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First look at what is probably a holiday set that will be sold but possibly a GWP.

Puppy Daycare and Puppy Parade

I hope someone creates a badge for this: I just sold a **** Grayson torso to someone who works for LEGO Singapore. Lego.com email address and everything. I can hear Admiral Ackbar warning me, but if I just sold LEGO to someone at LEGO, then that is badge-worthy!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WI0QCAM/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me= Rey's Speeder 75099 is $10.76 , 46% off

CMF Series 10 Grandpa Hair on eBay.

You didn't mention it's Val-E's favorite color, diarrhea brown.

It was only in a scene or two. All she did was haul scrap junk with it. It only seats 1 person, it's ugly, she didn't flee, rescue, or fight with it (because it has no guns). They made 6 billion of them as exciter pointed out. Where's the play or "cool" value? "Mommy can I have Rey's Speeder? I want to roam the land looking for junk parts to trade for an unequal amount of food." Cue Sanford & Son theme song. (:

They made 6 billion

Five brand new in box retired sets for $55.

This is out, watching now. The new Carousel is front and center at the beginning. This might help with Scooby Doo sales. I also noticed people asking for these sets more than others in recent memory.

Starting Fire Boat. Made clues for him to find it. Already talking about taking it to the pool.

It's not a giveaway, it's the $10 seasonal set. Shall we take bets?

Some TRU sales... https://www.toysrus.com/search?s=A-UnitRank&kw=98658aug17&q=98658aug17&origkw=98658aug17&sr=1&ppg=96&camp=CME:TRU:EM081317C_LegoCity&csep=ba8103fc-d3c6-4833-856f-936980c3fb23&dtm_em=279f6f548aa483d2137485fb37422a0b

Take a look at the Thanksgiving set. It's got a pumpkin in that same position.

I'm still betting it bumps nicely when gone and people wondering why they didn't buy more

Another Holiday winner!

Craigslist. Forgot that detail.

Also available at walmart, same limit of 3. https://www.walmart.com/ip/LEGO-Star-Wars-Rey-s-Speeder/45059378

No, it's just a MOC design they stole. I have a friend that just build it and he said it's very unstable and a pain to build. Probably would never pass Lego design standards.

Just quoting this old post cause I just built that set as well ;-) PR looks awesome! Love it a lot! Curious though why the designers thought the waiter should carry stuff like that? I switched it to a front hold and I love how I can give it an angle so it looks like he's dropping everything. Any thoughts to this weird holding position?

Yes, it works the same as any other SHC GC

Remember what forum you're one. We're scummy resellers here

"I hate sunshine! I hate horrible wholesome sunshine!"

What store

My August 10 toys r us polybags just shipped.

$5 spin under SWY EXTRA tab, good for this hour.

Reminds me of

Did I say no purple dragons? Did I?

yeah if its like $18k then i would think of parting out the whole pallets of 10188 ... btw, there is someone in US who parts out like 100s+ of exclusives at a time don't believe me check in bricklink. hint: look at stores with over 2million parts in US. there are not too many

This is so tiresome. "I'm going to sell in bulk! Let's see...I can get about $400 each with free shipping, if I sell individually. Therefore, the bulk lot should be priced at $28,000 for 70 sets! Done! I can MATH!" See this all the time on ebay. Amateurs.

Finished Ninjago City going to try and add 70612 green dragon to it tonight.

Not a set I've bought but got the instructions for Mirko Soppelsas UCS U-Wing MOC and ordered all the parts i don't have. Hopefully this will tide me over until 75192 hits the shelves. Not a cheap set of instructions to buy but the manual is a work of art and comes with a unique numbered tile as it's a limited release.

The Smurfs

And i'm happy that i have nice number of them. Great set and price grow slowly but surely.

Tom and Jerry please, the I can die in peace.

Found this set this weekend in a random toy store 3 weeks before release. Should I sell it now? How much would it be worth?

It all started with one of our fish having babies. We separated them in a breeding tank for a couple of days. But that was not enough....my wife and sons teamed up on me and begged for a bigger tank. Next thing I knew...we had decided to not only get a bigger tank, but also decided exactly how we wanted to decorate it. We love our Lego displays, and this was just another creative way to add to the collection. What the hell...right?!! Great build! Very fragile! Great display piece!

He did play with the figures, but everything changed when he watched the new trailer and saw the real enemy is a cat and is now really excited! He does not love anything more than Lego ninjago except for cats.

We used to call them rubbers in school, ah the innocence of youth

I have 2 Erasers, since my teachers always told me I needed a backup.

"You don't know you're in the good old days until you've actually left them." I am not sure how many of you have read my postings over the last 2 months since I joined in January, so I will give you a very brief intro to my background. While I am a relatively new Brickpicker member, I am certainly not new to this game. I was in it huge from 2004-2007, Had many UCS xwings, UCS Tie Interceptors, UCS ISD, UCS Y-wings, UCS Snowspeeders, CTT, Cloud Cities etc. While I was not an emazer level operation, I was running about 3,000-4,000 in volume on an average month and reached Bronze Powerseller level, so not too bad. However, in 2007, due to life changes I started selling off my stock without reinvesting. I cashed out and did not ante back up. Over the last 8 years since I sold of my last Clone Turbo Tank in 2008, I have peripherally watched the market. I have seen various sets rise to proportions never thought possible (10179), and some falter secondary to remakes. On occasion I would surf Amazon just to see what the lowest buy price would be, many times wishing I was still in it. I would visit the Lego store when I happened to be in Disney World just to check out what sets were out, seeing the exponential increase in sets being produced. In January, I happened to be walk into a Lego Store in a mall with my son, and was just shocked as to just how many licensed sets there were. I was also impressed with just how accurate some of the newer sets were in likeness to the actual original model (Wall-E and Ecto01.) Suddenly, I had this itch to get back in the game again, that I just could not resist. Luckily, over the last year, several life changes had allowed me to pursue this endeavor again for the second time. So I decided to get back into the game. For the record, I did not get into the game because of a USA Today or WSJ article. In all honesty, I am awful with politics and current events, so I had no idea how far Lego resale, or what is now called "brickvesting" had now become. I had no idea this was even being covered on a national level, until I decided to start back into Lego Resale. So I began googling about Lego sets, and to my shock, there were national news articles about Lego investing and even a WHOLE WEBSITE devoted to Lego Investing. All I could think about about was how far this had come in 8 years. From 2004-2007, there were minimal Lego and AFOL websites. There was bricklink and fbtb.net, and the only big forum community was on fbtb. And that was mostly Star Wars Legos without a whole lot about anything else. Although, in all honesty, back then there were minimal exclusives, and really Star Wars Lego's were the only think worth investing in. So I discovered this Brickpicker, and I just happened to get in at the time the Tumbler was retiring, so this place was on fire about the retirement of this Iconic set. In all honesty, this set was the set that pulled me out of retirement as it seems like such a good investment. I still believe the Tumbler is a great investment, however, reading the forums for the last two months caused me to realize just how much has changed in 8 years, and how much more difficult this will be now than it was from 2004-2007. It took me a while to figure just what changed. Lego's were such a guarantee before. Ebay and the internet while young and in it's infancy was still a known commodity and widely available in 2004-2007. People knew what items were selling for. You could search completed listings and know that Lego's could net a good sum of money. People had hopped onto various collectible fads in that time from Magic cards, beanie babies, furbies, baseball cards, and tons of other garbage. Lego had ALWAYS been immune because it was not a fad. It never had major publicity but was always reasonably popular. So what changed? As I read article after article, I finally noticed a pattern. It was 10179. This was the game changer, and quite frankly the worst thing to happen to Lego Investing. 10179 came out right about the time I was leaving my Ebay business. At the time, no one would touch this thing with a ten foot pole from an investment standpoint. It was already hard enough shipping 10030 ISD's. When I would ship an ISD, I would go to the grocery store, get a ton of boxes, cut them up and jury rig some kind of cardboard container. It was painfully time intensive. How the heck was someone gonna find boxes for a 10179? The weight, size, and investment of $500 (although it was pretty much permanently on sale around $400) was near insanity. The most expensive set selling at the time was the UCS X wing and it sold used for about $450 usedand MISB around $650-700. So how in the world was the market going to tolerate selling 10179 to make a profit. This was even in a time when Ebay fees and paypal fees combined were about 6-7% if I remember correctly. It was basically considered flop from an investment standpoint. It was the Sea Cow of 2007. Oh if we had only known what we know now. Many might ask, how could the single most profitable set of all time be bad for investing? 10179 gave a face to Lego Investing. Before Lego's were just a standard commodity like any other resalable collectable item. Sure some sets might sell for a profit for 200-300, but lots of other collectibles do that. I sold Art Asylum Star Trek Starships for a while and was buying them for $5 dollars and selling for $140-$150. There are tons of reselling opportunities out there if you understand the market, and Lego was just another one like any other toy or collectible. However, 10179 brought it to the forefront. It was the Honus Wagner and Mickey Mantle rookie card of the Lego world. Those cards caused people to jump on to baseball card collecting like no other. People would blindly buy baseball cards with no market research just because of those two cards. Sound familiar? The Mack's state in their webpage bio that part of what stemmed them building this website was 10179. Without 10179 there would be no Brickpicker. Without Brickpicker, there wouldn't be a USA Today headline bringing Lego Investing to the masses. 10179 was what gave bloggers and article writer's a nice catchy headline. "Lego's set sells for $5,000" "Lego's Brick's Better Than Gold Bricks." From the moment 10179 took off, it was all downhill from there in the Lego Investing world. 10179 was basically the coming out party of Lego Investing. People dream of making the big bucks. People dream of hitting gold. 10179 gave people a tangible dream in the Lego Investing market. Before then it was simply a faceless game that some people partook in. I would always get laughed at in any business meeting when people asked what I was investing in, and I told them once I had maxed out all other retirement options, I would probably put some in Lego's. You can only imagine my stares. Now with websites like this and USA today, and WSJ article's I have ammo now to defend my position. Unfortunately, now with the ammo, it is even harder to defend the position. So ultimately, 10179, has caused a spiral of events that will ultimately eventually bring about the end of Lego Investing. Is that likely to happen in the next 10 years? Not likely, but this site is adding 60 new members a day based on the number at the bottom of the main page. Albeit, not everyone is going to invest, and some might join just for the community, but there are some investors in that number. The market is still very strong, and will always remain strong because Lego is not a fad, and Lego will always have demand. Are you likely to lose in Lego Investing, like people lost big in baseball cards and beanie babies. Not likely, unless you are just AWFUL at picking sets, and are completely impatient. However, eventually a time will come, when selling just to cover your initial investment at RRP+Taxes will become standard for most sets. "You don't know you're in the good old days until you've actually left them."