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I think I finally get what the big deal is...this Minecraft stuff is addicting, you really can build anything...

That moment when you just happen to F5 a 10228 on Amazon...no scripts!

If people knew more about LEGO Shop at Home then LEGO wouldn't have to rely on Amazon and other 3rd parties this much and have a greater degree of control over its supply and price. If people had more information this would actually be better for LEGO since they would buy directly from them, where they can also enforce purchase limits. I find it always funny when people are buying some (not this one now, since it's sold out) sets waaaay over MSRP on Amazon, ebay etc. when they are still available on LEGO Shop at Home. And I cant even say that this is because of high information costs since if you google a set the first hit is the LEGO site.

We may consider moving this thread to member-only.... especially if prices move up, and next wave does not show up

OK, I just received my package from Yo-Yo. When I open it, there are tons & tons of air bubbles. At the bottom of the box is my order of 10 Mixels. While they arrived safely & I'm grateful for that. The box seems a little too big for 10 Mixels. So, let's see what would have fit appropriately in this box. Oh, here it is, Winter Market Village fits just fine & with enough room left over for the Mixels. No...not 1 WMV but 5! 5 WMV fit very comfortably in this box...

Totally off topic and has absolutely nothing to do with TH , LEGO or anything but you are one hell of a poster. Very intellectual and if I had to guess you have some background in writing. Your posts are very educated and I really do enjoy them. Others also must have the same feeling as you have a staggering close to 60% like per post rate (LPPR in case you were wondering, and yes that is completely made up but fitting with all the crazy abbreviations we have on this site). Most higher percentage posters (and generally likable people on this site) are in the 25-33% range. Anyways thanks for the great additions you bring to the site!

Modulars are only going one direction, up. Especially as more AFOL's discover how appealing the modular line is. Jaison is right- people are addicted to these things. I have twelve TH and can't think of a set in my collection I am more interested in holding for the very, very, very long term and treating with a "back burner" mentality. With every new outstanding mod introduced (ex: PR), the appeal of previous mod's is greatly strengthened. Who doesn't want a "complete" collection? IMO, we are still in the infancy phase of what the Modular line will draw to for AFOL's for years to come. Scarcity = $. Huge upside potential on the TH. It's doubtful TLG will ever produce another mod at this price point/piece-count based on the lack-luster sales this one produced (in spite of its outstanding aesthetic appeal). The investor/collector ratio greatly favors investors. All the ingredients needed for a long-term hold. Flip your bat caves. Hold the TH.

I had a pretty good craigslist score today. Bought the following used lot. All look to be complete upon first inspection. 10173 holiday train 4512 cargo train 6990 space monorail 6921 monorail accessory track 6211 imperial star destroyer 7823 container crane depot 4520 curved track (new/unopened) a huge tote of extra 9V train track all for the grand sum of $350. lot calculator shows a bp value of $1236, not including the extra tote of track. I am super stoked and cant wait to dig into this, but it wil probably have to wait until after the holidays since I have been so busy lately.

Sold my first mixel Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Brickpicker mobile app

[Troll] didn't indicate that it can't be searched through normal methods, but if you have previously searched for the item, then it shows up in your previously view links and there are other links above. Still in stock when last I checked. Now I wait for the "I can't believe those Canadians in their igloos aren't snapping these up, don't they realize how foolish they are with the value of the dollar!" Ex Astris, Scientia.

I had that on a couple of sets during 2xVIP in October. I didn't contact them and the sets were shipped soon after, so there is still hope.

It is now http://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/lego-bricks-more-lego-lego-creative-tower-10664/6000189477534

Green Grocers for $1,500 5 years after retirement well that is perfectly OK and fine. But $70 for an Advent Calendar the year it came out - they may call you a gouger. I call you a friend. (or brother since I sold mine for $70 each too)

German site Promobricks.de posted the first leaked photos for the new Series They say the sources is the 2015 LEGO Catalog. Honestly, I have to say - I don't see a miss in here at all. On first glance, and for the first time, I think I really like all of these figures.

It is amazing how much the term 'price gouging' gets thrown around when people are butt hurt about prices they pay when not getting things bought early enough. The sets have been available since September. Price gouging doesn't exist - especially not with toys. It's the market at work. It's a voluntary transaction. It's not like you need Legos to survive, biologically speaking. What do we know about it? We're all just stone cold reseller scum, and our little black hearts only beat for profits. It's amazing how well I sleep at night. It must be all the extra cash I've been able to stuff in my pillow. ;)

Honestly, this is what LEGO hates. It's capitalism at its finest...or worst some would argue. I just wonder though how much negative feedback a company like Amazon will accept before they limit excessive pricing of items. Or maybe they are quite aware and just don't care.

i don't understand why people are venting at the prices.. they can vote with their wallet. if they believe that there is price gouging they should not buy it at all

Cladner, if you get this setup running successfully, let me know and we'll franchise it...ice cream in the summer and LEGO in the winter...you can't lose!

Not sure if you are serious or not, but if you are..... TRU parking lot selling is not actually recommended, sort of a joke around here. Well, at least for some. Note, you will often see this practice mentioned with "hotcakes". They are not actually selling hotcakes. So when you hear about someone selling hotcakes out of their trunk at TRU, just move along... ; )

Whoah, that is hardcore! You are setting up shop outside a TRU?!? I would love to see how this works. Are you standing outside holding Legos? Are people skeptical? Anything you could tell me about how this plays out would be awesome.

Did my good deed for the season. Went by a couple of local TRU to check their stock on 75056. One was all out, the other had 1 hidden behind a Super Heroes sets. Saw a mother looking in the spot where the kept the calendars, she walked away. I picked it up, placed it on the shelf when I knew she was looking and walked away. Walked around the corner, turned around, and watched her quickly pick it up and rush to the counter. Hopefully me passing on this one, will translate to me selling my stock for profit.

yes, that's the one, lol. We had a nice long philosophical discussion between what is a "for profit" vs a "profiteer". No hard feelings...I get their side of it. This is actually the first year I'm really setting out to make money on quick flipping out of stock sets....does feel a bit slimy...but hey, in the end, I think the extra $ will help ease the pain.

how did you get a picture of me? all the TRU's around me are not in locations where people are spending 3 x msrp on little plastic bricks. so no i won't actually be huckstering minecraft with the got tumblers? got minecraft? sandwich sign in the tru parking lot as entertaining as it might be for a new reality show i'm trying to get on bravo called brickpicker wars. it goes through the trials and tribulations of the QFLL as they struggle to find new and ingenious ways to wheel and deal in lego while trying to stay one brick ahead of the competition, dealing with uncooperative TRU managers, and trying to master the jedi mind powers of pseudoty. thursday after the real housewives of milwaukee. somehow i see the first episode ends up with me getting put in the back of cop car and my tumblers and minecraft being confiscated. YEP!

Well done Hendrik! When I am in the neighbourhood you pay for the Coffee!

My perspective is that the majority of consumers have yet to seek this set out to buy. Most people are running around getting thanksgiving dinner ready and traveling / family /etc. This weekend they will wake up and remember advent and rush to buy what they can. Hopefully the 3p sellers will either raise prices or be out this weekend. Combine that with lego fans and santa vader - and I feel like this see solid increases for the next 2 weeks.

5 pounds is shipping weight

If it feels too good to be true, it probably is. Maybe it isn't, but, why risk it? If it's giving you a funny feeling, trust your gut and move on.

I guess I was "gouging" when I was selling these for $70 in August.

My latest sales on eBay have been at $74.99 shipped. They aren't flying off the shelves at that price, but I am moving them.

Yeah, people who complain probably did not experience real price gouging in their lifetime... or they consider necessity to please their children (inner or actual one) as essential to survival

Acme Markets a local Phila company owned by Albertsons, so this may be available at other Supermarkets in your area, has Visa/MasterCard GC for 20% off on 11/28-11/29. As well as Lowes and a few other stores. They usually do GCs for different stores each weekend. Last year they had Amazon and Best Buy. For those of you that are coupon savvy this is stackable and flipable. I usually use this for stuff that does not normally go on sale like PS4 and iPads and other fine Apple products, oh and yes it works on Lego too.

The higher the price for item with high sell rank, the more money they get in fees....

Amazon should delete these complaints. It's supposed to be a review of the product there. People can ***** about the price in the forums.

no doubt.! Since it didn't work at the first try, I kinda just ordered 4 Hot Rods. I wish I had ordered more sets using new customer coupon since they took care of it afterwards. I also got mine today, already built it. FUN!!!

@Alpinemaps, i apologize. didn't mean to offend. i am not worried about them since you are my backup to get me if i need something he he he.... its all good...looks like the "green are the worst performers in S3 or it might be just that there is extra set in each box... " .. now just need to figure out which is the best between the other six .

http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Birds-21301 You might have to click the View Larger button to see the image. Better than I expected, but I'll probably pass except for a personal collection.

Better yet - how they each had 3 SGEs in the cart at Target, and manager was chasing them down all over the store to tell that the limit is 2. Pew, pew! Woosh, woosh... throat hugs....

No way QFLL are scooping up all the mine craft. Microsoft bought minecraft for a couple of BILLION because they think they are going to make money. If you don't interact with preteens and teens then u don't understand the demographic. I am already getting responses to my craigslist ad posted last night. This will be the best flip because you can't buy in any store. If they sell out in the next 3 days at shop at home it will be pay dirt. Only concern I have is returns when it hits store shelves which is why I'm trying to sell on Craigslist and TRU parking lot.

http://www.nubcakes.blogspot.com/2011/10/lego-minifigure-display-cases.html this blog has a few good tips on how to make one, but I went with wood for the uprights myself.

Tried to get SSD last night but no orders actually went through. On one attempt I got to put one in my cart With 1 click but would not let me complete transaction. This morning I have an email confirmation from Amazon for an SSD shipped. Yippee.

If you go to kmart or walmart, then I know you got the stamina!

25% off for resellers (must show active eBay account with sales history).

Prior to calling it a shelf warmer, I was also encouraging people to buy. When it starts to disappear, I change my tune just to dissuade people from loading up. Come march 2015, I will call this a warehouse shelf leftover. I told people to load up the TH, HH, SSD and other items if you actually read the threads. No different with the Maersk ship and HE. Also quietly stocking up AAs and TB. If the HE makes a sudden disappearance, this thread will rocket up to 70 pages in no time and whatever we wrote here on page 6 will be buried. I highly recommend at least 2 HE for any collector and flipper. Nobody wants just half a train. Like I said, nows the time to get it. Come panic time, I'll be fooling around calling this a dust collector. :)

Keep talking about it enough and the panic buying will start now

As far as I can tell, here are the "rules" for modern Lego Trains: There will be two motorized play sets in production at any given time: one introductory and one advanced. For the past several iterations the introductory set has always been a passenger train, and the advanced set has always been a cargo train. There is generally one motorizable train in production for AFOL train fans. The most recent of these have been Emerald Night, Maersk Train, Horizon Express. Themed sets may contain a train independent of the above rules. Hogwarts Express, Constitution Train Chase, and Ghost Train are the most recent examples. These will start and end along with the rest of their theme. Accessory sets like train stations and crossings seem to be related at introduction to the "core" introductory and advanced sets, but EOL is harder to predict. For example, 7936 went out EOL unexpectedly. Parts sets like tracks and switches seem to be effectively immortal. For Duplo Trains there are generally three in production at any given time: A basic motorized set with engine, one car, simple track, and a few bricks. Examples: 10507, 5608, 3771. An advanced motorized set with engine, two cars, advanced track, extra play features: Examples: 10508, 5609, 3772 A push train: Examples: 10558,5506,3770 Themed Duplo trains are less common than themed Lego trains, but they do happen. Examples: Toy Story, Thomas

Maybe LEGO noticed that having too many large exclusives on the shelves ain't no good for them because they are not selling. Honestly before I've invested into LEGO I always looked at them like:"yeah those are nice but hell I neither have the money for them nor the space". Now I feel the same way about them but I still bought them... feeling a little bit sad that I don't have the space to build them all ^.^ As long as it's somewhere in a store the temptation is just way smaller I guess ***** So I wouldn't be surprised if they'd produce less big exclusives. On the other hand LEGO (like all big enterprises) is trying to expand. Whatever helps them doing that will be their choice. If they reduce large exclusives now, they might at any point of time decide to bring out more again... As for the HE, I don't see it being retired (sold out) before the end of this year/ beginning of 2015. Why? Because there still are lots of them in the stores and I have the feeling that those bad nasty people who are responsible for the vanishing of HH, GE, TH, SSD, etc. decided to invest in those sets and don't have money or are not yet interested enough to invest into HE. (That's why I think it will stay some longer... it highly depends on the investors though... if I had to decide which set to buy right now with about 100

And Lego want to stop every Exclusive set in 2014 lol

Although they're both in the same price bracket you can't compare apples with oranges. The VW first of all is a lego creator theme, the other one is technic. They also appeal to completely opposite people/builders/characters. One of them is for people who just like building general stuff out of bricks, the other is for car nerds and petrol heads. One is cute, the other is serious because race cars are serious. The 42000 is also linked to Motorsport and would appeal to boys into cars, adult car guys...and Technic fans in general. While the VW may even be bought by some old lady who has no interest into cars, but the camper van reminds her of the old days when she was a hipster and travelled around Europe with no care listening to the Mamas & Papas etc ... They're both great but targeted to completely different customers...

Basically its cars, trucks, airplanes, helicopters, construction machines, off road vehicles. Mix, rinse and repeat. I have stopped hoping for something new or clever mechanism from Lego, such as a great ball contraption, roller coaster, cuckoo clock, walking robot, animals, bugs, or a set to build all kinds of simple mechanism.. They used to have such sets, but the Technic team (to be fair, its probably the tie and suit marketing execs who never stepped out of air conditioned space) have stopped thinking for the last 10 years.

1) That's effed up. 2) You know what you should do.