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Bought 7 sets in Germany recently. 2 EV, 2 GBHQ, 1 TB, 1 PC and 1 SC. Managed to sell 5 of those sets for a profit, which left me with essentially a free SC and EV, so I decided to break out the SC to build it up. What an awesome build it turned out to be! Truly befitting of an UCS set, unlike the upcoming Hoth set... I have 2 other SCs kept in storage MISB. I think I shall get a few more of these down the road

The grammar police will be with you shortly.

We're all waiting for the next Ebay promo before spending our certificates

Please be classic, please be classic...

What's an adverb?

Finally finished this beast. It's actually a pretty awesome playset and you can fit a warthog and a couple mongoose inside. It's been a busy week and we had 5 baseball games this weekend. The wife is watching a movie, so I finished it while waiting to watch "The Walking Dead".

A complete, used but great condition Pirates Chess 2009 edition for £40

Some more information re: " From your experience, can you find retired sets from big box stores like Walmart and Target? " Different retailers have different practicies: For example, Target - corporate-wide has a pretty strongly regimented product life cycle on their shelves. They go through 2 major clearances a year (Feb/July) - and in general, they move out product even before it's "retired" from shop at home. Wal-Mart has a lot more freedom, and it can vary store by store, so OCCASIONALLY (especially in backwoods Wallies) find a retired set or two. Walmart also has a tendency to pile clearance items in storage, and then unload them onto the floor at various times, which allows the occasional old set to surface. Target does not do this. Other retailers, like K-Mart - have stuff on their shelves a lot LONGER. For example, at some K-Marts you can find things like Brick Bounty, The Ghost, even wave 1 Chima - All of which are "retired" on shop at home. And the ever popular Mechdragon, which just recently retired from Shop at Home. Toys R Us is the same way in that they have a lot of flexibility, and since they tend to overprice a bit - retired sets can linger on the shelves a while. "Retired" simply means the date it is no longer available at Shop At Home. Sometimes these sets can linger at other retailers for quite some time. A good example would be the Toys R Us exclusive "Hydra Fortress Smash" which I believe retired in November officially, but didn't get cleared out of TRU finally until a couple weeks ago. One of mine had a couple Black Gates 8-9 months after retirement on their shelves. And your own regional stores will have their own policies and gems.

No tricks. Just grinding out deals Here's the find of the day

Netflix and LEGO?

My girlfriend and I have been building Parisian Restaurant and binging Netflix all weekend. I'm pretty sure she's hooked on LEGO. All according to the plan.

I thought Geoffrey delivered these to you personally, with a slice of pumpernickel?

Well, that would be par for the course for LEGO's timing.

Love Bug Love Bug !!! I'd be all over this!

survey says : 4 per case... i thought they might be 10 per case. and up into the rafters they go!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lego-75060-Star-Wars-Slave-I-Building-Toy-1996-pieces-Read-/201555215386?hash=item2eeda0841a:g:q1oAAOSwud1XAopb New in Damaged Box Slave 1 $179 shipped. Disclaimer - yeah, you can get it cheaper at TRU if your TRU carries it and if you happen to be there and if it's the 4th day of the new moon where your 10% discount applies and if you don't pay tax and if you steal it OR just buy it now. If only someone made that suggestion!

If Brickpicker only had a stock alert system...

The Brick Fan is reporting that there is three full sets in a case with Alien, Genie, Mickey, Mr. Incredible, Stitch, and Syndrome getting an extra in each box.

Ant-man took a little jump this weekend - sold one for $63

Ragge Runarson's business building by LegoJalex

In all fairness, it's taken lots of hours/gas and been over 7 states You should explore southern WI (before I get there)

I used to collect Those and the call of duty mega bloks. People like to crap on the brand but they never use stickers and they're a lot cheaper so they're doing something right.........

End of day summary: The last picture the 3 bigger boxes were $3, the foal was $1 and the poly was $2. The TRU bricktobers were $9.98 and the trees were $3.49.

Used $9 in SYW Surprise points for another Rey's Speeder. K-Mart has been good to me this year.

I couldn't help myself today at a local mall. $50 in VIP points and plus Mr. Freeze polys for each family member. I didn't want the huge box with holes in it so the contents were dumped into 2 XL bags. For a set I never planned on buying, looks like I'll be building it.

70172, while this is a Ultra Agents set, the kids thought it was awesome. Tons of playability and the fact that you can fit a minifig in the sharks mouth is sweet. The crane that holds the cell is weak and the giant harpoon gun hanging off the small boat is comical, but still a fun set. 5x eBay bucks and I broke down and bought our first Indiana Jones set. Came clean and with every piece in good shape, awesome set. I want to pick up a couple more now. Does anyone know if there are straight pieces of this smaller track?

My wife and son built this last week, they both enjoyed the build. A set I only bought to sell hence the 'ebay' photo. Quite an impressive finished product even though HP doesn't interest me.

update #2 - still there, still $8. At what point do you give up? I don't know what the answer is, but I do know that the answer is not "after nine months or so"

Hello there, I would like to present my latest scenery - reconstruction of the racetrack from 1989 poster/catalog. It is not 100% the same, but most of it is. I would have to cut some street plates to have the same effect as in the posters

Not in the narrow gauge track... only curved and the sloped pieces. Even the new friends roller coaster has just curved and sloped. Time to get creative. http://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?catType=P&catString=128

Yeah, but how many GameStop polys did you score lately? 10? 20? I don't wanna know lol nothing lame about your polybag hunts...

I love the Avengers Tower. But that's probably just personal preference. As far as it goes, The exclusive figures are the various Ultrons that are all virtually indistinguishable, an Iron Man that is indistinguishable, a Hawkeye that is virtually indistinguishable, a Scarlet Witch that might be better than the Civil War one, Vision, Quicksilver Iron Legion and Baron Strucker. If it weren't for the fact that the airport battle made the quinjet city chase almost completely redundant, I would have put my money on that one. The Vision is the only part of that set that people will go crazy for. Hulkbuster is the best contender for increase.

10221 for 990 and friends sunshine Ranch for 75. Both shipping included.

Because people don't go in and ask for them. They just assume you needed to do the preorder, and if you didn't you weren't getting it.

Awesome dc! Thanks! Now if we could just get a couple more...

3310455512183729 from eBay. It appears used...HTH...

Got an artic supply plane from tru today for 49.99

Now here's a MOC highlight - my daughter wanted to do some building with me last night but didn't want to just build a set (she has the treehouse to finish from the Jungle Rescue Base set and I was trying to sneak in an hour or two to build Wall-E), so we ended up grabbing a few LEGO boxes (limited parts!) and combined our builds to make this dude:

Triumphal Arch in Paris by Brickmaster_Kor

Three Houses by cimddwc

The great irony... I don't trust anyone on eBay, I hate to shop there. I think everyone is a scammer, even though I personally have only had one bad transaction, that wasn't terrible. And I don't know anyone personally who has gotten scammed hard. Yet here I am, trying to figure out how to get people to trust me so I can sell them something on eBay. I don't know if I feel like a sellout or a hypocrite, but I can't help but feel like someone is being entertained by my plight.

Total cost: $5.24 (plus a few bucks of gas and a couple hours)

This might be old news but it's worth mentioning in case anyone missed it. LEGO Shop at Home US: "We're sorry that this set is not available. Please check back in August for product availability. "

Not UCS? What on Earth are you smoking? Never mind, I wouldn't want to smoke it anyway.

I didn't even bother with mine. It is nice that Lego throws in 2 sets of them since they know it's a b.s. sticker and should have just printed it. Again, a UCS set gets less love from Lego than a base play set. 10240 canopy - sticker Poe's X-Wing - printed What am I missing here? Did they realize their failure and decide to go back to printing canopies?