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Built the Ghostbusters set - build took about 11 hours. The set is huge, here is a photo next to some recent modulars. Super fun build, the inside looks killer in person.

I would put this in the MOC thread, but don't want it to be spoiler. So, we'll just enjoy this here.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mdoupe/22892319151/ Not sure why the above image isn't showing, but its a full sized lego bb8

Not new here...almost one year. But after living in Southeast Asia for almost four years, I have moved back to the U.S.A. The greatest country in the World. Can't wait for my U.S. Flag. Best of all my local Kmart is still open!!! I feel privileged to be an American.

This is a great project that we undertook with our 6 year old as a way of making him a part of our "sales team." The map represents about 160 sales from 2015, starting with our first Lego sale in March. Each customer gets a pin on the map and then as we ship to a new state my son gets to use the computer to look up an interesting fact about that state, and then write it in a journal. That way he is learning cool facts, and practicing his handwriting and computer skills. I bet he is the only kid in his class that knows what a peninsula is (Florida), or what the state song of Connecticut is (Yankee Doodle). Ive been waiting for a sale to Alaska so we can learn about archipelagos, but that may just be the geography nerd in me coming out. Multiple sales to a city get a larger pin, and we have them for the cities you would expect like New York, Chicago, LA. Some surprising ones too like Chattanooga Tennessee. Wouldn't have guessed that one but we ship quite a few items to multiple buyers there. I wish now that I would have sprung for the bigger world map, as we have had 15 international sales that could have been added on that I was not anticipating having made. Besides being a great learning project for my son, it has been useful to me to validate our shipping fee practices as I can easily see where most of my customers are from, and although it is skewed towards the east coast, I still have a fair amount headed out west. I know this wouldn't be practical for some here as their volume is much too large, but for a small timer like myself this is a fun way to involve your kids in your hobby. And have something cool on your wall that people will ask about. My thanks go out to everyone here for the advice and insights over the past year, and I wish everyone a great 2016!

Funny tweets from kylo ren on twitter. https://twitter.com/kylor3n

Some news from LEGO Shop at Home EU: ...also 42025 Cargo Plane, 21017 Imperial Hotel, 41058 Heartlake Mall, 70146 Temple and many more.

Exciter's Stardung is the name of my new band.

nor will you, I or anyone else realistically ever encounter this situation. pseudoty, exciter1, raven99 - they are all living in a different universe than the rest of us brick gnomes. we can only hope to glean kernels from the stardung.

Why do you always feel it necesary to translate the cost to dollars? This is a global website, your currency is euro, just quote euro prices.

I gotta believe a lot of those went to investors' storage room.

Built all 9 Creator building models yesterday/today. Here are the primaries with one another, and with the smallest of the modulars. Next project is to take the 2k pieces and see if I can make a true modular out of them.

Series 15 is ready for pre-order! We will be extending a discount to Brick Picker and Brickset members only. Sealed Box of 60 - $209 (incl. ship) Complete Set of 16 - $63 (incl. ship) For discount, please DM with PayPal email address and we will invoice your account. Otherwise, we will also be posting these for sale on eBay and Amazon. Items will ship late January. Contents will be guaranteed as always. Feel free to DM any other questions you may have as well. Happy holidays!

US-based online retailers now have the latest Lego Star Wars sets in-stock. Each set looks to be fun builds with neat features and desirable minifigures. Battle on Takodana 75139 , $59.99 This 409 piece is Lego's first attempt at creating a scene from Maz Kanata's castle. Lego is usually "hit or miss" with playsets and set 75139 is probably a "miss" with regards to the castle itself. A small portion of the castle's entrance can be built including the main door and wall that contains a falling tree. The banner above the door is a nice touch and screen accurate although it should be one of many. Included minifigures are Finn, Maz Kanata, unmasked Kylo Ren and 2 First Order Stormtroopers. Ren and Finn's lightsabers are among the included accessories. The set is the most affordable method of obtaining Finn and Ren minifigures. Both Maz and this version of Ren are exclusive to 75139. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017B1BTD2/? http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=jfOcdvfTNg4&subid;=&offerid=115554.1&type=10&tmpid=2294&RD_PARM1=http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Battle-on-Takodana-75139 Resistance Troop Transporter 75140, $69.99 Set 75139 contains 646 elements. 4 minifigures are included: Princess Leia, Admiral Ackbar and 2 Resistance Troopers. Although not mentioned in the film, Troop Transports are built using parts from B-Wings (and it shows nicely). This set is a nice addition to owners of the Battle on Takodana since it's film's key appearance is on that planet. Leia and Ackbar are exclusive. At 12" long and 4" deep, this set is well sized and perfect for swooshing. http://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Resistance-Troop-Transporter-75140/dp/B017B1BTXW//? http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=jfOcdvfTNg4&subid;=&offerid=115554.1&type=10&tmpid=2294&RD_PARM1=http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Resistance-Troop-Transporter-75140 Both sets are great additions for Star Wars fans of all ages especially children. I would recommend these two sets for AFOLs, builders but not investors. In my opinion, either set will to be remade in 2-4 years and / or the included exclusive minifigures (e.g unmasked Ren, Maz) will be in other sets. I also think the minifigures in the Transport won't have too much demand other than Leia. Finally, Star Wars playlets since the late 2000s haven't been solid investments. At the end of the day, I ask myself if buying sets (as investments) are worth the storage space. I doubt these 2 will be. note: all prices above are suggested retail. View full blog article

Frageelay!

Why is this not on the lego ideas site???? Its quality!

Big spender here : two Doc Ock truck heists and two camper vans. No, not the T1.

Oh c'mon, all you need is 5 seconds * 60 packs * 35 boxes / 2 hands / 60 seconds / 60 = about 1.5 hours to smoosh all of those packs

buy all the unicorns

Going to need a bigger custom basket.

Well it's a NYC fire station and TH and all the other modulars are Main Street Americana.

Huge set. Dwarfs the Town Hall. Impressive.

Some of us paid less than that so it´s not a waste of time! Gotta sell X wings to finance the purchase of more sea cows - oh, wait....

2 sold today. I need to rethink my strategy for selling on eBay

I agree with junkrigger The Sea Cow has solid attributes going for it other than most sets, the ship itself. It doesn't need to rely on minifigs to carry it.

Like him or not - If he has transformed the status quo (making honesty a viable option in politics), that is a good thing.

Can't disagree more. Both of the other ships have almost no freeboard, carnival colored or straight black sails, no thanks. The aft section construction on BP is weak at best, using arches and is the worst aft section on a lego ship I have ever seen, and they are both just tiny compared to SC which has nice classic tall ship colors. Granted its a little fantasy oriented but seriously if I were choosing based on current prices after looking at that photo of the three its no contest, the other two just don't measure up. The QAR is a little better still SC is a far larger, better proportioned and better equipped ship for current value. Uncertain if it will increase in value enough for good investment, but for todays prices SC all the way.

They threw in a cup of coffee too? Nice!

Another great day for EU sales - 3 so far and 2 more auctions close to ending. 360 euros and above will be the closing prices.

He doesn't like the Sea Cow about as much as I do like the Sea Cow.

Someone over at EB says they can confirm it's the '66 Batcave.

Agreed. With 5 shark suit guys per case it looks like Lego is giving the people what they want. With scenes like these pictured at several targets I wonder how many of those Series 13 have any Hot Dog suit guy with 3 per case. Not to mention series 14 and Simpsons 2 are still readily available. I am going with one case for personal collection on these and hoping that the Disney series is more promising.

Welcome back. If Trump is elected can I get your place in Asia?

Went to a nearby Lego store for a couple buildable figures and realized the person in line in front of me was returning a 75054 AT-AT. Told the cashier I'll take the AT-AT you just got in and walked out with all this for $145.

So far, the design and builds, the colors, the figures, and the playability of these sets are excellent. Jestro will be next.

Got The Fortrex for Christmas and I gotta say, it's as cool as I thought it would be. Looks great in my display case. It rolls pretty well. Just have to make sure the gears for the wheels aren't to tight.

I know this won't help you now, but on your next sale you should see the shipping links in paypal and it will be much easier. I just make an adjustment.

It started because we were going to use most of the profits from our venture to help pay for a trip to Disney World. Since we would be pulling our son out of kindergarten for a week, the school requires it to be an educational trip. I know there are websites devoted to showing how Disney IS educational, but we wanted to really do it. So this was just one facet of getting ready for the trip. One side result is when we are looking at a potential set to sell or to keep for ourselves, I can just ask my son, "would you rather keep this set and build it, or if we sell it it could pay for an extra day at Disney?" Almost 100% of his answers have been to sell. Plus he gets to get some kind of concept about how big our country is. Right now everything is measured in his standard units, like "this city is 10 trips to grandmas house away", or "82 episodes of Phineas and Ferb away." I was really into geography as a kid. This map is actually 30 some tears old. I got it out of one of my dad's National Geographic magazines. I still have a collection of maps from those magazines. When I look at the map, I know that I do have sales going out to affluent areas in California, but they are mostly smaller items that I can do free first class shipping on. I could offer free shipping and expand to those areas, but thanks partly to my map I also can see that a large portion of my larger sets go to New Jersey with customer-paid shipping. So there is obviously a market close to me for my items that I can tap into and have them pay for shipping.

I'm somewhat on the fence about buying this set (for my personal collection). I have the feeling that if I would put it into my Modular city, it would look the wrong scale compared to the other buildings. Like in this picture that I found on the internet (this was a MOC not the official set) http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=92672&st=0 If anyone here's doing something like that, could you post some pics?

I bought a few tickets today, new to the brickpicker community. Getting 2016 of to a good start, be positive and support this good cause.

I completely agree. If it's the only thing he ever contributes, it will be more than I can say about 100's of other politicians. I'll leave it at that though as this doesn't need to devolve into a political discussion.

Some polys can make you some decent money but the draw for me is that you can move a bunch of product with minimal effort so yeah the profit margin isn't great on most polys but it isn't hard to pack and ship them. Always keep an eye out for stores just dumping polys on a shelf or end cap. Just the other day there was hundreds of stormtrooper sergeant polys just laid on an empty shelf in the lego isle. 2.99 each............easy money!!

Who has money to build awesome ships? The First Order sunk all their money into Starkiller Base. The Resistance is barely funded by the New Republic. That's all they can afford.

Over 100 tumblers have been sold on ebay within less than two weeks at retail. I can only assume this set will sell well once sold out.

I enjoyed ep7 so much that I finally broke down and stopped by my local Kmart to buy some some of the action figures........

Legends of Chima: Wolf Tower WIP by Aliencat!

This is probably the only credit i will give to JJ Abrams for not mentioning a single word on midichlorian. Otheriwse i am absolutely devastated with wholesale rehash of everything from episode 4 to 6. This movie is so bad that i think JJ stands from Jar Jar Abrams. Now i have eat my meds. Chat later.

Built the Temple of Airjitsu and Sensei Wu's Dragon. First, ToA is an incredible set. I can't believe it doesn't get more pub for the incredible display it is. It's truly a breathtaking set, and one that deserves a place among the best of the best. Sensei Wu's Dragon is also a great build. I have built almost all of the Ninjago Dragons, and this one is great. The brick built head really shines, and the minifigures are excellent. Plus, it comes with a husky - an added bonus for an already great set! Both are great sets and highly recommended.

"Dad can I get the CHIMA phoenix temple? The mini figs are so cool!" "Come on Son! I've taught you better than that. The CAGR of that CHIMA set is pathetic! You're getting a Parisian Restaurant and that's final! And if those instructions get ripped, you're grounded!"

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