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I lied to myself for years about the prequels. I had an intervention, sought therapy, and finally accepted reality. They are abysmal.

This only helps our cause.

Used/Complete w/ box Batman Tumbler 76023 $155-$25 (discount gift cards) = $130 on EBay This is my builder...

Hi, nice to meet you.

Well first you ask the kids in the store if you can buy theirs, then when that doesn't pan out you go find the 14-16 year old kids smoking in the parking lot and give them $5 each to go in for the build. You can only do that if you've successfully ran & sold a multimillion dollar company though... otherwise it's sketchy ethically speaking.

Hello all! I am the owner (Ralph Pitcher) of the displays listed. I would like to thank Ed for putting this listing together for me! He has been a great customer over the years! As for shipping we have shipped alot of these. To be honest we rarely have a issue. When there is a issue its usually a piece that comes apart inside. All of these are hand assembled so they end up not all being glued the same. As far as space currently we have about 95 skids which we could combine to around 75. Thats roughly 3x 53 ft trailers Figure each trailer is roughly 530sqft so that means you would need about 1600sqft if I am doing the math right? Shipping from Ohio out west full truck is $1500 or less. Maybe a little less maybe a little more. Anything I can help you with just ask. Thanks Ralph

i was informed by the detective in charge of the case that the perp got arrested today.

Dagobah Set Exclusive at SDCC 2015 Yes, please! Actually, this will be just as impossible (for me) to get at SDCC as the Celebration VII set. I'll be BL'ing this one as well.

Sorry...the answer was hotcakes. Hotcakes.

or you pay off teenagers or something like that, forgot how it exactly went

I scored a winter soldier poly for $8.95 shipped on eBay today

First off if I am responding slow I have had a lot of interest. I apologize. However I have decided to offer 5 of the Vader displays for an additional $4500 to who ever buys this lot. Further more if you only want the Legos thats fine... Price is the same but you only need two 53ft semis (Which ship almost anywhere for $1500ea. All the small Lego displays would fit in one 53ft trailer (589/24 Skids). The other 315 (25 Skids)I am sure would fit in other truck. I need to confirm how much space would be left over. I also have alot of parts from these displays which we sell regularly available to the buyer as well.

Ordered mine and used $100 airmiles cash! Buyin was about $51

The Mad Scientist reminds me of a Minion...

Lego is the most powerful toy brand in the world... They employ people specifically to design sets. The Cuusoo/Ideas was a way for them to engage the community and it's been pretty successful regardless of the sizing of the models produced. Lego is also out to make money. We might think some of those big sets are cool but Lego knows that just because 10k people voted for the firehouse for example, it's highly unlikely that more that a certain percentage would fork over that much cash... Way less risk and way more people will buy the small sets.

41053 Cinderella's Dream Carriage (used, no box and manual), old Christmas promo set 40083 (new sealed) and Parisian Restaurant (used with box and manual) all for $109. gonna build and see if all complete. But look thought the box seems like every pieces are there.

I personally like the last half of Attack of the Clones, and can tolerate most of Revenge of the Sith. I actually enjoyed seeing Yoda fight Christoper Lee, and almost the entire battle of Geonosis. The prequels aren't horrendous, but they are not "legendary". The CGI in the Geonosis sequence was very well done. Right now it's just "in vogue" to rip and rant about CGI, but I think they pulled off something great in that sequence. I still think that's one of the best battle action sequence ever done.

I think it makes sense that the prequel sets will be the ones to get hurt, and everything else will do fine. Every SW fan I know, including myself, does not actually consider the prequels to be SW movies. Seriously. We're always quoting lines from the OT, but the prequels might as well not exist. They are pure garbage. Goofy battle droids running around saying 'Roger, Roger'. A talking salamander with a speech impediment. Argh.

My kid wants 75093 SW Final Duel for his birthday next week. I've noticed it's disappearing from stores so I picked one up at Walmart a couple days ago at full price ($79 + tax) just in case I could do no better. Then today... I'm driving by the only TRU in town (the one that NEVER stacks coupons, or partial pays on Thursdays or anything) and thought, "Let's just check it out... maybe I'll use the 25% off coupon...). There was just the one sales person working up front... no checkout lines open... had to pay at the service desk. I took my 75093 to the desk ($84.99 + tax)... She: "Using your TRU credit card today?" Me: "Yes I am!" She: "OK... you saved 10%... thats $76.49 plus tax..." Me: "Wait a minute... can I use this coupon on my phone... the barcode that says "Bold Arrow" above it?" She: "Sure!... OK that's $57.37 plus tax... just swipe your credit card there..." Me: <swipe> ... partial pay $10... "I'd like to use this gift card on my phone, too..." (-14% more) She: "No problem!"... <scan, click, click>... "Thank you for shopping today!" So I'm out the door paying $50.65 plus tax. ... if I only had the balls to tack on the $5 off coupon, I could change my name to "exciter2"

My experience, from going myself and seeing what people post, is that it depends. It depends on how busy they are. I always have my kids with me, but they only let my kids do it. If I only have one kid with me, then we can only do it once; we can't get two models. But, that's my experience living in SoCal. We always have huge lines, and they tend to run out of parts before everyone gets to do it (at least, that's what they tell me, but we always get there about 20 minutes before the event starts to make sure we can do the build). I've seen other people post that their TRU is dead, and that it's never been a problem for an adult to do it. But those people tend not to live in SoCal. lol

A good general rule is to sell the sets that aren't appreciating rather than focusing on taking profits. This does not apply to QFLL situations, of course (better to have sold RI for $100 than hold 'till now and sell at $20), but HH is firmly retired and I think we've got a pretty good feel for the available inventory. It is also, as Jaisonline writes, a unique set that is not likely to be reproduced, well, ever. The new Monster CMF figures can only help. They let people flesh out their Halloween style lego displays with additional creeps, and CMF list price is so high now that even near duplicates don't really compete much with the HH crew. As an aside, Chinese culture very much frowns on depictions of graveyards, ghouls, and the undead in general. This may have the happy side effect of dissuading Chinese counterfeiting of 'monster' lego sets and figures (for what it's worth, I have not seen any for sale thus far).

I think it's gone for good within the next few months, certainly by year's end. I also think there are better investments out there, including every SW exclusive (except EV) that's come out since R5.

i would advise against selling 10228s. this set was not produced for long and it's still very unique among exclusive sets.

I missed it... Sleep probably intervened again.

Count me as disappointed. I feel like that figure should have been a general release, not a limited edition.

I sold three more Jurassic Park Gallimimus Polybags for $12.75 each. Yeah-y-yeah.

My first Parisian Restaurant from Toysrus.com for $95 after using some rewards and discount gift card.

with GSP you are not responsible for shipping/packaging once the item arrives in Erlanger. Pitney Bowes packed it not you.

Hysterical...

Depends of how many you have in stock. If you have like 1-5, hold them. If you have too much of, like 10-30, sell somes. You'll win small (well, it's already 2x profit) still better than losing big overnight. A case of mine: There was that Dino Riders T-Rex set that fetched at around 600$-1000$ Misb right before the 2008 market crash, after the big deflation, everyone were selling and saving, so i got a Japanese (even rarer) Misb version for 200$, everyone else at ebay chickened out

The X-Wings are pretty different. If they refresh the set and update the box art to say The Force Awakens there would be a lot of complaints about why they didn't do the new X-Wing. It would be like if they made a 2015 Corvette model, and then the next year said they were making a Stingray model, but just released the 2015 Corvette in a box that said corvette stingray.

Firing employees. I hate it, I've had to do it on many occasions over the years. Even with cause it never gets any easier.

Anyone find that Irish people are ignorant gobshites when it comes to ebay feedback? I've only just started selling, so small sample size, but I've sold 13 items in the last 6 weeks. 3 to Irish people, 10 to abroad. I have 9 feedbacks from the 10 foreign sales and 1 from the 3 Irish. Grrrrr, it's especially worse when one of those Irish buyers is the ass who keeps bidding one cent on each of my auctions. Rant over.

Thanks for the warning. All I am saying is 3 pcs of these sets for me is something I can manage if the bubble pops. For others it can be 1 or 10 pcs. Depends on your financial position. Just do not put your future financial position at risk by buying 20 pcs of something that you cannot afford or accept from yourself to loose.

Arkham is doing quite well. Lowest on amz is $315 shipped, nearly double mspr in 9 months after retirement. Thinking the Tower will double even quicker is very optimistic in the current climate. Plenty of people are going to be happy to make $100 on this set, just as they are with arkham. I think there are more Batman fans buying legos than there are lotr fans too. As far as less stored, who really knows. Tower has been getting mass horded for months now. Every time is comes into stock investors wipe it out. When like this on target and amz for months, now with LEGO Shop at Home. Arkham vanished pretty quickly, never really did the dance like this. If the tower lingers for a few more months it could really be heavily horded if it's not already. fwiw both are good investments.

in terms of SW and WMV - it comes down to classic supply v demand. WMV historically has not been in high demand, which is why Toyworld still has stock and its on sale. SW wasnt stocked in retail till about a month ago, and has been in high demand (selling as high as 180-200+ over Xmas). I would assume that unless Toyworld gets a massive load of stock that it will sell out before Xmas and again sell for well above RRP. WMV will eventually get to 200+ but it may take a while as it will be competing with SW as well as the new Winter set coming out later this year. One plus for WMV is the Carousel which pairs well with the the Fairground themed sets (although a standalone Carousel may be released in coming years if the theme takes off). To summarize, short-term there is money to be made with WVM if you get it on discount, but long-term SW will beat it hands-down especially since it has a lower RRP and is much more popular seller on LEGO Shop at Home.

As we don't have a "What set did you take apart today" thread I'll put this here, today I disassembled and cleaned a 75% built QAR from a recent bulk lot, the rest of it is already sorted out. So I will put it back together tomorrow, take a few pictures, then take it apart again. I think this will be my eighth or ninth QAR, at this point I can nearly build it without the instructions. This is probably my favorite set that I have built, just a very well designed ship.

TLG bean counters may be smarter than us. By sacrificing a single set (TH) they have guaranteed a half decade of resellers and collectors buying the market dry afraid of missing the next TH. Bravo TLG, bravo.

Was fortunate to have the day off work today so I built the Ferris Wheel. Enjoyed the build, was repetitive but knowing that going into it made it OK and learned some new techniques which were cool. In real life the colors are more vibrant - especially the trans-clear yellow and orange pieces - and I am not bothered by the color scheme seeing it in real life. Took about 4.5-5 hours to put together and really pleased overall.

Built this little R2-D2 buddy. Very quality build, the head was definitely most satisfaction. Wish I could bring him everywhere with me. He's a noisy little guy. Constantly beeping sarcastic quips at our television. Also has a tendency to save the day. Meep!

Both are great suggestions - I am going to play around with some of those tomorrow. In the few hours since I first posted the set has been growing on me after swooshed it around my living room (never too old to do this once and a while) after watching the Belmont Stakes race. It really does look good in flight mode.

I'm not sure if anyone cares, but Ecto-1 is back at US S@H and you are able to add it to your cart.

​What's this "patience" thing and how do I get some right now?

31039 Creator Blue Power Jet. This was a brilliant building experience. The little details, like using the 1x1 slopes to make the seats are clever. But the wings are ingenious. A hinge is used to connect the two main pieces together which are then filled in with angled plates. Love it, highly recommended. I think this set will be a winner.

I don't even really care if a submission is a great investment or not, I want a great set, and this maze thing is not it. Amazing creation, I couldn't do it, but what are you supposed to do with it? You can't admire it. You supposed to play with the little ball? While I knew it wouldn't be passed the Minas Tirith desperately needed to get made. It's a main setting of the LotR franchise and Lego didn't make it, really disappointing. It's like having Indiana Jones franchise and not making the Holy Grail scene, oh wait.

I just wish LEGO would give some of the larger sets a chance. Enough of these $50 sets. How about a kick butt $400 set?

We caught vandals on video wrecking our Christmas light display and breaking into the make a wish donation box (empty at the time). The cops came out for the report. Sent a message to one of the local news stations. At 5pm, all of the major network news stations were reporting live with their vans parked on the street. The video was everywhere now. A couple of weeks later, the young girls who were caught on video went to work and their coworker friends let them know about the coverage. They saw the news videos and turned themselves in to the police. The monetary damage wasn't great so the cops told me on the phone after talking to the girls that likely charges would not be filed but the girls didn't need to know this if he wanted to drive them over to my house and try to scare them straight with a restitution plea. So they brought them over and they each made a donation to make a wish and I got the officer to chuckle when I told the girls, "Since you clearly have experience in taking down the display, you can help me take it down this weekend." They did and they turned out to be decent young adults who just got way too drunk and lost proper judgement. I ended up hiring one to help put some display pieces together the following year. And one of the news stations ended up doing a follow up. So, never underestimate the power of the news stations in solving these cases. We have had package thieves as well in our area and one home owner caught them on video and the local stations ran it for a week. Having the media cover it also puts pressure on the local police to solve it. The day after our vandals were on the news, I heard a radio commercial for crime stoppers describing our case! And I wouldn't worry about retaliation. Afterall, they will know you have their picture and they would be suspect #1 if something should happen. They will want to stay off the radar and hope things pass and none of their friends rat them out.

​I was thinking the same thing....and Lego will have a short list of 750 people who won one.

Wow, the Bat-Pod will be a pricey item in the aftermarket.