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I certainly agree that the fact that this set is not a high performance RC will not affect its value. I am shocked at the response I have seen from many in the Lego community over these past few RC sets, many are nit picking on how they aren't fast or powerful enough. When I was a kid, my technic sets didn't do anything but sit there, I had to push them if I wanted them to move, I had turn the gears to get them to rotate lift things. There were a few motors at the time but the implementation was horrible. Pneumatics was about the greatest you could hope for as far as functionality but even those were activated by hand pumps. I am amazed at how functional technic sets are now, they are doing things that I only dreamed they could do when I was a kid. We used to spend all day trying to hack our legos to do what is very common and easy today.

How is it a blessing in disguise? I really don't see why some on here are not sold on this set. It is a winner people, end of question.

Exo, I have to disagree, respectfully of course. Technic fans are typically Lego fans first, not robotics fans that happen to stumble on Lego. They like the challenge of the build that Technic provides, and they like to see how their Lego creation comes to life with the power functions provided. I think your argument is kinda like saying no one is going to buy a Darth Maul bust because the Lego version is not nearly as good as some of the incredible statues made by artists. Also, because it isn't used as an RC has no bearing on whether it will be collectible - some of the successful secondary market Technic cranes are larger/tougher to display and have fewer functions than 41999, yet they have fetched great returns. In full disclosure, I've been excited about this set since it was introduced. I bought one this week from the Lego Store, built it (finished last night), and it exceeds my expectations. Besides the draw of the Technic functions, it is a phenomenal throwback design to a 70s American muscle car, a genre that has hordes of fans (a 70s muscle car has never been done as a Technic set before BTW). To top it off, Lego has given this set some seriously collectible features - a radical box, exclusively numbered license plate, and two sick colors never before seen on a Technic set (navy blue and chrome). To me, people will love this and want this because of the merits of the set and the collectibility. The sweet Power Functions are just icing on the cake.

To store away for investment I'd say none of the 2013 sets. Unless you can find a great discount on one. It doesn't make sense to buy them so early, wait until they are nearer the end of their retail shelf life. In the meantime buy a set that is retiring soon or even already recently retired, take some profits for that and buy your 2013 sets in 2014.

If i find my local Targets with fully stocked shelves of Monster Fighters and Orc Forges, I'm borrowing a baseball bat from their 'unsporting goods' section. Think DeNiro in The Untouchables to those Lego boxes. Just kidding Mods.

Pretty sure most of the Aussie members here would have already put in orders for this month's Crown Jewels of Lego LEGO Shop at Home - the Delorean and the 4x4 crawler, not sure how everyone's orders are tracking / processing / (dare I say) shipping etc, my experience so far has been....interesting. I'll start from the latest development. Just got an email today - "Your Lego order has been shipped!". Could it be? Could it really be that they've shipped 1 of my 2 orders, which are supposed to be on backorder? Heart pounding, hopes rising. Scrolling further down, I realized who was on his way - the brave little Galaxy Squad Orange Team member Jack Fireblade, and his trusty 4-legged mini mech. All by his lonesome self, on a long perilous voyage across oceans and continents. I just had to laugh. No doubt he will be welcomed with open arms and a well deserved rest and debriefing when (and if) he eventually arrives, though I do wonder why Grand Command had dispatched him so hastily...when he was supposed to be on security detail escorting an important load of cargo to which I have resigned to patiently wait for... Flashback to Aug 1st - D-Day. Onto LEGO Shop at Home like a flash, first thing in the morning. No sign of the Delorean. Checked the UK site. There it was, fresh and ready for the taking. Got sidetracked a bit browsing through the other new offerings. Back onto the Oz site - additional webpages for New listings had been added. Yes! Delorean - available now. Ordered just enough (3) to qualify for free shipping. Redeemed some VIP points. Order submit / confirm / set and engrave in stone. Confirmation email received after 5 minutes. Relief and contentment. Aug 2nd - checked on LEGO Shop at Home to see if it was sold out already. Saw that the crawler was also a top seller, decided to take a closer look and actually read the product description. Must confess that I'm not a Technic fan, so had ignored any prior news about this one, and was initially put off by the price. Suddenly realized the exclusivity of this thing, and the product image started to look much, much more attractive. Even the wife, who saw it as she walked past, said it looked impressive. Knew I had to put in an order, and I did. Receive an Important Update to your Order email on Saturday morning, 2 days after the order. "As you have ordered this product before, we will have to cancel one Delorean....limit of 5 per household..." Bewilderment, and then the silent swearing and cursing starts. Checked my order status on LEGO Shop at Home - sure enough, 1 cancelled, the other 2 on backorder, Jack Fireblade decommissioned and dismissed, and charged for shipping. Pretty sure that they had stuffed up my order somehow, tried hard to stay calm and rational all weekend, in anticipation of the possible confrontation on my hands at 8pm EST on Monday, when Grand Command becomes accessible to outer rim inhabitants. 8pm Monday - armed with original order confirmation on my screen, on the phone with Agnes (name changed to protect identity) from Customer Service. Agnes promises to call back in 5 after her discussion with the consortium known as Admin. True to her word, she rings back. "Admin says only 1 Galaxy mini-mech per household, so they took it off" I said that's not the main issue, and explain the whole situation. She says there's a new limit of 2 per household / customer worldwide. I tell her about the limit of 5 clearly stated on the Oz LEGO Shop at Home, she responds by saying she can't access that site and can only see what's on the US site. Sensing a cop-out and a brick wall forming, I go to plan B - and request for an order cancellation, explaining that I wasn't willing to pay for shipping if I can't order 3 (which I would have been willing to go through with if she had agreed to it, and then try to put in a new online order for 3 sets again). Agnes pauses. She then offers to put the 2 Deloreans onto my crawler order, so that I'll get free shipping. I'm not averse to this and ask about my VIP points redemption, which I want to make sure was being applied to this new bastardized order. Again, Agnes has to consult with the Admin high council. I request that she ask them about the order limit, and if the new rule is 2, then stating a limit of 5 on the Oz site is misleading for customers. As promised, the phone rings in 3-4 minutes. Apologies start flowing abundantly - Admin made a mistake, the cancellation email should never have been sent, the limit for Oz customers is 5, the order will be reverted to its original, VIP points redemption and all. Galaxy mini-mech on this order is unfortunately permanently discharged, but will be revived in my crawler order. Feeling of relief sets in, I assure Agnes that I understand its not her fault, she mentions human error and the crazy avalanche of orders that has struck them, and stresses that all my orders will be on backorder. I accept this (I have no issue with waiting, though slightly disappointed that Deloreans will be on backorder despite putting in an order when it was clearly tagged as available) and the conversation ends amicably. A final order status check online - back to Defcon 5, sanity restored - at least for now. I suppose not being on the frontlines of Lego customer orders and service, I can only imagine how crazy it is like at this time. I wonder if they might have underestimated the popularity of these 2 products, and are now struggling to cope with orders in real time, with customer reps unsure about the different order limits. Somehow, I seem to think that by now every Lego employee would probably not fail to forsee the immense demand these products generate, especially after events such as the Great Minecraft Sale and the Comic-Con Chronicles. Or is mine just one of a few expected human error type stuff-ups, and Agnes was momentarily distracted during key moments of the customer limit team briefing? Has your order experience been an eventful one as well? Or is it chugging along smoothly with no nasty surprises?

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Sales-And-Deals btw I speak with some associate LEGO Shop at Home about my lost order of 2 Orc Forges ( ) ...He said Out of stock and LEGO not getting any more in a future....

Anyone here thought about paying $300 on eBay in preparation for this set's appreciation?

I took the combined value of each and figured out what the percentage of each was. 68 for one 32 for the other. I then split up the purchase price using the percentages. Probably over thinking it but it seemed to work out ok.

it's a basic lego set from 1987. here a link to info on bricklink. http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?S=327-1

Forgot about this odd clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14LRqYj6Q4k

This has been asked numerous times and will be an addition with the next Brickfoilio upgrade.

Seems to me like there is some scamming afoot. This user http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=hunghui33&ftab=AllFeedback&myworld=true has won three auctions for the 41999. Check the feedback left for the last one. "Buyer was so amazing and let me keep the item."

I agree with both of you, this set is a wonderful LEGO set. Period. It is an amazing piece of LEGO technology and any twit that says it doesn't act like a real RC car needs to have their head examined.

Quacs is right. On all points.

I'd be careful investing in the Ewok Village. A bunch of people saw the Death Star as a good investment, and it does have things that would make it a good investment: tons of minifigures, pieces, and great display value. The only problem with the Death Star is that it has been around forever. If I was going to invest in the Ewok Village or the Death Star than I would wait until it was confirmed that it was going to retire. They are both very good investments, but if you invest in big sets like that, you want to be sure they not going to just take up space in your closet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPJD28NbOkM

To me it means "Hurry up and buy this as it's taking up too much space in our supply chain and we need to sell units faster before eventually retiring it or making another production run." Basically a marketing tool.

Brick classifieds will be up and running on here soon, it will allow you sell sets you have to members at a fraction of this what it costs to sell on amazon eBay or briclink.

Massive bin of minifigures. Hundreds of them, from all the big collections ... star wars, harry potter, DC comics, indy jones, etc. Then I found THE arm. Then I found THE legs. And I knew they went with the body and the helmet I found before. Yep, a cloud city boba. I really, really hope I can find the other arm. To give an idea what I paid, I could sell the legs alone and more than cover my cost. It's been a good day.

Here's a couple of my favourites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIHjTDSo1Sw Who doesn't love Ralph Wiggum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orP4WZQdi0k And a decent compilation of a few: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS0DOyVSLUg

Would be interesting if they could pick up the licensing to making solo figures in packets that is for sure.

I think a big key to this theme will be the minifigures. If they are done well and there are lots of them to collect (and don't have the same main characters in every set), I think the theme could do OK. In fact, maybe LEGO should just do a CMF line for The Simpsons. There are certainly plenty of characters to choose from!

So today, July 25th, is my mom's birthday. She knew I was going to get her something LEGO related and had originally wanted the Cinema Palace since I'm in college for Film. However, she hasn't built a LEGO set since I was about 4 or 5 years old. I thought a 2000 some piece count would be slightly too advanced for her right now, but I still wanted to get her a larger set. So, since today is Christmas in July I decided to play up that aspect hardcore. First I wrapped the set: Then I gave it to her: Her reaction was great, haha: I think she is going to have a blast building this set. I would normally build a set this size in 2-3 days. I'm estimating she will be done with it.... at Christmas. Perfect timing! Maybe it will keep her busy and prevent her from calling me when I go back to school. (P.S. hoping this post finally nets me a photographer's award haha.)

Since this is a Target Post, A good investment money maker are the Mega Bloks Halo Big sets, Target has the Rhino Set half Price $42.99 I got 14 of them, Toys R Us still wants $90 for them, but the Big halo sets are the good ones. I been buying and selling the Mega Bloks Sets for a few years now, and do pretty good on them. So for $42.99 its a good deal. Ed

There are themes other than Star Wars???? Get outta here!!