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First rule of BP. You don't talk about deals outside of BP.

Well, this is fun.

Truthfully, I have not. I've never even visited the SD website. Obviously you're free to post whatever deals you find in any forum you like. In the big picture it doesn't matter much to me, because I'm not in the market for any of the sets listed in the sale. My only observation in the original post was that for someone visiting and/or posting in a primary LEGO investment forum, it seems a bit counterproductive to also spread that word in a venue that caters to consumers and non-LEGO focused buyers. If you feel differently that's cool. I wasn't upset or trying to start a big argument. And thanks for your original post, because I'm sure lots members here benefitted.

Could be like me and just paying off his wife's credit card.

I also don't see the need to post on SD. Someone from there is bound to find out anyway ( they always do) and will post the deal at some point. Therefore, there is no need for us to do it any earlier and invite a larger crowd to the party.

I never use rewards online anymore. It only takes one bad transaction and never again .

You posted it on SD too as your first post, nice! Now it is FP so better hurry. I took back my like.

Slickdeals is one of those websites that turns your soul darker the longer you stay there. Here in BP you can have conversations or even disagreements like adults

I guess I don't understand the motivation to post on SD though. If you're a member here, it seems like you'd want to keep the deal from hitting the masses?

You guys sometimes make it very hard to just enjoy a good cult.

Thank you for telling me about the TRU deals. I got a couple of 76041-1: The Hydra Fortress Smash before the masses got to the store. I got to use the rest of my discounted GC as well.

we don't do that here. u must be new

It's 9:11 so it's ok now.

^^^ I hate you all. expensive morning and it is not even 9 am

Also not too shabby over at Target for friends fans. Lots of friends sets on sale, and if you hit $50 you get a free Tourist Kiosk set Heartlake Lighthouse - $26.79 (MSRP $39.99) + Heartlake Private Jet - $23.99 (MSRP $29.99) yields a free Set #41098 Emma's Tourist Kiosk, just as an example. http://www.target.com/p/lego-friends-heartlake-lighthouse-41094/-/A-16746712#prodSlot=medium_1_14&term=lego+friends http://www.target.com/p/lego-friends-heartlake-private-jet-41100/-/A-21534531#prodSlot=medium_1_16&term=lego+friends Heartlake Hair Salon (41093) on sale for 39% off and Pop Star Dressing Room (41104) for 42% off http://www.target.com/p/lego-friends-heartlake-hair-salon-41093/-/A-16746714#prodSlot=medium_1_9&term=lego+friends http://www.target.com/p/lego-friends-pop-star-dressing-room-41104/-/A-21534533#prodSlot=medium_1_11&term=lego+friends

Nice little sale going on at TRU.com 40% off (really more like 30-35%) 39 sets and free airjitzu still active. http://www.toysrus.com/search/index.jsp?s=A-UnitRank&origkw=032016legos&sr=1&keywords=032016legos&kwCatId=&kw=032016legos&ppg=96&ab=TRU_FeaturedDeals:LEGO:40-off-selected-LEGO-construction-sets Perhaps Technic Service Truck (42008) for $83.99 (MSRP $129.99) interests someone + free airjitzu http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=23263656&cp=&parentPage=search Or the Artic Base Camp (60036) for $59.99 (MSRP $89.99) + free airjitzu http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=34965516&cp=&parentPage=search Don't forget to add the ninjago airjitzu spinner separately (it will not auto-add)

Amazon.de : Lego 42042 Technic  Crane: $108 Lego 42052 Technic Heli : $107 Lego 60051 Train : $91 Lego deep sea vessel : $75

To celebrate its retirement, I finished my damaged box WM $35 Mos Eisley this morning with the kids. As an OT fan I loved it. Cool mini-figs for sure

LEGO Ideas sets are projects that were submitted by fans and voted on by other fans. If a project got 10,000 supporters, the LEGO Group brought it under review. In the review process, they decided if the project fit their standards, if there was a reasonable chance that the supporters would actually purchase it, and if the build itself was feasible. They make certain changes to the set to make it fit more appropriately within their standards and release only a small portion of those that hit the 10,000 supporter goal. Disney/Pixar's Wall-E is a unique set, in that the designer of the set actually helped to create the movie that this set is based on. The flowthrough gives this a degree of verisimilitude that does not exist in any other set. Plus, the guy had to love Wall-E immensely if he put that much additional effort into the character after being done with the film. The story of LEGO Ideas set 21303 does not end with being chosen for release. It was plagued with design problems. It was recalled twice to create fixes for various neck issues. As you can see by the multiple seal codes on my sample, this set had a rough go. Here you can see the standard instruction book, and the supplemental instructions for the fix. REVIEW: SET DETAILS Set #: 21303 Name: Disney/Pixar Wall-E Theme: LEGO Ideas Parts: 677 Price: $59.99 Before we get to the build, let’s talk value. At 59.99 the price per piece works out to almost $.09 each. This is on the low side of pricing for a licensed set. There are a ton of pieces in rare or new color combinations, mostly in the "bright orange" color. I don't know if anyone does a lot of MOCs requiring bright orange, but this is a great set for that color. BOX CONTENTS Some people may wind up picking up a set that is open box or, want to verify the box contents before beginning a build. For this set, there are 10 unnumbered baggies, an instruction book, and a supplemental instruction book. (1 of the baggies contains the pieces to fix the neck issue.) The instruction book is a heavy, thick book made of high grade paper. This is not your standard system instruction book. It also contains information about Wall-E and the designer in 3 different languages. The box itself is a sturdy box, designed to be reclosed and opened. It's a collector's box. BUILD AND EXECUTION: You may recall from my LEGO Ideas Doctor Who Review that I dislike large sets with unnumbered bags. Well, here's my workspace after 20 minutes. Nothing is built, I just separated them by color, which is still a pain to search through. Those orange brackets are rare. I can't think of a use for them in any build I want to do, but if you really need orange brackets, here you are. I was curious about the use of 2 2x2 corner bricks instead of a single 2x3 brick, but I realized it's because they've used a bunch of the corner bricks throughout the build, and running this color on another machine to get 2x3's would probably cut into the production of some other set. The base of this thing is pretty solid. The slope pieces on back help to create the shape of Wall-E. I was curious about the off-center hinge, but not terribly concerned. I was really struck by the interesting gap between the slopes. You can also see here an error that I made that I didn't realize until almost the last steps. It was a giant pain to fix and wound up tearing apart my Wall-E in order to resolve. That 1x6 tile on the side is supposed to be grey. I am sorry if it bothers you throughout the rest of this build. It's sort of embarrassing that I wasn't paying attention here. However, it's sort of my thing with Ideas sets. I couldn't figure out these things at first. I spent a good 10 minutes just wondering if there was some kind of lifting armature on the back of Wall-E. I just couldn't place it. That sloped gap extends farther. I still like it. It really seems unique to me. Effort was made to add interesting details and remove visible studs. You may remember from my Star Wars First Order Transporter Review how much I dislike dull, simplistic boxlike builds. This set was not dull or simplistic. Sure it's a box, but effort was made to make it more interesting. Here, we get attachment points for the arms and the neck. The arms are going to be ball jointed, and also slide back and forth. That's a lot more motion than I expected at the shoulder. Remember the stuff on the back that I couldn't figure out? Well, they're details that look like hydraulics. Starting to see a lot more SNOT techniques as we come to the end of the main body build. The treads are substantial. Unfortunately, I don't know if I made something too tight or if I just couldn't get any traction, but this wouldn't turn well at all for me when I tried to move Wall-E around. Notice how my mistake is buried back under the treads, oh yeah it was not easy to fix. Also, notice the small object on top made from a 1x2 plate and a lever that represents the cockroach. This is the point in the build where we switch to the supplemental instructions. Tah Dah, neck and head joints built. I honestly had no clue what I was building here. A lot of little techniques were used to create different shapes Parts were twisted on pins and lots of studs on the side pieces were used. It's Wall-E's Eye piece, and half his head. Again, lots of SNOT. I like the use of the car wheel cover here. Make another Eye, and he's really coming together. See, here's where I needed that 1x6 tile. I could have used the Grey one, but I needed the authenticity. I couldn't remember how articulated Wall-E's arms were. I thought there was another joint, but upon further review, there is not. Finally, you add his plant. Too bad it's not in a boot. REACTION: I loved this set. I thought it wound up looking fantastic, and my wife loved it too. She wanted to keep it for herself. It gets displayed in our living room because she loved it so much. I appreciate the fact that they fixed the problems. A part of me thinks that if they had spent a little more effort on the neck than on all of the SNOT techniques, they wouldn't have had to recall it twice. I may be in the minority that doesn't care if there's studs showing. This final product is great, looks great and I couldn't come up with the proper words to actually describe it. I think that the pictures say a lot. if they don't sell you on this set, I don't know what paltry words I can come up with that would. Wall-E's sad that you're thinking of not buying him. FINAL THOUGHTS: I don't see how this set doesn't go up in value. Sure, it's going to be heavily hoarded, but it's not Exo-Suit. This is a set that Disney fans will want. Imagine all of those kids who started collecting Princess, Cars or Toy Story sets. If they stuck with LEGO, they're going to want a bigger challenge in a few years. He's a great display piece. I know several people that are not LEGO collectors that have already bought this set. The early distribution problems probably made some people skittish. I can say that there's no reason to be worried about the final design. I don't foresee 5X retail, but 3X within 5 years EOL is certainly feasible. Buy it here! EXTRA PIECES: Lots of extra stuff here. A bunch of it is due to the fixes that were implemented. EXTRA PICS Here's a few more shots showing how flexible his neck and eyes are. View full blog article

Top rated PowerSeller as of today. 120 problem free sales minus Jessica Scam (lol!) in ten months flat. I'm a contractor in real life and am no stranger to business, have to say this has really opened my eyes to a world of opportunity (not just Lego) in online retail. Thanks for all your help Brickpickers!!!

Wife spends xxxx i pay off xxxx equal yet opposite = marriage . Don't do it kids

Haha, I do like a good Sunday witch hunt roasting.

I tend to hate any set I'm pulling out of a bulk lot, at least until I sell them.

I like your ethic Lawpepperdine, and appreciate the contribution. It's one of the better deals posted here in weeks. It's your find and you can do what you want with it. If people want you to post your finds here (and not elsewhere), maybe they should offer you more love... and less hate.

I don't go on that site but from what I've heard, more often than not, once a deal gets posted over there, it gets killed. If only we specialized in Lego over here...[emoji6]

Have you ever found a deal on slickdeals? That's the motivation. Same motivation as posting here. Pay it forward ya dig. Like I said, wouldn't ****** someone else's find but does it really matter who I shared it with. Would you prefer I were a member to only slickdeals and did not post here. Perhaps my gift horse had teeth just not white enough for some of ya'll

not sure if anybody cares but got my (only) unit from Amazon reseller at market value ($289) in January (I did search desperatly for RRP but I could not find it where I was, USA, FL) packing code 10R5 I had to have it and resellers (or you guys) need somebody like me :-)

3 recent builds. 4768 - Durmstrang ship - I picked this up in a bulk bin and I am surprised at how nice it looks. On Friday and Saturday, I built the New York City skyline and my fiancee built the Wall-E set. New York City is well designed, particularly the Chrysler building. And Wall-E is already famous on the forum... go and get one to build and some to hold.

Target.com is showing free 2015 minifigure cube if you by $50 worth of City, Ninjago, or Super Heroes. Cube is also available to buy alone at 9.99. http://www.target.com/p/lego-building-gift-set/-/A-49153007

Points post once order has shipped +/- a day depending on how fast their system is updating. For instore pickup I think they post after you pick up the order. As you already stated, some promotions earn points between date 1 and 2 and are redeemable between dates 3 and 4.

Slickdeals mole? Lol

That's the ticket...

How much? Swamp is $56.99 (37%) right now:LEGO City Police Swamp Police Station https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NHQFTJQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_jRQ7wbK8AJMHQ

Thanks. I find everything that has happened in Lego from 2008-2016 quite intriguing. So much has changed in just 8 years. Lego has gone from a sure fire bet, to something that requires strategy akin to the stockmarket. It really is intriguing, and I am learning a lot fast about the changes in the market since I did this last. I think the point I tried to make, and did not make it well, was that because the set has been out for so long (It has been out well before the days of BP), is that this set more so than ANY other set, has a high potential to be hoarded by people not on BP. Simply because the set existed well before the existence of BP. Again, anecdotally, many people I knew weren't huge into Legovesting, most did it to earn a small amount of extra cash to fund various hobbies, buying lego's for the kids, etc. These people do not participate in the brickpicker community. These are "casual" investors. These are people who aren't big into strategizing, looking at exact ROI's etc. This set has a high potential for that because it was around for SOOO long. While polls can be helpful, they are just a small segment of a very large market. Avoiding politics on here, but just look at the polls in relation to the current state of the presidential election. Even scientific polls have a margin for error. Sometimes enormous. I just think there is a high potential for "stealth" investors for this set due to it's time on the market. Combine that with the fact that for a $400 dollar set, it has 198 sellers on Amazon, and the most comparable recent item is SSD with only 56 sellers on US Amazon right now. That it is a TALL mountain to climb for a $400 dollar set. As Val-E stated, it takes a lot of time to move a $550 dollar item vs items in the $100-150 range. Eating through stock at $550 can be painful. This will not move at the speed of Delorean. (Although at 88mph, I am betting the DS despite it's mass, due to it's existence in space with minimal friction moves significantly faster.) And while not considered "hoarding," the kids and adults who have bought and owned this set for play or display play a part as well, as they add to the overall supply whether it was their intent to sell it in the future or not. These used sets typically will hit the market one way or another eventually. Sometimes through estates sales if it comes to that, but more often as kids and adults have life changes. This further pushes the market down. I do agree that the amount of "hoarding" is likely less than perceived, however, the number of owners is high. Likely the highest of any set over $200 ever.

This is just an inside BP joke. Everyone knows it's the VW T1 Camper Van.

Poe's Xwing back in stock at shopko $63.99 http://www.shopko.com/product/entity/106035.uts Use spring4 or spring 50 depending if you get one or 2.

I posted this deal on Monday and received my Amazon purchase on Weds. Minfig was included in a polypag liked the leaked images showed. This was for the DVD, not Blu-ray version.

!So far I've just been enjoying adding parts to my collection from the lot. Built myself a much better MOC hospital with all the white and red... I'm a noob builder and not a very creative person with lego in general... here's my hospital, unfurnished so far:

There's a thing called cellphone,

Getting the thread back on track. It's finished. Probably the best value UCS set I've built recently. One big chunk of a ship compared with my UCS Tie Fighter.

Finally finished the MF 75105 with my almost 6 year old boy. Feels good to be done. It's kinda a beast to move around...we really enjoyed the build for the most part. Now the question is where to put it...

Processed my latest Bricklink order last night, and discovered I've now got all the pieces for 5526 Skyline. Should be interesting to build. I love "little" sets like this.

Starting to piece together a Ninjago lot to sell that I should never have bought last summer. I found a couple more instructions digging too. So far I've completed a 2505, 70500 and 75002.

I have 2 oldies. 10196 GC and 10179 MF by far. I love the build and design of each. However, they are fragile, some elements are hard to replace (don't even want to think about it), relocating the sets are challenging (10179 weighs 22lbs) w/o elements falling or messing up the rotating mechanics (10196) and dusting stinks.

I did slick deals it. I am not the mole though. Not that it may matter to anyone but would never take someone else's find and spread the wildfire but in this case seemed I was first to the deal, so share with the Lego world I did. Looks like everything still in stock too. Not bad 6 hours later

I found enough matching rare parts of 6209 while sorting that I am going to see how much of it that I have when I am done. Also some parts of 7752 and 7661.

I'm note sure if this has been mentioned yet, but it looks like Shop Your Way is having some type of special points deal at the moment. I got around 23% back in points on two purchases this morning.

Thanks for the tip! x2 Bulldozers, x2 Deep Sea Helicopters, and x2 Mighty Micros BM vs CW. $156 total.

In WalMart today: Arctic Helicrane, 60034 $19 Spaceport, 60080 $59

For indexing the parts in your bulk lot, you can set up an inventory on BrickLink. That said, it's time consuming - you physically have to enter in every element in the bulk lot, and I think there's an easier way to accomplish what you want to do. First, separate your bricks into bags by piece type (as organized on BrickLink). Next, go through the inventory list of the set (in your case, it sounds like 10240) on BrickLink and pick the pieces out from the separate piece type baggies and put them into the set bag (I would use 1 to 2 1-gallon ziplock bags for a set the size of 10240). For the pieces you don't have, add them to a Wanted List on BL from the set inventory page. Once you're done, go into your Wanted List page, under the "Manage my Wanted List", click on the "My Wanted List by Shop" link, then sort your Wanted List by "Unique Lots". It will display the sellers by the total unique lots in your list from most bricks to least, so check the sellers with the most bricks against each other for relative cost of the bricks. Once you complete an order from a BL seller, the page after confirming check out includes a link to move or remove the items from your Wanted List - this is a great way to manage your Wanted List. If you want to get really technical, you can take your Wanted List and run it through a program called "Brickficiency". The program will optimize your Wanted List brick purchase with the lowest price. You can google "Brickficiency" to find the program. Hope this helps-