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@feed: Is that ISD 75055? The box of that set is quite big so that's surprising. Finished building that Batman set with the exception of Batmobile and Batcopter and the superhero minifigures. Those are already packed for sale to recoup parts of the original costs. It was a fun build and the final result is more impressive than I imagined. A lot of people complain about the set but I think it's cool. I'm not a fan of superheroes and Batman though. And this is how it could look like if integrated into a modular street.

Impossible. LEGO investing is dead. Numbers have to be wrong! Architecture is for geeks!

$25 off $125 purchase on eBay: CSPRING25OFF125 One time use.

I think the frequency of coupons and eBay bucks promotions have been pretty unprecedented so far this year. I don't remember anything like this since the good ol' days of Bing cashback.

Finally opened mine and built it this weekend (40th birthday present). This is one awesome set! Woot!

$100 TRU gift card for $85 + Architecture: White House $40.48 - $25 EBay promo - $100.48

Then maybe a move is called for.

These will be hoarded beyond belief, so we'll have to evaluate availability carefully.

Cash is definitely an option but he's probably in Vietnam this month so please mail it overnight and we can wrap this thing up...

Sounds like you got lucky.

Over the holidays. Got to say, somewhat disappointed, it’s much smaller than I expected. No doubt it makes for a great play set, but the build, not so much..

Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me...

Il Sogno "The Dream" by KMbricklab

Red 5 for $189 shipping confirmation from TRU! Snuck one in on 3/24. Thank you stock alert.

The recent revival of the Horizon Express topic made me think about the future value of this set. The train theme growth stagnated in 2015 and I was wondering what people really expect from this set. I thought that I would list some pros and cons and maybe some other people will have some input too. Pro: The crane dock is very well done and easy to expand upon The engine is excellent, especially if you are from North America. There's a cow There is no helicopter Two switches are included and that makes it easy to start a collection with this train or to make this your second purchase. Con: The "cargo" wagons are unremarkable. I don't need to ferry animals around and carry fuel at the same time, it really seems like combining elements of this set with 60098 would have made more sense. Only the drum car is interesting The part out value is low compared to other options: eBay sales will put it at about $200 after shipping and fees and Bricklink indicates that the new value is around $280 but that seems about 15-18% too high to me. The minifigures add nothing to the set. This set has been heavily discounted for all of 2015 and although 60098 Heavy Haul train is not a huge improvement on this set, the fact that it will be available at retail will probably hinder the growth of new copies of the 60052 train. Does anyone see this train blossoming after retirement or are there simply too many cargo train options on the market for this one to stand out. This really seems like a low growth set, based on MSRP, but it should have nice part out value.

The "LS" is not the destination. When you ship out from the US you get tracking codes "LZ...US" if the destination country supports tracking and "LN...US" if no tracking. No idea what the codes mean, but you will certainly get _something_ from China.

When someone cooks fish in the break room microwave. Come on...

seller doesn't have items to sell anymore. someone complained to AMAZON? they can't get the $. at least with new seller amazon hold funds for at least 30 days. i am guessing they are after our information?

I just want the batman minifigure with the robe!

Well I am a male age 72 who has been building and collecting for years!

The Daily Deals lead to all threads...[emoji4]

Yes. Here is the discussion thread for the Disney CMF

Just so you guys know not everything on ebay is a scam.......the more likely scenario is that newbie lego investor bought a death star to sell. When the time comes to sell it they are also new at the eBay thing. And because everyone here or mosty anywhere wont give zero feedback buyers/sellers a chance, they need to get a few small sales to prove to all the non beleibers that they are legit. That is probably whats going on most of the time. Everyone even top rated sellers and powers sellers had a low amount of feedback at one time. The problem is that all the new members here read this thread and think that everyone is out to scam them. Paranoia is contagious

It will be an easy transition to move those jingle bells to jangle bells.

I know, think I must be coming down with something. Wife was with me, is that an excuse?

Creator Family house 31012. $94.99 shipped on Ebay. Was holding out for $100, but no point in getting greedy

What about new adult toys and used Amish religious memorabilia...?[emoji4]

It's a great starter train set. I got one one at the same deal for Christmas for the kiddos. Myself included. We love it. Don't worry about the price of this set. Worry about all the other train sets you are about to acquire.

Spiderman 10665 (junior one with carnage) $26 FBM. Picked up 10 or so $6 each, wish I grabbed 20

Well a 10179 rehash would be $699+. With europe and asia very weak one would assume sales of the new Death Star would be monitored prior to mass production of a $699 set.

No, I didn't modify the back yet but I'm thinking about making it into a modular at some point. What I did though was replacing all the visible gold and grey parts of the grand piano with their black counterparts. In my opinion, it looks much nicer now. I also started building another set big set. A few small models are already completed:

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First timer posting here! Whats up everyone, 30yr Male from NY. I was a die hard Lego fan (Castle and Pirate theme, late 80's early 90's) as a child and unfortunately got away from building as I grew up. Growing up I was always a massive Star Wars fan and one day last August I randomly stumbled across a LEGO article and it made me wonder if LEGO made any Star Wars products. I thought it would be fun to check out the LEGO Store online and see what themes/products were offered these days. I was absolutely blown away when I checked out the Star Wars theme, especially the UCS sets. At the time the UCS X-Wing was sold out so I decided it would be cool to pick up a Slave I and give building another shot. THIS WAS THE WORST DECISION OF MY LIFE FOR ME (and my wallet) lol. I had an absolute ball building the set and was instantly addicted to building, and now collecting, these sets. Since the Slave I, I have bought about 6-7 other UCS sets and a few TFA sets, spending an ungodly amount of money on my new found habit. I forgot how fun building was and am glad I got back into LEGO! Glad I stumbled across this site, happy building!

"You don't know you're in the good old days until you've actually left them." I am not sure how many of you have read my postings over the last 2 months since I joined in January, so I will give you a very brief intro to my background. While I am a relatively new Brickpicker member, I am certainly not new to this game. I was in it huge from 2004-2007, Had many UCS xwings, UCS Tie Interceptors, UCS ISD, UCS Y-wings, UCS Snowspeeders, CTT, Cloud Cities etc. While I was not an emazer level operation, I was running about 3,000-4,000 in volume on an average month and reached Bronze Powerseller level, so not too bad. However, in 2007, due to life changes I started selling off my stock without reinvesting. I cashed out and did not ante back up. Over the last 8 years since I sold of my last Clone Turbo Tank in 2008, I have peripherally watched the market. I have seen various sets rise to proportions never thought possible (10179), and some falter secondary to remakes. On occasion I would surf Amazon just to see what the lowest buy price would be, many times wishing I was still in it. I would visit the Lego store when I happened to be in Disney World just to check out what sets were out, seeing the exponential increase in sets being produced. In January, I happened to be walk into a Lego Store in a mall with my son, and was just shocked as to just how many licensed sets there were. I was also impressed with just how accurate some of the newer sets were in likeness to the actual original model (Wall-E and Ecto01.) Suddenly, I had this itch to get back in the game again, that I just could not resist. Luckily, over the last year, several life changes had allowed me to pursue this endeavor again for the second time. So I decided to get back into the game. For the record, I did not get into the game because of a USA Today or WSJ article. In all honesty, I am awful with politics and current events, so I had no idea how far Lego resale, or what is now called "brickvesting" had now become. I had no idea this was even being covered on a national level, until I decided to start back into Lego Resale. So I began googling about Lego sets, and to my shock, there were national news articles about Lego investing and even a WHOLE WEBSITE devoted to Lego Investing. All I could think about about was how far this had come in 8 years. From 2004-2007, there were minimal Lego and AFOL websites. There was bricklink and fbtb.net, and the only big forum community was on fbtb. And that was mostly Star Wars Legos without a whole lot about anything else. Although, in all honesty, back then there were minimal exclusives, and really Star Wars Lego's were the only think worth investing in. So I discovered this Brickpicker, and I just happened to get in at the time the Tumbler was retiring, so this place was on fire about the retirement of this Iconic set. In all honesty, this set was the set that pulled me out of retirement as it seems like such a good investment. I still believe the Tumbler is a great investment, however, reading the forums for the last two months caused me to realize just how much has changed in 8 years, and how much more difficult this will be now than it was from 2004-2007. It took me a while to figure just what changed. Lego's were such a guarantee before. Ebay and the internet while young and in it's infancy was still a known commodity and widely available in 2004-2007. People knew what items were selling for. You could search completed listings and know that Lego's could net a good sum of money. People had hopped onto various collectible fads in that time from Magic cards, beanie babies, furbies, baseball cards, and tons of other garbage. Lego had ALWAYS been immune because it was not a fad. It never had major publicity but was always reasonably popular. So what changed? As I read article after article, I finally noticed a pattern. It was 10179. This was the game changer, and quite frankly the worst thing to happen to Lego Investing. 10179 came out right about the time I was leaving my Ebay business. At the time, no one would touch this thing with a ten foot pole from an investment standpoint. It was already hard enough shipping 10030 ISD's. When I would ship an ISD, I would go to the grocery store, get a ton of boxes, cut them up and jury rig some kind of cardboard container. It was painfully time intensive. How the heck was someone gonna find boxes for a 10179? The weight, size, and investment of $500 (although it was pretty much permanently on sale around $400) was near insanity. The most expensive set selling at the time was the UCS X wing and it sold used for about $450 usedand MISB around $650-700. So how in the world was the market going to tolerate selling 10179 to make a profit. This was even in a time when Ebay fees and paypal fees combined were about 6-7% if I remember correctly. It was basically considered flop from an investment standpoint. It was the Sea Cow of 2007. Oh if we had only known what we know now. Many might ask, how could the single most profitable set of all time be bad for investing? 10179 gave a face to Lego Investing. Before Lego's were just a standard commodity like any other resalable collectable item. Sure some sets might sell for a profit for 200-300, but lots of other collectibles do that. I sold Art Asylum Star Trek Starships for a while and was buying them for $5 dollars and selling for $140-$150. There are tons of reselling opportunities out there if you understand the market, and Lego was just another one like any other toy or collectible. However, 10179 brought it to the forefront. It was the Honus Wagner and Mickey Mantle rookie card of the Lego world. Those cards caused people to jump on to baseball card collecting like no other. People would blindly buy baseball cards with no market research just because of those two cards. Sound familiar? The Mack's state in their webpage bio that part of what stemmed them building this website was 10179. Without 10179 there would be no Brickpicker. Without Brickpicker, there wouldn't be a USA Today headline bringing Lego Investing to the masses. 10179 was what gave bloggers and article writer's a nice catchy headline. "Lego's set sells for $5,000" "Lego's Brick's Better Than Gold Bricks." From the moment 10179 took off, it was all downhill from there in the Lego Investing world. 10179 was basically the coming out party of Lego Investing. People dream of making the big bucks. People dream of hitting gold. 10179 gave people a tangible dream in the Lego Investing market. Before then it was simply a faceless game that some people partook in. I would always get laughed at in any business meeting when people asked what I was investing in, and I told them once I had maxed out all other retirement options, I would probably put some in Lego's. You can only imagine my stares. Now with websites like this and USA today, and WSJ article's I have ammo now to defend my position. Unfortunately, now with the ammo, it is even harder to defend the position. So ultimately, 10179, has caused a spiral of events that will ultimately eventually bring about the end of Lego Investing. Is that likely to happen in the next 10 years? Not likely, but this site is adding 60 new members a day based on the number at the bottom of the main page. Albeit, not everyone is going to invest, and some might join just for the community, but there are some investors in that number. The market is still very strong, and will always remain strong because Lego is not a fad, and Lego will always have demand. Are you likely to lose in Lego Investing, like people lost big in baseball cards and beanie babies. Not likely, unless you are just AWFUL at picking sets, and are completely impatient. However, eventually a time will come, when selling just to cover your initial investment at RRP+Taxes will become standard for most sets. "You don't know you're in the good old days until you've actually left them."

http://www.figures.com/forums/showthread.php?t=79946 http://www.figures.com/forums/showthread.php?t=79940

^^^ Sorry didn't see that from yesterday.

Try to find the 6211. It is a larger set and was more satisfying to build. And to the last post - I really like the look of that modular wall, there is some potential there for creative people (not me)

They should have made it 16 and left off the Genie until they had enough money to give him a proper new mold.

Well this topic just went down the toilet.

Good correction.

Scored a sealed EV for 205 shipped Thanks!

Which means that next weeks delivery will have Ewok Villages and no Sandcrawlers

Let´s see what happens with the new DS first of all. Hard to believe both would be launched at the same time.

Was able to go back and pick them up @$22.99 each $10 of $30 purchase at Shopko. I've been killing it of Shopko clearance this month!

If folks are really targeting the 4-5 year post-EOL timeframe as their ideal selling window, one thing to realize is that demand for most retired sets falls off a cliff once you hit the 3-year post-EOL mark. By that time, most buyers have moved on to other products and are focused on buying other sets. Prices may continue to climb, but it becomes increasingly difficult to move inventory. If we end up in a scenario where there are a lot of resellers targeting that same window, that supply combined with low demand will keep prices from rising and make it difficult to unload inventory.