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Here's the same effect with two identical PS boxes--one with 15R5 seal codes and one from R4. Boxes are exactly the same size in real life.

​Yes this will be back. We are working on a lot of the previous plugins to make it work here. In the last 30 minutes, we just added a new working version of the Recent Posts homepage widget. You will see that it no longer includes more than one post from the same topic, it works exactly as the previous version did. You will also see at the bottom of each page (forums/threads), that there is the "Latest and Greatest" widget that will show you the Latest Posts, Topics, Hottest Topics, and Latest Blogs. We are getting rid of the Wordpress section of this site and it will be integrated back into this area. It will get more visibility this way, more comments and it is one less system to worry about. We will get to the country plugin very soon.

​They can still be purchased separately. Including them only drives up the price and makes it less accessible to buyers, so I can see why they wouldn't do it.

I think it's a huge mistake not to include Power Functions on this set. If any set requires it, it is this one.

41, married man, 3 kids: 13+9+7. Computer Professional and University Lecturer. recently Interested in Lego innovation and I wish to do some cool technic ideas and also Lego Mindstorms + Matlab projects. I'm also trying to establish a Lego business for my wife but it is not so easy to start. But never giving up. I'm currently collecting more parts, practicing with Technic and reading few books. My oldest daughter is a Lego fan, this is here first house after buying a pile of white bricks and roof slopes (with other parts we already have)

The June calendar shows a picture of the Ferris Wheel and says build the Ferris Wheel the star of the Fairground. So it does appear that Lego is planning a fair theme.

​The best rates you'll get for shipping are Expedited Parcel with Canada Post. I'd love to hear if someone else has a cheaper way (that isn't borrowing from your company's corporate rate). The key to shipping is to get the right size boxes. Since Canada Post uses dimensional rates for anything larger than a ring box (or so it seems), don't follow their advice to have 4" of empty space on each side. Shipping a full size set like a modular should cost between $22-$30 depending on how far it's going. Following their recommendations you'll be about $40-$50 for a box that size. The good news about that is that shipping box sizes like the SSD isn't really much more than shipping Pet Shops despite them weighing a ton (or tonne).

Both HH and GE have - and will - perform fantastically well. It's a fool's errand to try and pick which one you "should have" invested in with 100% hindsight. Each of these sets is a clear winner, and you didn't make a bad choice in investing in either. You'll drive yourself crazy in this game if you try to retroactively question your portfolio with "what if" questions". Heck, with what I know today I wish I had invested every dollar I had in NIB sealed Market Streets. Worth about $1500 today, with an initial buy-in of $90. Percentage wise, they've done even better than the holy grail Millenium Falcon and Grand Carousel.

"De Spar" supermarket with apartment upstairs by aloisvonesterhazy

Wow, are we hardcore fans or what...this box size 'comparison' pic might go viral like that silly blue vs gold dress thingy on youtube lol. Soon all the talk shows will be discussing this

Everyone be like "buy buy buy" and I'm over here like "build build build".

10030 was a 2002 set and was available until at least some time in 2005 (I'm not sure what Brickset has it listed as). Light gray was replaced with light bluish gray in 2004. The set was produced in both colors. It was actually fairly common during the switch to find sets that had both old and new versions of the replaced colors in the same set.

Also got some bricklink orders in the mail, just 4 more pieces and this baby is done.

10244 - Fair Ground Mixer Damaged box @ the Lego Store Regular Price + Regular VIP Points + 500 VIP Points for box being damaged + 2 Free Kai Drifters

​You need to be familiar with GDad's posts to understand his particular take at sarcasm.

I heard that TLC is now banning LEGO Shop at Home accounts based on how frequently users check the in stock status of PS and PC. More than once a week raises a red flag. Twice a day = ban, or so a little bird told me this morning...

While I wait to apply elements to smooth out the dome (been sitting in a bag for 6 months), here's a "quick fix".

http://www.bricksetforum.com/discussion/14452/master-list-how-many-bags?

​Fear not, gregpj has got your answer seven posts up.

​Did you try filtering on "Topic" instead of "All Contents". I believe those are older blog posts that have been reindexed

I don't where the $250 came from but any source I've read said closer to $200 (US) and €250. That seems reasonable considering all the Technic gears & pins included and should place it in the same ballpark for what all the Fairground Mixer came with.

You mean if you wanted to purchase a new set from LEGO's website which time zone do they adhere to generally? I've never really thought about it but now I'm curious.

I think now would be a terrible time to sell it. The time to sell was when the movie was at its peak but now wait for the 2nd one to be released. It looks like they peaked at about $800 but now going for about $400.

where are people quoting these prices from?

The tin is a nice collectors piece. It is difficult to gauge how well these will appreciate. I have my fair share of SDCC and Toy Fair collectibles. I am hoping that one day they will really take off being they are limited and numbered. Personally, I would not sell that tin just yet.

​That will be the one I sent back to lego shop europe as I just got a refund from them after returning the set more than a month ago

Any chance of reinstating the flags under people's names so we can easily see where people are from. It was a handy feature to have, especially when people were talking about prices. I can still see the location on some profiles.

​Wow, congrats on the R2 shipping notice. Keep them in a safe place

​....oh and 10188 is EOLed since 5 years ago... insider information...

​From your post in yesterday's DD thread "EOL insider information?" & 33Lego said "TRU also just sold out SOH" I'm not looking to argue, I'm trying to update the appropriate threads. :)

@ Locutus: Schön, mal wieder etwas von dir zu lesen. Meinen Post, den Ensche bezüglich May the 4th meint, findest du übrigens hier. Falls du noch mehr wissen möchtest, dann gib mir einfach Bescheid. Ansonsten bin ich ganz Ensches Meinung: Da ist nichts Spektakuläres dabei. Ich werde wahrscheinlich aussetzen. Das neue Layout ist mir relativ egal, weil ich eh immer über diesen Link ins Forum einsteige. Alles chronologisch sortiert, man kann bei jedem Thread direkt zum neusten ungelesenen Post springen - für mich perfekt.

​... just wondering... what it might take to get a truly useful corporate rate - perhaps if all the Canadian BP'ers banded together as a "virtual company" everyone could make use of the corporate account & take advantage of a "shipping collective" co-op style.

​I guess the Fat Lady didn't sing.....yet.

​Sorry, I was just giving a general price range for shipping in Canada. I'm fairly central so only the 4 east coast provinces can be outside of that range. Shipping outside of Canada is an entirely different category but Expedited Shipping is still your best bet if you can't ship from the US like some folks who live close to the border. As an example, a set like the Imperial Shuttle 10212 will cost anywhere from $40-$70 to ship to the US from most places in Canada. A modular fits into that as well, maybe a couple bucks less if you're shipping from a big city like Toronto to Maryland state. Regardless, I market almost exclusively to Canadians and if Americans buy for the ridiculous shipping cost, then so be it.

This is one of my favorite threads, thought I'd share a bit. I recently completed building a series of Star Wars sets I pieced back together from a collection I purchased last year (as others have said, bulk is rather time consuming!). Here's the "hero shot" of each of the sets, I haven't had a change to assemble the 6211 ISD missing from the sequence quite yet....

​Shipping a full size set like a modular should cost between $22-$30 depending on how far it's going : DEPENDS also form which Province you live in .. nearer or not from the border, to the State or Country your shipping to , Cheaper Quebec to Ontario than to BC .. Cheaper from BC to ship to Australia than From Quebec add also the provinces tax... just my 2 cents ... Yes Canada Post is the cheapest "highest" solution, yes size of the box need to be just ok ...

The seller is obviously not being truthful. The legs come in white. There's no way that came out of the package with bkack legs.

Mail came today, but it seems that purolator has misplaced a box with 10 x 60074 bulldozer and 10 x 60075 excavator and truck. Hopefully it just got delayed :/

Placed 3 orders with SaH to maximize free drifters. 1 Exo Suit + handful of discount S3 Mixels (to gain free shipping) 1 PC (already updated as backorder) 1 TB

And it still has the correct leg printing? I'm pretty sure something is amiss here. Even the fake ones don't have black hips.

​I'll pay to watch that

It`s a huge risk, not a discouragement, just something to keep at the front of your mind. If you`re supporting yourself/family/etc and of course need a guaranteed income, you`re going to need a much bigger initial investment portfolio to begin with. When you do this part time on the side as perhaps supplemental income, you`re basically risking extra money, when you attempt to do this or anything similar for a living, you`re risking your livelihood. It shouldn`t be taken lightly, not saying anyone is, just saying though. Very rough estimate (very rough, really), but if you want to bring home $60k in a year in profit as income, you`re going to need to sell in the ballpark of at least $200-250k in sales. Your numbers of $80k are not realistic if you`re referring to sales. Remember, you have an initial investment of (X # of $) that must be recouped as part of the sales. Then you have selling fees (round up to 14-15% for Ebay and Paypal for example). People overlook this, it`s a common mistake, but a very dangerous one to make all the same. If you buy $50k worth of sets and sell them on Ebay for $100k. On paper, you might say you have doubled your money. Not so fast. Here is what it would actually look something like: $100k sold - 15% ($15,000) in fees = $85,000. $85,000 - 20% (for example) in taxes ($17,000) = $68,000 There, you`ve got $68,000. Oh wait, not so fast, remember you put in $50k to buy those sets, so we must recoup the initial investment. $68k - $50k = $18k You`re left with $18,000 cleared after an initial input of $50k. The general number tossed around here on BP and in this thread already is that 30% return is realistic. I agree, it absolutely is. You can see that right here, little bit more, but the above doesn`t take into account packing material or anything like that, so 30% is pretty close. Sure, you doubled your money in gross sales with 50K invested, but you have fees and taxes to account for. Not to mention any packing materials, tape, labels, printer paper, boxes, etc, etc. Very rough analysis but you see the issue. If you want $60k cleared after fees, taxes, etc, you`re looking at 250K a year in gross sales at a minimum, actually $350-400k or more, because you are not going to sell 100% of your initial investment. It doesn`t happen, sets will sit and sit at times and not sell, others will move very fast, you have to account for this. And that assumes you make 100% (double) off of your initial investment (which would be $125k) using the above analysis. It`s by no means complete, there are other factors to consider, and you could do it with less investment and a higher ROI instead, but if you want to quite or day job and be successful you`ve got to take a very long hard look at the numbers. Read what is written here and on the site, plenty of discussion around this topic of going solo/full time. You can be very successful, but it`s not easy, and you have to be very careful, otherwise a slight oversight could end up costing you quite a lot.

Honestly, the capital required to generate $60k yearly after tax income on full-time lego sales in much, much higher than what you're estimated (if you estimated it at all, I'm not sure I see what you're counting on for purchasing sets and flipping them). Bare minimum of $500k to start if you want assured income and sales right away. I don't think $1M is too much, actually, for this to work out after all your fees and with selling prices that will generate consistent sales. At those investment levels, there are so many other options, including the good-old stock market that can be structured to generate the 5-15% return you'll be looking for, and with considerably less work and hassle. There's some big-time sellers here, and very, very few that make it their only source of income. For most of us, this is part-time, hobby-class level of investment. I shudder to think if I had to turn this into the sole source of income for my family. I'd find a hundred other things to do before trying to eke a full time living out of Lego reselling.

with 18 posts, pics or it didnt happen.

​Hey! I'm only half as sensitive and twice as dumb as most Canadians, so if you need to say it, just do it. "Hey thirsty you dumbA$$, what kinda retard buys 70k in Lego without actually testing his home market out?" Well Migration, I'm glad you asked. I am Albertan, which means I have way more $$$ than brains and twice more ballz!!! But seriously, I just love Lego that much and bought a good pile of it on sale at Target for like half off or with gift cards from Sears, etc... Ya ok. Nobody needs 10 Grand Emporiums, but those are kind of obvious... So anybody sell 6866's on Amazon for big chesse or what? Or maybe a whack of Orc Forge's??? What about 70702? I got five of those for like $9 and change. Where would my fellow Canadian brickpickers get rid of those?

It is motorized. You can see the drive wheel here...

New item to hit the sales/flip goal. 79003 - The Hobbit: An Unexpected Gathering - EBay free ship - $110

Here's what our shop looked like 2 years ago. Much more crammed in now!

Ha great work Ed. Got something to shoot for now.

That`s a neat idea Ed, cool! It still boggles my mind that Lego cares so much about their product to prevent people from buying it. Obviously it`s not as simple as that, but still, in a way it`s crazy.