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This thread is for confirmed "Retired Product" status updates as per Lego.com official website. I decided to create this thread as somewhere to keep track of confirmed EOL dates as per Lego "Retired Product" tags. Leaving the other thread for rumors and speculation (I have been through all 75 pages and pulled any confirmed retirement dates in to here). The "Retired Product" status can be found on Lego.com by searching for "Retired Product", this link should take you there: http://search-en.lego.com/?q=Retired+Product&cc=US Yes a "Retired Product" tag does not mean the set cannot be found at other retailers, but it is an official confirmation that the set is EOL (End of Line) at Lego and that future production and sales have been halted (there may be some exceptions to this and we can never say Lego will never ever bring them back). I'd like to keep this list updated and populated with any changes, so please post them (for the US based Lego Shop at Home only please). Because the Lego.com site does not have a date when a set is retired I have used the latest stock availability date as recorded at Brickset.com. On the Lego site many sets get a "Sold Out" tag and/or a "retiring soon" tag, then at some arbitrary time they get a "Retired Product" tag. If we think about it, the actual date of retirement is the date it goes "out of stock" for the last time. As such I'd like to start capturing set's "Sold out" status dates as well, but that can be a phase 2 project. So for now if you spot a new "Retired Product" post it below. This is a table of the most recent few months. Attached at the bottom is a full Excel spreadsheet with all the sets I could get from Lego.com. I hope you find it useful or interesting. EOL dates table.xlsx

Just a warning to people: As of now, everyone knows about the Ebay breach. A sad thing that unfortunately comes out of this is all the "Script kiddies" who jump on the back of big data breaches like this to prey on people's fears and make a buck (a script kiddie is basically someone who considers themselves a hacker, but sort of does basic things to piggyback onto others exploits, or can only take advantage of an easy situation) SO, watch for Ebay email alerts, and especially Paypal ones. People will make fake emails (email is insanely easy to spoof and manipulate) saying "Warning your account has been breached!" or something of that nature, with a link to change a password. This can trick a lot of people into clicking embedded links that install code on your machine that can do all sorts of things to keylog and steal all your passwords, or install a crap load of spyware on your PC. So basically, I would watch for the following: 1. Don't click on or act on an Ebay message via Email. Only do it from "My Ebay". 2. Don't do anything with Paypal except from the Website while logged in. Sadly, stuff like this happens all the time and the people on the backend of a breach end up doing almost as much damage as the people who stole all the data.

I missed that..one more time? lol

Its 5 am, didn't know this part of the day existed but now I do thanks to my daughter

Going by the name "AnakinisV****" Redacted to protect the buyer's identity. Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

Half-Life 3 confirmed

You can't hold a buyer's feedback "hostage" on eBay like you can on other sites, because you can't leave him a negative or a negative-sounding positive, period. So, you can either leave him no feedback or an actual positive (it can be something like, "Thank you for shopping with us" which is all I ever leave, I think the feedback that goes "Best buyer ever! OMG! I want to have his e-Babies!!!" is stupid anyway.) In the future, tell the buyer what it's actually going to cost in postage. Nebulous questions, "Do you combine shipping?" aren't helped by nebulous answers, "Sure!" I ask what items they're looking at, and I give them a total shipping cost before they bid. It takes a few extra minutes but avoids this very problem. Re his potential 8 negatives, depending on what he says, they may be eligible for removal. The deed is done for now, you'll have to wait and see. Edited to add: By the way, when I get warning that a buyer is overly needy and/or unreasonable, I generally add them to my blocked bidder list. It sounds like the warning signs on this guy may have been there with his many questions, so another thing to consider for future. If your spidey senses are tingling and telling you someone's trouble, listen to them.

Indeed, it is up to the official TLG Reseller Detection Device to decide:

Why would you cry at the end of T2 ? I give anyone a pass for crying at the end of Toy Story 3 though ETA: or yelling "HECK YEAH" after the President's speech in Independence Day :D

Shocker that a bunch of guys (not talking about this forum, but the haters in general) don't like a set aimed at little girls. From an investor's standpoint, i see great potential in getting 51% of the planet more interested in lego sets (and not just the princessy, or hang out at the mall and get our hair done type sets).

I can't even comprehend what the "news on the 10188 death star" thread is gonna look like one day.

Headline: major blow to agents of shield

Better than getting 'friend zoned'. :resent:

Called in. The guy said that it is just an indicator of stock running low for this run. I could have ordered if wanted to. He mentioned presence of ssd in recent catalog

I'm just picturing the scene from Night At the Roxbury where Doug loads the truck by throwing the flowers in....this is how they package a box? DISGUSTING!!! Will continue avoiding Wal-Mart and Kmart both on bigger set purchases.

Went into this thread expecting to see leaked episode VII Lego sets

I came up with a theory that this may be the next LEGO Ideas product. http://www.thebrickfan.com/female-minifigure-set-may-be-next-official-lego-ideas-product/

The World Cup excitement is growing so let's have a contest to predict the final 2 teams and winner! I will send the winner of this contest a 75021 Republic Gunship!!! To enter, post in this thread with the following: 1. The winning country 2. The runner up 3. Final score of the final match (tie breaker) 4. Pick the matchup of the third place game (last tie breaker) Example: 1. Iran 2. Nigeria 3. 5-4 4. Russia versus Algeria I'll paste everyone's answer in here in the first post as I get time. You'll be required to send me your name and address if you win but I'll keep it private. The final game is Sunday, July 13. Shipping disclaimer: I am shipping from the USA. This is an international contest but if shipping is extremely expensive to your country, I may ask for you to pay for part of the shipping cost via paypal. Good luck!!!

I Not to be rude but that's not up to you to decide.

Nothing wrong with it, it's a cute set, but it's nothing special, and as a female-type I will say that forced feminism makes me feel like somebody's unwanted quota. Does the next one feature an office scene with all African Americans? ("Look kids, I know nobody knew this, but women CAN be scientists! And people of color can work in office jobs! Who knew?!") It just seems strange that this is the design they decided was "best" this time around. Maybe they want in on some of that meth lab LEGO market and this is how they decided they could do it.

You can merge my thread linking to Evantube HD if you want. Not as helpful as originally thought but cool video reviews by a 6 year old nonetheless.

Why in the world do I have to pay more money to not eat chemicals. How is it that for the same price I get sugar free oatmeal with 8 packets but tennis the ones with sugar r same price. U want organic or just not crap well pay the piper. Makes me so mad.

I thought that was the whole purpose of this entire section of the forum - use logic to come up with baseless speculations

When the Terminator gets lowered in the molten steel and then gives the kid the thumbs up....that's kind of sad.

I still want to stand-up and cheer at the end of "The Karate Kid", just like in the theater when I was a kid. I can't help it.

but they look so good.

This one is no exception: :P http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/7542-death-star-10188-only-available-from-3rd-party-sellers-on-amazon/

ok, I just bought one over the phone just because I got no self discipline

If Target is smart, then TRU is freakin GENIUS :D :D

Oh ok, the only other thing I.would do is message people on brick link. There's a few on there that are used. You may get lucky and find someone who can provide the info

Brickfanatics.com thinks the $99 10226 Sopwith Cemel is done this summer. Now that I think about it, kinda makes since for the $120 10220 VW van stays around after the $99 Mini Cooper arrives. Although a great build and display, 10226 seems under appreciated. http://brickfanatics.co.uk/more-rumors-on-the-ucs-sets/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+brickfanatics+%28Brick+Fanatics%29

This build was everything I wanted it to be. Believe it or not, putting together Benny was the best part because it brought back so many great memories from when I was a kid.

Ok guys, go to your local library and check out Season 1. You will find that about 10 minutes in you are not watching Harry Potter.

Okay, just how many accounts do you have? Fess up!

Man, that is some heavy duty bulls**t.

Who is this "Gollum" you speak of...? I have used shipitto a few times. Their service has been excellent each time and had no hassles. Pricey though as a buyer so I don't tend to use if if I don't have to and plus many US retailers have banned shipping to freight forward company address for various reasons. They do that by the address but as well as trying to make non-US people have a credit card billing address that is US based as well which is a bit trickier. I've always had the stance that the original seller has responsibility to ship in good condition to the freight forwarder and that's it. After that it's out of their hands. Shipitto provide photos of the shipment as it arrives at their warehouse so the buyer can inspect them. If there looks to be damage they can ask for the goods to be shipped back to the supplier or be open for further inspection (think it has a fee for that though). If you have doubts you could always ask the buyer for those photos or at least make it clear that shipping from you to the warehouse is all the responsibility that you are obligated for.

Thats a rough flip though. Probably 50-75$ in fees and then 30-40$ shipping. You would have to sell it for $600 to really get some decent money out of it. Making less than $100 is tough ROI on a $400 set.

Can't say I even peeked into the Word Associations thread, but the GoT thread has been probably one of the most civil threads on this board to date. Man's game.

Even cops aren't allowed to bring their weapons across the border and I don't shop at the same Walmart. I'm pretty safe! Besides I'm a computer guy and we all know who really runs the world now. It's the nerds. Lastly, he's a much better sport than some of the yahoos in these forums. (Fighting words? ) Sent from my iPod touch using Brickpicker

He did say it is not retiring right now. But who cares what he says, it obviously a conspiracy of some sort...

here here

Thank you gorbasho, I will continue my policy of never ordering from Walmart.com unless everything is $10. Sent from my iPhone using Brickpicker

And not Walmart! Look at this behemoth that arrived today: And inside we have two SSDs, with a third one suffocating underneath and a distinct lack of any padding whatsoever: Top two made it out ok surprisingly...bottom one not so much: Because shipping 50lbs of Lego in an oversized box with zero packaging material is a brilliant idea. Does Walmart do partial refunds for shipping damage? The busted open one is going back regardless but it'd be nice to get some money back on the other two. Edit: quick opinion question- '> These two boxes have these large scuff marks along the top, and some minor creasing. Worth returning? I'm thinking no

Replacement MF from amazon came in today in pristine condition. Who knew that using the correct box size will save everyone the headache and money!!

Dammit, my bank account hates this site. Even though retail... got 3x Haunted House @ 179 each + free shipping.

I know it has been partially mentioned, in the SSD thread, but I thought I'd give more detail than has been shared. For all those who have been counting on retiring of the SSD or hoping for the DS to retire - Page 1, 2 and 3 of the Summer Catalog is full page color spreads of the new Sandcrawler. Page 4 - Top 2/3 of page is the SSD in beautiful full color background with the Grey ship (and if we note what someone said about Rev 5 of the boxes) while I bought some and want it to, I think it is not going anywhere any time soon. Long term still great investment. Page 5 - Top 2/3 of page is the DS in beautiful full color background with the grey Death Star. Page 6 - Half page Red X Wing UCS, Quarter Page R2 D2 I do notice the AT TE is not shown. Also noticeable is: 0 Hobbit items showing 0 LOTR items showing 0 Iron Man showing No Bat Cave and No Daily Bugle Showdown (or whatever its official title is) No Grand Emporium and as previously mentioned No Sopwith Camel Yes VW T1 showing If I missed a photo on one please let me know. They have so many themes now though they can't list everything of any theme it seems as if they expanded the catalog size it would add to much overhead cost. This with the Amazon sales makes me think (pure speculation): - Most LOTR and Hobbit Movie 1 sets are on the way out now - SSD/DS around until at least end of year - GE is going but who knows when - Sopwith is gone sooner than others (going to buy my 4 soon) - VW T1 around until at least end of year I find it interesting that the Brick Show (which I love) had the confirmation on the SSD being gone but this thing gets a 2/3 page fill up on page 4 of the catalog. Printing and marketing costs too much to fill page 4 with the clearance set for the purpose of clearance without saying it. Combined with Rev 5, I think its on its way back for a while. The new Movie I believe will want all new branding on all new Movie related boxes so I do not believe they are keeping it around for it as a centerpiece of the new Movie sets. That's my theorization or the day.

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Sorry for your situation man, but this is exactly why I have been avoiding auctions like the plague as a seller

Raise your prices, do free shipping. Don't sell anything that you would take a loss on if you send it across the earth. Believe me it will help. Then there is no bitching about combined shipping. I will give people a dicount on items through Best Offer if they buy multiple but it certainly isn't required.