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Well that I have no idea .. we know from experience that some of what they do makes no sense at all (10188 for instance). Here, I took the liberty of whipping up the next big fake leak photo for you... I literally just finished it.

Finally starting the set that I have been most looking forward to building for a while now: Tantive IV 10198. From back in the day when there weren't numbered bags, so I am starting to get organized. Should be fun!

Does your box mean we are getting a new OT star destroyer like the DS for the falcon.

For those still looking to buy this set, no worries. It will be available soon enough w/o sell-out worries. For example, Exo-suit, UCS Tumbler, Research Institute, Scooby Doo Mystery Machines, Cinderella's Castle. The flip profile margin is drying up.

4/20 is a great date for anything to do with the Han Solo movie... as you'd have to be high to mistake Alden Ehrenreich for Harrison Ford

Last night I finished building the 31070 Turbo Track Racer (Creator 3-in-1). The A-model to be precise, after having built the C-model and B-model respectively first. I have to say: this is a really nice 3-in-1 set! Interesting building techniques used on all three models which all look good in their own ways. But the best and most attractive model is of course the A-model: the Turbo Track Racer. It's only slightly smaller in scale than the Creator Expert Ferrari F40 but fits just fine in the range of large LEGO Creator cars. If you like large LEGO Cars and can get this set at a good discount it's highly recommended!

I finally put together a Detention Block escape that I pieced together from my inventory. Only had to substitute a few parts.

Well - double check, but you probably didn't get *all* your money back. No matter what, once an A-to-Z judgment goes against you Amazon will never refund the full amount back. They keep at least $5 and they do something screwy with the commissions so it doesn't work out to getting back everything you had before the A-to-Z claim. I have had 100% success (so far) in reversing fraudulent A-to-Z claims that Amazon granted at my expense when I've spoken to seller support on the phone. Do whatever it takes to speak to an actual person. When you have them on the phone, being recorded, they are much less willing to violate their commitments to sellers. Also seller support is much more sympathetic than the A-to-Z team which I'm pretty sure is an algorithm, not actual people.

I'm done. All spins. All xtra and not even a nickel.... Heading to the tattoo shop now. Like my new idea? Getting it on my chest.

The Lone Ranger was a decent theme. Definitely under appreciated in my opinion

Now that´s obviously a fake because there are 2 "N" in Millennium.

I still hit my $5 profit per set target

Over the past few days I have had a lot of luck buying on CL. After losing out on one Black Pearl, I found another used one for $130 that is complete with all of the minifigures (no instructions), for investment. The Joshamee Gibbs minifigure is missing his hair, another victim of male pattern baldness no doubt. I will get new hair for him. Last night I got a used 75055 Imperial Star Destroyer complete with all the minfigures and instructions for $55. I have always wanted this one for my personal collection! The Darth Vader minifigure has one white arm with a black hand for some reason. The pieces came separated into numbered bags according to the instructions. The emperor hologram is definitely in bag 3! In both cases the mother and her son were both very happy with the money they got. It was a win, win scenario for everybody. I will admit that I am envious of the awesome finds that many members post here, and now I get to post two of my own.

Denny's Spaceship, Spaceship, Spaceship!!! ?

Picked this up from the same guy I got the other ucs sets from. It was on hold when I picked up the others but the guy no showed. Paid $200, not a steal but still solid. Seems to be missing a few bits though. I may tear this one down and rebuild it, should be a fun one.

Shhhhh, I can't say any more or my IDEAS account could be banned.

You oughta get the Shop Your Way Wheel as the tattoo design.

So here are the other two sets from my Goodwill lot. Each were missing a few pieces, most I had on hand, had to BL five between them. Will be keeping the Barge and selling the Sentai Fortress once the parts arrive.

You've never shared any other leaked photos or information about upcoming sets? Besides, your photo shop doesn't need to be so good it fools people at LEGO, it only needs to be good enough to fool all the morons on the internet (of which there are plenty) that will bombard LEGO and their employees with questions. I mean this respectfully, but it'd be a cold day in hell that I'd produce one of your IDEAS submissions if I was in charge at LEGO. Plus, they are a private company, they can do whatever they want with your account on the IDEAS website. (As someone who has done website stuff .. in fact setting up some test vms on azure right now for work .. security is a sensitive topic. Just because they don't properly secure their image folders doesn't mean they appreciate people scraping them.)

Maybe should have Shewie ask Jamie next time he sees him??

I know some of you have been thinking about the launch tower for the Saturn V. Here it is on the Lego Ideas site. One of the same designers created it. You can't complain about a repetitious build when it this cool. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/a88109ec-9970-4fe1-98b4-9bd535856ab4

You may have the best CL sellers in America. Jealous of the deals you've gotten on complete sets.

So for the sake of clarity, I may be overly blunt with my words but I'm not actually saying you did anything truly awful. If I use the word Steal or Crime here I don't actually care if it's a Crime, I'm just using it to differentiate from your "prank" and your "crime". Please correct me if I'm wrong in my reading, but it sounds like you did 2 things. 1) A fun Photoshop Prank of the Falcon, and 2) You stole their IP and distributed it without their permission re: the London bus Then they banned you for the Crime, told you it was for the crime you admit you did, but you think that's actually validation that your unrelated prank was real only because they couldn't have had enough time to realize they were punishing you for the crime you did and they correctly identified you as doing?

Sold an Exo-suit and get this, made a profit.

Finally got together the missing parts for my UCS General Grievous 10186 that I bought used a while back for $90, so I built it over the weekend. My primary observations are that 1- it is huge compared to what I expected and 2- it seems unstable compared to most of the other sets I have built. I could definitely see my son demolishing this things in no time. I usually build these with the kids, but they were out in Yellowstone camping so I took the opportunity to build this one while they were away since several of you guys had mentioned it is a more fragile build than most...good call! Look how big it is next to some of the other relatively large sets!

After a pretty quiet period on the CL/Letgo/OfferUp front the last couple months, I've had an uptick in the last couple weeks. My first couple local sales in months and a bunch of "you're dumb for not selling stuff at a loss to me so I can profit of it" contact. Three people have offered me $100 for a Saturn V. One guy came up to like $175, but wouldn't go to $200, bc he could get it at Amazon "with returns". But you can't have it in hand today with the ability to inspect the box from Amazon. A guy today who offered me $200 for a Helicarrier wouldn't agree to $320 after coming up to $300, because it's the same price at Amazon with free shipping, except that it's $350 plus $25 tax in Florida. I refuse to be the guy who puts the ranting "no lowballers" footer on my posts, but man I just want to put "I'm not stupid, I know what these are worth, consider that before offers" but I'm sure it would just turn away the non-resellers who actually buy stuff.

You should tear down and build all of them. That's the lion's share of the fun.

Sold a London Bus Drivers license for £40. May pop down to Leicester sq and buy a few more. Regret now not getting a few Signed since these are now going for £300.

Don't let the bad guys win!

I just cut the stickers with scissors and include the appropriate ones with each lot. Seems to have worked out well so far............

Last night I finished the Lone Ranger Comanche Tent and Stagecoach Escape (missing one mini) from my second used lot. Also finished my first City set (from new that is) 60080. I like the shuttle and platform but the cart, radar and countdown can go.

I would them to release this badboy with a sound brick playing the OST.

I have begun submitting entries to Brickset's competition!!!

Well, Kenxxx, your encouragement saved me. Even though I lost the appeal, and could not see any way to appeal again, after I read your post, I opened a case yet again, stated the facts again, and just now got this reply: "We see that your account was debited for the claim on order 111-7018795-1985832 in error." The money they took is back in my account. The whole experience was maddening, but at least I got the money back. Thanks for encouraging me to keep trying!

Make your own deal time!

bought the classic batcave

Months ago I bought a 30 pound lot from Goodwill and just hadn't had the gumption to open it. So this weekend to avoid cleaning I started sorting it. After sorting it looked like the first picture. I built the first set out of the lot, which was a Raiders Temple Escape. The only thing missing from the entire set was two of the eight gold coins, crazy. Already posted it to BL and CL, this would more than pay for the original buy, plus there's some portion of a 6210 Jabba's Sail Barge (all the figs and sails are there) and an Exo-Force Sentai Fortress. There are also a bunch of Technic instructions, I'll have to see what's actually there. I'll keep the Sail Barge and sell everything else.

The internet is filled with people pretending to have secret information. That list was predicted a year ago. Do you want to know the secret of predicting which sets will retire on time and on schedule? Read our forums...If there is a thread for a set, it will probably retire later than sooner. LOL.

I sent a NASA rocket to my pops for a belated Father's Day gift. Thanks Target!

Having now built this, it's no wonder why Lego haven't released a UCS AT-AT. Despite his being well designed and structurally very stable it was a bit of nightmare putting everything together. I spent almost a day attaching the head onto the body. Biggest build to date coming in at just over 6700 pieces. Hopefully that will be topped by the new Falcon and then my UCS collection is complete with respect of in my opinion all of the iconic ships in Star Wars universe.

If you have any Harry Potter, keep them until your kid turns six. Read him/her the first three books, then shower them with HP LEGO: achieve Legendary Dad Status.

I built the UCS B-Wing 10227 over the weekend as the kids and I continue to work our way through our Star Wars want list whenever we have enough profits from Legos sales to finance our next buy. I enjoyed the build as it had some different pieces that I have never used before...plus I am always a sucker for a large OT set. I haven't built the 75050 B-Wing for comparison, but have been busy selling them to pay for sets like these ?. (Sorry for the low quality pics...we had bad lighting and just snapped them quickly.) Next up for us will be the Tantive IV 10198, which we are excited to finally build.

1963 Sting Ray Corvette by Dave Slater

Sentinel by Henry Pinto

Awesome Klingon Bird of Prey This would sit perfect with the megabloks enterprise! http://geektyrant.com/news/star-trek-fan-spends-6-years-building-badass-lego-bird-of-prey

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by monstrophonic