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I guess this counts as building. Have to share the story. My grandfather passed away last year. He liked to build model airplanes and things but had never mentioned Lego at all. So I get a package in the mail from my grandmother that I opened today, addressed to my kids. Inside is a note that says grandpa had bought a couple of sets at one point to tinker with, and she thought my kids would put them to good use now. One set is 4095 from the Inventor series (which my son is furiously trying to put together now). Has some sort of battery pack recorder thing we have to figure out. Very cool. The other set was a yellow and chrome broken mess...that I realized was the 10026 UCS Naboo Starfighter. Now rebuilt, 100% complete with nameplate and everything. Unfortunately no instructions - had no idea how expensive those suckers are! Only 3 on Bricklink for like $90 each lol. Anyway I have never liked that Naboo Starfighter, but it certainly will hold a new place of honor in our house now. :-)

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Nephew age 20 Slave I Nephew age 9 Dimensions for PS4 Niece age 8 Ferris Wheel Mom age 65 Parisian Restaurant

Built four MOCs for the new Brickpicker Minifigure book. Now, I need to photograph these guys and upload them! Old West scene Grandpa Simpson scene Ocean scene Batman/Catwoman scene More to come...

Picked up a 4 used set lot for $350. No boxes. So far every set is complete. Looks like I'll be building my first building modular. 10235 Winter Market Village 10229 Winter Cottage 10211 Grand Emporium 10232 Palace Cinema

3185 Friends Summer Riding Camp for 170 euro excl. shipping.

So you get a significant discount at the Lego store and want to flip it for instant profit and want someone to tell you how to do it? Buy keychains

No set appreciates in a straight line up. Look at the attached price chart for 10179. For the longest time everyone thought this set would never cross $2k. This is where I bought mine. Look where we are now. Same story goes for every other "special" set. Once the number of sellers drops below the magic number there is a very nice spike up and all the previous sellers give themselves a nice deserved face palm. In a cycle there are always multiple what I like to call face palm points. We have all been there but sooner or later it gets tiresome so you learn to forget the short term ups and downs and just wait it out if the long term game is your thing. Specifically relating to 10224 we had a face palm point in the mid $300's and now we are at one at $550 - $600 (USD). Once current sellers dump their stock there will be another nice spike up, and more face palming. If you are obsessed with short run blips then you can help yourself by avoiding the what I consider the three worst mistakes in reselling: auction, ebay, christmas time.

Finally built Santa's Workshop. I figured since I'll be sitting on these for decades I might as well get used to building a new one every year until I'm social security eligible. Very cool build. I liked the details on Santa's sleigh and his reading chair. Overall a very cool set that we enjoyed building as a family. I wish it was bigger but for $70, great value.

found these pics from http://www.instagram.com/brickowskii/

PA for $160... A bad investment they said ...

Amazon de is now out of stock on this and AT AT so let the good times roll as very few big chains have any left now.

what about the argos 3 for 2 deals. If we would have them around here, I would go gaga on some items, like crustrybeaver is doing for example..

Just called Lego to pay a Lego order for a friend. When everything was arranged, I start a little bit of a general talk about the fact that the Tumbler was tagged 'retiring soon' and that I couldn't imagine it was retiring and really needed this set. Then she was looking in the system and said they had thousands 1.5 week ago and now only a few hundred left in inventory. She expected that it will last till next week and then it's done. She was willing to order also one on my account, but I think it's better that she is not having a look at my account ;-) so I told her I will buy these online myself lol. Well.. let's see if this set is truly done next week. According to her, their will be no restock after it is sold out. Gone = gone at least here in Europe. And oh yeah! A tip for when you call Lego and don't want them to see your order list: Just hide your number, I was told that the employeess will immediately see your complete history because a specific number is tagged to an account. Just hide your number and they know nothing about you or your history,

Recent FBA sales highlights: Elite Clone Trooper & Commando Droid BP x2 - $50 each Homing Spider Droid x3 - $48 each A-wing Starfighter x2 - $64 each Kraang Lab Escape x2 - $49 each Castle Dragon Mountain - $96 Ninjago Ultra Sonic Raider - $120 Uruk-Hai Army - $75

The new snot piece confirmed.

I'm a small time trader, but I went early with these and am happy with my stash (all RRP but what can you do). My father is a bird-watcher and the first set that I purchased went straight to him. We built it together and he has it set up in his study at the moment. This set might have a wider appeal than most and the box is beautiful.

We open and build the new Seasonal Set (this year Toy Shop) on Christmas eve every year. Bought a Poe's xwing & Ghost for boys.

The LEGO Dimensions game is The LEGO Group's first foray into the growing field of “Toys to Life”, where physical toys with RFID tags can be pulled into your gaming experience by placing the toy on a special portal. The gameplay is based on the hugely successful LEGO Star Wars, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones and more, by video game developer TT. LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack I purchased the Starter Pack on Black Friday, and wanted to better understand what I was getting myself into before I started purchasing any of the Level Packs, Team Packs, or Fun Packs. At 30/25/15$ each (respectively) these little purchases will add up quickly. This is why I wanted to understand how much I would need to pay to experience the whole game. What I've concluded is that the base game is a pretty decent value, especially if you consider that LEGO bricks are worth about 0.10$ each piece. The value of the expansions seems to vary. There are four levels of investment in LEGO Dimensions: 100$ – Starter Pack Only – Just buy the Starter Pack and play through the main game and three adventure worlds. 315$ – All Levels and Adventure Worlds – By purchasing the right sets, you can unlock the entire game. You will still miss some puzzles which require a specific character. 390$ – All Levels, Adventure Worlds, and Character/Vehicle Abilities – A carefully selected set of Fun Packs will give you every in-game ability. 565$ – Everything – If you want every character, vehicle and Accessory, it’s going to cost a premium! I prepared an in-depth analysis of exactly what sets you need to buy to save the most money at: http://brickarchitect.com/legodimensions/Don't forget that the new content comes out every two months, so there are plenty of ways to spend even more in the future!Sincerely,Tom

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Alpine and I have our date set for 1:20 pm On Friday but he's cheating on me and is seeing it at 7:30 on thurs

I could see a limited edition A-Wing, a landspeeder, AT-AT, maybe even a speeder bike. If you write off the PT, you write off a large number of designs. The republic gunship, aat, at-te, Jedi interceptor, wheelbike, Sith infiltrator, venator cruiser, naboo royal starship are all designs that could benefit from some attention.

My son is getting Dimensions, Obi-Wan and General Grievous 2-pack, S.H.I.E.L.D Helicarrier, and some Halo Mega Bloks. Yes, these are for me too. Spoiled we are...

An Emmet. hahahaha. She completed it, 50 mins later, it's done.. Now shes onto the train. She also has Santas visit and the the one with the house and snowman out. She's feeling ambitious tonight.. I'll be impressed if she gets these all done before midnight. lol She puts them on display at work, the other employees love her office. I legoized her.. lol Sounds like this should be in your future...

Friends rock star dressing room for the 6 year old, maybe one or two more. Juniors batcave for the 3 year old, plus some minifigs I think she wants Vader and Luke.

Busy weekend prepping some larger STAR WARS sets I've been waiting to build & get listed for the mania that will be awakened later this week....

JW line for my son.

We are giving my son the Force Awakens Falcon and the Mos Eisley Cantina. The top two sets on his list...

Per the Macks, you gotta buy the book!

Man, what a tease.

It usually takes her a bit longer than most when it comes to building lego sets. She organizes everything in piles, picks the pieces up she drops all the time, and studies the directions to make sure Lego isn't messing with her and the pieces actually go where the directions say. LOL My daughter and I sit there and laugh when she isn't looking. lol The GF enjoys building as much as we do, so it's all good. I'm surfing the web and watching ELF at the current moment. She doesn't bother or nag me, she's a great girl, she puts up with my many hobbies, and loves that I'm into legos, she even buys me some.. One of my Christmas Presents Last yeas was a Batman Tumbler from her, I was like hell yea!!! She's a keeper..

I'm in the process of finishing the UCS TIE. Really cool looking ship, way better than both the Interceptor and Vader's, IMO.

I did build the new X-Wing and the new TIE-Fighter. Must say that the new X-Wing looks way better than expected and the "bringing my wings into attack positions" mechanism gave me more fun than it should have done ^.^ Also firing these missiles has been fun *g* Thanks to 4 missiles and the rubber band mechanism the x-wing is superior to the TIE-Fighter as a toy. The X-Wing is also worth its money though! Both are very nice builds!

While that looks to be a real LEGO stormtrooper, that is most likely just a print that was done by the 501st. Here is an example of a similar print done for Eurobricks. They also had the same print done on 50 stormtroopers. Personally, I wouldn't put much faith in the only 600 produced part. After members of the 501st pocketed many of the chrome gold C-3POs years ago instead of passing them out at SDCC like they were supposed to do, I don't really trust that group. All that aside, I don't think it would fetch much of a premium over a regular Stormtrooper and the only people who would probably even want it would be members of the 501st since it isn't an official version.

Yes, it was...luckily, I deal with rude people all the time at work (and am one of those rude people from time to time) so I know how to handle them.

I sold 4 of the Umbaran MHC for $59 FBA before the price started trending up. I have 2 pending orders at $77 and just repriced them again but I think there's only 1 left. I can't believe how this one has taken off but it was a great buy during the Target pricing error when they were like $16 a couple years ago.

8 year old son- Minecraft Snow hideout, and the $30 walmart bucket 6 year old son (my lego junkie)- Ninjago City of stix, Master Wu dragon, Flight of destiny, Titaanium dragon, $30 walmart bucket, and temple of airjitsu. As a family- we are building the heavy hauler now to put under the tree that will be hauling ninjago's as my son is telling me to protect the gifts. For my friends I have been buying lots of winter promotions to hand out as gifts for them and their families.

That thing would never make a good UCS, I can only imagine it as an overpriced space cucumber... not even iconic anyway. Why do you think B-Wing flopped? I like Star Wars, but did not even know about that ship before the release of the set. Therefore successful UCS sets are the ones that get enough screen time AND are well recognizable. LEGO's choice of sets are limited, given the OT. We can see an AT-AT, a Vader, a C3-PO, some speeder bikes and that car thing from Tatooine, but I don't think that last one is iconic enough anyway. No more comes to my mind. EPI-III are strictly off limits. EPVII... it needs some time. I think it is at least 2 years before we see anything. I guess maybe at release of EPVIII we might see something from the new trilogy, but certainly not before.

Yeah, I got myself a Temple of Airjitzu, Enter the Serpent and Sensei Wu's Dragon (along with a free Minifigure Cube for Kai and Lightning Lad). Can't wait to build all of these...

For my 7 year old daughter, Raptor Rampage plus the raptors only from Raptor Escape and Indominus Rex (dino only).

Just remembered I picked up the Pop Star Stage for the 7 year old. I may give the 3 year old the Hulkbuster set.

Don't be giving the secret away. That is what I have been doing all week long...profitable....

My kids are giving me Doctor Who and we are doing Dimensions for a family present. Haven't thought about what set I'm pulling out yet for the kids, lol

Arctic base camp, outpost, and ice crawler for my son, age 6. Ninjago city for nephew, age 7. I might build a wall-e for myself.

On USA SAH, both SOH and London Bridge are TOOS and not "order-able" on US. So is Ewok Village.

Yeah. In Lego's defense, there is a limit to the number of iconic SW vehicles and locations available, and they are not equally popular. In other words, redoing the X-wing makes sense. It's harder to explain why we've had no UCS AT-AT, though as someone sitting on a pile of 75054's, I'm not complaining. That said, snowspeeders have never excited me. They're lightly armed, ridiculously fragile, and outside of one lucky tow cable shot have no way to take on Imperial ground assault vehicles. They're the Rebel version of the Sherman tank. The US and Rebels both won their wars, but the Sherman was the worst tank on the WW2 battlefield by the end of the war, grossly inferior to Tigers in the same way snowspeeders are to AT-AT's. It was never clear to me why the Rebels would invest in a fighter that couldn't damage an AT-AT. For the next UCS set, I'd rather have seen a UCS Mon Calamari Cruiser.

6285 Black Seas Barricuda, used, via Bricklink for $330. Paid $200 in March. Awesome set, hate to see it go.

Step 2: Sold out. http://shop.lego.com/en-DE/Santa-s-Workshop-10245

I'm selfishly excited about this.