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I thought about trying to put it next to the Tower Bridge, but it's up on a high shelf and would likely break in half if I tried... Here it is next to the Haunted House.

I am gonna name it "I am a reseller . Suck it legggo" Lol Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

Today I went to another estate sale and I found a bag of Lego. It included 7255, 7655, 7620, 7155. The best part is, it was all for $2! :money:

Here it is - what a great build!

After almost a year of reading and learning so much from everyone on this site: Hello from the GTA, Ontario, Canada! Thank you for generously sharing your knowledge of lego as a hobby and as an investment. When my kids graduated from Duplo Christmas 2013 I've been looking to Brickpicker for guidance on sets for them to build now as well as more advanced sets for them to enjoy when they're a little older. I decided to finally introduce myself today since actually have something useful to share. I'll post it in the Canadian Walmart Clearance thread. Have a great day everyone!

Meant to post this earlier. From Saturday's NY Times: Lego Builds an Empire, Brick by Brick The Lego Group

79108 for $44 shipped. Paid $13 a few months ago.

Today at my Walmart I found the following: 41015 Friends Dolphin Cruiser $44 31012 Family House $44 70010 The Lion Chi Temple $74 Not sure if these sets at these prices are available across GTA Walmarts so Happy Hunting!

They really need a slimer polybag promo the month this releases... I want slimer!

Well I still had a wholesale account, can only buy regular sets, now I was getting say 40 cases of Harry Potter Castles, Batcaves,Indiana Jones,The First jabba Sail barge 6210 and 6211 Star Destroyer, on the Jabba Sail Barge I got over 100 cases so thats 300 of them cases over 2 years, 3 to a case and $50 each wholesale, so in 2011 and 2012 they were selling for $300-$450 Etc, so then in 2007 I started with the Exclusives, now with all the extra money I had I should of gotten tons of the exclusives, but I only got up to about 15-20 of most. I have 20 SW 10179,Statue of Liberty,Grand carousel,Cafe Corner,Market St,Taj Mahal,eiffel Tower and a few others, I should have gotten way more, now I still have about 15 of different ones from the list that I am holding on to. Now I did get 35 REmotte AT AT and 25 Imperial Flagships. and all the ones above done great, and all the ones that I am stacking up on will do great to. So buy the right ones and you can be living on wall street. Look I am telling all you guys this as I want everybody on here to make plenty of money, some say keep my mouth shut and let them do what they are doing, Well me getting 50-100 more guys to buy and sell on the way I do is not going to affect the price. Ed

Besides finally finding some of Stephanie's (overpriced) Bakery Stand, I spotted this one beside it going for $3.14 I think. I can't remember exactly off hand. Anyway, I think it looks nice for a small build. You might be able to find it in the seasonal candy section like most exclusive polybags.

That's incredible! Congrats. I guess I need to start going to estate sales. Hopefully the lego sets you scored are not haunted by the previous owner!

I wasn't going to get any, but changed my mind and now I have 20, should do pretty good and for $100. Amazon has them now for $100, but I would rather pay $6.00 more at the Lego store to get a mint box. But production has stopped on these so don't wait to the last minute.

Yes, it was produced approximately 1 year after the Monster Fighters line started.

The set is back! http://www.brickingbad.com/lego-architecture/lego-architecture-studio-21050-is-back/

If big boys get it re-stocked and lego has it in stores and online, it might be hard to get to sold out state. I can only hope that the book has somewhat of a limited run, though who knows what kind of contract they got this time

A couple of small things. 1 x 75034 Death Star Troopers, and 1 x 75035 Kashyyyk Troopers at TRU. Used $10 in rewards, so with BOGO came out to about $5 each. I love both of these battle packs!! 2 x 3930 Stephanie's Outdoor Bakery for $3 each at Fred Meyer. These will be for birthday presents and the like.

Just name your store "Not LEGO Figure Heaven" and list it under the LEGO category. They guys from China and Hong Kong have been getting away with it for months.

I think I'm going to list a few at $59.99 and let them ride for a bit.

Went a little nuts today at the LEGO Store. Picked up Ewok Village, Death Star, R2-D2, Tower of Orthanc, Simpsons House, Haunted House. Used my VIP points to grab their last clearance Jabba's Palace and paid $1.05 for it.

Used but complete 4842 hogwarts castle with box and instructions for $159.90 shipped off of eBay.

I ain't afraid of no ghost!

Yeah I'd leave investing in Ewok Village for a while, plenty of time to pick it up before it retires.

Using Lego in a store name is a huge problem for Lego because it endangers the continuing viability of their trademark by diluting the strength of the brand. Terms like laundromat, videotape, thermos and kerosene were originally legally-protected trademarks that lost their protection as a result of widespread use. If Lego didn't protect its trademark in this way, it would quickly lose the legal protection and every plastic building brick out there would be called a lego. Actions like this are why we don't walk into a TRU and see a wall full of Mega-Bloks lego sets and Kre-O lego sets.

I thought that was pretty much standard practice that we knew about. Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

I think $42 is alright. Not grand but doable. I saw one left on the shelf for this much and put it back same as the most recent X-Wing set. Shopko. Tell them you're a friend of Terry. :secret:

Reece Sellers World of Compatible Bricks

I would like to see a set themed around Disney theme park attractions.

Interesting read. I wonder if LEGO will ever go public (from being a privately owned company)?

Just think about it and don't make too rash a decision. Its not worth putting a scratch on your good name. I understand you may be itching to teach her a lesson, but you don't want a red mark on your feedback. Just aloe her to return it.

We're building the Haunted House right now for our Halloween Town. You better believe the Ghostbusters set is going to be parked right outside.

Last night I spent probably four hours sorting, taking pictures, packaging, and listing some bulk lots/parts lots I have. I have been avoiding it for a couple of months - a nice reminder to think twice before jumping on that next Craigslist bulk lot, lol. Sold 3 lots already - 7894 Airport parts lot sold in about 30 min, that always makes me think I priced something too low, lol. Hard to figure out a good price for an incomplete set with no instructions. Next I need to cull some sealed inventory...we are thinking about moving and I am thinking it is time to downside some inventory!

Haunted House / Ghostbusters bundle! I need more ghosts... I need to get my parents to mail me their ghostbusters 45 so I can play it while I drive the ectomobile to the haunted house.

Here's the official image:

Not intending to sidetrack the thread too much, but in light of the reference in this thread to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea/Jules Verne, thought this model by Orion Pax was fitting: Curiously enough, he posted this only a few hours ago. It looks incredible!

I'm about 2/3 of the way through the Sea Cow build, and frankly it's a work of art. This set is unbelievable - it combines the best of large builds and small, it comes with the couch, a mini-Metal Beard (who is just phenomenal - really well done), Benny, Unikitty, Emmett, and Wyldstyle. The two micromanagers are nice, but similar to others. The single manual is awesome - over 300 pages all bound into one book. And it's just so damn big and impressive. The build is really fun, too - lots of neat details around every corner. I don't know what to say to anyone that's bad mouthing the set other than you need to build one to see how slick this thing is. I get it if you only like "realistic" builds, but this set maintains enough realism that I think it will appeal to most builders. "Whimsical realism", perhaps. There are some nice build techniques on this set too, and it has that steampunk essence running through the entire build to put it over the top. The Sea Cow is amazing and I could easily see people paying $500+ for this set. It's so damn impressive and unique. And it's a fresh take on TLG's pirate ship genre. And it has all of the best characters from the movie, the double-decker couch, and two micromanagers. My only real issue with the set from a marketing perspective is its name: Sea Cow. If it had a more steampunky name, I think this one would really top the charts. Sea Cow is a pretty "meh" name though - this kick-butt ship deserves better.

Who cares? It's all about perspective. People get offended over the silliest things. Besides, I don't think anyone has preconceived notions that Germans are bad because of a minifigure in a LEGO set. If this LEGO set did reinforce that, I think it should be pulled. But it doesn't. No one who ACTUALLY thinks does not base their first impressions about an entire race based on a LEGO set. To any parents who say that their kid thinks Germans are bad because of a LEGO set with a villain who is German, maybe it's because you haven't taught your kids about judging based on appearance? Don't blame a toy company because of something your kid thinks. Kids think and say the darndest things all the time! Who knows where they got it!

The people that seem to like it are those that are like me

this thing will look awesome in an aquarium fish tank setup.

This is coming from a die hard fan who played one year of division 1 college ball (was good enough to make the team but not good enough to play lol). The season is just too long for me to keep any sort of interest. I have tried but just can't do it.

I'm just gonna come clean... I don t care if the Americans win all the medals or none in the Olympics. The fact that they tried to take wrestling out of the Olympics and yet keep badmitting drives me crazy. It's boring. And half the things arnt sports or even interesting.

That short shelf life could make this a winner very quickly. ;)