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Mom is working today so the kids took me (ha) to buy the new Sandcrawler. This thread will be like my previous 2 building ones (sets 10179 and 10181). We will walk through the building process, take pics, discuss various topics like elements used / how, and finally compare this version to the much beloved and classic 10144 set. Building will begin later today after my son's T-Ball game My other Build / Review Threads. 7780: The Batboat: Hunt for Killer Croc : http://www.brickpick...-croc-batman-1/ 7782 The Batwing: The Joker's Aerial Assault : http://www.brickpick...arison-to-6863/ 7786: The Batcopter: The Chase for Scarecrow : http://www.brickpick...-for-scarecrow/ 10123: Star Wars Cloud City : http://www.brickpick...ars-cloud-city/ 10173: Holiday Train : http://www.brickpick...-holiday-train/ 10179 UCS Millennium Falcon : http://www.brickpick...lennium-falcon/ 10226 Sopwith Camel : http://www.brickpick...-sopwith-camel/ 10181 Eiffel Tower : http://www.brickpick...l-tower-advice/ 10194 Emerald Night train : http://www.brickpick...-emerald-night/ 10196 Grand Carousel : http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/13647-building-10196-grand-carousel/ 10225 UCS R2D2 : http://www.brickpick...0225-ucs-r2-d2/ 75059 UCS Sandcrawler : http://www.brickpick...59-sandcrawler/ 21021 Architecture Marina Bay Sands http://www.brickpick...rina-bay-sands/ 21108 Ghostbusters Ecto-1 : http://www.brickpick...busters-ecto-1/ Sent from an iPhone using the Brickpicker app

May 3-5th Only; LEGO

I think the fact that the three old dogs sold out within 15 mins is great news for all lego investors/collectors.

Cheese anyone?

Again, I think that you're reading too much into it. At the end of the day, TLG is a business and one that is extremely profitable by all accounts. The fact that they chose not to discount exclusives in the U.S. almost certainly stems from the fact that they don't need to discount exclusives in the U.S. in order to sell them. In the U.S., SSD has sold out from almost every online market without any discounts. If TLG can sell out a $400 set without discounting it, why would they discount it? Conversely, TLG has sold out of Desert Skiff and the Malevolence in almost every market worldwide except the U.S. As a result, TLG has a need to discount those sets in order to clear out the inventory. I think that the problem that many people here make when trying to figure out TLG's motives in any given situation is to analyze TLG's actions from their own perspective and ascribe to TLG motives consistent with the impact of TLG's decisions on them. Therefore, if TLG prohibits discounts on exclusives, people are apt to view such decision as being motivated by a desire to hurt "investors," when, in reality, it is almost certainly motivated by TLG's realization that it doesn't need to discount exclusives in order to drive sales. Although TLG has an issue with the growth of the reseller market, it is simply implausible that every decision TLG makes vis-a-vis pricing and discounts is designed to screw resellers.

I think you're reading too much into this. It seems fairly clear at this point that TLG is going to use 50% off sales during May the 4th to clear out old inventory for sets that are retiring. They did it last year with the B-Wing and are doing it this year with three of the last five remaining white box SW sets on sale. TLG isn't doing this to give resellers the finger, they are doing it because they have gotten much better with their inventory management and don't need to have sales with the same frequency or depth to clear out old sets. Historically, the May the 4th sales weren't as deep (generally around 25%), but they did apply to larger sets (MF, AT-OT, etc.).

Big bag of suckiness. It's like waking up Christmas morning and finding a turtleneck.

Unpacking : The Lego boxed was filled to the top (no free space). There was 1 inner box with it's own bags inside. 24 total numbered bags (17 plus the 7 inside the white box). Minifigs parts are in random bags (in and out of the inner box). There are quite a few stickers. The manual isn't overly sturdy. However, the color used on build steps are exception. It is very easy to distinguish medium blue gray elements from dark blue gray from black. The initial couple of pages are very cool. Enjoy the pictures. Sent from an iPhone using the Brickpicker app

Look's like there needs to be a march on LEGO street against those evil 1%ers who were smart and planned ahead, had the funds and resources to buy, did all they could to succeed and followed through with a plan. The other 99%ers who missed out and are complaining should try to learn from this. If not you can call certain government parties for sympathy and welfare. Maybe they will even get someone to do it for you so you don't have to do the work for yourself. You may even get them to take away the LEGO that the 1% bought and "fairly" spread it around to the 99% who did nothing. Now where have we heard all this before?

LEGO discounted a whole bunch of items, but did not promote anything in particular. They still have a bunch of items on sale that would appeal to the "regular Joe/Jane." Everyone is disappointed with the lack of inventory, but LEGO made no promises.

Gotta laugh at some of the "outrage" responses over these sales this weekend. I haven't gone back and cross checked the posts....but it's funny how it went from "these sales suck, how dare the TLG insult with substandard sales!" to "OMG!....I can't believe TLG insulted us by only having a limited amount of these great items on sale!!!" in about a minute and a half. Keep em coming boys!

People's reaction to this sale is kind of baffling, I don't really understand the angst towards LEGO. The actual "sale" items are all the things at 10-20% that are current items. Those are still going on. The three 50% sets are all long out of production and were marked down to clear them out, which they did quite well. I had a Malevolence in my cart and it was pulled before I was able to place the order, within 3 minutes. I am sure they didn't have many of these left to begin with. Same with the Skiffs which have more or less been off non-LEGO Store retail shelves for quite some time. I consider 50% off Skiffs a gift. Thank you LEGO. LEGO isn't in this for us They have businesses reasons for doing what they do. And I am sure they are thrilled. The stuff will stay on sale and they will sell ok and give out their promos. They don't have to do anything at all.

They finally put the clip from Hulu onto Youtube which means I can now embed it here for easy viewing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGSpOfIr9Y Found some other preview clips as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBorckuyaPs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdgLZ1gW75E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3QIeQcyij0 Also, just one more day until the episode airs! WOOHOO!

This is Bold's setup on sale days.... he's a professional people.

Gotta love how touchy some get over Lego. It's a toy, get over it! Anyway, I'm done investing. I just won't do it if I can't get every deal offered. Life is so unfair.

Yeah I can't tell if you're attempting to be funny or maybe this is a rough draft for whatever right wing talk show you call in to?

I was organized, fast, clever, had recently showered, and I got my order in on the dot. My two Malevolence still went to backorder, and who knows if they'll be cancelled. Even if I were the hand-wringing type, there's no point in it. All the time and energy I could use on grousing that this is the fault of Lego or other investors or those meddling kids, I use instead in moving on to the next item on my buy list and looking for the next good deal.

That's not the case though. There are a ton of SW sets available to buy if you want the promos. There are 3 sets out of the entire sale that are out of stock. These were 50% off for a reason, Lego had lingering stock and wanted to get rid of it quickly. They succeeded. You win some and you lose some. I assure you that it's not in Lego's best interest to mock customers, that isn't what's going on here at all.

Says the guy who cornered the market on those Martian Manhunters.

LOL. I just woke up. What did I miss? Sent from my iPad using Brickpicker

You should have seen my original post I was going to publish a few hours back after I got the email. The better half of me decided to post what you did see

Snagged one! My first. Thanks for the heads up. I assume what happened is that as they cancelled the multiple item orders their inventory system updated to reflect the new now available inventory.

I will not be joining you . I like $$ lol

i see a good investment future but not at 10% off. i fully expect to load up on these which are at EVERY walmart and target I have ever been to when they eventually get cleared. I'm looking for something in the $60 price range. hey maybe next years LEGO Shop at Home May the 3rd be with you.

Thats a loaded question. The idealogy you will.get from some will be yes large exclusives are winners because they are had to.find, limited availability, and not as many people buy large sets. Of course there are smallers sets that do.well, look at wolverine's chopper showdown. Smaller sets mean more work but I.think you need to diversify size sets based off what you want. Set it and forget it go large sets, if you dont mind the work.the small/medium sets with higher volume can net a good profit. Just read as much as possible on this forum and youll formulate your own plan.

I shall live vicariously through you as like many others I'll focus my spending on older sets before they retire. And holy murphy I didn't realize the box was Death Star size (but it makes sense given the piece count). No way can stores stock it, SSD, DS, Ewok Village, etc... so somethings gotta give. And the box art gets my vote as the best ever.

There is a store at Somerset in Troy.

What is "this"?

I think you got taken, since you posted nothing

Sorry to say, but I was also prophetic telling members to buy the SSD, R2-D2 and 10188 back in the Double VIP points(with freebies) days because they weren't going to get a better deal in the future. Maybe next time people will listen.

To play devil's advocate, were these sets actually "Advertised"? The only official AD I saw from LEGO was simply that there would be sales, and the free poster and minifigure. And "LEGO Star Wars Exclusive Offers" which is incredibly vague.

Well, it's interesting looking in on this from a UK/Europe perspective. There are a few complaining that the UK deals were much better this year, but look at it from a purely analytical comparison; US had 3 sets at 50% off - Europe had nothing over 15%. The US 10% on the rest balances out a lot of the worldwide regional variations due to taxes etc so 15% for Europe was fair. Europe had 3 high profile sets on sale - but if you had to spend a minimum of

hehe .. what makes yuo think the revan wont be sold out by tommorow? I wouldnt chance it

I ABSOLUTELY AGREE. I think this happened with the B Wing? Any one else remember?

Wow. Someone give this guy a prize for extremely fast fingers! (Or perhaps, careful planning). Congrats!

Thanks OP, got in on two visala and 3 skiffs. A bit over, but pretty close to min required. Had them in my cart prior to midnight and at midnight, I just hit refresh and everything updated correctly w/ the Revan added. Now let's see when these ship....

6 orders went straight to process. sweet

There never was a promo minifig, they're just using May 4th to ban everyone trying to place orders tonight.

KA BOOOM!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah the hypes got me too lol, the minifigs are way too awesome to pass up and who doesn't appreciate the amount of detail that they added to it it's pretty epic but when it comes to the outside I like the smooth finish of the old but for some reason the studded exterior looks more realistic to me and I loooove the box haha

I was hoping for some deliciously discounted Death Stars, but I'm not going to call the waaahmbulance over three sets at 50% off. I'll buy what I think I can get away with on LEGO Shop at Home tonight, and hit our two closest LEGO stores while the four of us are out and about buying books tomorrow and see if any of the 50%ers are in stock there, too.

If you are signed in it should save it. I put all those items on their favorites list in the cart earlier this week and they were still there when I signed in tonight.

I was just thinking exactly the same thing

The bottom line is 50% off a set is 50% off a set. It's a good deal. Build it or save it as a gift.

Boo haha I was hoping for.more. oh well ill save my money

^^^^ Can't give you enough likes....nice work on that!!!!!