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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.

This is a topic for another thread, but buying LEGO on credit is a viable practice...and actually smart at times. Using someone else's money to buy an appreciating asset(especially when bought at a discount) works for many on this site. You just have to be careful not to overextend one's self.

Nah, I would thank you for your environmental efforts

Oh ok, I misunderstood situation then. Like Ed Mack said, it is a very good investment. If I say i'd never buy a set above retail, i'd be a hypocrite because I bought 2 rovers at 45

One is licensed, the other isn't perhaps? If Lego has paid for a Ghostbusters license, they're going to want to make the best of it for its duration. A small set of a few generic minifigs and some bits and bobs (RI) selling at $20 a go, probably isn't worth taking any further, even with the high (for now) demand. They'll have a new Ideas set out soon enough to cash in on.

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

Erm excuse me, I think you've got enough Lego. Some people are so greedy!

I think this is wrong advice. What if next month there is an accident with his car or any other financial problem. Don't think people should be advised to buy Lego on credit even if it would be a possible good deal.

i have to thank you for that. without your help i wouldn't have been able to acquire them.

A Tumbler or Maersk Triple E on September 1st is a nice deal with the extra freebies from LEGO S@H.

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

The masses don't buy $400+ sets but the death star has been one of the hottest sets since its creation hence it's lengthy shelf life. Be weary what someone with money will to to get their hands on something highly sought after

And don't forget about adding the ly... Facetiously still has all the vowels in alphabetical order.

unless it gets replaced by panic christmas buying...

I know that I just talked with someone at LEGO Shop at Home and understood what she said, clear as day. If you are referring to what I posted, I was just relaying info from an actual Lego employee that I spoke with and shared it with you all because I thought you all might want to know. Could she be wrong? Sure. Could she be right? Sure. Take it how you want it.

So glad I hadn't learned about this when the promo started in June. I might have had to go tricker treating as Fat Bastard.

I don't see what legodelorean said in a wrong way. He did not present it as fact. He clearly cited the source. He did say "If you find more RI's around buy them. This one is hot". but... "If you find more RI's around buy them." - of course you will. You'll stomp each other if lingering amount shows up anywhere "This one is hot" - duh? He could have mentioned it in "employee thread" instead, but it does have relevance to this thread, so he would have to post in both places anyway.

I just spoke to a lego employment was told they are starting a new line it's called blast from the past where they will remake all retired sets that r in demand.... Starting with RI cause its retired and the most in demand now. Followed by a certain Falcon. Ugh. People speaking in fact is annoying. U know nothing. I know nothing.

Just when we thought we were done collecting Simpsons Minifigures... The Brick Fan is reporting that a EuroBricks member is reporting that David Thomson is reporting that the Simpsons minifigures will return for wave 2 in 2015. via The Brick Fan

I think I was thinking of Jerky Turkey and seems it was a brown bear carrying around the "Eat at Joe's" board.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7GcRcxDdnU

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

I think at 50% - 75% off, you can't go wrong, but there's not much potential growth there over MSRP.

Well, I did get to the point where I was just going in and buying the toys/coupons straight up for a buck a piece. Although, I did have loads of free waffle cone frosty vouchers I cashed in on while I was there. I can eat, but I can also lose it when I need to. It's a fine balance.

Exciter, if I hadn't seen a picture of you I would have guessed you looked like someone off Honey Boo Boo with all these food things. I mean you ate at Wendy's last year like 30 times in a month.

There are 18 more production runs.....in the basement......of the Alamo!

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.

Wow thats nice. And half a room of storage.

I think these sets more follow my theory that a big factor in a sets after retirement growth is HOW the set retires. Most of these LOTR sets were available up until Christmas. There wasn't a shortage, they didn't just disappear. They were around still for a while found in clearance isles, at TRU etc. This dampens it. I think after the Christmas boom hits and people realize they can't find these sets at all anywhere anymore, they will grow more. And when the whole LOTR theme is gone and we just have hobbit.

That's because I'm awesome. Oh, and also because it was a freebie in Europe in July 1-7th for any purchase above 30

I went under the house today to clean it up and it was a disaster. But after a few hours i was able to move all our junk of to the side to make easy access to my lego boxes. I may be a little bit of an addict lol. Oh I'm currently missing my simpsons house box. The kids made a wreck of it and I'm fixing it.

Castle 7094 and 7091 + extra figures and horses on ebay. $200. Paid $125 for the sets a couple years ago and extra figures were amassed from CL finds and the like. CC bill came today, so it was nice to move this along, wife was a bit surprised at my portion of the bill this month.

Phenomenal haul, congrats!

Hi, I found this very interesting, but wasnt sure where to post this thread. Feel free to move it. A pair of back-to-back Lego heists last week exposed a flourishing trend in the criminal underworld that's been quietly building for years. Stolen Legos are as untraceable as cash. For more, click on the link tot he article. http://www.vocativ.com/underworld/crime/lego-heists/#!bKM3vd

I thought it was a bunny, my son came right up and said "it's a bat, not a bunny". So there you go, you have to be 8 to understand the set.

I wouldn't mind not seeing any Halloween stuff for a while, large ones anyways. Maybe the vamp castle will start to move. I'll hand out a few Blacula Bunnies to the best dressed trick or treaters on Halloween. Love that.

Considering Brickpicker doesn't sell anything, my vote is for Brickowl on this one

The new turtle designs are terrible. The cartoon minifigs look much better. Maybe the movie sets features are better but I don't really care about that. I prefer the cartoon sets over the movie sets. It's the closest I'll get to the original late 80's/90's cartoon series. I can't let go of the fact that it's a crap movie by Michael Bay, Megan Fox is in it and I dislike her in movies, and the turtles look like freakin' orcs from Lord of the Rings. Just my personal opinion.

I am curious too about this. It always crosses my mind to put an adv. up. But never done it cause I think it will not be successful.

somewhere emazers is shaking his fists in disgust for you not buying them at $399~ during the last 4 years. he only reminded us a couple times per year.

Don't you live in San Diego? Take a break and go outside. I recommend Cabrillo National Monument. I used to de-stress up there when I lived in Mission Beach. Oh and right now I'm building this, it's the second one I've done this week! I recently got a few great lots.