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I never have been asked. One day a deliveryman ringed at my door if I could take a package for my neighbour who was on vacation. I said ok. It was quite a big box and my wife and I were wondering what was in it. So we were shaking it to get a clue. We were quite positive it was a torso/body. Then we saw there was a website written on the box. So we went online and searched... It was a site where you could buy XXX dolls.

I only have one guy at one of the several post offices in town that ever asks what is inside. I want to tell him it's none of his damn business, but I always just say "toys". One lady at another location had one move when she lifted it and could hear the pieces and said" Oooh, sounds like Legos, I love Legos".

Not officicial but very nice made: Leaked Star Wars Episode VII Filmset Footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDEe9lNj21o Thought you will like it.

Because it's what's on the inside that counts. Everyone knows this...especially ugly people.

"Not a bomb or any kind of chemical weapon such as might be sent to a representative of Congress, THAT's for sure!" said with a nervous laugh and furtive expression. Works particularly well if you wear ratty clothes and refuse to look directly at them.

I do like the Batman 1 boxes. Nice slightly embossed front artwork / design. Like many pre-2010 manuals, alternate builds are pictured at the back of the last manual. notice how more contrast is needed for dark bley bricks from blacks. Sent from an iPhone using the Brickpicker app

I think TLG could care less about tricking resellers and toying around with the secondary market. They operate just like any other company does, they are out to make money. These shortages and status updates are all normal day to day occurrences .

We're all about promoting top notch healthy lifestyles here at BrickPicker. Nothing like practicing the art of steady hands and brick trickery, while working out on the stair climber/LEGO table combo.

But shouldn't they be the "Brixies"? :-D

One would think that... but they are cursed. You won't sell any legoset and if you do it will get lost in the mail. You are warned.

As it seems like there are some members new to the part buying aspect of Bricklink, I thought I'd share some information on programs that can make it easier. Bricklink is a great thing to have, but using it at first feels like a time machine to 15 years ago and shows you just how bad online shopping can be on an outdated website design. That said, two programs that can relieve some of the pain are Brickstore and Brickficiency. Brickstore essentially lets you manage the Bricklink database in a more powerful and easier to use way. Imagine the Bricklink parts/sets catalog combined with Excel. I primarily use it to check prices and inventory levels of parts and sets, to create wanted lists for missing parts I need or sets I'm trying to build from scratch, and to verify inventory of a Bricklink order or a used set I bought. It has the ability to import set inventories, import Bricklink orders, export Bricklink wanted lists, etc which make it much faster to use than the Bricklink website. Brickficiency is a program that takes a Bricklink wanted list or Brickstore .bsx file and scans Bricklink to find the cheapest combination of 2-5 stores to purchase the parts from. This makes it very easy to find where to purchase a list of parts from, rather than having to manually and tediously use the store list on the Bricklink Wanted list page. Hopefully this is helpful to anyone who has not heard of these programs, and if you already have, you probably know how useful they are . If it would be helpful I can write some short tips and guides on using these programs to accomplish certain tasks such as verifying completeness of a used set, identifying a used set based on a few bricks, Bricklinking a complete set from scratch, etc, or even just basic Bricklink tips and info, just let me know

Somewhere in some government database is a picture of a frog and a tag that says "keep an eye on"

So you're going as Gail? Sounds awesome! You should be able to get the store exclusive on Thursday or Sunday. But the giveaway...maybe not. LOL

"None of your business." Now if they ask if there is anything liquid, perishable, or hazardous in the box, the answer is always NO

Your postal workers are super nosey it seems.....I've never been asked that question.

I usually just tell the truth on that one. Or I would say its an expensive vase and ask for insurance. Lately I've just been using scheduled pick ups so it's not an issue as my mail carrier knows me.

Batboat : Simple yet elegant design. Very Tim Tim Burton-like. side view top view rear front. Sent from an iPhone using the Brickpicker app

They talked about this on the radio this morning. Sounds like a good deal if you have one around you(ours closed years ago) and want cheap food to go with the beer watching a game. $10? A guy could blow through that no problem. Just let me belly up to the bar with some boneless wings and a tall one and I'm good for pretty much the entire night.

Ryan from The Plastic Brick contacted me to offer 15% their carts for this week (July 7th through July 13th). There are some nice classic sets available in case you are looking for something new and different to build and may have missed out on them from years past. At checkout, enter the following code: BP15OFF

Very wise move on buying what you can afford!

I pulled the trigger and just bought the Grand Emporium from Lego. I am so stoked!! I was only able to buy one. I wanted to buy two but I can't afford it right now. I know it will sell out again when I get some more cash. I have to be patient.

With all due respect, how do we know these sets are selling in mass droves? We have no idea. Maybe the smaller sets outsell the large sets 100 to 1. We don't have any real clue as to which sets are making LEGO money or not. Just because a few sets get sold quickly on Amazon or Walmart we cannot assume that the sets are even popular. Maybe the SSD is a poor seller and they are happy to end this run...

I am not an expert on their numbers, but if I was a LEGO Exec, and I kept seeing these huge quantities of expensive sets selling in mass droves, it would encourage me to make more of them. Investors, like any customer, are a market to be exploited. "Hey we're suddenly selling an absolute ton of GE/SSD/DS/FB... Stores can't keep them in stock! Better make more!" If I were in charge I'd keep kicking them out as long as possible.

Yes...it would appear that LEGO is starting to treat US and non-US markets as completely different entities. One gets discounts on exclusives, one doesn't. One gets longer production runs, one doesn't. Resellers get banned from one and not the other. Damn resellers are ruining it for collectors like myself!!!

No, I began buying these in early 2013. So some of these "exclusives" were bought during the famous May 30, 2013 amazon sale BTW, I finally managed to buy my FIRST batch of GE 10211s today from lego.com. Yay. I do believe this set will be like the Fire Brigade so it will be around until Nov or so but didn't want to take a chances.

Does Anyone have a problem with once you added the GE 10211 to your cart and you go to payment it has choices of gift card or credit card, but you cannot edit your credit card, add one or select next? I am wondering if the site is broke? I've tried safari and firefox.

I agree with this. LEGO can easily upgrade their entire S@H Point of Sale system to track and limit whatever they want. The conveniently keep their system in the Dark Ages and customers in the dark. They don't want to come out with a press release stating the fact that resellers are affecting them. That would be like adding gas to the Brickpicker fire. They send multiple promos to me and not to others. They ban some people for multiple orders and don't ban others that have ordered 100 of the same set, because they want to unload them. I value S@H and buy reasonable amounts of sets through them, but it is not the best place to buy sets in many cases.

Will Neymar's injury and Silva's suspension hurt our largest group of guessers? The tournament is almost over, the goal scoring has stopped, and the fouls have increased. Good luck everyone!!!

I have been banned and I think the way they handle it is not clear nor transparent. They like the sales, and at the end of the day they are a retail front not a secondary. They know that adults are a big piece of the market. Very few adults (me included) would drop top coin for the really large expensive sets for their kids. Those are geared towards adults. If LEGO really was concerned about reselling as a problem for their business all sets would be one per household limit, not 5 or unlimited as well as they would manage promos and freebies to one per household. The reality is that they would see a serious drop in sales if they did this. They would also not allow orders beyond the limit. This would be easy to process, Amazon can do it (if only for 7 days ass they like the sales as well). LEGO is managing their image plain and simple, if not for the adult market they would not be the #2 toy company and they know it. Either way there are quite a few ways to purchase LEGO other than on-line from their store. Downside to my town is that there is no LEGO store to go to. I would also say that in the US they may be using the free PROMO as a way to flush out Re-sellers. This was implied to me in the communication that I received from them.

The voting topic has now been closed after extending the timeframe by another week and doing what I could to direct peoples attention towards the contest. Later I shall go through the posts to add up all the points distributed. I would like to thank everyone who originally participated with the entry submission and those who voted. I am anxious to see who the two winners shall be! By the way, I must give special thanks to comicblast for helping bump this topic up a couple times and Bold-Arrow for his suggestion of leaving a note in the Daily Deals thread.

Sounds healthy.

Yeah I just don't think Lego and TMNT are a good match. Some here invest in the sets and I hope they do good for them I just can't get into the sets. I really don't think you have to worry about the throwback shredder getting to expensive on ebay. If there isn't anything you want on S@H right now I would just snag one on ebay. August is when some cool sets are coming out!

I`ve never been a big fan of the original UCS Batmobile. That said, I`d still love to own one at some point. As far as the best sets thus far go, I`d say: Original Tumbler/Joker Truck set. Arkham Asylum Original Batcave Easily the best 3 sets Lego has released to date, hopefully the upcoming (rumored) UCS Tumbler can be added to or top that list. They better not screw it up.

Arkham Asylum, UCS Batmobile and original Tumbler set. Set wise the DC stuff leaves Marvel in the dust. Minifigure wise it is a different story.

My short temper prevents me from enjoyment of many things in large cities or crowded places do I simply don't go. Im saving the rest of this month's investment money for Disney trip in two weeks. I shouldn't have bought the GE I found at discovery but couldn't resist.

Speaking from personal experience, I heard a rumor on this site in April of last year that FB was not mentioned in the Lego.com description of the Palace Cinema, whereas all the other modular sets were. Some people said "OMG! This means FB is finally about to retire!" so I started buying them. Actual retirement waited until mid-December (I think), so I ended up with a bunch, most purchased on some kind of sale. I think many others were in a similar position. GE, on the other hand, if it is retired, did so pretty much out of the blue. I mean, a mid-year retirement without the simultaneous launch of another modular set to replace it? I think most folks were surprised. I, for one, expected GE to last through the end of the year. So GE more or less followed the same retirement track as SSD, in that each set just disappeared in the middle of the year (a bit earlier for SSD), and with no fanfare. I think it's likely, for that reason, that many fewer of these sets were "hoarded" versus FB or DS (for example), not to mention a set like MMV, IS, or DA, in which Lego was nice enough to actually tag the set "retiring soon" in advance.

There cannot possibly be one single answer to that. Except "it depends".

That is the thing, they never meet you. They want you to send them money so they can scam you.

I was fortunate to get 31 of these for $21.xx each after tax from a shopko clearance sale last summer. I have it listed for $90 shipped, but haven't sold one yet. I'm not worried though. It's a great set and will sell. I'm not budging on my price, and will probably increase it once the holidays get closer.

With dark blue elements it may look a little like this: White may be ok too:

Here's a Flickr feed of Winter Villages that people have posted. There are some great sets in there.

I finished this last night. I really like the color of the wing tips unfortunately those 6 elements are the only in that dark blue color. I think this set would look a lot more realistic if the yellow elements were replaced by the dark blue. The rear wheel gearing that makes the propeller move was neat to build but is more like a toy feature. The sliding cockpit was a neat feature as well. I was missing 2 1x4 white flat tile elements, there were 2 extra 1X3 so I temporarily borrowed them from the 9493 X Wing. This made for a good comparison since they are both RRP $60 with AA having 60 more elements but minus the 4 minifigs. They are almost identical in length and width to give you a comparison. I think I will break the AA down and build the Speedboat (quick build) option next then possibly brick link the dark blue elements and rebuild the plane one of these days. If you can get this at Target for 50% clearance and red card for $28.50 I think it is a good deal. As far as an investment I would pass.

My son has a Sea Cow, and it's freaking amazing. In my top five all-time favorite sets for sure.

Well my 2 Lego 42009's came in this morning via FedEx. In an original Lego box. A little compression in a couple of spots, one almost mint. For $55 I am happy.

Bump... For anyone who has not voted yet, please do so in this thread: http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/10436-voting-ultra-agent-codename/

>MichelBaygelo by Oky - Space Ranger, on Flickr

Don't buy multiples of exclusives, especially in one order. Use LEGO S@H for hard to find exclusive sets and promotions. Buy bulk sets elsewhere.

Why? TRU needs that theft device on the box because you know, stealing a Tower Bridge is pretty easy. Slips right into my jeans before walking out the door. "Why no TRU employee, that isn't isn't a huge Lego set in my pants..." Sent from an iPhone using the Brickpicker app

Used Cafe Corner, and a mixed lot of incomplete Harry Potter.