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I've been calling all the major retailers and asking them to delete their Death Star listings, as no product with 'Death' in the name is appropriate for kids, and products with 'Star' in the name encourage unwholesome pagan astrological practices. Or so my argument goes. With any luck, Lego will feel the pressure and publicize the retirement date, as they did in the 9516 controversy. Here's hoping!

You get an R5 and you get an R5 and you get an R5

Thanks for the heads up. Now I am currently involved in winning an auction for a complete 2005 edition #10144 Star Wars Jawa Sandcrawler on ebay.

What you're all seeing now is "The dance". Not all sets do this, but once the horde has the scent of EOL on a highly thought of set, it becomes F5 situation. F5 being the refresh key on your browser. Folks hitting refresh over and over to try to find the item available at retail because they dissappear so quickly even alerts won't notice the in-stock moment. R5 is Red Five, which folks thought was Red Alive, but might be Dead Five, it's at the very least F5 for R5. Catch that jive?

They told me there were 1,138 left and then asked me if I was a reseller. Makes me feel like this guy being proded by the LEGO police:

If the Goonies is next, and there isn't a massive pirate ship, I will be greatly disappointed.

Do not get rid of your HH!!

People mention all the time that they charge a handlng fee on orders. It annoys me to know end, but never seems to keep me from using a store for parts. I'm more interested in a fair price for a particular part, as long as it's a reasonable handling fee - e.***., if a particular part if 50 cents from you, and the average price is 10 cents, I'm less likely to order that part from you. But, if you're charging $1 or $2 for a handling fee, I'm more likely to order from you. Yes, I realize that's counter-intuitive, and now that I've written that out, I'm going to have to reexamine how I'm buying stuff. lol

Even more stuff added to WM's clearance. Not much of note, Olivia's house and Black Gate might be decent buys considering they are on their way out the door: http://www.walmart.ca/en/toys/construction-blocks-sets/lego/******-32+2386+1019588 Also Tie Fighter listing back? I seriously doubt they had any stock of it, it seems like it took us a year to get some of these listing to be taken down, and now surprise! they're back! Wizard Battle at $10 isn't bad either.

Well I looked the set up on Amazon.com and there are many sets between 150-200$. I just think you were lucky with that sale from a clueless buyer. So it will take more time to reach 200$

I love the movie as much as my kiddo and I am 47. It is great. I play it in the office even if by myself...

I only partially agree that the movie was for kids. Have you seen it? There is an AFOL element there for sure.

Don't mention paypal as being a reason for additional charge. That is against paypal's TOS for USA sellers.

I agree

OK, I was sticking to my price point and I declared I wouldn't sell a 9468 - Vampyre Castle for less than $200. Well, I just sold one for $200 on EBay. Join me, raise your prices folks!!!

Does anyone sell on amazon.ca here? Is it just me or does the lego prices on the Canadian site vs the American site seems ridiculously over priced? Is there a reason for the outrageous pricing (unless it is sold by Amazon directly)? For example - .com vs .ca Pet Shop $224.98 vs C$396.23 Family House $94.99 vs C169.99 I am sure we can go on with the list. I understand the exchange rate... but the premium on .CA is well over the exchange rate. I am just curious if sellers actually move any inventory on the Canadian site.

Just received my PS from early March order. Seal Code: 11R5...............Box still Warm.

Batcave was gone Christmas 2014. I had to use a cached mobile page to find a listing so I could get the DCPI. I believe that was the two year mark for that set, and it ended up retiring in the rest of the world but remained in the US for a third year.

I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express, but, in my opinion, the people who keep prognosticating that every set is about to retire because they're cross-referencing the seal codes, online and physical store status for every retailer, make believe license lengths, how a certain set must stay or go based on an upcoming movie release or not, mixed with a little gut feeling, are making every large set appear to be done. It only creates more problems and fulfills their prophecies in their minds because stock keeps remaining low. No retailer can keep anything in stock because so many believe that all these sets are going because some random person on the Internet wants to be the first person to call their retirement shot. Sorry that I'm not sharing the same opinion that everything is going away as soon as this production run is done. Or is it the next production run and then it's gone?

Amazon is often the last US retailer to go out of stock, because they have 'hard' order limits (2, usually). Excepting LEGO Shop at Home, amazon was last to stock both 10937 and 10225. Not that I'm calling EOL for the DS. I tried that last summer, and all I got for my trouble is 17 MISB Death Stars...

Here you go http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/10168-retired-product-update-thread/?p=441650

Haha, was waiting to see if you'd chime in

Town Hall is back on the site, still OOS. WVM is in stock right now.

ToK .. While you're at it, why not come up with a way to modify the crappy stand that comes with the Slave 1 to display the minifigs? I think TLG continually misses the mark with the stands for the UCS models. The only one I'm happy with to date is the R2D2 stand because it has a place for the R2 minifig. Displaying the Slave 1 on the stand means that there is no display space for the Bespin Guard and Stormtrooper (and possibly Han in carbonite). I'll probably tackle it after spring break when we setup another detolf cabinet to display our latest builds.

If I could find the original larger image for this, I should be able to make something from it.

You essentially have three options. Go to Target (or similar store) first thing in the am while employees are still stocking shelves and look for boxes that might work. (think Sterilite containers) Bite the bullet and order a bundle of boxes. (fyi you can order packs of 10 in certain size boxes. see store links in this post) Ask your local Pack ****** ship store what they will charge for a box & or to ship it. (pass expense on to buyer)

I did end up receiving the 2 Benny's i placed an order for the other day, very new seal codes too... it's possible they are still ordering ATAT's and Benny's (or just stock coming down the pipe) and selling them off as soon as they come in online at the clearance price. Worth keeping an eye on!

Who doesn't want a One-Eyed Willy in minifig form?

I'm surprised Lord Business allows that. Doesn't he realize the movie makes him look bad?

It seems that there is a significant difference between HH and R2 in eBay and Bricklink. I initially just checked Amazon where the difference was only $20. It does make sense not to do a straight swap as you mentioned since we should base it on the set's current value and not perceived future value.

Like sets 9500 and 9497

I see no demand for this made-up ship. Not even sure what subtheme of SW this is from. This one might never even crawl back to RRP since the only folks that might want this ship will be completists that must have everything SW. Stay away unless you want it for your own collection.

You will get those small orders if you do not have a minimum buy (I got one today for one 15 cent part) so, if you do not want to take a loss on them you need to have a handling fee or overcharge for shipping. I have chosen to have a small (60 cents) handling fee on all orders under $25. I charge true shipping costs and I feel that there are lots of people who appreciate the fact that the costs are upfront and not rolled into the shipping charges or absorbed in higher part prices.

I believe LEGO fulfils the online orders before restocking in stores. So as long as s@h is on backorder I don't expect any new shipment to stores. Therefore the lack of sets in stores might be the result of the temporary shortage rather than EOL.

This is a good point. There are a lot of assumptions made on these boards with regard to licensing, when in reality there are many ways to structure deals of this nature.

I think this is a temp shortage. However, I will have my #s by early fall.

Yes the Cubs win the world series. Don't forget to place your bets. Better ROI than modulars.

The Only Problem that could extend the Ecto-1 if they decide to extend the License to do the Firehouse or any other set. But the Ecto-1 License should last until the end of the year.

It reminded me a bit of this when I first saw it, a little of everything. http://www.brickpicker.com/bpms/set.cfm?set=6493-1 I think as said before. Like it or hate it, there will be people wanting to buy it and because of the smaller number of investors investing in this, there will be some money to be made. As for DC comics and Marvel being less popular in Europe, Maybe. Batman remains an icon and Iron Man simply is..... cool... but Spidey or Avenger doesn't have the same fan-base. But then again, isn't it the same in the US? The simpsons on the other hand have always been popular with me and the people I went to school with, work with. Perhaps they are not that popular as in the US, but they have a very large fanbase too.

The laws of supply and demand apply to Lego as well.

On sale right now at TRU for $52.49. Not sure if this is the lowest they have been, but maybe they will stick around at stores until Thursday for the 10%. (stole this from SD)

At LEGOLAND California they have one built in the store window, with a little bit of an MOC of the ocean underneath that really makes it look good. I'm working on recreating that look for the one I will be building. Here are some pics

How about some REAL retirement news for once: 75019 http://shop.lego.com/en-US/AT-TE-75019 7939 http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Cargo-Train-7939 6862 http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Superman-vs-Power-Armor-Lex-6862 (HALLELUJAH!!)

Prices for this set are still increasing nicely. I "accidentally" sold one for $575 shipped today (on Amazon). I guess it's time to up the price again...

Sea Cow

http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/11427-shop-at-home-offers-october-2014/?view=findpost&p=357511 Anyone looking to order a bunch from shop at home and stay under the radar please take a look at my post from this past October. This was the last time they ran double VIP, but they also were giving away the free elves workshop as an additional promo. I ordered one exclusive every day for the entire month with no penalty or suspicion of being a reseller. I received a bunch of VIP points which I cashed into two ewok villages, as well as 30 of the elves workshops that I should be able to sell for $20-$25 each this coming Christmas or next based on past history. My point is, you don't need to blow your load in one order. Spread it out. Be smart about it. Don't order the same set two days in a row. Wait for your previous order to go into "shipped" status before placing your next order. I know that buying is fun, and sometimes you feel like if I don't get it all now I will miss out. The sets will be there. It's not worth the risk. There seems to be a lot of new members lately asking questions regarding the banning process. The questions are being answered, but it feels like some are not listening to or taking the solid advice being given. This advice is not an opinion. It has all been learned from past mistakes. If you want to test the waters then go ahead, but don't be surprised if the ban hammer falls.

Ummmmmmmmm....no. They will ban ANYONE they suspect of reselling, large or small.

WHY DID I NEVER THINK OF THIS You just made my day.

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.