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Hit some Meijer stores while visiting family today. 2 x Chima: Flying Phoenix Fire Temple - $60 2 x Lego Movie: Police Gunship - $54 3 x Chima: Rogon's Rock Flinger - $12 1 x Ninja Turtles: Turtle Lair Invasion - $60 1 x Ninja Turtles: Big Rig Snow Getaway - $42.50 148 x Series 3 Mixels - $2

Their mobile app sucks, and the markup is killer.

It's the new world Ed was hinting at. New stuff is retiring before it's even released.

I find all this chatter about big vs small a good read, but in the end it doesn't matter. I've got two R2s in my investment pile and that's one more than I planned on. I decided to snag one the last time they came into stock at S@H. I don't honestly know how people get their hands on so much stock and I don't really care. There are plenty of good theories out there and I'll bet there is an element of truth to most of them. This is the first Xmas season I've tried selling some of my investments and doing some QFLL and I was moderately successful with both. Fell short of my goal by about $1k (overall sales) but I also disappeared for the holidays to the Caribbean on dec 11th. That was worth more any last minute deals or sales. Besides, I have a day job that I find enjoyable and easy. Pays the bills too. Lego is a sideline that makes up around 5% of our investments. I won't try to compete or I'd go broke. :)

I'd be careful with these going forward. I know this is the hot item around here recently, but as previously mentioned, I'd be willing to bet these behave like the CMF series with Series 1 being worth a lot, then future series' becoming worth less and less as more and more people start hoarding them and more are produced. Not to mention that as soon as some of the rare parts become readily available from other sources, people will be able to BrickLink these guys for cheap.

Honestly, this whole last couple of pages is much ado about nothing. It is the Holiday season, please cut each other some slack.

that's 175 more mixels from Meijer!

At first sight, one can say that it is a decent deal. But when you think about it, it's not that much of a good deal IMO. First off, it's vintage, and if you want to complete any of the sets there, it can get costly as some vintage pieces are expensive. Second, selling vintage sets takes a long time, and from the sets in the listing, it seems to me that it would take a long time to sell everything. I don't see this lot being worth it because of these two reasons. I have dealt with these lots before and the older the sets are the harder it is to sell them because no one is looking for them.

I've got about a dozen of these put away. I think this one's done.

I agree. Just imagine... in the new SW movies they will sing songs? It is Disney now anyways.

Can we request that some member posts always require approval?

Was the guy's name Mark? So if by your logic, this guy knows LEGO investing better than us, why would he want your terd CITY sets? Just say in'..

Typical Canadian pricing...

I hate you all. At that price, I would be buying them to put away. Other than ToO and Helm's Deep, I have no interest in any of the Hobbit/LotR sets. I want Lonely Mountain because I want that dang dragon. He's just too awesome. I'm thinking Halloween Town, Vampyre Castle, dragon drapped over it.

I was told through Christmas. She said it might actually end Christmas eve in the system. The super heroes deal is good too just didn't have much luck getting the same price points to work out on the Bogo 50 deal to maximize the discount, and some of those are a little over retail. The 20% off coupon is good until the 24th and it is reusable (it says limit 1 time per store visit but I did 2 transactions at one store and the lady said it was fine to use it again). Also on your receipts you get a code for $15 off a $50 purchase online so you could get 30% off that way on some other stuff (not much selection though). That starts 12/28 and ends 1/3 and the code is the same on all the receipts so assume multiple use is fine. I will say this much more customer friendly there than B&****** and will try to make sure you've received every maximum discount you can.

Pretty much made the most of my drive back from Huntsville through B'ham by hitting about 5 BAM and 4 B&****** BAM 20 White House at $30 10 Farnsworth at $36 10 Empire State at $12 10 SOH at $24 1 Rockefeller at $24 1 MF at $120 30 Mixels 2 at $4.79 some random Ninjago sets at 50% off and then 20% off that B&****** 6 FW from 70-90 1 Rockefeller 1 Guggenheim some minecrafts too TRU 2 Cargo Terminals PM and Rewards got them down to $56 each TRU Express found some mixels 2 and had them price match there $48 eradicator mechs down to the $20. She goes dang we're expensive! LEGO Birmingham got some RI and cleared out the last 5 of the $5 bats, Snowman and Reindeer It was a busy ride home that might of taken a little longer than the normal ETA lol

Bought 2 farns and 2 Fw @ Barnes with 4 coupons in the same transactions and stacked with membership and discounted GC. No voodoo required

Amazing Boxing Day deals! Damn I`m heading over there right now!

I think the handful of people here who have it all figured out should go and start their own website......they are obviously wasting their time here with us idiots. It's been my experience here though that the ones who bark the loudest are the ones who know the least. Funny how that works out.

2014 Best Community Answer Brickpicker This was they year I really got deep into Lego investments with becoming a daily Brickpicker user. The best part of it? Deals? No I have made some really great friends on here. That is what has been most enjoyable about it. Thanks BP.

not bothering anything today with this weather! Warehouse is like an igloo today. I refuse to LEGO shop in the rain. DC at least has the garage. I was in AL all weekend, hit the one over there, nothing good. Hasn't been much in stock lately at any of the 3 here. DC probably the best just because no limits and such. Picked up 8 tumblers last week over 3 days in a row before heading out. Told them I'd give them a few days off lol.

And no wall of text from Emazers or cryptic comment from Ed.

It's decent, but not great. Based on the boxes, it looks like this person stopped buying by 1980 and wasn't into any of the highly sought after themes from that era (i.e., Classic Space, early Castle). I would ask for a list of all of the manuals that he has and judge its value based on that. From what I see there, I wouldn't waste my time. He thinks that he can triple by selling them individually, but clearly doesn't have a good grasp on the demand for the sets that he has. People would buy the Exxon station set and the Engine Co. 9, but the others would likely be harder to sell.

I was only able to acquire 6. Missed the boat.

Buy now, sell in 6 months. (or now)

Thanks raven! I went to my local BAM and got 2 Fallingwaters, 1 for $40 and 1 for $80. I haven't invested or even looked at the architecture sets but I'm hoping at that price they are safe bets?

Hello Bill, welcome to the forum. 9676 will in my opinion not be the best of performers. I'm not sure if you should look at LEGO investment in a 10-15 year range if you want to make profit out of LEGO 1)Most of the profit on items are made in 1-3 years after they are End Of Life. After that, it will of course still rise but there will be other more profitable opportunities. 2)You don't know if in 10-15 years, there will still be such a demand of LEGO. 3)LEGO takes up space and space should be used in order of profit (1) 4)LEGO secondary market is getting saturated more and more. And a good tip. Don't buy everything that is marked off xx%. Some LEGO is extremely hard to sell afterwards for a small margin. Take time to read this forum. There is not much said about "buy this set now" but you'll see that when you follow conversations here, you'll find out the good opportunities. Succes and enjoy!

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It's pretty easy to tell if its filler stuff and I may delete it from time to time if I see someone is just posting "I agree" or "Good post"

Don't listen to the hipster critics on the new hobbit movie, it r0x0rs b0x0rs. They found the "multiple storylines" confusing. I would image they also find tic-tac-toe a strategic quagmire, as the movie only had 2 major locations: lake town and the mountain. Almost no unnecessary dialog and loose ends were tied. Did a nice job foreshadowing what was coming in LotR. I loved the cameo of a LotR protagonist in his good form during the witch king battle. I couldn't turn off the lego investor as I watched. All I kept saying was "YES YES YES". May be too little too late, but hopefully the older sets get a nice bump from the closing of the series. I for one can't wait to finish my collection now and will enjoy a LotR / Hobbit marathon during Christmas break

think of all the air-miles you'll get thou!!!

good to know, i am new here, a few more posts to go

?You should have grabbed an at-at -if they had it- and built it

big fan as i've stated. could be as simple as colors but i think certain ones make for the coolest max mixel. example, i think yellow has the worst characters alone, but mix them together and the max mixel is pretty awesome. i think red of series 1 has the coolest characters. series 2, i'm also a fan of the brown and all the teeth and does make a cool max. the orange is kinda weak, blue is ok but Lunk has to be the worst of all mixels imo. flurry is very popular as is tentro and jawg. top 3 right there for series 2. series 3, purple are my fav max but scorpi is my fav solo. green kinda lacks for me. tan is cool aside from footi. he's pretty awful. series 4 the red coming back (increasing series 1 red imo) and especially the new glow in the dark ones are gonna be huge. the space ones look pretty weak. it will take quite a while for their values to increase as will series 3 but at $2 i don't blame ya's, i'd be getting hundreds as well. shame i don't have that deal around me. meijer seems to be a gold mine store!! mixels really are genius and the creativity is endless. it's a home run. still quite a lot of series 3 near me but i think by end of january i'll start seeing them going especially when 4 comes out in february. as for the nixels. they are ok. just a few pieces. i could see some people wanting an army of them. not sure it'd be worth it for lego to produce a bag of them. like 4-5 per bag. and i wouldn't say the ones that come with a nixel are selling for more, in fact because it's not listed on the package if i'm correct, i don't think most know or think about which come with a nixel. parents certainly have no clue. i think actually the ones that come with a nixel so happen to be the low sellers. i think lego chose them on purpose maybe cause they thought they were the weaker characters of each set. i really wish i had $2 mixels around me.

3 Benny's for $63 each. 1 Lonely Mountain for about $75.

Can I ask what Legosteve thinks about other sets?

I boycotted TRU years ago and contrary to popular belief I am still doing OK in the investing game. It's beyond me why people continue to jump through hoops just to get TRU prices around or just below retail.

How does any of that say that R2 will definitively be around another 18 months?

If there's no definitive source that it's not yet done, there's certainly no definitive source that it will be around another 18 months.

Bought today: 3 x 4204 City Mine 3 x 70503 Ninjago Golden Dragon

The Cinema will be a big hit post retirement. It's currently the only modular I own. Most AFOL are also movie fans. It will also be the last $150 modular released which means a little more profit for reselling. I'm thinking about picking up the Detective Office as I think they will go together well.

Sold a Creative Tower for $90 on CL. A clean $50 profit. I know some are saying these "could" go for much more in the future, but who will be buying and how many? Like the CL flip. No fees.

Yes, this is not a punishment for people. This has been implemented for months, but there was an incident in which a member was confused, so I wanted to bring attention to it so that future new members will understand why their posts don't immediately show up. By doing this, it has really helped in cleaning up the forum of spam and garbage.

"Target BOGO on ToO" Damn it....I missed that. That is my favorite set and the one I have the most $$ in.

Hans getting a little long in the tooth, not as fast on the draw anymore.

The current EOL set market is dealing with being a victim of its own success. For any old timers or middle-aged timers even, the exact reason you (we) enjoyed the profits we did is why a lot more people are in the game now. Without those profits, we wouldn't be in this situation. How many people checked out eBay and saw a retired set's selling price and thought "Wow, I have to do more research into this....had no idea LEGO sets could be this valuable" That's exactly how I started, just so happened to see what a Cafe Corner was going for. That was before the days of BP too which has been a primer for any new investors to help avoid a lot of those early growing pains and has helped accelerate the field of competition. Not complaining about it though, I enjoy being part of this site. Historically, any industry that has a low barrier for entry is going to have to face heavy competition the older that industry gets. Let's face it, it doesn't take a scientist to buy and sell LEGO, just money, space and a decent work ethic if you want to have some success...we didn't have to go to school for 10 years to try and cure cancer, we're just reselling plastic.The barrier for this industry is fairly low. Now, that's not the end of the world, just a shifting of expectations. It will reach a point where the curve tops out and you won't have all these new sellers coming in. Unfortunately, this is also tied to profits, but this time it's because the easy money is gone and its not attractive to people outside looking in. You also will have some people leave for greener (true or perceived) pastures. I guess the only question is if we are near that point of "topping out". I would say with all these really nice exclusives just retiring, that this business will still be getting a lot of curious new eyes looking into it in the next few years, so there is going to be a good amount of competition still coming in keeping the Plastic Rush alive. Enjoy the profits that are still there in these middle years of growth, just keep expectations in check.

I will only like this post if you got their numbers.

Well, the fact that for you LOTR and The Hobbit are the same is also your opinion (which is great, all opinions are welcome). I don't know for you but as for me I do not give my opinion only on sets, but also on movies (and books). Because these sets are licenced and it's very important. edit: to explain myself better, IMHO to compare The hobbit (movies) to LOTR (movies) is like to compare SW 1/2/3 to SW 4/5/6...

My strategy is keep around 100-200 set for inventory and sell all extras....ok...got 50 on sale - sell 50 for profit (50in...50out, like stocks, buy cheap sell high)....and buy bigger house with extra room just for LEGO, lol I mean use master bedroom for lego and sleep in guest room.....I know that wife will going to kill ya...lol. BTW keep it organazed, if its not looks ugly you can live with it better....

Its at $1325 right now. I think if you can get it $1500 or less it would still be s decent deal. This set is disappearing more and more as time goes on. I too can see it being a consistent $2000 seller in the near future. How mad would my wife be?