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IDHAMMTKBTS I Don't have any more money to keep buying this stuff. We use it a lot.

Wow, what a spirited discussion. I've only been to Lego store twice, distance makes it hard. I'm not defending Lego policy or people who abuse their position but, I do take issue with the "go nowhere job" title. I was brought up being taught I should always have respect for a honest, hard working man(women) weather they running the country or cleaning toilets. As you should have theirs. No worker should be looked down on even if they don't share your aspirations.

"Oh, so I see you came back for another Martian Manhunter just a week after your last purchase. And perhaps something to help fund your Jamaican drug ring or your plans to take over a Naval ship and/or train packed with a nuclear bomb? No no, I don't think so, walk away son, just walk away."

How about MF as in Millennium Falcon OR Monster Fighters depending on the poster's whim. My point is we make these up as we go :D

With a 2362 under the 60593 and a 3022 to stick them, and some plate tiles under, maybe it's ok. Or maybe this way (feet upside down): Something that disturbs me is that the horizontal window seems to be a 1x2x4 on the picture (I virtually used a 1x2x3)... it should explain why it seems that there are two plots large between the 6141 plots (and not just one, as I showed with a blue 1x2 plate tile)

I think you might be hallucinating. LEGO store manager is a fine pseudo-career for someone who has no other skills nor any ability to gain other skills, or maybe even for someone who simply adores retail and children and doesn't need to be able to live on his or her wages. For those without high school diplomas, they can make a lot more starting their own business OR, if they really enjoy the steady paycheck route, they can get a trade school or apprenticeship education and make enough money to actually support themselves. But let's look at this rationally. Even if I adore retail and children, and don't need to make enough to house, feed, and clothe myself, and get a job in a LEGO store, and "risk" that job by selling LEGO on the side, and get caught because my deadly traps fail to spring and lose my LEGO job, it's hardly a drop in the bucket of tears I'll shed during my lifetime. I just go get another retail job that caters to younguns, no harm, no foul, nothing more than a blip on the radar. It ain't skydiving or shark hunting, it's "risking" a job I can go get all over again without the slightest trouble, from some other retailer.

In the last 6 months I've noticed that if I buy 3 of anything at my local lego store without fail they will ask me "so who are these for?" and I immediately want to say "they're for your mom!" but I haven't, just yet.

PONYFAIL - ex Lego employee

TRU - Toys R Us SD - Slickdeals.net PAB - Pick-A-Brick PONYTAIL - LEGO Employee

So, I've recently been going through bulk lots bought about 2 years ago. As I sort I put aside things partially built whether they look MOC or from a set. So I found this and noticed something was rattling around inside. Opened it up and it looks like we have a Lego serial killer on the loose. Be on the look out... Oh and...Damn kids and their markers....

The Lego store employees at my mall strut around like they work at the Apple Store. There are a few that are friendly, but the Christmas time workers were pretty obnoxious. I'm the last person they would think is a reseller -- I go in with my kids and have only purchased 10 or so items from them in the last 5 years. But they still manage to look irritated when I have a question or ask if they have any product in the back that might not be on display. Once, when I was doing a build with my daughter, I asked a worker if they had any different Pick a Bricks in the back, since 3 of the wall containers were empty. He said "Not likely." I told him I was looking for pink plates for something I was making with my kids, and he returned "I said not likely." I understand that they were busy, and it was Christmas time, but that was just freakin bad form from someone in his position. I take no pity on workers like that.

I think this thread has entered the Twilight Zone, when someone can, in 40 hours a week make 30k plus w/ benefits without even a high school diploma and is looked down upon for doing it and the ability to move up within a large company is considered a "go-nowhere job" things are just backward. Many of us thrive on " being our own boss" and doing our own thing. That's not for everyone. Some like a more steady paycheck and the simplicity of a W-2 instead a schedule C and an accountant.. Of course some will take advantage, but those don't last very long. It's much easier to police ones own employees than ones customers. Show some damn courtesy and maybe even a little respect for the working retail stiffs.

Not at all. Questioning a business decision or a situation in regards to TLC that contradicts that general interests of investors/speculators or secondary market LEGO sellers doesn't make a hater of those aspects anymore than me questioning TLC's motives in regards to things makes me a hater of it. I'm comfortable enough to call out the situations as I see them....and in this case, it makes more sense for TLC to have the ability to "give the most to the most people" as opposed to allowing fewer people to get more. People occassionally want to bring up the plight of the guy who has two(or more) children yet cannot get two (or more) promos as a defense of the "anything goes" argument for procuring exclusive giveaways.......but it has been my experiences (as a father with two children) that the overwhelming majority of time that when I've reached the minimum threshold of purchasing requirements and my children are with me.....there's been no problem in me getting another exclusive; either by paying for it (which I have no problem with) or thru the kindness of the TLC employee.

Reading this post struck close to home for me. There's nothing wrong with taking your job too seriously, but it's very offensive when I get treated like a criminal because I'm trying to spend a lot of money. I've encountered this at both Tysons Corner and Potomac Mills locations in VA.

Lego has just updated their "License Conflicts and Resolutions" page and it stipulates that any submitted project related to the Doctor Who property will be accepted for possible review in the future if and when it achieves the required supporter milestone. Of course this does not guarantee a single thing but given many of us now have a Back to the Future Delorean sitting on a shelf with a space beside it awaiting the upcoming Ghostbusters Ecto-1 car, the chance of also having a small Tardis does not appear to be that farfetched of a concept, does it? Via The Brick Fan

Hey Canadians, if you check out London Drugs website: www.londondrugs.com they have a Lego sale going on. Discounts vary but there are some interesting deals. Most notably are below, all in stock on their website for shipping: Hive Crawler 70708 $35 (61% off) Forest Ambush 70400 $10 (33% off) Gold Getaway 70401 $15 (40% off) Museum Beak-In 60008 $65 (28% off) There's lots of other discounted sets but available for store pickup only. Shellraiser ($50), Daily Bugle ($45) Council of Elrond ($25) etc. I suggest you use the store locator feature to see whats in stock around you. I found 7 Hulk's Helicarrier Breakouts at a store near me for $50 each thanks to checking the website.. Amazingly the inventory was accurate. Already flipped a few locally this weekend for $90. I see some Dino sets on sale too but none available around me. Never know what you might find. Good luck! Lots to look at here, definitely worth checking out!

Whoa! Careful with this one. Those of us with kids have a different interpretation of BM. J DNIIM = Guy who typed IDHAMMTKBTS AA = Arkham Asylum SC = Sopwith Camel T1= Volkswagen Camper TOK= The Orc King SCUBA = Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

GE : grad emporium FH: Fun house DC: Dolphin Cruiser SW: Star Wars Lotr: lord of the rings HP: Harry potter Potc: pirates of the Caribbean Pop: prince of perisa S@ H: lego shop @ home HD: helms deep VC : Vampyre castle HH : haunted house WH: amazon warehouse

I am in the States, and the title of this thread was a crack up! I had no idea what to expect. Congrats on the scores!

hopefully we'll see the prices of this set go up soon!

Thanks for the reminder: TREX bauble is HERE !!!! :jig: :jig:

I have several, since this will be the first time I've bought most of these. Mostly Star Wars: Sandcrawler Star Destroyer AT-AT Cantina I think I'll have to setup a Tatooine table now to include my Jabba stuff as well.

I can 80% assure you that I checked 10229 on the lego website around this time last year and it was listed as retired, great I thought, then I found out from this site that the winter sets are returned the next year, this year the village market didn't last long enough to be in a sale, I got my cottages mid January 2013, but the market was sold out before xmas/boxing day sale. If people think the set is gone because it is listed as retired, then maybe it is, but I'd say its more than likely to return. Investment at this stage is a big gamble. Also, if lego said that this set is simply out of stock then they would be getting enquires as to when it would be available again, they cant say when it will be available for next winter, 9/10 months away, so they list it as retired.

The new cantina is coming at a good price, buying at a 30% discount is going to see some good returns by 2017.

I'll be tempted to buy them too but do try to find some coupons to get it cheaper. Also, thinking about alternatives or 'benchmark' sets would also help. For example, for the retail price of helm's deep you can easily get one VM T1 camper and two batcaves. Assuming both the camper and batcave retire this year (quite likely), two years later will helm's deep outperform or do as well as those two? Of course, the best option may be catch the appreciation ride of helm's deep now and sell and jump to other sets with great potential before its too late.

If they're just upholding policy, than sure, you shouldn't get mad at the employee. However, if they're taking it into their own hands to 'stop these greedy re-sellers' from getting promotions just because they have the money, then I'm upset.

I'm tempted to buy a couple at my local TRU at CANADIAN retail - which is $169 - so if you are getting them for $120, you should not be checking this forum but driving back there and buying them before someone else does.

I would buy them. The set is already in the 160 ish range. Castle, iconic scene and good minifigs...this set will do very well. I think 250 to 300 dollars in a couple years is pretty realistic. Especially if the LOTR line is done as we have yet to see anything on more sets coming.

So This Is How The UCS Line Dies...With Thunderous Applause

I hope you are right. I would love to see some non Star Wars UCS sets.

How many horse shows can the girls of Friends possible need? I'm feeling a declining profit margin on horse-specific sets every time a new one is released....

TRU has a sale this week. Barrel Escape is $25. My local store had at least 15 of them on the shelf. Limit 2 per customer, though. Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

well, i would be glad if they sent me any any freebies

"That's what I said, bootytraps!"

could be coz your username has 11 in there?

I think y'all underestimate the pay scale of retail management. And, of course, more money can be made in other ways. There's always a bigger fish out there. I'm just sick of the sense of entitlement on this thread. Lego or Ponytail don't owe any of you anything. If your abusing the system don't ***** about the one guy who cares enough to at least try to follow the rules, if it's that important to you just order online, where, apparently they don't give a s@&$.

Dang it, now I want a go nowhere minimum wage LEGO job. I didn't know there'd be deadly traps.

You missed where I said "I would be the craftiest..." I would sell through a different identity and person, perhaps from an underground lair filled with deadly traps and some funny ones, too. And, worst case scenario: I lose a minimum wage job? Totally worth it to build deadly traps.

Yeah seriously I'd hate to see 69.95 listings on these things

I agree. It's naive to think someone wouldn't risk a go-nowhere retail job if they saw their way clear to making a decent packet doing what a bunch of us do, and having the advantage of inside information, knowing stock levels, etc. Heck, I've toyed with the notion of having one of our daughters, who work in our business, get a part-time job at a LEGO store. There's too much of a commute to make it feasible for us, but otherwise you'd see one of the tadpoles wearing a Lego Store vest and smiling helpfully at you next time you walked in.

10188 is not a UCS set. Also Yoda and Darth Maul do not have a plaque. For the Sandcrawler, it's a UCS set if Lego says it's a UCS set, that's it. It makes a bit of a deal for some people as there are plenty that just collect UCS sets. I would have liked a a plaque and a better box design as well, maybe something like the old TIE Interceptor or X-Wing would be great for the UCS line. Even something like the 41999 box would have been great.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion on the difference between someone taking their job seriously versus persecuting people because someone gave them a little power. That's why LEGO asks customers to give their opinion via the survey - if they find too many people feel persecuted, they'll consider making a change. If they find it's a rare occurrence and most people love the store management, they won't. Since the OP was unhappy with his experience, he should address that, as he did by phone and can also via the survey. Should you shop at ponytail's store and feel great about it, you can exercise a similar privilege. What's wrong here is people telling the OP that he must feel as they do about this situation.

From day one, LEGO should have differentiated the UCS better than they have. Many UCS sets have no markings that state it is a UCS set. I would have appreciated a stylish box similar to the Architecture theme for the UCS sets over the years. I find the Sandcrawler box still too ordinary and geared towards kids.

Just play dumb. When they ask "are you a reseller?" Just ask back "what's a reseller?" They won't expect it. Sent from my iPad using Brickpicker

Benny's spaceship by a mile :)

I was thinking the same thing. It's a cheap way to buy peace, with a child fired up on the Lego movie, when your in a store

Use them and a bunch of old and new SW pieces for LEGO stop motion picture: 50 Shades of Grey

Np. The detolfs are 49 on sale. 69 normal. Heavy as heck but worth it. Google detolf display mods and see what cillectors do. I keep the legos i dont want Mauled by my kids in em. Off limits.

Eschdaddy literally just posted an article on this. What timing! It's titled The Art of Cleaning LEGOs, and I recommend reading it.