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Picked this up from a local collector. Very happy to have this. Came with motor and battery. I just took it apart and will clean it before build it. Did notice one piece that was not Lego branded, no big deal. Paid $200 CAD which is about $140 USD.

This sale was originally planned for end of march but got moved to May. It seemed to be one the of the largest collections, I have seen online listed for an estate sale. For me a 7.5 hr drive. Rented a large van, packed totes, saran wrap sticks. It was advertised as 30 buildings with cars for $4400, after I was told $4200, plus some other stuff separate from that lot. Left Friday to Long island. Scoped the place out and crashed at a friends. Woke 5 am, went there for 5:30 and was the 15th person already to get a ticket. (entry to estate sales vary across the country it seems- some do lists, tickets, etc) Now I had until 9:30 to panic if I would get anything, or a trip, van, etc was a waste. In line 2 guys talked about splitting the Lego and trying to sell, but didnt know much about Lego I heard one say. I went in, went to the basement. Found other raiding the smaller lego stuff on a pool table. I found the massive setup, behind caution tape with a price of $4500. I asked a worker if I want this and deal. He said I had to find Patty who runs the company and deals. Needless to say I found her, grabbed some other stuff off the pool table and bundled it all together for a deal, I think. Still going through stuff but over 30 modulars, some official- others custom. About 20+ city vehicles, alot of baseplates, unopened bricklink orders in shipping boxes for future MOCs the owner never got around to building. It seemed he had some money, lived large and the story was died in early 50's. Met a fellow brickpicker (labfreak7), left some scraps for Timmy or Timmy's Grandma who said she was buying for kids who lost their home in a fire. Spent 2 hrs saran wrapping them all, loaded them in storage totes. My friend helped load in my truck and on my way home just after 12, drove and made it home without issue. Now to sort. I have no instructions for the MOCs but hoping to track them all down. Album with Some pics here- https://flic.kr/s/aHskW9Shqa

Since the Snowspeeders were sold out when I went to the Lego Store Thursday, I had to backorder. Was hoping to build it this weekend, so in order to quench my UCS thirst, I broke open the UCS B-Wing I won in @Ed Mack's Christmas Raffle. Its pretty amazing. The real UCS sets are just leaps and bounds above all other SW sets. However, I'm pretty sure the designer had some kind of bet going about how many non-gray pieces he could hide inside this set. There are tons of red, blue, tan, and green parts buried in the guts. Now it's just wait and see how long it takes my wife to notice it's sitting on the foyer table, because I have no other place to put it.

Something like this would be awesome but would be easily the biggest set ever

I believe if it ends in 8 [or a number that is not 9], it's clearance.

Good till the 13th of this month.

When I die I'm hoping that my ghost can attend the estate sale and watch all of you vultures fight over my stash of Joker Steamrollers.

I've got you covered....

Also had chance to build another minifig frame for my Batman series:

Due to all the Star Wars hype lately I decided to dig this one out the vault, really love this set!

Anyone see the new minecraft set?

sorry, this one won't pass in US.

Stopped by the Lego store a while back with my kids and my daughter loved the Brickheadz, which kind of surprised me. She ended up buying two of them, and has been carrying the Joker around with her ever since (ha!). My son built the WU-CRU Training Dojo, which is a great little polybag.

Busy day. $50 local. Not a huge win, but now I can sell the NIB one I have stashed. Edit: And the kid sold me a used/complete The Mine 21118 for $20 a week ago, so I didn't feel like haggling much.

LLDC. $50 to get free droid polybag.

@target clearance 6x Scarecrow harvest of fear - $22.98 ea

Any before pics of the pool table? I enjoyed reading this.

So something like, used Raptor Escape, 100% complete, including box and instructions and a very generous addition of one rubber band

If you've got this coupon, and plenty of points to burn, and can plan your shopping for Thursday, and have extra gift cards, and can get your cashier to give you TRUTH when using gift cards... well... you ain't what I call "lazy".

It's too bad Lego won't go the Cathedral route, there are so many amazing ones across Europe. St. Basil's would be at the top of my list, but there are many others that would be worthy. I'm sure we could all make a top 20 list and this building probably wouldn't crack it. Colosseum is at the top of mine right now, but only if done right.

If you didn't notice, Amazon made a recent change to their shipping terms for non-Prime members. "All orders of $25 or more of eligible items across any product category qualify for FREE Shipping."

Why is 41077 Pegasus Sleigh still available from Amazon? Wave 2 Elves will be completely done before this set disappears. Also, why can't I resist buying this thing? I have 10 now. My buy-in is under $15 after today, but this set is just frustrating. Between this and 41105 Pop Star Show Stage (also still available from Amazon), I might build the largest show stage ever with an audience of elves and pegasi. Stay tuned.

I am compelled to agree. What I noticed is that the bricks and building techniques in the Minecraft sets are making it much simpler and flexible for the kids to experiment, rebuild and rearrange these. The game and its characters provide them a point of orientation and a basis for familiar situations to play out. As an adult, I don't care about this set. However, it packs heck of a lot of meat and seems to be full of nice situational play and build opportunities. As a kid, I would have gone crazy for this. And don't forget, that unlike most other themes meant for kids, the sets in this one are very easily combined with each other, providing an extra compulsion to buy more and expand the terrain. The true question here is whether there are enough parents willing to buy expensive toys like this. In my experience and the market research my company did, the market of premium toys and parents' willingness throw cash on these is soaring and the growth is not expected to slow down in the next few years. Apparently, the recent rise of LEGO is believed to be mostly due to this phenomenon. As middle class and above people of generation Y are much more conscious about food, health, personal development than previous generations, the same can be said about parenting and toys. This generation focuses on quality over quantity, and is ready to pay.

Opened the box and I see a sticker sheet...grrr...

That looks so boring How can anyone like LEGO Minecraft.. I'm sorry if you do but that looks soooo bad

Yes please. I ended up with a total of 16 smaller bionicles. $15 FO Snowspeeders, $12 pegasus Sleigh, $5.60 Bionicles and then some coupons/discounted GCs. The system gave me the $5 back on $25 toys promo, so I'm probably going to have to email for my 75% back...

Seeing the upcoming new Carousel has inspired me to finally open and build my Ferris Wheel. Just finished the first several steps and can already tell it's going to be a beast!

I want to see Fenway Park, Wrigley Park or Old Yankee stadium be a landmark set. Even Wembly Stadium would be nice. Regarding non-sport landmarks, The Colusium (well, was used for sports), St. Peter's Square, Philly's Independence Hall, Mont Saint-Nichel (would be a great build), Leaning Tower of Pisa, Saint Basil's Cathedral, Arc de Triumph, Petra, Portion of Great Wall of China, Great Pyramids and many more to think of.

Sold a Tumbler for £250. Buy in was £140 and with eBay £1 FVF will clear £90. Not out of this world but still a 65% return for a little over a year hold. Again all about buy in and minimising costs to maximise your margins. Business school 101.

Yes - we are very proud of it ?. We are used to be confuesed with - usually Sweden oder sometimes even Swaziland...

That kid immediately realized how to win over an airhead

Cause Switzerland is so well known for its Mediterranean coastline And yes I know it's landlocked, been there once many years ago was cool because I was conversational in German at the time so I could talk to people. Most of them told me to shut up and started speaking English.

As a professional Geographer, this is the risky click of the day for me. edit: Oh, yeah. Pickler

I enjoyed this entirely too much.

Kylo Ren's new fighter vehicle thingy from "The Last Jedi". Sorry, no official term yet.

$99 Annual Pass for LEGOLAND Florida May 26-29. http://m.mynews13.com/content/mobile/news/cfnews13/news/article.touch.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2017/5/5/legoland_florida_to_.html

How about a tribute to the Rock N Roll hall of fame in Lego..................

This stuff is not free. The crap inside adds up. Source: My checkbook.

Let's go for 3 Guggenheims....

If it is about tan color and parliaments, then I would prefer another building, if I am allowed to be biased. Will never happen though

We should not be astonished about the resemblance of both - Neuschwanstein Castle was the original artwork for the Disney Castle... :-)

There isn't a "fake media" outlet in existence that didn't make that prediction.

I'd list them as "Ready to pounce"

Yay, another big tan colored building.

it appears young kids like it. i can't understand why my 7 yr old would build minecraft lego over pretty much every other theme. his grandparents buy this theme for it. i refuse out of stubbornness.

So many other worthwhile materials to receive the very-large-set treatment. A 4000+ piece Castle Neuschwanstein is long overdue... I see this as a result of a kindergartener trying to build something big with the basic bricks he or she has, randomly piling them on top of each other. Alternatively, a combination of basic retail minecraft sets, e.g Attack on Hoth v2.

I will post that story soon. Driving, unpacking and then working today is not leaving much time. Story hopefully monday with some pics

Latest UCS build. Adding the current Tie Fighter. As others have said quite a repetitive and boring build but solid and swooshable and quite impressive when finished. Great minifigure as well.