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Hey Guys! So a couple months ago i started the long painful process of brickbuilding the 10179. I had many of the parts already from having a very large collection of light gray pieces, and i had been starting to really see the imperfections and scale issues with my 7965 Falcon on display (granted it's not a display model by any means, but it was better than spending thousands for the 10179). 7965 was also the set that brought me out of the dark ages. After trying for month to get a used one on CL or Kijiji, i caved and decided to start. Once finished i realized it was much larger than i thought, and had trouble finding a spot to display it. When i finally did find a spot to display it flat; it really didn't seem to do it justice and i began researching other ways to go about displaying it. Typically i'd use 2x4 clear bricks to prop ships up into more interesting angles, but 10179 would just be too heavy for that. Sure enough there were a couple search results of people mounting it on the wall, and one specifically on YouTube that had it mounted in a way that gave it mobility by using a TV wall mount. I decided this is what i was going to go for vs. a static mount as it allowed it to move into many angles, and the user had a YouTube video with great images of what i'd have to do. This took a good few weeks to complete as there were countless issues that arose. The YouTube video does not give exact details, and finding similar/like parts he used wasn't possible. In the end my mount construction resembles his, but is certainly a bit different. While the 10179 has a very strong inner frame; there are many parts i had to reinforce with more technic liftarms and even rubber bands (i'm looking at you rear underside section). I do believe i was able to find close to the exact same mount he used, but my brackets and the LEGO part of it have been constructed differently. I also added an RGB strip to the back engines to add some flare And no it has not fallen yet haha, but i do check it every so often to see if anything is bending/giving. The first night of it being up i was dreaded of being woken up by a terrifying crash I intend to paint the LED power cord the same colour as the wall to hide it. Anyways i thought some of you might be interested in seeing it. I think this really does the model justice (or at least saves some space!). ** Edit: forum upgrade seems to have lost the pictures... go to this post for new ones. **

Ours is a little different, but here's the thread that gave me the basic idea. http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=78309 It also allows the gate to be raised and lowered while the palace is on top, which the official version does not.

i swear to god if you don't greeble the wall to look like the back of a star destroyer bridge i'm going to come to your house and take your mancard and the 10179

I just bought my second copy of 21050 - the LEGO Architecture Studio set. Apart from the 10$ price increase, I noticed a number of unexpected changes were made to the set, branding and packaging. I shared these changes in the following short article... LINK: http://tomalphin.com/2014/09/changes-to-21050-architecture-studio.html Have you noticed any other changes? Do other LEGO sets see this much change in the middle of the release? Discuss! Sincerely, ---tom

I think a strong angle might be re-seller to re-seller sales. One thing that this site has over the competition is that it has a very large group of re-sellers (and buyers) with large inventories of LEGO. I am not so sure that many typical retail buyers will be stopping by very often to purchase a $10 friends set here (instead of buying it on ebay), but there are so many re-sellers associated with the site - that there couldn't be a better place to sell a lot of 20 of the same set. We all have underperformers, or sets that we simply purchased way too many of. Maybe someone came across a great deal on a bunch of sets of a theme that they aren't that interested in - this will be a great place to be able to sell them (without giving 10% of it away in fees). There are also so many Investors nowadays that decide that they need to get out (for whatever reason) - no other place can compete.

Perfect photo shop, can't even tell it's fake.

I am just going to leave this here

Well it's a risk we may have to take. I am not going to hide the fact that we will be trying to do a few different things here and there. My goal was to never just go out and duplicate these other sites. There will be things you like and don't. The beauty is, we are allowed to make changes. But also, over time, maybe if you like what's going on here and things are working out, perhaps you will find a way to change the way you do things. It's like that commercial where the guy doesn't invest in Twitter because he says.. "who is going to use something with 140 characters". I bet a lot of people thought that was a bad idea. Will this be the next Twitter? Not exactly, but it will be a product that will show people what they are getting when they hit that purchase button.

3+ Years into this game and things are looking good. Newbies please reread that. It has taken 3 YEARS. I have turned over minimal inventory during that time as life's bills requirements dictated. Adopting expenses and buying a home. Neither was cheap and both happened this calendar year...ouch on the pocketbook. A new holiday selling season is upon us. I currently have about 920+ sets inventoried with another 30 plus loose sets not accounted for. Within that inventory about 1/3+ has appreciated to levels that meet my goals for selling. A key note is most of that sellable inventory was bought in 2011/2012 with only a few exceptions. So I have waited 2-3 years to achieve gains that align with my goals. Can some do it better with more opportune buying, most definitely. But this is my path. In my brief time playing this game I have seen a few, definitely a minority of sets which could be flipped quickly. Research Institute, 41999 (early selling), Exo Suit, early selling of minecraft and a few others the community could help point out. Trouble is the competition is fierce on these flip worthy sets. So if you work full time and cannot be online at any given moment to snap up inventory then many of those easy money sets will be elusive. I also need to take more advantage of points/coupons/buying strategies to save as much upfront money as possible. Personally I don't worry that much about them. Sure I hate to pass up free money but I have not been online at the right time for any of the offerings. I am seriously bumming on missing the Wal-Mart 10214 Tower Bridge orgy. By the time they are posted here the inventory is poofed. Point is this game takes time to develop with a few exceptions that are an exception. All this is just my opinion based on what I have encountered. Your results may be different.

Welcome. Last time I drove across your fair, flat, and very windy state I ate breakfast in some little diner somewhere around the middle off of I-70. The waitress was around 90 years old and wore a shirt saying; Dear Auntie 'Em, Hate you, hate Kansas, took the dog. Dorothy I nearly died laughing.

Great price since you'll be saving $50-$60 plus tax. Better yet, you can build it and leave it in display while waiting for EOL. Even used, it's still a nice buy-in price as an investment.

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I think that they use this piece.

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Welcome! Since you are the tiger, how are those lions and bears?

LOTR and Hobbit fans have been around for 40 years. They are all very dedicated and well versed. This theme will do well over time.

I make long term investments with credit cards. Why not? I use 0% cards and I pay it off in a few weeks and I still have the set. Did I miss something here?

You will set your default country, currencies, etc. When you are listing a new product, by default the first shipping location that comes up is your own. So if you are in Australia, you will say that shipping to Australia is $5.00. You can stop there. Everyone else in the world will see a warning at the top of the listing that "This seller does not ship to you". This is something the other sites do and knew it would be important to include. Then you can either handpick other countries that you are willing to ship to or just include Everywhere else and then it's global. $5.00 to Australia, then maybe $20 everywhere else. You can also set up shipping profiles for different setups or products. So you can have a minifigure shipping profile for lighter packaging and then maybe a SSD profile for big boxes. It's pretty flexible.

Tons of stuff. Some are dumb ideas. Corner bar with a snowy roof (ha), big winter zoo, , 1950s style gas / petrol station (holiday gas stations stuff used to be very popular here), city hall, hotel, revised holiday train, ginger bread holiday house, doc's office, set with a hill for kids sliding down with sleds, etc...

Buy it, buid it, display it, sell it

I have a specific idea of what would be a really cool option as a seller. It kind of ties into the stock photo discussion. I assume many sellers will have a great deal of multiples of some sets probably 20+ up to in the hundreds in many cases. Could there be an option where it is basically a stock photo or photo of "the stash" or a photo of 3 examples from your inventory with different pricing structure? Say you are selling power armor lex for example and your price for a "nice box but not mint" is $50. That would be the vast majority of the inventory and the typical price. You could also have an option "damaged box but new/100% complete sealed" and price that at $40 or whatever and have "close to mint box" option for $60. Then the buyer can decide if they are the type who want a mint box or don't really care about box condition.

I hope you will also get a free chima polybag.

One feature of BrickLink I like is the ability to quickly determine sellers in my home country - it not only helps determine who will have lower shipping costs, but keeps expectations in check regarding price. With the "Australia Tax" being in play, the ability for Australian sellers to find Australian buyers will be important.

yup. its better your way. .. looks like i will be sitting on those exo-suits for next 2 years

I'll be buying up some prototype Advanced Tie Fighters.

That's an excellent idea. I'm going to take that under consideration. If I do get RI I know I will at least have to post pictures or no one will believe me.

bump - I think #1, 2, and 5 are Advent Calendar 2011 City sets. Haha beat you all

A ) Marina Bay Sands is three words and B ) that's a silly comparison and you know it :)

The obvious answer is 42

It's like Christmas in September... but the gift is from Uncle "Screwdge"...

We cut the seals on one .. Was our first cuuso/ideas set we opened. Its cute but nothing special. I wouldn't pay $80+ for it having built it. The minifigs are clearly of inferior quality to some others and the chemist's hair falls off. The microscope doesn't have "a place" and feels thrown in. The dinosaur is fragile... though pretty great. The telescope looks cool but is also extremely fragile and hard to get a good angle with. And lastly, the astronomer's chalk board is awesome but partially obscured by the "tray" at the bottom. They could have done so much more... it really feels like it was thrown together to appease the fans. I see it staying (or coming down on Amazon) at around $60-$75 short/medium term, then going back up to $100+ as it gets rarer just because it is rare. ** edit, oops, dang ipod. **

eBay. I actually was surprised since it's early. I'm kicking myself for passing on a few of these at walmart when they had them for $40 in March....

So my 5 "RI" from KMart shipped. I think there is only a 5% chance I actually get RI but it will be fun to open the box and see what I get. I will report back.

Spoken like a true reseller, trying to corner the market for yourself? Swarm! Swarm!

SOOO much on Think Geek. mostly black gates as well as some Castle sets. I also redeemed my crap load of Think Geek points as well.

Man thats not bad at all. I have seen good discounts from USPS if its a small distance. Its weird how the discounts work.

I'm keeping every single one I have stashed for the the long term.

Yes I am keeping one stashed away. As the initial cost is only $20, I am not concerned about short and medium term fluctuations in the market. Ex Astris, Scientia.

It's also fun and not too hard to combine two rancor pits to make a larger, more stable base for jabba's palace. This allows the tower portion to sit above the pit as well, instead of having to be disconnected from jabba's main entertaining space. I did this project with the kids after seeing some other people's mods on euro bricks and it was a lot of fun. We were also able to make the whole thing a bit taller with the extra bricks. Much improved. Now I've sold the figs from the second set, so it cost me basically nothing.

A nice surprise: Hobbit Barrel Escape for $48 shipped

Its Like I said every would be investor says that they can play the waiting game, but it boils down to around 75% of investors crack within a year or so.

Yes, this is already setup and ready to go other than adding different classifications. Basically you first pick New or Used. Then a new dropdown appears and you select the best classification New | MISB New | Damaged Box New | No minifigs Used | Missing Parts Used | Set is a total disaster, watchout

I know you have mentioned this before, and you probably already included it anyway, but it would be great to have a set of standard item conditions that help keep listings consistent. For example, we could have a New W/O Figures kind of thing, that would mean bags were opened only to remove minifigs, and so on. This kind of thing would reduce buyer confusion and also make it easier for sellers.

As an investor, I try to follow the rule: "Original Trilogy, or forget it." But as a dad, these new sets look interesting. I've seen some wide criticsim of this new addition to the "expanded universe" lately. Adult fans hate that Disney is going to make a "kiddie-show" out of their religion. My 6-yr-old (and I) love the six movies. We love the Lego Yoda Chronicles. We watch the animated Clone Wars, but many episodes are just boring - too much politics and chit-chat, not enough monsters and light sabre fights. So now we're seeing the 3 to 5 minute trailers for the Rebels series coming out, and we can't wait to see the show. The character Zeb is very likeable, and pounds on stormtroopers. The ship looks cool. The new astro-mech "Chopper" seems to have more personality than R2-D2. I think the show could be a big hit with kids. I was lucky enough to find a smashed-box 75053 Ghost at my Toys R Us - got it for about US$35 after coupons (my first ever real bargain). My son is going to love it. But I'm looking for another at a discount - just to have a mint "first-of-series" set to hang on to. If the show takes off, it might be worth something some day. And if they're scarce at Christmas... that's fine too.

The Lego LotR theme has an identity problem. First, the movies are PG-13 so Lego's target audience is technically too young to even watch them. Yet, the sets are definitely designed with kid's and playability in mind. So, you have an entire theme that AFOLs should be crazy into, but it falls flat because of those design issues. Lego should have probably slapped a 16+ age label on this entire theme and designed fewer, but more complicated sets. I agree. Down the road, if someone is going to get just one LotR/Hobbit set, this one is probably it (even over Orthanc). It's well designed, has some nice building techniques, instantly recognizable, and the details cover both LotR and The Hobbit. It has a small footprint so it's easy to display.

A lot of the sets in both lines fall into the unfortunate trap of having to slot into different price points on the retail scale. Each wave had to have sets ranging right through each pricing bracket. As such most of the small or medium sized sets failed to truly capture the source material and appeal to collectors. The strength really is those minifigures. From a personal position I have collected every LotR, but only one Hobbit (UG). As a big fan of both the books and the movies (hey it's compulsory, I'm from NZ!) I feel that my own thoughts should somewhat mirror those of the secondary market collector, as I've said before, it's the AFOLs, not the kids providing the majority of growth for these themes. One thing I want in a set is display potential. "Playing" with sets holds zero interest. Flick fire missiles on Weathertop! Give me a break! My LotR rankings go like this: Tower of Orthanc - No contest. One of my favourite sets of all time. So damn impressive looking. Helm's Deep + Uruk Hai Army - It really needs the additional clip-on to make the Deeping Wall look semi-realistic, plus the extra minifigs to bulk out the army Pirate Ship - It always gets great comments from guests. Not Immediately recognizable as an LotR set but the minifigs (9! including King of the Dead!) pull it through. It's big and commands attention. Black Gate - another imposing looking set. Especially if 2 are joined together (I still need to get around to doing this!). Mouth of Sauron who only shows up in the extended cut movies/books as well. Shelob - Giant Spider, enough said Council of Elrond - small but looks really nice on display with it's minifigs. Nice colour schemes. Everything else - most of these have been put away back in the closet with only minifigs left out. They generally have nothing to warrant some of my limited display space.

I am happy with my LOTR collection. A lot of fear is born out of impatience and the lack of instant results. Not every investment works that way. I am not as convinced on the Hobbit side of things, though there are key figures that purists and completists will want. Elves, dwarves, trolls, wargs, orcs, wizards, Uruk-hai...

At first, when I read the topic title, I thought it was about hiding lego for the wife or IRS.

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