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$800 dinner or $8 dinner - it all comes out the same way in the end.

Here is what I replied "No" to... There will be 1000x the number of R2's, Town Halls and Haunted Houses on the after market. This was in reference to the 10179 Falcon. I know there was 20,000 First Edition 10179s made. So at the very least, there would have to be 20,000,000...or 20 MILLION R2's, Town Halls and HHs floating around in the storage facilities across the world for your statement to be true. Sorry, that is not reality. As for your other comments, what I make or why I stoke the flames is none of your business. I could easily keep the information to myself and let people fend for themselves. I have enabled thousands of people to take advantage of private information for FREE. They have gotten solid information from me on the Rover, RI, SSD, TH and now the 10225, all in the past 6 months. The site's costs have to get paid with something, so if Jeff or I ask people to click on a link, it costs you nothing, but helps keeps the site operational. I really don't understand your other points. Are you telling me that DOUBLING your money in ONE YEAR is a bad thing? I really don't know of many other investments that exhibit returns like that. Good luck with your future investments. I hear Hasbro will be making a remote controlled R2-D2 that beeps and lights up. Sounds like a solid investment.

Whatcha ya gonna do brother?!?!?

What has two thumbs and just got the "sorry we dont have those items" email?

Am I just dumb or Is there really no logic to that plan?

might still be better for what Target is doing with mine. they are shipping my 5 10225s in ONE box. that's 33.3 pounds of 100% pure 10225 r2d2. oh beep, beep, chirp,

No worries TG, SHAKE IT OFF, SHAKE IT OFF! I felt a tinge of desire to go running to buy more tumblers too somewhere along that circus talk. Bottom line is I don't think it is foolish to have a massive stack of tumblers growing in the old collection so when the coded message comes from nostradamack you can casually try to pick up a few instead of running around with my pants around my ankles to lego stores trying to scoop up R2s like a fool. Why my pants are around my ankles, I have no idea. I did manage to get 4 at 2 lego stores yesterday though, guess I'm lucky they aren't pushing the limit 1 exclusive thing.

In defense of panic buying: 1) It can be just as effective as buying over a longer period of time (at least in large citites like where I live). I've picked up twelve R2-D2s in the last 48 hours, and could get four more if the manager hadn't imposed a limit. Grrrr... 2) It's an efficient use of capital. Doubling your investment within 12 months creates a MUCH higher ROI (or CAGR or SCUBA or whatever) than doubling it in 36 months, which could be what happens if you buy a set at the beginning of its life. 3) It's fun! I've been having a blast calling Lego stores and zooming around buying the ones I find. I'm not desperate to do so, but hunting for a few extra R2s is like a scavenger hunt. Wheeeee!

It is like advising folks who mostly shop at Newman Marcus to comparison shop at Ross. We know that Amazon is just a facade - they, not quite... Oh, man, and when RI article in NY hit, the ratio was like 2 to 1 price wise. Granted, there were only 17 sellers on amazon at the time... I have no idea what ebay can ever do to get rid of flea market perception

You know it is Christmas selling season when... My Gungan Subs start selling. Amazing.

Thanks for keeping things running smoo---- Ooh, Mini-Trucker Magazine.

it aint a set but its LEGO ... hope to more than double than what i paid for this ...

I think people took my answer to Cross as the Tumbler retiring early. He asked if there was one set to invest heavily in right now, what set would it be? I said the Tumbler. Whether it retires in 6 months or 3 years, it is a great set and it is hard to acquire, so I said to start now because you can never have too many of these sets.

They need to do a refresh. SSD colliding with Town Hall SSD colliding with Research Institute...

Batman sets kick ass in the secondary market....That is all.

Take a breath here. I said there will be a lot of cryptic messages over the next 6 months. This set might have some life left in it, but I would strongly suggest if you don't have one, now is the time to start collecting them. Once the movies are over, you know all of these LOTR sets will be slowly vanishing. Also, there might be a certain amount of inventory that was planned to last until June, but once people start sniffing retirement, it will never last.

Everyone has the right to sell at their own price point... It just amazes me that some people are willing to work so hard for $5-10 when it should be clear there is money being left on the table.

How could it last until next year? Everyone keeps saying the license is two years so it must be so.

I like the cut of your jib.

When someone hands you a shovel...

it is not that easy finding teen smoking weed in the mall these days ..

I wonder if it was my listing with gray in the title! I demand 5 cents in royalties.

This set is a solid seller already. Hard to keep it in stock and its early November. Would advise anyone that has stores left with these to stock what you can. Pulling $120 paired with 40106. Could easily see the combo hit $150 as it gets deeper into the season.

4 sets of Series 2 Mixels LEGO Batman: Beyond Gotham w/ Plastic Man and DLC Keep checking those TRU Express stores: 1 x Star Wars: Desert Skiff - $0.03 1 x Chima: Ultimate Speedor Tournament - $0.03

No. Lego, real actual Lego, sells very well in China. Even right alongside the counterfeits. Where do you think I've sold my Tumblers?! TLG is well aware of the counterfeiters. Their legal team is actively pursuing legal action in China (which they summed up by saying basically: lol, good luck to us!). They have been to the trade city in Yiwu and seen all the knockoff offerings first hand and are doing their best (lol, good luck) to get rid of the blatant copiers.

Do u want to bet on it? If it retires u send me 21105, 21106, bttf, and a batcave - if it does not retire i will send u 2-3x RI Got a mail yesterday from lego, i asked 2 days ago if there will be a small chance to buy this set on black friday. The answer was no its eol like the TH and lego told me links like amazon.de, bricklink where i maybe can buy it.... And they are sorry but lego has to produce other new sets.bla bla

Was on the phone with Lego CS rep earlier today. She told me specifically that R2D2 is not retiring. It will come back, they will make more.

What pisses me off even more, is when i am on selling side at Amazon, they(Amazon) expect me to ship things nicely padded. hypocrites...

Don't you love that logic? Business screws up and can't ship stuff decently and if customer complains too much, ban the customer and keep on packaging stuff horribly. Problem solved right?

As of a recent check, there are still some R2's in the BM Lego stores by me (Chicago, Schaumburg, Orland Park). Picking mine up today and then will have reached my goal. Also this high quality, super well designed guy is part of buy 1 get 1 for $1 at the disneystore.com. Would look awesome with 10225 display as the scale is pretty close. I also really like the combination of plush and lego together...makes for an interesting looking set. http://www.disneystore.com/yoda-plush-star-wars-small-12/mp/1358678/1000267/

We need a post from mscheaf then we will know that it is going to go out of stock everywhere shortly. (actually it is just at LEGO Shop at Home with limit 2 so not sure it will happen that quick).

I think that is cutoff date for holiday sales qualification.

I know, but I have a feeling about this one. It sat and sat and sat some more at same quantities at collishop and now it is gone from their site. It doesn't mean anything ofcourse, but rather pick some up at a "decent" price then to be caught without any of them.

My Tower of Orthanc I backordered during 2x VIP and Toy Shop promo shipped.

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Frozen and Big Hero 6 merch doesn't seem to be included. But plenty of other cute stuff for your kids or you kids-at-heart! :)

Think SSD, HH and TH. This set will go in and out of stock multiple times on most of the major retailers. If you want one, you have to keep checking.

Bricklink Europe : HH Qty 114 Min Price 230(1x) 239.99(9x) TH Qty 94 Min Price 250~ (14x)

What has two thumbs and just took advantage of no order limit at TRU for RI?

Thems fightin words!!!

Life size, in my living room. And it had better come with a cooler under the seats.

@jerryherb: Clearly that 10179 certificate is real. Chinese copies would be minty fresh (no creases) and say something inane like 'super real Star Wart toy make happy child'!

Maybe few more extra cryptic hints in order?

I bought one from a lego store yesterday, 38R4

I definitely want this set! One reason: the tires. The last time those tires were made in black was in some space sets in the 90's.

Mixels

I got a misb winter village cottage (10229) for $100 shipped! :D

It is reasonable. LEGO introduced about 8 exclusives this year, they have to keep the outflow at the same rate if they don't want to inflate their exclusive selection. The question is which of these two scenarios will happen: LEGO will keep up current rate of incoming new exclusives which will have shorter production runs. Recent retirements happened to restore the balance of inflow-outflow. LEGO will introduce less exclusives per year and trims its overall offers. To understand this phenomenon you have to think about why LEGO has such a large selection now. I believe they extended the lifetime of older exclusives to discourage resellers, however this resulted in an inflated supply. The exclusives were imagined with a ~1-2 year lifetime initially and they only changed their minds because of the resellers. They had to see by now that this strategy is useless, since FB, GE and other old stuff still have the same behaviour as if they were only 2 years old when retirement is felt in the air. The date of the retirement doesn't matter overall, because mass buying occurs mostly when the signs are there. However keeping this many sets in production increases costs significantly and the demand is fragmented between them. I don't say capacity issues because if there are less sets then more of the same ones will be bought, however that makes logistics and planning much easier while reducing occupied shelf space. With these in mind and the fact that the "extended lifetime strategy" turned out to be basically useless LEGO can only win by trimming its exclusive selection. On the other hand we can firmly guess that the new golden age is partly a result of the rise of the AFOL market, mainly because those people probably buy much more sets to their children than an average parent. To draw in adults they need some kind of diversity. Trimming the market too much could kill this effect. Also what I see is that new exclusives are top sellers for months after introduction, even go out of stock, I think casual collectors buy the new stuff first because those are conceived to be the best and are represented best in the related media. The demand over time is U shaped: first the collectors, then a flat line with little activity and resellers at the end. LEGO wants to reduce the duration of the low demand phase. Therefore it is reasonable to speed up the circulation of sets. So this is what I believe LEGO will do: Introduce exclusives at the same rate as now to exploit the large demand after introduction but returns to 1.5-2 year long production cycles to reduce costs. Battling resellers will be done by other methods, for example selling exclusives online etc. We will see.