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According to LEGO... Firehouse Headquarters doors can open to fit the 21108 LEGO® Ideas Ghostbusters Ecto-1 inside!

So the Fire Brigade and Ecto-1 made a baby.

UPDATE: The mobile app should be working now!

Picture is up on Legos Instagram page and most likely other sites

Bought a ferris wheel and UCS TIE. Adding them to my ever growing backlog of sets to build.

Would it be fair to say "It's my opinion that most JW sets are being purchased by resellers?" Because they are. And no, I don't have "hard" evidence, but Timmy's Grandma doesn't make Lego go "poof" from online retailers in a matter of minutes at random hours of the day. That takes a coordinated effort from dedicated people who see $$$. If there's going to be a bubble, resellers are adding the air. I'd like to think Lego is too big for the bubble, and across the board, I think it is. Certain sets, lines, etc. will experience micro bubbles though--and this line is one. RE was selling for over $100 on Amazon not too long ago. Yesterday, the buy box was around $85. I'm not arguing profit margin of $5, but the margin has "popped" some. And yes, I know how long it is until Christmas. Just food for thought. "Be willing to be different." - Warren Buffett

I made an announcement last week that you might not have seen that I have to basically completely rewrite everything based on changes in the data we get, so it's a work in progress. It will be straightened out over the next day or two. I have to change a ton of stuff. I do not know what you mean by the same for the Classified what "do not see any surplus anymore" means. It's a crap load of work I need to do and do it in stages. The new template for the price guide is a work in progress too that I was basically forced to make live early before getting it the way I want. Google has been barking at me for weeks because those other pages are not mobile friendly at all, etc, etc. Just give me a few more days to try and catch up. I wish I had all day to work on it, but now I need to switch gears and go to the office and work on totally different garbage.

Hey Folks! So as you all know Dimensions came out with the Portal 2 level pack. I have long been a huge Portal fan and love the games. The writing/humour/gameplay is beyond anything else I've played. There was an Ideas project that ended up not making it into a final product: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/18258 which i was really rooting for. So when the Dimensions set came out i decided i would try to replicate this design so i could properly display the awesome Chell minifig. I also intend to make a GlaDOS that will hang in the top of a detolf (tops of detolfs have a hole) without all the support brackets used in the Ideas design. Below is the progress I've made so far and i will continue to update as i make more progress and when it's all finished and displayed. I am awaiting parts to round it out a bit plus the parts for GlaDOS, and have taken a few creative liberties from the original Ideas set. There are no instructions for this available (that i saw) so it's all done by eye and tedious part counting. I have not made it modular like the original Ideas design intended, and the back side is abnormally ugly right now that i may eventually cover up with plates. Problems I've encountered (aside from the old: "Dammit, i swore i ordered enough of these pieces!"): - The sentry turret from the Dimensions set is way too big, i'll need to make a few micro ones which i have yet to get parts for. - Getting customs stickers to fit on LEGO bricks is hard (i went with stickers instead of brickbuilding the chamber sign). - Couldn't find a "swamp" like colour to simulate the gross water found in test chambers. - Not sure how to come at making the portals themselves, i may just not include them. - GlaDOS is a very odd design, I've gone with a different one than the Ideas design and the parts are on the way. - Not sure how to connect the floor pieces with the 2 walls, however i may not even need to for display purposes. A bit of the modular nature of the set. However nowhere near as modular as the designer's model. The back needs some serious work haha, plates of all sizes and colours! but they were just from my personal stash until i figured out what i needed. And finally this is the top of the walls that i am waiting for tiles pieces to arrive to cover up the Technic bits, and a few more of the Technic squares to replace some basic bricks on the right side to make it more flush. Updates will come as i get more pieces in the mail Thanks for looking!

Finished up Shuttle Tyderium last night. It's awesome. So much better than its predecessors. Never built a 10212, but this was a lot of fun and is very swooshable(according to my son, of course)

UPDATE: The mobile app should be working now!

I just finished an interesting interview with LEGO Artist Paul Wellington, who is probably best known for his large "Brickville" and "Brick City" microscale scenes. I was more interested in his intricate small-scale LEGO models of real buildings like the National Congress of Brazil (as featured in my book The LEGO Architect), and his most recent microscale model of Unity Temple by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.NATIONAL CONGRESS OF BRAZILBrasilia, Brazil, 1964, Oscar Niemeyer.LEGO Model by Paul Wellington."The scale of the National Congress of Brazil [LEGO] model is solely based on the sides of the towers, which use 1×8 tiles. I wanted to maximize the number of windows (trans-light blue plates) therefore the tiles could only be connected in one place."UNITY TEMPLEOak Park, Illinois, 1908, Frank Lloyd Wright.LEGO Model by Paul Wellington."Unity Temple was conceived by utilizing 2×2 medium stone gray bricks as the corners of the building. Next I imagined creating the columns out of 1×1 bricks with handles. Everything after that essentially fell into place."I asked Paul to tell me how he works within the limited selection of LEGO Elements. He explained: "For the most part I don’t have a problem with the selection of LEGO, just deciding what to build. I like to come up with new uses for pieces, as I rather focus on what LEGO does have rather than don’t. Some of my favorite and most commonly used pieces include headlight bricks, cheese slopes (1x1x2/3 slopes) and brackets. Using just these three parts alone I can create numerous designs from LEGO." Paul's dream elements include: 1×1 Grille Tile, 1×1 Plate with door rail, Wedge Tiles, 1×1 Brick with 2 Adjacent Knobs, and the 1×5 Brick (not pictured).I also asked Paul which new elements he most wishes would be added to the LEGO System. He had a nice list of ideas, which I drew out to share here.Learn more about Paul, how he uses 3D Modeling software to make amazing rendered images of his models, his Brickville / Brick City projects and more by reading the whole interview at:http://brickarchitect.com/2015/paul-wellington/Sincerely,---Tom

Won't let me login via the app... Booo. :)

There should be no stickers on a $350 set. Period.

Between this, CMF 14, and the Fall 2015 Ninjago wave, it's good to see TLG really getting some mileage out of the banshee/ghost/specter tail/leg mold.

On the TLG Twitter page with a confirmed January release https://twitter.com/LEGO_Group/status/659012107002859521

Anybody think the Ecto-1 will fit in there? Looks like it might.

This Month 5 Palace Cinemas 20 SW Advent @ $23.50

Understood. I just think the number of "investors only" on this site would suprise you. There seem to be a large percentage here who care nothing for lego bricks as toys and view them strictly as a commodity. I could be wrong but those types of members are the most vocal in the forums so that is what I am basing this comment of off.

How in the world could you know that percentage, out of curiosity?

Ferris Wheel...finally! Plus another Train. Enjoying the VIP points for next month, when I buy something else big (not sure what yet - maybe Temple of Airjitsu) for the Gingerbread House.

Let's just put this out there... You can kiss it. You are one of the biggest problems on this site as you argue with everyone and backtrack on statement after statement. People here are fed up with you and your bull spit so if you don't like it, you get can get lost. Yes I said that. No I don't like you. I try to be patient but you are being an a**hole to mods and especially to other members. If you want we can arrange for your posts to go through an approval process. Despite what you think this isn't a democracy and Jeff and Ed ask us (the mall cops) to keep up with the threads and right the ship from time to time. If it was up to me if have banned your ass a long time ago for the way you "speak" to everyone here.

It had to be done.

Haha, I know the feeling. Will be relieved when my abundance of JW ship. $$$$ On a side note, I found a lone T-Rex Tracker sitting on the shelf at Big W. It was a cancelled lay-by

Forget Lego Light up bricks, they need a Theme Music playing Brick to play the iconic Ghostbuster's Theme song! Or as my 2 year old says "GO BUSTERS!"

I really think this one is leaving us...

According to LEGO... Firehouse Headquarters doors can open to fit the 21108 LEGO® Ideas Ghostbusters Ecto-1 inside! As far as I like Ecto to retire, I guess with that statement Ecto will be around a longer than the normal Ideas life cycle. Maybe I have to rethink my investment strategy

It typically takes quite a while. Months even. ESB, Sydney Opera House, Farnsworth House and Fallingwater lingered for MONTHS even after the US site showed them as retired in the last wave. Heck, people are still finding Rockefeller Center, Guggenheim, and others in the wild. So until they're out of stock in the US online sites, people probably won't even raise an eyebrow.

Even though I agree when it comes to disliking stickers: Why? There really is no other reason than your(our) convenience. TripleE shouldn't have come with stickers! UCS TIE-Fighter shouldn't have come with stickers! I'm pretty happy that LEGO sticks to their non-sticker policy when it comes to ideas sets. But as I pointed out with the price: As for price per piece it is very low and thus you could almost be happy about it. The DS comes with 3803 pieces!!! So the price has nothing to do with stickers and having this disjointedness I'd say that your remark (as much as I share the thought!) is not justified. Also: There probably are not that many stickers and - I only can guess here- I think it would have been more expensive if LEGO had opted for the non-sticker version. I take 350 sticker-version before 400 non-sticker any time.

Purple slime coming up from under the sidewalk is a nice detail

Nice!! I can cuztomize and save streams, even make 1 as default So what is this? (Btw, it even allows you to quote a selected text... HOT DANG!!) To quote specific text: just highlight / select a text and a pop up with "Quote this" link will appear. Just click the pop up and the selected text appears as a quote on your reply box.

Also: It got the NEW BOX DESIGN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I too think PS is on its way out. Currently it's back in stock with an order limit of 2 (while PC, PR and DO normally have an order limit of 5). Could well be the last production run to keep it around till end of the year and then finally retire. The next candidate to retire in my opinion is definitely the PC. It is the least favoured modular, after Market Street. See the poll here: http://community.brickpicker.com/topic/822-modulars-general-conversation/?page=1 It's a corner building which is a function the Brick Bank can take over after PC retires. And it's the cheapest Advanced Modular building while the trend for these buildings is an upwards price movement. But I don't expect PC to retire before October/November 2016.

Personally I think LEGO will stick to their policy of retiring the oldes first (which makes sense) so PS should be next. But as we have seen with TH they can do as they please. PC would be the next after PS. If PS is much more popular than PC LEGO could decide to retire PC earlier (but I wouldn't count on it). As for me I'm sticking to plan A: PS first, next year PC. I have 2 copies of both and just bought a third one of PS for myself. Same will happen next year with PC ;-) If it retires now I can still decide on what to do with the two I have.

That's what I was talking about ;-) So I can be happy to own one and move on.

You mean, if there is anything special about this minifig ? No, apart from the shoulder pads, I don't think so.

finally got some bricks to work out the ice cream shop some more... here's an update - still waiting for a double VIP/xmas promo pick abrick order to finish the last floor.

To Be Honest honest?!?

Come on people!!!

Is $5500 a good price to pay for a Pristine condition 1st Edition 10179? It's still in it's outer shipping cardboard box that says Millennium Falcon Shipper Inside is its inner cardboard box and some letter from Lego. Certificate of authenticity should be inside This inner cardboard box is still sealed shut and has never been opened before. Inside it, the 10179 that has never seen the light of day. Probably a 10/10 mint box Seller had 5 of these, sold 2 already. He's only going to sell one more of these, keeping the last 2 for him and his son. I really really want to buy it because this is as perfect a specimen as you're going to get. It's been kept in storage with 24/7 Air-conditioning for the past 8 years.

I hope that this set will be included in Black Friday discount list of lego store, as was last year - therefore I am not buying it during 2xVIP points and waiting for better discounts. This set is extremly overpriced and slow seller, so for me is big candidate for black friday sales...

I got a SW, WInter toy shop and a SW Advent calendar,and the employee looked at my total and said, "do you want 2 trains or just 1? You're at $200 so you could have 2 if you want." oh yes I wanted 2.

Which, that means it's retiring soon.

I see what you're saying. But if a set doubles within 60 days of purchase it's hard not to sell them for me.

what a great week ! another #10237 for 339€ and 2 X #10249 for 129 € each. all by Ebay (shipping included).

Yesterday was the biggest single day I've had so far: Maersk EEE for $250The 6 JW sets bundled for $650City Cargo Terminal for $165Full set of 12 Star Wars Microfighters $1602015 Bricktober set $103After having stagnate sales on Ebay for awhile I've been trying their 50% off FVF for promotion-based sales. I have a 5% discount set up for sales over $75, so I'm not really losing any money. I don't know if it's the promotion, the season, or something else, but I've had several good sales on Ebay over the past week or so since I added the 5% off.

Those minifigures may not be exclusive for long: Racers 1 – $9.99 Includes Captain America and Red Skull Iron Skull Submarine Attack – $34.99 Includes Captain America, Hydra Henchman, Iron Man Scuba Suit Variant, and Iron Skull

Possible explanation for so many TOOS items: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/shopping-and-consumer-news/11943951/Worldwide-Lego-shortage-tension-builds-as-toy-maker-warns-it-cant-meet-Christmas-orders.html