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I popped into Wal-Mart where I've been watching some older sets for discounts. They have an entire 2-sided isle of legos marked down and an additional 50% off the marked price. I spent $2000, but scored 10 Lego 9398 for $45 each; 3 Millenium Falcons for $32 each; SW Jek 14 $15 each; and 5 Goblin Attack Sets for $22 each. I also grabbed a bunch of smaller sets for kid's Christmas gifts. I broke the bank, but I'm set for Christmas selling. The only set I left behind was TMNT Shell Raiser. I figure if they have to discount them when the new movie just came out than TMNT must be a loser. Now I have to bust the blow dryer to pull off the clearance stickers without damaging the sets.

received my stash of 10221. this time TRU surprised me. they all came in LEGO package. of course 2/box. all from 11/12. and i didn't bother checking the seal the seal of 1 single looks like it 50R1. i would have preferred that they shipped my previous order like this as well...

I got this deal on EBAY last friday but did not want to post until I actually received them. I tought it was to good to be true. It was on the toysrus canada ebay page. The deal lasted like 5 minutes and it was all gone (well five minutes after I got there) I managed to get 5 Fire Transporter (4430) at 11.50$ CAN shipped and tax included. Pretty sweet deal but tought they might cancel the order. But they got here today Will be an easy flip for christmas at around 55$ a piece around here. Should I hold to one or two? Its retired and its kind of a unique fire set.

I just spoke to lego. I can confirm that it's coming back will be confirmed once it's confirmed that it's not coming back is confirmed.

Excellent...those with Series 1, high-five!

Then he is left wide open to a buyer making a case of "item not as described" which seems to be going around lately anymore. It's best to cover your butt by simply being honest.

If a major restock is coming, we can all just re-Tweet the heck out of that NYT article and get the ball rolling again.

Careful, you're handling hotcakes using that strategy! We don't get that many deals, don't hog them all! And if you do that too often, we might just have to resurrect the White House posts from that other thread to recover a little national pride....

My Wal-Mart reports that all Wal-MArts are clearing space for new Super Hero and Turtle Sets coming in this week. The amount clearance depends on the space available

I saw this over on Brickset, so they should start showing up soon.

Will be interesting to see the effect the next set Toy & Grocery Shop will have on these. The only B&M store I have seen them at is TRU and they don't collect dust.

When in Texas I check out Whataburger. Man, their burgers are the bomb!

Welcome to America

I had to look this up because I've never tried a corn dog. 'A delicious hot dog surrounded in sweet corn batter and fried to a crispy golden brown' it sounds like a heart attack on a stick, but what the heck I'll have 3 of them!

I'm not sure that even free Lego would be enough to make me brave the crowds that plague every RCSS around here.

Don't let that troll get under your skin

I called. Nice person. They have been overwhelmed with calls on it. They are only getting in enough for backorders at LEGO Shop at Home. I asked about restocks at other stores. She said, any extras will go to retail lego stores in a few weeks so keep in touch with your local store. I said so production is winding down on this rather than up and they said yes. Sounds like there will be a small window and then it is gone. I agree with legodeloreans info.

It's worth about $400. Maybe a bit more. The old displays are getting cleared out and the new ones are coming in.

Since it sounds like you are looking for general information on the Creator theme, you can probably look through some of the Blog Articles. Here's one that I found very informative and helpful: LEGO Creator Housing Market: Boom or Bubble? by Veegs. Historically Creator sets do finely after retirement, but I'll let you decide what you want to buy on your own.

sometimes you just gotta go for it. sell something if you need to help fund it ($-wise). that is what i did to buy some of my personal sets including the latest (10196 GC - no box but had 2 new sound bricks & a used one). i already sold one of the sound bricks to help out.

Without any knowledge of the Series 2 lineup, I would guess that there would be new characters introduced as minifigures across the board. The only way I see Series 1 dropping is if they reintroduced all or most of the same characters from Series 1. I highly doubt TLG would do that - woudn't they just extend Series 1 in that case? EDIT - I will be interested to see if there are any eBay or Amazon price spikes in Series 1 Simpsons with this rumor swirling...

I think it is D - All of the above. : )

I agree. People like me, who grew up in the 80s and are obsessed with that decade's clearly superior pop culture, will love this set. I think it will really appreaciate after EOL. Where else are you going to get a Doc Brown and Marty minifig? Where else are you going to get a hoverboard, flux capacitor or OUTTATIME license plate piece?

There are 5 RCS stores I hit in the GTA and some are better than others by far. While the better ones do have a good variety of themes (Star Wars, City, LOTR, Super-heroes, Ninjago, Chima, Friends) they almost never have any sets higher than $80 MSRP. But that's okay because my best deals have always come from RCS and I'm easily able to sell any set at least at MSRP, which is a 100% return based on the clearance prices I pay. My best ever deal was the other month when one store had 7 Wolverine Choppers suddenly and they were on clearance for $11 (and I paid only $7 due to other discounts) at a time when they were (and still are) fetching $70 US on ebay!!!

Sold 3 RI's for $98 each + shipping.

I saw the wings right away. Still looks like a cat in a bat costume.

Should have married that Wendy's girl on TV. Paradise.

a local australian lego website (bricking around) posted this sale so hopefully they had confirmation that it applied to lego. also looking at the myer catalogue lego is not listed as an exclusion. i would escalate to the manager of the department if i were you.

I mean no offense, but I think you did not get my point. I agree with you in general, but LEGO shouldn't have targeted kids with LotR from the beginning because that audience just doesn't care about it. That's where your argument fails: nobody, neither adults nor kids needed those playsets you are talking about. LotR is obviously an AFOL theme with no clear potential among children. Hobbit sets would have been enough to cater for the kids' needs since the related movie is more childish. In essence LEGO fell between two stools. It picked a very popular AFOL theme and made sets for children from it and now they wonder why it was selling bad. Additionally they released them in conjunction with the Hobbit sets and kids want the ones they see in the movies. The children's market was oversaturated. I concluded that releasing regular playsets was pointless, since I guess that even like this way mostly adults bought them. LEGO should have known this and released LotR only as exclusives, just like they did with the Simpsons.

I hate to be the bearer of bad new but those are not jango fett figures they are just plain old mandalorian figures found in set 7914

Wow thats nice. And half a room of storage.

hmm I wonder if the limit of 2 really means EOL... 6862 is listed as retiring soon but has a limit of 5. I thought maybe it has something to do with DS, HH and GE being OOS but the 2 minecrafts have limts of 2. arrghhh..this makes my head hurt.... BUY BUY BUY!! =)

Then it will please you to know I left more on the shelf than I purchased. Was there for work and just to curious to see what a Canadian TRU had. I was surprised to see full range of monster fighters as well as many other retired sets I have not seen in the U.S. for many months, though at rather high prices.

good draft everyone

Hulk Helicarrier Breakout 6868 for $90 shipped Crazy Scientist & Monster 9466 for $70 shipped paid $35 each from WM a 3 weeks ago

And when the classified is rolled out

Phenomenal haul, congrats!

It seems like Europe and Canada have had a decent number of RI to go around, while the US has been overflowing with Exo Suits and hardly any RI

I'm sorry but this thread needed to be resurrected for the following auction. This is awesome. Only asking $500 OBO. Hey, it just be a deal since AFA "U" graded it. Yes folks, someone mailed AFA an unopened Batman JetSki poly and paid them to open, build, grade,and encase it. Who the heck pays another person to build a Lego set. Jeez. Don't get me started... u grade. JOKE. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lego-mini-figure-vehicle-BATMAN-with-JetSki-were-graded-/301290180515?pt=Building_Toys_US&hash=item46264b4fa3 Update : I hope the flippers and flick missile heads fall off the BatSki. Oh, I'm livid.

Finished the Pet Shop set. I really enjoyed this whole build.

I was thinking the same way until I thought ''there also are people who buy the new iphone 500/600 dollars every year''.

lol @ "plummeted".

Guess I should be patient and ask more for mine, if this is it the price is definitely going up. Something tells me Lego will release more though, it`s just strange. Remind me of Minecraft a couple years back, major spike in price, then more is released and the price comes down.

Did you open the box and say "Look sir, droids."?

I've spent the afternoon washing my Bionicle - that's not a euphemism. Sent from my GT-I9300 using Brickpicker mobile app

Gotten my best hauls that way.

Like already mentioned, buy R2 and DS sets. The other sets should be available for a while. There had only been 1 Lego Sandcrawler (10144). before 75059. When you think it's near retirement, buy as many as you can. Orig Trilogy fans like myself go nutty over that vehicle. It's popularity among SW fans surprises most people. For some reason, people like me are still fascinated with Jawas even after nearly 4 decades. While not as popular as say the Falcon and X-Wing, it's a dark horse. Sent from an iPhone using the Brickpicker app

Forewarning this is a picture intesive post. It's a hot mess at the moment because I've been running very low on space and the kids like to play in there so stuff is just everywhere. Hopefully you guys enjoy my little collection. I've had a lot of fun putting it all together with the wife.

feedback? you talking about feedback? feedback? hell, i just wanna get paid.

I have no information on this but talking about 10193 on another thread has got me thinking. 10223 is arguably the replacement for 10193. But it is also a Kingdoms set and when I was in the Lego store last month looking for 853373 chess set which had gone, they mentioned that the Kingdoms theme is going. So will this set be going soon after a relatively short life. It came out in early 2012. It's still available at LEGO Shop at Home UK (limit of 5) even the BP says it is not. The cheapest Amazon deal is