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I had to make a few changes to the way this alert system works because it it actually too fast with the updates and too efficient. It was costing us a small fortune to send out SMS messages for items that people were not really interested in buying. You will need to go in an check your items to make sure you are receiving alerts on the sets that you want. You will now have the opportunity to select either email and/or SMS for each sets for each store that you are interested in. There is also logic in there tracking purchases (mostly Amazon since they have the most changes). That will disable SMS alerts after a while if no purchases are made. You will still always get email alerts, but there is no need to bombard people with 100 SMS alerts if you are not ready to purchase that set at this time. Hopefully this will keep your phones from going crazy as well as keep you up to date when stock is available. It is also keeps the system Free for people to use.

Sold 2 x Ninjago 70503 Golden Dragon for 70 euro each.

Great work on the site guys, it has started me on the path to owning way to many sets lol. Just bought some vw T1 camper vans and some ghost buster cars. Love the investing forum, read hours already, great information and hope to learn and contribute anything i can!

Hey man if the UCS DS Storage Box has gone EOL, the DS will follow for sure... That's the kind of inside information I've been waiting for.

If owned, I would also get out w/in months since City is refreshed so often. In the last year, we have had 3 city explorer type sub-themes. Coast Guard, Arctic and the up-coming underwater sets. Demand will decrease sooner or later. 2x retail if awesome for a City set that can still be had in various parts of the world.

Used Simpsons house and Simpsons minifigure set for $150.

Wal-Mart 4x GOTG: Milano - $11 each 4x GOTG: Milano - $20 each (random stop on the way to the mall with the family) 2x GOTG: Nowhere Escape - $25 each (same random stop) Target 3x Technic: Hot Rod - $19.98 each

At kaufhof you get the payback 10 times points so another 10% off. Looks like death star and ewok village are gone like x wing two weeks ago. So there is a new hope.

All Hallows Keep by - Derfel Cadarn -

... This is the worst think to happen to Canada since Nickelback.

Looks like somebody is stashing lego around the Langley target Saw some stars wars by the vacuum section.

This is terrific. There's nothing I need more than my 5-year old daughter believing private jet flights are something I am able, capable, or willing to provide.

Know when to walk away, know when to run...away from Chima clearance. Edit: I can't believe I quoted "The Gambler" for my 2000th post. Hangs head in shame.

JK BRICKWORKS 10236 UCS Ent 60004 Construction Site 31019 Steampunk Walker 75002 Research Colony 6866 Wolfsbane Robot

I'm sure Tabby is going to buy loads

OK I just sold a Galaxy Squad Galactic Titan for $90. Its in a postal zone that will probably cost me about $5-6 freight. What is this world coming to?

A lot of a-holes out there needing a good wipe.

Nicely done. The Knowheres and Milano will pair nice and at that buy-in you will have some healthy returns.

Nice! I like the Hot Rod sets. They look cool!

There's that big set that was supposed to be the new Millennium Falcon.

I'm a lot less bullish on the ice breaker. I think the best set at retail is the mobile outpost, then the base camp, then the ice breaker. By best I just mean what you get vs playability vs likelihood kids are getting these as gifts. The helicarrier is a pretty crappy set IMO and the other two smalls are easy buys right now for parents and there is still lots of them on shelves. To me this means the base camp and ice breaker could be winners but the icebreaker has to reach pretty big numbers in Canada to turn a healthy profit. And with the new underwater explorer and ultra agent ships looking good I'm just not sure. If you get the base camp at 20% off, you'll be ok at $150+shipping (CDN) which isn't unreasonable.

Welcome! Hooray for more Canadians Be sure to check out the Local Area Canada forum for deals and such! Many of us are pretty active there.

I found a thorough article on how to find Target's DPCI number. Most you may already know all the various spots or not. Either way I found it to be helpful.

I wonder why there's no EOL talk these few days? Keep buying them up and Lego will keep making them for another 18 months.

Been in and out of stock nearly every day for a while now. Amazed at how many of these they have. That said amazon price seems to be stable.

After a (comparative) lull in February, sales seem to be picking up again and MISB EBay prices are now upwards of 400 euros. There is definitely potential for this set to hit GG prices eventually.

That's no moon....it's a kickass MOC.

Or....you can own the first and last sets, at the same time!! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Brickpicker mobile app

I agree... sell all at Xmas 2015. Take your money and run!

I am also curious about when the sweet spot to sell this one of will be. On one hand it is a 50 euros city play set so gains won

I can understand some of the company's standing with the Minifigures line or at least believe I do. In the beginning LEGO did not realize how quickly the line would gain traction in popularity practically exploding (in the US mainly). Even so the second series continued with the $2 price tag after increasing the amount produced. Aside from the growing desire by the masses, I think one of the probable reasons why the third series was the first to see a dollar hike would be how the public had found a way around the blind bag which for series 1 & 2 were unique barcodes for each character making the mystery less mysterious. Moving on to series 3 which introduced the fabled 'bump codes', well we know people eventually figured that method out therefore LEGO mixed it up again (around series 8 maybe) by what I can only figure as having a unique series of bump codes per each production run. (I have nothing factual other than personal experience and what others have said to form that last sentence so let's just chuck it to plausible conspiracy.) Anyway The Simpsons Minifigures (or rather the first series of) had the last current raise in price that could understandably make sense seeing how LEGO needed to mold every single character's head plus they also came up with molded sleeves and shorts. A new technique I think really improved the standard minifigure and has paved way to a whole new level for the little guy. Also there is the topic of licensing too although from what I remember it was Fox who went to LEGO so that was negligible. Keeping the price hike afterwards comes across as a "seems we can get away with it so why go back to $3?" sort of logic. True I do not have a real clue as to all the costs the company has to consider and contend with on a regular basis. However I can't quite see any legitimate reason to go so high in such a relatively short timeframe. Each one has been and continues to be made in China. The costs couldn't get much lower for the company.Almost all new parts made for the line get used elsewhere in other themes. Only a couple are too unique for any other use (Medusa for example).The printed designs may be unique but so are a number of other minifigures in regular sets (some have even stayed exclusive to that set).Those are a few reason off the top of my head that I feel would make anyone think the price at this point is simply because they can. There could be other factors such as the price was also meant to deter collectors who intentionally grab certain ones to sell or even to somewhat counter the effect of how people have found ways to beat their blind system. All this is mere speculation almost to the point of conspiracy.

Haha, nickelback is worse. :)

And The Beebs!

Love, love, love the new AA as an investment, and very disappointed it vanished before I could get more. The old one has had epic returns... the new one is much sexier- IMO- and will see very generous returns as well.

Well said Trek. Interesting to to compare it to AA, both of which are doing very well. But the "Little Guy" much better... and neither one is officially retired. TH is in its own catengory due to the rug being yanked out beneath it. But R2 is in a class of his own. What a unique build. With the combination of Disney and J.J. Abrams behind Star Wars... there will be a film a year from now until the Biblical Apocalypse. Their formula is simple: a trilogy every other year: a SW character-centric film between. There was a time I believed the SW Lego theme to be "cooling off". The rising tide of these future films will lift all SW Lego "boats". This theme- and this set- are red-hot.

Oh? So you need only an excuse to go back into the LEGOLAND stores? Hmm, let me see if I can muster up a few good excuses, uh, I mean 'reasons'. :pleasantry:

They're "In-Stock" at every Wal-Mart near me. I saw them 6 deep on the shelf today. There is talk of the recent price spike here: http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/11153-10225-ucs-r2-d2/page-84

Bummer. That's barely good for a sizeable cup of hot chocolate. Regardless thank you for going back to check.

I sold my first duplo ever! Part of 75% off of latest WM clearace. Sold three sets for $57 shipped, buy in was $19, will more than double up after fees and shipping Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Brickpicker mobile app

Two more 40086 Easter Bunny and two more 40121 Painting Easter Eggs

1500 w/ 1000 being canned goods, ramen noodles and candy bars.

I'm interested in your thoughts on sets overdue for retirement. Maybe a top-3 or top-5? Here's my list. All of these are well-past their due date. I'd pop champagne if a few of these hit EOL sometime this year. 1. 10188 - Death Live Star. 2008! Can anyone really argue against this? 2. 10214 - Tower Bridge. 5 years and counting... 3. 10220 - VW T1 4 years old, seems like its been here since the mid 60s. 4. 10235 - Winter Village Market. Seems to have more lives than a cat. The Death Star of Seasonals? 5. 10218 - Pet Shop. With the out-of-order retirement of TH, this set is now 4+ years old. It should have been next. I'm sure I'm forgetting many here. What did I miss?

While irritating, I would thank him for his response and say that you're looking forward to receiving the item and leave it at that.

As hxc sarcastically points out, this community is special for having money to spend and a keen eye for deals. I get the impression that some of you are content to chase Target clearance and a 5 dollar profit for the next 5 years, but I think we can achieve more. As far as "go join a travel forum" I think the people on this site are better suited to provide me travel deals. And I look forward to buying a drink for anyone who does hook us all up with a big vacation deal.

Respectfully, I think you are over-thinking it. Hits and eyeballs make forums more successful and increase the value of a forum. If the Macks ever sell this place, it will be more valuable with more users and posts, not everything condensed down as far as possible. My goal with the Travel thread (which I believe prompted this thread) was to find good deals and eventually get a meetup together and I think that it would have taken off. We have high net worth individuals who are good at spotting deals and I don't think they will think to post Travel deals individually in the "non-Lego Deals" section...too tedious to find the section, then create a thread. I've posted deals here and helped this forum for 2 years. That travel thread was gonna be gold. You are limiting the freedom of the members you count on to make this forum work.

Well this just happened.

I have slowly been accumulating the rare pieces for a green grocer. Just ordered 35 sand green 8x1 off bricklink. A seller had a decent sale on them. Need 15 more and I'll have all the sand green pieces plus the 1x2x3 windows. That much has taken a year, rest should be easy.

On a side note, I'm piecing together the old arkham from a bulk lot. It's actually a lot cooler than pics give it credit for Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Brickpicker mobile app

Check out this one, I think this guy does some amazing modifications to existing modulars: Sjaak Lego 10246 XL Mod: Full collection of his photos HERE. Our family is working on the DO now, the detail is amazing. We primarily display our modulars but damn, building this thing is incredible. For us, the best part is the building and this is the most fun we have had building a modular yet. Every modular just gets more and more detailed and the building techniques keep getting better. Can't wait for 2016..

Around here at least this set has been impossible to find since before Christmas. It was in the top 20 on Amazon's best sellers list for a while. I personally think it is a very unique set and once it is gone I don't think there will be anything similar to replace it for a long while. Currently it can only be found at Amazon and LEGO LEGO Shop at Home I believe. It is $85 at amazon.co.uk. What does everyone think about this set?