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Just when I thought I'd seen the most bizarre way a Tumbler can arrive (Amazon dog food guy)... I arrived home today to find my Walmart order from a week ago in an oversized box on the doorstep. Picked it up and it was WAY too heavy to be a Tumbler. Lifted inside, cut it open, and found an old Dell computer monitor that looks like it was dug out of a dumpster as well as an old metal monitor stand, both crammed into an opened ASUS (???) monitor box. Sure enough, this ASUS box (containing an old DELL monitor and metal stand) was sitting haphazardly atop my Tumbler. I removed the debris to find the Tumbler box in surprisingly decent condition (some creases) given the weight of the old monitor and metal stand, but with the seals all popped on one side. After I stood there dumbfounded for the better part of a minute, I found humor in the situation and had a laugh. Called my wife over and showed her what happened. (Deadpan tone): "oh, so you bought more Legos?" she announced. Me: "Well, yeah, but... look at this!" Piper: "Did you order that monitor?" Me: "Definitely not." Piper: "Cool, well I guess you got a free monitor." (more deadpan) Me: "It looks like it's been in the garbage. And look at the Lego box underneath it - it's popped open and creased." Piper: "Looks fine to me... (pause) ... don't you already have that Lego set?" (more deadpan) Me: (eyes narrowing, quickly assessing whether or not she knows there are 11 of these already lined up in the top shelf of a closet in the guest room. I determine she doesn't or a much more hostile reaction I would have probably just received)... "just one for Jason to open when he's older and gets into Batman." Piper: "Well, that's pretty weird. What are you going to do with the monitor?" Me: "Throw it away I guess? I doubt it even works." Piper: "You should call Walmart and see if they want it back." Me: "It looks like someone in their shipping department said 'that's it, I quit!' then unplugged his monitor, threw it in this box, taped it up, and went home." Piper: (now turning to walk away and head back to the living room, calling out over her shoulder): "Maybe you can put it in the guest room with the 11 other Tumbler sets you hid up there." Me: ........ EPILOGUE: I called WM customer service later in the evening and was given a 20% discount on the Tumbler. CS rep was very pleasant and expressed surprisingly little incredulity at my description of what sat atop my Lego set in the shipping box. Just another Monday evening at the Walmart.com customer service phone center I suspect...

I've posted a few sneak preview pics of these before, but they may finally be done after several months of Bricklinking, MOD'ing, and tweaking. The Cylon Raider is pretty much a UCS size set and is massive & heavy. 2 ships from the classic Battlestar Galactica TV Series Classic Cylon Raider - 1820 pieces Viper Mark II - 325 pieces

I feel the need to defend Amazon packers a bit here. Judging by the last page in this thread most people are under the assumption that some lazy, inconsiderate minimum-wage employee gets to decide whether or not they want to place a bag of dog food on top of your collectible LEGO box. The packers have absolutely zero say in how your items are shipped. When you place an order on Amazon their computer algorithm takes all of the products in your order, calculates the weight and overall dimensions, and literally tells the packer everything to do. 1) It tells the packer which box(es) to use, and which items to place in each box. It even gives them a display on the computer showing where each item should go in the box (if necessary) 2) It tells the packer how much void fill to place in the box 3) It spits out an exact amount of tape necessary to seal the box In this case, the system told the packer that your LEGO box and your dog food would both fit in the same box. Whether the packer placed the dog food on top or on bottom, it would have had the same end result after being flipped around during transit. The only way to avoid this would be to place separate orders, waiting for your first one to package/ship before placing the second to ensure they don't get grouped together. That isn't to say the people packing these boxes actually care about your orders at all. They are paid commission/bonuses based on how many orders per hour they can ship out, so the system itself inherently promotes sloppy packaging... but it's not fair to blame the employees when the company forces them to package your orders a certain way.

Today I will always remember as the day I learned there's a Boba Fett fan club.

Not sure, I hope Jeff works some magic. That mobile app is not forgiving for mod tools, so I don't even try it anymore. Never been a subscriber.

I would be going to every walmart in the area if one of them had it for 49. That's 50% for a original trilogy ship, the only quesion should be is how many can you store and still have room to brush your teeth and leave your home to get more shuttles.

@Bold-Arrow I like how you went to every thread and told us to resubscribe here. It reminds me of high school, when someone runs down the hall popping his head in to each and every classroom real quick to make sure everybody knows there's going to be a fight in the parking lot at 3:00pm. Thanks for the heads up.

Thats where we're gonna get the stormtrooper Finn poly and I'm sure it'll be a GameStop preorder bonus like silver centurion was with Lego avengers

Finally decided to buy a 10196 Carousel mint in used box for $1900. It's been years since I owned one/built one. Can't wait ro build it again. And two 75059 Sandcrawlers for the Vault

Microfighters Tie Interceptor 75031 and X-wing 75032 both to the same buyer on amazon for total of $59.44 though through separate listings so got 2x the shipping and both sets fit in a 6x6x6 box, just over 10 oz shipping for both under $4 across the country first class. I can't decide whether I feel better about: - selling 2 sets I bought for $13 total on clearance for $59.44 or - that I made $6 pure profit from shipping expenses charged vs what I paid to ship the item. this is the first time i ever came out this far ahead with shipping from amazon.

All of this retirement talk has made me antsy. I'm in for ten more before the pack of piranha known as the horde skeletonize this beautiful set in mere seconds.

On descriptions: I buy a lot of sealed sets On EBay, I only need two pieces of information in your description: 1. Do you know how to pack a box? 2. How quickly are you going to ship? Often, the answer to number 1 has to be deduced by digging through your feedback. I look for someone to say, "great packing job," and I'm ready to buy. .

I don't do most of the stuff you do in 11, 13, and 15. Cut your time by using the app instead of uploading photos (BIG time savings.) Forget the watermark. If you are worried about people stealing your photos, throw a LEGO built nametag with your store name in your photos (see my avatar for example.) Don't spend too much time on your descriptions: I firmly believe they have much less impact then your feedback. I have had stuff fly off the shelf with a lazy, one sentence description: "I ship quickly and securely." I used to be very precious with my listings. Now I throw them up as quickly as possible, telling myself I'll go back and tune them up later. Often, they sell before I can do that.

So why are you here and not at Walmart getting that thing?

I'm also like this one.

This question has been asked add naseum throughout the forum already. The general consensus short answer is 'not much'. Long version: If the seals are broken, the box is open. You get the opportunity to view the sealed bags inside, verify that all the parts are present, and can claim this boldly in your listing that the set has been verified 100% complete (Lego makes mistakes, sometimes they forget a part or entire bag!). If the set is long retired, and truly rare, most end users aren't going to give two hoots if the box is open but the bags are sealed. You'd only be turning away collectors hunting for MISB sets, never to open. You can do better off without dealing with those people anyway I'm sure. Difference on an open box sealed bags set, to a New in Sealed Box set is probably less than 10%. If it's rare enough you might even get going market rate regardless.

Was that inspired by Monty Python? I guess it would need to be a cow instead of a translucent dot.

Speaking of polybags, this thing is now free at S@H with $50 purchase:

The mods are talking forum structure and any themes that might warrant their own forum with Jeff and Ed. We'll let everyone know soon.

I'm an extremely small scale "investor" who views holding onto a few sets as a hobby. I hope and plan to make some money in the long term but if I end up just getting my money back it will be an interesting if failed experiment. That said, I wish I had picked up a second one of these in January when my local LEGO shop had a few still at the marked down end of year price (albeit with beat up boxes). To echo the previous comments, I think that the appeal of this set goes beyond some of your typical LEGO fans. My wife whole heartedly supports my LEGO hobby on the one condition that I don't start trying to put my collection out in the living room; however, when I showed her the box at the LEGO store she immediately said that it would look great on display in our house. She even built one of the birds and really enjoyed the experience. I don't think this will be a quick money earner, especially not like it seems to be in Europe already, but I believe that down the line more and more fans will say, "hey, that was a neat, unique set", and there will be room for a small to mid size profit. I'll probably grab one at retail price or with a small discount from points or the like and thank myself down the line. Worse comes to worst, I'll end up stuck with a great gift for a nature loving friend or relative...

I just bought x2 21108 Ghostbusters Ecto-1 and x2 75102 Poe's X-Wing Fighter! One to build and one to re-sell at a future advantageous time. This is my first post, by the way!

Got rid of a few more sets this past week. For anyone that saw my query regarding a Harry Potter lot in the Deal or No Deal thread, I've already made some profit! (well, if you calculate on a per set basis... I'm still well in the negative overall :P) Another 30293 Kai Drifter NISBag $8.25 shipped Used 7929 Battle of Naboo (Ship & Instructions Only, no figs) $27.65 shipped Used 4735 Slytherin (No instructions) + 4712 Troll on the Loose (100% including box) $80 shipped (personal collection plus another bulk lot find; $15 Buy-In to replace figs) Used 4711 Flying Lesson + 4701 Sorting Hat (both 100% including box) $64 shipped (from that HP lot, $33.50 buy-in for the two) Probably more info that anyone cares about but there you have it. Unlike most of my listings which sit for at least a week or two before generating interest, Harry is as popular as ever, all listings sold within 48 hours. Offers and bartering were involved, love this aspect of selling personally! If you price strategically you can end up with your goal value in pocket, and your buyer thinks they snagged a deal from you: Everyone wins and it seems to generate great feedback!

$10 says this would not be the last time you'll hear about it

Classic example of not answering the question.

FYI... http://www.bobafettfanclub.com/news/collectibles/is-that-boba-fetts-slave-i-pictured-on-lego-rogue-one-backdrop-at-toy-fair/ Is That Boba Fett's Slave I Pictured on a LEGO "Rogue One" Backdrop at Toy Fair? Spotted moments ago on Twitter: "More #LEGO #StarWars Reveals from Nuremberg" in this photo and caption via @StudShooter, which appears to show a Firespray-class ship like Boba Fett's Slave I (if not the real deal) alongside "Rogue One." [uPDATE #1: We've spoken with StudShooter to check if he shot the picture. He didn't. We then worked to track down the original source using some reverse image searching, which led us to PromoBricks.de. Photography was prohibited at the event, so the original photographer may be intentionally anonymous.] [uPDATE #2: It appears to be a photo of the 2014/2015 "UCS" Slave I (75060). We also believed it was shot by Vesa Lehtimäki, who uses that same kind of dramatic lighting. He confirmed with us that he shot the photo and that it was pre-2015 with a prototype LEGO set. So, could this be just a stand-in photo for "Rogue One" or a re-pack?] [uPDATE #3: We can confirm 100% now that image shown is 2015 USC Slave I ("Empire"). It's not a new set coming October. It's not proof by itself of Slave I in Rogue One.] [uPDATE #4: Lucasfilm's Pablo Hidalgo re-tweeted our third update on Twitter: twitter-lego-rogue-one-pablo-retweet This may or may not be a validation of our findings.] So far, Boba Fett has only been rumored to appear in the first "story" film. This could be spoiling and thus confirming that rumor. That said, see our Fett Fact Check for more about those rumors thus far. Next to the "Rogue One" image is a TV series announcement. According to PromoBricks.de, that's a "Droid Tales-esque series titled The Freemaker Adventures."

Angry birds has a Piggy Pirate Ship.... just sayin'

Ha. There is no retirement talk. One post by me (about something to ponder) . I wanna get nuts,

I've got 40 of this set new, and it was the only linked tree set until Ewok Village. Now 6071 is worthless.

That's the spirit

Yes, back to Angry Birds. The trees in Angry Birds and Ewok Village are interchangeable.

hi new to the forum and lego investing, so don't know how relevant this is but i picked up 2 t1's from toysrus today only ones on shelf but they have 02s6 on seal so newly produced i believe, also john lewis is showing 10 plus in stock online, first time since christmas.

this set is an absolute no brainer. when was the last time they produced this set? How many more star wars movies will be coming out?

Was someone mentioning time available for larger SW sets released since 08? Blue ones are the ones still available now numbers are the approximate days available at LEGO Shop at Home. Take what you want from the above but R5 doesnt seem that much of an outlier to me. If we are getting another 3 UCS size sets this year (Hoth, StarKiller and Snow Speeder) then having 7 available does seem like a stretch for TLG though. They can barely keep what they have out at the moment in stock

availability at shop at home usa: 10240 was available 2 years 6 months. 10221 2years 10 months 10212 2 years 2 months 10215 1 year 5 months 10225 2 yeasr 6 months 10240 was around basically the same as all the rest. it wasn't an outlier. it didn't stick around longer. it was around as long as r2d2 and people were surprised when that went eol. the only difference was there were more brickpickers hyping 10240 retirement. brickpickers didn't make it stick around longer. that's a fallacy.

I am very hopeful of this set. Everyone I know who sees this loves them - they even make a great gift for non-lego lovers (for example, my 50+ mom loves birds, so I gave one as a gift). That to me shows there is a ton of non-standard demand for this; that is, folks who don't love lego, but in general love birds or models. Casual demand should not be underestimated. Too bad I didn't pick them up when they were cheaper, but they are still available at retail on amazon. They are sold out in europe and are already above retail prices - also another strong sign.

My section of our current LUG display...

Hey fellow Brickpickers! I'm a huge fan of the "Building LEGO" part of this forum and topics I frequently visit and stay up to date to are the MOC Highlights, Rebuilding the Classics, etc. As for me I am still more of a humble builder but ever since I restarted this hobby I felt this urge to create something on my own or modify LEGO Sets. What this forum always lacked (for me at least) has been a thread where people share their own creations and modifications. Until now these things ended up in the topic "What did you build today" or in other random threads. I'd like to invite you all to share your humble, awesome, small, big, crazy, etc. creations and modifications :-) I'll start with something - rather humble if I compare it to all these madly awesome MOCs I've seen - that I have build recently. This is my take on "Toxikita's Toxic Meltdown" (http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/70163_Toxikita's_Toxic_Meltdown). At first I wanted to build a lab for a zombie scene with some star wars minifigs, but I ended up with this ;-) (I guess I could still just put some star wars minifigs in there ^.^). Hope you like it and share your own creations soon! This is a general overview of the built. As you can see I tried to put some lab stuff into it and it is made up of two sections. One for regular research and another one for more dangerous research projects. Normally these two sections would be safely devided but somebody broke the glass and opend the door... Toxikita and her henchmen met some resistance when they forced their way into the facililty. Now they can do as they please while they keep the researchers and guards under control. Some detail of the lab equpiment:

Awesome, thanks guys. Been listening to All Sorted most of my day, and I love it.

Yes, what say ye @Jeff Mack?

I'm sure no one is expecting TLG to replace a UCS S1 with another one, that would make absolutely no sense. What is striking is the use of S1 as a placeholder for Rogue One. Why not a X-Wing? Why not a Tie Fighter? They just opened the door to wild speculation. Will they release a playset Slave 1? Is Boba Fett playing a big part in the movie which would boost 75060 sales? No one can tell just now, and it is only natural that we all wonder what this all means, if it means anything at all.

I use Sell Similar all the time, but it's from one of my previous listings. It saves all of my settings and doesn't include all that junk. It's been pretty fool proof and I've done it for several years. It definitely saves me from creating from scratch every time. I briefly change the description and include any other useful information pertaining to the listing, any descriptive condition language, etc. For items in great condition, I always use language including "may have minor shelf wear" and "contact me if you have questions over box condition". I've never had a complaint and I've shipped stuff even Rockefeller's orangutan would even feel sorry for.

Your "speculative post" just sold 20,000 Slave 1's in 24 hours for the lego group! They're probably busting open another case of the dom perigean right now! In for another 5… I kid.. i kid.

The UCS Sand Crawler seems to be having a hard time as regards availability. A couple of days ago it went from 'out of stock' to 'available' in Europe, today it went out of stock again. Expected availability: 1st of March. Is this 'relic' from 2014 slowly crawling towards its sandy retirement? 1 February 2016 75059 Sand Crawler: changed from 'available' to 'exp. 1 Mar.' in EU. 75059 Sand Crawler: changed from 'exp. 13 Feb.' to '14 Feb.' in US. 75078 Imperial Troop Transport: changed from 'exp. in 30 days' to '14 Feb.' in US. 75087 Anakin's Custom Jedi Starfighter: changed from 'exp. 17 Mar. to '15 Feb.' in US. 75096 Sith Infiltrator: changed from 'exp. 17 Mar." to '15 Feb.' in US. 75102 Poe's X-Wing: changed from 'exp. in 30 days' to 'exp. 6 Feb.' in US. 75105 Millennium Falcon: changed from 'exp. 13 Feb.' to '14 Feb.' in US.

I missed the boat on this one but really like it. Also shocked at what it can be picked up for. Been buying a lot of retired sets recently for the personal collection but i cant tell you why i wont pull the trigger on this one. Nice looking set, reasonable price (even compared to whats currently on offer really)....just doesn't really fit with of the other sets i want to build. Anyway, that's my personal opinion on why it hasn't taken off. Great set but nothing really to compliment it with. Unless someone wants to point out the error of my ways

It´s a mystery to me too. Loads of minifigs, nice design but poor demand. Price have picked up slightly in the last 6 months, however it is still the worst performing exclusive to retire in 2014.

Iron Man Silver Centurion poly - $28 FBA 75018 - Jek-14 Starfighter - $110 9395 - Technic Pick-Up Tow Truck - $130 9525 - Pre-Vizsla's Starfighter - $78 75019 - AT-TE - $168 10697 - Creative Box - $100 60022 - Cargo Terminal - $200 9474 - LOTR Battle of Helm's Deep - $244 9449 - Ultra Sonic Raider - $139 41051 - Merida's Highland Games - $32

Sooo many to list. A lot that I will never get due to the fact I can’t actually afford them (10179) and some because I can’t justify spending the secondary market price. Top 5: MF – goes without saying. Imperial Shuttle (great looking display piece) Imperial Flagship (although hoping TLG will release something equally as impressive before I reach my twilight years) SSD (I was 1 year too late). HH (10228) had a copy and stupidly let it go – luckily I've been given another chance via the Macks Fund raiser Raffle J