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This might seem a little odd for a first post on this particular thread, but I'm a long time Lego fan and have a 10188 Death Star set, and all the comments about the cheese wedge were bugging me. Unless I misunderstood, the general cheese wedge joke was about a cheese wedge being added to the end of the sliding door base in the new Death Star set. However, this is not the case. It may have been a running change at some point, but my copy of the 10188 Death Star set has this cheese wedge. It is black instead of grey, but it's there, shown on page 57 of the instructions. So to those of you who thought you would be getting a new cheese wedge, you really aren't. It was there before, just in a different color.

Soooo I was tidying up the garage yesterday when I noticed something- In a stack of my ready-to-ship packaged sets there were a series of symmetrical semi-rectangular holes punched in one of the cardboard boxes. Apparently, my 6-year old had been experimenting with a typical claw-style hammer. However, instead of using it to pound or pull at any other random object in the universe he wondered what would happen if the claw side was swung into a stack of cardboard boxes. I am now the proud owner of an "excellent condition, NIB, ready-to-ship" Grand Emporium... full of holes. oh kids! Gotta love 'em!

Let me fix that for you...

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pretty much sucks. and i was a believer. maybe in 10 years they might make some money. or no one will care about the simpsons anymore except for geriatric boomers and half demented gen x-ers and social security will barely pay for their tender vittles much less something as extravagant as lego simpsons minifigures. i'm still afraid to type in brickpicker.com. i'm still wincing when the home page loads.

I'm hoping to trade last year's holiday train for this year's.

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Last year it was very much like that for me, and this year is already showing signs it could be the same way. I will admit, last year was my first year on amazon after finally deciding to move away from ebay, and it was rather enlightening. From black friday to about December 18th, I spent most of my evenings packing and prepping stock. It was a lot of work, but very rewarding. Then about a week untill christmas, until about a week past new years, stock was still selling, but just not at the same rate. Then by mid january things were flat as a pancake, and have somewhat stayed that way throughout the summer. Finally, things are showing an uptick again... I've learned, that from September 1st to January 7th, if one wants to create a rolling inventory stream on amazon, it's very possible, if you play your cards right and buy decent stuff throughout the year. I always use the early part of september to blow out stuff that is either slacking, or no longer making any more gains, and use those to get my 25, then i'll start raising prices once i'm "in". This year, i'll wait until the second week of december to blow out all my items that I want to get at a premium, since that is the period when most of the prices tend to inflate, albeit temporarily until Christmas arrives.

Hide the power tools...

Does anyone here know someone who won a drawing by submitting your name in the box at a chinese restaurant? Just curious? This might be an inside joke with myself, if I'm the only one who's ever noticed these boxes in the restaurants.

I have to hand it to Bezos. Low priced sellers are clearing out and not being replaced by new sellers who used to come in and match ebay or FBM. Prices are upticking bigtime on my stash now and sales are increasing rapidly. It was a rough patch there for a while but now it feels like old times again.

Still free shipping at any price with SYWR Max. If you can't get it for free, it's well worth $39 a year and you get $3 in points to use every month.

lowest price on amazon $271 and down to 38 sellers. i'm appreciating this appreciation. just repriced higher. still, empire state building might have been the better investment, now hitting $45-60 on amazon, shipped first class, and easily obtainable for $12-15 in volume. architecture continues to be a winner.

70351 Clay's Falcon Fighter

66542 - 66543 at Costco - $23.99 each

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I think it's just the countdown thingy and Santa's incubation chamber.

There was a box full of these left untouched for a while at my Kmart, and one day they were gone. I was going to say "I pity the fool..." but I actually pitied the people who got those

I think the price speaks for itself.

Nothing to do with the singer but the guy that runs it is named Rick James and he's a Super-Lego-Freak

at least make sure there was a pillow on the fence. sounds like Disney MF are hard to get outside of US so i would buy them and give Mike Lindell a call.

Nice.

I would be more into this if I had done better last year. Just kidding. The kids are who won in the end. This year I will send my donation sets in prepackaged mailing boxes to make it easier on you. I have dibs on donating a 10188. It will look bad to have too many in one raffle.

I assume these are for Force Friday weekend. Dump now!

Tell your six year old "you cant touch this". And "please hammer, don't hurt em". Honestly though, kids are so destructive.

Holiday train is now available at Lego s@h https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Winter-Holiday-Train-10254

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re: 000549...here comes the rampant "production volume" speculation / tracking / math!!! Bring it on! Thanks for posting!

For the sake of the argument, here's a photo I took of the code. The number below the seal-code is unique per box.

This thread will still exist, but the actual deal feature will be outside of this thread. It will be more slick deals like. Easier to see all the products, filter, compare, etc

That ASIN is gated. Those were new sellers who made a LEGO listing prior to 8/23 who have not received feedback yet (very likely), or possibly they paid the fee and submitted the paperwork and got ungated (very unlikely). IIRC it took about 30-40 sales before we got our first feedback. Have not got feedback for the last few hundred sales. All FBA so not unexpected. There is no slipping through the gate. AFAIK you did not have to make a LEGO sale, you just had to have an active listing in the 3 months prior to 8/23.

Speaking of "Stickie" can we take the OP off the top of each page? @Bold-Arrow It was taken off there for a little while. Just a pain (on mobile) when a new post starts on a new page and you have to scroll way down past the OP every time.

It's nice to know it wasn't just me seeing things.

Wow, that is no joke. A Danish seller on Bricklink has 350 boxes listed for US$103 ea (no VAT, no shipping), so about the same once shipping is added. Edit: A Russian seller has 24 boxes for US$113.54 ea...no charge for shipping. Yikes.

Who in their "right mind" is going to buy a sensible Caterham? If someone wants a Sensible car they'll buy a ford or renault. If you want to buy a caterham, then it usually conjures ideas of getting tail happy in corners or driving topless in the rain. You can also buy to build your own.... What is so sensible about caterham???????? Loads of Horse Power in a go-kart!!!

I'm waiting on the edge of my seat.

Where is the designer video for this thing? I want to see some uncomfortable LEGO designers being forced to push this thing. It seems like LEGO is getting lazier by the month

Built some LEGO Dimensions sets and SW microfighters to reduce the backlog of unbuilt stuff. Doctor Who: Back to the Future: Portal 2/The Lord of the Rings/The LEGO Movie: Resistance X-Wing Fighter/Wookie Gunship/The Ghost: And just because I still have it built and wanted to compare them side by side: Wookiee Gunship 75129 vs. 75084 (no stickers applied)

Republic 66 Media has a detailed article with a video online : http://caterham.republic66media.com/

Fierce competition, I won the Evanston round though, but that's it. as of month ago, I was still working 5 minutes from that store, now I'm 60 miles away, gotta call my buddy who is still there.....

I see free shipping on orders over $30 on KMart.com now. You might want to look, everyone might also have $10 in surprise points on $70 purchase available. 3 x Mystery Machines are $70.38 - at least $10 in surprise points, about $20 each.

If that's the case, methinks I'll get a 75159 to part out. I really need a black cheese wedge for a new MOC.

Speaking of KMart, most LEGO/Toys are an extra 5% off online right now.

Just remember, SYWMax is not eligible for commercial use, and if they decide/find out you are a reseller of some sort, it can make your life miserable for a couple years. So be careful. <-- Poster child.

Our old patio needed ripped out. At first it was just an aesthetic problem with weeds and cracks but then we discovered it was sinking towards the house so a new patio became a priority. But get this, my wife just got home and said "the stain looks great!"

Just got an email for 10% eBay Bucks through the 16th.