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Despite trying to let my wallet recover from May 4th, I was tempted by the Walmart clearance thread. I picked up a $35 Tie Striker for my collection and a $35 Duplo Batcave to put away for this guy (only 30% off but I couldn't resist)!

Sinking ship!

Finished building the Beatles Yellow Submarine and placed it next to the Ghostbusters Ecto-1 set:

Goes great with Aquazone stuff

Mostly skipping Walmart clearance, but not TRU! Average 15% GCs used and partial pay for double rewards. There should be some more in the mail.

Seems to fit his taste

Tonight I finally finished off the UCS Tie Fighter while watching Episode IV. After sitting in my build pile since December, I decided to put it together doing 1-2 bags per night over the last week. Overall, I was very happy with the set. I'm not sure why such harsh criticism? Also, I disassembled and put away Technic set 42030 Volvo L350F Wheel Loader....primarily in order to make room for more SW UCS sets. UCS Slave 1 is up next.

Nothing new to show built quite yet but I did upgrade some of my cars with some chrome. Ferrari FXX exhaust Hennessey Venom GT exhaust and turbo chargers Predator wheels Koenigsegg One:1 wheels and exhaust Caterham 7 620R wheels and exhaust.

Thanks to exciter1 and the TRU post late this week, I was able to get a LEGO Friends Heartlake Airport 41109 set yesterday from my local TRU using in-store pick-up for 45.59 using a TRU gift card from Raise in combination with a $10 coupon my wife had. Thanks again to this great community and my goal is to pay it forward and to return the kindness when I find a deal on my own to post, which can be hard to do since great deals are often posted in minutes after being discovered! Cant’ wait until this year’s Christmas selling season with all the deals being found on retired sets.

I would recommend using ALL Sears and KMART GC's ASAP

that's ok - it's still infinite profit when you put up none of your own money. 100% agree that's what this is. it's not like someone was like - oh look i have a bunch of at-at's lying around i forgot about. i have 4 at-at's left. i've named them to help make it more difficult to sell them emotionally. it's almost time for annie to hit the road once we hit $400. jerry, bruce and otis are sitting back chilling with tickets to the fba warehouse at the end of september to see what happens in October-November.

Amazon priced matched TRU for it. $168.63 https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Mary-71042-Building-Kit/dp/B01N5JUW0P/

silent mary (71042) for $169 at TRU. hoping for pm at amazon and walmart...

Agreed. In my house, we have significantly reduced and rationalized all of our Lego themes, particularly SW. We have limited SW collecting to: -UCS: only the ones we want -Microfighters: only the ones we want -Advent calendar: because fun -Select normal sets on a case by case basis such as Droid Escape Pod and Luke's Landspeeder to go with the UCS Sandcrawler, some of the Rebels sets (Ghost, Phantom, Phantom II), Jedi Starfighters, etc We went from "gotta have them all" to only a handful of purchases so far this year.

Happy mother's day to the Lego mom's out there.

Some very advanced building techniques in this one. Picture from hothbricks.

Try building some, they'll grow on you....

When Wendy's owned a Twitter twit so hard, they deactivated their account.

City Bus terminal by emo Lego

Not sure if this is the right place to put this: Amazon, Pirates of the Carribbean Silent Mary is $168. https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Mary-71042-Building-Kit/dp/B01N5JUW0P/

Amazon priced matched TRU for it. $168.63 https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Mary-71042-Building-Kit/dp/B01N5JUW0P/

I've never been a fan of the buildables. To each their own though.

Yes, very easy just add it to your cart on target.com then call 1-800-440-0680 Select option for help with online order I think it is 3 then give them your cart number Then they check Amazon say OK you place order for $199 minus 5% RC then they ask for order number and credit you $31 don't get charged until shipped so cost is $158

Very excited to meet up again! I will for sure be bringing my Bugatti Chiron ? YOu'll be able to see both the Vantage and the Chiron!!

We built Grievous... but I have to admit, i'm still not into them. If i'm going to collect the figures, i'm sticking with the black series stuff from hasbro. As time goes on, i'm mostly just becoming a modular buildings and Star Wars UCS kind of guy... If a regular set looks great we will buy that too. But, if the set isn't up to snuff, i'll just bricklink the minis my son wants for his collection. Our collection has grown so big over the years that i'm now at the point where we are selectively downsizing some of it.

Used up some of the promo TRU gift cards today 4 Dr Strange Sanctum's £ 10 each 5 Chirrut's & 5 FO Admiral Polys for £14.90 in total Used up £90 of free £10 gift cards

Yeah stop the thieves from spreading ways to break into your house. Don't bother trying to fix the broken lock

I did a little digging and here is an excerpt taken from Alex Jones' web site.

I still think another great option instead of buying this is the previous AT-AT (8129) which is just as good and includes more for less. It was a TRU exclusive in the US. https://www.brickpicker.com/bpms/set.cfm?set=8129-1

First three scenes of an ongoing (I imagine) series recreating scenes from "Les Miserables". #1. A Loaf of Bread (Les Miserables) by W. Navarre #2. There is But One Man Capable of That (Les Miserables) by W. Navarre #3. A Just Man (Les Miserables) by W. Navarre

From Orion Pax's (Alex Jones) new upcoming book. Matrix of Leadership by Alex Jones Heel Transformers by Alex Jones Autobots roll out! by Alex Jones

The Final Man by W. Navarre

There are highly detailed step by step instructions on how to scam FBM sellers posted on various forums. I would not advise using FBM for any type of collectible or high risk item.

Probably. I think we'll see this set 25% or more at some point. I don't think there will be much demand for this set at retail after the film is released. It also doesn't help this set isn't a "legit" or "somewhat typical" pirate ship However, I'll take a 15% discount any day of the week to build a nice recent released set if the film flops, we'll see 35% and more off.

Started Silent Mary first 2 bags mostly technic. Interesting that the build for how the ship opens is the MOD used to make Kylo Ren's Shuttle wings be able to move from landing to flying mode.

$45 FBA. Solid start for this little guy.

This is why I find setting aside my need for profit so liberating. The recent reduction of the eBay TRS final value fee discount from 20% to 10% has lately helped in this regard. Only when you free your soul from the material plane, will you be truly free.

3 Lego volcano exploration @ Walmart $67.00 Plus over BrickFair I met the CEO of Lego and traded business cards.

Finally had the time to spare to build these two.

"Sector 7G" - LEGO The Simpsons: Homer's Workstation by Chris "Lucifer" Adams

Slowly catching up on my UCS collection. Bought this used, and took me 3 hours to build it. After building this, I really appreciate the improvements they made with the instructions on new sets. These earlier sets were very difficult to differentiate black and dark grey. I also made the mistake of building double identical wings instead of mirror images. Should have known this after building Tower Bridge. Nice looking set, but it is a bit dated. Lots of improvements can me made if they ever decide to reissue it.

I just finished the Silent Mary and really loved building it. It was a very satisfying building without the premade hull. Most of the ships using the big hull pieces are so stubby and cookie cutter the same. This ship felt like a UCS Star Wars build with the internal technic frame and partial cladding and a lot less tedious than the Death Star II. This allowed the designers to make a slender tapering ship that seems to have much better sailing ship proportions. Obviously none of the sailing ships are to minifigure scale, but on this one nothing is minifigure accessible except the deck. I think that is ok since is allows the other features to be smaller and more to scale. I love all the gold. I have uploaded a comparison with the Imperial Flagship which is the biggest Lego sailing ship. You can see the Silent Mary is much shorter, especially since so much of its hull is out of the water by comparison, but it is only a few inches shorter. The real questions is whether it can eat the Imperial Flagship. As you can see, I think the Imperial Flagship is little to big a bite. Maybe just a bit off the flank.

Should have known, it clearly states on box. *Ship does not float*

Thanks so much for mentioning the sears option. Used a few sears gift cards I have been trying to get rid of for a long time.

Those are the scammers drop shipping from the rest of us. Surprised they are giving up that free $50.

Personally, I think the scout trooper and speeder bike and the clone commander are the best of this wave

Long live admiral whatshisnames !!!

Craigslist $120. Not too shabby.

Transit of a Hoth Moon by Vesa Lehtimäki