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I am very happy to report that both Darth_Raichu and gregpj have agreed to join the moderator group. Both have been members since 2013 and have always made solid contributions to forum. The forum is busy and so are the moderators. Some are busy getting Masters degrees others are busy at work or life or running their LEGO business. I was also getting a lot of pressure to hire a Canadian as a mod, so gregpj is helping me fill that quota Please congratulate these guys and take it easy on them out there!!

I first read this as "a few over the past 25 years" and it still made sense.

Just started collecting, new aquisitions. Picked em up for a decent price, 6211 has a contoured box, thats pretty neat. This is getting addicting!

... As Will Ferrell says, "It's a highly-sophisticated, interlocking brick-mechanism". My Wife and I have ours- "they" have theirs. The reality is... with a 3 and a 5 year-old in the house, almost nothing is safe. We place our display sets on top of bookshelves where they are well out of reach. I have been on business trips where I found Uni-Kitty hiding in my briefcase, and reached for an Eggo waffle in our freezer to find in the box- I kid you not- General Grievous and Queen Elsa. I am certain I did not put them in the waffle box. Regardless... everything else ultimately ends up in a pile of destruction and chaos, after initially enjoying the "planned" set display for 22-38 seconds. As many of us have experienced- you don't have to touch, breath, or feel a UCS Tumbler- just think about it alone, and panels start to crumble off. Just imagine such a set with a 3-year old boy who's sole ambition in life is to combine MY Tumbler with ALL of his Series 3 Mixels. This is a recipe for failure. And a battle I lose consistently. I wear MY Lord Business badge not with shame- but with honor. You'll know you've raised them right when they apologize for adding a hodge-podge of Ninja Turtles garbage to the top of your Tower Bridge and Super Star Destroyer.

Stephen's being nice... No it's not an "open" forum. It's a website owned and operated by the Mack brothers who graciously provide us a small space on the Internet to discuss Lego investing with other like minded crazies. And respectfully, you're posting the same questions over and over across different threads and asking the same questions that have been asked dozens of times. Some of the old farts around here just get a little testy is all.... And ask that new members post helpful and meaningful things from time to time rather than just pointless comments. So to bring us back... Have you ever built the TB? Ours is still sitting half destroyed in a Rubbermaid bin after my partner dropped it. She built it so it was just her feelings that were hurt. It's such a big set to display that we've never had the itch to put it back together or finish dismantling it.

Holy crap, thanks for reminding me about these things. I totally forget I have some stashed away. Are they really going for $30 piece? I feel like I just found a few $100 bills in an old pair of pants.

I am still debating finally breaking down and getting a Fairground Mixer to collect dust until the Ferris Wheel comes out.

It makes me chuckle to see people worrying that ToO has new seals, might not be retiring soon, etc. Of all the sets you could worry about buying too early, buying a ToO in 2015 is not one of them.

Who is these days ><

I just picked one up from craigslist earlier this week. "New" but the box/seals look questionable. I hope I don't have a box of megabloks! I was going to tuck it away for investment but now I might just have to open it and build it....you know, just to make sure it's complete. [emoji14]

I for one welcome our new overlords. :)

Finally a Sith moderator! Use your hate, it gives you power....it give you focus!!! Congrats

It was epic. The Death Star held up better than the TB but the TB was dropped from at least six feet up. DS was only 18" from the ground.

Tower Bridge is falling down,Falling down, falling down. Tower Bridge is falling down, 'cause of my fair lady.

It'll never be sold, but yeah that's what I'm saying. The best is that I wasn't home and she left it like splashed across the dining room floor and very politely asked me if I could pick it up when I got home.

as for immediate growth soon after EOL ide say ToO .... its walking the plank and will probably have a hard time recovering this 2x points ... SHouse will be around for 2x VIP in Oct.

To be respectfully honest there was no need to bump this thread with a post like this. First, no one said it was going anywhere or that it was gonna do better than the town hall. Second you really don't know if it's going anywhere, you are just speculating like the rest of us.

Two Red Fives. They had about 8. Limit was 2. I asked if they had any "minty fresh" ones in the back and they said "no, that's all we have." Once I revealed I wanted duplicates and refused VIP and paid with cash, they treated me like a criminal. No smiles, no thank you or come back again. I didn't want to risk a ban or have them run out of Red 5 before I could make it back tomorrow. I sacrificed a few bucks but if these are the last ones off the line I'm a happy Brickpicker. It should be fun to see if the same workers will be there tomorrow.

Yay!

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.

I don't do much quick flipping either... 20% yields better than a final 5% off since you don't pay tax on the savings.. Many American buyers also pay tax - not quite as high, but I think a few pay 8%-9% which is high enough. The one that kills me is all those extra stacking credit cards savings and rewards points they have in the US. We have the Air Miles cash now, but I really do use those for flying!! I just don't expect to compete with the US sellers. I managed to flip a few RIs and even a couple Mars Rovers to the US but generally, I expect slower sales to cheap-o Canadian buyers. Toys R US and Walmart have had a virtual monopoly on the toy market in many parts of Canada (and even more so TRU). That's one reason Target was so nice... TRU had some much better deals when Target started moving in. When the writing was on the wall, the sales and clearance deals also disappeared. I've come to learn the Canadian eBay market is fickle.. certain things they'll gladly pay extra for, others not so much. Where I've been doing OK up here is dealing in the more expensive sets. As small time businesses or whatever you operate as, people who buy from you on eBay are going to look at two things: 1) Shipping Costs - Small parcels are cheaper to send from the US to Canada than Canada to Canada. The larger parcels can become just as expensive. - Canada Post charges dimensional pricing very quickly so having the right size box can easily save you good money on shipping. - By using PayPal and Expedited shipping, you can cut about 10% off the shipping costs in Canada (and have a great service) - don't believe what Canada Post says are their posted Venture One rates. That is a 5% savings but going through PayPal is another 5% or so which also helps with the fees. 2) Import Costs - Of course the crappy exchange rate is helpful to any old stock you may have lying around... many of us got a 10-15% bump in value on some sets just by the change in exchange rate. - GSP (as much as I hate it for buying) is great for selling within Canada. The brokerage fee charged on top of the taxes are ridiculous and the average buyer doesn't realize you pay taxes on anything being imported over $25 so when they're so front and center, it encourages them to buy in Canada. ** Edit - why this matters.. as a business that doesn't do $30k in annual sales, you don't have to charge tax. Canada Post could care less about that and they very rarely forget to collect the tax on delivery. ** We also buy a lot (too much) Lego for our own consumption... 20% is acceptable for a lot of them especially since we didn't know any better when we started buying Lego again for our kids. Reselling in Canada isn't for the faint of heart... long term holds is my main play and I sometimes hope for just a little luck.

I still remember sitting in the movie theater watching the Lego movie for the first time. Will Ferrel comes on screen in the basement with his son. Lord Business and a Creative Boy. It was a moment of reckoning I will never forget. My son and I stopped watching the movie looked at each other and said that's you. I am the dad Lord Business who must build by the book everything and keep it neat and organized. He was the boy who tears sets up and builds beautiful creations from them far more imaginative then I could. We both went back to watching the movie after a minute of epic foundation shaking of our worlds and it is one of our favorite movies. How do you deal with it? Embrace it. Realize to truly build beautiful things they need more than a Creative Tower box of bricks. They need mini figures and unique set pieces that only come in sets or brick linked. More than the pick a brick wall. Realize you are who you are and set up boundaries on which sets can be demolished and mixed and which can't. Build your sets your way. Let them totally destroy and mix mini figures, really unique pieces in sets and come up with wonderful creations. Everyone is happy. Life is good. Carry on.

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.

Not too exciting compared to what some of you guys pick up but my biggest one time purchase since my 4 R2D2 in one shot. Today: 1 pet shop 1 palace cinema 2 lonely mountains All near mint boxes and the assistant manager gave me a Hoth Han (which I didn't have yet) instead of the bionicle poly.

Congrats guys. A round of maple syrup shots for everyone.

Just received one from EU LEGO Shop at Home - seal 06S5

Are you aware you're in the Canada Section .. No Delaware here .. pouahhah

You can't. That's the point of the ban. You can still buy in a Lego Store without using a VIP card though.

Yeah, my wife occasionally takes out the 10179. Section here, section there. Luckily, I can repair it each time w/in 15-45 mins so far. I have the PDF version of the manual on all my apple devices because of my wife. Repairing the bottom of the stern is 'awesome' using the manual on the iPhone. D'oh.

We are hoping to recruit our friends 12 year old who likes building Lego to rebuild it. We did the same thing with when a friends older son looked after our place over a holiday and we had a Death Star that had lost an epic space battle with a two year old. Along with the keys, we gave him a bucket of parts and the instruction manual. :)

And that is why I have very few sets displayed.

Nightmare Before Christmas LEGO? Challenge accepted. The Nightmare Before Christmas by evildead1980 Presenting Mr Jack by 6kyubi6 Jack Skellington The Nightmare before Christmas by Stefan Schindler You'll Need This by Deltassius

The deed is done. DS on the way. Time to go on the road tomorrow and buy some Lonely Mountain, Ewok Village's or Sea Cow's. Trek Five is at his limit on Red Five. Very happy with it but time for the hoarde herd to wipe it out.

I've never had a damaged DS from LEGO Shop at Home (25 over the past few years)

I've sold several for $30 or $30+.

All good, brother. It is a very nice set but I have others I rank above it. If everyone had the same top rated set life would be pretty boring. Cheers enjoy your TB it is something to be proud of both the one you built and your warehouse of them. The Death Star will probably live on another 5 years LOL but I am picking up another one tomorrow. I think it is a good practice to pour cash into a stagnant set that has gone nowhere for 7 years ROFL but seriously I'm buying another one tomorrow. (think tone of Ben Stiller in Zoolander when he says yes and no but seriously but not really etc etc). But not to confuse matters further I am getting another Death Star tomorrow.

It ain't goin nowhere

This set is closer to a real exclusive then an actual exclusive. You can buy this set at far less places then an exclusive set.

don't back pedal. U said it's not going anywhere, then contradicted urself in the same sentence by adding even if it does..... This set Will do great and it's the best lego set ever. Respect it.

Lego really dropped the ball on these LOTR/Hobbit sets. Too many facades when there were some epic moments they could have captured. The best bets have been (and will be) the buildings - Unexpected Gathering and ToO. I really think they missed out by not making an epic Bridge of Khazadum scene since they love dioramas in this line. The Hobbit was even worse than the LOTR with these little half-built scenes... I don't like this set other than Smaug, but its saving grace is the limited availability...it is tough to justify a $129 set having just 5 figs, even if it does have a big dragon.. Will pick up a few, but I feel there are better investments out there. Now that I've said this, it will probably triple the year after EOL.

Umm, I'm just going to take your word for it on that one. Well, unless you have a good soup I could try, I can't turn down a giant bowl of Chicken Noodle.

Speaking of confirmed retirement, I predict this post and the previous page and half of threads gets "retired" from this thread, which is meant for confirmed listing from TLG of a "retired" label on an official SAH website.

You may want to tell this to the other thread where some of them are unhappy with only 20% discount. I sold a few of the MKII cranes to the US for about 250usd each already. Went as high as 300usd during xmas. Being at 199 is a major fire sale. This is around 150usd based on the exchange rate. This is probably the lowest i have gotten an MKII aside from last year where it went for 145usd on I forgot which site, maybe diapers.com or something.

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

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

This does not qualify as a mix up. Mix up is shipping Robie House and GE on the same day in December (thank god, not too close to Christmas) and mixing up shipping labels. Thanks to hxckid for bailing me out with Robie house, and thanks to incredible patience of both customers, who had to wait for the replacements, and they both shipped back wrong sets, and neither left negative feedback.

That is awesome. I love mechs. We put together the Ice Cream Truck yesterday. I need to figure this one out.

That's how I feel shipping to the west coast from ny

Well, this is a first after lurking on the forums. The popularity of this character is based on the fact that the story of the KoToR games are actually on par with the OT, I would say they are even better. They are more mature and aimed at an adult fan base, too bad the 2nd installment was released in a crippled state (fans had to finish it) due to LucasArts's push which eventually killed off the series. So my verdict is that this figure shouldn't be put in the same category as lame prequels, cartoons and obscure comics. This game has actually a huge fan base with pleasant memories. I understand your prejudice against non-OT SW material as they are really silly most of the times, but I would advise you to make an exception and try this game if you can spare some time, you will be surprised how good the immersion is and how well the characters are written. I will just include a video about my favorite character (though this is a dialogue from KoToR 2, but he is the same in the first game). He is the proof that droids can actually be made hilarious without being annoying (I am talking about you C3-PO and R2...):