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Okay, not two...How about four? 20160603_233011 by Kevin Langenberg, on Flickr 20160603_233032 by Kevin Langenberg, on Flickr 20160603_233025-1 by Kevin Langenberg, on Flickr

I'm 99% sure they did it like this on purpose

Open box/sealed bags 75005 Rancor Pit for $10 at a garage sale. And my box of 71014 for $225 shipped is on its way.

Can I switch things up and share a positive experience? True story. I sold a complete set of Disney minifigs on eBay. I listed that they were still in the original bags, but I put a small cut in them to verify contents. Shortly after I received the money on PayPal, The buyer contacts me. The lady apologizes, but she claims I gave her two stitches. She's missing buzz light year. Which made sense to me, because I had recently went over my inventory of loose minifigs and was short a stitch. I go into customer-service panic-mode because of all the stories I've read here about buyers filing a complaint and getting their money back over the smallest inconsistency in their order. I'm a new seller and my feed back was only like 24, and more than half were from buying. So I immediately apologize for giving her stitches. But then she sends me a request: if she mails me one stitch back, will I please mail her the missing buzz light year. ?? She's asking ME to trade a stitch for a buzz? The buzz I rightfully owe her. She even says she's willing to wait until I get my stitch, before I give her a buzz. Now I'm getting paranoid, she's too nice. I am of course going to give her a buzz. And I'm certainly not going to wait until I receive a stitch. But What if she never sends a stitch and just wants a buzz for free? Who doesn't want a free buzz? What can I do?!? So I tell her I'm going to give her a buzz for free, gonna send it right away. I offer to send her $2 to pay for shipping my stitch back. She refuses. Doesn't want it. She compliments my package. Kids love the set. She just wants a buzz. Long story short, I roll her buzz with a pair of Washingtons. 'Cause I know she likes the way I pack it. And I got my stitch back and a great review on eBay. Disaster obverted. There are kind, generous people in the world.

Well, I guess I'm in for 4.

Here's the image:

1984

Brickset released an image of what looks like a new polybag of a double decker bus...seems like it would be a perfect promo for August when the Big Ben 10253 set becomes available. Looks pretty cool!

I took delivery on all this today. The boxes came while I was coaching T-Ball. You should have seen the look on my Wife's face when I walked in the door and there were three big boxes sitting there for me! I was going to start building the modulars this weekend but am now on the fence. I am going to be moving in 17 months and not sure I want to start putting my City together to only have to tear apart next year. Plus I really don't have anywhere to put it at this point. However, I did start building The UCS Tie-Fighter!

I don't think it would have been asking anyone to break their neck to include Gwen Stacy with this set. It's the only crack I've got against it.

Here is a Jangbricks video review of 6929. He touched on the reasons I love this set Except that he did not pose the red guy with his super awesome green laser bazooka Oh yeah I still have most of the set. Obviously not in the best condition after being passed around several relatives.

This was the first set I bought on my own with my paper route money. I swear it was like $50 back in 1986. I think I had a small space set from my parents before this one.

Well, we got the new catalog this week. My son pointed to this on the cover and said he wants it. He slept outside last night.

What are some lots you missed out on from CL whether you offered too low or waited too long to buy? I have 3 all in the last month or so. Kicking myself. 1. UCS Advanced Tie - used complete with manual $200 - I offered $175 but it sold and I never got a response back. Should have paid his asking price. 2. Large lot with The Burrow (Ron's house), Black Pearl, a couple old 3-1 houses from 2010, police station and some other city sets. Asked $330. I offered $250, then $275, he countered with $325. Someone paid his price shortly after. 3. This one hurts. Last Sunday, Memorial Day weekend, large lot with 90 sets. No boxes but all instructions included. Asking $1200. Taj Mahal, Black Pearl, Diagon Alley, Brick Bounty, just to name a few of the sweet sets. I inquired about minifigures but when they replied back it was sold. That thing was only listed 5 hours.

$37.89 (16% off ) Amazon

Birds even cheaper now. Looks like someone's anxious of getting rid of it! $37.89 (16% off ) Amazon http://amzn.to/1ssQSq6

Well, White House and Ecto-1 are OOS on Amazon US. Correction, a 3rd party lowballed Amazon on Ecto-1.

That Rancor Pit was some good luck.

If you need one for personal build - by all means buy one. And I'd contact @wolvergeek - he wants one, maybe you can do a fellow BP-er a favor by picking one up for him ....

R.I.P. Muhammad Ali

The first set I can remember getting was also 6080 King’s Castle. Best Christmas ever! I got it back from my mom a few years ago, minus a few minifigures and the original box. She even kept the mail-in catalog.

Hope it will be a GWP available with any purchase and not just Big Ben

You need us to tell you how to avoid that problem? Don't sell international or only use eBay's global shipping program.

For anyone Moc´ers wanting to try building it, here are the instructions. http://cache.lego.com/bigdownloads/buildinginstructions/6170476.pdf

I think it was this one that I got for Christmas but I'm not sure. I also got some space sets early on but I don't recall which ones.

The streak is over. 30% off + discounted gift cards.

Saw a posting last week in the main MOCs thread of a modified Light Blue Grey Cafe Corner. I was inspired. Started off using the actual CC instructions, then sort of realized that to add in an elevator and interior I'd have to break from the guide... before long I was just freestyling the whole thing. Used original instructions to accurately build the 45º corner joints, and pulled inspiration on interior mini-builds from a number of different sets, those familiar with modulars should be able to pick them out. About 60% of the way along, I realized I was sharing a lot of parts from the Parisian Restaurant, so as I progressed into the top floor and roof I started strategically picking bricks present in that set... hoping to save a few dollars in the end. Posted in the trade forum about that already. Detailed interiors are costly on the brick front.... Total parts count for this beast is 3561! I've got these images uploaded to dropbox.... not sure how to make dropbox links show up as images in the post. If possible please advise or edit! Big thanks also to Bublible and the team working on BlueRender. Beautiful results! https://www.dropbox.com/s/fwdw3kpsjj12o0c/Cafe Corner Assembled.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/vor9r1kbyh1bsgm/Cafe Corner Ground.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/56ybd7qyqv7t1h4/Cafe Corner Ground2.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/a8xd1oo3a2mcsai/Cafe Corner Floor 1.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/nmltgcl4iuf670x/Cafe Corner Floor 2.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/bv6s7eo2v6fpkow/Cafe Corner Roof.png?dl=0

#8 Samwise Gamgee - Set 9472 #2 Firefighter - set 7945, 7046 or 7240 #18 Heroic Knight & #19 Roman Emperor - 2013 minifig series #3 Lego castle 70404 #4 Lego Sir Stackabrick Lego Movie 2014

I´m hoping granny wil go for The Mine instead.

Toys R Us. The clerk was kind enough to let me use my 20% off coupon a day early (on Thursday).

This makes sense. They simply don't have time to reshoot a significant percentage of the movie without moving the release date. If they move the release date then you know there is a significant problem. Like the article said, TFA had reshoots as well and that turned out just fine.

yes - it showed up on the app. i was sure it would fail but when i got to the store, the shelf tag showed $69.99 which is why they were still there. obviously a big ymmv but still makes it worth to check the app and hope for a miracle.

I cannot watch the video (gives me a playback error all the time) but the gearbox on the 42048 race kart (2 gears and a neutral) merely makes the piston on the engine block move slower or faster. Now of course if you had a motor driving the gears, the speed & torque of the car would change depending on the gear selected, but those are not provided with the 42048 (neither with the Porsche 42056 btw).

Everyone on this forum. It was widely rumoured.

Image looks broken to me...this might work...and FWIW, it looks MONEY.

@Clintonjoseph Bonus points for the rad Luke Skywalker shirt.

These boxes aren't pretty, but $13.96 minus red card seems about right.

The German product page has gotten an official note: "Aufgrund unvorhersehbarer Umstände ist der LEGO Technic Porsche GT3 RS auf shop.LEGO.com vorübergehend nicht verfügbar. Wir arbeiten daran, das Set schnellstmöglich in unserem Online Shop zu lancieren!" -> "Due to unforeseeable circumstances (aka our very own, ever-growing incompetence - personal annotation) the LEGO Technic Porsche GT3 RS is temporarily not available on shop.LEGO.com. We're working on making the set available in our online shop as soon as possible."

Dubious claim at best. Cubbie fans are notorious for crying themselves to sleep every October...

Ended up with 2 of those bad boys (Porsches, not the fountains )

Porsche.....

An 8% return is at least 8 times better than a savings account.

It may not be much effect, but I personally got modular a after my kids built smaller sets. I liked theirs, but wanted more. We also bought the fairground mixer after getting the superhero fair type set as we decided to MOC the super hero one, make a bumper car area for the joker bumper cars and did the fairground. Only point is I would never underestimate the effects even the smaller sets have as they can give great ideas

Little something I built a few days ago. Yeah I am a SW nut Not amazing but its my first vignette in a while

I gave a presentation at our school's PTA meeting for an online ticket solution for ticket sales for PTA events. Like the Daddy-Daughter Dance, Mother-Son Bowling, etc. Our PTA is pretty much stay at home moms. Of course, meetings are only at times convenient for them (not for working parents or teachers). The biggest complaint about any of the ticket sales for events is that it's right after school when working parents can't buy tickets. Some of the events sell out and people complain. So I was showing them some options for selling tickets.

I personally say that this is awesome for reselling. It doesn't seem widely popular, but people who have built it seem to love it (seacow anyone?). Because of this, it doesn't seem too hoarded. This is a good thing. If they continue the fairground line, this will surely be a winner.

finally got some bricks to work out the ice cream shop some more... here's an update - still waiting for a double VIP/xmas promo pick abrick order to finish the last floor.