version with the Yoda Chronicles promotion stuff.

Complete with hooker! "How many hours do you want the room, Mr.Smith?" All they need now is a music brick playing this on the jukebox:

GI Joe: Transformers Gen1 3rd -4th seasons:

"purchased 2018" 😳

It's here!!!

From an e-mail I got on 12/17

It certainly isn’t as iconic as PEE.

Merry Christmas-day builds everyone!

21354 - Twilight - The Cullen House If they make this, they can make Game of Thrones.

This is also the only site I get pop up ads on. I'm on an iPad and even though I have them blocked, they show up here.

An unseasonably good offer from Rak.

Thanks for posting the instructions! I built it without having the R4-G0 Astromech Droid piece and used a generic piece instead. The Jek-14 minifigure is from the Jek-14's Stealth Starfighter set.

It's like a zen garden where the zen activity is brushing the dust off it with a makeup brush.

YouTube channel for Nick Trotta, Galactic Plastics, shows off and gives detailed "how to" instructions for every one of his well-done spacecrafts.

I think this should be recognized as a form of domestic terrorism.

This looks like the GWP that will be given away with the new Star Trek set that releases on BF

I don't think you have to explain the idea of seedy motels and hourly workers. Any retirees feigning "confusion" probably just have a gf that also browses BP

Barnes & Noble is running a 50% off "thousands of books" sale, which includes this book: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-secret-life-of-lego-bricks-daniel-konstanski/1145255055?ean=9781464234415

I bought a bulk lot a while ago based on a few of the minifigures I could see in the pictures. There were Deadpool, Quicksilver, the newer white Boba Fett, some classic Space and Knights among others. Probably 100+ minifigures in total. I finally got around to sorting through what was left and found the two in the picture. I had no idea there was a Ninjago figure worth so much. Lloyd is going for $150+ and Superboy for $50+. Definitely got my money's worth.

New LEGO gwps available. Chinese Lucky Knots - $150 spent Corner Kiosk - Buy Tudor Corner Tropical Toucan - $40 purchase of DREAMZzz, City, 3in1, Friends https://www.lego.com/en-us/page/lego-offers-promotions Happy New Year!

Looking at my prized stash of crushed best buy dimensions sets.... All we can do is try to resist the urge to buy discounted turds. I get a little better at it every year. I didn't buy even one 2024 advent calender!

I agree but I doubt anything will be done. They’ve been “working” on changing the site any day now. That was like 5 years ago.

The giant format ad at the bottom of the forum page that makes viewing the site almost impossible!!! Super annoying. Can anything be done about this? It’s been going on for days, at least on my devices.

Still here... but this is the 1st time i've logged in in a while. Not buying too much anymore, although i did buy a few Galaxy Explorers pre-retirement. Pre-xmas was slow as but i sold three old sets recently. Sydney Skyline, Chicago and Luke's Lightsaber GWP. Those were obvious winners, and even "lame stuff" like Friends or The Child are starting to appreciate, but the days of making good coin on retired City sets seems to have gone.

IMHO, it's kinda lame for them to redo a set like this. There's a whole world out there. Redoing, xwings and falcons makes sense, but this feels super uninspired

Tranquil Garden, meh, the hook with this set is that you can rearrange the plants, wow? This was an open box return and even if you pick one up for the 20% off permasale it still seems overpriced at $87. Build: 6 Play: 4 Display: 7 Value: 3 Now back to the Botanical Garden enhancements.

More like a $160 architecture set.

You stop engaging. You made your point, provided pics. Anything going forward is no reply needed

You bought it for the figures? Basically, yes I did. This was another holiday 20% discount set purchased a few weeks ago. If you watch the YouTube reviews, its all about the stickers. There are a lot of them to keep aligned, to include four curved pieces and four sets with the planetary diagrams. The set has some figure turning play features and some sort of lever that I suppose could launch Ezra towards the Chimaera or just have a figure fall over. My imagination is failing me on it. It's a nice display for a diorama, Lego could have wrapped the bought in black, added a panel with a pithy quote and charged us for a diorama. The black stickered slabs do look nice.The gold decor on the back's of the stickered slabs really accent it well. Ahoska's torso is different than the one with her T-6 Shuttle and she has arm prints. Thrawn does not have the repaired section on his tunic so prominently seen in the series highlighting the challenges of being stranded in another galaxy. The hair is black unlike the version that was released with the Phantom II. Morgan has her transformed face and actual legs; her sword is pretty cool, built from three pieces. The zombie Stormtrooper is an Army builder. Let's hope we get a battle pack soon. Ezra, freaking adult Ezra! he does have those hollow eyes, lego is so found of now. I feel like every lego figure is blind these days. Will I display it or box it and just put the figures onto a display with all the series figures? For now, I will squeeze it onto a shelf. On a plus when I do store it, the four stickered slabs will pop right off and the base will fit into the box.

Some interesting insights:

Going to do a shoutout to my current most favorite LEGO Youtuber: BrickTsar (https://www.youtube.com/@BrickTsar). He has a very particular style, and focuses mainly on classic LEGO, but I find his off-the-cuff and improvised style rather funny. He's also a reseller and runs a BrickLink store.

If you have been holding out on the poinsettias. https://www.costco.com/lego-poinsettia-and-christmas-tree-bundle.product.4000311402.html

FunWhole Motel… 🤔

Geesh checked for nothing and I didn't even hit 4 million overall, failed hard this year.

Check your points balance and history. It appears LEGO is gifting 800 bonus points.

It's been confirmed by more than one person. Hopefully it will roll out in waves to everyone.

TMNT (1987) full episodes live stream. In case you want to listen to uncle Phil as Shredder

The Walmarts I checked still have them for $50 and wont price match.

Prices dropped at Sams Club.... Potter Mandrake $13 Potter sorting hay $38 Botanical Poinsetta $19