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For all of the companies I've worked for, generally it was ok to buy product and do with it as you wish as long as you were not on the clock and you did not use your employee discount. I don't know if that's Lego's policy. So all they would have available to themselves over us is stock status. I guess they might need a forum thread, "what I heard from myself today."

You should have told him that he can buy one from you for 300 euro :-P

Called Lego again because I wanted to return my exo suits :-P.. I also asked them again about the HH that I have on backorder. The friendly lady at the phone said there was a small batch coming in where also all the Lego employees themselves were excited about, because there was a frenzy going on under the staff itself to obtain also a HH. So.. first divide the shipment under the staff. is there anything left? OK than we are going to fulfill some backorders LOL.

for 135

Having LEGO declare a set "retired" is just a confirmation of what a sharp and savvy investor investor already knows. If people are waiting for a set to be officially marked as such, they are already too late and will never make any money investing in LEGO sets.

Dump the crap, not a FB.

Keep FB but buy more TH. With 90 day free returns that would be the best strategy right now IMO. I was a doubter 3 weeks ago but after TLG tipped its hand then it is time to go all in. I am in this game to make money, not to be right.

When you have dozens of similar boxes of fun piling up - it isn't so much fun.

I do have to say that if this bad boy is truly gone this year and gets the "official" mark from Lego, then me picking up 14 in one fell swoop at the very end may go down in my very own history books as an amazing opportunity. When SSD was going and I was able to snag 4 from amazon at the last minute of random inventory I thought that was great. I am now at 24 of these, I figured I was done and wrote it off, thank you Brickpicker!

If you read enough of the posts these last few weeks - everything is retiring.

The more I look the more the more work I see.

My eyes!

Mixels are a horrible investment. Everyone should stop buying them. That way I can come and buy them all up.

When the movie "the Avengers" came out I saw it on opening night and bought a large drink which came with the Avengers souvenir cup. I then sold the cup for $36. So ticket $14 + drink $6 = $20. I got paid $16 to watch the Avengers.

Dunno but the EEE will not retire before 2050 considering all these dedicated containers.

Everything is retiring this year!

Hi all, After some beta testing, I have recently shared my software to synchronize inventory between the BrickLink and BrickOwl marketplaces. It runs on a seller's own computer, handles orders both ways, everything is saved as BrickStock compatible BSX files, and it should be rock solid against anything (even yanking on the ethernet cable in the middle of an update, a power cut while writing a file, etc.). So, there it is: http://www.bricksync.net/ My original plan was to make it open-source and donation-supported, but various people commented that very few people would donate if they could avoid it. Well, they were probably right! So, the only limitation is that a seller with over 250000 items will be kindly invited to support BrickSync, otherwise a little math question/puzzle will be asked to check for new orders. (I still plan to release the code under a General Public License if the donations reach a certain amount.) So, better plan ahead for the extra workload of doubled sales! And If you become rich and famous thanks to the software, please remember that it's primarily donation supported. Thanks. Stragus

Hi guys, Just spot a 50% off deal at Sears, see here: http://www.sears.ca/product/lego-creator-highway-pickup-set/616-000053108-4654041. For this Creator set although it has been retired but there seems no much investment potential, I think it could still be a perfect gift! I bought this thing last year for my son's birthday at 20% off, and it is quite good. Personally I have grabbed extra 4 more for the Xmas season. Good luck!

Yes the legs are attached too. It doesn't look like anything can be taken of a light-up minifigure.

No kidding. And find out whos buying all that bc I've got some overpriced legos to sell them

Tell him if he got an $1100 offer he should take it and run because he won't get anywhere close to that from an informed buyer.

I have no trouble investing where others see no point I can't believe I almost listened to the people who begged me not to get a ton of Hoth Echo Base when they were $80 or so (CAN). People hate on lots of sets...but if you think it is cool, I say diversify and get a couple tucked away. I suspect in all the hubbub of other large sets retiring or going in/out of stock, that you won't have too many competitors in the aftermarket. At the very least, you don't have to compete with Emazers, who would likely have 65 of these to unload....

For an intelligent analysis of 10228 read here: http://blog.brickpicker.com/evaluation-corner/lego-10228-haunted-house-investment-potential-that-is-scary/ FWIW HH is already outperforming GG handily in the early stages. I bought my MISB GG for $300 shipped on ebay 18 months after its offcial retirement.

Yes, without hesitation! Especially Yellows as those tend to sell for the most. Black/gray tend to be the most common but still worth grabbing

You do know you will attract a lot of seedy men in macs calling at your door if you go sticking a red light in your window.

My last 2 TRU Bat Signals for $20 each. Now Trekgate can sell his at $22

If I remember right the answer is no.

Have bought them also at 135 euro. I don't think it will be much cheaper, so better safe then sorry. ToysXL already had 3 for price of 2, but the price of the TH was 179,99 and you had to find 2 other lego sets similar to that price. And they didn't had a lot of Town Halls. So then the best price would have been 120 euro's a set. But I am happy with the 135 euro.

If only there was a website where we could learn more...

200% agree with that. I forbid you to resell your FBs now ! (unless you just want your money back, of course) That's not a year since it's retired !!

Welcome to the show.

Not to get off topic but let's not put Lone Ranger and LOTR in the same category. One was a single failed movie which is already forgotten and the other a beloved franchise that will stand the test of time. I'd put LOTR more in the category of Indiana Jones and those are doing ok, though it depends on the set... it will be the same for LOTR.

Little plastic LEGO flowers.

Yea, I hit one order, then went fro another and it dropped me to 6 available. I took forever too, as I wasn't logged in etc, wrong CC. I figured no way. Then CC flagged as fraud, jumped through those hoops and still snagged the second order. BP's must have been looking at flowers at that particular moment.

I'll drink to that! For those that were lucky enough and fortunate enough to stock up on these you will all do very well in the future. For the rest of us there will be a lesson learned on waiting and not buying. (esp with modulars) This is my Freshman year and man have I learned a lot about lego buying, investing, collecting etc. Thanks to BP and all of the great insight on this forum.

Yes, no more discussion please. I'm traveling this week, otherwise this discussion would have been ended a long time ago.

I guess that's the moment when it is appropriate to call people too greedy ;-)

Estimates are always waay off when you actually get there (likely there'll only be 60 lbs), imho, some moderately good money sets in there but unfortunately the easy flip ones appear to be too far gone (incomplete) to be worth the effort to rebuild, once you include multiple BL order shipping costs. The starwars sets are common, the city vehicles do well selling as individuals (rather than rebuilt sets), the figs are a nice wide selection (some good ones). For a parter-outer it's a good selection, for rebuilds - not so much. it's basically a $5 per pound offer due to the work involved. missing instructions isn't a significant deterrent, they are easily found for free next to free as they are all recent sets - most of them are pretty easily recognisable.

I would have thought that kind of thing would be frowned upon by their management (who probably each have 20 stashed away themselves). Got my order from the 1st this morning. Got a fright when I saw the shipping box was open and the white plastic ties were gone, but it's in perfect shape thankfully.

So, there are resellers among lego employees, hmmm ? You can't trust anyone these days. What a shame ! (100th page of the HH thread: I was there )

In a certain way, it would be like comparing an Emporium with a Grocery. So I wouldn't exclude this possibility, even if it's slight. But a museum, a tool store or a school would be a better bet. (come on lego, where is the sex shop ? I have a serie 12 - piggy guy to put in front of it)

Maybe they could talk them out of it using walkie-talkies. Or at least club them to death with those

No snacks?

Try again, I think you should see that it retains your selection now. I have added this to the Brickfolio and Set pages. I increased the limit so you should have more than enough likes available

The 2 of 2 set doesn't interest me at all, so I don't have anything planned for November other than using up all of the points I've accumulated in October. Today is day 23/31 of my daily exclusive purchase experiment. The points and free elf workshops have been accumulating quite well so far.

Without a Town Hall to uphold the law and keep Lego towns protected, I fear anarchy, pandemonium, and martial law may run rampant. Also, wolves. Without a city council to address the problem of wolves, there will be no organized defense against them.

It don't matter anymooooore! LEGO Shop at Home cancelled my order but today I bumped into 4 more :'D

RI, $74.95 Mixels Series 1, $114.95

Series 1 Mixels, $110

If it hit the wire, NSA most likely has it already. If it was encrypted, then NSA has it for sure... But yeah, I see your point, once your volume is high enough, it becomes similar to any business - you don't want to provide an easy way to access your business data