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You guys asked, and you shall receive. These were taken a couple of months ago, and I don't actually happen to have all the sets. Missing is the Imperial Shuttle, Ewok Village, and some winter village sets. Oh and detectives office is missing as well because it was destroyed by our friend's kid and had to be put back together which it was.

You may have noticed seeing a bunch of mini flags next to user names throughout the forum and wonder what that is about. In the previous version of the forum we did have a plugin that identified the location of where people are from. Overall I think this is good know since the LEGO situation is different in all parts world. Currency, discounts, inventory, special releases and just the overall buying and selling of LEGO is different. At least now you may have an idea that they may be talking from experience from 5,000 miles away from where you are. There is also an added benefit of finding people that are local to you to strike up a conversation. I know we have an active thread for German Brickvesting. Having the flags can allow people to invite others into those topics of conversations a little easier if they see a new member from Germany asking questions. The flags will automatically appear when you login. If you log out and back in again it will automatically update your account. If you do not recognize a flag and hover over it it will give you the country name If you click on the flag, it will open up a window to show you other members that have been identified from that country as well. Hopefully you like this and it adds a little something to the community. Thanks

I think this Lego Ideas submission Tron Legacy Light Cycle looks REALLY good and deserves our support! What do you people think?

I'm just pissed that we get this $350 abandoned firehouse but Lego won't make a nice Lord of the Rings Minas Tirith for a fanbase begging for one. You want to talk about a $350 set that would have amazing secondary market capabilities?(that's not Star Wars) That's it.

The fact that films like Back To The Future or Ghostbusters are still remembered to this day despite so little of any advertising for either over the years compared to the constant in your face franchising of Star Wars to me says more about how good those are by comparison. In some ways I wonder if Star Wars would be as popular today with the current generation if it wasn't for the merchandise always being refreshed. (I just saw a board game parody of "Loopin' Louie" called "Loopin' Chewie".) Trying to accurately scale the fan base for any of these film classics though is like trying to figure the exact (or close to) number of people presently living across the world. This set for what has been seen from the outside is very faithful to the source material which was basically an old firehouse. It may not have been a fancy historic landmark of one but the structure worked and people do remember it as the Ghostbusters firehouse. The point of blandness could easily be made with the older modular house sets in particular the Fire Brigade which was a simple two story firehouse but that did not need to be fancy for what it was. The price on the Ghostbusters HQ set is high and double of a standard modular house however the amount of parts included has also been doubled (small or not). I imagine roughly 2,000 of those went into the facade and characters with the rest detailing the interior which must have every tiny nook & cranny realistically detailed. (The Haunted House only had 2,064 pieces looking great from the outside while the interior was very minimal.) In any case, I eagerly await the Designer video showing off the fantastic interior to match the brilliant exterior.

I sold The Batcave, Spidey Cycle Chase, Arctic Batman, and PowerLex sets for $180 via CL. Glad to thin out those sets.

I was hoping for Golden Girls. Thank you for NOT being a friend Lego.

I have to say I love this forum for the fact that most of the prolific posters are pretty damn close to exclusively investors, and as such, look at Lego through a completely different lens than us normal collectors. I for one and super stoked about this set. Not to mention I would honestly buy any set Lego put out that was over 4,000 pieces. But it's just interesting the dynamic because as a normal collector who likes to open and display, value/popularity really isn't that important. When I show people my room that has every lego set I've bought over the years displayed, they are just in true awe, and want to look at all the sets, even the more obscure/less popular ones. They just are amazed at what Lego can do. And you have to think of it this way too, because even some of these more obscure stuff could end up being of interest to someone that would have otherwise not have known. I think the best thing going for the HQ is the fact that not only is it huge, with tons of exclusive figures, but you can actually FIT the ECTO-1 inside of it. That is such a ridiculous selling point IMO that people will go gaga over when they realize this fact. It may not be such a huge investment winner in some of your eyes, but that's also what's really funny. All the almost set in stone opinions, and the set won't be released for another few months. I also think you truly underestimate the number of normal people who don't really necessarily buy secondary market but buy it on the primary when it's still at retail. I truly have a hard time believing that Lego would release this set without doing some serious market research.

I used this example to my wife a week ago. She has been watching all the Star Wars stuff online recently and she said, "I'm getting really excited for this movie." I told her that 16 years ago I went through the same thing, then I saw what was delivered. I am not a prequel hater, but it failed to meet expectations. Heck, after Phantom Menace, I figured they'd just get better, but then I saw Attack of the Clones and felt renewed disappointment. So, I am attempting to tone down my excitement level, except I have 2 little girls and a wife that have never seen Star Wars in a theater. The whole house is getting excited. Halloween they are Rey and Phasma, and I cannot help but feel like the dad in that new Toys R Us commercial.

21103 Delorean Time Machine $100 (had to share this to help celebrate legodelorean's sale on CL)

Here's the updated polybag schedule. If you have any updates, post them up, and I will update the spreadsheet: Last Updated Set # Theme Set Name Locations Status Updated By Nov 2015 30312 City Demolition Driller TRU Available 11/29 micbelt Nov 2015 30291 Ninjago Anacondrai Battle Mech TRU Available 11/8 micbelt Nov 2015 5002938 Star Wars Stormtrooper Sergeant TRU Available 12/13 micbelt Nov 2015 30286 Seasonal Christmas Tree TRU Available 12/20 micbelt Nov 2015 5003084 Super-Heroes Hulk TRU Available 12/6 micbelt Nov 2015 30274 Star Wars AT-DP TRU Current micbelt Nov 2015 30259 Elves Azari's Magic Fire TRU Current micbelt Nov 2015 30112 Friends Emma's Flower Stand TRU Current Alpinemaps Nov 2015 30294 Ninjago The Cowler Dragon Target Current Alpinemaps Nov 2015 5002948 Star Wars Episode 7 C3P0 TRU Current micbelt Nov 2015 30188 Creator Cute Kitten TRU Gone (Oct 2015) Elkkthunder Nov 2015 30202 Friends Smoothie Stand Target Gone (Jan 2015) Alpinemaps Nov 2015 30203 Friends Mini Golf Lego.com Gone (Jan 2015) Alpinemaps Nov 2015 30204 Friends Wish Fountain Legoland Gone (Jan 2015) Alpinemaps Nov 2015 30205 Friends Pop Star Lego.com Gone (Oct 2015) Alpinemaps Nov 2015 30228 City Police ATV Kmart Gone (Oct 2015) jay4e Nov 2015 30246 Star Wars Imperial Shuttle Target Gone (Aug 2015) BrickChick Nov 2015 30256 Chima Ice Bear Mech TRU Gone (Aug 2015) Elkkthunder Nov 2015 30272 Star Wars A-Wing Starfighter Legoland DC Gone (Oct 2015) exciter1 Nov 2015 30275 Star Wars TIE Advanced Prototype TRU Gone (Aug 2015) Elkkthunder Nov 2015 30283 Creator Off-Road Legoland Gone (Mar 2015) Alpinemaps Nov 2015 30284 Creator Tractor Lego.com Gone (Oct 2015) Alpinemaps Nov 2015 30293 Ninjago Kai Drifter Lego.com Gone (Apr 2015) Darth_Raichu Nov 2015 30303 Super-Heroes Joker Bumper Car TRU Gone (Oct 2015) micbelt Nov 2015 30305 Super-Heroes Spider-Man Super Jumper Lego.com Gone (Aug 2015) Alpinemaps Nov 2015 30311 City Swamp Police Helicopter Target Gone (Jan 2015) Alpinemaps Nov 2015 30313 City Garbage Truck Target Gone (Apr 2015) Alpinemaps Nov 2015 30314 City Go-Kart Racer Target Gone (Oct 2015) pstebbing Nov 2015 30315 City Space Utility Vehicle Target Gone (Oct 2015) Alpinemaps Nov 2015 30320 Jurassic World Gallimimus Trap GameStop / TRU Gone (Aug 2015) micbelt Nov 2015 40055 Seasonal Halloween Pumpkin TRU Gone (Oct 2015) thoroakenfelder Nov 2015 40140 Creator Flower Cart Lego.com Gone (Jan 2015) Alpinemaps Nov 2015 40146 Creator Lufthansa Plane Lufthansa Gone (Oct 2015) Alpinemaps Nov 2015 5002125 Super-Heroes Electro TRU Gone (Oct 2015) jay4e Nov 2015 5002144 Ninjago Dareth vs. Nindroid TRU Gone (Oct 2015) jay4e Nov 2015 5002941 Bionicle Hero Pack Lego.com Gone (Mar 2015) Darth_Raichu Nov 2015 5002943 Super-Heroes Winter Soldier Lego.com Gone (Oct 2015) Alpinemaps Nov 2015 5002947 Star Wars Admiral Yularen Lego.com Gone (Oct 2015) Alpinemaps Nov 2015 30217 Duplo Duplo Forest Random Bag Unknown Alpinemaps Nov 2015 30218 Duplo Duplo Snail Unknown Alpinemaps Nov 2015 30278 Star Wars Poe's X-Wing Fighter Unknown Alpinemaps Nov 2015 30285 Creator Tiger Unknown Alpinemaps Nov 2015 30292 Ninjago Jay Nano Mech Unknown Alpinemaps Nov 2015 30304 Super-Heroes Avengers Quinjet Unknown Alpinemaps Nov 2015 30605 Star Wars Finn (FN-2187) Unknown Alpinemaps Nov 2015 5002919 Ninjago Scenery and Dagger Trap Unknown Alpinemaps Nov 2015 5002928 Friends Party Polybag Unknown Alpinemaps Nov 2015 5002939 Star Wars Phantom Unknown Alpinemaps

Mine was too but some mysterious person cleared them out. They left a sign to check for a BA store on Amazon.

Well this thread needed this...

ACT I: A Tuesday morning in Billund, Denmark. Two lego corporate executives meet at the water cooler. Lego Exec. A: Hey George, how was your weekend? Lego Exec B: Hi Rupert, it was fine, just fine. And yours? George: Fine, just fine. Rupert: That's good. George: Yup, yeah, good...good. (an awkward silence develops as they take turns at the water cooler) Rupert: Hey you know what we could do today? George: (looks up from his coffee cup. Audience wonders why he now has a cup of coffee if this is a water cooler scene, but they just give it the benefit of the doubt). Rupert: Well, you know how the status updates on the website are always red when something goes to "Sold Out"? George: Yeah... Rupert: Well I was just thinking, you know we could totally change that... in like, just some of the different sets... George: I don't follow. You mean like make the new "Sold Out" tags blue any time we temporarily sell out of something? What's the point of that? Rupert: (frustrated) No, no, no, you're not hearing me. Not all of them. Like, only a few of them.... And not blue either. Blue is a direct contrast to red. I'm thinking something really close to red, like purple or something. George: What about orange, orange is really close to red. Rupert: (excitement building in his voice) Holy crap yes. Orange would be perfect for this. It's almost the same thing, but not exactly. George: (still seemingly indifferent) Okay but why? I mean, why would we do that? (a robotic female voice with just a lilt of a British accent comes over the intercom announcing it's time for the weekly executives meeting in the lounge to laugh about 10188 while execs enjoy pastries and read recent online blog entries to each other) George: Hey I'm gonna go to this meeting. Do whatever you want with the colors dude, I really don't care. Rupert: (Looks at the camera and raises one eyebrow, a smirk beginning to form on his thin Danish lips) ACT II: An online website where people write long and self-indulgent forum posts that take forever for other members to read and go on and on with pointless stage directions and attempts at humor. Especially people with costumed frankfurters next to their names. Forum Guy: Drop everything. The "Sold Out" tag is orange on the ISD! It's orange. It's not red, I know what red is and I've seen red. But this changes everything. It has to mean something. I mean this has to MEAN something. We need to discuss this. We need to! Okay you all get the joke now, I'm not going to beat you over the head with it. I have to get back to work anyways. This took me like 20 minutes to write. God I'm such a nerd.

Hilarious, there's literally no pleasing some.

Keep calm and build Lego...

I think to a few people, it's more like, "WOW, LEGO wasted a 4600 piece set on a big red rectangle!" LOL

The value of this set is clear (even the haters can see that) - Being able to make a profit (from day 1) by purchasing this set is a lock. If someone doesn't like it, don't buy it - If you don't like the boring look of the building exterior, go back and change the movie (because that's just how it looks). There is something to the "Wow, I can't believe that they made that" aspect of a set - and this one (whether you like it or not) clearly has it.

I guess LEGO did some market research with the Prince of Persia, Lone Ranger, Cars, and Toy Story themes as well. It's a cool set, but let's not crown it an iconic set yet. $350 is a lot of money for the regular fan to dish out for a Fire Brigade on steroids.

About 1/3 of the Birds in my stash:

It's getting more real now. Finally got some copies delivered. A few will be going out for review. Obviously Mom and Dad get one too. At least they can say their kids were able to accomplish something with their lives!

I can see why people are like meh - It's a sort of boring looking building to begin with but when you look at it, its an EXACT replica of the building in the motion picture which is why it has appeal. How wide that appeal is uncertain but with the price point comes scarcity and with scarcity comes profit following EOL. Plus I'm imaging a really cool interior. As Ed pointed out earlier, at the price point, the interior better be real and spectacular. I think this is going to make the Fire Brigade look like a "Bike Shop" size creator set when placed in proximity to each other. I think it is a mistake looking at this from an investing perspective as purely a "Ghostbusters" themed set. This is going to be the largest modular type building to date and guessing a shorter life span whether or not it is a big seller which i tend to doubt it will be. post EOL even non-Ghostbuster modular building fans will want this.

I guess all my extra money from LEGO investing goes right back into LEGO for my own collection ^.^

Hello all, some may remember me and many probably will not. But after a long time away I have finally found my way back to the fold. Life happens sometime and work occupies us....that and the sheer upheaval when work tells you to move halfway across the nation . But I am glad to report I am back and life is now somewhat back to normal. Currently working at restarting my eBay store and starting the massive task of trying to catch up on the wide world of LEGO that left me in the dust quick. Anyway, just wanted to jot out a quick note re-introducing myself to the community and saying hi. - Vince

I guess a big shipment has come in. Amazon is now reporting that the book will be out next week. Its even on sale now for $16.43 39% off. http://amzn.to/1Hj0gh1 If you didn't pre-order one yet, now would be a good time!!

1,000 pieces? If it weren't for the GBHQ submissions, it might not have been made...

Well you're right when it comes to he production of ideas projects but otherwise you're wrong. If sets larger than x (1.000 pieces) will not be allowed to be voted then people just won't submit them. Putting any limits to the whole ideas project pre-production is not in LEGOs interest. As I pointed out before (long before): 1. Free designs for LEGO! I mean even if they do not use them for official ideas sets. 2. Free market research for LEGO! What do people want? How much are they willing to pay for a certain set? 3. Free new ideas for LEGO! 4. Mostly highly popular sets once they decide on a winner. And the best part about it is that they have minimum work with the wholce process --> minimum cost while at the same time they are in total control of the process. So why should they actively limit ideas? They can still pick whatever they like and if they don't like any design they can as we have seen in this case pick none at all.

About the end of September I tabulated the last 100 individual 71010 minifigs sold on eBay, and here's what I found: Top sellers (quan. sold): (1) Tiger Woman, (2) Banshee, (3) Spectre Top Avg. Price (incl. shipping): (1) Tiger Woman $9.09, (2) Wacky Witch $9.04, (3) Cheerleader $8.96 Avg. of all: $7.46 Just did it again for the last 100 sold now (end of October): Top sellers (quan. sold): (1) Wacky Witch, (2 & 3 tie) Banshee & Wolf Guy Top Avg. Price (incl. shipping): (1) Tiger Woman $10.39, (2) Skeleton $8.95, (3) Wacky Witch $8.43 Avg. of all: $7.44 Of course, take it with a grain of salt... small sample size... not statistically conclusive.

It's normal PayPal process. The initial dispute automatically locks up your funds, and starts the process of investigation. As long as you upload the tracking documentation when requested, you'll be covered by seller protection and they will release your funds back to you in a couple days.

People think that Harrison Ford is as dry as a block of wood. But I honestly believe he us a really good sense of humor and doesn't take himself nearly as seriously as people want to believe he does.

I hate it when TV commercials make the same "cha-ching!" sound my phone does when I have an eBay sale.

Microscale Haunted House for Lego IDEAS by Frankie Someone

LOL! Please just take it! I feel the same way at this point...

Sold an Ultra Copter vs. AntiMatter for $50. Yes I know the set is still in retail settings for $70 to $90 so considering I paid $35 for the set I will take the $50 and move on.

I too mostly agree with his post, except the insultingly worded "greedy pricks" which I found a bit overdone. :-P When I left my Lego Dark Ages last August I initially thought about putting my dormant money from the bank (at 1% interest) into Lego which would most likely give me a much better ROI than the bank's interest rate. But my old love for Lego returned as well when the boxes of these beautiful sets started flowing into my house and I couldn't resist opening a few of them and actually building the awesome sets in them. Now I consider myself as both a Lego collector and (limited) Lego investor. I do need to sell (with profit) most of the sets I bought at sometime in the future, so I free up money again to buy additional and new awesome sets for my own collection. :-)

Well you're absolutely right ^.^ And I like your post because as collector, investor and somebody who already loves this set ^.^ I can agree to almost everything you say haha Anyhow: Brickpicker mainly is about investing so I guess it's not suprise that people heavily discuss about the investment potential. This is an important point that needs to be discussed as only discussions like this one help other people to make their choices.

I´m on the last stages of the Mercedes Arocs - I´ll post a build review and comparison of it and Mk2 when I have finished.

I have a chargeback pending right now, for an R2-D2 that I sold on eBay a few weeks ago. My sale was by the books, but it looks like the buyer might have stolen a CC to make the purchase. I'm not exactly sure what happened, but I shipped to the PP certified address with signature confirmation. It's in dispute now. We have all talked about banning buyers after this type of thing happens. Have we ever talked about keeping a communal list of users that we can ban, that are scammers, or PITA buyers? If they scam me, it would be nice if they wouldn't move along and scam one of you. Have we ever talked about creating an ebay 'blacklist' that we can add users to and do a communal ban?

Picked up my order from Collishop.be today in Belgium: 2 Detective Offices for € 115 each A Slave1 € 144 Mini Cooper € 65 75095 Tie Fighter € 166 Simpsons Kwik-E Mart € 158 Today was a good day!

Yeah well... probably not (even though I would have liked to see it as well). Brickwise this would be a big set. There are only so many AFOL fans that are into medieval stuff out there and I guess this project didn't fit into any category. They already did have a kingdoms theme that was similar to this set. Maybe they'll come out with something similar in a couple of years though. But after having had a talk with a shop assistent who told me that they got orders from LEGO to focus more on the younger audience I doubt that LEGO really is that much into the AFOL community to bring out these kinds of sets before other kinds of sets. It's LEGO investment on the biggest possible scale ;-) If people here chose to buy 10 Ecto-1 before 1 Ghotsbusters HQ because they think Ecto-1 will be more popular (also because of the price) then it's only understandable that LEGO is doing the same. Bringing out a more realistic medieval theme like we did in the past... or bringing out NEXO Knights (with lots of new concepts and show etc!... kids will love it, parents will buy it!) Let's face it: There are more parents out there buying LEGO for their kids then there are parents out there buying LEGO for themselves ^.^ I thought the dinosaur might have a chance but I guess with the Dinosaur molds available LEGO didn't fancy a buildable dinosaur. Don't know how succesful this would have been. Probably not that successful thus it's a better choice for LEGO just not to put money and effort into this idea. (Same as others... personally I'm still suprised that they've chosen the maze... don't think that's a brilliant idea but we'll see... as for the Fsomething-Hornet idea... I'm not a big fan and I would be suprised if LEGO would release it. But well... they're still checking on it!) Maybe if the dinosaur would have included the car and some minifigs from the original Jurassic Park! I think this would have been successful! I'd love to have these minifigs! (They are in the game!) I bet there is a market for these as die hard Jurassic Park fans as well as "humble" collectors might want these. But well... I guess I'm happy with LEGOs decission on this round as I mostly didn't like any of these ideas that much. Now I don't need to buy them *g*

It's in Dutch, but this comes from the Belgian Lego Store calendar for November - December.

Finished UCS Slave I last night. Amazing, but holy sticker sheet, Batman. Still don't like stickers for UCS sets. That is my only complaint with this set. The build was very fun to watch it come together, and is not monotonous at all. Slave I's shape sort of lends to that. What to build next?

Although the attached image of the GB HQ is a MOC it's clear to see how it doesn't take much to seamlessly integrate it with other Creator Modulars.

I actually think the Huey Lewis & the News soundtrack to BTTF trumps Ghostbusters all day long. All I'm saying is that GB is not to be underestimated. There are plenty of iconic scenes, I just chose my personal favorite...

Two new TFA polybags found today: http://brickset.com/article/17398 Yes please!

The Bat-Pod is finally complete and behind glass.

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.

The Shining

Behold, the lesser known Fifth Rider of the Apawkalips! He goes by the name of Stupidity, and he will turn a third of the population of the world into zombies, looking for brainnnnz. The Fifth Rider by Pascal