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Well here is a Happy Birthday salute to Mr Ed Mack. Today is his birthday and yes I think he will expect all of you to send him something. If you are reading this thread you are now responsible for sending him one LEGO set from your collection. He does not have enough and needs more. It's what keeps him alive. Do the right thing and help keep Ed going!!! He has so much more to share with all of you HAPPY BIRTHDAY ED MACK!!!!

emazers?!?! You changed your username and learned how to use a period. All in one day. Impressive.

Happy Birthday Ed!!! Thank you for all you do. Now go wait by the mailbox for your Chima Fire Bike

Don't get caught off guard by 10188 Death Star disappearing. I don't think it really matters when it goes. I know it's a running joke, but if you want a few, don't lose sight of it. I thought it might be important to bring up, since Double VIP is beginning this weekend. I really don't care how long it's been out there, how many are stockpiled, etc. etc. This thing will remain a winner even when it finally drifts off into the sunset.

The irony in this comment is impressive......

Just wanted to announce some updates and enhancements to Brick Classifieds. Been working hard at fixing and enhancing a ton of SEO issues on the site to help make Google and other crawlers like us more. Cleared up a ton of duplicate issues and other things Optimized a bunch of queries to help page speed on product pages and others Finally added a "View My Online Shop" link to take you directly to Front End part of your shop. As you are adding a new listing and move about the tabs, it will automatically save your progress. There is a new tab in the product menu to view "Drafts". Now you don't have to try to upload everything and fill everything out all at one time in order to save what you are doing. Finally added a good image editor suite for all your uploaded images. I think you can pretty much do anything with these. Have fun with it. Make your listings look "awesome" I also made the Shipping Rates Calculator live. Please feel free to send me PMs with feedback on how this works for you.

Happy Birthday Ed! Heres a good knockoff

My wife and I have two young kids and considered getting a cleaning service but just the thought of having a stranger in my house touching my stuff weirds me out.

Thanks everyone. I would really appreciate some Chinese knockoff sets and minfigures.

Breaking news.... All the tru employees who pack things have quit and taken jobs at target. One mid size lego set..... In this box.

Sold a Droid Escape new sealed for $49.95. Go figure. Maybe I should raise the price...

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Hello everyone. I have been lurking and learning here for some time and decided it

I understand the math for CAGR, very, very well. The ideal situation would be to buy your limit of a set at MSRP or better (e.***., heavily discounted) on the day it goes EOL. This shortens the time component in the denominator of a CAGR calculation, increasing the value. This strategy also increases the price differential in the numerator, and also does wonders for the CAGR. Also really, really good for your CAGR would be to sell those sets the next day or week when they experience there first, post-EOL bump. You'll find a CAGR of thousands of percent that way. The flaw in CAGR is that it is essentially a value over time metric (a derivative, in Calculus terms), not an absolute dollar metric. Derivatives can be tricky and can mislead. I'd rather triple a $200 set in 24 months for $400 profit (e.***. TH) than sell that same TH a week after EOL for $100 profit, even though CAGR is much, much higher in the later case than the former. Why? My time and effort. And the fact we don't have great EOL sets coming available every week, more like a few/year. I factor in my active time to manage my portfolio (buying, selling, etc). I'd rather obtain sets relatively easily and ban-free (e.***., off Amazon Prime at MSRP with free shipping/no tax) and then just hold long enough that exclusives experience a nice value increase. Clearly, there's point in the CAGR curve where you'd be better off selling and re-buying the next-to-retire exclusve. To cite a relevant, current example, mathematically, it may be the time to clear out your TH inventory and re-invest in PS. Or perhaps, wait until you think PS is going to retire, then sell-off all your TH and roll it over into PS. Other problems are 1) predicting future value; 2) finding ways to obtain your goal number of sets at MSRP or below, and 3) finding enough buyers quickly when you need to roll-over sets. None of these issues are trivial, even though such strategy maximizes CAGR. I'm happy with buy and hold, with relatively little hassle on the buy end, and with steady sales on the sell end, via eBay and Craigs list. YMMV.

You meant "touching my Lego stuff"? Find someone you know who uses cleaning service or person. Or ask for references in Nextdoor. That makes cleaning person to be less of a stranger. Also, if you occasionally hire babysitter,see if they offer cleaning as well

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Happy Birthday! May your mailbox be filled with Worriz Fire Bikes.

TRU, continuing its reputation as a bastion of fulfillment efficiency, just shipped a $52 order of 8 mixels, 5 polybags, and 1 small boxed set to me in 4 boxes and 1 padded envelope all via FedEx Home Delivery. I could understand if they were clearing out the dregs from multiple fulfillment centers, but these are all coming from the same location!

All local lego stores should have this set at 20% off starting today. For sure I know my local store is. Seems crazy for lego stores to be putting a new set on such a discount already.

Here is a Eurobricks review on 42039 - 24 Hours Race Car (includes both A & B models).

Bought this lil guy yesterday. Open box with sealed inner boxes. Super excited to have it in the collection.

After being limit 99 forever, PR is now limit 5 at LEGO Shop at Home. Retirement is surely imminent...

Not sure if this was new. There was a blurb on RI S @ H page to the effect of "This set is no longer for sale. Look forward for next Ideas set". I could not access the page atm to get screenshot though

Just a feeling. Been out for ever. When oos sells well above msrp . Easy to store. Easy to obtain at 30-40% off. I see 100 right away eol. And my avenge buy in has been 32 and change. I'm very high on any and all arch sets though.

A closer look at all the minifigures here.

Alright, went to three TRU. Found two ice breakers and a 4204 MIne at the first. Found two more ice breakers at the second. Neither of those at the third, but did finally see two 60052 cargo trains. The other two TRu's were out of this train. I went ahead and bought them as well.

Yea, I tried doing that - but the kids kept falling off & getting hurt.

Howdy. I still haven't done one of these intro posts. Maybe I should wait and use it for my 3000th post.

Teddy Team 6 by Siercon and Coral

I came across this today and had to share it here. It is a stunning model of the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider which not only looks amazing, it has a lot of power functions. I have never seen this car before seeing the Lego model, and it is most beautiful technic race car that I have ever seen. I would love to buy this but I just don't have the time to get all the pieces required. At some point I will formulate a letter and send it off to Lego in hopes they will contact this person and make it for everyone. Alfa Romeo 4C Spider

Happy birthday, Ed! We really appreciate all that you (and Jeff, and the mods) do for this site. Thanks for creating this place, and to your parents for creating you,,,,and ok, now its weird.

Go go go! I punched in 15 orders. After taxes was about 70 each. Should still have some left.

Herd, Hoard, Horde.... Hmmm, yup they all apply to this group. TRU has had 10240 stock for a few weeks now, down to 11 left if their website is accurate. It's slowly going down... One of the few times I wish the herd was bigger up here.

3x 31012 family houses, $90+ shipped ($72 +$18 shipping). Wanted to generate funds for more exclusives, and move some sales. Buy in was around $45 each, will hit higher at some point but I have other priorities. I had about 7 people watching this listing (sold a few $100+ at xmas), so did a 25% off sale on ebay and 3 sold this week Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N910A using Brickpicker mobile app

One location that previously was out of stock of LEGO got a bunch of Arctic Base Camps (Cloverdale) Picked up 2. Must have found them in a case in the back or something, because there's no way these would have lived past 20-30 off. Also managed to find 1 Milano and 2 X-Men scattered around Oakville's. Tri-Fighters and the Ninjago Target exclusives still sticking around this location.

Were people really caught off-guard by 42006 retiring? I thought that was one of the more obvious ones last year.

BTW Mods, now that the Kwik-E-Mart is coming out, couldn't we start a bonafide Simpson's theme thread directory? I know there are only two sets in the theme, but I was looking for a Kwik-E-Mart thread today but didn't know where to look. Just an idea. Mike

Welcome, Mindbender. I waited until a few thousand posts later and finally wrote up this article back in late June of 2013. Yeah I can be slow sometimes.

When your family owns the entire company and you clear a couple of billion dollars per year net of taxes i don't think you need to worry about going public. Just my opinion

Stopped briefly by the Target at Longueil near Montreal. Don't waste your time, there wasn't a single Lego set to be found.

Might matter for some folks - Amazon has Save 1 in stock http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Star-Wars-Slave-Toy/dp/B00NHQHX8G

Welcome Herr Doctor, to the site. I think I waited until I was about 200 posts in before I posted my hello.

Just snagged 2 60022 Cargo Terminals at Toys R Us for $79.99 each.

Love me some Primus and Les Claypool.....dude is a beast on the bass.

Nice Primus acknowledgement...

Sold the following yesterday Mixels Series1 yellow - $49.99 shipped Mixels series 1 black - $39.49 shipped (int'l)

I'm sure he meant comparable in basic similarity and not exact which to a degree they are. The newer shuttle is comprised of mainly large curved bricks whereas the former was more standard pieces with a select number of rounded wedges. Funny thing is the older Shuttle Expedition at retail contained twice as many parts as this new Spaceport while the new set is more expensive with half the pieces. What a cruel joke. I would maybe pay $80 for the Spaceport but $120? What are they smoking....

OK, the Legos are clean, believe it or not, hot (and I mean hot, at least 100 degrees) soapy water, with a little vinegar did the trick. I cleaned them last night and still no off gassing this morning. As far as the books, I also washed them in hot soapy water and for some reason it didn't work. ). OK, I put them in a back with arm and hammer and so far so good, but they are much more permeable, so I'm guessing they'll need a little extra time. Anyone else try similar with long term success? Now, how do you get powder off of pages easily? Or is this another topic? )